Patents Assigned to Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
  • Patent number: 6225382
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing resin composition comprising at least one fluorine-containing polycyclic compound (A) selected from the group consisting of the following compounds (A1), (A2) and (A3), and a polymer (B) having a fluorine-containing alicyclic structure: (A1) a fluorine-containing non-condensed polycyclic compound having at least two fluorine-containing rings bonded by a bond containing at least one member selected from the group consisting of a triazine ring, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a phosphorus atom and a metal atom, each of said fluorine-containing rings being a carbon ring or a heterocyclic ring, (A2) a fluorine-containing non-condensed polycyclic compound having at least three fluorine-containing rings bonded directly or by a bond containing a carbon atom, each of said fluorine-containing rings being a carbon ring or a heterocyclic ring, (A3) a fluorine-containing condensed polycyclic compound which is a condensed polycyclic compound composed of at least three carbon rings or heterocyclic r
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Matsukura, Shunsuke Yokotsuka, Katsumi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20010000501
    Abstract: Manufacturing steps for a cathode ray tube or a glass bulb for the cathode ray tube are controlled in such a manner that a two-dimensional matrix code 3 comprised of a plurality of dots is marked by laser in an outer side surface of a glass bulb 1, 5, the two-dimensional matrix code 3 containing the information which can identify individually glass bulbs, and the manufacturing steps are conducted by using a computer and the particulars specified by the serial information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Publication date: April 26, 2001
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Shinoda
  • Patent number: 6221987
    Abstract: A method for producing a fluorine-containing polymer, which comprises subjecting the following fluorine-containing monomer (a), (b), (c) or (d) to bulk polymerization by means of a polymerization initiator comprising a fluorine-containing organic peroxide having a 10 hour half value temperature of from 30 to 130° C., to obtain a fluorine-containing polymer having a fluorine-containing alicyclic structure in its main chain: (a) a fluorine-containing monomer having a fluorine-containing alicyclic structure, (b) a fluorine-containing monomer having at least two polymerizable double bonds, (c) the fluorine-containing monomer (a) and the fluorine-containing monomer (b), (d) at least one fluorine-containing monomer selected from the fluorine-containing monomers (a) and (b), and another fluorine-containing monomer other than the fluorine-containing monomers (a) and (b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Norihide Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 6221520
    Abstract: A transparent conductive film having a transparent oxide layer and a metal layer containing Ag, laminated in this order from a substrate side in a total of (2n+l) layers), wherein n is an integer of at least 1, wherein the transparent oxide layer contains ZnO and further contains In within a range of from 9 to 98 atomic % based on the sum of Zn and In, and a process for forming a transparent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Takaki, Kazuo Sato, Masami Miyazaki, Yuki Kawamura, Hiromichi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 6222720
    Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor comprises a first electrode 31 comprising a belt-like electricity collecting material 31a having both surfaces on which electrode layers 31b, 31c are formed leaving belt-like portions in a side of the belt-like electricity collecting material 31a along its longitudinal direction, a second electrode 32 having the same structure as the first electrode 31, belt-like separators 33a, 33b to electrically insulate the first and second electrodes 31, 32, a post-like winding core 40 on which the first and second electrodes 31, 32 and the separators 33a, 33b are wound to thereby form a cylindrically wound element 50, a first electricity collecting plate 72 in contact with the belt-like portion 31ax, a second electricity collecting plate 62 in contact with the belt-like portion 31ax, wherein the belt-like portions 31ax, 32ax are located at opposing positions in the wound element 50, both ends of the winding core 40 are respectively in contact with the first and second electricity colle
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori Aoki, Makoto Inoue, Katsuji Ikeda, Yoshihiro Hozumi, Kazuya Hiratsuka, Manabu Suhara, Takeshi Kawasato
  • Patent number: 6211491
    Abstract: An anti-fogging glass having a plurality of conductive heating lines, a pair of bus bars to which both ends of the respective heating lines are connected, and terminal portions on the respective bus bars, to which terminals for supplying a current are to be connected, wherein the plurality of heating lines comprise first heating lines and second heating lines in a predetermined proportion to the plurality of heating lines, the second heating lines are connected in the vicinity of at least one terminal portion, and the vicinity of the terminal portion, in which the second heating lines are connected, is a second region other than a first region constituting a current pathway to the first heating line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Naokazu Mazaki
  • Patent number: 6210805
    Abstract: A glass plate provided with a conductive layer, which comprises a glass plate, a conductive layer baked to the glass plate and containing a conductive material as the main component, and a glass exudate coating layer formed to substantially cover the conductive layer and containing low melting point glass as the main component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Sunahara
  • Patent number: 6207777
    Abstract: An antifouling composition comprising, as an effective component, a copolymer comprising the following polymer units (a), (b), (c) and (d): (a) polymer units of a (meth)acrylate having a polyfluoroalkyl group, (b) polymer units of a (meth)acrylate having a polyoxyethylene group, (c) polymer units of a (meth)acrylate having a polyoxypropylene group, and (d) polymer units of a (meth)acrylate having a blocked isocyanate group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyomichi Shimada, Akane Sanekata, Takashige Maekawa
  • Patent number: 6207123
    Abstract: A process for producing sodium salts, which comprises adding solid sodium carbonate to a first aqueous solution containing sodium carbonate and sodium hydrogencarbonate, to prepare a second aqueous solution, precipitating, separating and recovering from the second aqueous solution sodium sesquicarbonate crystals containing at least 50 mol % of the sodium hydrogencarbonate component contained in the second aqueous solution, and further recovering sodium carbonate from a mother liquor remaining after separating the sodium sesquicarbonate crystals from the second aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Tanaka, Shintaro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 6207766
    Abstract: The present invention provides a room temperature-setting composition containing a polyoxyalkylene polymer (A), having a molecular weight of from 8000 to 50000 and having hydrolyzable silicon groups of the following formula (1), which comprises, as an essential component, the polyoxyalkylene polymer, having a molecular weight of from 8000 to 50000 and having hydrolyzable silicon groups of the formula (1), wherein a is 3 and a room temperature-setting composition containing a polyoxyalkylene polymer (A) having a molecular weight of from 8000 to 50000 and having hydrolyzable silicon groups of the formula (1), which comprises, as essential components, the polyoxyalkylene polymer having a molecular weight of from 8000 to 50000 and having hydrolyzable silicon groups of the formula (1) wherein a is 3, and a polymer (B) made by polymerization of a polymerizable unsaturated group-containing monomer (C): —SiXaR13−a  (1) wherein R1 is a C1-20 substituted or unsubstituted monovalent organic group
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Doi, Takashi Watabe, Tomoko Matsumoto, Tatsuo Onoguchi, Kaori Tsuruoka
  • Patent number: 6203733
    Abstract: A polytetrafluoroethylene powder having an average particle size of at most 200 &mgr;m is stirred and granulated in a 2 phase liquid medium comprising water and perfluoroalkyl alkyl ether, to obtain a granulated powder of polytetrafluoroethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Funaki, Teruo Takakura
  • Patent number: 6203912
    Abstract: An electronic article having a thin film of a triazine ring-containing fluoropolymer obtained by trimerization of a cyano group of a cyano group-containing fluoropolymer having a polymerization unit of the formula (1): —[CF2—CF(A1)]—  (1) wherein A1 is —OR1CN, —CN or —R1CN, and R1 is a C1-C15 polyfluoroalkylene group which may have an ether bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company. Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Watakabe, Jun-ichi Tayanagi, Masayuki Tamura, Haruhisa Miyake
  • Patent number: 6202445
    Abstract: Before operating a vacuum degassing apparatus for molten glass which has paths for molten glass made of refractory material, fuel is burned by temperature rising burners, and the burned gas is exhausted through an exhaust pipe which communicates to an upper end of a vacuum degassing vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Sugimoto, Shigekuni Inoue, Takashi Iketani, Hiroshi Kurata, Yasuharu Hirabara
  • Patent number: 6201505
    Abstract: A glass antenna device capable of receiving well both AM and FM broadcast signals wherein a series resonance is generated by a coil 31 disposed between a defogger 90 and a receiver 7, a parallel resonance is generated by a coil 32 disposed between the defogger 90 and the automobile body as the earth and a high frequency choking coil 52 for blocking FM signals is connected between an antenna conductor 3 and the defogger 90 to prevent the FM signals exited in the antenna conductor 3 from leaking to the automobile body as the earth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumitaka Terashima, Nobuyasu Ikutame
  • Patent number: 6200665
    Abstract: A tempered stepped glass sheet wherein the averaged value of surface compressive stresses in an intermediate region B is 100-500 kg/cm2 larger than the averaged value of surface compressive stresses in a central region C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeyuki Seto
  • Patent number: 6201686
    Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor having electrode terminals 70a, 70′a which are attached to a metallic cover plate 65 in an electrically insulated state wherein each of the electrode terminals 70a, 70′a has an engaging plate 76 formed integrally with a shaft portion of the electrode terminal so as to engage with an electrically insulating plate 80 disposed inside the metallic cover plate 65 whereby a rotating motion of the terminal with respect to its axial direction is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Hiratsuka, Manabu Suhara, Katsuji Ikeda, Takeshi Kawasato
  • Patent number: 6201085
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing polymer composition comprising a fluorine-containing solvent of the formula R1—O—R2 wherein R1 is a C5-12 linear or branched polyfluoroalkyl group which may have an ether bond, and R2 is a C1-5 linear or branched alkyl group, and a fluorine-containing amorphous polymer having a fluorine-containing ring structure in its main chain, dissolved in the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Matsukura, Naoko Shirota
  • Patent number: 6197960
    Abstract: A process for producing a piperidinecarbinol represented by the general formula (2), which comprises reducing the trans isomer of a compound represented by the general formula (1): wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an aralkyl group, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group, and X is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, an alkoxy group, a dialkylamino group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group or CmF2m+1— wherein m is an integer of from 1 to 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu-zhong Wang, Takashi Okazoe, Yasushi Matsumura, Nobuaki Mori, Jiro Nishino, Kazuhiro Ookura
  • Patent number: 6197989
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing organic silicon compound represented by the following formula 1, which is useful as various industrial base materials required to have performances such as water and oil repellency, anti-fouling properties or release properties and as raw materials therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignees: Asahi Glass Company Ltd., OSi Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Furukawa, Mami Kotera, Seisaku Kumai, Robert E. Ruckle, Jr., Gerald J. Murphy
  • Patent number: 6192710
    Abstract: In a bending apparatus for glass sheets, at least some of distances between conveyor rolls are set so as to be unequal, forming glass sheets having good quality and free from optical distortion. For the purpose, the distances between conveyor rolls which are provided from an outlet of a heating furnace are set so as to be unequal and to gradually expand toward a downstream direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Takeda, Nozomi Ohtsubo