A vehicular frameless interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a mounting portion. The mirror head includes a mirror reflective element and a mirror casing. The mirror reflective element includes a glass substrate having a planar front side and a planar rear side. No portion of the mirror casing overlaps the planar front side of the glass substrate of the mirror reflective element. A camera is disposed within the mirror casing behind the mirror reflective element. With the mounting portion of the mirror assembly mounted at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle, the camera views a driver of the vehicle, and when the mirror head is moved by the driver to adjust a rearward view of the driver, the camera moves in tandem with movement of the mirror head. The camera is part of a driver monitoring system of the vehicle.

A vehicular frameless interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a mounting portion. The mirror head includes a mirror reflective element and a mirror casing. The mirror reflective element includes a glass substrate having a planar front side and a planar rear side. No portion of the mirror casing overlaps the planar front side of the glass substrate of the mirror reflective element. A camera is disposed within the mirror casing. With the mounting portion of the mirror assembly mounted at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle, the camera views a driver of the vehicle, and when the mirror head is moved by the driver of the vehicle to adjust the rearward view provided by the mirror reflective element to the driver, the camera moves in tandem with movement of the mirror head. The camera is part of a driver monitoring system of the vehicle.

A method of making a mirror substrate for a vehicular mirror assembly includes providing a glass substrate and fixturing the glass substrate at a fixture to support the glass substrate. A rotatable grinding wheel is presented to the front perimeter portion of the glass substrate and the front perimeter portion of the glass substrate is ground to establish a ground rounded surface about and around the periphery of the glass substrate. After grinding the front perimeter portion of the glass substrate to establish the ground rounded surface, a rotatable polishing wheel is presented to the ground rounded surface and the ground rounded surface is polished to establish a polished rounded surface about and around the periphery of the glass substrate. The polished rounded surface provides a smooth transition between the front surface of the glass substrate and a rear portion of the circumferential perimeter edge of the glass substrate.

A method of making colored glass in a float glass process includes the steps of: melting glass batch materials in a furnace to form a glass melt; transporting the glass melt into a float glass chamber having a flame spray device, the glass melt forming a float glass ribbon; supplying at least one coating material to the flame spray device to form a spray having coating particles; and directing the spray onto the float glass ribbon to diffuse the particles into the surface of the float glass ribbon to form a glass sheet of a desired color.

A vehicular frameless interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a mounting portion. The mirror head includes an electrochromic mirror reflective element and a mirror casing. The electrochromic mirror reflective element includes a front glass substrate having a planar front side. No portion of the mirror casing overlaps the planar front side of the front glass substrate of the electrochromic mirror reflective element. A camera is disposed within the mirror casing. With the mounting portion of the mirror assembly mounted at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle, the camera views a driver of the vehicle, and when the mirror head is moved by the driver of the vehicle to adjust the rearward view provided by the mirror reflective element to the driver, the camera moves in tandem with movement of the mirror head. The camera is part of a driver monitoring system of the vehicle.

A vehicular frameless interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a mounting portion. The mirror head includes a prismatic mirror reflective element and a mirror casing. The prismatic mirror reflective element includes a glass substrate having a planar front side. No portion of the mirror casing overlaps the planar front side of the glass substrate of the prismatic mirror reflective element. A camera is disposed within the mirror casing. With the mounting portion of the mirror assembly mounted at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle, the camera views a driver of the vehicle, and when the mirror head is moved by the driver of the vehicle to adjust the rearward view provided by the mirror reflective element to the driver, the camera moves in tandem with movement of the mirror head. The camera is part of a driver monitoring system of the vehicle.

A laminate according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least one glass sheet and at least one resin layer, a relative dielectric constant of the glass sheet at 25 C. and a frequency of 2.45 GHz being 5 or less, and a dielectric loss tangent of the glass sheet at 25 C. and a frequency of 2.45 GHz being 0.003 or less.

A metallizing system is disclosed that includes a metallizing worktable configured to receive and rotate a worn workpiece, and a metallizing applicator movable towards and away from the metallizing worktable and including a flame spray torch configured to deposit a metallized layer of metal onto the worn workpiece as it rotates relative to the flame spray torch. A robot is configured to acquire and release the worn workpiece and to acquire and release the metallizing applicator, and to move the worn workpiece and the metallizing applicator. A related method of metallizing the worn workpiece to produce the metallized workpiece is also disclosed.

An article that includes a substrate with a first surface and a second surface and that has a bulk region and a surface modified region, the bulk region being integral with the surface modified region, and the surface modified region being at the first surface of the substrate. The bulk region including a higher concentration of at least one alkali than the surface modified region, and where a metal coating is disposed on the first surface of the substrate.