A heating wire apparatus for a vehicle safety glass includes: a plurality of bus bars located at a periphery of the vehicle safety glass; a plurality of heating wires having a serial pattern between the plurality of bus bars; and a battery that applies a voltage to the plurality of heating wires.

A vehicle exterior part includes a body, a heater wire, a socket formed integrally with the body, and a connector pin. Part of the connector pin is embedded into the socket. The heater wire extends into the socket and is joined to the connector pin. The socket is configured to accept a power supply plug. The vehicle exterior part is configured such that the heater wire is energized via the power supply plug and the connector pin. The socket includes a thinned portion.

A vehicle exterior part includes a body, a heater wire, a socket formed integrally with the body, and a connector pin. Part of the connector pin is embedded into the socket. The heater wire extends into the socket and is joined to the connector pin. The socket is configured to accept a power supply plug. The vehicle exterior part is configured such that the heater wire is energized via the power supply plug and the connector pin. The socket includes a thinned portion.

An electric composite heat oven provided with a sight window of a transparent planar heating element is provided. Since the electric composite heat oven has a structure in which a heater heating element is installed, being lower than the upper end of a cooking container, on the front and rear sidewalls of a cooking chamber of an enclosure and a transparent planar heating element is installed over an opening of the cooking chamber of the enclosure, radiant heat may actively control various disturbances that occur during cooking depending on a place where the oven is installed and a change in temperature, whereby there is an effect of providing the optimum heat power depending on a cooking material and also shortening cooking time.

A switchable optical device including in this order a first substrate, a first conductive layer, a switchable layer, a second conductive layer and a second substrate, which device further contains one or both of the following:

i) the first conductive layer contains a first contact zone and a second contact zone, wherein the first contact zone is electrically insulated from the second contact zone and the switchable optical device contains an electrical interconnect for electrically connecting the second contact zone of the first conductive layer the second conductive layer,
ii) the switchable optical device contains at least one further sheet which is laminated to the first substrate and/or the second substrate, wherein first substrate, second substrate and the at least one further sheet have essentially the same thermal expansion coefficient.

A switchable glazing unit containing at least one glass pane and at least one switchable optical device.

A switchable optical device including in this order a first substrate, a first conductive layer, a switchable layer, a second conductive layer and a second substrate, which device further contains one or both of the following:

i) the first conductive layer contains a first contact zone and a second contact zone, wherein the first contact zone is electrically insulated from the second contact zone and the switchable optical device contains an electrical interconnect for electrically connecting the second contact zone of the first conductive layer the second conductive layer,
ii) the switchable optical device contains at least one further sheet which is laminated to the first substrate and/or the second substrate, wherein first substrate, second substrate and the at least one further sheet have essentially the same thermal expansion coefficient.

A switchable glazing unit containing at least one glass pane and at least one switchable optical device.

To provide an automobile window glass having an antifogging function, which can secure a favorable field of view of passengers in an automobile.

A windshield 10 according to an embodiment comprises an in-vehicle camera 20, a conductor 26, and wirings 36 and 40 to connect the conductor 26 and a battery 38. The conductor 26 has a heating portion 30, and has a resistor 50 between the heating portion 30 and the battery 38. The heating portion 30 heats an information transmitting/receiving region 28 which allows the in-vehicle camera 20 to take an image of the scenery outside the automobile through the windshield 10. The resistor 50 has a resistance corresponding to the resistance of a surplus wire at the heating portion.

A glass with a function of regulation in sections includes a glass body and a conductive component. The glass body includes a glass substrate and a functional component attached to the glass substrate and divided into sections capable of being individually regulated. The conductive component is coupled to each section of the functional component. The conductive component includes a flexible printed circuit and a conductive adhesive. The flexible printed circuit includes a conductive trace electrically connected to each section of the functional component via the conductive adhesive to allow an individual regulation of each section of the functional component. The glass with a function of regulation in sections is capable of regulating a function of a target section of the functional component according to a user's instruction and an environmental parameter.

A system such as a vehicle may have windows with one or more conductive layers. The conductive layers may form part of an infrared-light-blocking layer or other layer. The infrared-light-blocking layer or other layer may be formed as a coating on a transparent structural window layer such as an outer or inner glass layer in a laminated window or may be embedded in a polymer layer between the outer and inner layers. Segmented terminals and elongated terminals that may extend past two or more segmented terminals may be coupled to the edges of the conductive layers. Using these terminals, control circuitry can apply localized ohmic heating currents and can make resistance measurements on the conductive layers to detect cracks.

A system such as a vehicle may have windows with one or more conductive layers. The conductive layers may form part of an infrared-light-blocking layer or other layer. The infrared-light-blocking layer or other layer may be formed as a coating on a transparent structural window layer such as an outer or inner glass layer in a laminated window or may be embedded in a polymer layer between the outer and inner layers. Segmented terminals and elongated terminals that may extend past two or more segmented terminals may be coupled to the edges of the conductive layers. Using these terminals, control circuitry can apply localized ohmic heating currents and can make resistance measurements on the conductive layers to detect cracks.