The present invention related to two methods for marking glass panels, preferably single-pane safety glass panels.

The heat-shielding heat insulating substrate is a heat-shielding heat insulating substrate including a transparent substrate layer and an infrared reflection layer, the heat-shielding heat insulating substrate including: a protective topcoat layer arranged on a side of the infrared reflection layer opposite to the transparent substrate layer; and a protective film arranged on a surface of the protective topcoat layer opposite to the infrared reflection layer, wherein a 180° peel strength of the protective film to the protective topcoat layer under an environment having a temperature of 23±1° C. and a humidity of 50±5% RH is from 0.01 N/50 mm to 0.40 N/50 mm, and wherein a 180° peel strength of the protective film to the protective topcoat layer after storage of the heat-shielding heat insulating substrate under an environment having a temperature of 80±1° C. for 10 days is from 0.01 N/50 mm to 1.0 N/50 mm.

Glass stack configurations including a carrier plate, setter plates, and glass sheets for thermal treatment of the glass sheets to form glass ceramic articles are provided. The glass stacking configurations and components described herein are selected to improve thermal uniformity throughout a glass stack during ceramming processes while maintaining or even reducing the stresses in the resultant glass ceramic article. Accordingly, the glass ceramic articles made according to the various embodiments described herein exhibit improved optical qualities and less warp than glass ceramic articles made according to conventional processes. Various embodiments of carrier plates, setter plates, parting agent compositions, and methods of stacking glass sheets are described.

An article includes a substrate with two main faces defining two main surfaces separated by edges, the substrate carrying a functional coating deposited over at least a portion of a main surface and a temporary protective layer deposited over at least a portion of the coating. The temporary protective layer has a thickness of at least 1 micrometer. The temporary protective layer made of polyfuran resin is obtained from a liquid composition comprising furfuryl alcohol.

Apparatus and methods for processing a glass sheet can include a coating chamber including a dispensing port to dispense a coating on a major surface of the glass sheet. In some embodiments, an apparatus can include a fog chamber including an enclosure, a fog generator to provide fog to the enclosure, and a passage in the enclosure from which fog can exit the enclosure to contact a major surface of the glass sheet. In some embodiments a method can include providing a glass sheet to a coating chamber, and dispensing a coating on a major surface of the glass sheet. In some embodiments, a method can include providing a glass sheet to a fog chamber, providing fog to an enclosure of the fog chamber, and contacting a major surface of the glass sheet with the fog by passing the fog from the enclosure through a passage in the enclosure.

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.

A method of processing a window member according to an embodiment includes applying a protective coating agent including at least one of a siloxane derivative and an inorganic sol compound onto a glass substrate, performing a heat treatment on the applied protective coating agent to form a protective layer on the glass substrate, thermoforming the glass substrate, and removing the protective layer, so as to process the window member without degradation of optical characteristics and without surface damages of the glass substrate.

A method of manufacturing a glass includes forming a first etch protection layer on a first surface of a glass substrate, and forming a second etch protection layer on a second surface of the glass substrate; removing a part of the first protection layer and a part of the second protection layer by applying a laser pulse penetrating the glass substrate from above the first surface of the glass substrate; forming a cut part in the glass substrate by etching the glass substrate using an etching solution; and removing the first etch protection layer and the second etch protection layer. The second surface is opposite to the first surface.

A high-definition flicker-free etched glass, having a glossiness of 110-145, a haze of 3-10, and a definition of 90%-99.5%. The front surface of the glass is an irregular concave-convex lens surface having an average roughness of 0.025 m-0.050 m and provided with dents and bumps; the average chord length of the dents is 1.8 m-10.0 m; the average depth from the bottom of the dent to the top of the bump is 0.2 m-0.7 m; the average chord length of the bumps is 0.1 m-0.5 m; when a 250 m*250 m area on the front surface of the glass is observed after being amplified 500 times, there are 800-2500 irregular bumps, and the irregular bumps form an array of micro-convex lenses. By means of a sandblasting etching process, the spherical radius of each bump on the front surface of the etched glass is reduced and the focal length of each micro-convex lens is shortened, so that the focal point of light is closer to the surface of the glass, brightness of a high-pixel display device is brighter and more uniform, and it is not prone to see flicker of the focus point by the naked eye any more.

The invention relates to a process for obtaining a material comprising a substrate coated on at least one part of at least one of its faces with at least one functional layer, said process comprising: a step of depositing the or each functional layer, then a step of depositing a sacrificial layer on said at least one functional layer, then a step of heat treatment by means of radiation chosen from laser radiation or radiation from at least one flash lamp, said radiation having at least one treatment wavelength between 200 and 2500 nm, said sacrificial layer being in contact with the air during this heat treatment step, then a step of removing the sacrificial layer using a solvent, said sacrificial layer being a monolayer and being such that, before heat treatment, it absorbs at least one part of said radiation at said at least one treatment wavelength and that, after heat treatment, it is capable of being removed by dissolution and/or dispersion in said solvent.