Patents by Inventor Manabu Nishizawa
Manabu Nishizawa 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: 20240055653Abstract: The present invention relates to a sulfide solid electrolyte to be used in a lithium-ion secondary battery, including an argyrodite crystal structure including Li, P, S, and Ha, in which Ha is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I, the sulfide solid electrolyte has a peak in at least one selected from the group consisting of 140 cm?1 to 170 cm?1, 205 cm?1 to 235 cm?1, and 460 cm?1 to 490 cm?1 in a Raman spectrum obtained by Raman spectroscopy measurement, and the sulfide solid electrolyte does not have an endothermic peak within a range of 70° C. to 160° C. in a DSC curve obtained by differential scanning calorimetry.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: AGC INC.Inventors: Naoki FUJII, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Hideaki HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230246227Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte to be use in a lithium-ion secondary battery includes an argyrodite crystal structure represented by LiaPSbHac (where 5?a?7, 4?b?6, and 0<c?2, and Ha represents a halogen element), in which in an X-ray diffraction spectrum using a Cu-K? ray, the argyrodite crystal structure has a peak A and a peak B, each having a full width at half maximum of 0.07° or more, within a range of 2?=30.3°±0.5°, and a difference between diffraction angles (2?) of the peak A and the peak B is 0.05° or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Naoki FUJII, Kosho AKATSUKA, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Hideaki HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230198013Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte to be used in a lithium-ion secondary battery, including an argyrodite crystal, in which the crystal is represented by a composition formula Lia—M—Zb—Hac; M is at least one element selected from Na, K, and elements each of which exists as any of divalent to pentavalent cations in the crystal; Z is at least one element selected from elements that exists as a divalent anion in the crystal; Z includes S; Ha is at least one element selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I; a, b, and c in the composition formula indicate a ratio among contents (unit: at%) of the respective elements and satisfy 5 < a < 7, 4 < b < 6, and 0 < c < 2; and a maximum distance between Li ions in the crystal is 2.54 ? or shorter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Kosho AKATSUKA, Naoki FUJII, Tetsushi SHOBUDANI, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Hiroaki TANAKA, Shinji TERAZONO, Hideaki HAYASHI
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Patent number: 11616155Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignees: AGC Inc., AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Tomohiro Sakai, Tetsuji Irie, Yu Onozaki, Aichi Inoue, Manabu Nishizawa, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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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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Publication number: 20200075787Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicants: AGC Inc, AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Tomohiro SAKAI, Tetsuji IRIE, Yu ONOZAKI, Aichi INOUE, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 10425618Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: displaying a program guide on a display device, the program guide being such that respective program frames for a plurality of programs are arranged in a display area having a time axis of one or more time slots and a channel axis; displaying a cursor on the display device and allowing a user to move the cursor, highlight desired ones of the program frames, and select from among the plurality of programs in the program guide; and displaying detailed program information regarding content of one of the programs of one of the program frames that is highlighted and/or selected by the user via the cursor, where the detailed information is displayed by enlarging the one of the program frames as compared with others of the program frames.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Manabu Nishizawa, Yuki Kobayashi, Kensaku Ishizuka, Koji Kanai
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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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Patent number: 10075561Abstract: A connection section 112 is connected to a client apparatus through a network. A service providing unit provides a service of reception/distribution of a digital broadcast in accordance with a service providing request supplied from the client apparatus. A client information storage section 116 stores therein information associated with the client apparatus connected to the connection section 112. When the service providing request is supplied from a second client apparatus while the service providing unit provides an exclusive service to a first client apparatus, a client information presentation section 110 presents information associated with at least one client apparatus to the other client apparatus. An arbitration section 114 causes at least one of the first client apparatus and the second client apparatus to select whether or not to stop the service for the first client apparatus and to start the provision of the service to the second client apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Masayoshi Mizuno, Manabu Nishizawa, Yuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9910560Abstract: An operation button carries out an operation of an electronic apparatus through a key input. A touch panel is a display area of the electronic apparatus and carries out an operation of the electronic apparatus through a touch operation. A display controlling unit displays, in response to the operation of at least one of the operation button and the touch panel, a menu including at least one choice relating to the operation of the electronic apparatus on a display device. Here, the display controlling unit displays a menu to be displayed in response to the operation of the operation button and a menu to be displayed in response to the operation of the touch panel such that the menus include at least one common choice and besides the common choice is disposed in layouts different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masakazu Hayashi, Kensaku Ishizuka, Eiji Yamada, Yuki Kobayashi, Manabu Nishizawa
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Patent number: 9813660Abstract: An apparatus information acquisition unit 444 acquires information representative of a limitation relating to viewing or recording of a broadcasting program in regard to each of a plurality of recording apparatus. An operation detection unit 44 accepts a user operation which designates a recording target program. When the user operation is accepted, a recording apparatus selection unit 446 determines a priority of each recording apparatus in response to the limitation relating to viewing or recording of a broadcasting program in each recording apparatus, and selects a recording apparatus which has the highest priority as a recording apparatus which is to record the recording target program.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Kensaku Ishizuka, Yuki Kobayashi, Masakazu Hayashi, Manabu Nishizawa
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Patent number: 9787627Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to embodiments includes: a comment acquisition unit for acquiring a comment of a viewer for a program from an external posting site to which a comment, which is feedback on the content of a program, is instantly posted; and a comment displaying unit for displaying the comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit in a live information display area located below an image display screen for displaying an image of the program. The comment displaying unit scroll-displays, in a horizontal direction, a comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit in either a first lane or a second lane of the live information display area.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Manabu Nishizawa, Takashi Hayasaka, Kensaku Ishizuka, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20170247284Abstract: To provide a glass plate which is hardly broken and which has a high infrared transmittance. A glass plate, which has a thickness of from 1 to 8 mm, has an infrared transmittance T3000 at a wavelength of 3,000 nm of at least 4%, an average thermal expansion coefficient a at from 50 to 350° C. of from 15 to 35×10?7/° C., and a glass composition comprising, as represented by mol% based on oxides, from 50 to 85% of SiO2, from 0.1 to 25% of Al2O3, from 0.1 to 20% of B2O3, from 0 to 20% in total of at least one member selected from MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO and ZnO, and from 0 to 20% in total of at least one member selected from Li2O, Na2O and K2O.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Junko MIYASAKA, Suguru MURAYAMA, Seiki OHARA, Manabu NISHIZAWA
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Patent number: 9670087Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkali-free glass having a strain point of 725° C. or higher, an average thermal expansion coefficient at from 50 to 300° C. of from 30×10?7 to 40×107/° C., a temperature T2 at which a glass viscosity is 102 dPa·s of 1,710° C. or lower, and a temperature T4 at which a glass viscosity is 104 dPa·s of 1,320° C. or lower, the alkali-free glass including, in terms of mol % on the basis of oxides, SiO2: 66 to 70, Al2O3: 12 to 15, B2O3: 0 to 1.5, MgO: more than 9.5 and 13 or less, CaO: 4 to 9, SrO: 0.5 to 4.5, BaO: 0 to 1, and ZrO2: 0 to 2, in which MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO is from 17 to 21, MgO/(MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO) is 0.4 or more, MgO/(MgO+CaO) is 0.4 or more, MgO/(MgO+SrO) is 0.6 or more, and the alkali-free glass does not substantially contain an alkali metal oxide.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Tomoyuki Tsujimura, Manabu Nishizawa, Akio Koike
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Patent number: 9663395Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hirofumi Tokunaga, Manabu Nishizawa, Akio Koike
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Patent number: 9540273Abstract: 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 30×10?7 to 43×10?7/° C., a temperature T2 at which 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, 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: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hirofumi Tokunaga, Tomoyuki Tsujimura, Manabu Nishizawa, Akio Koike
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Patent number: 9505650Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-alkali glass substrate, having a strain point of 685° C. or higher and 750° C. or lower, an average thermal expansion coefficient at 50 to 350° C. of from 35×10?7 to 43×10?7/° C., a specific gravity of from 2.50 to 2.80, a photoelastic constant of 25 nm/MPa/cm or more and less than 29 nm/MPa/cm, and a temperature (T4) at which viscosity reaches 104 dPa·s of 1,250° C. or higher and lower than 1,350° C., and having a prescribed composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Manabu Nishizawa, Akio Koike, Hirofumi Tokunaga
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Patent number: 9382152Abstract: 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 30×10?7 to 43×10?7/° C., a temperature T2 at which glass viscosity reaches 102 dPa·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: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hirofumi Tokunaga, Tomoyuki Tsujimura, Manabu Nishizawa, Akio Koike
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Publication number: 20160068427Abstract: 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 30×10?7 to 43×10?7/° C., a temperature T2 at which 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, 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: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hirofumi TOKUNAGA, Tomoyuki TSUJIMURA, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Akio KOIKE
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Patent number: 9245584Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a cue playback decision unit 610 determines, based on recording information acquired from a recording information storage unit in which a recorded content having a program recorded and the recording information of the recorded content are associated with each other, whether or not a recorded content of a playback target is a recorded content whose recording is started prior to starting time of the program and which is to be played back by cue playback. A time confirmation unit 612 acquires, when it is determined that the recorded content is a recorded content to be played back by cue playback, recording starting time included in the recording information of the recorded content of the playback target from the recording information storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Manabu Nishizawa, Kensaku Ishizuka, Masakazu Hayashi