Patents by Inventor Masao Misonou

Masao Misonou 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: 7141130
    Abstract: A glass panel (P) comprising a pair of glass plates (1A, 1B) opposed to each other, spacers (2) disposed between the pair of glass plates for maintaining a gap therebetween, and a sealing member (3) having a lower melting point than the glass plates (1) for sealing the pair of glass plates (1A, 1B) at outer peripheries (9) thereof to form a decompression void (V) between the pair of glass plates (1A, 1B), wherein a compressive force Fc is allowed to remain at outer surfaces of the outer peripheries (9) of the glass plates (1), with the decompression void (V) being in atmospheric pressure condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minaai, Masao Misonou, Toru Futagami
  • Patent number: 7114306
    Abstract: A glass panel (P) comprising a pair of glass plates (1A, 1B) opposed to each other, spacers (2) disposed between the pair of glass plates for maintaining a gap therebetween, and a sealing member (3) having a lower melting point than the glass plates (1) for sealing the pair of glass plates (1A, 1B) at outer peripheries (9) thereof to form a decompression void (V) between the pair of glass plates (1A, 1B), wherein a compressive force Fc is allowed to remain at outer surfaces of the outer peripheries (9) of the glass plates (1), with the decompression void (V) being in atmospheric pressure condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minaai, Masao Misonou, Toru Futagami
  • Publication number: 20060207218
    Abstract: A glass panel (P) comprising a pair of glass plates (1A, 1B) opposed to each other, spacers (2) disposed between the pair of glass plates for maintaining a gap therebetween, and a sealing member (3) having a lower melting point than the glass plates (1) for sealing the pair of glass plates (1A, 1B) at outer peripheries (9) thereof to form a decompression void (V) between the pair of glass plates (1A, 1B), wherein a compressive force Fc is allowed to remain at outer surfaces of the outer peripheries (9) of the glass plates (1), with the decompression void (V) being in atmospheric pressure condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minaai, Masao Misonou, Toru Futagami
  • Publication number: 20060207217
    Abstract: A glass panel (P) comprising a pair of glass plates (1A, 1B) opposed to each other, spacers (2) disposed between the pair of glass plates for maintaining a gap therebetween, and a sealing member (3) having a lower melting point than the glass plates (1) for sealing the pair of glass plates (1A, 1B) at outer peripheries (9) thereof to form a decompression void (V) between the pair of glass plates (1A, 1B), wherein a compressive force Fc is allowed to remain at outer surfaces of the outer peripheries (9) of the glass plates (1), with the decompression void (V) being in atmospheric pressure condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minaai, Masao Misonou, Toru Futagami
  • Publication number: 20060154005
    Abstract: A glass plate minimizing distortions of reflected images while maintaining a low coefficient of heat transmission is provided. In a glass panel comprising a pair of glass plates (1) arranged to define a void (V) between opposed faces thereof, and a sealing member provided in outer circumference of the pair of glass plates for sealing the void (V), with the void (V) being decompressed, at least one glass plate (1A) of the pair of glass plates (1) has an outer surface bonded to a plate-shaped member in unison through an adhesive layer (X).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Masao Misonou, Shunichi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6955026
    Abstract: The light-transmitting glass panel 1 is comprised of a pair of glass plates 11 and 12 that are hermetically joined together with one surface of each thereof facing one another, the joining being via a sealing frame 13 that is provided at an outer peripheral portion of the glass plates 11 and 12 and fluidizes at low temperature, and the glass plates 11 and 12 having a hollow layer 14 formed therebetween, and pillars 15 that are substantially cylindrical spacers that are inserted into the hollow layer 14 as atmospheric pressure supporting members and determine the gap between the glass plate 11 and the glass plate 12. The pillars 15 are arranged in the hollow layer 14 in a matrix shape with a predetermined spacing, and taking the surface residual compressive stress of the glass plates 11 and 12 in MPa to be S, and the thickness of the glass plates 11 and 12 in mm to be d, the average spacing D in mm of the pillars 15 arranged in the hollow layer 14 satisfies the relationship D?5.2d+5.5+(0.8d+0.08)ยท?S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Masao Misonou
  • Publication number: 20050138892
    Abstract: A light-transmitting glass panel having high thermal insulation performance with thermal conductance sufficiently reduced. The light-transmitting glass panel 1 is comprised of a pair of glass plates 11 and 12 that are hermetically joined together with one surface of each thereof facing one another, the joining being via a sealing frame 13 that is provided at an outer peripheral portion of the glass plates 11 and 12 and fluidizes at low temperature, and the glass plates 11 and 12 having a hollow layer 14 formed therebetween, and pillars 15 that are substantially cylindrical spacers that are inserted into the hollow layer 14 as atmospheric pressure supporting members and determine the gap between the glass plate 11 and the glass plate 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Masao Misonou
  • Patent number: 6830791
    Abstract: In a glass panel includes at least three glass sheets for forming an air layer (K) and a vacuum layer (S) side by side and for partitioning between outdoor space and indoor space, at least either an outdoor-side glass sheet contacting the outdoor space or an indoor-side glass sheet contacting the indoor space of the glass sheets (G) contacts the vacuum layer (S) and includes a low-emittance film layer (M) formed on a face thereof contacting the vacuum layer (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Misonou, Hidemi Katoh
  • Patent number: 6773529
    Abstract: In order to provide a glass panel in which any substance which may be present on the glass surface and may then become detached to invite deterioration in the vacuum degree has been sufficiently reduced and which can maintain highly sealed condition against the surround atmosphere for an extended period of time, in a glass panel comprising a pair of glass sheet disposed in an opposing and spaced relationship with each other with a gap formed therebetween, the gap being air-tightly sealed by joining peripheral edges of the glass sheets with a sealing material, at least one of the glass sheets has a water contact angle of 30 degrees or less on a gap-side glass surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinjiro Domi, Koichi Sakaguchi, Masao Misonou
  • Patent number: 6733850
    Abstract: In order to provide a glass panel in which any substance which may be present on the glass surface and may then become detached to invite deterioration in the vacuum degree has been sufficiently reduced and which can maintain highly sealed condition against the surround atmosphere for an extended period of time, in a glass panel comprising a pair of glass sheet disposed in an opposing and spaced relationship with each other with a gap formed therebetween, the gap being air-tightly sealed by joining peripheral edges of the glass sheets with a sealing material, at least one of the glass sheets has a water contact angle of 30 degrees or less on a gap-side glass surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinjiro Domi, Koichi Sakaguchi, Masao Misonou
  • Publication number: 20040035086
    Abstract: A glass panel (P) comprising a pair of glass plates (1A, 1B) opposed to each other, spacers (2) disposed between the pair of glass plates for maintaining a gap therebetween, and a sealing member (3) having a lower melting point than the glass plates (1) for sealing the pair of glass plates (1A, 1B) at outer peripheries (9) thereof to form a decompression void (V) between the pair of glass plates (1A, 1B), wherein a compressive force Fc is allowed to remain at outer surfaces of the outer peripheries (9) of the glass plates (1), with the decompression void (V) being in atmospheric pressure condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minaai, Masao Misonou, Toru Futagami
  • Publication number: 20030209308
    Abstract: In order to provide a glass panel in which any substance which may be present on the glass surface and may then become detached to invite deterioration in the vacuum degree has been sufficiently reduced and which can maintain highly sealed condition against the surround atmosphere for an extended period of time, in a glass panel comprising a pair of glass sheet disposed in an opposing and spaced relationship with each other with a gap formed therebetween, the gap being air-tightly sealed by joining peripheral edges of the glass sheets with a sealing material, at least one of the glass sheets has a water contact angle of 30 degrees or less on a gap-side glass surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventors: Shinjiro Domi, Koichi Sakaguchi, Masao Misonou
  • Patent number: 6504501
    Abstract: A radio wave absorbing panel is made up of a first insulating substrate and a second insulating substrate disposed in parallel a predetermined distance apart and a middle insulating substrate disposed between and parallel with the first and second substrates. The first and second substrates each have a conducting film coated over the entire surface of one side. On one side of the middle insulating substrate are coated multiple conducting films disposed in the form of stripes or a matrix. The width of each of the conducting films disposed in the form of stripes or a matrix is equal to or between 0.1 cm to 50 cm. By this means a thin radio wave absorbing panel having excellent radio wave absorption and transparency to light can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignees: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., Nippon Sheet Glass Technoresearch Co., Ltd., Takenaka Corp., Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Toshio Tsuno, Masao Misonou, Harunobu Yoshida, Motoyasu Togashi, Kenichi Hyoudou
  • Publication number: 20020110653
    Abstract: A glass panel including a pair of first and second glass sheets (1A, 1B) disposed with sheet faces thereof opposed to each other, a plurality of spacers (5) being interposed between the pair of glass sheets (1A, 1B) for forming a space (4) therebetween; and a sealing material (S) for bonding peripheral edges (3) of the glass sheets (1A, 1B) together for sealing the space (4), the sealing material having a lower fusing temperature than the softening point of the glass sheets (1A, 1B). Each spacer (5) is formed by disposing spacer-forming paste (11) in a predetermined shape on the sheet face of the glass sheet (1A, 1B). Or, the spacer (5) comprises a plurality of spacer bodies (51) two-dimensionally interconnected to each other via a connecting member (52).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Kyoichi Shukuri, Hideo Yoshizawa, Naoto Horiguchi, Osamu Asano, Keiichiro Okajima, Tomonori Miura, Masao Misonou, Seiichiro Honjo
  • Publication number: 20020064610
    Abstract: A glass panel includes a pair of glass sheets 1A, 1B having one side faces thereof disposed in opposition to each other with a gap V therebetween and a sealing material 3 for sealing outer peripheral edges of the pair of the glass sheets 1A, 1B. A damage protecting layer 12 is provided adjacent the outer peripheral edges of the other non-opposing faces of the glass sheets 1A, 1B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventor: Masao Misonou
  • Patent number: 6387460
    Abstract: A glass panel including a pair of first and second glass sheets (1A, 1B) disposed with sheet faces thereof opposed to each other, a plurality of spacers (5) being interposed between the pair of glass sheets (1A, 1B) for forming a space (4) therebetween; and a sealing material (S) for bonding peripheral edges (3) of the glass sheets (1A, 1B) together for sealing the space (4), the sealing material having a lower fusing temperature than the softening point of the glass sheets (1A, 1B). Each spacer (5) is formed by disposing spacer-forming paste (11) in a predetermined shape on the sheet face of the glass sheet (1A, 1B). Or, the spacer (5) comprises a plurality of spacer bodies (51) two-dimensionally interconnected to each other via a connecting member (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoichi Shukuri, Hideo Yoshizawa, Naoto Horiguchi, Osamu Asano, Keiichiro Okajima, Tomonori Miura, Masao Misonou, Seiichiro Honjo
  • Publication number: 20010005184
    Abstract: A radio wave absorbing panel is made up of a first insulating substrate and a second insulating substrate disposed in parallel a predetermined distance apart and a middle insulating substrate disposed between and parallel with the first and second substrates. The first and second substrates each have a conducting film coated over the entire surface of one side. On one side of the middle insulating substrate are coated multiple conducting films disposed in the form of stripes or a matrix. By this means a thin radio wave absorbing panel having excellent radio wave absorption and transparency to light can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Inventors: Toshio Tsuno, Masao Misonou, Harunobu Yoshida, Motoyasu Togashi, Kenichi Hyoudou
  • Patent number: 6210763
    Abstract: In a double glazing including a pair of glass sheets 1, a plurality of spacers 2 disposed between opposed sheet faces of the glass sheets 1 by a predetermined pitch, and a sealing member 4 interposed between the glass sheets 1 along the entire peripheries thereof, with a space V between the glass sheets being sealed in a vacuum condition, each spacer 2 is formed so as to maintain a predetermined distance between the glass sheets when subjected to a static normal external pressure normally applied thereto in the direction of sheet thickness and also to relieve stress through plastic deformation when subjected to an impact dynamically applied in the sheet thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., LTD
    Inventors: Hidemi Katoh, Naoto Horiguchi, Masao Misonou
  • Patent number: 6195034
    Abstract: A radio wave absorbing panel is made up of a first insulating substrate and a second insulating substrate disposed in parallel a predetermined distance apart and a middle insulating substrate disposed between and parallel with the first and second substrates. The first and second substrates each have a conducting film coated over the entire surface of one side. On one side of the middle insulating substrate are coated multiple conducting films disposed in the form of stripes or a matrix. By this means a thin radio wave absorbing panel having excellent radio wave absorption and transparency to light can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignees: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., Nippon Sheet Glass Technoresearch Co., Ltd., Yagi Antenna Co., Ltd., Takenaka Corp.
    Inventors: Toshio Tsuno, Masao Misonou, Harunobu Yoshida, Motoyasu Togashi, Kenichi Hyodo
  • Patent number: 6105336
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-insulating multiple glazing and a vacuum multiple glazing. Conventionally, this type of glass does not provide sufficient heat-insulating performance. And, it has been necessary to form the heat-insulating multiple glazing thick, in order to enhance the heat-insulating performance. The present invention comprises a first vacuum multiple glazing (2) including two sheet glasses (3), (4) having peripheries thereof sealed and a plurality of layers of spacer (5) disposed within a gap therebetween, with the gap being depressurized; and a second vacuum multiple glazing (2) or an ordinary sheet glass (10) overlapped with the first multiple glazing (2) with a gap relative thereto and having the periphery thereof sealed with a sealing material (12), with the gap being charged with dry air or rare gas. Thus, it is possible to enhance the heat-insulating performance, without increasing the thickness of the entire heat-insulating multiple glazing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidemi Katoh, Masao Misonou