Patents by Inventor Aichi INOUE

Aichi INOUE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230150245
    Abstract: An anti-reflective film-attached transparent substrate includes: a transparent substrate including two main surfaces; and a diffusion layer and an anti-reflective film on one main surface of the transparent substrate, which are provided in this order. The anti-reflective film-attached transparent substrate satisfies (A) a luminous transmittance is 20% to 90%, (B) a transmission color b* value under a D65 light source is 5 or less, (C) a luminous reflectance (SCI Y) of an outermost layer of the anti-reflective film is 0.4% or less, (D) a sheet resistance of the anti-reflective film is 104 ?/square or more, (E) the anti-reflective film has a laminated structure in which at least two dielectric layers having different refractive indices are laminated, and (F) a Diffusion value is 0.2 or more and a diffused light brightness (SCE L*) is 4 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Kazuya TAKEMOTO, Tamotsu MORIMOTO, Aichi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11616155
    Abstract: To provide a cover glass for a solar cell module which can sufficiently maintain the power generation efficiency of a solar cell module, even when a design is imparted to the entire surface of the cover glass so as to make solar cells be invisible from the outside, and a solar cell module. To provide a cover glass 14 to be bonded on light-receiving surfaces 16A and 16B of solar cells 16 via an encapsulant material 18, which has a visible transmittance of from 0% to 60% and an average infrared transmittance of from 20% to 100%, which is a value calculated by simply averaging transmittances at 5 nm intervals in an infrared region at a wavelength of from 780 nm to 1,500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: AGC Inc., AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sakai, Tetsuji Irie, Yu Onozaki, Aichi Inoue, Manabu Nishizawa, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11563403
    Abstract: To provide a coating material capable of forming a solar cell module excellent in the weather resistance, the power generation efficiency and the design, a cover glass, a solar cell module comprising the cover glass, and an outer wall material for building. The cover glass of the present invention is a cover glass comprising a glass plate and a layer containing a fluorinated polymer having units based on a fluoroolefin, on at least one surface of the glass plate, which has an average visible reflectance of from 10 to 100%, and an average near infrared transmittance of from 20 to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: AGC Inc., AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Yu Onozaki, Tomohiro Sakai, Shun Saito, Noriyoshi Kayaba, Aichi Inoue, Tetsuji Irie
  • Publication number: 20210300817
    Abstract: To provide a water/oil repellent layer-provided substrate having improved long-term reliability of abrasion resistance, and a method for producing it. A water/oil repellent layer-provided substrate comprising a substrate, an undercoat layer formed on the surface of the substrate, and a water/oil repellent layer formed on the surface of the undercoat layer, in this order, wherein the alkali deficiency index is higher than 0.0, as determined by a depth profile obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) by C60 ion sputtering from the side of the surface of the water/oil repellent layer, taking the total concentration of fluorine, silicon, aluminum, alkali metal elements and oxygen as 100 at %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Maemi IWAHASHI, Aichi INOUE, Yoshihito TOKUNAGA, Kenji ISHIZEKI, Yusuke TOMIYORI
  • Publication number: 20200295705
    Abstract: To provide a coating material capable of forming a solar cell module excellent in the weather resistance, the power generation efficiency and the design, a cover glass, a solar cell module comprising the cover glass, and an outer wall material for building. The cover glass of the present invention is a cover glass comprising a glass plate and a layer containing a fluorinated polymer having units based on a fluoroolefin, on at least one surface of the glass plate, which has an average visible reflectance of from 10 to 100%, and an average near infrared transmittance of from 20 to 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: AGC Inc., AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Yu ONOZAKI, Tomohiro Sakai, Shun Saito, Noriyoshi Kayaba, Aichi Inoue, Tetsuji Irie
  • Publication number: 20200075787
    Abstract: To provide a cover glass for a solar cell module which can sufficiently maintain the power generation efficiency of a solar cell module, even when a design is imparted to the entire surface of the cover glass so as to make solar cells be invisible from the outside, and a solar cell module. To provide a cover glass 14 to be bonded on light-receiving surfaces 16A and 16B of solar cells 16 via an encapsulant material 18, which has a visible transmittance of from 0% to 60% and an average infrared transmittance of from 20% to 100%, which is a value calculated by simply averaging transmittances at 5 nm intervals in an infrared region at a wavelength of from 780 nm to 1,500 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicants: AGC Inc, AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Tomohiro SAKAI, Tetsuji IRIE, Yu ONOZAKI, Aichi INOUE, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180072613
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a glass article in which an antifouling layer is removed easily and in a short time from the glass article on which the antifouling layer has been formed. The present invention also provides a glass article including a region having an antifouling layer and a region having no antifouling layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takumi MINORIKAWA, Tomohiro TAKANO, Aichi INOUE, Yusheng LANG