The present invention provides a windshield on which an information acquisition device that acquires information from outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light is disposable, the windshield including: a glass plate; and a heating wire that is provided on the glass plate and to which a current is applied. The glass plate includes at least one information acquisition region that faces the information acquisition device and through which the light passes, the heating wire includes a plurality of linear main body portions that pass through at least the information acquisition region and a linear linking portion for linking the plurality of main body portions, and at least one of the linking portions includes a heat generation suppressing means for suppressing heat generation when a current is applied.

To improve the visibility of the HUD virtual image in a head-up display system for vehicles, where p-polarized visible light is incident on laminated glass from the vehicle interior side.

This head-up display system is a head-up display system for vehicles, which has a light source that emits p-polarized visible light, and laminated glass to which the p-polarized visible light is incident from the vehicle interior side, and which displays a virtual image on the vehicle exterior side of the laminated glass, wherein the laminated glass is provided with a p-polarized light reflecting member in a region where the p-polarized visible light is incident, the incident angle of the p-polarized visible light to the vehicle interior side surface of the laminated glass is at least 42 deg and at most 72 deg, the laminated glass has a visible light reflectance of the p-polarized light of at least 5% when the incident angle is 57 deg, the virtual image includes a main image observed with the highest luminance and a subsidiary image observed with a lower luminance than the main image, and the ratio of the reflectance of the subsidiary image to the reflectance of the main image is at most 30% within the entire range of the incident angle.

The invention provides a method of processing glass that involves forming a flexible gel layer on a flexible glass sheet to create a glass-gel sheet; rolling-up the glass-gel sheet into the form of a roll; placing the roll in a dryer; and drying the flexible gel layer so as to form a flexible aerogel layer. Some embodiments provide a glazing unit that includes a glass-aerogel sheet located between first and second panes of the glazing unit, where the glass-aerogel sheet includes a flexible glass sheet and a flexible aerogel layer on the flexible glass sheet. In such embodiments, the first and second panes each have thicknesses that are greater than a thickness of the flexible glass sheet. Other embodiments provide a glass assembly having a flexible aerogel layer on a flexible glass sheet, with the flexible glass sheet being laminated to a glass 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.

To improve the visibility of an image displayed on a display from the inside of a vehicle, in a vehicle window glass having the display.

The vehicle window glass has a glass member and a display mounted on said glass member, wherein the visible light transmittance T [%] of said vehicle window glass at the portion including said display and the luminance L [cd/m.sup.2] of the display satisfy T≤0.1×L.

An improved glazing unit extending along a plane, P, defined by a longitudinal axis, X, and a vertical axis, Z; having a width, DW, measured along the longitudinal axis, X, and a length, DL, measured along the vertical axis, Z, including a glass panel, a housing able to accommodate a communication device and an opening arranged on the glass panel. The present invention also discloses a communication system including a glazing unit, at least a 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit and a provider fixed station or active or passive repeater, which is placed at least at 1 m outside from the glazing unit, wherein the 4G and/or 5G signal communication unit is fixed to the glazing unit at the opposite side from the provider fixed station or active or passive repeater.

The present invention provides an interlayer film for laminated glass which has excellent sound insulating properties even when the thickness is reduced, and also hardly causes optical unevenness.

An interlayer film for laminated glass includes at least one layer A containing a thermoplastic elastomer, wherein the shear storage modulus of the layer A at 70° C. as measured by performing a dynamic viscoelasticity test at a frequency of 1,000 Hz in accordance with ASTM D4065-06 is 1 MPa or more, and a layer having a higher shear storage modulus than the layer A is provided on at least one surface of the layer A, and at least one surface of the interlayer film for laminated glass is in a state of having been shaped.

Provided is a laminated glass capable of suppressing multiple images. The laminated glass according to the present invention has one end, and the other end being at the opposite side of the one end and having a thickness larger than a thickness of the one end, and includes a first lamination glass member, a second lamination glass member, and an interlayer film arranged between the first lamination glass member and the second lamination glass member, and the interlayer film has a wedge angle of 0.10 mrad or more and 2.0 mrad or less, and the laminated glass has wedge angle of larger than the wedge angle of the interlayer film.

The laminated glass includes: an outer glass plate; an inner glass plate; and an interlayer film arranged between the outer glass plate and the inner glass plate, in which the interlayer film includes: a colored shade region; a transparent non-shade region; and a transparent sheet member fitted into a through hole formed over the shade region and the non-shade region, an information acquisition device is arranged so as to oppose the sheet member, and when a thickness of the laminated glass at a central point of the sheet member is defined as H1 and a thickness of the laminated glass at a point that is 400 mm away from an edge portion of the sheet member on a virtual line extending in a horizontal direction through the central point is defined as H2, equation (1) below is satisfied.

0<|H1−H2|<120 μm  (1)

A laminated glass includes a first glass plate, which varies in a thickness from one end to another end that is opposite the one end, and in which a line is formed; a second glass plate in which a line is formed; and an intermediate film located between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, and configured to bond the first glass plate and the second glass plate so that the line of the first glass plate and the line of the second glass plate are mutually orthogonal, in a view of a plate thickness direction.