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Granted Patent B2
US 10,513,091 · App. 15/738,382 · Granted Dec 24, 2019

Daylighting device

Inventors: Shun Ueki (Sakai, JP); Shumpei Nishinaka (Sakai, JP); Toru Kanno (Sakai, JP); Daisuke Shinozaki (Sakai, JP); Tsuyoshi Kamada (Sakai, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B32B17/10009B32B17/1055C03C4/0092C03C27/06F21S11/002F21V3/02F21V3/049F21V5/04
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Patent No.
US 10,513,091
App. No.
15/738,382
Granted
Dec 24, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a daylighting device ( 10 ) that is used by being attached to a window frame ( 110 ) supporting an existing window glass ( 100 ) and that includes a first base ( 11 ) being light-transmissive, a first spacer ( 12 ) provided at an outer edge of one surface ( 11 a ) of the first base ( 11 ) and attached to the window frame ( 110 ), and a daylighting member ( 13 ) provided on a side of the one surface ( 11 a ) of the first base ( 11 ), in which the daylighting member ( 13 ) includes a second base ( 14 ) that is light-transmissive and a plurality of protrusion daylighting portions ( 15 ) that are light-transmissive and provided to be adjacent to each other on a side of one surface ( 14 a ) of the second base ( 14 ).

Claims (17)

1. A daylighting device that is used by being attached to at least any one of an existing window glass and an existing window frame supporting the existing window glass, the daylighting device comprising:

a first base that is light-transmissive; a first spacer that is provided at an outer edge of a surface of the first base, the surface of the first base facing the existing window glass, and that is attached to at least any one of the existing window glass and the existing window frame; and a daylighting member that is provided on a side of the surface of the first base, the surface of the first base facing the existing window glass, wherein

the daylighting member includes a second base that is light-transmissive, and a plurality of protrusion daylighting portions that is light-transmissive and provided to be adjacent to each other on a side of a surface of the second base, the surface of the second base facing at least the existing window glass;

wherein a Low-E film is formed between the first base and the daylighting member; and

wherein the Low-E film is covered with the daylighting member on the surface of the first base, the surface of the first base facing the existing window glass;

wherein when the Low-E film is viewed from the surface of the first base facing the existing window glass, the daylighting member is larger in area than the Low-E film, and the daylighting member is provided on the Low-E film so that the Low-E film does not protrude from an outer edge of the daylighting member.

2. The daylighting device according to claim 1 , wherein a gas barrier layer is stacked on a surface of the daylighting member, the surface of the daylighting member faces the Low-E film.

3. The daylighting device according to claim 1 , wherein a light scattering unit that scatters light in a direction vertical to an up-and-down direction of the existing window glass is provided at a position, at which the light scattering unit faces the daylighting member, on a side of a surface opposite to the surface of the first base, the surface of the first base facing the existing window glass.

4. The daylighting device according to claim 3 , further comprising

a light scattering device that has a third base being light-transmissive, a second spacer provided at an outer edge of a surface of the third base, the surface of the third base facing the first base, and a light scattering unit, wherein

the light scattering device is attached, via the second spacer, to the surface opposite to the surface of the first base, the surface of the first base facing the existing window glass, so that the light scattering unit faces the first base.

5. The daylighting device according to claim 3 , wherein

the light scattering unit is constituted by a fine unevenness formed on the surface opposite to the surface of the first base, the surface of the first base facing the existing window glass, and

the fine unevenness is formed along a direction that is an up-and-down direction of the first base when the first base is attached to at least any one of the existing window glass and the existing window frame via the first spacer.

6. The daylighting device according to claim 3 , wherein

the light scattering unit is constituted by a plurality of convex lenses provided to be parallel and adjacent to each other on the surface opposite to the surface of the first base, the surface of the first base facing the existing window glass, and

the plurality of convex lenses is provided along a direction that is an up-and-down direction of the first base when the first base is attached to at least any one of the existing window glass and the existing window frame via the first spacer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 20, 2017
From: UEKI, SHUN; NISHINAKA, SHUMPEI; KANNO, TORU; SHINOZAKI, DAISUKE; KAMADA, TSUYOSHI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-126829 · Jun 24, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180170012A1 · Jun 21, 2018