阅读说明：本技术 镀膜玻璃及其制造方法、以及车窗 (Coated glass, method for producing same, and vehicle window ) 是由 鲁岳闽 林军 何伟龙 于 2021-08-25 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供一种镀膜玻璃及其制造方法、以及车窗。该镀膜玻璃包括第一玻璃基板、位于第一玻璃基板的至少一侧表面的膜层结构,以及通过激光刻蚀形成于膜层结构中的通讯窗口。其中,膜层结构包括至少一个金属层及至少两个介质层；通讯窗口包括沿第一玻璃基板的边缘向中心的第一方向排布的n个子窗口,n≥2。每一所述子窗口包括至少一个格栅及位于每一格栅外围的格栅线,格栅线由膜层结构通过激光刻蚀后形成,格栅线中的金属层被至少部分去除,第1个子窗口内的格栅线的金属层去除率大于第n个子窗口内的格栅线的金属层去除率。该镀膜玻璃能够较好地减轻或消除经激光刻蚀除膜后在热弯过程中的光学变形,且保证不同波段的通讯信号的高透过率。(The invention provides coated glass, a manufacturing method thereof and a vehicle window. The coated glass comprises a first glass substrate, a film layer structure and a communication window, wherein the film layer structure is positioned on at least one side surface of the first glass substrate, and the communication window is formed in the film layer structure through laser etching. The film structure comprises at least one metal layer and at least two dielectric layers; the communication window comprises n sub-windows which are distributed along the edge of the first glass substrate to the first direction of the center, wherein n is more than or equal to 2. Each sub-window comprises at least one grating and grating lines positioned on the periphery of each grating, the grating lines are formed by the film layer structure through laser etching, the metal layers in the grating lines are at least partially removed, and the metal layer removal rate of the grating lines in the 1 st sub-window is greater than that of the grating lines in the nth sub-window. The coated glass can well reduce or eliminate optical deformation in the hot bending process after film removal by laser etching, and ensures high transmittance of communication signals of different wave bands.)

1. The coated glass is characterized by comprising a first glass substrate, a film layer structure and a communication window, wherein the film layer structure is positioned on at least one side surface of the first glass substrate, and the communication window is formed in the film layer structure through laser etching;

the film layer structure comprises at least one metal layer and at least two dielectric layers, the communication window comprises n sub-windows which are distributed along the edge of the first glass substrate to the center in the first direction, n is more than or equal to 2, each sub-window comprises at least one grating and grating lines which are positioned at the periphery of each grating, the grating lines are formed by the film layer structure after laser etching, and the metal layers in the grating lines are at least partially removed;

and the metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the 1 st sub-window is greater than that of the grid lines in the nth sub-window.

2. The coated glass of claim 1, wherein the metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the 1 st sub-window is 95% to 100%.

3. The coated glass of claim 1, wherein a metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the nth sub-window is greater than or equal to 60%.

4. The coated glass of claim 1 or claim 3, wherein the metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the nth sub-window is 70-85%.

5. The coated glass of claim 1, wherein the metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the mth sub-window is greater than or equal to the metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the (m + 1) th sub-window, wherein m is greater than 1 and less than m +1 and less than or equal to n, m is greater than or equal to 2, and n is greater than or equal to 3.

6. The coated glass of claim 5, wherein the number of gratings in the mth sub-window is greater than or equal to the number of gratings in the m +1 th sub-window.

7. The coated glass of claim 5, wherein the area of the grid in the mth sub-window is less than or equal to the area of the grid in the m +1 th sub-window.

8. The coated glass according to claim 1, wherein the dielectric layer comprises an oxide of an element of tin (Sn) and/or an element of zinc (Zn).

9. The coated glass of claim 1, wherein the removal rate of the dielectric layer of the grid lines in the 1 st sub-window is 80-95%.

10. The coated glass of claim 1, wherein a dielectric layer removal rate of the grid lines in the nth sub-window is less than or equal to 60%.

11. The coated glass of claim 1 or claim 10, wherein the removal rate of the dielectric layer of the grid lines in the nth sub-window is 20% to 50%.

12. The coated glass of claim 1, wherein each of the sub-windows comprises a plurality of first grids arranged in the first direction, and/or a plurality of second grids arranged in a second direction, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction;

wherein the areas of the first grids are the same, or the areas of the first grids gradually increase along the first direction; the areas of the plurality of second grids are the same.

13. The coated glass of claim 1, wherein the first glass substrate is a physically strengthened glass, a chemically strengthened glass, or a bulk strengthened glass.

14. The coated glass of claim 1, wherein the film structure further comprises at least one film-free window, and wherein the film structure removal rate in the film-free window is from 95% to 100%.

15. The coated glass according to claim 1 or 14, wherein the film structure comprises 2-5 metal layers, and the metal layers are made of gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), molybdenum (Mo) or silver alloy.

16. A method for manufacturing coated glass, comprising:

providing a first glass substrate;

covering a film layer structure on at least one side surface of the first glass substrate, wherein the film layer structure comprises at least one metal layer and at least two dielectric layers;

performing laser etching on the film layer structure to form a communication window in the film layer structure, wherein the communication window comprises n sub-windows which are distributed along the edge of the first glass substrate in a first direction towards the center, n is more than or equal to 2, each sub-window comprises at least one grating and grating lines which are positioned at the periphery of each grating, the grating lines are formed by the film layer structure after laser etching, and metal layers in the grating lines are at least partially removed, wherein the metal layer removal rate of the grating lines in the 1 st sub-window is greater than that of the grating lines in the nth sub-window; and

and carrying out hot bending treatment on the first glass substrate and the film layer structure.

17. The method of manufacturing a coated glass according to claim 16, wherein prior to the step of subjecting the first glass substrate and the film structure to the thermal bending process, the method of manufacturing a coated glass further comprises:

and carrying out laser etching on the film layer structure to form at least one film-free window in the film layer structure, wherein the removal rate of the film layer structure in the film-free window is 95-100%.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the 1 st sub-window is 95-100%.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the nth sub-window is greater than or equal to 60%.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the mth sub-window is greater than or equal to the metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the m +1 sub-window, 1 < m +1 < n, m is greater than or equal to 2, and n is greater than or equal to 3.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein the removal rate of the dielectric layer of the grid lines in the 1 st sub-window is 80-95%.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein a dielectric layer removal rate of the grid lines in the nth sub-window is less than or equal to 60%.

23. A vehicle window comprising a coated glass according to any one of claims 1 to 15.

24. The vehicle window of claim 23, further comprising a second glass substrate and a thermoplastic interlayer, the thermoplastic interlayer being sandwiched between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate, the film layer structure being located on a side surface of the first glass substrate adjacent the thermoplastic interlayer.

25. The vehicle window of claim 24, wherein the second glass substrate has an infrared camera and/or lidar mounted on a surface of the second glass substrate on a side away from the thermoplastic interlayer, the film layer structure further comprising at least one filmless window through which the infrared camera and/or lidar transmits data.

26. The vehicle window according to any one of claims 23 to 25, further comprising first and second bus bars in direct electrical contact with the film-layered structure, through which an electrical power supply inputs electrical current into the film-layered structure.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of glass manufacturing, in particular to coated glass, a manufacturing method thereof and a vehicle window comprising the coated glass.

Background

At present, the heat insulation technology of the automobile windshield glass is more and more emphasized by people, and the effect of isolating the external heat from entering (summer) or the heat loss in the automobile (winter) in the driving process of the automobile can be realized by coating one or more layers of nano metal film layers on the surface of the windshield glass to reflect the external heat. However, the metal film layer coated on the surface of the windshield can shield electromagnetic radiation, which can cause the malfunction of vehicle navigation, communication or radio application, and in order to avoid such problems, the metal film layer needs to be removed in a specific area of the windshield, thereby forming a communication window with a partially film-removed area. In actual production, the communication window can be formed by placing a cover plate before the coating of the windshield glass, and can also be formed by laser film removal after the coating of the windshield glass. Specifically, laser ablation is used to burn a metal film layer and remove a portion of the metal film layer to form a grid-shaped uncoated region (i.e., ablation lines) on the metal film layer, through which electromagnetic radiation can be emitted and received. The laser film removing method has the advantages of high automation degree, good pattern forming concealment and the like, and is widely applied by various automobile glass manufacturers.

In the coating of windshields, there are included not only a metal layer (e.g., silver layer) for reflecting infrared rays, but also one or more dielectric layers (e.g., silicon nitride layer, titanium oxide layer, nickel chromium layer and/or titanium layer) which have little or no effect on the passage of electromagnetic signals. However, in the laser film removing process, when the laser etching power is high, the metal layer and the dielectric layer in the film can be removed by the laser together, so that when the windshield is subjected to hot bending treatment, the heat absorption difference exists between the film coating area and the film removing area of the windshield due to infrared reflection difference, the coated glass can generate optical deformation in the hot bending process, and the optical performance of the film removing edge junction of the windshield is reduced.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, the present invention provides a coated glass, a manufacturing method thereof, and a vehicle window, where the coated glass can better reduce or eliminate optical deformation in a hot bending process after a film is removed by laser etching, and ensure high transmittance of communication signals in different bands.

In order to achieve the above object, in a first aspect, the present invention provides a coated glass, including a first glass substrate, a film structure located on at least one side surface of the first glass substrate, and a communication window formed in the film structure by laser etching;

the film layer structure comprises at least one metal layer and at least two dielectric layers, the communication window comprises n sub-windows which are distributed along the edge of the first glass substrate to the center in the first direction, n is more than or equal to 2, each sub-window comprises at least one grating and grating lines which are positioned at the periphery of each grating, the grating lines are formed by the film layer structure after laser etching, and the metal layers in the grating lines are at least partially removed;

and the metal layer removal rate of the grid lines in the 1 st sub-window is greater than that of the grid lines in the nth sub-window.

In a second aspect, the present invention provides a method for producing a coated glass, comprising:

providing a first glass substrate;

covering a film layer structure on at least one side surface of the first glass substrate, wherein the film layer structure comprises at least one metal layer and at least two dielectric layers;

performing laser etching on the film layer structure to form a communication window in the film layer structure, wherein the communication window comprises n sub-windows which are distributed along the edge of the first glass substrate in a first direction towards the center, n is more than or equal to 2, each sub-window comprises at least one grating and grating lines which are positioned at the periphery of each grating, the grating lines are formed by the film layer structure after laser etching, and metal layers in the grating lines are at least partially removed, wherein the metal layer removal rate of the grating lines in the 1 st sub-window is greater than that of the grating lines in the nth sub-window; and

and carrying out hot bending treatment on the first glass substrate and the film layer structure.

In a third aspect, the invention provides a vehicle window comprising the coated glass.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that: different metal layer removal rate gradients are formed in the communication window of the coated glass through different laser etching powers, so that partial metal layers used for reflecting heat radiation infrared rays are reserved in grid lines in partial sub-windows of the communication window, the reserved partial metal layers can reduce the infrared ray reflection difference between the grids and the grid lines in the partial sub-windows, and therefore the heat absorption difference between the grids and the grid lines in the partial sub-windows during hot bending processing is reduced, the optical deformation of the coated glass subjected to laser etching film removal in the hot bending process can be well relieved or eliminated, the shielding effect of the communication window on communication signals can be weakened by removing at least partial metal layers in the grid lines in each sub-window, and the high transmittance of the communication signals in different wave bands can be guaranteed.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a coated glass according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic partial cross-sectional view of the communication window of FIG. 1 taken along line II-II.

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of the communication window shown in fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a coated glass according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of a coated glass according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a schematic flow chart of a method for manufacturing a coated glass according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Description of the main element symbols:

coated glass 1

First glass substrate 20

Film layer structure 40

Metal layer 41

Dielectric layer 43

Communication window 60

Sub-window 61

First sub-window 611

Second sub-window 612

Third sub-window 613

Fourth sub-window 614

Fifth sub-window 615

Grid line 63

Film-free window 80

First direction A

Second direction B

The following detailed description will further illustrate the invention in conjunction with the above-described figures.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments of the present invention without inventive step, are within the scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "lateral", "longitudinal", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience in describing the present invention and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus such terms should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and the like are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance. In addition, it should be noted that the various value ranges referred to in the description of the present invention include the end point values.

Referring to fig. 1, an embodiment of the present invention provides a coated glass 1, which is applied to any common fields of automobiles, ships or buildings. For convenience of description, the embodiment of the present invention will be described by taking the coated glass 1 as an example of a windshield of an automobile.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the coated glass 1 includes a first glass substrate 20, a film structure 40 covering at least one side surface of the first glass substrate 20, and a communication window 60 formed in the film structure 40 by laser etching.

The first glass substrate 20 may be any one of physically strengthened glass, chemically strengthened glass, or bulk strengthened glass. The physically strengthened glass is obtained by performing high-temperature heat treatment at least 560 ℃ and bending and forming; the chemically strengthened glass is obtained by ion exchange of ions with different ionic radii on the surface of the glass, and the chemically strengthened means of ion exchange can enable the surface of the glass to generate higher surface stress accompanied by certain stress layer depth, thereby improving the strength of the glass in the aspect of mechanical property; the body-strengthened glass is glass which does not need to be subjected to physical strengthening or chemical strengthening, but an original piece of glass can be directly matched with another piece of glass to form laminated glass, and the quality of the formed laminated glass meets the use standard of automobile laminated glass (for example GB9656-2016 automobile safety glass in China). It is understood that, as a windshield of an automobile, the first glass substrate 20 is generally a bent glass formed by a hot bending process, and the first glass substrate 20 has different radii of curvature in a horizontal direction (a transverse direction shown in fig. 1) and a vertical direction (a longitudinal direction shown in fig. 1), and specific surface-type structural characteristics thereof are substantially the same as those of a conventional windshield, and thus, no further description is provided.

Referring to fig. 2, the film structure 40 includes at least one metal layer 41 and at least two dielectric layers 43 laminated on the first glass substrate 20, and the film structure 40 can block most of the radiation from transmitting through the coated glass 1.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, one side or two opposite sides of the first glass substrate 20 are covered with the film layer structure 40. Further alternatively, in the embodiment of the present invention, the film structure 40 may include 2 to 5 metal layers 41, and one or more dielectric layers 43 may be disposed on each side of each metal layer 41. Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, in an embodiment, the outer surface of the first glass substrate 20 is covered with the film structure 40, and the film structure 40 includes one metal layer 41 and two dielectric layers 43 respectively located at two opposite sides of the metal layer 41. Of course, the invention may also specifically exemplify that the film structure 40 includes two metal layers 41 and three dielectric layers 43, or three metal layers 41 and four dielectric layers 43, or four metal layers 41 and five dielectric layers 43, or five metal layers 41 and six dielectric layers 43, and the like, and each metal layer 41 is located between two dielectric layers 43.

Wherein the metal layer 41 is used for reflecting thermal radiation infrared rays, and the material of the metal layer 41 includes, but is not limited to, gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), molybdenum (Mo), or a silver alloy including, but not limited to, an Ag-Cu alloy, an Ag-Ni alloy, an Ag-Cr alloy, an Ag-Cu-Ni alloy, an Ag-Cu-Al alloy, or an Ag-Cu-Pt alloy. The dielectric layers 43 are used for protecting the metal layer 41, adjusting the appearance color of the film structure 40, and improving the optical performance and mechanical performance of the film structure 40, and at least one of the dielectric layers 43 at least contains oxides of tin (Sn) element and/or zinc (Zn) element, such as zinc oxide (ZnO), tin oxide (SnO2), aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO), Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), zinc tin oxide (ZnSnOx), and the like. In the embodiment of the present invention, the metal layer 41 is preferably silver or a silver alloy having a good ability of reflecting heat radiation infrared rays, and the dielectric layer 43 is An (AZO) layer.

Referring to FIG. 3, in the embodiment of the present invention, the communication window 60 includes n sub-windows 61 arranged along the first direction A from the edge to the center of the first glass substrate 20, where n is greater than or equal to 2. As shown in fig. 3, in an embodiment, the communication window 60 specifically includes a first sub-window 611, a second sub-window 612, a third sub-window 613, a fourth sub-window 614, and a fifth sub-window 615, which are sequentially arranged along the first direction a. In other embodiments, the communication window 60 may include 2, 3, 4, 6 or more sub-windows 61 in a reasonable number, but is not limited thereto.

It should be noted that the first direction a may be different when the communication window 60 is located at different positions of the film layer structure 40. Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, in an embodiment of the present invention, the communication window 60 is located on one side of the film structure 40 in the longitudinal direction of the first glass substrate 20, and may be a side close to the upper edge, or a side close to the lower edge (shown in fig. 1 as a side close to the upper edge), and the first direction a, i.e., the longitudinal direction of the first glass substrate 20, may be a longitudinal direction with the upper edge facing the center, or a longitudinal direction with the lower edge facing the center. Referring to fig. 4, in another embodiment, the communication window 60 is located on one side of the film structure 40 in the transverse direction of the first glass substrate 20, and may be a side near a left edge or a side near a right edge (shown in fig. 4 as a side near a left edge), and the first direction a, which is the transverse direction of the first glass substrate 20, may be a longitudinal direction from the left edge to the center, or a longitudinal direction from the right edge to the center. Referring to fig. 5, in another embodiment, the communication window 60 is located in one corner region (the upper left corner region shown in fig. 5) of the film structure 40, and the first direction a, i.e., the diagonal direction of the first glass substrate 20, may be a diagonal direction from a diagonal edge to a center.

Further, referring to fig. 2 and fig. 3, each of the sub-windows 61 includes at least one grating and a grating line 63 located at the periphery of each grating, the grating line 63 is formed by laser etching the film layer structure 40, and the metal layer 41 in the grating line 63 is at least partially removed. Along the first direction a, the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 in the 1 st sub-window is greater than the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 in the nth sub-window. It should be noted that the grid refers to a portion of the film structure 40 surrounded by the grid line 63 after laser etching; each of the grids is in a grid shape, and the periphery thereof includes grid lines 63 extending in the first direction a and grid lines 63 extending in a second direction B perpendicular to the first direction a.

It can be understood that, in the coated glass 1 provided by the embodiment of the present invention, in the process of laser etching the film layer structure 40 to form the communication window 60, different metal layer 41 removal rate gradients are formed in the communication window 60 of the coated glass 1 by different laser etching powers, so that a portion of the metal layer 41 for reflecting heat radiation infrared rays is remained in the grid lines 63 in a portion of the sub-windows 61 of the communication window 60, and the remained portion of the metal layer 41 can reduce the infrared reflection difference between the grids in the portion of the sub-windows 61 and the grid lines 63 during the thermal bending process, so as to reduce or eliminate the heat absorption difference between the grids in the portion of the sub-windows 61 and the grid lines 63 during the thermal bending process, thereby better reducing or eliminating the optical deformation of the coated glass 1 after the film is removed by laser etching during the thermal bending process, by removing at least a part of the metal layer 41 in the grid line 63 in each sub-window 61, the shielding effect of the communication window 60 on the communication signals can be weakened, so that the high transmittance of the communication signals of different wave bands can be ensured.

In addition, it can be understood that, when the coated glass 1 is installed on a car or a ship, since the body of the car or the ship adjacent to the edge of the coated glass 1 is generally made of metal, it also has a shielding effect on communication signals, and thus, the transmittance of the communication signals of different wavelength bands at the portion of the communication window 60 near the edge of the coated glass 1 is reduced. In the embodiment of the present invention, the removal rate of the metal layer 41 in the 1 st sub-window close to the edge of the coated glass 1 in the communication window 60 is greater than the removal rate of the metal layer 41 in the nth sub-window close to the center of the coated glass 1 in the communication window 60, so that the shielding effect of the 1 st sub-window on the communication signal is weaker than the shielding effect of the nth sub-window on the communication signal, and the influence of at least part of the metal body of the automobile or the ship on the part of the communication window 60 close to the edge of the coated glass 1 can be offset, thereby being beneficial to improving the uniformity of the transmittance of the communication signals of different bands in the whole area of the communication window 60.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 in the 1 st sub-window is 95% to 100%, for example, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 100%; and the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 in the nth sub-window is greater than or equal to 60%. Preferably, the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 in the nth sub-window is 70% to 85%, for example, 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%. By setting the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 corresponding to each of the 1 st sub-window and the nth sub-window within the above preferred range, more metal layers 41 are removed from each of the sub-windows 61 of the communication window 60, which not only can ensure high transmittance of communication signals of different wave bands, but also can ensure that the grids in the adjacent sub-windows 61 and the grid lines 63 have appropriate infrared reflection differences, thereby reducing or eliminating optical deformation of the coated glass 1 during the thermal bending process.

Further, referring to fig. 3 again, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the communication window 60 includes a plurality of (three or more) sub-windows 61 sequentially divided along the first direction a, a removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 in the mth sub-window is greater than or equal to a removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 in the m +1 th sub-window, where m is greater than 1 and less than m +1 and less than or equal to n, m is greater than or equal to 2, and n is greater than or equal to 3. That is, when the communication window 60 includes a plurality of sub-windows 61, two adjacent sub-windows 61 located between the 1 st sub-window and the nth sub-window may form a metal layer 41 removal rate gradient, or the metal layer 41 removal rates of two adjacent sub-windows 61 may be the same. Preferably, when the communication window 60 includes a plurality of sub-windows 61, two adjacent sub-windows 61 between the 1 st sub-window and the nth sub-window also form a metal layer 41 removal rate gradient, and the plurality of sub-windows 61 arranged along the first direction a of the communication window 60 have a continuous gradually decreasing metal layer 41 removal rate gradient. Specifically, as shown in fig. 3, in an embodiment, the removal rates of the metal layer 41 of the grid lines 63 corresponding to the first sub-window 611, the second sub-window 612, the third sub-window 613, the fourth sub-window 614, and the fifth sub-window 615 are 100%, 98%, 93%, 85%, and 80% in sequence.

It can be understood that the plurality of sub-windows 61 arranged along the first direction a of the communication window 60 have a continuous gradient of the removal rate of the metal layer 41 gradually decreasing, so that the infrared reflection differences between the corresponding grids and the grid lines 63 of each two adjacent sub-windows 61 are the same or approximately the same, which is more beneficial to reducing or eliminating the optical deformation of the coated glass 1 during the hot bending process. In addition, the gradient of the removal rate of the metal layer 41 gradually decreasing between the plurality of sub-windows 61 arranged in the first direction a of the communication window 60 can gradually increase the shielding effect of the plurality of sub-windows 61 arranged in the first direction a on the communication signals, while the shielding effect of the metal body of the automobile or the ship on the communication signals gradually decreases in the first direction a, and the two are mutually offset, so that the shielding effects of the plurality of sub-windows 61 of the communication window 60 on the communication signals are the same or approximately the same, and the communication signals of different wave bands have approximately high transmittance in the whole area of the communication window 60, which is beneficial to improving the uniformity of the communication signals transmitted by the communication window 60.

As shown in fig. 3, in an embodiment of the present invention, each of the sub-windows 61 of the communication window 60 includes a plurality of first grids arranged along the first direction a and a plurality of second grids arranged along a second direction B, and the second direction B is perpendicular to the first direction a. Wherein the areas of the first grids are the same, and the areas of the second grids are also the same.

In other embodiments, the areas of the plurality of first gratings of each of the sub-windows 61 may gradually increase along the first direction a.

In other embodiments, each of the sub-windows 61 may include only a plurality of first grids arranged along the first direction a, the areas of the plurality of first grids may be the same or gradually increase along the first direction a, or each of the sub-windows 61 may include only a plurality of second grids arranged along the second direction B and having the same area.

It can be seen that in the embodiment of the present invention, the number and/or the area of the grids in each of the sub-windows 61 of the communication window 60 can be designed differently.

Optionally, when the communication window 60 includes a plurality of sub-windows 61, the number of the gratings in the mth sub-window is greater than or equal to the number of the gratings in the m +1 th sub-window, and/or the area of the gratings in the mth sub-window is less than or equal to the area of the gratings in the m +1 th sub-window. Specifically, as shown in fig. 3, in an embodiment of the present invention, the number of the grids included in each of the first sub-window 611, the second sub-window 612, the third sub-window 613, the fourth sub-window 614, and the fifth sub-window 615 gradually decreases, but the area of the grids gradually increases.

By adjusting the number and/or area of the gratings in each sub-window 61 for further optimization, the optical distortion of the coated glass 1 during the hot bending process can be reduced or eliminated better, and the high transmittance of communication signals in different wave bands can be ensured.

Referring again to fig. 2, in the embodiment of the present invention, while removing as much of the metal layer 41 in the grid lines 63 in each of the sub-windows 61 of the communication window 60 as possible, it is preferable to retain as much of the dielectric layer 43 in the grid lines 63 as possible. Specifically, in an embodiment, the removal rate of the dielectric layer 43 of the grid line 63 in the 1 st sub-window is 80% to 95%, the removal rate of the dielectric layer 43 of the grid line 63 in the nth sub-window is less than or equal to 60%, and preferably, the removal rate of the dielectric layer 43 of the grid line 63 in the nth sub-window is 20% to 50%.

It can be understood that by retaining as much of the dielectric layer 43 in the grid lines 63 in each sub-window 61 as possible, the difference in heat absorption between the grid corresponding to each sub-window 61 and the grid lines 63 can be made smaller, thereby further reducing or eliminating the optical deformation of the coated glass 1 after the film is removed by laser etching during the hot bending process, and making the appearance of the communication window 60 region not generate obvious visual difference, and maintaining the overall appearance consistency of the coated glass 1.

Referring to fig. 1 again, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the coated glass 1 is used in the field of automobiles, in order to meet the requirement of automatically driving automobiles, the film structure 40 further includes at least one film-free window 80, and the film-free window 80 is used for a data transmission window of an infrared camera and/or a laser radar of an automobile. Wherein, the removal rate of the film layer structure 40 in the film-free window 80 is 95% -100%, preferably 100%. The film-free window 80 has a higher removal rate of the film layer structure 40 than the communication window 60, and thus is more conducive to data signal (i.e., detection signal) transmission of the infrared camera and/or lidar.

The laser radar comprises a laser radar with laser wavelength of 850nm, 905nm, 940nm or 1550nm, and the infrared camera comprises a near-infrared camera with infrared wavelength of 780nm-1200nm and a thermal imaging camera with infrared wavelength of 7000nm-14000 nm.

In an embodiment, the film-free window 80 may be formed by laser etching the film structure 40, and a removal rate of the film structure 40 of the film-free window 80 is 95% to 100%; in another embodiment, the film-free window 80 may be formed by fixedly disposing a shielding cover plate at a position of the first glass substrate 20 corresponding to the film-free window 80, depositing the film layer structure 40, and removing the shielding cover plate after the deposition is completed to form the film-free window 80 in the film layer structure 40, wherein the removal rate of the film layer structure 40 of the film-free window 80 is 100%.

The film-free window 80 may be disposed at any reasonable position of the film layer structure 40 that does not coincide with the position of the communication window 60, and is preferably disposed in a region of the film layer structure 40 near an upper edge in the longitudinal direction, so as to facilitate coverage of a wider range by the detection signal of the infrared camera and/or the laser radar.

It is understood that the coated glass 1 may further include other layer structures, such as a first substrate layer located between the film structure 40 and the first glass substrate 20, and a second substrate layer located on a side surface of the film structure 40 away from the first glass substrate 20, where the first substrate layer and the second substrate layer serve as a carrier of the film structure 40 during the manufacturing process and also serve as a protection for the film structure 40, and the material of the first substrate layer and the second substrate layer is a thermoplastic polymer, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and the like, which is not limited thereto.

Referring to fig. 6, the present invention further provides a method for manufacturing a coated glass, which is used to manufacture the coated glass 1 in any of the above embodiments. Specifically, as shown in fig. 6, the manufacturing method includes the following steps.

In step S1, please refer to fig. 1, a first glass substrate 20 is provided. The first glass substrate 20 may be any one of physically strengthened glass, chemically strengthened glass, or bulk strengthened glass.

In step S2, referring to fig. 1 and fig. 2, a film structure 40 is covered on at least one side surface of the first glass substrate 20, where the film structure 40 includes at least one metal layer 41 and at least two dielectric layers 43.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, one side or two opposite sides of the first glass substrate 20 are covered with the film layer structure 40. Further alternatively, in the embodiment of the present invention, the film structure 40 may include 2 to 5 metal layers 41, and one or more dielectric layers 43 may be disposed on each side of each metal layer 41. Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, in an embodiment, the outer surface of the first glass substrate 20 is covered with the film structure 40, and the film structure 40 includes one metal layer 41 and two dielectric layers 43 respectively located at two opposite sides of the metal layer 41.

Wherein the metal layer 41 is used for reflecting thermal radiation infrared rays, and the material of the metal layer 41 includes, but is not limited to, gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), molybdenum (Mo), or a silver alloy including, but not limited to, an Ag-Cu alloy, an Ag-Ni alloy, an Ag-Cr alloy, an Ag-Cu-Ni alloy, an Ag-Cu-Al alloy, or an Ag-Cu-Pt alloy. The dielectric layer 43 is used for blocking and absorbing ultraviolet rays and other radiation (e.g., solar radiation), and the dielectric layer 43 includes an oxide of tin (Sn) element and/or zinc (Zn) element. In the embodiment of the present invention, the metal layer 41 is preferably silver or a silver alloy having a good ability of reflecting heat radiation infrared rays, and the dielectric layer 43 is a zinc oxide layer.

Step S3, referring to fig. 1 to 3, performing laser etching on the film structure 40 to form a communication window 60 in the film structure 40, where the communication window 60 includes n sub-windows 61 arranged along a first direction a from an edge of the first glass substrate 20 to a center, n is greater than or equal to 2, each sub-window 61 includes at least one grating and a grating line 63 located at a periphery of each grating, the grating line 63 is formed by the film structure through laser etching, and the metal layer 41 in the grating line 63 is at least partially removed, where a removal rate of the metal layer 41 in the grating line 63 in the 1 st sub-window is greater than a removal rate of the metal layer 41 in the grating line 63 in the nth sub-window.

It should be noted that, when the communication window 60 is disposed at different positions of the film structure 40, the first direction a is different. Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, in an embodiment, the communication window 60 is located on one side of the film structure 40 in the longitudinal direction of the first glass substrate 20, and may be a side close to an upper edge, or a side close to a lower edge (shown as a side close to an upper edge in fig. 1), where the first direction a is the longitudinal direction of the first glass substrate 20. Referring to fig. 4, in another embodiment, the communication window 60 is located on one side of the film structure 40 in the lateral direction of the first glass substrate 20, which may be a side near a left edge, or a side near a right edge (shown in fig. 4 as a side near the left edge), and the first direction a is the lateral direction of the first glass substrate 20. Referring to fig. 5, in another embodiment, the communication window 60 is located in one corner region (the upper left corner region is shown in fig. 5) of the film structure 40, and the first direction a is a diagonal direction of the first glass substrate 20.

Step S4, performing a hot bending process on the first glass substrate 20 and the film structure 40, thereby obtaining a bent coated glass 1.

In the manufacturing method of the coated glass 1 provided by the invention, in the process of laser etching the film layer structure 40 to form the communication window 60, different metal layer 41 removal rate gradients are formed in the communication window 60 of the coated glass 1 through different laser etching powers, so that a part of the metal layer 41 for reflecting heat radiation infrared rays is reserved in the grid lines 63 in a part of sub-windows 61 of the communication window 60, the reserved part of the metal layer 41 can reduce the infrared reflection difference between the grids in the part of sub-windows 61 and the grid lines 63, thereby reducing the heat absorption difference between the grids in the part of sub-windows 61 and the grid lines 63 during the hot bending treatment, and better reducing or eliminating the optical deformation of the coated glass 1 after the film is removed by laser etching in the hot bending process, by removing at least a part of the metal layer 41 in the grid line 63 in each sub-window 61, the shielding effect of the communication window 60 on the communication signals can be weakened, so that the high transmittance of the communication signals of different wave bands can be ensured.

Further, it can be understood that, when the coated glass 1 manufactured according to the manufacturing method is installed on an automobile or a ship, since the body of the automobile or the ship adjacent to the edge of the coated glass 1 is generally made of metal, it also has a shielding effect on communication signals, thereby reducing the transmittance of communication signals of different wavelength bands at the portion of the communication window 60 near the edge of the coated glass 1. In the coated glass 1 manufactured by the manufacturing method provided by the invention, the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the 1 st sub-window close to the edge of the coated glass 1 in the communication window 60 is greater than the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the n-th sub-window close to the center of the coated glass 1 in the communication window 60, so that the shielding effect of the 1 st sub-window on communication signals is weaker than the shielding effect of the n-th sub-window on the communication signals, the influence of at least part of the metal body of the automobile or ship on the part of the communication window 60 close to the edge of the coated glass 1 can be counteracted, and the uniformity of the transmittance of the communication signals of different wave bands in the whole area of the communication window 60 can be improved.

In order to ensure high transmittance of communication signals of different wavelength bands in the communication window 60 and reduce or eliminate optical deformation of the coated glass 1 during the thermal bending process, in the embodiment of the invention, when different metal layer 41 removal rate gradients are formed in the communication window 60 of the coated glass 1 by different laser etching powers, the metal layer 41 removal rate of the grid line 63 in the 1 st sub-window is set to be 95% -100%, and the metal layer 41 removal rate of the grid line 63 in the nth sub-window is set to be greater than or equal to 60% (preferably 70% -85%).

By setting the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 corresponding to each of the 1 st sub-window and the nth sub-window within the above preferred range, more metal layers 41 are removed from each of the sub-windows 61 of the communication window 60, so as to ensure high transmittance of communication signals in different bands, and ensure that the grids in the adjacent sub-windows 61 and the grid lines 63 have appropriate infrared reflection differences, thereby reducing or eliminating optical deformation of the coated glass 1 during the thermal bending process.

Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the communication window 60 includes a plurality of (three or more) sub-windows 61 sequentially divided along the first direction a, the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 in the mth sub-window is set to be greater than or equal to the removal rate of the metal layer 41 of the grid line 63 in the m +1 sub-window, where m is greater than 1 and greater than m +1 and less than or equal to n, m is greater than or equal to 2, and n is greater than or equal to 3. That is, when the communication window 60 includes a plurality of sub-windows 61, two adjacent sub-windows 61 located between the 1 st sub-window and the nth sub-window may form a metal layer 41 removal rate gradient, or the metal layer 41 removal rates of two adjacent sub-windows 61 may be the same. Preferably, when the communication window 60 includes a plurality of sub-windows 61, two adjacent sub-windows 61 between the 1 st sub-window and the nth sub-window also form a metal layer 41 removal rate gradient, and the plurality of sub-windows 61 arranged along the first direction a of the communication window 60 have a continuous gradually decreasing metal layer 41 removal rate gradient. Specifically, as shown in fig. 3, in an embodiment, the removal rates of the metal layer 41 of the grid lines 63 corresponding to the first sub-window 611, the second sub-window 612, the third sub-window 613, the fourth sub-window 614, and the fifth sub-window 615 are 100%, 98%, 93%, 85%, and 80% in sequence.

It can be understood that the plurality of sub-windows 61 arranged along the first direction a of the communication window 60 have a continuous gradient of the removal rate of the metal layer 41 gradually decreasing, so that the infrared reflection differences between the corresponding grids and the grid lines 63 of each two adjacent sub-windows 61 are the same or approximately the same, which is more beneficial to reducing or eliminating the optical deformation of the coated glass 1 during the hot bending process. In addition, the gradient of the removal rate of the metal layer 41 gradually decreasing between the plurality of sub-windows 61 arranged in the first direction a of the communication window 60 can gradually increase the shielding effect of the plurality of sub-windows 61 arranged in the first direction a on the communication signals, while the shielding effect of the metal body of the automobile or the ship on the communication signals gradually decreases in the first direction a, and the two are mutually offset, so that the shielding effects of the plurality of sub-windows 61 of the communication window 60 on the communication signals are the same or approximately the same, and the communication signals of different wave bands have approximately high transmittance in the whole area of the communication window 60, which is beneficial to improving the uniformity of the communication signals transmitted by the communication window 60.

Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, while the metal layer 41 in the grid lines 63 in each of the sub-windows 61 of the communication window 60 is removed as much as possible by laser etching, the dielectric layer 43 in the grid lines 63 is preferably remained as much as possible. Specifically, in an embodiment, the removal rate of the dielectric layer 43 of the grid line 63 in the 1 st sub-window is set to be 80% to 95%, and the removal rate of the dielectric layer 43 of the grid line 63 in the nth sub-window is set to be less than or equal to 60% (preferably 20% to 50%).

It can be understood that by retaining as much of the dielectric layer 43 in the grid lines 63 in each sub-window 61 as possible, the difference in heat absorption between the grid corresponding to each sub-window 61 and the grid lines 63 can be made smaller, thereby further reducing or eliminating the optical deformation of the coated glass 1 after the film is removed by laser etching during the hot bending process, and making the appearance of the communication window 60 region not generate obvious visual difference, and maintaining the overall appearance consistency of the coated glass 1.

Preferably, in an embodiment of the present invention, before the step of performing the thermal bending process on the first glass substrate 20 and the film structure 40, the method for manufacturing the coated glass further includes the following steps:

and performing laser etching on the film layer structure 40 to form at least one film-free window 80 in the film layer structure 40, wherein the removal rate of the film layer structure 40 in the film-free window 80 is 95-100%.

The film-free window 80 can be formed by laser etching the film layer structure 40, and the removal rate of the film layer structure 40 of the film-free window 80 is 95-100%; the film-free window 80 may also be formed by fixedly disposing a shielding cover plate at a position of the first glass substrate 20 corresponding to the film-free window 80, depositing the film layer structure 40, and removing the shielding cover plate after the deposition is completed to form the film-free window 80 in the film layer structure 40, wherein the removal rate of the film layer structure 40 of the film-free window 80 is 100%.

By arranging at least one filmless window 80 in the film layer structure 40, when the coated glass 1 is used in the field of automobiles, the filmless window 80 can be used in cooperation with an infrared camera and/or a laser radar of an automobile so as to meet the requirement of automatically driving the automobile.

The infrared camera and the laser radar of the automobile can be infrared cameras and laser radars which are commonly used in the automobile field in the prior art, and are not described in detail.

The film-free window 80 may be formed at any reasonable position of the film layer structure 40 that does not coincide with the position of the communication window 60, and is preferably disposed in a region of the film layer structure 40 near the upper edge in the longitudinal direction, so as to facilitate the detection signal of the infrared camera and/or the laser radar to cover a wider range.

It should be noted that the coated glass manufactured by the manufacturing method provided by the present invention further has other structures and functions of the coated glass 1, and for more details, reference may be made to the related contents, which are not described herein again.

Furthermore, the invention also provides a vehicle window, which comprises the coated glass 1 in any embodiment, and the vehicle window has good optical performance due to the coated glass 1, and meanwhile, high transmittance of communication signals in different wave bands is ensured.

Further, in embodiments of the present invention, the vehicle window further comprises a second glass substrate and a thermoplastic interlayer. The second glass substrate may be any one of physically strengthened glass, chemically strengthened glass, or bulk strengthened glass, and the first glass substrate 20 and the second glass substrate may be the same or different. The thermoplastic interlayer is sandwiched between the first glass substrate 20 and the second glass substrate, and the film layer structure 40 is located on one side surface of the first glass substrate 20 close to the thermoplastic interlayer.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, an infrared camera and/or a lidar may be mounted on a surface of the second glass substrate on a side away from the thermoplastic interlayer, and at least one foregoing film-free window 80 is further included in the film layer structure 40, and the infrared camera and/or the lidar transmits data through the at least one film-free window 80, so as to meet the requirement of automatic driving of an automobile.

The infrared camera and the laser radar can be infrared cameras and laser radars which are commonly used in the field of automobiles in the prior art, and are not described in detail herein.

The film-free window 80 is preferably provided in a region of the film-layer structure 40 in the longitudinal direction near the upper edge of the vehicle window, which facilitates a wider range of detection signals of the infrared camera and/or the lidar.

Preferably, in an embodiment of the invention, the glazing further comprises first and second bus bars in direct electrical contact with the film-layer structure 40, through which the power supply feeds current into the film-layer structure.

It should be noted that the first bus bar and the second bus bar are generally disposed along two opposite sides of the window and are substantially parallel to each other to form a uniform electrical heating zone therebetween. The first bus bar and the second bus bar are preferably conductive silver paste, and can be directly printed on the film layer structure 40 by screen printing or the like; of course, the first bus bar and the first bus bar may also be metal foils, and the metal foils may be gold foils, silver foils, copper foils, aluminum foils, or the like; first busbar with the second busbar can also choose for use simultaneously conductive silver thick liquid and metal forming, first conductive silver thick liquid direct printing is in on the membranous layer structure 40, then fix the metal forming through modes such as pasting on the conductive silver thick liquid. Therefore, when the power supply inputs current into the film layer structure 40 through the first bus bar and the second bus bar, the film layer structure 40 uniformly generates heat and generates heat under the action of the current, so that the surface temperature of the vehicle window is increased to realize the functions of defrosting, defogging, snow removal, deicing and the like.

The power supply can provide 12-60V power supply voltage to meet the use requirements of fuel automobiles, electric automobiles and the like.

It is understood that the vehicle window further includes other structures and functions of the coated glass 1, and further details can be found in the related contents, which are not described herein again.

While embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.