Coated article having diamond-like carbon (DLC) and protective film thereon

US8354178B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Guardian Industries Corp. · US
• Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verre et la Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.) · LU

Inventors

• Nestor P. Murphy · Beverly Hills, US
• Maximo Frati · Ann Arbor, US
• Rudolph Hugo Petrmichl · Ann Arbor, US
• Jiangping Wang · Novi, US
• Jens-Peter Muller · Differdange, LU
• Herbert Lage · Bad Liebenzell, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 7, 2010
• Grant date: Jan 15, 2013
• Expiry date: Jan 20, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/12556
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

There is provided a method of making a heat treated (HT) coated article to be used in shower door applications, window applications, or any other suitable applications where transparent coated articles are desired. For example, certain embodiments of this invention relate to a method of making a coated article including a step of heat treating a glass substrate coated with at least a layer of or including diamond-like carbon (DLC) and an overlying protective film thereon. In certain example embodiments, the protective film may be of or include an oxide of zinc. Following and/or during heat treatment (e.g., thermal tempering, or the like) the protective film may be removed. Other embodiments of this invention relate to the pre-HT coated article, or the post-HT coated article.