Patents Assigned to AGC Inc.
  • Publication number: 20250093552
    Abstract: An antiglare layer-attached transparent substrate includes: a transparent substrate comprising two main surfaces; and an antiglare layer and an anti-reflective layer in this order on at least one main surface of the transparent substrate. The antiglare layer-attached transparent substrate has a haze value of 30% or more, and a skewness Ssk of 0.4 or less on a surface having the antiglare layer, and the antiglare layer contains fine particles, and a difference between a thickness of the antiglare layer and an average particle diameter of the fine particles is 4 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa NISHIKAWA, Kazuya Takemoto, Hideaki Takahoshi, Tamotsu Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20250096480
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave reflecting device includes: a reflection panel configured to reflect radio waves of a desired band selected from a frequency band between 1 GHz and 170 GHz; and a frame configured to hold the reflection panel. The reflection panel includes: a dielectric layer; a conductive pattern periodically provided on one surface of the dielectric layer; a ground layer provided on the other surface of the dielectric layer; and an adhesive layer configured to bond the conductive pattern to the one surface of the dielectric layer, and a gap is provided in the adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kumiko Kambara, Shinji Ueki
  • Publication number: 20250096313
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide-based solid electrolyte includes heating and melting a raw material under a gas atmosphere containing a sulfur element. The raw material includes a lithium source obtained by using an aqueous solution containing Li and SO4, and a ratio of SO4 to Li is 0.1 mol % or more in the aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota ANDO, Hidenobu SEKI
  • Publication number: 20250083417
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-ray reflecting substrate including: a dielectric substrate; and a heat-ray reflecting film formed on at least one main surface of the dielectric substrate, in which the heat-ray reflecting substrate has a radio-wave transmitting region in at least a part of the at least one main surface in a plan view, the radio-wave transmitting region includes a first repeating pattern formed of a slit portion, the first repeating pattern includes at least two first unit patterns extending along a first axis direction, each of the first unit patterns includes a first line portion extending in the first axis direction, and a first connection portion provided on at least one end portion of the first line portion and connected to another first unit pattern, and the first connection portion includes a portion extending in a second axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicants: AGC Inc., AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Yasuo MORIMOTO, Akira KUMAGAI, Mohsen YOUSEFBEIKI
  • Publication number: 20250083616
    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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuo NAGASHIMA, Yutaka KITAJIMA
  • Patent number: 12246313
    Abstract: The present invention provides composite particles which are capable of forming an ion exchange membrane with fewer defects and an ion exchange membrane. The composite particles according to the present invention comprise pellets comprising a fluorinated polymer having groups convertible to ion exchange groups, and a powder held on the pellet surface which comprises a polymer, wherein the powder has an average particle diameter of at least 1 ?m and at most 1,000 ?m, and the ratio of the average particle diameter of the pellets to the average particle diameter of the powder is 2 to 4,500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Yamaki, Hiromitsu Kusano
  • Patent number: 12246988
    Abstract: An inference method includes inferring a value that includes a stress value in a region located 50 ?m or shallower from a surface of a chemically strengthened glass, by receiving as input at least a temperature and a time used upon chemical strengthening, and stress values at three or more different depth positions 20 ?m or deeper from the surface of the chemically strengthened glass that has been obtained by chemically strengthening a glass having a thickness of 0.2 mm or greater with the temperature and the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Ogami, Kenji Imakita
  • Patent number: 12246986
    Abstract: A laminated body includes a transparent substrate having a laminated film. The laminated film includes a dielectric layer containing silicon nitride, a barrier layer composed of a single film or two or more films, and a metal layer containing silver. The barrier layer has a thickness of from 0.1 nm to 10 nm. Each film of the barrier layer includes a material having a crystal structure of a face-centered cubic structure with a lattice constant of from 3.5 to 4.2, a hexagonal close-packed structure with a lattice constant of from 2.6 to 3.3, a body-centered cubic structure with a lattice constant of from 2.9 to 3.2, or a tetragonal crystal with a lattice constant of from 2.9 to 4.4. The metal layer has a thickness of from 7 nm to 25 nm. An orientation index P of the metal layer falls within a range from 4.5 to 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shunya Taki, Naoko Okada, Yasuyuki Takimoto, Haruhiko Yoshino
  • Patent number: 12246514
    Abstract: A laminate includes a glass base, a silicone resin layer, and a polyimide resin layer. The polyimide resin layer includes a fluorine-atom-containing polyimide. When examined by infrared absorption, the polyimide resin layer gives a spectrum in which a ratio of an area of a peak appearing at 3,150 cm?1 to 3,750 cm?1 to an area of a peak appearing at 1,650 cm?1 to 1,750 cm?1 is 0.9 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamada, Shuma Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20250073208
    Abstract: A medicament and method for treating circulatory diseases accompanied by inflammation of a cardiovascular system related to IL-6 and/or IL-1? and a medicament and method for treating circulatory diseases accompanied by inflammation of a cardiovascular system related to IL-6 and/or IL-1?. The method involves administering a medicament including an IL-6 and/or IL-1? suppressor including a compound represented by the following formula (I) where R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicants: AGC INC., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi MATSUMURA, Kohtaro ABE, Keiji KIMURO, Misaki IMABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20250074164
    Abstract: A glass-diaphragm-equipped vehicle body structure includes a glass diaphragm including a window glass that closes an opening portion of a vehicle body, a resin layer attached to a peripheral edge of a surface of the window glass on a vehicle interior side, and an exciter attached to the surface of the window glass on the vehicle interior side. Then, a lowest resonance frequency obtained based on a spring constant of the resin layer, a spring constant of the exciter, and a mass of the exciter is 200 [Hz] or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kento SAKURAI, Jun AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250080913
    Abstract: A glass diaphragm includes: a glass plate structure; a mounting member that is fixed to the glass plate structure and to which an exciter for vibrating the glass plate structure is to be attached; and an adhesive layer in contact with the glass plate structure and the mounting member, in which the adhesive layer includes a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer, a material of the first adhesive layer is different from a material of the second adhesive layer, the first adhesive layer has a shear storage modulus of 1.0×107 [Pa] or less at ?40 [° C.], and the second adhesive layer has a shear peel strength of 0.2 [MPa] or more at 80 [C].
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kento SAKURAI, Daisuke UCHIDA, Jun AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250076748
    Abstract: A reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, includes: a substrate; a conductive film disposed on or above a back surface of the substrate; a reflective layer disposed on or above a front surface of the substrate, the reflective layer reflecting EUV light; and an absorption layer disposed on or above the reflective layer, the absorption layer absorbing the EUV light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke ONO, Hiroaki IWAOKA, Taiga FUDETANI
  • Publication number: 20250074312
    Abstract: Sound leakage is suppressed while far-infrared rays are appropriately transmitted. Vehicle glass 1 includes: a glass member 10 in which an opening portion 19 penetrating from a surface 10A on a vehicle exterior side to a surface 10B on a vehicle interior side is formed; a transmission member 20 that is arranged in the opening portion 19 and transmits far-infrared rays; and a cover portion 30 that covers a surface 20b on the vehicle interior side of the transmission member 20. The cover portion 30 blocks a first space S1 that is on the vehicle interior side compared to the glass member 10 and that includes the surface 20b on the vehicle interior side of the transmission member 20 from a space other than the first space S1 on the vehicle interior side compared to the glass member 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji KITAOKA, Shinya TANAKA, Reika MIURA, Jiro NISHIHAMA
  • Patent number: 12240779
    Abstract: The present invention provides crystallized glass of three-dimensional shape for easily producing chemically strengthened glass of three-dimensional shape that resists damage and has exceptional transparency. This crystallized glass of three-dimensional shape: contains crystals; has light transmittance in terms of a thickness of 0.8 mm of 80% or higher; and contains 45-74% SiO2, 1-30% Al2O3, 1-25% Li2O, 0-10% Na2O, 0-5% K2O, a total of 0-15% of SnO2 and/or ZrO2, and 0-12% P2O5, these amounts expressing the oxide-based mass percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Qing Li, Kenji Imakita, Akio Koike, Eriko Maeda
  • Patent number: 12240204
    Abstract: A laminate includes a transparent substrate having a first surface, and a laminated film provided on the first surface of the transparent substrate, wherein the laminated film includes, in a descending order of closeness to the first surface, a first dielectric layer including silicon nitride or zinc oxide or including silicon nitride and zinc oxide, a first layer including titanium oxide and provided on or above the first dielectric layer, a first barrier layer including nickel and chromium and provided on or above the first layer, and a silver-containing metal layer provided directly on the first barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shunya Taki, Naoko Okada
  • Patent number: 12242092
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical filter including a resin base material including an infrared-absorbing pigment layer, and a pair of inorganic dielectric layers which are respectively disposed on or above both main surfaces of the resin base material as outermost layers, in which at least one of the pair of inorganic dielectric layers satisfies at least one of a condition in which a film thickness is 4 ?m or greater, and a condition in which the number of layers is 30 or greater, and a ratio of a total film thickness of the pair of inorganic dielectric layers to a film thickness of the resin base material is greater than 8%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Motoshi Nakayama, Kazuhiko Shiono, Ryo Hirano
  • Patent number: 12240993
    Abstract: To provide an article with a water and oil repellent layer, which is excellent in friction resistance. The article with a water and oil repellent layer of the present invention comprises a substrate, a water and oil repellent layer consisting of a hydrolyzed condensation product of a compound represented by the formula [A-(OX)m-]jY1[—Si(R)nL3-n]g, and a silicon oxide layer containing alkali metal atoms that exists between the substrate and the water and oil repellent layer, wherein the average value of the concentration of alkali metal atoms in a predetermined area in the silicon oxide layer is at least a predetermined value. In the formula, X is a fluoroalkylene group, m is at least 2, j, g, and k are at least 1, and Y1 and Y2 are linking groups, R is a monovalent hydrocarbon group, L is a hydrolyzable group or hydroxy group, n is 0 to 2, A is a perfluoroalkyl group or —Y2[—Si(R)nL3-n]n. When A is —Y2[—Si(R)nL3-n]k, j is 1, and when A is a perfluoroalkyl group and j is 1, g is at least 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Tomiyori, Motoshi Aoyama, Kenji Ishizeki
  • Publication number: 20250070238
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide-based solid electrolyte includes heating and melting a raw material in a heating furnace. The heating furnace includes a sulfur supply portion, a partition provided inside the heating furnace, and one or more other structures capable of allowing an inside and an outside of the heating furnace to communicate with each other. The method includes: forming a melt by heating and melting the raw material; dividing a space between the melt and the heating furnace by the partition into a first space in which the sulfur supply portion is located and a second space in which the other structure is located; and forming a sulfur-excess atmosphere portion by introducing a component containing a sulfur element into the first space from the sulfur supply portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Norifumi OMORI
  • Publication number: 20250066244
    Abstract: A glass for chemical strengthening including, in mol % in terms of oxides: 50% to 65% of SiO2; 15% to 25% of Al2O3; 2% to 10% of B2O3; 0% to 15% of P2O5; 0% to 15% of ZnO; 0% to 10% of MgO; 0% to 15% of CaO; 3% to 15% of Li2O; 2.5% to 15% of Na2O; 0% to 5% of K2O; 0% to 5% of ZrO2; 0% to 5% of Y2O3; and 0% to 5% of TiO2, in which [Li2O]/([Na2O]+[K2O]) is 0.5 to 3.5, and [Al2O3]+[Li2O] is 27% to 35%, provided that in the formulas, [ ] indicates a content of each component described in the parentheses in mol % in terms of oxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji IMAKITA, Shusaku AKIBA