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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7837249 | Vehicle for enhancing recognition accuracy of visual information The vehicle is equipped with a front window having a light transmission characteristic and separated into a first area and a second area provided below the first area, wherein a boundary between the first area and the second area is provided so that a looking-down a... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7322632 | Vehicle visor assembly In a vehicle including a cab, having a windshield with opposed upper and lower edges, bounding an interior, a dashboard extending into the interior proximate the lower edge of the windshield, a hood extending forwardly of the cab proximate the lower edge of the wind... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7309096 | Visibility adjusting method and apparatus of vehicle According to a visibility adjusting apparatus of a vehicle, an apex T is disposed at a position deviated from a driver and between a position opposed to the driver and a vehicle center position, left and right ridgelines uniformly downwardly inclined from the apex T... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7300167 | Adjustably opaque window An adjustably opaque window including an external pane, an internal pane, a light transmission control layer and a shock-absorbing layer is provided. The external pane and the internal pane provide a cavity between them, and the light transmission control layer and ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7284782 | View adjustment method and view adjustment device for a vehicle A view adjustment portion includes a vertex at a position offset from a driver between a position opposed to the driver and a center position of the vehicle and includes right and left edges uniformly sloped down from the vertex toward each side in the vehicle width... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7258454 | Laminated glass for vehicles and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides a laminated glass for vehicles exerting the functions that are difficult to be made compatible in combinations such as (1) a shade band in an interlayer and an optical device such as a CCD camera, (2) a heat shielding interlayer and an... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7175290 | Laminated glass for vehicles and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides a laminated glass for vehicles exerting the functions that are difficult to be made compatible in combinations such as (1) a shade band in an interlayer and an optical device such as a CCD camera, (2) a heat shielding interlayer and an... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7159924 | Visibility adjusting method and apparatus of vehicle A visibility adjusting section (10) is formed by making a visible light transmission of a region (A) in a lower side of left and right ridgelines (Rl, Rr) lower than a visible light transmission of a region (B) in an upper side of the left and right ridgeline... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7100960 | Visibility adjusting method and apparatus of vehicle According to a visibility adjusting apparatus of a vehicle, an apex T is disposed at a position deviated from a driver and between a position opposed to the driver and a vehicle center position, left and right ridgelines uniformly downwardly inclined from the apex T... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6536828 | Solar windshield system A vehicle solar windshield system comprising a front windshield composed of a first transition lens material, at least one side window composed of a second transition lens material and a rear windshield composed of a third transition lens material. In one... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6299231 | Veiling glare reduction system A vehicle veiling glare reduction system includes a windshield having an inner and outer surface, a first polarization layer disposed on at least one windshield surface adapted to polarize light in a first predetermined direction, a dashboard having an up... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6002511 | Electrochromic polymeric solid films, manufacturing electrochromic devices using such solid films, and processes for making such solid films and devices The present invention relates to electrochromic polymeric solid films, manufacturing electrochromic devices using such solid films and processes for making such solid films and devices. The electrochromic polymeric solid films of the present invention exh... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5972453 | Removable film for the windows of motor vehicles The present invention provides a removable window film for motor vehicles comprising a base film (1) and an adhesive layer (2) having removability and low adhesive strength and comprising a low adhesive strength type adhesive, wherein the adhesive layer (... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5914178 | Laminated pane comprising a visible motif This invention relates to a laminated pane, having a visible motif, the pane including at least one rigid sheer of glass or plastics material and at least one sheet of flexible plastics material. The motif is formed of at least one organic ink layer organ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5905589 | Light transmittance adjusting apparatus A light transmittance adjusting apparatus for adjusting a windowpane of an automobile or a building has a fixed member and a movable member arranged in parallel with each other and having a plurality of light interception sections and light transmission s... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5849402 | Laminated pane with low energy transmission A pane with low energy transmission. The pane has a laminated structure of at least one glass sheet tinted in its mass and preferably having antisolar properties, and at least one sheet of polymer material containing a UV-absorbent, the at least one glass... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5376443 | Conveyance window with suppressed reflections A vehicle window includes a glass ply with a layer of thermoset polyurethane over the outer face of the glass which inhibits Restrahlen Band reflection at 8-12 microns from the glass. The polyurethane layer may include an inner layer portion of relatively... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5324568 | Glazing pane with reduced light transmittance and method of manufacturing same A roof window pane for automobiles possesses, on the face towards the passenger compartment, a grating-type pattern of a material which impedes the passage of radiation, especially a baking finish. The grating-type pattern consists of superimposed grating... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5284376 | Motor vehicle windscreen having strip-shaped opaque dot pattern As a replacement for a swivellable third sun visor which fills the free space between, on one hand, two folded-down sun visors and, on the other hand, the rear-view mirror and the roof lining, a shade arranged on the windscreen adjoins an opaque strip mou... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5271580 | Aircrew controllable sunlight filter for an aircraft cockpit A aircrew controllable sunlight filter for preventing sunlight washout of aircraft instruments comprises as part of an otherwise conventional laminated aircraft transparency an additional ply or layer of photosensitive material positioned near the inside ... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5239406 | Near-infrared reflecting, ultraviolet protected, safety protected, electrochromic vehicular glazing An electrochromic window/glazing assembly disclosed which reduces the transmission of near-infrared and ultraviolet radiation while protecting against risk of laceration or chemical contact if broken/damaged, against ultraviolet (UV) radiation degradation... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5188419 | Apparatus for providing interior light to a vehicle An apparatus which increases the amount of daylight entering a truck cab to provide additional cab illumination without directly shining on an operator, including a window located above the windshield and a header extending from the bottom part of the win... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5040838 | Windshield for automobiles A windshield device for an automobile is in the form of a glass sheet having an S-shaped vertical cross section. The windshield device comprises an automobile body having a window frame, and a windshield fixed to the window frame. The windshield has verti... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4976503 | Optical element for a vehicle windshield An optical element for a motor vehicle windshield comprises, in combination, an interference filter having one or more light-reflecting metal layers and one or more reflection-suppressing layers for coacting with the one or more metal layers to minimize r... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4943140 | Optical element for a vehicle windshield An optical element for a motor vehicle windshield comprises, in combination, an interference filter having one or more light-reflecting metal layers and one or more reflection-suppressing layers for coacting with the one or more metal layers to minimize r... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4874654 | Vehicle window glass A vehicle window glass composed of a transparent part and a colored part formed on the periphery of the transparent part by the multi-color molding method. A method for producing a vehicle window glass by forming a colored part on the periphery of the tra... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4555434 | Anti-glare glass pane for a vehicle Anti-glare glass pane for a vehicle where the pane has a main area of a field of vision and a secondary area of a field of vision located below the main area which is less transparent to the visible spectrum than said main area.... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4108488 | Vehicle front having asymmetrical windshields An improved windshield for a transit vehicle. The windshield comprises a pair of windshield sections horizontally separated by a vertical divider. Each of the windshield sections are positioned at different angles from a common vertical axis whereby at ni... | 08/22/1978 |
