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.

A glazing includes at least one transparent substrate comprising a first major surface and an opposing second major surface, wherein said first major surface is coated with an electrically conductive layer and the electrically conductive layer is absent in one or more regions of the first major surface. At least a portion of the one or more regions of the first major surface, and/or corresponding regions of the opposing second major surface, bears a low-emissivity material, and the one or more regions permit the passage of electromagnetic radiation through the glazing.

A composite pane and in particular to a composite vehicle pane with an integrated light sensor, includes an outer pane and an inner pane that are joined to one another via at least one thermoplastic intermediate layer, and at least one light sensor with a light-sensitive surface that is arranged between the outer pane and the inner pane, wherein the light-sensitive surface faces the outer pane, and a shadow mask that covers at least some portions of the light-sensitive surface is arranged between the light-sensitive surface and the outer pane.

A composite pane and in particular a composite vehicle pane with an integrated light sensor, includes an outer pane and an inner pane that are joined to one another via at least one thermoplastic intermediate layer, and at least one light sensor with at least one light-sensitive surface that is arranged between the outer pane and the inner pane, wherein the light-sensitive surface faces the outer pane and a holographic optical element is arranged between the light-sensitive surface and the outer pane, and the holographic optical element is implemented as a hologram for incident-angle-dependent diffraction of the incident light.

A windshield for vehicle includes a glass plate with a terminal including a first glass plate, a conductor made of a material containing silver and glass frit and including a terminal joint portion, and a terminal joined to the terminal joint portion of the conductor through lead-free solder, in which the glass plate with the terminal further includes an inorganic thin film between the first glass plate and the terminal joint portion, the inorganic thin film including at least one metal compound layer, having an overall thickness of 1,000 nm or smaller, and having a single-layer structure or a laminated structure, and at least an outermost surface of the inorganic thin film having an insulating property.

A method for manufacturing a motor vehicle roof incorporating a glazing, in which at least one opacifying layer of ink(s), in particular at least one layer of colored ink(s), is applied by digital printing, in particular by inkjet, over at least 40% of the surface of one of the faces of at least one glass sheet, such that the composition of said ink(s) includes at least one glass frit, and where applicable one or more inorganic pigment(s), with a D90 value for the particle size distribution of less than 2 m, and such that the ink(s) have a viscosity of between 1 and 50 mPa.Math.s, the ink(s) further including a non-stick agent and/or a non-stick component and/or at least one non-stick agent and/or at least one non-stick layer being further applied to at least one layer of ink(s) and/or to at least one glass sheet.

Provided is a laminated structure for solar radiation shielding, including: two laminated plates selected from glass plates and plate-shaped plastics; and an intermediate layer provided between the two laminated plates, wherein one or more members selected from the laminated plates and the intermediate layer contain solar radiation shielding function material particles, and the solar radiation shielding function material particles contain particles of a complex tungsten oxide represented by General Formula: M.sub.xW.sub.yO.sub.z (where an element M is one or more elements selected from H, He, alkali metals, alkaline-earth metals, rare-earth elements, Mg, Zr, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ru, Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag, Au, Zn, Cd, Al, Ga, In, Tl, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, Sb, B, F, P, S, Se, Br, Te, Ti, Nb, V, Mo, Ta, Re, Be, Hf, Os, Bi, and I, 0.001x/y1, and 3.0<z/y).

A method for manufacturing a motor vehicle roof incorporating a glazing, in which at least one opacifying layer of ink(s), in particular at least one layer of colored ink(s), is applied by digital printing, in particular by inkjet, over at least 40% of the surface of one of the faces of at least one glass sheet, such that the composition of said ink(s) includes at least one glass frit, and where applicable one or more inorganic pigment(s), with a D90 value for the particle size distribution of less than 2 ?m, and such that the ink(s) have a viscosity of between 1 and 50 mPa.Math.s, the ink(s) further including a non-stick agent and/or a non-stick component and/or at least one non-stick agent and/or at least one non-stick layer being further applied to at least one layer of ink(s) and/or to at least one glass sheet.

Tie layers and structures that exhibit superior properties and that provide desirable optical properties when incorporated into laminates, such as windshields, windows or other glazings containing a holographic optical element (HOE) are disclosed. The tie layers, when used in a laminate in conjunction with the HOE film, optionally with additional polymer layers, maintain and do not detract from the HOE film properties.

A glass sheet composite having two or more glass sheets and a liquid layer between at least a pair of glass sheets out of the glass sheets, wherein a thickness of the liquid layer is 1/10 or less of a total thickness of the pair of glass sheets when a total thickness of the pair of glass sheets is 1 mm or less, and 100 ?m or less when the total thickness of the pair of glass sheets is more than 1 mm.