Articles including anticondensation and/or low-E coatings and/or methods of making the same

US8834976B2 · 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

• Jean-Marc Lemmer · Ann Arbor, US
• Nestor P. Murphy · Beverly Hills, US
• David D. McLean · Royal Oak, US
• Richard Blacker · Farmington Hills, US
• Herbert Lage · Bad Liebenzell, DE
• Jose Ferreira · Milford, US
• Pierre Pallotta · Villerupt, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 2011
• Grant date: Sep 16, 2014
• Expiry date: Dec 11, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/24975
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation and/or low-E coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation and/or low-E coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.