An optical device can deal with a relative difference in thermal expansion coefficient between a reflecting mirror and a mirror supporting member, and can also support the reflecting mirror with a simpler structure than the conventional one. The optical device includes: a reflecting mirror including a reflecting surface to reflect light, and a supported portion disposed on a rear surface and having three supported surfaces arranged with rotational symmetry of 120 degrees around an optical axis, the rear surface being a surface of the reflecting mirror existing on the contrary side to the reflecting surface; a structural member provided on a rear side of reflecting mirror; and three supporting members, each of the three supporting members including a mirror supporting portion connected to and supporting each of the three supported surfaces, and having two ends connected to the structural member.

A honeycomb sandwich panel having an absolute value of thermal expansion coefficient smaller than an absolute value of thermal expansion coefficient obtained by using carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is provided. The honeycomb sandwich panel includes: a first skin being a plate material made of a low expansion metal being a metal having an absolute value of thermal expansion coefficient smaller than an absolute value of thermal expansion coefficient of CFRP; a second skin being a plate material made of the low expansion metal and arranged to face the first skin; and a core made of CFRP or the low expansion metal, being bonded to the first skin and the second skin and including a plurality of tubular cells each having a hexagonal cross section, the tubular cells being formed adjacently to each other.

A mirrored apparatus includes a substrate having a surface and including an additive manufactured aluminum and about 2 to about 30 weight % (wt. %) silicon. The mirrored apparatus also includes a finish layer arranged directly on the surface of the substrate. The finish layer includes a polished surface opposite the substrate. The mirrored apparatus further includes a reflective layer arranged on the polished surface of the finish layer.

A laminated body sequentially includes a substrate, an adhesive layer, and a multilayer film. The laminated body has characteristics of transmitting first polarized light and reflecting second polarized light having a polarization axis x that intersects a polarization axis y of the first polarized light. The multilayer film includes a plurality of first layers formed of a crystalline naphthalenedicarboxylic acid polyester and a plurality of second layers formed of a polymer other than the crystalline naphthalenedicarboxylic acid polyester, the first layers and the second layers being alternately stacked on top of each other. The first layers have a higher refractive index than the second layers on the polarization axis of the second polarized light, and the multilayer film has a thermal expansion coefficient of −80 [10.sup.−6/K] or more at a temperature 3° C. higher than a glass transition point of the multilayer film in the polarization axis direction of the first polarized light.

A method of making an infrared-reflecting optically transparent assembly comprises: coating a curable composition onto a major surface of an optically transparent thermoplastic polymer film; at least partially curing the curable composition, which may be optionally at least partially dried, to provide a thermoformable composite film; and laminating the thermoformable composite film to an infrared-reflecting multilayer optical film to provide the infrared-reflecting optically transparent assembly. The curable composition comprises urethane (meth)acrylate compound, (meth)acrylate monomer, and silicone (meth)acrylate. The infrared-reflecting optically transparent assembly and methods of including it in an infrared-reflecting lens assembly are also disclosed.

A foam core mirror includes a transparent mirror layer, a foam core layer, and a backing layer. One face of the transparent mirror layer is hard-coated to increase scratch resistance and/or wear resistance, and another face of the transparent mirror layer is metalized to provide reflective mirror properties. The foam core layer is arranged adjacent to the transparent mirror layer and includes lightweight foam material. The backing layer is arranged adjacent to the foam core layer and includes a high tensile strength material.

A process for assembling a laminated glazing includes placing an overmolded component in the interior of a window cut in a sheet of adhesive; spot bonding the overmolded component and the precut sheet of adhesive to a first glass sheet in the vicinity of the window in order that the sidewalls thereof and of the overmolded component remain contiguous; spot bonding the sheet of adhesive and a second glass sheet; and assembling the laminated glazing by implementing suitable temperatures and pressures in a conventional way.

A wafer has a layer containing silicon, a layer of polycrystalline diamond deposited on the silicon-containing layer, and a bow-compensation layer on the other side of the silicon-containing layer for reducing wafer-bow. A method of making a bonded structure includes an activation process for creating dangling bonds on the surface of one substrate, followed by contact-bonding the surface to a second substrate at low temperature. A bonded structure may include two substrates contact bonded to each other, one substrate including a layer containing silicon, a layer of polycrystalline diamond, a bow-compensation layer for reducing wafer-bow of the first substrate, and the other substrate including gallium nitride, silicon carbide, lithium niobate, lithium tantalate, gallium arsenide, indium phosphide, or another suitable material other than diamond.

Described herein is a mirror apparatus comprising: a reflective substrate; and an anti-fog complex comprising: an adhesive layer atop the substrate; a first polymeric layer atop the pressure sensitive adhesive layer; and a second polymeric layer atop the first polymeric layer. Methods of making the mirror apparatus are also disclosed.

Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to techniques for laser ablating/scribing peripheral edges of a coating (e.g., a low-emissivity, mirror, or other coating) on a glass or other substrate in a pre- or post-laminated assembly, pre- or post-assembled insulated glass unit, and/or other product, in order to slow or prevent corrosion of the coating. For example, a 1064 nm or other wavelength laser may be used to scribe lines into the metal and/or metallic layer(s) in a low-emissivity or other coating provided in an already-laminated or already-assembled insulated glass unit or other product, e.g., around its periphery. The scribe lines decrease electron mobility from the center of the coating to the environment and, thus, slow and sometimes even prevent the onset of electrochemical corrosion. Associated products, methods, and kits relating to same also are contemplated herein.