Patents Assigned to AGC Inc.
  • Patent number: 12686630
    Abstract: A UV-transmitting glass formed of a multi-component oxide, and having at least one of characteristics of an internal transmittance ?350-400(%) with respect to light having a wavelength between 350 nm and 400 nm through a 10 mm-thick glass that satisfies ?350-400?90 . . . (1); an internal transmittance ?300-350(%) with respect to light having a wavelength between 300 nm and 350 nm through a 10 mm-thick glass that satisfies ?300-350?75 . . . (2); and an internal transmittance ?260-300(%) with respect to light having a wavelength between 260 nm and 300 nm through a 10 mm-thick glass that satisfies ?260-300?45 . . . (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takenori Someya, Naoki Kanno
  • Publication number: 20260200788
    Abstract: A glass article includes a glass plate having a hole in a surface and a glass block that fills the hole in the glass plate. The glass plate is formed of a first glass material, and the glass block is formed of a second glass material having a different composition from the first glass material. A glass transition point (Tg1) of the first glass material is higher than a glass transition point (Tg2) of the second glass material. An absolute value (?CTE=|CTE1?CTE2|) of a difference between an average coefficient of linear expansion (CTE1) of the first glass material and an average coefficient of linear expansion (CTE2) of the second glass material is less than 35.8×10?7/° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2026
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi TSUNODA, Atsushi MATSUO, Koji MIYASAKA, Misao MOMII, Isamu HOJO
  • Publication number: 20260200951
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a borate compound which is soluble in aliphatic hydrocarbon solvents, capable of maintaining a homogeneous solution state even at low temperatures, and useful as a cocatalyst for the solution polymerization of olefin and diene. The present invention relates to a borate compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, a production method thereof, and use thereof as a cocatalyst for the polymerization of olefin and diene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2026
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventor: Masanori SAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 12679475
    Abstract: A bracket includes a base to be bonded to a surface of a side edge portion of a glass. The side edge portion and the base are joined with a combination of at least two types of adhesives. A first adhesive has a shorter curing time than a second adhesive. The second adhesive provides stronger joining after cured than the first adhesive. In the joining, the bracket is stabilized from the outside while the side edge portion and the base are in contact with each other with the first adhesive and the second adhesive interposed therebetween. The stabilization of the bracket from the outside is released upon the first adhesive being cured. Curing the second adhesive is allowed to proceed while the bracket continues to be stabilized with the first adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Takuya Naito, Ryoichi Urata, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Kawahara, Satoshi Kaneko, Hideomi Kamizono
  • Patent number: 12679072
    Abstract: A window glass for a vehicle includes: a glass plate having a first main surface and a second main surface; a ceramic color layer; and an organic ink layer, in which the glass plate has a curved surface shape in which the first main surface is concave, and has an information transmission and reception region, the ceramic color layer is provided in a peripheral portion of the region on the first main surface, the organic ink layer is provided to cover a partial region on the first main surface and at least a partial region on the ceramic color layer, as well as a boundary portion between the glass plate and the ceramic color layer on the first main surface, and a thickness of the organic ink layer is smaller than a thickness of the ceramic color layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Ayaka Ikegami, Yuukou Minamiya, Shunsuke Sadakane, Hiroki Fujimoto, Jun Ito, Keiichiro Uraji
  • Publication number: 20260192548
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated glass with reduced deterioration of a functional member and with excellent aesthetics. The laminated glass includes: first glass plate, adhesive interlayer, functional layer, second glass plate and sealing member, wherein: first glass plate has a first main surface, a second main surface and a first end surface connecting the first main surface and the second main surface; second glass plate has a third main surface, a fourth main surface and a second end surface connecting the third main surface and the fourth main surface; adhesive interlayer is in contact with the second and third main surfaces; functional layer is positioned between the second main surface and the third main surface; sealing member is in contact with the first and second end surfaces; the sealing member is arranged continuously from the first main surface to the fourth main surface; and the sealing member contains a resin material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2026
    Publication date: July 9, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Yukihiro SUMI
  • Publication number: 20260192549
    Abstract: A laminated glass capable of, even when light is shielded, reducing the reflection of the interior of a cabin or the like is provided. A laminated glass comprises a first glass plate, a first intermediate film, a PDLC-type light control film, a second intermediate film, and a second glass plate in this order, in which the laminated glass has a total light transmittance of 10% or less and a haze value of 50% or more when the PDLC-type light control film is turned off, the second glass plate includes a low-emissivity film on a surface thereof opposite to a side of the second intermediate film, and a visible light reflectance of a surface of the low-emissivity film opposite to a side of the second glass plate is 0.2% or more and 3.8% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2026
    Publication date: July 9, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki HIRAKOSO, Hisao INOKUMA, Yasushi KAWAMOTO, Yukihiro SUMI
  • Publication number: 20260197905
    Abstract: A heater includes a heat generating member being conductive and configured to radiate heat rays by being fed with electric power, and a tubular member constituting of a metal and accommodating the heat generating member, wherein the heat generating member is composed of a material containing carbon at 80% or more by mass, the tubular member is composed of a material including one or more selected from platinum, rhodium, tungsten, iridium, and molybdenum, and an insulating material is not provided between the heat generating member and the tubular member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2026
    Publication date: July 9, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Terutaka MAEHARA, Akifumi NIWA, Shuntaro HYODO, Yukihito AKITA, Takashi ENOMOTO, Yoji DOI, Roger PAULI, Lawrence KEEN
  • Publication number: 20260193125
    Abstract: A method for producing a glass, the method including: obtaining a mixture; and heating the mixture at a temperature of 700° C. or higher, in which the mixture contains a glass powder containing at least one heavy metal oxide selected from the group consisting of Sb2O3, PbO, and As2O3, a reducing agent, and a liquid medium, and the reducing agent is dissolved in the liquid medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2026
    Publication date: July 9, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Naoya WADA
  • Publication number: 20260193395
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing particles containing a fluorinated polymer, by which particles containing a fluorinated polymer with a low content of impurities, can be produced. The method for producing particles containing a fluorinated polymer of the present invention is a method for producing particles containing a fluorinated polymer having groups convertible to ion exchange groups, which comprises preparing a liquid composition containing the fluorinated polymer and a first solvent, and mixing the liquid composition with a second solvent that is an olefin having a fluorine atom and a chlorine atom, to agglomerate the fluorinated polymer thereby to form particles containing the fluorinated polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2026
    Publication date: July 9, 2026
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi MATSUSHITA, Susumu SAITO
  • Patent number: 12676397
    Abstract: A window glass for a vehicle including a glass plate, a light shielding layer on the glass plate and a planar antenna including a planar conductor with a hollowed-out portion with at least one hole, wherein, when a region including the light shielding layer is assumed as a light shielding region; and a region including no light shielding layer is assumed as a transmission region, the planar antenna is arranged to lie across a boundary between the light shielding region and the transmission region, and has a first conductor part overlapping the light shielding region and a second conductor part overlapping the transmission region, and, wherein, when an area of overlap of the planar antenna with the light shielding region is assumed as a first overlap area; an area of overlap of the planar antenna with the transmission region is assumed as a second overlap area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shoichi Takeuchi, Kiyoshi Nobuoka, Masahiro Hachiro, Hideaki Shoji, Toshiki Sayama, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 12673867
    Abstract: A hydride ion conductor is represented by: MAMBH4-xFx??Formula (1), where MA is selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, and Ba, MB is selected from the group consisting of Mg and Ca, and is different from MA, and x is 0<x<4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignees: AGC INC., Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Takeya Mezaki, Yoshitake Toda, Kohta Yamada, Naoki Matsui, Guangzhong Jiang, Ryoji Kanno
  • Patent number: 12673889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photosensitive glass in which a Li2SiO3 crystal is precipitated by exposure and heat treatment, in which the photosensitive glass has a value of Formula (A) described below of 0.50 or more and 0.75 or less, and the photosensitive glass has a dielectric loss tangent at 20° C. and 10 GHz of 0.0090 or less, [Li2O]/([Li2O]+[Na2O]+[K2O]) Formula (A), in Formula (A), [Li2O], [Na2O], and [K2O] respectively indicate contents of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O in the photosensitive glass in terms of mole percentage based on oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takeyuki Kato, Yutaka Kuroiwa, Nobuo Inuzuka, Hirofumi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12676132
    Abstract: A vibration device includes: a glass vibration plate including a plurality of glass plates being laminated, and a solid-phase intermediate layer between at least a pair of the glass plates among the glass plates; a vibrator fixed to the glass vibration plate and configured to vibrate the glass vibration plate, in which the glass vibration plate includes a temperature adjustment unit configured to adjust a temperature of the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Jun Akiyama, Kento Sakurai, Daisuke Uchida, Ken Fujita
  • Publication number: 20260184855
    Abstract: A polysilsesquioxane liquid precursor includes a copolymer of a trifunctional silicon alkoxide and a difunctional silicon alkoxide, and residual silanol group fraction fSiOH in the copolymer is 0.02 to 0.3. A method for producing a polysilsesquioxane liquid precursor includes subjecting a trifunctional silicon alkoxide and a difunctional silicon alkoxide to a hydrolysis reaction and a polycondensation reaction in an aqueous solution without using an organic solvent in the presence of an acid catalyst, with aging during the hydrolysis reaction and the polycondensation reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2026
    Publication date: July 2, 2026
    Applicants: AGC Inc., TOKYO METROPOLITAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi YOSHIDA, Akio KOIKE, Tetsuya NAKASHIMA, Koichi KAJIHARA, Takuma YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20260186299
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes a first glass plate, a second glass plate, and an interlayer disposed between the first glass plate and the second glass plate to bond the first glass plate and the second glass plate; the laminated glass partly having a first area configured to be used by a head-up display; the first glass plate having a 4th surface disposed on an opposite side of the interlayer, and a 3rd surface facing the interlayer; the second glass plate having a 2nd surface facing the interlayer and a 1st surface disposed on an opposite side of the interlayer; the first area having a P-polarized light reflective layer disposed on the 4th surface and a light-absorbing layer disposed at a position closer to the 1st surface than the P-polarized light reflective layer; the laminated glass being configured such that the formula of A?85% is satisfied wherein the total of a visible light transmittance of the P-polarized light reflective layer and a visible light transmittance of the light-absorbing layer is Tv %, th
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2026
    Publication date: July 2, 2026
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke NISHIZAWA, Shunsuke SADAKANE
  • Publication number: 20260188905
    Abstract: An antenna device, including: a dielectric plate having a first surface provided with a radiation conductor and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a conductive layer provided on the dielectric plate; and a feeding structure for feeding the radiation conductor, wherein when a wavelength of a radio wave transmitted or received by the radiation conductor in air is ?, and a wavelength shortening rate by the dielectric plate is k, the conductive layer has an inner edge surrounding the radiation conductor such that a gap exists between the inner edge and an outer edge of the radiation conductor in plan view of the dielectric plate, a size of the outer edge of the radiation conductor and a size of the inner edge of the conductive layer are limited by ? and k.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2026
    Publication date: July 2, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi TAKEUCHI, Kazuya MATSUMOTO, Hideaki SHOJI, Yusuke KATO, Naoki HASHIMOTO, Shimpei TOMIDA
  • Patent number: 12668524
    Abstract: Glass contains, in mol percentage on an oxide basis, SiO2: 35% to 60%, B2O3: 0.8% to 8%, Al2O3: 6% to 21%, and MgO: 17% to 44%. Additionally, (MgO/Al2O3)?1 is satisfied, a measured Madelung constant m calculated by an expression (1A) is equal to or larger than 1.05, and a thermal expansion factor as a ratio of a measured value ? of a linear thermal expansion coefficient to a calculated value ?cal of a linear thermal expansion coefficient calculated from composition is equal to or smaller than 0.7. Herein, E is a measured value of a Young's modulus of the glass, Vp is an average atomic packing factor of the glass, and Gt is average bond dissociation energy of the glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Nagano, Seiji Inaba, Rikiya Kado, Kiyoshi Tamai, Yuha Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12668198
    Abstract: Glass (1) for vehicles includes a light blocking region (A2) in which a far-infrared ray transmission region (B) provided with an opening and a far-infrared ray transmission member arranged in the opening, and a visible light transmission region (C) transmitting visible light are formed. The opening is formed between an upper edge part (1a) of the glass (1) and a first position (P1) in a first direction from the upper edge part (1a) toward a lower edge part (1b) of the glass (1), the first position (P1) is a position at which a distance from the upper edge part (1a) is 30% of a length from the upper edge part (1a) to the lower edge part (1b), and between a second position (P2) and a third position (P3) in a second direction from a side edge part (1c) toward a side edge part (1d) of the glass (1) for vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nagashima, Yutaka Kitajima
  • Patent number: 12668525
    Abstract: To suppress reduction in rigidity. A cover material has a curvature in a first direction X and a curvature in a second direction Y. The curvature in the first direction X and the curvature in the second direction Y intersect with each other on a plane of the cover material 10. The radius of curvature of the curvature in the first direction X is 60 mm or more and 300 mm or less. The radius of curvature of the curvature in the second direction Y is 1000 mm or more and 14000 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kanasugi, Kazutaka Yanagihara, Hiroshi Komatsu, Suguru Takayashiki