US 12,144,071 B2
Vehicle window glass with electrical connector soldered by lead-free solder
Olivier Farreyrol, Grevenmacher (LU)
Assigned to ACR II GLASS AMERICA INC., Nashville, TN (US)
Filed by ACR II GLASS AMERICA INC., Nashville, TN (US)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/136,510.
Application 18/136,510 is a continuation of application No. 15/926,502, filed on Mar. 20, 2018, granted, now 11,659,631.
Claims priority of application No. 1704525 (GB), filed on Mar. 22, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0254947 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H05B 3/86 (2006.01); C03C 27/04 (2006.01); C22C 38/08 (2006.01); C22C 38/10 (2006.01); H01R 4/02 (2006.01); H01R 43/02 (2006.01); H05B 3/06 (2006.01); H05B 3/84 (2006.01)
CPC H05B 3/86 (2013.01) [C03C 27/046 (2013.01); C22C 38/08 (2013.01); C22C 38/105 (2013.01); H01R 4/02 (2013.01); H05B 3/06 (2013.01); H05B 3/84 (2013.01); H01R 43/0214 (2013.01); H01R 2201/26 (2013.01); H05B 2203/016 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle window glass, comprising:
a glass substrate layer, wherein the glass substrate layer is a soda-lime silicate glass defined by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 16293-1;
an electrically conductive layer forming a conductive pattern over the glass substrate layer;
a lead-free solder layer on the electrically conductive layer, wherein the lead-free solder layer is made of a tin-based metal alloy comprising silver; and
a metal plate element on the lead-free solder layer, wherein the metal plate element comprises iron alloy and has a thickness from 0.54 mm to 0.6 mm, and the iron alloy is Invar 48.