Patents by Inventor Atsuo Hiroi

Atsuo Hiroi 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).

  • Patent number: 8697242
    Abstract: The invention provides a glass member provided with a sealing material layer, which suppresses generation of failures such as cracks or breakage of glass substrates or a sealing layer even when the distance between two glass substrates is narrowed, and thereby makes it possible to improve the sealing property between the glass substrates and its reliability. A glass substrate has a surface provided with a sealing region, on which a sealing material layer having a thickness of at most 15 ?m is formed. The sealing material layer includes a fired material of a glass material for sealing containing a sealing glass, a laser absorbent and optionally a low-expansion filler, wherein the total content of the laser absorbent and the low-expansion filler being the optional component in the glass material for sealing is within the range of from 2 to 44 vol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Sohei Kawanami, Atsuo Hiroi
  • Publication number: 20120147538
    Abstract: The invention provides a glass member provided with a sealing material layer, which suppresses generation of failures such as cracks or breakage of glass substrates or a sealing layer even when the distance between two glass substrates is narrowed, and thereby makes it possible to improve the sealing property between the glass substrates and its reliability. A glass substrate has a surface provided with a sealing region, on which a sealing material layer having a thickness of at most 15 ?m is formed. The sealing material layer includes a fired material of a glass material for sealing containing a sealing glass, a laser absorbent and optionally a low-expansion filler, wherein the total content of the laser absorbent and the low-expansion filler being the optional component in the glass material for sealing is within the range of from 2 to 44 vol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Sohei Kawanami, Atsuo Hiroi
  • Patent number: 7788948
    Abstract: To provide a process for producing a reliable substrate in good yield, by suppressing bleeding of boric acid from a green sheet comprising a powder of borosilicate glass to improve printability of a conductive pattern thereby to prevent disconnection. A process for producing a substrate which comprises firing a green sheet comprising a powder of borosilicate glass, wherein the powder is one prepared by holding borosilicate glass before pulverization, at a temperature higher by at least 30° C. than the glass transition temperature and lower by at most 50° C. than the softening point of the borosilicate glass for at least 3 hours in the atmosphere, followed by pulverization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignees: Asahi Glass Company, Limited, Asahi Techno Glass Corporation
    Inventors: Jiro Chiba, Atsuo Hiroi, Ryosuke Sugiura, Ryoji Akiyama, Masaya Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20070130993
    Abstract: To provide a process for producing a reliable substrate in good yield, by suppressing bleeding of boric acid from a green sheet comprising a powder of borosilicate glass to improve printability of a conductive pattern thereby to prevent disconnection. A process for producing a substrate which comprises firing a green sheet comprising a powder of borosilicate glass, wherein the powder is one prepared by holding borosilicate glass before pulverization, at a temperature higher by at least 30° C. than the glass transition temperature and lower by at most 50° C. than the softening point of the borosilicate glass for at least 3 hours in the atmosphere, followed by pulverization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicants: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED, ASAHI TECHNO GLASS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiro CHIBA, Atsuo HIROI, Ryosuke SUGIURA, Ryoji AKIYAMA, Masaya MATSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 6383962
    Abstract: An aluminum nitride sintered product which is made mainly of aluminum nitride and contains an yttrium compound in an amount of from 0.6 to 5 wt % as calculated as yttrium oxide, a vanadium compound in an amount of from 0.02 to 0.4 wt % as calculated as vanadium and carbon in an amount of from 0.03 to 0.10 wt % and which has a three-point bending strength of at least 45 kg/mm and a thermal conductivity of at least 150 W/m·K, wherein crystal grains of aluminum nitride have an average grain size of at most 5 &mgr;m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignees: Asahi Techno Glass Corporation, Dowa Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Obana, Atsuo Hiroi, Kazunari Watanabe, Mikio Ueki, Yukihiro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 5498657
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing polymer composition comprising a polymer having a functional group and a fluorine-containing aliphatic cyclic structure dissolved in a solvent mixture of an aprotic fluorine-containing solvent and a protic fluorine-containing solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignees: Asahi Glass Company Ltd., Iwaki Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihide Sugiyama, Atsushi Watakabe, Shunsuke Yokotsuka, Atsuo Hiroi, Masaki Naritomi, Naoko Shirota, Ko Aosaki, Masaru Nakamura
  • Patent number: RE37022
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing polymer composition comprising a polymer having a functional group and a fluorine-containing aliphatic cyclic structure dissolved in a solvent mixture of an aprotic fluorine-containing solvent and a protic fluorine-containing solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignees: Asahi Glass Company Ltd., Iwaki Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihide Sugiyama, Atsushi Watakabe, Shunsuke Yokotsuka, Atsuo Hiroi, Masaki Naritomi, Naoko Shirota, Ko Aosaki, Masaru Nakamura