Patents by Inventor Akio Koike

Akio Koike 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: 20150132525
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a small-sized physically-strengthened glass sheet having excellent design properties, a structure using the small-sized physically-strengthened glass sheet, and a method for manufacturing the structure. In the cutting step in the method for manufacturing a physically-strengthened glass sheet of the present invention, the intermediate layer 17 is locally heated at a temperature not higher than the annealing point thereof with a laser beam 20 to thereby locally generate a tensile stress smaller than the internal residual tensile stress CT or a compressive stress in the intermediate layer 17 to control the propagation speed of the crack 30 due to the internal residual tensile stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasumasa KATO, Takahiro Nagata, Isao Saito, Akio Koike, Kenji Kitaoka, June Sasai
  • Patent number: 9028967
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass for a display device, having a visible light transmittance Tva of 50% or more and less than 91% at a thickness of 1 mm using A light source, and an excitation purity Pe of less than 0.5% at a thickness of 1 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Akio Koike, Yuya Shimada, Isao Saito
  • Publication number: 20150111040
    Abstract: A method capable of forming a sufficiently thick low alkali concentration region without heating glass to a high temperature and even in an atmosphere which is not an atmosphere of plasma formation gas such as helium and argon, is provided. A glass substrate having a pair of main surfaces and being made of glass containing an alkali oxide in its composition, is disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode so that one main surface is separated from the first electrode and the other main surface is brought into contact with the second electrode, and a corona discharge is generated by applying a direct-current voltage to the first electrode as a positive electrode and the second electrode as a negative electrode, in a positive-electrode-side surface layer portion of the glass substrate, at least one positive ion including an alkali ion migrate toward the negative-electrode-side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shiro FUNATSU, Akio KOIKE, Kiyoshi YAMAMOTO, Yuichi YAMAMOTO, Hiroshi WAKATSUKI, Junji NISHII, Kenji HARADA, Hiroshi IKEDA, Daisuke SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20150097304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a TiO2-containing quartz glass substrate for an imprint mold having a main surface and a side surface, in which the side surface has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of 1 nm or less, and the side surface has a root mean square (MSFR_rms) of concaves and convexes in the wavelength region of from 10 ?m to 1 mm being 10 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Akio KOIKE, Junko Miyasaka, Hiroshi Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20150093561
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkali-free glass having a strain point of from 680 to 735° C., an average thermal expansion coefficient at from 50 to 350° C. of from 30×10?7 to 43×10?7/° C., and a specific gravity of 2.60 or less, and containing, indicated by mol % on the basis of oxides, SiO2 65 to 69%, Al2O3 11.5 to 14%, B2O3 3 to 6.5%, MgO 1 to 5%, CaO 7.5 to 12%, SrO 0 to 1%, BaO 0.5 to 6%, and ZrO2 0 to 2%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirofumi Tokunaga, Manabu Nishizawa, Akio Koike
  • Publication number: 20150087495
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkali-free glass having a strain point of 680 to 735° C., an average thermal expansion coefficient at from 50 to 350° C. of from 30×10?7 to 43×10?7/° C., a temperature T2 at which glass viscosity reaches 102 dPa.s of 1,710° C. or lower, and a temperature T4 at which the glass viscosity reaches 104 dPa.s of 1,310° C. or lower, and containing, indicated by mol % on the basis of oxides, SiO2 63 to 74, Al2O3 11.5 to 16, B2O3 exceeding 1.5 to 5, MgO 5.5 to 13, CaO 1.5 to 12, SrO 1.5 to 9, BaO 0 to 1, and ZrO2 0 to 2, in which MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO is from 15.5 to 21, MgO/(MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO) is 0.35 or more, CaO/(MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO) is 0.50 or less, and SrO/(MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO) is 0.50 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Manabu NISHIZAWA, Hirofumi Tokunaga, Akio Koike
  • Publication number: 20150087494
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkali-free glass having a strain point of 710° C. or higher, an average thermal expansion coefficient at from 50 to 350° C. of from 30×10?7 to 43×10?7/° C., a temperature T2 at which glass viscosity reaches 102 dPa·s of 1,710° C. or lower, and a temperature T4 at which the glass viscosity reaches 104 dPa·s of 1,320° C. or lower, containing, indicated by % by mass on the basis of oxides: SiO2 58.5 to 67.5, Al2O3 18 to 24, B2O3 0 to 1.7, MgO 6.0 to 8.5, CaO 3.0 to 8.5, SrO 0.5 to 7.5, BaO 0 to 2.5, and ZrO2 0 to 4.0, containing 0 to 0.35% by mass of Cl, 0.01 to 0.15% by mass of F, and 0.01 to 0.3% by mass of SnO2, and having a ?-OH value of the glass of from 0.15 to 0.60 mm?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirofumi TOKUNAGA, Akio Koike, Manabu Nishizawa, Tomoyuki Tsujimura
  • Publication number: 20150072130
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkali-free glass substrate with a thickness of 0.4 mm or less, which has been reduced in thickness by 5 ?m or more by a hydrofluoric acid (HF) etching treatment, in which the alkali-free glass substrate contains an alkali-free glass described below, and the alkali-free glass substrate after reduced in thickness has a specific modulus of 32 MNm/kg or more and a photoelastic constant of 31 nm/MPa/cm or less, the alkali-free glass having a strain point of 710° C. or higher, an average thermal expansion coefficient at 50 to 350° C. of from 30×10?7to 43×10?7/° C., a temperature T2 at which a glass viscosity reaches 102 dPa·s of 1710° C. or lower, a temperature T4 at which the glass viscosity reaches 104 dPa·s of 1320° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirofumi TOKUNAGA, Tomoyuki TSUJIMURA, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Akio KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20150045201
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-alkali glass having a strain point of 710° C. or higher, an average thermal expansion coefficient at from 50 to 300° C. of from 30×10?7 to 43×10?7/° C., a temperature T2 at which glass viscosity reaches 102 dPa·s of 1,710° C. or lower, a temperature T4 at which the glass viscosity reaches 104 dPa·s of 1,320° C. or lower, containing, indicated by percentage by mass on the basis of oxides, SiO2 58.5 to 67.5, Al2O3 18 to 24, B2O3 0 to 1.7, MgO 6.0 to 8.5, CaO 3.0 to 8.5, SrO 0.5 to 7.5, BaO 0 to 2.5 and ZrO2 0 to 4.0, containing Cl in an amount of from 0.15 to 0.35% by mass, F in an amount of from 0.01 to 0.15% by mass and SO3 in an amount of from 1 to 25 ppm and having a ?-OH value of the glass of from 0.15 to 0.45 mm?1, in which (MgO/40.3)+(CaO/56.1)+(SrO/103.6)+(BaO/153.3) is from 0.27 to 0.35, (MgO/40.3)/((MgO/40.3)+(CaO/56.1)+(SrO/103.6)+(BaO/153.3)) is 0.40 or more, (MgO/40.3)/((MgO/40.3)+(CaO/56.1)) is 0.40 or more, and (MgO/40.3)/((MgO/40.3)+(SrO/103.6)) is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirofumi TOKUNAGA, Shingo Urata, Akio Koike, Manabu Nishizawa, Takashi Enomoto, Tomoyuki Tsujimura
  • Publication number: 20150045203
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-alkali glass having a strain point of from 710° C. to lower than 725° C., an average thermal expansion coefficient at from 50 to 300° C. of from 30×107 to 43×10?7/° C., a temperature T2 at which glass viscosity reaches 102dPa.s of 1710° C. or lower, a temperature T4 at which the glass viscosity reaches 104 dPd.s of 1320° C. or lower, and containing, indicated by mol % on the basis of oxides, SiO2 66 to 70, Al2O3 12 to 14, B2O3 exceeding 0 to 1.5, MgO exceeding 9.5 to 13 (or 5 to 9.5), CaO 4 to 9 (or 4 to 11), SrO 0.5 to 4.5, BaO 0 to 0.5 and ZrO 0 to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirofumi TOKUNAGA, Tomoyuki TSUJIMURA, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Akio KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20140366581
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a production method for a non-alkali glass, containing putting glass raw materials in a melting furnace, heating to a temperature of 1,350 to 1,750° C. to prepare a molten glass, and forming the molten glass into a sheet shape by float method, in which the heating in the melting furnace concurrently utilizes heating by combustion flame of burners and electrical heating of the molten glass by heating electrodes arranged so as to be dipped in the molten glass in the melting furnace, and in which when electrical resistivity at 1,350° C. of the molten glass is represented by Rg (?cm) and electrical resistivity at 1,350° C. of a refractory constituting the melting furnace is represented by Rb (?cm), the glass raw materials and the refractory are selected so as to achieve Rb>Rg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirofumi TOKUNAGA, Akio Koike, Manabu Nishizawa, Tomoyuki Tsujimura
  • Publication number: 20140287905
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an alkali-free glass includes heating the glass raw material at a temperature of 1,400 to 1,800° C. in a melting furnace to thereby prepare a molten glass, and forming the molten glass into a sheet shape, wherein heating by combustion flame of a burner and electrical heating of the molten glass by a heating electrode arranged so as to be dipped in the molten glass in the melting furnace are used in combination in the heating in the melting furnace, and when an electrical resistivity of the molten glass at 1,400° C. is Rg (?cm) and an electrical resistivity of a refractory constituting the melting furnace at 1,400° C. is Rb (?cm), the glass raw material and the refractory are selected so as to satisfy Rb>Rg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirofumi TOKUNAGA, Akio Koike, Manabu Nishizawa, Tomoyuki Tsujimura
  • Publication number: 20140242391
    Abstract: To provide a glass plate to be tempered, which has a low thermal expansion coefficient at relatively low temperature, and which can have a sufficiently high surface compression stress by a conventional heat tempering process, even when it is thin. A glass plate to be tempered, which contains B2O3 in a range of from 12.5 to 35 mol % in its composition, the difference [X?Y] between the total content X of compounds selected from MgO, CaO, BaO, Na2O and K2O in the composition and the content Y of B2O3 in the composition being within a range of from ?5 to 10 mol %, and which is to be tempered by heating and quenching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Madoka Ono, Akio Koike, Shinichi Amma, Setsuro Ito
  • Publication number: 20140170505
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a lithium ion conductive solid electrolyte includes (a) a step of preparing an object to be processed including a crystalline material, that includes alkali metal other than lithium and whose ionic conductivity at room temperature is greater than or equal to 1×10?13 S/cm; and (b) a step of performing an ion-exchange process on the object to be processed in molten salt including lithium ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tomoyuki TSUJIMURA, Akio KOIKE, Syusaku AKIBA
  • Patent number: 8735308
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical member including a TiO2-containing silica glass having: a TiO2 concentration of from 3 to 10% by mass; a Ti3+ concentration of 100 wt ppm or less; a thermal expansion coefficient at from 0 to 100° C., CTE0-100, of 0±150 ppb/° C.; and an internal transmittance in the wavelength range of 400 to 700 nm per a thickness of 1 mm, T400-700, of 80% or more, in which the optical member has a ratio of variation of Ti3+ concentration to an average value of the Ti3+ concentration, ?Ti3+/Ti3+, on an optical use surface, is 0.2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Akio Koike, Chikaya Tamitsuji, Kunio Watanabe, Tomonori Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20140102144
    Abstract: A float glass for chemical strengthening, having a bottom surface to contact a molten metal during molding and a top surface facing the bottom surface. An absolute value of a difference between a normalized hydrogen concentration at a depth of 5 to 10 ?m that is a value obtained by dividing a hydrogen concentration at a depth of 5 to 10 ?m by a hydrogen concentration at a depth of 50 to 55 ?m in the top surface and the normalized hydrogen concentration at a depth of 5 to 10 ?m in the bottom surface is 0.35 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YAMANAKA, Akio Koike, Yusuke Fujiwara, Daisuke Kobayashi, Yosuke Amino, Ryoji Akiyama, Masanobu Shirai
  • Publication number: 20140017500
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass for a display device, having a visible light transmittance Tva of 50% or more and less than 91% at a thickness of 1 mm using A light source, and an excitation purity Pe of less than 0.5% at a thickness of 1 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Akio KOIKE, Yuya Shimada, Isao Saito
  • Publication number: 20140005026
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glass plate to be tempered, which has a low thermal expansion coefficient, a high surface compression stress due to physical reinforcements and a low density and is excellent in the scratch durability. A glass plate to be tempered which comprises, by mass % as represented by the following composition: SiO2: 55 to 85%, B2O3: 2 to 12%, MgO: 0.1 to 12%, CaO: 0.1 to 12%, Na2O: 0 to 13%, MgO+CaO+SrO+ZnO: 3 to 16% and Al2O3: 0 to 3% and, which can be tempered by heating and quenching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Akio KOIKE, Setsuro Ito
  • Publication number: 20130324389
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass composition including, in terms of mol % on the basis of oxides: from 55 to 70% of SiO2, from 5 to 10% of Al2O3, from 0 to 0.5% of B2O3, from 3 to 15% of MgO, from 3 to 15% of CaO, from 2 to 10% of SrO, from 1 to 10% of BaO, from 0 to 3% of ZrO2, from 0 to 1.8% of Na2O, and from 0 to 1% of K2O, provided that MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO is from 20 to 35%, and Na2O+K2O is from 0 to 2%, in which the glass composition has a glass transition temperature of 680° C. or higher, an average thermal expansion coefficient of from 50×10?7 to 70×10?7/° C., and a temperature at which a viscosity is 102 dPa·s of 1,600° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuo NAGASHIMA, Yuki KONDO, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Akio KOIKE
  • Patent number: 8590342
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for production of a TiO2—SiO2 glass body, comprising a step of, when an annealing point of a TiO2—SiO2 glass body after transparent vitrification is taken as T1(° C.), holding the glass body after transparent vitrification in a temperature region of from T1?90(° C.) to T1?220(° C.) for 120 hours or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Akio Koike, Takahiro Mitsumori, Yasutomi Iwahashi, Tomonori Ogawa