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New DuPont Technology Gives Auto Safety Glass a New "Look"
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| Visteon debuts patent-pending technology on automotive windshield shade bands, featuring NASCAR® and NFL™ logos. Showcased by DuPont at the 2005 SAE World Congress, DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ allows digital images to be printed directly on DuPont™ SentryGlas® automotive safety interlayer, creating virtually unlimited options for advertising, branding and badging for shade bands, back windows, sidelights or sunroofs.
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A new technology that allows digital images to be printed directly on the DuPont™ SentryGlas® automotive safety interlayer blends form and function by introducing design possibilities to an important safety feature.
Featured at the 2005 SAE World Congress, DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ patent-pending technology allows designers to print photographic, graphic images or lettering using DuPont proprietary ink and ink-jet printing on DuPont™ SentryGlas® before it is sandwiched between inner and outer glass layers.
"There are a number of opportunities for designers and brand managers alike — anything from brand logos, advertising on commercial vehicles, introducing color or images to the shade band, back window, sunroofs and/or sidelight," said David Lee, marketing manager for Automotive Glass Laminating Solutions. "Like many of the design solutions with DuPont materials, this introduces a new palette for designers by blending form and function."
Styling and design were identified as "very important" consumer attributes by 34 percent of engineers and automotive designers planning to attend the 2005 SAE World Congress in Detroit, according to the 11th annual DuPont/SAE survey - just behind enhanced safety systems and better vehicle performance.
SentryGlas® Expressions™ is easy to laminate and conforms more readily to the curved shape of vehicle glass, compared to competitive technologies. No tooling is needed, and virtually any color is available, with varying degrees of translucency. The designer simply supplies the image to DuPont, which sees it through to production, with unprecedented turnaround time.
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