A light transmitting panel assembly includes a first panel, a second panel, a gap between the first panel and the second panel, a first active component located in the gap, and a second active component located in the gap. The first active component has a controllable light transmission characteristic, and the second active component has a controllable light emission characteristic.

An automatic device and an automatic method for filling with gas other than air the insulating glazing unit composed of at least two glass panes and at least one spacer frame. The device comprises mechanisms for flattening the glass panes when they are not sufficiently flat, for example in the case of laminated or tempered panes. This allows to perform in an optimum manner the filling with gas and to process insulating glazing units with special spacer frames.

An outdoor window including a movable sash which is connected to a fixed frame by means of a hinge system, and is provided with a supporting frame comprising a supporting section bar connected with the hinge system. The pivoting system has a bracket fixed to the fixed frame and provided with a projecting portion, that is placed alongside the outer lateral face of the upright of the movable sash when the latter is closed. The pivoting system further comprises a hinge which is provided with a first wing fixed to the supporting section bar of the movable sash, and with a second wing fixed to the projecting portion of the bracket. The supporting frame of the movable sash comprises a protective section bar which covers the hinge and the supporting section bar of the movable sash when the latter is closed.

A fenestration unit comprising a frame having a center, a sash coupled to the frame, an interior pane coupled to the sash, a spacer coupled to the interior pane, an exterior pane coupled to the sash and the spacer, the exterior pane including an inward-facing surface, and a peripheral shield disposed on the inward-facing surface of the exterior pane such that, when viewed at direct angle, the peripheral shield hides the spacer, the sash, and at least part of the frame.

A machine (1000) for the automatic sealing of the perimetric cavity of the insulating glazing unit (1, 1, 1, 1), the geometry of which is irregular in terms of flatness and shape with respect to the theoretical one, constituted by at least two glass panes (2, 2, 2, 2, etc.) having a rectangular or other than rectangular shape and at least one spacer frame (3, 3, 3, etc., 5, 5, 5, etc.) located proximate to the perimeter at a finite distance from the margin of the glass panes or of the smaller glass pane, the glass panes being optionally aligned or offset along one or more or all the perimetric sides and the thickness both of each glass pane (2, 2, 2, 2, etc.) and of each spacer frame (3, 3, 3, etc., 5, 5, 5, etc.) and therefore the total thickness of the insulating glazing unit (1) being variable from one insulating glazing unit to another, constituted by: at least one synchronous conveyor (100) having the function of support and displacement [together with the synchronous suction cup carriage (100)] of the insulating glazing unit (1) along the horizontal axis H during the sealing cycle; at least one synchronous carriage (200) which runs along vertical guides along the vertical axis V and is provided with the sealing head (300), the head having a synchronous rotary motion so that the sealing nozzle (301) is oriented so as to be tangent to the perimeter of the insulating glazing unit (1), or in any case the relative movement between the insulating glazing unit (1) and the sealing nozzle (301) being able to occur by means of different mechanisms and the arrangement of the insulating glazing unit (1) being any, and fed by one or more, in case of a plurality of types of sealants, synchronous volumetric units for the dosage of bi-component (400) or mono-component (450) sealant, each assembly being constituted, for the two-component case, by a dosage unit for the base product and by a dosage unit for the catalyst product, the flow rates of which are adjusted: as a function of the stoichiometric dosage ratio, for the bi-component case, and of the dimensions of the cavity of the perimetric edge comprised between the glass panes (2, 2, 2, 2, etc.) and the outside curve of the spacer frame (3, 3, 3, etc., 5, 5, 5, etc.) and of the relative speed between the nozzle (301) and the perimeter of the insulating glazing unit (1), so as to fill the cavity up to the extreme margin of the smaller glass pane or of the glass panes if aligned, wherein the devices (304, 501, 502) interfaced an

A vacuum insulating glazing unit includes a first glass pane having a thickness Z1, and a second glass pane made of prestressed glass having a thickness, Z2, where Z1 is greater than Z2 (Z1>Z2) The glazing unit also includes a set of discrete spacers positioned between the first and second glass panes and a hermetically bonding seal sealing the distance between the first and second glass panes over a perimeter. A vacuum of pressure less than 0.1 mbar is created in an internal volume V. A thickness ratio, Z1/Z2, of the thickness of the first glass pane, Z1, to the thickness of the second glass pane, Z2, is equal to or greater than 1.30 (Z1/Z21.30).

A vacuum insulating glazing unit is described. The vacuum insulating glazing unit has a first glass pane and a second glass pane; a set of discrete spacers positioned between the first and second glass panes, maintaining a distance between the first and the second glass panes; a hermetically bonding seal sealing the distance between the first and second glass panes over a perimeter thereof; an internal volume defined by the first and second glass panes and the set of discrete spacers and closed by the hermetically bonding seal, where the internal volume has an absolute vacuum pressure of less than 0.1 mbar; and an absolute difference between a coefficient of thermal expansion of the first glass pane and a coefficient of thermal expansion of the second glass pane is at most 0.40*10.sup.6/ C.

A composite glass unit includes first and second glass sheets and a third glass sheet disposed between the first and second sheets. A first bonding layer is disposed between the first and the third glass sheets; a second bonding layer is disposed between the second and the third glass sheets; and a connecting element is fitted into a cutout of the third glass sheet, with the connecting element connected via the first bonding layer to the first glass sheet and/or via the second bonding layer to the second glass sheet. The object of making available a composite glass unit in which no impairments occur in the region around the connecting elements is realized by a separating layer, which differs from the bonding layers and which is disposed between the end surface of the connecting element, the end surface facing the third glass sheet, and by the third glass sheet.

An assembly press for producing an insulating glass element with two panes includes: two press elements arranged opposite each other with a working chamber defined by a spacing therebetween, the spacing being adjustable in a first direction to press together the panes; and a conveying device to transport the panes into and out of the working chamber in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, at least one of the press elements being adjustable in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions. The conveying device comprises first and second drivable conveying elements respectively including first and second support mechanisms to respectively support lower faces of the two panes during transport in a first and second transport planes. The first and second conveying elements are adjustable independently of each other such that the transport planes are located at different positions in the third direction.

An insulating glass unit (10) is formed from a plurality of transparent layers (16, 18, 20), in which at least one illuminable panel (20) is arranged between at least two mineral glass panels (16, 18). The mineral glass panels (16, 18) are held at a defined distance from one another by at least one spacer element (14). The illuminable panel (20) is held at least on one longitudinal marginal edge (24) by the spacer element (14). The spacer element (14) is formed by at least one hollow profile (15), which preferably comprises a plurality of adjoining hollow chambers (26, 28). The outer mineral glass panels (16, 18) each adjoins at least two lateral surfaces of the hollow profile (15). The illuminable panel (20) rests on or against the intermediate hollow chamber (28). An illumination element (32) is arranged within the intermediate hollow chamber (28).