Solar heated windshield

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1998-03-18

2000-05-23

Robinson, Ellis

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Glass, ceramic, or sintered, fused, fired, or calcined metal...

428188, 428 69, 428 76, 428 72, 428178, 296211, 521712, 521713, E06B 324

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ABSTRACT:
A solar heated windshield comprises two matching glass sheets with a hollow interlayer therebetween for inhibiting frost or ice formation on the outer glass sheet by collecting and retaining solar energy within the interlayer. The inner sheet includes a tinted film such that solar energy passing through the windshield is partially deflected into the interlayer to warm the air contained therein. Deflected solar energy may also impinge on or be deflected into a reservoir containing a heat retentive and conductive liquid such as propylene glycol. Air within the interlayer will be warmed repetitively by the heated glycol through the fluid motion of convection. Heat may be transferred by convection to air throughout the interlayer or only to specifically focused areas.

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