US 12,151,540 B2
Windshield
Tsutomu Kojima, Tokyo (JP); Masayuki Shiotsuka, Tokyo (JP); Hironori Kuribayashi, Tokyo (JP); and Mitsunobu Yamada, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/267,322
Filed by NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 9, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/031616
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/032250, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-152061 (JP), filed on Aug. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0237540 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. B60J 1/00 (2006.01); B32B 3/26 (2006.01); B32B 7/12 (2006.01); B32B 17/10 (2006.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60J 1/001 (2013.01) [B32B 3/266 (2013.01); B32B 7/12 (2013.01); B32B 17/10 (2013.01); B32B 17/10036 (2013.01); B32B 17/10293 (2013.01); B32B 17/10761 (2013.01); B60J 1/002 (2013.01); B60R 11/04 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0026 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A windshield on which an information acquisition device configured to acquire information from an outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light can be arranged, the windshield comprising:
an outer glass plate;
an inner glass plate;
an interlayer arranged between the outer glass plate and the inner glass plate;
a first blocking layer layered on a surface on a vehicle interior side of the inner glass plate; and
a second blocking layer layered on a surface on a vehicle interior side of the outer glass plate;
wherein the first blocking layer has an opening through which the light passes,
the second blocking layer is layered at a position where the second blocking layer blocks an upper portion of the opening, and the second blocking layer and the opening form a path through which the light passes,
a lowermost surface, which is projected within the opening in a direction normal to the opening, of the second blocking layer forms an upper end of the path, and
a lower end of the opening forms a bottom end of the path.