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).
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Publication number: 20240279103Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Takanori FUKUSHI, Mizuki MATSUOKA, Hiroshi KOMATSU, Satoshi KANASUGI
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Patent number: 11940685Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Maya Hatano, Satoshi Kanasugi, Masao Ozeki
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Patent number: 11761799Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: AGC INC.Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Masao Ozeki, Satoshi Takeda, Satoshi Kanasugi, Satoshi Ogami
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Publication number: 20230234881Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Satoshi KANASUGI, Kazutaka YANAGIHARA, Hiroshi KOMATSU, Suguru TAKAYASHIKI
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Publication number: 20230202901Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi KOMATSU, Takanori FUKUSHI, Satoshi KANASUGI, Hitomi FURUTA, Shiro FUNATSU
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Patent number: 11613490Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Kanasugi, Takanori Fukushi, Shunji Wachi
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Publication number: 20230086147Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: AGC INC.Inventors: Shusaku AKIBA, Masao OZEKI, Satoshi TAKEDA, Satoshi KANASUGI, Satoshi OGAMI
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Patent number: 11543271Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: AGC INC.Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Masao Ozeki, Satoshi Takeda, Satoshi Kanasugi, Satoshi Ogami
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Patent number: 11535548Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: AGC INC.Inventors: Suguru Murayama, Satoshi Kanasugi, Madoka Ono
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Patent number: 11299420Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Takanori Fukushi, Satoshi Kanasugi, Toru Ikeda
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Publication number: 20220003576Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: AGC INC.Inventors: Shusaku AKIBA, Masao OZEKI, Satoshi TAKEDA, Satoshi KANASUGI, Satoshi OGAMI
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Patent number: 11204266Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: AGC INC.Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Masao Ozeki, Satoshi Takeda, Satoshi Kanasugi, Satoshi Ogami
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Patent number: 11192815Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Makoto Fujii, Satoshi Kanasugi
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Patent number: 11073715Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Takanori Fukushi, Satoshi Kanasugi, Makoto Fujii, Toru Ikeda
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Patent number: 11066321Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: AGC INC.Inventors: Takanori Fukushi, Satoshi Kanasugi, Masao Ozeki
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Publication number: 20210080778Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Maya HATANO, Satoshi KANASUGI, Masao OZEKI
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Patent number: 10889521Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: AGC INC.Inventors: Maya Hatano, Kazuhiko Yamanaka, Satoshi Kanasugi
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Publication number: 20200290917Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Satoshi KANASUGI, Takanori FUKUSHI, Shunji WACHI
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Patent number: 10766803Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Makoto Fujii, Satoshi Kanasugi, Naofumi Aoyama
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Patent number: 10703666Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Kanasugi, Takanori Fukushi, Shunji Wachi