Patents by Inventor Satoshi KANASUGI

Satoshi KANASUGI 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: 20240279103
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass ceramic having a three-dimensional shape including a plurality of round shapes including a minimum round shape having an average curvature radius of 5.0×102 mm or less and a maximum round shape having an average curvature radius of 1.0×103 mm or more, in which the glass ceramic has a sheet thickness t [mm], and a value obtained by dividing a maximum value of retardation [nm] measured by the following measurement method by the sheet thickness t [mm] is 50 [nm/mm] or less, measurement method: retardation is measured using a birefringence measuring device by vertically irradiating one or more points on an arc of each of the round shapes with light having a wavelength of 543 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takanori FUKUSHI, Mizuki MATSUOKA, Hiroshi KOMATSU, Satoshi KANASUGI
  • Patent number: 11940685
    Abstract: An antiglare transparent substrate includes a transparent substrate which includes a chemically strengthened glass and has a first main surface and a second main surface. The first main surface includes: a first smooth region having an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 0.05 nm or more and 2 nm or less; and a first rough region having an arithmetic average roughness Ra larger than the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the first smooth region. The second main surface includes, in at least a part of a region facing the first smooth region, a second smooth region having an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 0.05 nm or more and 2 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Maya Hatano, Satoshi Kanasugi, Masao Ozeki
  • Patent number: 11761799
    Abstract: A sensor module includes: a base member; at least one of a single or a plurality of sensors and vibrators arranged on the base member; and a protective member constituted of at least one flat surface or a curved surface, provided so as to cover the at least one of the sensors and the vibrators. A part or whole of the protective member is formed of a strengthened glass and the strengthened glass is a chemically strengthened glass or a physically strengthened glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Masao Ozeki, Satoshi Takeda, Satoshi Kanasugi, Satoshi Ogami
  • Publication number: 20230234881
    Abstract: To suppress reduction in rigidity. A cover material has a curvature in a first direction X and a curvature in a second direction Y. The curvature in the first direction X and the curvature in the second direction Y intersect with each other on a plane of the cover material 10. The radius of curvature of the curvature in the first direction X is 60 mm or more and 300 mm or less. The radius of curvature of the curvature in the second direction Y is 1000 mm or more and 14000 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi KANASUGI, Kazutaka YANAGIHARA, Hiroshi KOMATSU, Suguru TAKAYASHIKI
  • Publication number: 20230202901
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass in which: the glass is a crystallized glass; the glass has a difference log ??log ?0 (dPa·s) between a logarithm log ? (dPa·s) of bulk viscosity ? (dPa·s) and a logarithm log ?0 (dPa·s) of local viscosity ?0 (dPa·s) of larger than 0 and 1.8 or smaller, in a temperature range in which the logarithm log ?0 (dPa·s) of the bulk viscosity ? (dPa·s) is 11.4 or larger and 12.7 or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KOMATSU, Takanori FUKUSHI, Satoshi KANASUGI, Hitomi FURUTA, Shiro FUNATSU
  • Patent number: 11613490
    Abstract: A 3D cover glass, having a polygonal shape in a plan view which corner part may comprise a rounded portion, and containing a central part being flat plane, and curved parts each with a three-dimensional curved surface having a curvature radius of 100 mm or less on peripheries of at least two of the sides of the polygonal shape, wherein the 3D cover glass shows the maximum value of retardation per 1 mm thickness being 16 nm/mm or less when measured by irradiating a light having a wavelength of 543 nm onto the central part orthogonally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kanasugi, Takanori Fukushi, Shunji Wachi
  • Publication number: 20230086147
    Abstract: A sensor module includes: a base member; at least one of a single or a plurality of sensors and vibrators arranged on the base member, and a protective member constituted of at least one flat surface or a curved surface, provided so as to cover the at least one of the sensors and the vibrators. A part or whole of the protective member is formed of a strengthened glass and the strengthened glass is a chemically strengthened glass or a physically strengthened glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shusaku AKIBA, Masao OZEKI, Satoshi TAKEDA, Satoshi KANASUGI, Satoshi OGAMI
  • Patent number: 11543271
    Abstract: A sensor module includes: a base member; at least one of a single or a plurality of sensors and vibrators arranged on the base member; and a protective member constituted of at least one flat surface or a curved surface, provided so as to cover the at least one of the sensors and the vibrators. A part or whole of the protective member is formed of a strengthened glass and the strengthened glass is a chemically strengthened glass or a physically strengthened glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Masao Ozeki, Satoshi Takeda, Satoshi Kanasugi, Satoshi Ogami
  • Patent number: 11535548
    Abstract: A glass for chemical strengthening has a Young's modulus E of 70 GPa or more. The glass satisfies X1+X2+X3 being 1760 or less. Here, X1 is a numerical value equivalent to a value [unit: kPa/° C.] obtained by multiplying the Young's modulus E by an average coefficient ? of thermal expansion at 50° C. to 350° C., X2 is a numeral value equivalent to a value of a temperature Tf [unit: ° C.] at which a viscosity of the glass reaches 100 MPa·s, and X3 is a numerical value equivalent to a value of a difference [unit: 105 Pa·s] between the viscosity (100 MPa·s) at the Tf and a viscosity ?+10 at a temperature 10° C. higher than the Tf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Suguru Murayama, Satoshi Kanasugi, Madoka Ono
  • Patent number: 11299420
    Abstract: A glass article including a first main surface, a second main surface, and an end face, in which: the glass article includes an antiglare layer on the first main surface side; the antiglare layer has a glass transition point Tg of equal to or less than a glass transition point Tg0 of the glass article at a center portion in a cross section along a thickness direction; and the first main surface has a protrusion diameter y (?m) that satisfies the relation (1) with respect to a 60° specular gloss (gloss value) x (%) of the first main surface, y>?0.0245x+3.65 (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takanori Fukushi, Satoshi Kanasugi, Toru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20220003576
    Abstract: A sensor module includes: a base member; at least one of a single or a plurality of sensors and vibrators arranged on the base member; and a protective member constituted of at least one flat surface or a curved surface, provided so as to cover the at least one of the sensors and the vibrators. A part or whole of the protective member is formed of a strengthened glass and the strengthened glass is a chemically strengthened glass or a physically strengthened glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shusaku AKIBA, Masao OZEKI, Satoshi TAKEDA, Satoshi KANASUGI, Satoshi OGAMI
  • Patent number: 11204266
    Abstract: A sensor module includes: a base member; at least one of a single or a plurality of sensors and vibrators arranged on the base member; and a protective member constituted of at least one flat surface or a curved surface, provided so as to cover the at least one of the sensors and the vibrators. A part or whole of the protective member is formed of a strengthened glass and the strengthened glass is a chemically strengthened glass or a physically strengthened glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Masao Ozeki, Satoshi Takeda, Satoshi Kanasugi, Satoshi Ogami
  • Patent number: 11192815
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a bent substrate, which forms a bent part in at least a part of a substrate, in which the substrate includes a second region and a first region, the method for manufacturing including: supporting the first region of the substrate on a substrate support surface of a support member including a mold surface having a same curved surface shape as that of the bent part and the substrate support surface that supports the first region, in a state of facing the second region of the substrate to the mold surface; heating the second region of the substrate to soften the second region of the substrate by the heating; placing the second region along the mold surface of the support member by an own weight of the second region; and transferring the curved surface shape of the mold surface to the second region by an external force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Fujii, Satoshi Kanasugi
  • Patent number: 11073715
    Abstract: A method for producing a glass article from a glass member including a glass substrate including a first main surface, a second main surface and an end face, and an irregular layer formed in at least one of main surfaces, includes forming an irregular layer having a glass transition point Tg which is equal to or lower than a glass transition point in a central part of the glass member in a thickness-direction sectional view and performing a heat treatment on the glass member so as to have an equilibrium viscosity in the central part of the glass member in thickness-direction sectional view of 1017 Pa·s or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takanori Fukushi, Satoshi Kanasugi, Makoto Fujii, Toru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11066321
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mold including a master mold having a first region master mold molding surface having a shape corresponding to a first region of a molded body, and a second region master mold molding surface having a shape corresponding to a second region of the molded body, and in which the master mold includes: an inner mold having the first region master mold molding surface; an outer mold having an accommodating concave portion capable of accommodating the inner mold therein and the second region master mold molding surface on at least a part of an outer edge of the accommodating concave portion; and a buffer material provided between the inner mold and a bottom surface of the accommodating concave portion, the buffer material being pressed and deformed with relative movement of the inner mold and the outer mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Takanori Fukushi, Satoshi Kanasugi, Masao Ozeki
  • Publication number: 20210080778
    Abstract: An antiglare transparent substrate includes a transparent substrate which includes a chemically strengthened glass and has a first main surface and a second main surface. The first main surface includes: a first smooth region having an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 0.05 nm or more and 2 nm or less; and a first rough region having an arithmetic average roughness Ra larger than the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the first smooth region. The second main surface includes, in at least a part of a region facing the first smooth region, a second smooth region having an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 0.05 nm or more and 2 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Maya HATANO, Satoshi KANASUGI, Masao OZEKI
  • Patent number: 10889521
    Abstract: A glass plate, curved around a first axis, has a first surface being concave and a second surface being convex. In a cross sectional view of a plane perpendicular to the first axis, both end portions of the second surface are chemically strengthened. Compressive stress produced by ion exchange in the both end portions of the second surface is larger than that of the first surface. An X axis includes a line segment connecting one end point and a point, most distant from the one end point, on the cross section of the second surface. A Y axis passes a center point of the line segment, and positive direction is from a first surface toward a second surface. A second-order coefficient of a quadratic curve that approximates second-order differential values of a locus of a partial shape in a positive Y value region in the cross section is negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Maya Hatano, Kazuhiko Yamanaka, Satoshi Kanasugi
  • Publication number: 20200290917
    Abstract: A 3D cover glass, having a polygonal shape in a plan view which corner part may comprise a rounded portion, and containing a central part being flat plane, and curved parts each with a three-dimensional curved surface having a curvature radius of 100 mm or less on peripheries of at least two of the sides of the polygonal shape, wherein the 3D cover glass shows the maximum value of retardation per 1 mm thickness being 16 nm/mm or less when measured by irradiating a light having a wavelength of 543 nm onto the central part orthogonally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi KANASUGI, Takanori FUKUSHI, Shunji WACHI
  • Patent number: 10766803
    Abstract: A method for producing a bent glass article includes a heat treatment step of heat-treating a bent glass. The bent glass includes a first main stir-face, a second main surface and an end face. In the heat treatment step, the bent glass is supported by a support jig with one of the main surfaces facing downward. The support jig supports at least a part of one of the main surfaces or the end face in a higher position than the lowest position of one of the main surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Fujii, Satoshi Kanasugi, Naofumi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 10703666
    Abstract: Provided is a molding die for 3D cover glass containing a pair of a convex mold and a concave mold each having a flat press surface A and a press surface B, in which the closest distance D between the press surfaces A of the convex mold and the concave mold during press-molding and the closest distance D1 between the press surfaces B of the convex mold and the concave mold during press-molding satisfy a predetermined conditions with respect to the plate thickness of a 3D cover glass as a final product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kanasugi, Takanori Fukushi, Shunji Wachi