Patent ID: 7892616

Claim:
A glazing comprising: a glazed element with an overmolded plastic part; and at least one rigid element linked to the glazed element, wherein the glazed element comprises a single sheet with an upper surface, a lower surface and an edge portion therebetween, wherein the at least one rigid element includes glass and has a linear thermal expansion coefficient differing by 10 −6 ° C. −1 at most from that of the glazed element, wherein a surround member which extends over substantially the entire periphery of said at least one rigid element and which interconnects said at least one rigid element with a side surface of said at least one glazed element, wherein the surround member confines the glazed element exclusively via the lower surface and edge portion of the glazed element, and wherein the at least one rigid element includes a first portion and a second portion, a first end of the first portion is joined to a first end of the second portion so as to provide an acute angle between the first end of the first portion and the first end of the second portion, a second end of the first portion, opposite the first end of the first portion, and a second end of the second portion, opposite the first end of the first portion, are free, wherein a thermoplastic is molded into contact with a first face of the first portion and a first face of the second portion, and wherein a second face of the first portion, opposite the first face of the first portion, and a second face of the second portion, opposite the first face of the second portion, contact the surround member.