A glass panel unit includes a first glass panel, a second glass panel, a sealing portion in a frame shape, and a getter. The sealing portion hemietically bonds together respective peripheral portions of the first glass panel and the second glass panel. An inner space is formed at a reduced pressure between the first glass panel and the second glass panel. The getter is arranged in the inner space. The getter is arranged in a frame region extending along the sealing portion and located within a predetermined distance from each peripheral edge of the glass panel unit, so as to be covered with a building component frame.

An antenna assembly includes: (a) a ground plane having a plateau; (b) a glass panel including a metalized layer; and (c) an antenna including a base interfacing with the metalized layer and the plateau. The antenna assembly is characterized by a through glass panel connection to provide a more aesthetically pleasing appearance.

A low infrared absorbing lithium glass includes FeO in the range of 0.0005-0.015 wt %, more preferably 0.001-0.010 wt %, and a redox ratio in the range of 0.005-0.15, more preferably in the range of 0.005-010. The glass can be chemically tempered and used to provide a ballistic viewing cover for night vision goggles or scope. A method is provided to change a glass making process from making a high infrared absorbing lithium glass having FeO in the range of 0.02 to 0.04 wt % and a redox ratio in the range of 0.2 to 0.4 to the low infrared absorbing lithium glass by adding additional oxidizers to the batch materials. A second method is provided to change a glass making process from making a low infrared absorbing lithium glass to the high infrared absorbing lithium glass by adding additional reducers to the batch material. In one embodiment of the invention the oxidizer is CeO.sub.2. An embodiment of the invention covers a glass made according to the method.

This disclosure relates to the field of head-up display (HUD) technology, and more particularly to an HUD system with a transparent nano film for image display. Specifically, an HUD system including ultra-thin glass is provided in the disclosure. The HUD system includes a projection light source, and laminated glass, and a transparent nano film. The transparent nano film includes at least two metal layers. The projection light source is configured to generate P-polarized light. The laminated glass provided with the transparent nano film has a maximum reflectivity Rmax and a minimum reflectivity Rmin for the P-polarized light that has the incident angle ranging from 45? to 72?, where Rmax/Rmin ranges from 1.0 to 2.0.

A laminated glazing includes a first glass sheet, a first interlayer sheet made of thermoplastic polymer; optionally a solar-protection sheet or functional metal layer having reflective properties in the infrared region and/or in the solar radiation region; a sheet of pressure-sensitive adhesive, in direct contact with a heat-sensitive functional sheet; a second glass sheet; the first glass sheet being in direct contact with the interlayer sheet; the second glass sheet being in direct contact with the sheet of pressure-sensitive adhesive; the sheet of pressure-sensitive adhesive and the second glass sheet are in direct contact at the external face of the latter.

A film mold according to the present embodiment includes a first resin layer having a pattern region including a concavo-convex pattern and constituted by a resin composition, and a first glass substrate layer constituted by thin film glass and laminated on a surface on an opposite side to a surface on which the pattern region is formed in the first resin layer.

A modular glass panel comprising a glass structure having at least one thin glass sheet having a thickness ranging from about 0.5 mm to about 2.0 mm, a backing frame positioned adjacent the glass structure and situated along the perimeter of the glass structure, and a polymer layer intermediate the glass structure and backing frame to adhere the glass structure together with the backing frame. The glass structure can further comprise the at least one thin glass sheet and a second glass sheet having a polymer interlayer therebetween. The backing frame generally has a geometric cross-section with a rounded interior edge adjacent the glass structure to prevent breakage of the structure upon loading or impact of an exterior surface of the structure.

A transparent laminate structure is provided that includes a front section, a rear section, and a middle section securing the front and rear sections to one another with a gap therebetween. The front section has a strike face formed of an impact resistant layer and a polymer backing layer bonded to the impact resistant layer by an interlayer. The rear section has a forward face comprising at least one polymer layer. The front and middle sections can form an integral subassembly.

Provided are a vehicle windshield equipped with a transparent film at a visual field area, where a negative effect on a driving visibility due to a boundary line between a forming area and a non-forming area of the transparent film is improved, and a vehicle component having the vehicle windshield. The vehicle windshield includes: a window plate; and a transparent film provided at a surface on a vehicle-interior side of the window plate, wherein the vehicle windshield includes a first area where the transparent film is not provided and a second area where the transparent film is provided, at a central area when viewed from a front side, and a boundary between the first area and the second area has no perspective distortion and is constituted by a boundary line having line width visually recognized by scattering of irradiated light of 10 m to 200 m.

The vehicle mirror includes a high-Re retardation film and a reflective layer. The high-Re retardation film has a front retardation of 5,000 nm or more, and the reflective layer is a reflective layer that is reflective in an unpolarized manner, such as a reflective metal layer. The vehicle mirror may be a vehicle mirror further including an image display device, wherein the high-Re retardation film, the reflective layer, and the image display device are disposed in this order, and the reflective layer is transflective.