Provided is a method for manufacturing a laminate that is excellent in adhesion between a copper foil and a resin film while using a polyvinyl acetal resin having low reactivity with the copper foil. This method includes the steps of providing a copper foil having a treated surface having a developed interfacial area ratio Sdr of 0.50% or more and 9.00% or less and a root mean square height Sq of 0.010 ?m or more and 0.200 ?m or less on at least one side, and attaching or forming a polyvinyl acetal resin film on the treated surface of the copper foil to form a laminate. The Sdr and Sq are values measured in accordance with ISO 25178 under conditions in which a cutoff wavelength of an S-filter is 0.55 ?m, and a cutoff wavelength of an L-filter is 10 ?m.

Provided is an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of enhancing the heat shielding property, suppressing multiple images, and satisfactorily displaying an image. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention is an interlayer film for laminated glass for use in a laminated glass serving as a head-up display, the interlayer film has a region for display corresponding to a display region of the head-up display, the interlayer film includes an infrared reflective layer, a first resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin, and a second resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin, the first resin layer is arranged on a first surface side of the infrared reflective layer, the second resin layer is arranged on a second surface side opposite to the first surface of the infrared reflective layer, at least one of the first resin layer and the second resin layer has a wedge angle of 0.1 mrad or more, and at least one of the first resin layer and the second resin layer contains a coloring agent in the region for display.

A laminated pane, includes, in this order, an outer pane, an intermediate layer, a functional element with electrically controllable optical properties that is selected from among a PDLC functional element, a PNLC functional element, or an SPD functional element, an intermediate layer, a holographic display element, an intermediate layer, and an inner pane.

A laminated pane, includes, in this order, an outer pane, an intermediate layer, a functional element with electrically controllable optical properties that is selected from among a PDLC functional element, a PNLC functional element, or an SPD functional element, an intermediate layer, a holographic display element, an intermediate layer, and an inner pane.

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a borosilicate glass composition as may be useful for windshield and other applications in particular due to unique fracture behavior.

The present invention discloses a composite thermal insulator including a first transparent substrate layer, a second transparent substrate layer, and a near-infrared shielding layer positioned between the first transparent substrate layer and the second transparent substrate layer, and the near-infrared shielding layer is formed by dispersively fixing multiple nanoparticles containing tungsten oxide in polyethylene terephthalate. The composite thermal insulator can't change color under sunlight so that it can be used for light output controlling and thermal isolation.

An interlayer comprised of a thermoplastic resin, at least one high refractive index plasticizer and, optionally, a conventional plasticizer. The use of a thermoplastic resin, a high refractive index plasticizer, and, optionally, a conventional plasticizer reduces or minimizes the optical defects caused by different refractive indices without sacrificing other characteristics of the interlayer.

A composite pane is presented. The composite pane includes an outer pane and an inner pane that are bonded to each other via an intermediate layer. The composite pane further includes a light-diffusing glass fiber that is suitable for emitting light by diffusion via its side wall along its extension length. According to one aspect, the glass fiber is arranged, in sections, between the intermediate layer and the outer pane, and is arranged, in sections, between the intermediate layer and the inner pane. According to another aspect, the glass fiber is routed through an opening in the intermediate layer.

A laminated glass pane is provided that includes a first glass sheet, a polymeric layer having a thickness between at least 0.5 mm and at most 1.7 mm, and a second inner glass sheet which has a thickness of at least 0.3 mm and at most 1.5 mm and is made of a lithium aluminum silicate glass. The polymeric layer is disposed between the at least two glass sheets. Furthermore, the glasses of the first and the second glass sheets are matched so that the temperatures at which the two glasses of the first and second glass sheets have the same viscosity in the viscosity range between 10.sup.7 dPa.Math.s and 10.sup.10 dPa.Math.s differ from each other only by a maximum of 50 C.

A thin glass substrate, as well as a method and an apparatus are provided. The glass substrate has a glass having first and second main surfaces and elongated elevations on one of the main surfaces. The elevations rise in a normal direction, have a longitudinal extent that is greater than two times a transverse extent, and have a height, on average, that is less than 100 nm, and with a transverse extent of the elevation smaller than 40 mm. The method includes melting a glass, hot forming the glass, and adjusting a viscosity of the glass so that for the viscosity 1 for a first stretch over a first distance of up to 1.5 m downstream of a flow rate control component and y1 indicating a second distance to a location immediately downstream the flow rate control component the equation lg 1(y1)/dPa.Math.s=(lg 01/dPa.Math.s+a1(y1)) applies.