Patents by Inventor Hiroshige Ito

Hiroshige Ito 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: 20150337591
    Abstract: Multilayer glass is provided that includes a plurality of glass substrates that are arranged to face one another to form a gap between the glass substrates, a plurality of spacers that are arranged in the gap, and a sealing member for sealing a periphery of a plurality of glass substrates. A plurality of glass substrates includes an antireflective layer that is arranged on at least one surface of surfaces of the glass substrates that face one another to form the gap. The distribution density of the spacers with respect to a glass substrate surface that forms the gap is greater than or equal to 2/mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masahide KOGA, Hiroshige ITO, Kotaro ENOMOTO
  • Patent number: 8748505
    Abstract: To provide a curable resin composition for forming a seal part, which is capable of easily forming a continuous seal part and which is capable of maintaining the shape of the seal part during a period of from immediately after the formation of an uncured seal part until a liquid material is supplied to a region enclosed by the seal part and the seal part is cured, and a laminate which has minimal defects and whereby a resin layer interposed between first and second plates can be made thick. One having a viscosity of from 500 to 3,000 Pa·s at 25° C. is used as the curable resin composition for forming a seal part to form an uncured seal part 12 enclosing the periphery of a liquid material (curable resin composition 14 for forming a resin layer) interposed between a first plate (display device 50) and a second plate (transparent plate 10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Niiyama, Hiroshige Ito, Naoko Aoki, Yoshinobu Kadowaki, Yukio Tsuge
  • Patent number: 8734955
    Abstract: A transparent laminate is produced by preparing a pair of transparent substrates, forming a sealing portion along the periphery on one of the transparent substrates for sealing a curable resin composition, supplying the curable resin composition in a region on the transparent substrate surrounded by the sealing portion, overlaying the other transparent substrate on the supplied curable resin composition in a reduced pressure atmosphere so that the curable resin composition is sealed as it is sandwiched between the pair of transparent substrates, and subsequently curing the curable resin composition in an atmosphere having a higher pressure than the pressure of the atmosphere in which the composition is sandwiched, to produce the transparent laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshige Ito, Satoshi Niiyama, Satoshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20130306236
    Abstract: To provide a curable resin composition for forming a seal part, which is capable of easily forming a continuous seal part and which is capable of maintaining the shape of the seal part during a period of from immediately after the formation of an uncured seal part until a liquid material is supplied to a region enclosed by the seal part and the seal part is cured, and a laminate which has minimal defects and whereby a resin layer interposed between first and second plates can be made thick. One having a viscosity of from 500 to 3,000 Pa·s at 25° C. is used as the curable resin composition for forming a seal part to form an uncured seal part 12 enclosing the periphery of a liquid material (curable resin composition 14 for forming a resin layer) interposed between a first plate (display device 50) and a second plate (transparent plate 10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi NIIYAMA, Hiroshige Ito, Naoko Aoki, Yoshinobu Kadowaki, Yukio Tsuge
  • Patent number: 8525967
    Abstract: A process for producing a liquid crystal display device enabling to produce with simple process, and such a liquid crystal display device, are provided. A process for producing a liquid crystal display device comprising: a step of forming transparent electrodes (41, 42) on first and second substrates (11, 12); a step of applying an uncured raw seal material; a step of dropping a first functional material; a step of dropping a second functional material; a step of sandwiching the raw seal material (13a, 14a), the first functional material (32a) and the second functional material (31a) between the first and second substrates under a predetermined reduced pressure atmosphere, and thereby forming a sealed product wherein the first functional material is isolated from the second functional material by the raw seal material and sealed between the first and the second substrates; a step of exposing the sealed product to a normal atmospheric pressure; and a step of curing at least the raw seal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshige Ito, Satoshi Niiyama, Hitoshi Tsushima
  • Patent number: 8409385
    Abstract: A transparent laminate is produced by preparing a pair of transparent substrates, forming a sealing portion along the periphery on one of the transparent substrates for sealing a curable resin composition, supplying the curable resin composition in a region on the transparent substrate surrounded by the sealing portion, overlaying the other transparent substrate on the supplied curable resin composition in a reduced pressure atmosphere so that the curable resin composition is sealed as it is sandwiched between the pair of transparent substrates, and subsequently curing the curable resin composition in an atmosphere having a higher pressure than the pressure of the atmosphere in which the composition is sandwiched, to produce the transparent laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshige Ito, Satoshi Niiyama, Satoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8373839
    Abstract: A process for producing a liquid crystal display device enabling to produce with simple process, and such a liquid crystal display device, are provided, the process comprising: a step of forming transparent electrodes (41, 42) on first and second substrates (11, 12); a step of applying an uncured raw seal material; a step of dropping a first functional material; a step of dropping a second functional material; a step of sandwiching the raw seal material (13a, 14a), the first functional material (32a) and the second functional material (31a) between the first and second substrates under a predetermined reduced pressure atmosphere, and thereby forming a sealed product wherein the first functional material is isolated from the second functional material by the raw seal material and sealed between the first and the second substrates; a step of exposing the sealed product to a normal atmospheric pressure; and a step of curing at least the raw seal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshige Ito, Satoshi Niiyama, Hitoshi Tsushima
  • Publication number: 20130011597
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a display apparatus, which comprises (a) a step of forming a seal part made of e.g. a double-sided adhesive tape 12 on the edge of a surface of a display device 50 (a first plate), (b) a step of supplying a liquid photocurable resin composition 14 to a region enclosed by the seal part, (c) a step of laminating, in a reduced-pressure atmosphere of not more than 100 Pa, a transparent plate 10 (a second plate) on the photocurable resin composition 14 thereby to obtain a laminated precursor having the photocurable resin composition 14 hermetically sealed, and (d) a step of curing the photocurable resin composition 14 in such a state that the laminated precursor is placed in a pressure atmosphere of not less than 50 kPa to form a resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi NIIYAMA, Hiroshige ITO, Mika KAMBE, Naoko AOKI, Hitoshi TSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20130004735
    Abstract: A transparent laminate is produced by preparing a pair of transparent substrates, forming a sealing portion along the periphery on one of the transparent substrates for sealing a curable resin composition, supplying the curable resin composition in a region on the transparent substrate surrounded by the sealing portion, overlaying the other transparent substrate on the supplied curable resin composition in a reduced pressure atmosphere so that the curable resin composition is sealed as it is sandwiched between the pair of transparent substrates, and subsequently curing the curable resin composition in an atmosphere having a higher pressure than the pressure of the atmosphere in which the composition is sandwiched, to produce the transparent laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshige Ito, Satoshi Niiyama, Satoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8310649
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a display apparatus, which comprises (a) a step of forming a seal part made of e.g. a double-sided adhesive tape 12 on the edge of a surface of a display device 50 (a first plate), (b) a step of supplying a liquid photocurable resin composition 14 to a region enclosed by the seal part, (c) a step of laminating, in a reduced-pressure atmosphere of not more than 100 Pa, a transparent plate 10 (a second plate) on the photocurable resin composition 14 thereby to obtain a laminated precursor having the photocurable resin composition 14 hermetically sealed, and (d) a step of curing the photocurable resin composition 14 in such a state that the laminated precursor is placed in a pressure atmosphere of not less than 50 kPa to form a resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Niiyama, Hiroshige Ito, Mika Kambe, Naoko Aoki, Hitoshi Tsushima
  • Publication number: 20120211080
    Abstract: To provide a curable resin composition for forming a seal part, which is capable of easily forming a continuous seal part and which is capable of maintaining the shape of the seal part during a period of from immediately after the formation of an uncured seal part until a liquid material is supplied to a region enclosed by the seal part and the seal part is cured, and a laminate which has minimal defects and whereby a resin layer interposed between first and second plates can be made thick. One having a viscosity of from 500 to 3,000 Pa·s at 25° C. is used as the curable resin composition for forming a seal part to form an uncured seal part 12 enclosing the periphery of a liquid material (curable resin composition 14 for forming a resin layer) interposed between a first plate (display device 50) and a second plate (transparent plate 10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi NIIYAMA, Hiroshige ITO, Naoko AOKI, Yoshinobu KADOWAKI, Yukio TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20120183721
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a display apparatus, which comprises (a) a step of forming a seal part made of e.g. a double-sided adhesive tape 12 on the edge of a surface of a display device 50 (a first plate), (b) a step of supplying a liquid photocurable resin composition 14 to a region enclosed by the seal part, (c) a step of laminating, in a reduced-pressure atmosphere of not more than 100 Pa, a transparent plate 10 (a second plate) on the photocurable resin composition 14 thereby to obtain a laminated precursor having the photocurable resin composition 14 hermetically sealed, and (d) a step of curing the photocurable resin composition 14 in such a state that the laminated precursor is placed in a pressure atmosphere of not less than 50 kPa to form a resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Niiyama, Hiroshige Ito, Mika Kambe, Naoko Aoki, Hitoshi Tsushima
  • Publication number: 20120107995
    Abstract: A process for producing a solar cell module, including (a) forming a seal part made of e.g. a double sided adhesive tape on the edge of a surface of a transparent surface material (first surface material), (b) supplying a liquid state photocurable resin composition to the region enclosed by the seal part, (c) laminating, in a reduced pressure atmosphere of not more than 100 Pa, on the photocurable resin composition, a glass substrate (second surface material) having a thin-film type solar cell device formed, to obtain a laminated material having the photocurable resin composition hermetically sealed, and (d) curing the photocurable resin composition in such a state that the laminated material is placed in a pressure atmosphere of not less than 50 kPa to form a resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Niiyama, Hiroshige Ito, Mika Kambe
  • Publication number: 20100215966
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to solve problems in production techniques for a transparent laminate employing a transparent resin film, and problems in production techniques for a transparent laminate produced by injecting a resin composition having a low viscosity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshige Ito, Satoshi Niiyama, Satoshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20090257016
    Abstract: A process for producing a liquid crystal display device enabling to produce with simple process, and such a liquid crystal display device, are provided. A process for producing a liquid crystal display device comprising: a step of forming transparent electrodes (41, 42) on first and second substrates (11, 12); a step of applying an uncured raw seal material; a step of dropping a first functional material; a step of dropping a second functional material; a step of sandwiching the raw seal material (13a, 14a), the first functional material (32a) and the second functional material (31a) between the first and second substrates under a predetermined reduced pressure atmosphere, and thereby forming a sealed product wherein the first functional material is isolated from the second functional material by the raw seal material and sealed between the first and the second substrates; a step of exposing the sealed product to a normal atmospheric pressure; and a step of curing at least the raw seal material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshige ITO, Satoshi Niiyama, Hitoshi Tsushima
  • Patent number: 7505188
    Abstract: A light control device according to the present invention comprises a plurality of optical elements between two transparent plates in each of which a pair of transparent substrates having taper-shaped side faces with transparent electrodes are located so as to face each other, and a light control layer capable of changing the light transmitting state by electrically controlling the pair of transparent electrodes is disposed between the pair of transparent electrodes, and further, a transparent solid layer is filled in a space formed in the gap between the two transparent plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Niiyama, Hiroshige Ito, Naoko Aoki
  • Publication number: 20070058114
    Abstract: In the light control device according to one mode of the present invention, a plurality of liquid crystal optical elements are arrayed between two transparent plates having a curved surface, and the liquid crystal optical elements are bonded to a first transparent plate 11 by a gel, elastic, transparent resin layer. The liquid crystal optical elements and the second transparent plate have a sealed space formed therebetween. By using the gel, elastic, transparent resin layer to fix only one side of each of the liquid crystal optical elements to the first transparent plate, the liquid crystal optical elements are fixed to the curved surface of the first transparent plate, and a stress is prevented from being transmitted to the liquid crystal optical elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Niiyama, Hitoshi Tsushima, Hiroshige Ito, Kunihisa Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20060291030
    Abstract: The light control device can improve visibility at the side faces of the pair of transparent substrates with transparent electrodes held in the gap between two transparent plates, irrespective of the number of the optical elements installed in the light control device. A light control device 10 according to the present invention comprises a plurality of optical elements 3 between two transparent plates 1, 2, in each of which a pair of transparent substrates 31, 32 with transparent electrodes 33, 34 are located so as to face each other and a light control layer 35 capable of changing the light transmitting state by electrically controlling the pair of transparent electrodes 33, 34 is disposed between the pair of transparent electrodes, wherein a transparent solid layer 8 is filled in a space formed in the gap between the two transparent plates 1, 2 and the transparent substrates 31, 32 have taper-shaped side faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Niiyama, Hiroshige Ito, Naoko Aoki