Patents Assigned to Asahi Glass Company, Limited
  • Publication number: 20180273421
    Abstract: A glass plate includes a main surface, and a microscopic asperity surface disposed on the main surface, the microscopic asperity surface forming peaks and valleys. When a reference plane is defined as a plane at a center, in a direction of height, of an interval of highest frequency in a histogram of height of shape data of a square region having 2 ?m per side in the microscopic asperity surface, the number of peaks that are higher than the reference plane by 20% or more of a maximum height difference in the square region is in a range between 1 or more and 300 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Misa INAMOTO, Naoki Okahata, Takashi Shibuya
  • Publication number: 20180273656
    Abstract: To provide a curable composition whereby it is possible to obtain a cured product having a high Abbe number and being excellent in transparency, crack resistance and releasability; and such a cured product. A curable composition comprises, in specific ratios, surface-modified metal oxide particles (A) having (meth)acryloyl-group-containing surface-modifying groups on the surface of the metal oxide particles, a compound (B) having a fluorine atom and at least one (meth)acryloyl group, a compound (C) having a urethane bond or —OCH2CH(OH)CH2—, having at least two (meth)acryloyl groups and having a mass-average molecular weight of at least 1,000, a compound (D) having no unsaturated bond-containing ring structure and having at least one (meth)acryloyl group, and a polymerization initiator (E).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Keisuke TAKAGI, Jun YOSHIDA, Hidenobu MUROFUSHI
  • Publication number: 20180265403
    Abstract: Provided is a glass sheet with an antireflection film: containing a glass sheet, a first transparent high refractive index layer located on the glass sheet, a first transparent low refractive index layer located on the first transparent high refractive index layer, a second transparent high refractive index layer located on the first transparent low refractive index layer, and a second transparent low refractive index layer located on the second transparent high refractive index layer; having a haze after heating at 600° C. to 700° C. for 15 minutes being 0.4% or less; and having a visible light reflectance measured from the side of the second transparent low refractive index layer based on JIS R 3106 being 1.0% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirotomo Kawahara, Kenichi Suzuki, Nobutaka Aomine
  • Publication number: 20180264799
    Abstract: Provided is a printing plate, containing: a screen plate having an opening pattern; and, a frame body to which the screen plate is fixed, in which the screen plate includes at least one curved part and is relatively movably fixed to the frame body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun ITO, Hidenobu WATANABE, Nobuyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180264800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a curved surface screen printing apparatus performing printing on a surface to be printed of a base material having a curved surface, including: a screen plate formed with a pattern and arranged above the base material; a squeegee which is disposed above the screen plate and applies an ink to the surface to be printed of the base material through the screen plate; and a base material moving mechanism which moves the base material along a vertical plane and is capable of swinging the base material with respect to an axis orthogonal to the vertical plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun ITO, Tomoya WATANABE, Hidenobu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20180264784
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes, in the following order, a first glass plate, a first transparent adhesive layer, a transparent heat-insulating layer having interconnected pores, a second transparent adhesive layer, and a second glass plate. The laminated glass has a value of A in the expression (1) of 7.0×105 or smaller and a value of B in the expression (2) of 35 or larger. In the expressions, D is a pore diameter (nm) of the interconnected pores of the transparent heat-insulating layer, P is a porosity of the transparent heat-insulating layer, di is a thickness (mm) of the transparent heat-insulating layer, dg is a sum (mm) of a thickness of the first glass plate and a thickness of the second glass plate, and da is a sum (mm) of a thickness of the first transparent adhesive layer and a thickness of the second transparent adhesive layer; [ Math . ? 1 ] A = D 3 ? Pd i ( 1 ) B = d g + 3.3 ? d e + 0.75 ? d i ? ( D + 260.8 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Chieko MUROFUSHI, Hidenobu MUROFUSHI
  • Publication number: 20180267308
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes a first glass plate; a second glass plate; and an intermediate film positioned between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, and configured to be bonded to the first glass plate and the second glass plate. The laminated glass further includes an HUD (head-up display) display area used for a head-up display. In a predetermined area of at least a part of the HUD display area, a wedge angle decreases, in accordance with a direction front a lover edge of the predetermined area to an upper edge of the predetermined area, within a range of greater than or equal to 0.06 mrad and less than or equal to 1.0 mrad per 100 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shunsuke SADAKANE
  • Publication number: 20180265397
    Abstract: A glass for chemical strengthening contains, in mole percentage on an oxide basis, 58 to 72% of SiO2, 7 to 18% of Al2O3, 1% or more of B2O3, 0 to 4% of P2O5, 5 to 16% of Li2O, 0 to 7% of Na2O, 0 to 2% of K2O, 0 to 6% of MgO, 0 to 20% of CaO, 0 to 20% of SrO, 0 to 15% of BaO, 0 to 10% of ZnO, 0 to 1% of TiO2, and 0 to 2% of ZrO2. A value of X is 30000 or more. The value of X is calculated based on the formula, X=SiO2×329+Al2O3×786+B2O3×627+P2O5×(?941)+Li2O×927+Na2O×47.5+K2O×(?371)+MgO×1230+CaO×1154+SrO×733+ZrO2×51.8, by using the contents in mole percentage on an oxide basis of components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Suguru Murayama, Seiki Ohara, Qing Li, Shusaku Akiba
  • Publication number: 20180265398
    Abstract: A glass sheet includes, as represented by mole percentage based on oxides, from 55.5 to 80% of SiO2, from 12 to 20% of Al2O3, from 8 to 25% of Na2O, 2.5% or more of P2O5, and 1% or more of an alkaline earth metal RO (RO is MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuji YAMAZAKI, Shusaku AKIBA, Seiki OHARA, Kazunari TOHYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180257977
    Abstract: There is provided an optical glass having high infrared transmittance and being useful as an on-vehicle infrared sensor and the like. An optical glass including, in expression of atomic %: Ge+Ga; 6% to 30%; S+Se+Te; 50% to 85%; and Ti; 0.001% to 0.5%, wherein a wavelength (?T10%) at a long-wavelength side end in which infrared transmittance in a glass plate of the optical glass converted to a thickness of 1 mm becomes 10% is 12 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuo NAGASHIMA, Hiroyasu MIYAZAWA, Kenji KITAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180257978
    Abstract: Provided is a print layer-attached plate including a plate having a first main surface and a second main surface, and a print layer provided on the first main surface, in which the first main surface at least partially includes a region formed of a recessed and projected layer having an arithmetic average surface roughness Ra of 4 nm or more and 1,000 nm or less, and the print layer is formed so as to cover at least a part of the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun MINAMIDATE, Takeshi HIROSE, Makoto FUJII
  • Patent number: 10072194
    Abstract: To provide a working fluid for heat cycle, which has less influence over the ozone layer and has less influence over global warming, and which has favorable cycle performance. A working fluid for heat cycle, which contains trifluoroethylene and difluoroethylene, wherein the proportion of the content of difluoroethylene is less than 1.5 mass % based on the working fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Mai Tasaka, Masato Fukushima, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Tomoaki Taniguchi, Yu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10073202
    Abstract: A near-infrared cut filter has an optical multilayer provided on at least one main surface of a transparent substrate, in which the optical multilayer is formed of a high-refractive index layer having a refractive index of 2.0 or more, and a low-refractive index layer having a refractive index of 1.6 or less at a wavelength of 500 nm, and the optical multilayer has a repeating structure of (anQH, bnQL, cnQH, dnQL)^n when a QWOT at the wavelength of 500 nm of the high-refractive index layer is set to QH, and a QWOT at the wavelength of 500 nm of the low-refractive index layer is set to QL, in which an average value of the an is not less than 1.5 nor more than 2.5, and a value obtained by averaging average values of the respective bn, cn, and dn is 1.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Mitsuyuki Tatemura
  • Publication number: 20180254570
    Abstract: An electric connection structure (1) is provided with: a glass plate (10); a power supply part (15) formed in the glass plate (10); a terminal (20) having a base part (21) opposing the glass plate (10); and a spring member (35) formed from a conductor and disposed between the power supply part (15) and the base part (21). The power supply part (15) and the base part (21) make contact with the spring member (35), whereby the power supply part (15) and the base part (21) are electrically connected via the spring member (35).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Fumitaka TERASHIMA, Hidehiko WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20180251395
    Abstract: Provided is an optical glass suitable for an imaging lens or the like used for a vehicle-mounted camera exposed to harsh environment, having a high refractive index and high strength. The optical glass has a strengthened layer at a surface layer, and a depth of the strengthened layer is 1 ?m or more from a surface of the optical glass, and a refractive index (nd) of the optical glass is 1.73 to 2.10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shusaku AKIBA, Tatsuo NAGASHIMA, Shigeki SAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180251414
    Abstract: A method for producing a hydrofluoroolefin is provided. The formation of by-products of an over-reduced product having hydrogen added to a material chlorofluoroolefin and an over-reduced product having not only chlorine atoms but also fluorine atoms in the chlorofluoroolefin replaced with hydrogen atoms is suppressed in the method. The method includes reacting a specific chlorofluoroolefin with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst supported on a carrier to obtain the hydrofluoroolefin. The catalyst is a catalyst composed of an alloy containing at least one platinum group element of palladium and platinum, and at least one second element of copper, gold, lithium, potassium, silver, zinc, tin, lead, and bismuth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shinji TERAZONO, Xu Wang, Masahiro Kanda, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Mitsugu Kasagawa
  • Patent number: 10067421
    Abstract: A negative photosensitive resin composition comprising an alkali-soluble resin or alkali-soluble monomer which has a photo-curability, a photopolymerization initiator, and an ink repellent agent which has a fluorine atom content of from 1 to 45 mass % and which is a partially hydrolyzed condensate of a hydrolyzable silane compound mixture containing a hydrolyzable silane compound having a hydrolyzable group and an organic group having a polyfluoroalkyl group which has an etheric oxygen atom; a cured resin film and partition walls formed by using the negative photosensitive resin composition; and an optical element having the partition walls located between a plurality of dots and their adjacent dots on a substrate surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kotaro Yamada, Keigo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 10065885
    Abstract: A glass sheet for pigment printing contains, as represented by mass percentage on the basis of oxides, from 60% to 75% of SiO2, from 2% to 12% of Al2O3, from 2% to 11% of MgO, from 0% to 10% of CaO, from 0% to 3% of SrO, from 0% to 3% of BaO, from 10% to 18% of Na2O, from 0% to 8% of K2O, and from 0% to 4% of ZrO2, or contains, from 60% to 75% of SiO2, from 1.5% to 12% of Al2O3, from 6% to 12% of MgO, from 0% to 4.5% of CaO, from 0% to 3% of SrO, from 0% to 3% of BaO, from 10% to 18% of Na2O, from 0% to 8% of K2O, and from 0% to 4% of ZrO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichiro Kase, Kazutomo Mori, Thomas Lambricht
  • Patent number: 10066077
    Abstract: To provide a crosslinkable fluorinated elastomer composition which is excellent in crosslinking reactivity and of which a crosslinked product is excellent in heat resistance and chemical resistance. The crosslinkable fluorinated elastomer composition comprises a fluorinated elastomer (e.g. a tetrafluoroethylene/perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer) and an aromatic compound having at least two crosslinkable unsaturated double bonds (e.g. a compound represented by the formula (A-1)), and the crosslinked product is one obtained by crosslinking the crosslinkable fluorinated elastomer composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Akinobu Kunimoto, Hiromasa Yamamoto, Norihide Sugiyama, Takeshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20180244559
    Abstract: Provided is an optical glass suitable for an imaging lens or the like used for a vehicle-mounted camera exposed to harsh environment, having a high refractive index and high strength, excellent crack resistance, and a sufficiently low glass transition point and devitrification temperature. In the optical glass, nd is 1.70 or more and 2.10 or less, Tg is 500° C. or more and 630° C. or less, the devitrification temperature is 1300° C. or less, a specific gravity is 4.0 g/cm3 or less, a crack initiation load (CIL) is 20 gf or more, and a fracture toughness value (Kc) is 0.60 MPa·m1/2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shusaku AKIBA, Tatsuo NAGASHIMA, Shigeki SAWAMURA