A clothing care apparatus comprises: a body including a clothing care room; and a door rotatably coupled to the body and including a control panel formed at the front surface thereof, wherein the control panel comprises: glass; a coating layer provided on the glass while having an aperture; a first print layer laminated on the coating layer and having a shape corresponding to the coating layer; and a second print layer laminated on the first print layer and provided adjacent to the glass.

The present invention relates to a substrate carrier for accommodating and transporting a substrate, to a changing station comprising such a substrate carrier as well as to a method for treating a substrate.

A glazing includes a glass substrate on which is deposited a coating including at least one layer, the layer being formed from a material including metal nanoparticles dispersed in an inorganic matrix of an oxide, in which the metal nanoparticles are made of a metal chosen from the group formed by silver, gold, platinum, copper and nickel or of an alloy formed from at least two of these metals, in which the matrix including an oxide of at least one element chosen from the group of titanium, silicon and zirconium and in which the atomic ratio M/Me in the material is less than 1.5, M representing all atoms of the elements of the group of titanium, silicon and zirconium present in the layer and Me representing all of the atoms of the metals of the group formed by silver, gold, platinum, copper and nickel present in the layer.

Methods for producing a glass sheet are provided. The methods can include forming a glass ribbon from molten glass, applying a polymer precursor to at least a portion of a first or second major surface of the glass ribbon, curing the polymer precursor to form a polymer coating, and separating the glass ribbon to produce at least one glass sheet. Glass ribbons and glass sheets produced by these methods are also disclosed.

A decoating method for the edge decoating of glass sheets, the glass sheets having at least on one of their two glass surfaces a protective coating in the form of a peel-off protective film or in the form of a polymer protective layer that cannot be peeled off, and preferably having a functional coating situated under the protective coating, the protective film being partially mechanically removed, in particular ground away, for the edge decoating, in the form of at least one film strip, laser traces being introduced into the protective film before the mechanical removal of the film strip, and the laser traces being introduced in such a way that the film strip is removed in the form of individual film strip partial pieces separated from one another by the laser traces; or the polymer protective layer being removed using laser radiation.

Coated glass panes having a glass pane and a coating in at least one region of at least one side of the glass pane. The glass pane is composed of glass with SiO.sub.2 and B.sub.2O.sub.3. The coating includes first coating applied in at least one region of the at least one side. The first coating has a binder with SiO.sub.2 and a pigment. The glass pane, in the at least one region, has a flexural strength between at least 5 and at most 170 MPa.

A glazing includes a first substrate and a heatable coating formed on the first substrate, and the heatable coating includes at least one heatable layer and at least one deletion substantially enclosing a non-deleted portion of the heatable coating for increasing resistance against current flowing through the heatable coating.

A greenhouse according to the present invention includes: a ceiling portion; and in at least a portion of the ceiling portion, a glass sheet with a coating film. The glass sheet with a coating film has a total light transmittance of 90% to 98%, a haze ratio of 20% to 80%, and a hemispherical transmittance of 80% to 90%. When a test is performed according to JIS R 1703-1: 2007 by applying oleic acid to a surface of a coating film and subsequently irradiating the surface with ultraviolet light at an intensity of 1.0 mW/cm.sup.2, a time period from start of irradiation with the ultraviolet light to a point at which a water contact angle on the surface reaches 5° is 24 hours or less.

A glass substrate with a silica film according to the present invention includes a glass substrate and a silica film formed using a silica film-forming composition, in which the composition includes at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a hydrolyzable compound, a hydrolyzate thereof, and a hydrolysis condensation compound thereof, and at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a silica particle and a zirconia particle, the hydrolyzable compound consisting of a tetraalkoxysilane, a compound (compound I) represented by formula I: (R.sub.3-p(L).sub.pSi-Q-Si(L).sub.pR.sub.3-p), optionally a fluoroalkylsilane having a hydrolysable group, and optionally a zirconium compound having a hydrolyzable group, and the contents of the tetraalkoxysilane, the compound I, and the at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a silica particle and a zirconia particle in terms of SiO.sub.2/ZrO.sub.2 fall within specified ranges, respectively.

A glass article is provided (and methods of making the same) that includes: a glass substrate comprising a thickness and a first primary surface; and a porosity-graded layer that extends from the first primary surface of the substrate to a first depth within the substrate. The first depth is from about 250 nm to about 3000 nm. The porosity-graded layer comprises a plurality of pores having an average pore size from about 5 nm to 100 nm. The article comprises a single-side average reflectance of less than 9% at an incident angle of 60 degrees across a spectrum from 350 nm to 2000 nm. Further, the porosity-graded layer comprises a surface porosity at the first primary surface and a bulk porosity at the first depth, the surface porosity greater than the bulk porosity.