Patents Assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
  • Patent number: 11531149
    Abstract: An optical (1a) includes a light-absorbing layer (10). The light-absorbing layer absorbs light in at least a portion of the near-infrared region. When light with a wavelength of 300 to 1200 nm is incident on the optical filter (1a) at an incident angle of 0°, the optical filter (1a) satisfies given spectral transmittance requirements. When an average of absolute values of differences each between a value of a normalized spectral transmittance for an incident angle x° and a value of a normalized spectral transmittance for an incident angle y° in the wavelength range of W nm to V nm (W<V) is expressed as ?TSx/yW-V, the optical filter (1a) satisfies requirements ?TS0/40380-530?3%, ?TS0/40450-650?3%, and ?TS0/40530-750?3%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tomitaka Takagi, Katsuhide Shimmo
  • Publication number: 20220396989
    Abstract: A glass body according to the present invention includes a first glass plate including a first surface and a second surface, and a first film region including a first Low-E film that is formed on at least a portion of at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the first glass plate, and the first film region has radio wave transmittance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Daisuke INAOKA, Tatsuhiro NAKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11523022
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing an image sensor unit, the image sensor unit including: a linear light source that illuminates a document along a main scanning direction; a rod lens array that includes a plurality of rod lenses arranged in the main scanning direction and condenses a light reflected from the document; and a linear image sensor that receives a light condensed by the rod lens array. When a rod lens having an optically discontinuous portion on a surface and/or interior of the rod lens is included, the rod lens array is arranged such that the optically discontinuous portion is not located toward the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shuya Ogi, Eiichi Nakaoka
  • Publication number: 20220382047
    Abstract: The present invention includes a mirror main body formed in a polygonal shape in a plan view and having a first main face that reflects an image, a second main face that is opposite to the first main face, and a peripheral edge face that connects the first main face and the second main face to each other, in which the peripheral edge face includes a plurality of first end faces and a second end face that connects the adjacent first end faces, and the second end face constitutes a first chamfered portion formed at an outer edge of the mirror main body in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Masafumi TAGUCHI, Kazuaki OYA, Yohei SHIMOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220379584
    Abstract: A automobile laminated glass according to the present invention includes: a curved outer glass plate; a curved inner panel that is smaller than the outer glass plate and is disposed opposing the outer glass plate; and an intermediate film that includes a functional layer and is disposed between the outer glass plate and the inner panel, wherein at least a portion of the inner panel is located inward of a peripheral edge of the outer glass plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Ryohei OGAWA, Hisashi OGAWA, Hisashi ASAOKA
  • Publication number: 20220338311
    Abstract: The present invention provides a windshield on which an information acquisition device that acquires information from outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light is disposable, the windshield including: a glass plate; and a heating wire that is provided on the glass plate and to which a current is applied. The glass plate includes at least one information acquisition region that faces the information acquisition device and through which the light passes, the heating wire includes a plurality of linear main body portions that pass through at least the information acquisition region and a linear linking portion for linking the plurality of main body portions, and at least one of the linking portions includes a heat generation suppressing means for suppressing heat generation when a current is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kazuki CHIBA, Hisashi OGAWA, Hisashi ASAOKA, Kazuhisa ONO, Yota YANO
  • Publication number: 20220338310
    Abstract: A glass plate module according to the present invention is a glass plate module to which a wire for supplying electric power is capable of being joined and includes a glass plate, a heating wire disposed on the glass plate, and an electricity supply portion that is disposed on the glass plate and supplies electric power to the heating wire. The electricity supply portion is formed using conductive print that contains, as a main component, metal microparticles whose thermal expansion coefficient is larger than that of the glass plate, and the electricity supply portion is thinner than the heating wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yota YANO
  • Patent number: 11472963
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glitter pigment suitable for imparting high brightness to reflected light toward a regular reflection direction and reducing unnaturalness caused by an observation angle-dependent variation in reflected light. The glitter pigment according to the present invention includes: a flaky substrate; an optical interference film formed on a surface of the flaky substrate; and fine light scattering particles attached to the optical interference film, wherein reflected light is represented by an L*(15) value of more than 100, a ?L*(h?s) value of less than 30, and a ?h(h?s) value of less than 40° in an L*C*h color system. The L*(15) value is an L* value of the reflected light toward a 15° direction based on an angular representation in which, when an illuminant is disposed so that an incident angle is 45°, an angle at which light is regularly reflected is defined as 0° and a light incident direction is defined as positive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Haruko Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 11465143
    Abstract: A reaction processing vessel includes a substrate and a groove-like channel formed on the upper surface of the substrate. The channel includes a high temperature serpiginous channel, a medium temperature serpiginous channel, and a high temperature braking channel and a medium temperature braking channel that are adjacent to the high temperature serpiginous channel and the medium temperature serpiginous channel, respectively. The respective cross-sectional areas of the high temperature braking channel and the medium temperature braking channel are larger than the respective cross-sectional areas of the high temperature serpiginous channel and the medium temperature serpiginous channel, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hidemitsu Takeuchi, Osamu Kawaguchi, Takashi Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 11465150
    Abstract: A reaction processor is provided with a reaction processing vessel having a channel, a liquid feeding system, a temperature control system, and a fluorescence detector, and a CPU for controlling the liquid feeding system. When a sample moves from a low temperature region to a high temperature region, the CPU instructs the liquid feeding system to stop the sample when a predetermined first waiting time has passed from the time when the passage of the sample through a fluorescence detection region is detected by the fluorescence detector. When the sample moves from the high temperature region to the low temperature region, the CPU instructs the liquid feeding system to stop the sample when a predetermined second waiting time, which is set independently of the first waiting time, has passed from the time when the passage of the sample through the fluorescence detection region is detected by the fluorescence detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Takashi Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 11440832
    Abstract: A glass filler of the present disclosure includes glass having a composition, the composition including iron oxide. For the content in mass % of the iron oxide in the composition, 0.005?FeO?0.30 and 0.01?T-Fe2O3?0.80 (T-Fe2O3 represents total iron oxide calculated as Fe2O3) are satisfied. For the iron oxide in the composition, Fe2+/(Fe2++Fe3+), which represents the proportion by mass of Fe2+ to total iron, is 0.15 or more and 1.00 or less. The glass filler of the present disclosure is a glass filler having a new composition including a coloring component, the glass filler having a high visible transmittance and a controlled color which can be, for example, within a range of colors different from those of conventional glass fillers that have a low visible transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Kosuke Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11442200
    Abstract: A low-reflection coated glass sheet of the present invention includes a glass sheet and a low-reflection coating. The low-reflection coating is formed on at least a portion of one principal surface of the glass sheet and contains a binder containing silica as a main component, fine silica particles bound by the binder, and fine titania particles bound by the binder. The low-reflection coating satisfies the following relationships: 30 mass %<CSP<68 mass %; 12 mass %?CTP<50 mass %; 20 mass %<CBinder<43.75 mass %; CTP/CBinder?0.6; CBinder<25 mass % in the case of CSP?55 mass %; and CTP>20 mass % in the case of CSP<55 mass %. The low-reflection coated glass sheet has a transmittance gain of 2.0% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Mizuho Koyo, Tatsuhiro Nakazawa, Mitsuhiro Kawazu
  • Patent number: 11428857
    Abstract: An optical filter (1a) includes a light-absorbing layer (10). The light-absorbing layer absorbs light in at least a portion of the near-infrared region. When light with a wavelength of 300 nm to 1200 nm is incident on the optical filter (1a) at incident angles of 0°, 30°, and 40°, the optical filter (1a) satisfies given transmittance requirements. IE?1/?2CR, IE?1/?2CG, and IE?1/?2CB defined for two incident angles ?1° and ?2° (?1<?2) selected from 0°, 30°, and 40° satisfy given requirements. Ranges satisfy given requirements, each range being a difference obtained by subtracting the smallest value of IE?1/?2CR, IE?1/?2CG, and IE?1/?2CB defined for the same two incident angles ?1° and ?2° from the largest value of IE?1/?2CR, IE?1/?2CG, and IE?1/?2CB defined for the same two incident angles ?1° and ?2°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomitaka Takagi, Katsuhide Shimmo
  • Patent number: 11427959
    Abstract: A rubber-reinforcing cord (10) includes a first fiber strand (11) and a plurality of second fiber strands (12) disposed around the first fiber strand (11). The second fiber strand (12) has a tensile elastic modulus higher by 20 GPa or more than that of the first fiber strand (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Shinya Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20220247093
    Abstract: The present invention provides a connection terminal to be fixed to a conductive portion provided on a glass plate for a vehicle. The connection terminal includes an installation portion having a fixing surface to be fixed to the conductive portion, a rising portion that extends from the installation portion in a direction away from the glass plate, a connection portion that is connected to the rising portion and has a power supply portion configured to supply power, and a solder attached to the fixing surface, in which the solder includes a protruding portion that protrudes from the fixing surface of the installation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Junichi TOKIWA
  • Publication number: 20220205916
    Abstract: A reaction processing apparatus includes: a reaction processing vessel; a first fluorescence detection device that irradiates a sample with first excitation light and detects first fluorescence produced from the sample; and a second fluorescence detection device that irradiates a sample with second excitation light and detects second fluorescence produced from the sample. The wavelength range of the first fluorescence and the wavelength range of the second excitation light overlap at least partially. The first excitation light and the second excitation light flash at a predetermined duty ratio d. The phase difference between the flashing of the first excitation light and the flashing of the second excitation light is set within a range of 2?(pm??pm) (rad) to 2?(pm+?pm) (rad) or within a range of 2?[(1?pm)??pm] (rad) to 2?[(1?pm)+?pm] (rad), where pm=d?d2 and ?pm =0.01*pm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takashi FUKUZAWA, Hidemitsu TAKEUCHI, Osamu KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220205312
    Abstract: A glass unit according to the present invention includes a first glass plate, a second glass plate that is arranged facing the first glass plate with a predetermined interval therebetween and forms an internal space with the first glass plate, a sealing member that seals a gap at peripheral edges of the first glass plate and the second glass plate, and a plurality of spacers arranged between the first glass plate and the second glass plate. The internal space has been depressurized to a vacuum state, or a predetermined gas has been injected into the internal space. The first and second glass plates each have a thickness of 5 mm or less, the pitch of the spacers is 15 mm or more, and the difference between the height of the highest spacer and the height of the lowest spacer is 0.01 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro NAKAZAWA, Hidemi KATO
  • Publication number: 20220201806
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a windshield to which an information acquisition device configured to acquire information from the outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light is attachable via a bracket, the windshield including: a glass module that includes a glass body having an information acquisition region through which the light passes; a sheet-shaped heating element that is attached to a surface on a vehicle interior side of the glass body and is not rectangular; and a power supply part configured to supply power to the heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuki CHIBA, Yohei SHIMOKAWA, Kazuaki OYA, Yoko MIYAMOTO, Shigeki YONEZAWA
  • Patent number: 11365319
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glitter pigment, including: a glass flake; a titanium oxide layer formed over the glass flake; and fine gold particles deposited on the titanium oxide layer, wherein the fine gold particles include fine gold particles P2 having a particle diameter of 20 nm or more and less than 50 nm, and in a square region 2 ?m on a side on a surface of the titanium oxide layer on which the fine gold particles are deposited, the number of the fine gold particles P2 is 9 or more and less than 100 and an average of distances between the fine gold particles P2 is 130 nm or more and less than 500 nm, each of the distances being a distance from one of the fine gold particles P2 to another fine gold particle P2 nearest to the one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Haruko Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 11351552
    Abstract: A reaction processor includes: a reaction processing vessel placing portion for placing a reaction processing vessel provided with a channel into which a sample is introduced; a temperature control system, which controls the temperature of the channel in order to heat the sample inside the channel; and a liquid feeding system, which controls the pressure inside the channel of the reaction processing vessel in order to move the sample inside the channel. The liquid feeding system maintains the pressure inside the channel to be higher than the atmospheric pressure in the surrounding of the reaction processing vessel, more preferably 1 atm or higher, during a reaction process of the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Takashi Fukuzawa, Hidenori Nagai