The use of camera-based safety systems is growing at a rapid rate in modern automobiles. At the same time, windshields, where many of the cameras are mounted, are becoming larger and more complex in shape. As the industry moves towards vehicles with full autonomous capability, the number of cameras required and the resolution of the cameras are both increasing. However, the optical quality of the windshield is less than optimal. One of the problems is caused by the typical black enamel frit that is printed on the glass, prior to heating and bending, to hide or obscure the camera hardware. The abrupt thermal gradients during bending, caused by the heat absorbing black frit, result in a high level of distortion in the camera field of view. The object of this invention is to provide laminated automotive glazing having an obscuration area produced by creating an obscuration after heating and bending the glass by removing a portion of the plastic interlayer glass in or near the camera field of view (camera obscuration) or/and in the edges of the windshield (black band) and replacing it with an inlay made of a substantially opaque plastic or other suitable material in or near the camera field of view (camera obscuration) or/and in the edges of the windshield (black band) rather than printing and firing an enamel frit on the glass. This results in a laminate having superior optical quality, higher strength and a lower probability of breakage as compared to a laminate with a black enamel frit obscuration.

The laminated glass panoramic roof is a popular although expensive option offered on a growing number of automobiles. Much of its appeal comes from the sleek modern appearance that it gives to the vehicle. The opaque laminated vehicle roof, by removing vision and optical requirements can be produced at a lower cost. The opaque laminated roof, by retaining a glass outer surface, maintains the same exterior appearance, aesthetic and much of the appeal of a conventional laminated glass panoramic roof. The opaque laminated vehicle roof also allows for the use of alternate materials which can further reduce cost and weight while adding additional features such as installation hardware, fasteners, lighting, antennas and solar cells to the roof.

A laminated glass includes a first glass sheet, an electrically powered functional film, a reflective element to reflect infrared radiation, disposed between the first glass sheet and the functional film, at least one first thermoplastic interlayer disposed between the reflecting element and the functional film, and a second glass sheet. The laminated glass includes at least one interlayer including a zone that is opaque to radiation in the visible wavelength.

A glazing includes a glass sheet or a glazed assembly including at least one hole; and at least one audio exciter mounted on a mounting, wherein the mounting is inserted into the at least one hole of the glass sheet or of the glazed assembly.

There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which laminated glass having a gradation pattern with suppressed color irregularity can be prepared. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention includes a first resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin and a plasticizer and a second resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin, a plasticizer and inorganic particles, and the first resin layer being arranged on a first surface side of the second resin layer, wherein a gradation part being a region where the parallel light transmittance is greater than 30% and less than 60% and being a region where the thickness of the second resin layer is continuously decreased in the direction orthogonal to the thickness direction of the interlayer film at the time of preparing the laminated glass exists, and the complex viscosity at 200° C. of the second resin layer is greater than or equal to 0.7 times and less than or equal to 2 times the complex viscosity at 200° C. of the first resin layer.

There is provided laminated glass superior in sound insulating property and visibility. The laminated glass includes: a pair of glass plates; and an intermediate film sandwiched between the pair of glass plates. The intermediate film has a transmitting region and a shielding region. The transmitting region has a skin layer having a glass transition point of 15° C. or higher and a core layer having a glass transition point of lower than 15° C. alternately laminated. The number of the core layers is two or more in the transmitting region. The shielding region is provided at peripheries of the pair of glass plates and has a visible light transmittance of 3% or less.

Laminated glass consists of two glass sheets interlayered with at least one film A containing a polyvinyl acetal PA and optionally at least one plasticiser WA, at least one film B containing a polyvinyl acetal PB and at least one plasticiser WB and polymer film C, wherein film A comprises less than 16% by weight of plasticiser WA, film B comprises at least 16% by weight of plasticiser WB, film C comprises polyamide, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polylactic acid (PLA), cellulose acetate or ionomers, and wherein film C is located between film A and film B.

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)

An interlayer film for laminated glass of the present invention comprises at least an absorption region in which a skin absorption energy rate (X1) of a laminated glass is 25% or less, provided that the laminated glass is produced using two clear glass plates having a solar transmittance of 87.3% based on JIS R 3106.

Laminated glass contains two glass sheets interlayered with at least one polymer film C which is provided with a coating A comprising a polyvinyl acetal PA and optionally at least one plasticiser WA, and at least one film B containing a polyvinyl acetal PB and at least one plasticiser WB wherein coating A comprises less than 16% by weight of plasticiser, film B comprises at least 16% by weight of plasticiser, and film C comprises polyamide, polyethylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, polyvinyl alcohol, polylactic acid, polyethylen furanoate cellulose acetate, polymethyl methacrylates, polyethylene naphthalate, ionomers, or combinations thereof, wherein film C is located between coating A and film B.