Patents Assigned to AGC Inc.
  • Patent number: 12643815
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkali-free glass having a strain point of 700° C. or higher and 740° C. or lower, a density of 2.6 g/cm3 or lower, a Young's modulus of 90 GPa or higher and 100 GPa or lower, an average coefficient of thermal expansion at 50° C. to 350° C. of 30×10?7/K or higher and 39×10?7/K or lower, a temperature T2 at which a glass viscosity reaches 102 dPa·s of 1590° C. or higher and 1690° C. or lower, a temperature T4 at which the glass viscosity reaches 104 dPa·s of 1350° C. or lower, a glass surface devitrification temperature (Tc) of lower than (T4+80)° C., and a specific elastic modulus of 36 MN·m/kg or higher, and including a prescribed glass composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yuya Hamada, Hirofumi Tokunaga
  • Publication number: 20260146193
    Abstract: A working medium for a heat cycle includes trifluoroethylene, a low boiling point compound having a lower boiling point than the boiling point of the trifluoroethylene, and high boiling point compounds having higher boiling points than the boiling point of the trifluoroethylene. In the working medium, the low boiling point compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of carbon dioxide, R116, and R41, and the high boiling point compounds are at least two selected from the group consisting of HFC-32, HFO-1234yf, HFO-1234ze (E), HFO-1243zf, PFC-14, HFC-134, HFC-143a, HFC-227ea, cyclopropane, isobutene, isobutane, dimethyl ether, and ammonia. An application of the working medium is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroki HAYAMIZU
  • Publication number: 20260149039
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte includes: charging sulfide solid electrolyte raw materials into a heated furnace and performing mixing to obtain a mixture of sulfide solid electrolyte raw materials, or charging a mixture of sulfide solid electrolyte raw materials into a heated furnace; and heating and melting the mixture of sulfide solid electrolyte raw materials, and cooling and solidifying resulting melt to obtain a sulfide solid electrolyte. The mixture of sulfide solid electrolyte raw materials includes Li2S and P2S5, and A?50 ?m and B?50 ?m are satisfied, where A is a volume-based average particle diameter of the Li2S as measured by using a laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement method, and B is a volume-based average particle diameter of the P2S5 as measured by using the laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2026
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Norifumi OMORI, Yuji IMOTO
  • Publication number: 20260145937
    Abstract: A mixture of sulfide solid electrolyte raw materials includes Li2S and P2S5, and A<B is satisfied, where A is a volume-based average particle diameter of the Li2S as measured by using a laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement method, and B is a volume-based average particle diameter of the P2S5 as measured by using the laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2026
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Norifumi OMORI, Yuji IMOTO
  • Publication number: 20260149163
    Abstract: A vehicle window glass of the present invention includes a glass plate and an antenna. The antenna includes a feeding portion and an antenna element. The antenna element includes a first vertical element, a first loop element, and a first folded-back element. The first vertical element is electrically connected to the feeding portion and extends in the vertical direction. The first loop element is connected to the first vertical element to have a loop shape and is provided on one side in the horizontal direction with respect to the first vertical element. The first folded-back element is connected to the first vertical element and extends toward the other side in the horizontal direction with respect to the first vertical element to have a folded-back shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Atsutoshi Nakata, Eita Umezawa
  • Publication number: 20260149038
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte, which is a method for continuously producing a sulfide solid electrolyte, includes: heating and melting a first P2S5-containing powder raw material to form a melt; and additionally charging a second P2S5-containing powder raw material to the melt and performing melting. An inert gas is flowed into the melt when additionally charging the second P2S5-containing powder raw material thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2026
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Norifumi OMORI
  • Publication number: 20260150567
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an anti-glare cover is a method for manufacturing an anti-glare cover provided on an image display surface of an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display. The anti-glare cover includes an anti-glare substrate having an irregular surface on a surface on a side opposite to the image display surface of the OLED display and a light-scattering layer disposed between the anti-glare substrate and the OLED display. The manufacturing method includes selecting a combination of the anti-glare substrate with the light-scattering layer which satisfies Equations (1), (2), and (3) in the specification, and forming the anti-glare substrate and the light-scattering layer in the selected combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2026
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masanobu ISSHIKI, Aichi INOUE, Tatsuya IWASAKI, Yuki AKAMA
  • Patent number: 12638857
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing system including: an information processor installed on a roadside, and a communication antenna installed on the roadside, wherein the information processor includes: a vehicle information acquisition unit to acquire vehicle information relating to one or more vehicles to be assisted located in a coverage area covered by the communication antenna, a transmit data generation unit to generate transmit data based on the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit, and a data sending unit to send the transmit data generated by the transmit data generation unit to the vehicle to be assisted via the communication antenna, and the transmit data includes at least one of vehicle position information indicating the position of the vehicle to be assisted, and drive control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignees: AGC Inc., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanobu Mizuno, Ryuta Sonoda, Kentaro Oka
  • Patent number: 12640465
    Abstract: A transparent antenna includes a transparent substrate; and a metal thin wire layer on an upper side of the transparent substrate. The transparent substrate has a thickness of 300 ?m or less. The metal thin wire layer has an opening ratio of 80% or more. When a metal conductor having a surface resistivity ? ?/sq is placed parallel to the transparent antenna 0.15 mm apart, an input reflection coefficient S11(?, f) and a radiation efficiency Eff(?, f) at a frequency f satisfy relations S11(0.1?/sq,f1 GHz)<?3 dB, S11(0.1?/sq,f2 GHz)<?3 dB, and |Eff(0.1?/sq,f1 GHz)?Eff(0.1?/sq,f2 GHz)|<25% at two frequencies f1 and f2 that are between 2 GHz and 50 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuo Morimoto, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Masanobu Isshiki
  • Patent number: 12638629
    Abstract: A head-up display system for vehicles, which has a light source that emits p-polarized visible light, and laminated glass to which the p-polarized visible light is incident from the vehicle interior side, and which displays a virtual image on the vehicle exterior side of the laminated glass. The laminated glass has a p-polarized light reflecting member in a region where the p-polarized visible light is incident, the incident angle of the p-polarized visible light to the vehicle interior side surface of the laminated glass is 42° to 72°, the virtual image includes a main image observed with the highest luminance and a subsidiary image observed with a lower luminance than the main image, and the ratio of the reflectance of the subsidiary image to the reflectance of the main image is at most 30% within the entire range of the incident angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Sadakane, Yusuke Nishizawa
  • Publication number: 20260140291
    Abstract: To provide an optical member that appropriately transmits far-infrared rays having a wavelength of 8 ?m to 12 ?m and exhibits white color. In the present invention, in a CIE 1976 (L+, a+, b+) color space measured by an SCE method based on geometric condition c of JIS-Z8772:2009, L+ is 50 or more, a+ is ?15 or more and 15 or less, and b+ is ?15 or more and 15 or less, and an average transmittance TPIR (%) of light having a wavelength of 8 ?m to 12 ?m satisfies TFIR?20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAYAMA, Yoji YASUI, Yu ONOZAKI, Yuji UGAWA, Tomoaki SAKURADA
  • Publication number: 20260139155
    Abstract: A polishing agent contains abrasive grains, an anionic polymer or a salt thereof, and water. The anionic polymer has an acid value of 400 mgKOH/g or less. The polishing agent satisfies at least one of the following conditions: X1=N11/N12 is 1.5 or less, X2=N21/N22 is 7.0 or less, and X3=N31/N32 is 10 or less, where N11, N21, and N31 represent the number of particles contained per unit mass of the abrasive grains in the polishing agent that have a particle size of 0.56 ?m or more, 0.79 ?m or more, and 0.98 ?m or more, respectively; and N12, N22, and N32 represent the number of particles contained per unit mass of abrasive grains in an abrasive grain dispersion containing the abrasive grains, a dispersant, and water that have a particle size of 0.56 ?m or more, 0.79 ?m or more, and 0.98 ?m or more, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroka KOGA
  • Publication number: 20260142229
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte includes: heating and melting a mixture of sulfide solid electrolyte raw materials; and cooling and solidifying resulting melt to obtain a sulfide solid electrolyte. The mixture of sulfide solid electrolyte raw materials includes Li2S and P2S5, and A<250 ?m and B<250 ?m are satisfied, where A is a volume-based average particle diameter of the Li2S as measured by using a laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement method, and B is a volume-based average particle diameter of the P2S5 as measured by using the laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Norifumi OMORI, Naoki FUJII, Hidenobu SEKI
  • Patent number: 12631794
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent substrate with a multilayer film including: a transparent substrate having two main surfaces; and a multilayer film obtained by laminating at least two or more layers having refractive indices different from each other, and disposed on or above at least one main surface of the transparent substrate, in which the multilayer film includes one or more silicon oxide layers, and at least one layer of the one or more silicon oxide layers has a refractive index of 1.460?n<1.478 at a wavelength of 550 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kawai, Kaname Seto, Katsumi Suzuki, Tomoyuki Arae, Kazuya Takemoto
  • Patent number: 12631809
    Abstract: An optical filter, includes: a near infrared ray absorbing glass, dielectric multilayer films laid on or above both major surfaces of the near infrared ray absorbing glass, and an absorption layer laid on or above a surface of at least one of the dielectric multilayer films and having a maximum absorption wavelength in a near infrared light region, in which the optical filter satisfies all of spectral characteristics (i-1) to (i-5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Motoshi Nakayama, Takashi Nagata, Kazuhiko Shiono, Takeru Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 12630465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass ceramic including crystals, and including, in mol % in terms of oxides: 65-75% of SiO2; 3-6% of Al2O3; 15-25% of Li2O; 0.2-4% of P2O5; 0.5-5% of ZrO2; and 0.01-0.5% of HfO2, in which the crystals include one or more kinds of crystals selected from the group consisting of ?-spodumene crystals, petalite crystals, and eucryptite crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Seiki Ohara, Qing Li, Shusaku Akiba
  • Patent number: 12630733
    Abstract: To provide a powder dispersion comprising a tetrafluoroethylene polymer, a particular polyoxyalkylene-modified polydimethylsiloxane and a liquid dispersion medium, and a composite having a baked product having physical properties intrinsic to the tetrafluoroethylene polymer. [Solution] The powder dispersion of the present invention comprises a powder of a tetrafluorethylene polymer, a liquid dispersion medium and a polyoxyalkylene-modified polydimethylsiloxane having a weight average molecular weight of at most 3,000 and an HLB value of from 1 to 18 calculated by Griffin's equation The composite of the present invention is produced by applying the powder dispersion of the present invention to the surface of a substrate and heating the powder dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Mai Nishi, Tatsuya Terada, Tomoya Hosoda, Wataru Kasai
  • Publication number: 20260132231
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a fluorinated elastomer, by which a fluorinated polymer excellent in water dispersion stability can be efficiently produced without using an emulsifier, while an aqueous medium with a small environmental impact is used. A method for producing a fluorinated elastomer, which comprises, in an aqueous dispersion that contains substantially no water-soluble emulsifier, and contains a first fluorinated polymer having TFE units and PAVE units and an aqueous medium, polymerizing a monomer containing TFE and PAVE to produce a second fluorinated polymer, wherein in the first fluorinated polymer, a content of the PAVE units is 20 to 95 mol % to a total content of the TFE units and the PAVE units, in the second fluorinated polymer, a content of the PAVE units is 20 to 95 mol % to a total content of the TFE units and the PAVE units, and before start of the polymerization of the monomer, a content of the first fluorinated polymer is 0.01 to 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2026
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Aoi YANAGIYA, Kosuke SHIBASAKI, Yukiko HATTORI, Mizuna TOYODA, Daisuke TAGUCHI, Tasuku TAMURA, Koichiro KAMIMORI
  • Publication number: 20260132155
    Abstract: A novel compound and the like that are useful as a surface treatment agent capable of forming, on a substrate, a surface treatment layer having excellent water repellency and abrasion resistance are provided. The compound includes: the following Group P; a partial structure having 2 to 5 atoms selected from Si, Sn, and Ge linked together; and one or more groups selected from an alkylene group, a polyalkylene oxide group, and an organopolysiloxane group. Group P: —Si(R1)nL3-n. However, R1 is each independently a hydrocarbon group, L is each independently a hydrolyzable group, or a hydroxyl group, and n is an integer from 0 to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2026
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hironobu SAKAGUCHI, Eiichiro ANRAKU, Shiori KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20260132323
    Abstract: Provided are a thermal cycling system and a thermal cycling method, thermal cycling system including: a working medium; a compressor that compresses a vapor of the working medium; a condenser that cools and liquefies the vapor of the working medium discharged from the compressor; a pressure reducing device that reduces a pressure of the working medium discharged from the condenser; and an evaporator that heats the working medium discharged from the pressure reducing device, in which the working medium includes HFO-1123 and HFO-1234yf, a content of the HFO-1123 is from 31.5 to 42.0 mass % with respect to a total content of the HFO-1123 and the HFO-1234yf, the total content of the HFO-1123 and the HFO-1234yf is 99.0 mass % or more with respect to a total amount of the working medium, and the evaporator is controlled such that an evaporation temperature of the working medium is ?40° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2025
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventor: Hiroki HAYAMIZU