US 12,110,736 B2
Frame providing restriction of thermal deflection of a VIG unit edge
Utku Ahmet Özden, Hørsholm (DK); Jacob Christian Molbo, Hørsholm (DK); and Jens Troels Plesner Kristensen, Hørsholm (DK)
Assigned to VKR HOLDING A/S, Horsholm (DK)
Appl. No. 17/422,844
Filed by VKR HOLDING A/S, Hørsholm (DK)
PCT Filed Jan. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/DK2020/050013
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/147904, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PA201970020 (DK), filed on Jan. 14, 2019; application No. PA201970021 (DK), filed on Jan. 14, 2019; application No. PA201970022 (DK), filed on Jan. 14, 2019; application No. PA201970023 (DK), filed on Jan. 14, 2019; application No. PA201970024 (DK), filed on Jan. 14, 2019; application No. PA201970025 (DK), filed on Jan. 14, 2019; and application No. PA201970026 (DK), filed on Jan. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0081961 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. E06B 3/02 (2006.01); E04D 13/03 (2006.01); E04D 13/035 (2006.01); E06B 3/14 (2006.01); E06B 3/54 (2006.01); E06B 3/56 (2006.01); E06B 3/62 (2006.01); E06B 3/66 (2006.01); E06B 3/677 (2006.01); E06B 7/23 (2006.01)
CPC E06B 3/6612 (2013.01) [E04D 13/03 (2013.01); E04D 13/031 (2013.01); E04D 13/0315 (2013.01); E04D 13/035 (2013.01); E04D 13/0351 (2013.01); E04D 13/0354 (2013.01); E06B 3/025 (2013.01); E06B 3/14 (2013.01); E06B 3/5427 (2013.01); E06B 3/5454 (2013.01); E06B 3/5481 (2013.01); E06B 3/56 (2013.01); E06B 3/62 (2013.01); E06B 3/6621 (2013.01); E06B 3/677 (2013.01); E06B 7/2301 (2013.01); E06B 7/2305 (2013.01); E06B 2003/6208 (2013.01); E06B 2003/6229 (2013.01); E06B 2003/6238 (2013.01); E06B 2003/6291 (2013.01); Y02A 30/249 (2018.01); Y02B 80/22 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A vacuum insulated glass unit frame assembly, wherein said vacuum insulated glass unit frame assembly comprises:
a rectangular vacuum insulated glass unit comprising two glass sheets separated by a gap between said glass sheets, wherein a plurality of support structures are distributed in said gap and wherein said gap is sealed, and
a frame arrangement comprising elongated frame profile arrangements which frames said vacuum insulated glass unit in a frame opening extending in a frame opening plane defined between the elongated frame profile arrangements, and wherein said frame arrangement comprises a fixation system fixating the vacuum insulated glass unit at the frame arrangement,
wherein said frame is arranged so as to allow edges of said vacuum insulated glass unit to thermally deflect in a deflection direction perpendicular to said frame opening plane due to a temperature difference between the two glass sheets, and to provide a restriction of said thermal deflection of the edges, so as to reduce the magnitude of the thermal deflection compared to an unrestricted thermal deflection of the edges at said temperature difference; and
wherein the largest total edge deflection in said deflection direction of any of the edges of the vacuum insulated glass unit at a temperature difference between the two glass sheets of 65° C. as compared to the vacuum insulated glass unit at a temperature difference of 0° C. is at least 1 mm.