The present application relates to the field of heating technologies, and in particular, to a transparent heating film and a heating glass.
A transparent heating film/glass is mainly used in the fields of transportation, architecture and the like. The transparent heating film/glass is disposed on an inner side and an outer side of window glasses to defrost, defog and remove rainwater. Compared with a traditional non-perspective heating product, generally a good transmittance is required for the transparent heating film/glass. In many practical scenarios, the transmittance is required to be above 80%-90%, so as to ensure a better visual effect. However, with a gradual improvement in transmittance index, a conductivity property may be affected, thereby reducing heating efficiency of the transparent heating film/glass. Meanwhile, with popularization of 3G/4G/5G mobile phones, it is required by more applications that a heating film should not have an obvious shielding effect on a mobile phone signal, to avoid an occurrence of a “signal darkroom”.
According to research and analysis, Applicant found that currently, a transparent heating film/glass mainly includes a laminated glass with metal wires, an indium tin oxide (ITO) coated glass and a low-emissivity (LOW-E) silver coated film/glass and other products. Therein, a diameter of a metal wire of the laminated glass with metal wires is in the order of tens of micron, and spacing between the metal wires is large, leading to unevenness of heating and having an effect on observation of a naked eye on an object outside a window. For products such as an ITO coated film, a LOW-E silver coated film and the like, transmittance and conductivity are mutually restricted, therefore a heating speed is limited by the transmittance, Meanwhile, due to a fact that a signal may not penetrate a homogeneous coating, a shielding effect on the mobile phone signal may be greater, thereby restricting popularization of the heating film.
Based on this, the present disclosure provides a transparent heating film, including: a transparent supporting body, where a side of the transparent supporting body is provided with a plurality of trenches interconnected to each other in a grid shape; a conductive grid, where the conductive grid is formed by filling the plurality of trenches with a conductive material; and at least one penetration window, located between and partitioned with the conductive grid.
In an embodiment, the at least one penetration window includes a plurality of penetration windows, and the plurality of penetration windows are randomly or regularly distributed between the conductive grid.
In an embodiment, the plurality of penetration windows are in one or more shapes of a triangle, a polygon, an S shape, and a circle
In an embodiment, a minimum side length and/or a minimum width of the penetration window is greater than or equal to 1 mm.
In an embodiment, a width of the penetration window ranges from 1 mm to 10 cm.
In an embodiment, the penetration window is configured to be blank inside.
In an embodiment, the penetration window is provided with a color matching grid, and the color matching grid is not connected to the conductive grid.
In an embodiment, the transparent supporting body is provided with a groove, the groove is filled with a color matching material to form the color matching grid, and a grid line of the color matching grid is disconnected to form an open circuit.
In an embodiment, an average aperture of the conductive grid ranges from 10 μm to 1000 μm, and an average aperture of the color matching grid ranges from 10 μm to 1000 μm.
In an embodiment, a depth-to-width ratio of the trench is greater than or equal to 2.
In an embodiment, a width of the trench ranges from 500 nm to 10 μm, and a depth of the trench ranges from 1 μm to 20 μm.
In an embodiment, a part of the conductive grid is configured as an electrode; or the transparent supporting body further includes a line-shaped trench, and the line-shaped trench is filled with the conductive material to form the electrode electrically connected to the conductive grid; or the transparent heating film further includes the electrode stacked on the transparent supporting body and electrically connected to the conductive grid.
In an embodiment, the transparent supporting body is a substrate layer, or the transparent heating film further includes the substrate layer, and the transparent supporting body is stacked on the substrate layer.
The present disclosure further provides another transparent heating film, including: a transparent supporting body, where the transparent supporting body is provided with a trench and a groove, the trench is not interconnected to the groove, and the trench is in a grid shape; a conductive grid, where the trench is filled with a conductive material to form the conductive grid; a color matching grid, where the groove is filled with a color matching material to form the color matching grid, and the conductive grid is not connected to the color matching grid; and an electrode lead wire, where the electrode lead wire includes an electrode electrically connected to the conductive grid, and a lead wire electrically connected to the electrode.
In an embodiment, a penetration window is formed by the color matching grid, and a plurality of penetration windows are distributed between the conductive grid.
In an embodiment, a depth-to-width ratio of the trench is greater than or equal to 2, and an average aperture of the conductive grid ranges from 10 μm to 1000 μm.
In an embodiment, the electrode includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed opposite to each other, the electrode is in a line or arc shape, and the lead wire includes first lead wires located at two ends of the first electrode respectively, and second lead wires located at two ends of the second electrode respectively.
The present disclosure further provides another transparent heating film, including: a transparent supporting body, where a side of the transparent supporting body is provided with a trench in a grid shape; a conductive grid, where the trench is filled with a conductive material to form the conductive grid; an electrode, electrically connected to the conductive grid; and a penetration window, where at least one of the penetration window is distributed between the conductive grid, the penetration window is configured to be blank inside or configured with a color matching grid disconnected to the conductive grid, and a minimum side length/a minimum width of the penetration window is greater than or equal to 1 mm.
In an embodiment, the penetration window is in a shape of a triangular, a polygonal, an S-shaped, or a circular.
The present disclosure further provides a heating glass, including: a glass and the transparent heating film as described above disposed on the glass.
In an embodiment, the glass is configured to be a layer of glass and the transparent heating film is disposed on either side of the glass, or the glass is configured to be two layers of glass and the transparent heating film is disposed between the two layers of the glass.
According to the transparent heating film and the heating glass provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, a conductive grid is used for heating. A conductive material is used to form the conductive grid in a grid shape, and no conductive material is provided in grid holes of the conductive grid, so that the transparent heating film may have better effects of high transmittance, low square resistance and rapid heating. The grid holes may allow more light to penetrate and may not affect observation and work of an inner personnel. And the conductive grid may achieve a rapid heating effect of reaching over 80° C. within 5-10 seconds. Meanwhile, a penetration window is provided in the conductive grid to facilitate penetration of a signal, so that usage of a communication device may not be affected.
In order to facilitate understanding of the present disclosure, a more comprehensive description of the present disclosure will be provided hereinafter with reference to accompanying drawings. Preferred embodiments of the present disclosure are provided in the accompanying drawings. However, the present disclosure may be implemented in many different forms, and is not limited to the embodiments described below. On the contrary, a purpose of providing the embodiments is to make a more thorough and comprehensive understanding of disclosed content of the present application.
Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by a technical personnel belonging to a technical field of the present disclosure. Terms used herein in the specification of the present disclosure are for a purpose of describing particular embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the present disclosure. As used herein, term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of related listed items.
The present application discloses a transparent heating film, including a transparent supporting body, a conductive grid, and a penetration window. A side of the transparent supporting body is provided with a plurality of trenches interconnected to each other in a grid shape, and the conductive grid is formed by filling the plurality of trenches with a conductive material. The penetration window is located between and partitioned with the conductive grid. The penetration window located between the conductive grid may disrupt or weaken a shielding effect of the conductive grid, thereby facilitating penetration of a signal.
A plurality of penetration windows are randomly or regularly distributed between the conductive grid. In an embodiment, the transparent heating film may be provided with only one penetration window. The penetration window may be configured to be in a random shape, size and position, or configured according to specification. A length of the penetration window is random, and a width of the penetration window is greater than or equal to 1 mm, so as to ensure the penetration of the signal. In another embodiment, the transparent heating film may be provided with a plurality of penetration windows, and each of the plurality of penetration windows may be configured to be in a random shape, size and position, or configured according to specification. The plurality of penetration windows may be in one or more shapes of a triangle, a polygon, an S shape, and a circle. For example, a shape of the plurality of penetration windows is a triangle, and a plurality of triangular penetration windows are arranged on the supporting body in columns. For another example, a shape of the plurality of penetration windows is S shape, and a plurality of S-shaped penetration windows are arranged on the supporting body in rows. Therein, a line width of the S-shaped penetration window is greater than or equal to 1 mm, and a line length of the S-shaped penetration window is configured based on a width of the supporting body, and is not limited here. Certainly, in order to ensure evenness of heating, there should not be a large area without the conductive grid. Therefore, a width of a widest part of the penetration window is configured to be less than or equal to 10 cm, that is, it is appropriate that a width of any position of the penetration window ranges from 1 mm to 10 cm, so that the penetration of a signal and evenness of heating may be ensured.
The penetration window may be configured to be blank inside or configured with a color matching grid, and the color matching grid is not connected to the conductive grid. The penetration window may be configured with no structure inside to be blank. For example, the penetration window may be configured to include only a structure of the supporting body without any groove; or the supporting body in the penetration window may be removed to form a hole, and the hole is filled with a transparent material such as optically clear adhesive (OCA). The penetration window may also provided with a color matching grid, and the color matching grid is not connected to the conductive grid. For example, the transparent supporting body is provided with a groove, and the groove is filled with a color matching material to form the color matching grid. A grid line of the color matching grid is disconnected, that is, grid lines of the color matching grid are not completely communicated and there is a discontinuous point in the grid line. The color matching material may be a same conductive material as that filled in the conductive grid, or may be other non-conductive materials. The trench is not connected to the groove, therefore, when the trench and the groove are filled with the same conductive material, the conductive grid may not be electrically connected to the color matching grid. Moreover, the grid lines of the color matching grid are disconnected to further prevent electrical communication, so as to form an open circuit. Preferably, each grid line of the color matching grid is disconnected.
An average aperture of the conductive grid ranges from 10 μm to 1000 μm. The conductive grid may be a circular grid, a regular polygon grid, an elliptical grid or a random grid, so that the conductive grid has a better property for penetration of a signal and a better transmittance (with a transmittance of 80%-89%), thereby providing more light penetration and avoiding influence on observation and work of a personnel inside a window.
An average aperture of the color matching grid ranges from 10 μm to 1000 μm. Preferably, the average aperture of the color matching grid is consistent with the average aperture of the conductive grid, so that color evenness of the entire transparent conductive film may be ensured and a color difference may not occur to affect visual effects.
In an embodiment, a depth-to-width ratio of the trench is greater than or equal to 2. The width of the trench referred to herein is a width of a grid line of the conductive grid, and the depth of the trench refers to a thickness, in a direction perpendicular to the transparent supporting body, of the grid line. For example, a width of the trench ranges from 500 nm to 10 μm, a depth of the trench ranges from 1 μm to 20 μm, and the depth-to-width ratio of the trench ranges from 2 to 4. In this way, the conductive grid has a low square resistance (0.1-5 Ω/□), and under a same driving power supply (12-24 W), a higher heating power may be achieved, so that a purpose of rapid heating (reaching over 80° C. in 5-10 seconds) may be realized.
The conductive grid of the transparent heating film is electrically connected to a driving power supply through an electrode lead wire. The electrode lead wire includes an electrode and a lead wire electrically connected to the electrode. The electrode is formed by a part of the conductive grid; or the transparent supporting body further includes a line-shaped trench, and the line-shaped trench is filled with a conductive material to form the electrode electrically connected to the conductive grid; or the transparent heating film further includes the electrode stacked on the transparent supporting body and electrically connected to the conductive grid. For example, the electrode may be stacked on the transparent supporting body through screen printing. The transparent heating film includes a first electrode and a second electrode arranged on an upper side and a lower side, or a left side and a right side, of the supporting body. The first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected to a plurality of lead wires respectively, and the lead wires are used for electrical connection to a power supply system.
The transparent supporting body is a substrate layer, or the transparent heating film further includes a substrate layer and the transparent supporting body is stacked on the substrate layer. The substrate layer is a layer or a composite layer of glass, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polycarbonate (PC), polyimide (PI), clear polyimide (CPI), or polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).
The present disclosure further discloses a heating glass, including a glass and a transparent heating film stacked on the glass. The glass is configured to be a layer of glass, and the transparent heating film is disposed on either side of the glass; or the glass is configured to be two layers of glass, and the transparent heating film is disposed between the two layers of the glass. The heating glass is heated by a conductive grid, with effects of high transmittance, high signal penetration, low square resistance and rapid heating, so that more lights are allowed to penetrate and observation and work of an inner personnel may not be affected. And the conductive grid may achieve a rapid heating effect of reaching over 80° C. within 5-10 seconds. Meanwhile, a penetration window is provided in the conductive grid to facilitate penetration of a signal, so that usage of a communication device may not be affected.
In the following, a transparent heating film and a heating glass of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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A depth of the trench 111 is H, a width of the trench 111 is D, then 1 μm≤H≤20 μm, 500 nm≤D≤10 μm, and H/D≥2:1. Transmittance of the conductive grid 21 may achieve 80%-89%. The conductive grid 21 is a random grid, and an average aperture of the conductive grid 21 ranges from 10 μm to 1000 μm, so that a high rate of signal penetration is achieved with a high transmittance. For example, H is 6 μm, 8 μm, or 12 μm, D is 3 μm, 4 μm, or 5 μm, and the average aperture is 80 μm, 120 μm, or 600 μm.
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The transparent heating film is directly formed on a glass or is bonded to a glass through a bonding layer so as to form a heating glass. When the transparent heating film is provided with a glass layer, the transparent heating film may also be directly considered as a heating glass. The transparent heating film/heating glass of the present disclosure may be applied to the fields of transportation, architecture, and the like, and may be used to defrost, defog, and remove rainwater on an inner and outer surfaces of a window glass. The transparent heating film/heating glass is heated by using a conductive grid. A grid line with a depth-to-width ratio greater than or equal to 2 is adopted to form the conductive grid, and an average aperture ranges from 10 μm to 1000 μm, so that the transparent heating film/heating glass has effects of high transmittance, high signal penetration, low square resistance, and rapid heating, and more lights are allowed to penetrate without affecting observation and work of an inner personnel. And the conductive grid may achieve a rapid heating effect of reaching over 80° C. within 5-10 seconds. A penetration window is disposed in the conductive grid of the transparent heating film/heating glass, and the penetration window may be configured to be blank inside or configured with a color matching grid, and a minimum side length (diameter) of the penetration window is greater than or equal to 1 mm to facilitate penetration of a signal of a frequency band, so that a signal may easily penetrate and usage of a communication device may not be affected.
In order to make the above objectives, features and advantages of the present disclosure more comprehensible, specific embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail above with reference to the accompanying drawings. Numerous specific details are set forth in the above description to facilitate a sufficient understanding of the present disclosure. However, the present disclosure may be implemented in many other ways different from that described above, and those skilled in the art may perform similar improvements without departing from the connotation of the present disclosure. Therefore, the present disclosure is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed above. Moreover, the technical features of the above embodiments may be combined arbitrarily, and in order to make the description concise, all possible combinations of the technical features in the foregoing embodiments are not described. However, as long as there is no contradiction in the combination of these technical features, it should be considered as within the scope of the present specification.
The above embodiments only express several embodiments of the present disclosure, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but cannot be understood as a limitation on the patent scope of the present disclosure. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, several variations and improvements may be made without departing from the concept of the present disclosure, which are all within the protection scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the scope of protection of the present disclosure shall be subject to the attached claims.
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202110466044.3 | Apr 2021 | CN | national |
This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/CN2022/082915, filed on Mar. 25, 2022, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202110466044.3, filed on Apr. 28, 2021. The disclosures of the aforementioned applications are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
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Parent | PCT/CN2022/082915 | Mar 2022 | US |
Child | 18487222 | US |