Patents by Inventor Kensuke Nagai
Kensuke Nagai 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).
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Publication number: 20240141451Abstract: A hot-stretch-reduced electric resistance welded pipe has a base metal portion and a weld portion, the base metal portion has a predetermined chemical composition, a Ti/N value obtained by dividing Ti content by N content is 3.0 or more, in a microstructure of the weld portion, the average grain diameter is 10.0 ?m or less, the area ratio of ferrite is 20% or more, and the remaining structure includes at least one or more of pearlite and bainite/martensite, and in a texture of the weld portion, the accumulation intensity of a {001} plane is 6.0 or less, and a critical cooling rate Vc90 of the base metal portion is 5° C./s to 90° C./s.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Kenzo TASHIMA, Kensuke NAGAI, Tatsuo YOKOI, Mitsuhiro HAMAISHI, Takashi TSUSUE
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Publication number: 20230331620Abstract: To provide a glass plate for a window material and a window comprising the glass plate, which are less likely to be a barrier to radio transmitting/receiving in use of a radio-utilizing apparatus, and a radio communication apparatus comprising the glass plate. A glass plate having a radio transmittance of at least 20% at a frequency of 100 GHz as calculated as 18 mm thickness, a window comprising the glass plate, and a radio communication apparatus comprising the glass plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Eriko Maeda, Takato Kajihara, Kensuke Nagai, Yutaka Kuroiwa, Osamu Kagaya, Ryuta Sonoda, Hiroyuki Hijiya
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Publication number: 20230212059Abstract: To provide a glass plate for a window material and a window comprising the glass plate, which are less likely to be a barrier to radio transmitting/receiving in use of a radio-utilizing apparatus, and a radio communication apparatus comprising the glass plate. A glass plate having a radio transmittance of at least 20% at a frequency of 100 GHz as calculated as 18 mm thickness, a window comprising the glass plate, and a radio communication apparatus comprising the glass plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Eriko Maeda, Takato Kajihara, Kensuke Nagai, Yutaka Kuroiwa, Osamu Kagaya, Ryuta Sonoda, Hiroyuki Hijiya
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Patent number: 11634353Abstract: To provide a glass plate for a window material and a window comprising the glass plate, which are less likely to be a barrier to radio transmitting/receiving in use of a radio-utilizing apparatus, and a radio communication apparatus comprising the glass plate. A glass plate having a radio transmittance of at least 20% at a frequency of 100 GHz as calculated as 18 mm thickness, a window comprising the glass plate, and a radio communication apparatus comprising the glass plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Eriko Maeda, Takato Kajihara, Kensuke Nagai, Yutaka Kuroiwa, Osamu Kagaya, Ryuta Sonoda, Hiroyuki Hijiya
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Patent number: 11548807Abstract: A soda lime glass plate has, on the basis of oxides, a total sulfur content in terms of SO3 of 0.001 to 0.2% in mass %, a total iron content in terms of Fe2O3 of 0.15 to 0.4% in mass %, and a total tin content in terms of SnO2 of 0.02 to 1% in mass %, and has a mass proportion of a divalent iron in terms of Fe2O3 in the total iron in terms of Fe2O3 of 45 to 70%. The soda lime glass plate has, as a conversion value for a 3.85 mm-thickness glass plate, a visible light transmittance Tv_A of 70% or more, a total solar transmittance Tts of 63.7% or less, and c* in the L*a*b* color space of 4 or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hijiya, Kensuke Nagai
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Patent number: 10865134Abstract: A wavelength-selective transmissive glass has a light transmittance Tmore than 315 nm and 400 nm or less at a wavelength of more than 315 nm and 400 nm or less represented by the formula shown below of 1% or more in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm and a light transmittance T315 nm or less at a wavelength of 315 nm or less represented by the formula shown below of 60% or less in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm. Ak is a weighting factor at a wavelength k (nm) for calculating T (light transmittance) defined in ISO-9050:2003, and Tk is a transmittance at the wavelength k (nm) in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm: Tmore than 315 nm and 400 nm or less=(?k=more than 315400Ak×Tk)/(?k=more than 315400Ak) T315 nm or less=(?k=300315Ak×Tk)/(?k=300315Ak).Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignees: AGC Inc., TSUBOTA LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: Kensuke Nagai, Tetsuya Nakashima, Yutaka Kuroiwa, Hiroyuki Hijiya, Masamichi Tanida, Akio Koike, Manabu Nishizawa, Kazuo Tsubota, Toshihide Kurihara, Hidemasa Torii
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Patent number: 10773991Abstract: In a soda lime glass, a content of total iron calculated as Fe2O3, expressed in mass % on an oxide basis, is 0.25 to 1%, a mass proportion of divalent iron calculated as Fe2O3 in the total iron calculated as Fe2O3 is 30 to 50%, a content of total sulfur calculated as SO3, expressed in mass % on an oxide basis, is 0.003 to 0.1%, and a content of Se is 3 mass ppm or more. In the soda lime glass, visible light transmittance Tv_D65 is 30 to 55% calculated as 6 mm thickness of a glass sheet, solar direct transmittance Te is 20 to 40% calculate as 6 mm thickness of a glass sheet, and excitation purity Pe is 8.0% or less calculated as 6 mm thickness of a glass sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hijiya, Kensuke Nagai, Eriko Maeda
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Patent number: 10766806Abstract: The present invention pertains to a glass for a data storage medium substrate which contains a specific amount of each of SiO2, Al2O3, MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO, Li2O, Na2O, and K2O, in molar percentage based on the oxides, and does not substantially contain B2O3 or ZrO2, wherein the sum of the Li2O, Na2O, and K2O contents (R2O), the molar ratio of the SiO2 content to the Al2O3 content (SiO2/Al2O3), and the molar ratio of the sum of the SiO2 and Al2O3 contents (SiO2+Al2O3) to R2O[(SiO2+Al2O3)/R2O] fall within their specific ranges, formula (1): 90<[SiO2]+2×[Al2O3]+0.8×[RO]?0.5×[R2O] [in formula (1), RO represents the sum of the MgO, CaO, SrO, and BaO contents] is satisfied, and the glass transition point Tg, the alkali resistance, and the acid resistance fall within their specific ranges.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Eriko Maeda, Hiroyuki Hijiya, Kensuke Nagai, Tetsuya Nakashima, Yutaka Kuroiwa
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Patent number: 10611671Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a heat-ray- and ultraviolet-absorbing glass plate having low solar transmittance and ultraviolet transmittance, having a high visible light transmittance, and containing a small amount of bubbles. The present invention relates to a heat-ray- and ultraviolet-absorbing glass plate that is a soda lime glass having a specific composition, having a mass proportion of divalent iron to the total iron being 50% or more, and having, as a value calculated as 4 mm thickness of the glass plate, a visible light transmittance Tv of 66% or more, a solar transmittance Te of 65% or less, a ratio Tv/Te of Tv and Te of 1.3 or more, and an ultraviolet transmittance Tuv of 50% or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hijiya, Kensuke Nagai, Eriko Maeda
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Publication number: 20200031708Abstract: To provide a glass plate for a window material and a window comprising the glass plate, which are less likely to be a barrier to radio transmitting/receiving in use of a radio-utilizing apparatus, and a radio communication apparatus comprising the glass plate. A glass plate having a radio transmittance of at least 20% at a frequency of 100 GHz as calculated as 18 mm thickness, a window comprising the glass plate, and a radio communication apparatus comprising the glass plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Eriko MAEDA, Takato KAJIHARA, Kensuke NAGAI, Yutaka KUROIWA, Osamu KAGAYA, Ryuta SONODA, Hiroyuki HIJIYA
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Publication number: 20190292637Abstract: An oil well pipe for expandable tubular, containing, in terms of % by mass: 0.020 to 0.080% of C, 0.50% or less of Si, 0.30 to 1.60% of Mn, 0.030% or less of P, 0.010% or less of S, 0.005 to 0.050% of Ti, and 0.010 to 0.500% of Al, and the balance being Fe and impurities, wherein, in a metallographic microstructure, an area fraction of a first phase composed of ferrite is from 90.0% to 98.0% and an area fraction of a second phase composed of one or more selected from the group consisting of tempered martensite, tempered bainite, and pearlite is from 2.0% to 10.0%.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kensuke NAGAI, Manabu WADA, Noboru HASEGAWA, Hirohito IMAMURA, Masakazu OZAKI
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Publication number: 20190241461Abstract: A soda lime glass plate has, on the basis of oxides, a total sulfur content in terms of SO3 of 0.001 to 0.2% in mass %, a total iron content in terms of Fe2O3 of 0.15 to 0.4% in mass %, and a total tin content in terms of SnO2 of 0.02 to 1% in mass %, and has a mass proportion of a divalent iron in terms of Fe2O3 in the total iron in terms of Fe2O3 of 45 to 70%. The soda lime glass plate has, as a conversion value for a 3.85 mm-thickness glass plate, a visible light transmittance Tv_A of 70% or more, a total solar transmittance Tts of 63.7% or less, and c* in the L*a*b* color space of 4 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki HIJIYA, Kensuke NAGAI
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Patent number: 10246361Abstract: There is provided a process for producing molten glass, which is capable of easily increasing the H2O content in glass melt with excessive generation of convection of the glass melt being reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Shingo Urata, Takashi Enomoto, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Kensuke Nagai
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Publication number: 20180297888Abstract: A wavelength-selective transmissive glass has a light transmittance Tmore than 315 nm and 400 nm or less at a wavelength of more than 315 nm and 400 nm or less represented by the formula shown below of 1% or more in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm and a light transmittance T315 nm or less at a wavelength of 315 nm or less represented by the formula shown below of 60% or less in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm. Ak is a weighting factor at a wavelength k (nm) for calculating T (light transmittance) defined in ISO-9050:2003, and Tk is a transmittance at the wavelength k (nm) in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm: Tmore than 315 nm and 400 nm or less=(?k=more than 315400 Ak×Tk)/(?k=more than 315400 Ak) T315 nm or less=(?k=300315 Ak×Tk)/(?k=300315 Ak).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicants: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED, TSUBOTA LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: Kensuke NAGAI, Tetsuya NAKASHIMA, Yutaka KUROIWA, Hiroyuki HIJIYA, Masamichi TANIDA, AKIO KOIKE, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Kazuo TSUBOTA, Toshihide KURIHARA, Hidemasa TORII
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Publication number: 20180273424Abstract: A wavelength-selective transmissive glass article has light transmittance Tmore than 315 nm and 400 nm or less at a wavelength of more than 315 nm and 400 nm or less of 1% or more. In addition, the wavelength-selective transmissive glass article has light transmittance T315 nm or less at a wavelength of 315 nm or less of 60% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicants: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED, TSUBOTA LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: Hideyuki Hirakoso, Takahiro Mashimo, Kensuke Nagai, Kazuo Tsubota, Toshihide Kurihara, Hidemasa Torii
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Publication number: 20180237334Abstract: In a soda lime glass, a content of total iron calculated as Fe2O3, expressed in mass % on an oxide basis, is 0.25 to 1%, a mass proportion of divalent iron calculated as Fe2O3 in the total iron calculated as Fe2O3 is 30 to 50%, a content of total sulfur calculated as SO3, expressed in mass % on an oxide basis, is 0.003 to 0.1%, and a content of Se is 3 mass ppm or more. In the soda lime glass, visible light transmittance Tv—D65 is 30 to 55% calculated as 6 mm thickness of a glass sheet, solar direct transmittance Te is 20 to 40% calculate as 6 mm thickness of a glass sheet, and excitation purity Pe is 8.0% or less calculated as 6 mm thickness of a glass sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hiroyuki Hijiya, Kensuke Nagai, Eriko Maeda
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Publication number: 20180222789Abstract: The present invention pertains to a glass for a data storage medium substrate which contains a specific amount of each of SiO2, Al2O3, MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO, Li2O, Na2O, and K2O, in molar percentage based on the oxides, and does not substantially contain B2O3 or ZrO2, wherein the sum of the Li2O, Na2O, and K2O contents (R2O), the molar ratio of the SiO2 content to the Al2O3 content (SiO2/Al2O3), and the molar ratio of the sum of the SiO2 and Al2O3 contents (SiO2+Al2O3) to R2O [(SiO2+Al2O3)/R2O] fall within their specific ranges, formula (1): 90<[SiO2]+2×[Al2O3]+0.8×[RO]?0.5×[R2O] [in formula (1), RO represents the sum of the MgO, CaO, SrO, and BaO contents] is satisfied, and the glass transition point Tg, the alkali resistance, and the acid resistance fall within their specific ranges.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Eriko MAEDA, Hiroyuki HIJIYA, Kensuke NAGAI, Tetsuya NAKASHIMA, Yutaka KUROIWA
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Patent number: 10011521Abstract: To provide a colored glass plate of which the mass ratio of divalent iron as calculated as Fe2O3 to total iron as calculated as Fe2O3 can be stably maintained at a high level while amber coloring derived from salt cake (Na2SO4) is suppressed by reducing the amount of salt cake used as a refining agent, and which has less bubbles regardless of a small amount of total sulfur as calculated as SO3. A colored glass plate which is made of alkali-containing silica glass containing iron, tin and sulfur, wherein, as represented by mass % based on oxides, the proportion of total sulfur as calculated as SO3 is less than 0.025%, the proportion of divalent iron as calculated as Fe2O3 to total iron as calculated as Fe2O3 is at least 45%, the proportion of divalent tin as calculated as SnO2 to total tin as calculated as SnO2 is at least 0.1% as represented by mol %, and ?-OH is at least 0.15 mm?1.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Kensuke Nagai, Yuya Shimada, Yusuke Arai
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Publication number: 20180037491Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a heat-ray- and ultraviolet-absorbing glass plate having low solar transmittance and ultraviolet transmittance, having a high visible light transmittance, and containing a small amount of bubbles. The present invention relates to a heat-ray- and ultraviolet-absorbing glass plate that is a soda lime glass having a specific composition, having a mass proportion of divalent iron to the total iron being 50% or more, and having, as a value calculated as 4 mm thickness of the glass plate, a visible light transmittance Tv of 66% or more, a solar transmittance Te of 65% or less, a ratio Tv/Te of Tv and Te of 1.3 or more, and an ultraviolet transmittance Tuv of 50% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hiroyuki HIJIYA, Kensuke Nagai, Eriko Maeda
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Patent number: 9726305Abstract: An electric resistance welded steel pipe which has sufficient strength and low-temperature toughness and a low yield ratio and which is suitable as a line pipe to be laid in depths of the sea, characterized in that: the composition of the base material contains, in mass %, 0.05 to 0.10% of C, 1.00 to 1.60% of Mn, and 0.005 to less than 0.035% of Nb, and has a Ceq value of 0.23 to 0.38; and the metal microstructure of the base material contains 3 to 13% of martensite in area fraction with the balance being ferrite.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Shinohara, Kensuke Nagai, Masakazu Ozaki