Anti-fog element

Details Anti-fog element Anti-fog element

1997-07-21

1998-12-29

Nguyen, Thong

Optical: systems and elements

Protection from moisture or foreign particle

Humidity or temperature control

359507, 359509, G02B 508

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058547088

ABSTRACT:
An anti-fog element includes a transparent substrate such as a glass substrate, a transparent film of a photocatalyzer such as TiO.sub.2 catalyzing a photocatalytic reaction on the transparent substrate, and a film of a transparent porous inorganic oxide such as SiO.sub.2 formed on the film of the photocatalyzer and having a surface exhibiting a hydrophilic property. Organic matters etc. deposited in openings of the porous inorganic oxide film are dissolved and removed by a photocatalytic reaction caused by light excitation of the photocatalyzer film whereby the anti-fog property of the anti-fog element can be maintained over a long period of time.

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Patent Abstract of Japanese Reference No. 88-158890, vol. 96, No. 10, Oct. 31, 1996.
"Pt-Tio.sub.2 Thin Films On Glass Substrate As Efficient Catalysts", by M. Takahashi, Journal of Materials Science, vol. 24, No. 1, Jan. 1989 (pp. 243-246).

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