Provided is an automotive laminated glass having quite an excellent sound insulating property despite its light weight and having high foaming resistance and yellowing resistance. The automotive laminated glass has: three or more glass plates disposed in lamination; and a plurality of intermediate films each sandwiched between the respective glass plates, wherein, among the glass plates, a vehicle exterior-side glass plate positioned closest to a vehicle exterior side has a thickness of 1.4 mm to 2.5 mm, vehicle interior-side glass plates positioned closer to a vehicle interior side than the vehicle exterior-side glass plate each have a thickness smaller than the thickness of the vehicle exterior-side glass plate, and the automotive laminated glass has a surface density of 12 kg/m.sup.2 or less.

Safety glass and the method for its obtainment wherein said safety glass is used to provide higher safety to rooms surrounded at least partially by said glass. The glass is comprised of films of diverse reinforcing materials with special features to increase the resistance of the product as a whole and therefore reinforcing the original glass. In the method for its obtainment, pressure and temperature are applied with an autoclave in order to bind the reinforcing films to the original glass. At least one PVB film layer and one C-PET film layer are applied without adhesive to the interior and/or exterior face of the original glass to be reinforced.

A ballistic glass assembly may include a first layer of a poly ethylene terephthalate (PET) adhesive film. The ballistic glass assembly may further include a second layer of glass. The ballistic glass assembly may also include a substantially transparent impact resistant material positioned on an opposite side of the second layer from the first layer.

A vehicle includes a body, door, glass dome, and dynamic pillars. The body defines a cabin and has first and second static pillars. The door that accesses the cabin, is secured to the body, and is disposed between the first and second static pillars. The glass dome is secured to the body over the entirety of the cabin. The dynamic pillars are extendable in an upward direction and are secured to the body proximate to an outer perimeter of the glass dome.

A vehicle includes a body, door, glass dome, and dynamic pillars. The body defines a cabin and has first and second static pillars. The door that accesses the cabin, is secured to the body, and is disposed between the first and second static pillars. The glass dome is secured to the body over the entirety of the cabin. The dynamic pillars are extendable in an upward direction and are secured to the body proximate to an outer perimeter of the glass dome.

Embodiments of this disclosure pertain to a laminate including a first substrate, an interlayer and a light responsive material disposed on the first substrate, and a second substrate disposed on the interlayer. The laminate may be complexly curved. The light responsive material may include any one or more of an electrochromic material, a photochromic material, a suspended particle material, a micro-blind material and a liquid crystal material. In one or more embodiments, the laminate comprises a display unit disposed between the first and second substrate. Methods for forming the laminate are also disclosed.

An asymmetric glazing laminate (34) that includes an outer transparency (36) and an inner transparency (50) that are maintained together by an interlayer (44). Outer transparency (36) has a nominal thickness (42) of 2.1 mm and inner transparency (50) has a nominal thickness of 1.2 mm. The asymmetric glazing has greater stone impact resistance and lower per unit weight than symmetric glazing laminate (10) in which the outer and inner transparencies (12 and 26) each have nominal thickness of 2.1.

A process for making a symmetrical glazing that has the same nominal weight as an asymmetrical glazing that has been determined to afford enhanced glazing strength, glazing rigidity, or stone impact resistance wherein the symmetric glazing has improved acoustic attenuation over coincidence frequencies of the asymmetric glazing design.

There is provided a laminated glass that has both of a rigidity and a sound insulating property while attaining the weight reduction. The laminated glass comprises a pair of glass plates each having a plate thickness of 0.3 mm to 1.8 mm; and an interlayer film provided between the glass plates and having a storage elastic modulus G equal to or greater than 2.010.sup.6 Pa at a frequency of 1 Hz and temperature of 20 C., wherein the laminated glass has a loss factor equal to or greater than 0.2 at one or more resonance points at the frequency of 3 to 6 KHz and the temperature of 20 C.

A glass/resin laminate (A) including glass plates laminated on both sides of a polycarbonate layer through bonding layers made of a thermoplastic resin, each of the glass plates having a thickness of from 0.3 to 1 mm and having compressive stresses of at least 3 MPa on an entire surface thereof is provided. The glass/resin laminate (A) is obtainable by a process including a step (1) for disposing a bonding layer on one side of a polycarbonate film having a certain thickness, the bonding layer being made of a thermoplastic resin; a step (2) for stacking a glass plate on the bonding layer to prepare a laminate (B) with the polycarbonate film and the glass plate being laminated through the bonding layer; and a step (3) for preparing another similar laminate (B), placing both laminates (B) in a mold such that both polycarbonate films are confronted each other, and forming a polycarbonate layer between the confronted polycarbonate films.