Patents Assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
  • Publication number: 20210339503
    Abstract: The outer glass sheet includes a first surface and a second surface on a vehicle inner side of the first surface. The inner glass sheet includes a third surface and a fourth surface on the vehicle inner side of the third surface. The interlayer film is disposed between the outer glass sheet and the inner glass sheet and joins together the second surface and the third surface. The electrical element and the power supply point are disposed on the second surface or inside the interlayer film at or near a peripheral edge portion of the second surface. The wiring is connected to the power supply point, is run out from the power supply point, is run out from the power supply point toward the third surface, and extends through the interlayer film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Hisashi OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11158908
    Abstract: [Problem] A separator for a lead acid storage battery that is prevented from suffering the puncture of a separator formed of a microporous film is to be provided. [Solution] The separator includes: a microporous film having a thickness of from 0.1 to 0.3 mm as a base portion 3; plural main ribs 2a that are provided on one surface 3a of the base portion 3; and plural miniature ribs 2b that have a lower height than a height of the main ribs 2a and are provided on the other surface 3b of the base portion 3, and the plural miniature ribs 2b are provided in a linear form with an inter-rib distance P, which is a distance between facing surfaces of the adjacent miniature ribs 2b, of less than 1.9 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Masaki Onishi, Takashi Shidomi, Masahiro Kawachi
  • Patent number: 11155492
    Abstract: A cover glass (10) includes a glass layer (16), a viscoelastic layer (12), and an acoustic impedance adjusting layer (14) disposed between the glass layer (16) and the viscoelastic layer (12). When acoustic impedance of the glass layer (16) is Zg, acoustic impedance of the acoustic impedance adjusting layer (14) is Zm, and acoustic impedance of the viscoelastic layer (12) is Zd, the cover glass (10) satisfies a relationship of Zg>Zm>Zd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Ikadai, Shunji Wada
  • Patent number: 11142054
    Abstract: A glass plate module according to the present invention is a glass plate module to be attached at a position adjacent to a door of a vehicle that can be opened and closed, and the glass plate module includes a glass plate, a window assembly that is fixed to a peripheral edge of the glass plate, and a molding portion that includes a tubular molding portion main body provided with a through hole extending along the window assembly, and is fixed to the window assembly. The molding portion main body is configured to come into contact with a portion of the closed door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuneaki Sakai, Yoshimitsu Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11124450
    Abstract: An object is to enable suppression of thermal leakage at a peripheral portion of a pair of glass plates disposed so as to be opposed to each other with a gap interposed therebetween. A pair of glass plates 1A, 1B are disposed so as to be opposed to each other with a gap V interposed therebetween, and a periphery sealing metal material 3 is provided which joins the pair of glass plates 1A, 1B at a peripheral portion V1 thereof so as to seal the gap V in an airtight state. The periphery sealing metal material 3 interposed between opposed inner surfaces of the pair of glass plates 1A, 1B contains, in a mixed manner, a thermal insulation material 30 having lower thermal conductivity than that of the periphery sealing metal material 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi Miki, Tetsuo Minaai, Tatsuhiro Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20210270083
    Abstract: A vacuum glass panel including a vacuum glass, a sash, and a grazing gasket is provided. The vacuum glass includes a first glass plate, a second glass plate having substantially the same area as the area of the first glass plate in a front view, and a depressurized layer arranged between the first glass plate and the second glass plate opposed to the first glass plate. The lower face of the first glass plate and the lower face of the second glass plate are misaligned relative to each other in the vertical direction. The sash includes two groove walls that define a groove for receiving the upper, lower, right, and left peripheral edge portions of the vacuum glass in a front view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuo MINAAI, Tatsuhiro NAKAZAWA, Hirotaka KOYO
  • Patent number: 11105145
    Abstract: Provided is a glass panel capable of, even after elapse of a long period, reliably sealing a suction hole and keeping a gap in an airtight state. A suction hole sealing metal material 15 has a first protruding portion 15a formed on an atmospheric side around a suction hole 4, and a second protruding portion 15b formed on a gap side around the suction hole 4, and as seen in a thickness direction of the glass plates 1A, 1B, a first contour 16a which is an outermost edge of a first adhesion surface portion S1 where the first protruding portion 15a is in contact with an atmospheric-side surface 17A of the glass plate 1A, and a second contour 16b which is an outermost edge of a second adhesion surface portion S2 where the second protruding portion 15b is in contact with a gap-side surface 17B of the glass plate 1A, are on an outer side of a third contour 16c which is a gap-side hole edge of the suction hole 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Daisuke Inaoka, Masafumi Taguchi, Kazuya Fujino, Tetsuo Minaai
  • Publication number: 20210257712
    Abstract: A rear glass according to the present invention is a rear glass that is attachable to a resin lift-up back door in a rear of a vehicle, the rear glass including a glass plate, a defogger that is arranged in the vicinity of a center of the glass plate in an up-down direction, and an AM antenna that is arranged upward of the defogger on the glass plate, in which the AM antenna includes a power supply part and an antenna element that extends from the power supply part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsumi TOKUDA, Hideaki OSHIMA, Kosuke TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210249754
    Abstract: A rear glass according to the invention is for attachment to a lift-up backdoor that closes an opening in a rear portion of a vehicle, and includes a glass plate, a defogger disposed in a vicinity of a center of the glass plate in an up-down direction, and a shared antenna installed on the glass plate upward or downward of the defogger, the shared antenna including a power supply unit, an AM antenna connected to the power supply unit, and an FM antenna connected to the power supply unit, and a relationship between an element length LAM of the AM antenna, a center wavelength ?FM-C corresponding to a reception frequency band of the FM antenna and a wavelength shortening coefficient ? of the glass plate satisfying 0.49×?×?FM-C?LAM?0.67×?×?FM-C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tatsumi TOKUDA, Ryokichi DOI
  • Publication number: 20210245162
    Abstract: A reaction processor includes: a vessel installation unit for installing a reaction processing vessel provided with a channel formed in a substrate; a high temperature heater and a medium temperature heater for adjusting the temperature of the channel of the reaction processing vessel; a vessel alignment mechanism for adjusting the position of the reaction processing vessel 10; and a housing that has a housing main unit and a cover portion capable of being opened and closed with respect to the housing main unit and that houses the vessel installation unit, the high temperature heater, the medium temperature heater, and the vessel alignment mechanism. In conjunction with the state of the cover portion being changed from an open state to a closed state, the vessel alignment mechanism aligns the reaction processing vessel such that the reaction processing vessel can be heated by the high temperature heater and the medium temperature heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Takashi FUKUZAWA
  • Patent number: 11084753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultraviolet-shielding glass sheet including a glass composition based on soda-lime glass, the glass composition containing iron oxide and TiO2 as coloring components. The glass sheet has a thickness of 1 to 5 mm, and an ultraviolet transmittance (Tuv 380) as determined at the thickness according to ISO 9050:1990 is 1.5% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Seto
  • Publication number: 20210237540
    Abstract: The present invention provides a windshield on which an information acquisition device configured to acquire information from an outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light can be arranged, the windshield including: an outer glass plate; an inner glass plate; an interlayer arranged between the outer glass plate and the inner glass plate; a first blocking layer layered on a surface on the vehicle exterior side of the inner glass plate; and a second blocking layer layered on a surface on the vehicle interior side of the outer glass plate. The first blocking layer has an opening through which the light passes, and the second blocking layer is layered at a position where it blocks a portion of the opening, and the second blocking layer and the opening form a path through which the light passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsutomu KOJIMA, Masayuki SHIOTSUKA, Hironori KURIBAYASHI, Mitsunobu YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11065836
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glass plate module to be attached to a vehicle. The glass plate module includes laminated glass in which an outer glass plate, an interlayer, and an inner glass plate are layered in this order; a mask layer that is provided on the laminated glass and blocks a field of vision from outside; and an attachment member that is attached to a portion corresponding to the mask layer on the inner glass plate with at least a first adhesion means and a second adhesion means and configured to support an information acquisition device for acquiring information from outside of a vehicle. The first adhesion means includes adhesive at at least one location. The second adhesion means is configured such that the adhesive conducts preliminary fixing prior to curing. The attachment member includes a fixation portion that faces the mask layer and has a bonding surface provided with the adhesion means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Masafumi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11065844
    Abstract: A laminated glass according to the present invention includes an outer glass sheet, an inner glass sheet that is arranged opposite to the outer glass sheet and has a smaller thickness than that of the outer glass sheet, and an interlayer sandwiched between the outer glass sheet and the inner glass sheet. A transmittance with respect to light having a wavelength of 850 to 950 nm is 30 to 80%. The outer glass sheet has a thickness of 1.8 to 2.3 mm. The inner glass sheet has a thickness of 0.6 to 2.0 mm. The interlayer includes a plurality of layers including at least a core layer. The core layer has a Young's modulus of 1 to 20 MPa at a frequency of 100 Hz and a temperature of 20° C., the Young's modulus being lower than the Young's modulus of the other layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Kanki, Takahiro Asai, Hisashi Ogawa, Hisashi Asaoka
  • Publication number: 20210207205
    Abstract: A PCR reaction vessel includes: a substrate; a channel formed on the substrate; a pair of filters, a first filter and a second filter, provided at respective ends of the channel; a pair of air communication ports, a first air communication port and a second air communication port, that communicate with the channel through the first filter and the second filter; a thermal cycle region formed between the first filter and the second filter in the channel; a branch point formed between the first filter and the second filter in the channel; a branched channel whose one end is connected to the branch point; and a sample introduction port formed at the other end of the branched channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicants: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Go!Foton, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi FUKUZAWA, Hidenori NAGAI, Naofumi NISHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11041991
    Abstract: An optical component includes: a substrate; a lens formed on a first principal surface of the substrate; and a vortex profile formed on a surface of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11028272
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new glitter pigment suitable for providing high-brightness whitish reflected light. The glitter pigment according to the present invention includes: a flaky substrate 1; and a silicon oxide layer 2 and a titanium oxide layer 3 formed in this order on the flaky substrate 1, wherein in the case where the flaky substrate is the glass flake, the glass flake has a thickness of 284 to 322 nm, the silicon oxide layer has a thickness of 89 to 109 nm, and the titanium oxide layer has a thickness of 51 to 86 nm. In the case where the flaky substrate is the alumina flake, the alumina flake has a thickness of 260 to 280 nm, the silicon oxide layer has a thickness of 79 to 102 nm, and the titanium oxide layer has a thickness of 47 to 87 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichiro Nakamura, Masahiro Hioki
  • Publication number: 20210162840
    Abstract: The present invention is a wind shield on which an information acquisition device configured to acquire information from the outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light can be arranged, the wind shield including a laminated glass, and an antifog film that is arranged on a surface on the vehicle interior side of the laminated glass and that contains a water absorbent polymer, in which the antifog film has a layer that does not contain an alkaline component on a surface of the antifog film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoko MIYAMOTO, Yohei SHIMOKAWA, Kazuaki OYA
  • Patent number: D928344
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hidemitsu Takeuchi, Osamu Kawaguchi, Takashi Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: D933257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Fukuzawa, Hidemitsu Takeuchi, Osamu Kawaguchi