Patents by Inventor Shunsuke SADAKANE

Shunsuke SADAKANE 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: 20190299752
    Abstract: A laminated glass has a vehicle exterior side glass plate; a vehicle interior side glass plate; and an intermediate film disposed between the vehicle exterior side glass plate and the vehicle interior side glass plate. The laminated glass includes a display area for reflecting a projected image projected from vehicle interior, to display information. In at least a part of the display area, a film is arranged between the vehicle exterior side glass plate and the vehicle interior side glass plate. The film is a main reflection surface for the projected image. The display area is offset from the edge of the film by 5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Shunsuke SADAKANE, Yoshinori IGUCHI, Naruki YAMADA, Tokihiko AOKI
  • Patent number: 10401622
    Abstract: A vehicle window plate has a maximum value of a variation of a curvature in a vertical direction being ±7.6E-6 mm?2 or less at least within a HUD display area. The curvature preferably increases monotonically from a lower side to an upper side at least within the HUD display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nomura, Shunsuke Sadakane
  • Publication number: 20190243137
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes a first glass sheet; a second glass sheet; and an interlayer positioned between the first and second glass sheets, to bond these glass sheets together; a first area, a transition area, and a second area are provided from a lower side of the laminated glass when attached to a vehicle; the first area is used for a head-up display, whereas the transition area and the second area are not; the first area is thicker at an upper end side than at lower end side, to have a wedge shape in cross section forming a positive wedge angle; the second area is thinner at an upper end side than at lower end side, to have a wedge shape in cross section forming a negative wedge angle; and the transition area is an area where the positive wedge angle transitions to the negative wedge angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Shunsuke SADAKANE, Tokihiko AOKI
  • Patent number: 10353200
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes first and second glass plates to be arranged on a vehicle inner side and outer side, respectively; and an intermediate film positioned between the first and second glass plates and bonded to the glass plates. The laminated glass includes a first region, a transition region, and a second region, from a lower side of the laminated glass. Each of the first and second regions includes a region having a wedge-shaped cross section, in which an upper edge side thickness is greater than a lower edge side thickness, or having a thickness that is constant. The transition region connects the first and second regions, and includes a region having a wedge-shaped cross section, in which an upper edge side thickness is greater than a lower edge side thickness. At least one of the first and second regions includes a region used for a head up display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tokihiko Aoki, Shunsuke Sadakane, Ayaka Ikegami
  • Patent number: 10328656
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminated plate (laminated glass plate 102 for a vehicle) including a first plate (first glass plate 201) being curved in a first curved shape, a second plate (second glass plate 202) having a second shape that is different from the first curved shape, and an intermediate film 301 bonding the first plate and the second plate, in which the laminated plate has, in a planar view thereof, a peripheral region 313 and an in-plane region 314, and the peripheral region 313 has a flat region 313a and an undulating region 313b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Keiji Notsu, Shunsuke Sadakane, Atsushi Nakano
  • Patent number: 10279666
    Abstract: An automobile beltline portion sound insulating structure formed along a beltline of an automobile, a door panel having two panel boards facing each other, a door glass being freely openable and closable by being provided between the two panel boards in a liftable manner and a first viscoelastic member mounted on a lower portion of at least one main surface of the door glass, the first viscoelastic member constrained by a mounting region of the first viscoelastic member in the door glass and a part of a surface of the panel board facing to the one main surface, at a door glass closed time, to insulate sound between the door panel and the door glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamada, Shunsuke Sadakane
  • Publication number: 20190126593
    Abstract: Laminated glass includes a first glass sheet; a second glass sheet; and an interlayer positioned between the first and second glass sheets, to bond the first and second glass sheets together. The laminated glass has a first area used by a head-up display, and a second area adjacent to the first area and not used by the head-up display. One or both of the first and second glass sheets are wedge-shaped. At one or more points in at least a part of an area of the second area, a wedge angle ?g being a sum of respective wedge angles of the first and second glass sheets satisfies Formula (1): ? g = t R ? sin ? ? ? ? ? cos ? ? ? n 2 - sin 2 ? ? ? - ? ? cos ? ? ? 2 ? n 2 - sin 2 ? ? - ? c - ? i ( 1 ) where t, R, n, ?, ?, ?c, and ?i are as specified in claim 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Shunsuke SADAKANE
  • Publication number: 20190105879
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes a pair of glass plates; and an interlayer located between the glass plates. At least one of the glass plates has a cross section with a wedged shape, and an entire amount of iron in terms of Fe2O3 in the glass plate having the cross section with the wedged shape is 0.75 mass % or less. The interlayer includes a heat shielding agent, and has a cross section with a wedge angle of 0.2 mrad or less. A total solar transmittance, defined by ISO 13837A, of the laminated glass is 60% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tokihiko AOKI, Shunsuke Sadakane, Yuji Masaki, Ayaka Ikegami
  • Publication number: 20190030865
    Abstract: There is provided a laminated glass for vehicle with an information acquisition device, suppressing distortion in a boundary between a light shielding region provided around a transmission region of signals and the transmission region, and being excellent in productivity. A laminated glass for vehicle, which has: a pair of glass plates; and an intermediate adhesive film between the pair of glass plates, wherein the intermediate adhesive film has one continuous transmission region which includes an optical opening for transceiving an optical signal of an information acquisition device disposed inside a vehicle and transceiving the optical signal with outside the vehicle, and a light shielding region provided around a whole periphery of the optical opening except a part thereof, and a light shielding region of the laminated glass for vehicle corresponding to the light shielding region of the intermediate adhesive film has a visible light transmittance of 3% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tokihiko AOKI, Shunsuke SADAKANE, Toshimi YAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190033587
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes a first glass plate; a second glass plate; and an intermediate film positioned between the first and second glass plates, and configured to be bonded to the first and second glass plates. The laminated glass includes a plurality of display areas used for it head-up display. The plurality of display areas include first and second display areas, on which virtual images having different image distances are displayed. At least one of the first and second display areas has a cross section having a wedge shape, in which a thickness of an upper edge is greater than that of a lower edge. Average wedge angles of the first and second display areas are different from each other. The first and second display areas are arranged with a predetermined distance therebetween in a vertical direction along the laminated glass, when the laminated glass is installed in a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Shunsuke SADAKANE, Tokihiko Aoki, Ayaka Ikegami
  • Publication number: 20190033588
    Abstract: An inspection device for inspecting a virtual image for a head-up display device, includes a windshield; a display unit for generating an image and projecting the image onto the windshield without using a concave mirror; an imaging unit for capturing a virtual image of the image; a storage unit for storing data of a shape of the windshield and a relative position between the windshield, the display unit, and the imaging unit; an imaging unit position control unit for moving the imaging unit to a predetermined position; a display control unit for calculating an image distortion correction due to the concave mirror, based on the data corresponding to a position of the imaging unit after moving, and for controlling the display unit to generate the image taking into account the image distortion correction; and an image inspection unit for inspecting a distortion of the virtual image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Shunsuke SADAKANE
  • Publication number: 20180348516
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes first and second glass plates to be arranged on the inside and the outside of a vehicle, respectively; an interlayer located between the first and second glass plates and bonded to the first and second glass plates; and a display area used for a head up display, including a region having a wedge shape in a cross section, a thickness at an upper end of the region in a vertical direction being greater than a thickness at a lower end of the region. A difference, ?t [mm], between a thickness of the laminated glass at a thickest portion in the display area and a thickness at a thinnest portion, and a difference, ?Tv [%], between a visible light transmittance of the laminated glass at the thickest portion in the display area and a visible light transmittance at the thinnest portion, satisfy a relation of ?Tv?2.2?t.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shunsuke SADAKANE, Shunpei OOSUMI
  • Publication number: 20180312044
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes a first glass plate; a second glass plate; an intermediate film located between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, and configured to be bonded to the first glass plate and the second glass plate; and at least one high reflection surface between a surface of the first glass plate on an outer side of the laminated glass and a surface of the second glass plate on an outer side of the laminated glass. The surfaces of the first glass plate and the second glass plate are high reflection surfaces. Each of the high reflection surfaces has optical reflectance of 1% or more with respect to an incident angle of a visible light from a light source. A portion arranged between adjacent high reflection surfaces of the high reflection surfaces has a wedge angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shunsuke SADAKANE
  • Publication number: 20180267308
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes a first glass plate; a second glass plate; and an intermediate film positioned between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, and configured to be bonded to the first glass plate and the second glass plate. The laminated glass further includes an HUD (head-up display) display area used for a head-up display. In a predetermined area of at least a part of the HUD display area, a wedge angle decreases, in accordance with a direction front a lover edge of the predetermined area to an upper edge of the predetermined area, within a range of greater than or equal to 0.06 mrad and less than or equal to 1.0 mrad per 100 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shunsuke SADAKANE
  • Publication number: 20180017789
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes first and second glass plates to be arranged on a vehicle inner side and outer side, respectively; and an intermediate film positioned between the first and second glass plates and bonded to the glass plates. The laminated glass includes a first region, a transition region, and a second region, from a lower side of the laminated glass. Each of the first and second regions includes a region having a wedge-shaped cross section, in which an upper edge side thickness is greater than a lower edge side thickness, or having a thickness that is constant. The transition region connects the first and second regions, and includes a region having a wedge-shaped cross section, in which an upper edge side thickness is greater than a lower edge side thickness. At least one of the first and second regions includes a region used for a head up display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tokihiko AOKI, Shunsuke SADAKANE, Ayaka IKEGAMI
  • Publication number: 20170315350
    Abstract: A vehicle window plate has a maximum value of a variation of a curvature in a vertical direction being ±7.6E-6 mm?2 or less at least within a HUD display area. The curvature preferably increases monotonically from a lower side to an upper side at least within the HUD display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Daisuke NOMURA, Shunsuke SADAKANE
  • Publication number: 20170072663
    Abstract: Glass having an inner surface and an outer surface, includes a first area used by a head-up display, and a second area adjacent to the first area, and not used by the head-up display. Representing an area closest to a boundary between the first area and the second area in the first area, by an edge on the boundary side in the first area, and representing an area closest to the boundary in the second area, by an edge on the boundary side in the second area, a requirement is that a wedge angle ? formed by the inner surface and the outer surface satisfies a predetermined formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shunsuke SADAKANE, Kazuyoshi Noda
  • Publication number: 20170066223
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminated glass including a first glass plate, a second glass plate and an intermediate layer provided between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, in which the first glass plate has a first face and a second face opposing the first face, the second glass plate has a third face and a fourth face opposing the third face, the intermediate layer is provided between the second face and the third face, the second glass plate is a chemically-strengthened glass, and in the second glass plate, when a compressive stress on the third face is denoted as CS(3), a tensile stress generated in an interior of the second glass plate is denoted as CT, a thickness of the second glass plate is denoted as t, a depth of the compressive stress on a side of the third face is denoted as DOL(3) and a depth of a compressive stress on a side of the fourth face is denoted as DOL(4), CS(3)/[CT2×{t?(DOL(3)+DOL(4))}] is greater than 1.1 MPa?1×mm?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Keiji NOTSU, Jiro NISHIHAMA, Shunsuke SADAKANE, Makoto NARITA, Koji NAKAGAWA, Yusuke SAKAI, Maya HATANO
  • Publication number: 20170057205
    Abstract: A laminated plate includes a first plate; a second plate; and an intermediate film for bonding the first plate and the second plate, wherein the first plate includes a first main surface arranged at a side opposite to the intermediate film, and a second main surface that contacts the intermediate film, wherein the second plate has a third main surface that contacts the intermediate film, and a fourth main surface arranged at a side opposite to the intermediate film, wherein, upon the bonding by the intermediate film being released, a radius of curvature of the second main surface is smaller than that of the third main surface both in a transverse section and in a longitudinal section, and wherein a maximum value of bending compressive stress at an outer peripheral portion of the fourth main surface is less than or equal to 100 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Keiji NOTSU, Shunsuke SADAKANE, Makoto NARITA, Jirou NISHIHAMA
  • Publication number: 20170036414
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminated plate (laminated glass plate 102 for a vehicle) including a first plate (first glass plate 201) being curved in a first curved shape, a second plate (second glass plate 202) having a second shape that is different from the first curved shape, and an intermediate film 301 bonding the first plate and the second plate, in which the laminated plate has, in a planar view thereof, a peripheral region 313 and an in-plane region 314, and the peripheral region 313 has a flat region 313a and an undulating region 313b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Keiji NOTSU, Shunsuke SADAKANE, Atsushi NAKANO