Patents by Inventor Seiki Ohara

Seiki Ohara 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: 9840435
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cover glass for a display, having high durability to slow cracking and strong abraded strength even though a compressive stress is large and a depth of a compressive stress layer is deep. The present invention relates to a cover glass for a display, in which a depth of a compressive stress layer (DOL) is 30 ?m or more, a surface compressive stress is 300 MPa or more, a position (HW) at which a compressive stress is half of a value of the surface compressive stress is a position of 8 ?m or more from a glass surface, and the depth of the compressive stress layer (DOL) and the position (HW) at which the compressive stress is half of the value of the surface compressive stress satisfy the following formula: 0.05?HW/DOL?0.23??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Seiki Ohara, Kazutaka Ono, Tetsuya Nakashima, Hiroyuki Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20170283304
    Abstract: A glass sheet includes, as represented by mole percentage based on oxides, from 55.5 to 80% of SiO2, from 12 to 20% of Al2O3, from 8 to 25% of Na2O, 2.5% or more of P2O5, and 1% or more of an alkaline earth metal RO (RO is MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuji YAMAZAKI, Shusaku AKIBA, Seiki OHARA, Kazunari TOHYAMA
  • Patent number: 9771300
    Abstract: A white glass contains, in terms of mole percentage on the basis of the following oxides, from 50 to 80% of SiO2, from 0 to 10% of Al2O3, from 11 to 30% of MgO, from 0 to 15% of Na2O and from 0.5 to 15% of P2O5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takahiro Sakagami, Seiki Ohara, Junko Miyasaka, Hiroyuki Hijiya, Kazutaka Ono
  • Publication number: 20170247284
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Junko MIYASAKA, Suguru MURAYAMA, Seiki OHARA, Manabu NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170217825
    Abstract: A cover member includes at least a chemically strengthened glass. The chemically strengthened glass has a Young's modulus of 60 GPa or higher. The chemically strengthened glass includes a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface. The chemically strengthened glass has a thickness t of 0.4 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoharu HASEGAWA, Seiki OHARA, Shinichi UNAYAMA, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170217824
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cover glass for a display, having high durability to slow cracking and strong abraded strength even though a compressive stress is large and a depth of a compressive stress layer is deep. The present invention relates to a cover glass for a display, in which a depth of a compressive stress layer (DOL) is 30 ?m or more, a surface compressive stress is 300 MPa or more, a position (HW) at which a compressive stress is half of a value of the surface compressive stress is a position of 8 ?m or more from a glass surface, and the depth of the compressive stress layer (DOL) and the position (HW) at which the compressive stress is half of the value of the surface compressive stress satisfy the following formula: 0.05?HW/DOL?0.23??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: SEIKI OHARA, KAZUTAKA ONO, TETSUYA NAKASHIMA, HIROYUKI OHKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170166473
    Abstract: Provided are a glass for anti-dazzle processing which has low dependency on the concentration of the processing liquid in carrying out the anti-dazzle processing, and an anti-dazzle glass using the same. A glass for anti-dazzle processing contains, as expressed by mass percentage on the basis of oxides, 60 to 75% of SiO2, 2.5 to 10% of A12O3, 13 to 19% of Na2O, 0 to 1.8% of K2O, 0 to 12% of MgO, 0 to 9% of CaO, and 0 to 4% of ZrO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Junko MIYASAKA, Seiki OHARA
  • Publication number: 20170121220
    Abstract: An object is to provide a glass for chemical toughening treatment satisfying low brittleness, low melt viscosity and high chemical toughening characteristics, and a chemically toughened glass using the same. Provided is a glass for chemical toughening treatment containing, in mass % in terms of oxides, SiO2 63 to 76, B2O3 0 to 2, Al2O3 2 to 10, MgO 2 to 12, CaO 0.1 to 8, Na2O 14.5 to 19, K2O 0 to 3, and Fe2O3 0 to 0.5, satisfying a total content of alkali earth metal oxides (RO) being from 5 to 15, satisfying 15×MgO/RO—RO?3, and having a temperature T2 at which a glass viscosity reaches 102 dPa·s being 1,600° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junko MIYASAKA, Seiki OHARA
  • Publication number: 20170107142
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing phase-separated glass, sequentially including a melting step of melting a glass, a phase separation step of separating phases in the glass, and a shaping step of shaping the glass, and to the phase-separated glass obtained by the production method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junko MIYASAKA, Seiki Ohara, Takahiro Sakagami
  • Publication number: 20170107141
    Abstract: There are provide a glass for chemical strengthening suitable for a display member, having a low compaction and a high accuracy of film forming and patterning on a glass plate (causing less positional displacement) even in a glass plate manufactured by the fusion method or the like at a high cooling rate in glass forming, in a heat treatment at a low temperature (150° C. to 300° C.) in manufacturing the display member, and a chemically strengthened glass obtained using the glass for chemical strengthening. A glass for chemical strengthening obtained by melting and cooling a glass raw material includes, in mass percentage based on oxides, 61% to 75% of SiO2, 2.5% to 10% of Al2O3, 6% to 12% of MgO, 0.1% to 8% of CaO, 14% to 19% of Na2O, and 0% to 1.8% of K2O.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junko MIYASAKA, Seiki OHARA
  • Patent number: 9580353
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing phase-separated glass, sequentially including a melting step of melting a glass, a phase separation step of separating phases in the glass, and a shaping step of shaping the glass, and to the phase-separated glass obtained by the production method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junko Miyasaka, Seiki Ohara, Takahiro Sakagami
  • Patent number: 9546104
    Abstract: A phase-separated glass for chemical strengthening has a total light reflectance of 10% or more in a wavelength range of 380 nm to 780 nm and a value obtained by dividing a maximum value of the total light reflectance by a minimum value of the total light reflectance of more than 4.2, when measured in a form of a plate having a thickness of 1 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junko Miyasaka, Seiki Ohara
  • Publication number: 20170001903
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a glass for chemical strengthening which is capable of improving strength as compared with an ordinary soda lime silicate glass even when the same chemical strengthening treatment as that in a conventional process is applied and has good devitrification characteristics, a chemically strengthened glass using the glass for chemical strengthening, and a method for producing the chemically strengthened glass. The present invention provides a glass for chemical strengthening having a specific glass composition described in the present specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Junko MIYASAKA, Seiki Ohara, Shuji Yamazaki, Shusaku Akiba, Junichiro Kase
  • Patent number: 9522841
    Abstract: A white glass includes, in terms of mole percentage on the basis of oxides, from 50 to 73% of SiO2, from 0 to 10% of B2O3, from 3 to 17% of Na2O, from 0.5 to 10% of at least one of Nb2O5 and Gd2O3, and from 0.5 to 10% of P2O5. In the white glass, a total content RO of MgO, CaO, SrO and BaO is from 2 to 25%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junko Miyasaka, Seiki Ohara
  • Publication number: 20160355430
    Abstract: A glass is a glass sheet containing, as expressed by mass percentage based on oxides, 63 to 75% of SiO2, 3 to 12% of Al2O3, 3 to 10% of MgO, 0.5 to 10% of CaO, 0 to 3% of SrO, 0 to 3% of BaO, 10 to 18% of Na2O, 0 to 8% of K2O, 0 to 3% of ZrO2, and 0.005 to 0.25% of Fe2O3. The glass has a temperature (T2) at which a viscosity thereof reaches 102 dPa·s of 1525° C. or lower. In the glass, R2O/Al2O3 is 2.0 or more and 4.6 or less (in the formula, the R2O is Na2O+K2O).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shuji YAMAZAKI, Akio Koike, Junichiro Kase, Shusaku Akiba, Junko Miyasaka, Seiki Ohara
  • Patent number: 9487440
    Abstract: A process for producing a chemically strengthened glass is provided. The method for producing a chemically strengthened glass includes subjecting a phase-separated glass to an ion exchange treatment. A chemically strengthened glass which is obtained by the process and a phase-separated glass which has been subjected to the ion exchange treatment are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junko Miyasaka, Takahiro Sakagami, Seiki Ohara, Kosho Akatsuka, Manuel Reyes Diaz, Kazutaka Ono, Hiroyuki Hijiya
  • Publication number: 20160083289
    Abstract: A white glass includes, in terms of mole percentage on the basis of oxides, from 50 to 73% of SiO2, from 0 to 10% of B2O3, from 3 to 17% of Na2O, from 0.5 to 10% of at least one of Nb2O5 and Gd2O3, and from 0.5 to 10% of P2O5. In the white glass, a total content RO of MgO, CaO, SrO and BaO is from 2 to 25%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: JUNKO MIYASAKA, SEIKI OHARA
  • Publication number: 20150329409
    Abstract: A white glass includes, in terms of mole percentage on the basis of oxides, from 50% to 74% of SiO2, from 0 to 8% of B2O3, from 1% to 8% of Al2O3, from 0 to 18% of MgO, from 0 to 7% of CaO, from 0 to 10% of SrO, from 0 to 12% of BaO, from 0 to 5% of ZrO2, from 5% to 15% of Na2O and from 2% to 10% of P2O5. In the white glass, a total content of CaO, SrO and BaO is from 1% to 22%, a total content RO of MgO, CaO, SrO and BaO is from 5% to 25% and a ratio CaO/RO of a content of CaO to the RO is 0.7 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junko MIYASAKA, Seiki OHARA, Kenji KITAOKA
  • Publication number: 20150291469
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing phase-separated glass, sequentially including a melting step of melting a glass, a phase separation step of separating phases in the glass, and a shaping step of shaping the glass, and to the phase-separated glass obtained by the production method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junko MIYASAKA, Seiki Ohara, Takahiro Sakagami
  • Publication number: 20150266771
    Abstract: A phase-separated glass for chemical strengthening has a total light reflectance of 10% or more in a wavelength range of 380 nm to 780 nm and a value obtained by dividing a maximum value of the total light reflectance by a minimum value of the total light reflectance of 4.2 or less, when measured in a form of a plate having a thickness of 1 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junko MIYASAKA, Seiki OHARA