Patents by Inventor Tetsuji IRIE

Tetsuji IRIE 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: 11616155
    Abstract: To provide a cover glass for a solar cell module which can sufficiently maintain the power generation efficiency of a solar cell module, even when a design is imparted to the entire surface of the cover glass so as to make solar cells be invisible from the outside, and a solar cell module. To provide a cover glass 14 to be bonded on light-receiving surfaces 16A and 16B of solar cells 16 via an encapsulant material 18, which has a visible transmittance of from 0% to 60% and an average infrared transmittance of from 20% to 100%, which is a value calculated by simply averaging transmittances at 5 nm intervals in an infrared region at a wavelength of from 780 nm to 1,500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: AGC Inc., AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sakai, Tetsuji Irie, Yu Onozaki, Aichi Inoue, Manabu Nishizawa, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11563403
    Abstract: To provide a coating material capable of forming a solar cell module excellent in the weather resistance, the power generation efficiency and the design, a cover glass, a solar cell module comprising the cover glass, and an outer wall material for building. The cover glass of the present invention is a cover glass comprising a glass plate and a layer containing a fluorinated polymer having units based on a fluoroolefin, on at least one surface of the glass plate, which has an average visible reflectance of from 10 to 100%, and an average near infrared transmittance of from 20 to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: AGC Inc., AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Yu Onozaki, Tomohiro Sakai, Shun Saito, Noriyoshi Kayaba, Aichi Inoue, Tetsuji Irie
  • Publication number: 20220397922
    Abstract: A heating control system for controlling a heating element provided on glass including a sensor information acquisition unit configured to acquire sensor information from one or more sensors, and a control processing unit configured to control a first heating element provided in a first region of the glass and a second heating element provided in a second region of the glass based on the sensor information. The control processing unit comprises a temperature difference reduction processing unit configured to execute temperature difference reduction processing for controlling at least one of the first heating element and the second heating element so that a temperature difference between a glass temperature of a third region positioned between a first region and a second region of the glass and a glass temperature of the first region or a glass temperature of the second region does not exceed an upper limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuji IRIE, Shunsuke SADAKANE, Takayuki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210402854
    Abstract: A window glass system includes a window glass to be attached to a moveable body, an anti-fog film to be provided on a cabin-side surface of the window glass, a temperature sensor configured to detect a glass temperature of the vehicle cabin-side surface of the window glass, a temperature-and-humidity sensor configured to detect a temperature and a humidity of a cabin of the moveable body, drying means configured to vaporize water attached to the anti-fog film, and a processing circuitry configured to estimate a time duration Ts, based on the glass temperature detected by the temperature sensor and the temperature and the humidity of the cabin detected by the temperature-and-humidity sensor, the time duration Ts being a duration of time until fogging occurs on the anti-fog film, and activate the drying means based on the time duration Ts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi NODA, Tetsuji IRIE, Takayuki KIMURA, Shinya TANAKA, Sangmun LEE
  • Patent number: 11117450
    Abstract: A vehicle windshield includes a window plate and an anti-fogging film provided on an interior side surface of the window plate, with a first region and a second region within a see-through region. The anti-fogging film is not on the first region but on the second region. The first region includes a belt-like region in an upper portion of the see-through region. The second region is a region that includes at least a test area B and that includes a continuous projection portion provided on an upper side. The anti-fogging film in the second region has a minimum film thickness of no less than 5 ?m. At least a boundary between the first region and the second region excluding the projection portion has no perspective distortion and is formed by a boundary line having a linewidth of 10-200 ?m that is visually recognized by scattering of incoming light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Irie, Nana Sato, Kazuhiko Kawasaki, Hideyuki Saito, Naoki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11065943
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicle windshield equipped with a transparent film at a visual field area, where a negative effect on a driving visibility due to a boundary line between a forming area and a non-forming area of the transparent film is improved, and a vehicle component having the vehicle windshield. The vehicle windshield includes: a window plate; and a transparent film provided at a surface on a vehicle-interior side of the window plate, wherein the vehicle windshield includes a first area where the transparent film is not provided and a second area where the transparent film is provided, at a central area when viewed from a front side, and a boundary between the first area and the second area has no perspective distortion and is constituted by a boundary line having line width visually recognized by scattering of irradiated light of 10 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Irie, Nana Sato, Jun Okawa, Hideyuki Saito, Akio Nagata
  • Publication number: 20200295705
    Abstract: To provide a coating material capable of forming a solar cell module excellent in the weather resistance, the power generation efficiency and the design, a cover glass, a solar cell module comprising the cover glass, and an outer wall material for building. The cover glass of the present invention is a cover glass comprising a glass plate and a layer containing a fluorinated polymer having units based on a fluoroolefin, on at least one surface of the glass plate, which has an average visible reflectance of from 10 to 100%, and an average near infrared transmittance of from 20 to 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: AGC Inc., AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Yu ONOZAKI, Tomohiro Sakai, Shun Saito, Noriyoshi Kayaba, Aichi Inoue, Tetsuji Irie
  • Patent number: 10639970
    Abstract: A front quarter glass includes a window plate, a frame-like black ceramic layer on a peripheral portion of an interior side surface, and an anti-fogging film provided in a region excluding an entire peripheral portion of the window plate. A boundary is between the regions where the anti-fogging film is provided and not provided, has no perspective distortion, and has a boundary line of 10-200 ?m that is visually recognized by scattering of incoming light. An outer periphery of the anti-fogging film is located is located 8 mm (0.31 inch) inside from an inner periphery of the black ceramic layer in a first region. The first region is to less than 50% of an entire inner periphery including a lower front portion. The outer periphery of the anti-fogging film is located 8-35 mm (0.31-1.38 inches) inside the inner periphery of the black ceramic layer in a second region excluding the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Irie, Nana Sato
  • Publication number: 20200075787
    Abstract: To provide a cover glass for a solar cell module which can sufficiently maintain the power generation efficiency of a solar cell module, even when a design is imparted to the entire surface of the cover glass so as to make solar cells be invisible from the outside, and a solar cell module. To provide a cover glass 14 to be bonded on light-receiving surfaces 16A and 16B of solar cells 16 via an encapsulant material 18, which has a visible transmittance of from 0% to 60% and an average infrared transmittance of from 20% to 100%, which is a value calculated by simply averaging transmittances at 5 nm intervals in an infrared region at a wavelength of from 780 nm to 1,500 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicants: AGC Inc, AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Tomohiro SAKAI, Tetsuji IRIE, Yu ONOZAKI, Aichi INOUE, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200062086
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicle windshield equipped with a transparent film at a visual field area, where a negative effect on a driving visibility due to a boundary line between a forming area and a non-forming area of the transparent film is improved, and a vehicle component having the vehicle windshield. The vehicle windshield includes: a window plate; and a transparent film provided at a surface on a vehicle-interior side of the window plate, wherein the vehicle windshield includes a first area where the transparent film is not provided and a second area where the transparent film is provided, at a central area when viewed from a front side, and a boundary between the first area and the second area has no perspective distortion and is constituted by a boundary line having line width visually recognized by scattering of irradiated light of 10 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuji IRIE, Nana SATO, Jun OKAWA, Hideyuki SAITO, Akio NAGATA
  • Patent number: 10507709
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicle windshield equipped with a transparent film at a visual field area, where a negative effect on a driving visibility due to a boundary line between a forming area and a non-forming area of the transparent film is improved, and a vehicle component having the vehicle windshield. The vehicle windshield includes: a window plate; and a transparent film provided at a surface on a vehicle-interior side of the window plate, wherein the vehicle windshield includes a first area where the transparent film is not provided and a second area where the transparent film is provided, at a central area when viewed from a front side, and a boundary between the first area and the second area has no perspective distortion and is constituted by a boundary line having line width visually recognized by scattering of irradiated light of 10 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Irie, Nana Sato, Jun Okawa, Hideyuki Saito, Akio Nagata
  • Publication number: 20190375276
    Abstract: A front quarter glass includes a window plate, a frame-like black ceramic layer on a peripheral portion of an interior side surface, and an anti-fogging film provided in a region excluding an entire peripheral portion of the window plate. A boundary is between the regions where the anti-fogging film is provided and not provided, has no perspective distortion, and has a boundary line of 10-200 ?m that is visually recognized by scattering of incoming light. An outer periphery of the anti-fogging film is located is located 8 mm inside from an inner periphery of the black ceramic layer in a first region. The first region is to less than 50% of an entire inner periphery including a lower front portion. The outer periphery of the anti-fogging film is located 8-35 mm inside the inner periphery of the black ceramic layer in a second region excluding the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuji IRIE, Nana SATO
  • Publication number: 20190375275
    Abstract: A vehicle windshield includes a window plate and an anti-fogging film provided on an interior side surface of the window plate, with a first region and a second region within a see-through region. The anti-fogging film is not on the first region but on the second region. The first region includes a belt-like region in an upper portion of the see-through region. The second region is a region that includes at least a test area B and that includes a continuous projection portion provided on an upper side. The anti-fogging film in the second region has a minimum film thickness of no less than 5 ?m. At least a boundary between the first region and the second region excluding the projection portion has no perspective distortion and is formed by a boundary line having a linewidth of 10-200 ?m that is visually recognized by scattering of incoming light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuji IRIE, Nana SATO, Kazuhiko KAWASAKI, Hideyuki SAITO, Naoki OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180215240
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicle windshield equipped with a transparent film at a visual field area, where a negative effect on a driving visibility due to a boundary line between a forming area and a non-forming area of the transparent film is improved, and a vehicle component having the vehicle windshield. The vehicle windshield includes: a window plate; and a transparent film provided at a surface on a vehicle-interior side of the window plate, wherein the vehicle windshield includes a first area where the transparent film is not provided and a second area where the transparent film is provided, at a central area when viewed from a front side, and a boundary between the first area and the second area has no perspective distortion and is constituted by a boundary line having line width visually recognized by scattering of irradiated light of 10 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuji IRIE, Nana SATO, Jun OKAWA, Hideyuki SAITO, Akio NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20160332423
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a laminated glass, the method including: a step (1) of laminating a first glass plate, an intermediate film and a second glass plate in this order to form a laminate, and heating and pressurizing the laminate to obtain a laminated glass; a step (2) of performing post-processing with heating to the laminated glass obtained in the step (1); and a step (3) of cooling the laminated glass while holding at least a part of a peripheral portion of the laminated glass, after the step (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Daisuke YAMADA, Naoki OGAWA, Tetsuji IRIE