Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Nakashima

Tetsuya Nakashima 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: 10865134
    Abstract: A wavelength-selective transmissive glass has a light transmittance Tmore than 315 nm and 400 nm or less at a wavelength of more than 315 nm and 400 nm or less represented by the formula shown below of 1% or more in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm and a light transmittance T315 nm or less at a wavelength of 315 nm or less represented by the formula shown below of 60% or less in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm. Ak is a weighting factor at a wavelength k (nm) for calculating T (light transmittance) defined in ISO-9050:2003, and Tk is a transmittance at the wavelength k (nm) in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm: Tmore than 315 nm and 400 nm or less=(?k=more than 315400Ak×Tk)/(?k=more than 315400Ak) T315 nm or less=(?k=300315Ak×Tk)/(?k=300315Ak).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: AGC Inc., TSUBOTA LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke Nagai, Tetsuya Nakashima, Yutaka Kuroiwa, Hiroyuki Hijiya, Masamichi Tanida, Akio Koike, Manabu Nishizawa, Kazuo Tsubota, Toshihide Kurihara, Hidemasa Torii
  • Patent number: 10788172
    Abstract: A glass plate, with a thickness ? of 1.0 mm or more, having first and second main surfaces and end surfaces, includes 1 to 80 weight ppm of iron in terms of Fe2O3 with 0.1 to 10.0 weight ppm of Fe2+; and 0.1 to 10.0 weight ppm of Ni, Mn, Cr, Co and V in total. In a sample with a size of 50 mm×50 mm×? obtained from the glass plate, and an arithmetic average roughness of the main surfaces and first and second cut surfaces being 0.1 ?m or less, a first average absorbance coefficient for a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm measured on the first main surface in a normal direction is 0.009 or less, and a ratio of a second average absorbance coefficient measured on the first cut surface, to the first absorbance coefficient is 1.3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Arai, Naoya Wada, Hiroyuki Hijiya, Tetsuya Nakashima
  • Patent number: 10766806
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a glass for a data storage medium substrate which contains a specific amount of each of SiO2, Al2O3, MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO, Li2O, Na2O, and K2O, in molar percentage based on the oxides, and does not substantially contain B2O3 or ZrO2, wherein the sum of the Li2O, Na2O, and K2O contents (R2O), the molar ratio of the SiO2 content to the Al2O3 content (SiO2/Al2O3), and the molar ratio of the sum of the SiO2 and Al2O3 contents (SiO2+Al2O3) to R2O[(SiO2+Al2O3)/R2O] fall within their specific ranges, formula (1): 90<[SiO2]+2×[Al2O3]+0.8×[RO]?0.5×[R2O] [in formula (1), RO represents the sum of the MgO, CaO, SrO, and BaO contents] is satisfied, and the glass transition point Tg, the alkali resistance, and the acid resistance fall within their specific ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Eriko Maeda, Hiroyuki Hijiya, Kensuke Nagai, Tetsuya Nakashima, Yutaka Kuroiwa
  • Patent number: 10370286
    Abstract: To provide glass to be used for chemically tempered glass, of which the strength is less likely to be reduced even when indentations are formed thereon. Glass for chemical tempering, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on oxides, from 62 to 68% of SiO2, from 6 to 12% of Al2O3, from 7 to 13% of MgO, from 9 to 17% of Na2O, and from 0 to 7% of K2O, wherein the difference obtained by subtracting the content of Al2O3 from the total content of Na2O and K2O is less than 10%, and when ZrO2 is contained, its content is at most 0.8%. Chemically tempered glass obtained by chemically tempering such glass for chemical tempering. Such chemically tempered glass has a compressive stress layer formed on the glass surface, which has a thickness of at least 30 ?m and a surface compressive stress of at least 550 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Shusaku Akiba, Kazutaka Ono, Tetsuya Nakashima
  • Patent number: 10189739
    Abstract: To provide chemically tempered glass which is less likely to break even if scratched. Chemically tempered glass, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 56 to 72% of SiO2, from 8 to 20% of Al2O3, from 9 to 25% of Na2O, from 0 to 2% of K2O, and from 0 to 15% of MgO, and which has a surface compressive stress of at least 900 MPa and an internal tensile stress of at most 30 MPa. Glass for chemical tempering, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 56 to 69% of SiO2, from 8 to 16% of Al2O3, from 9 to 22% of Na2O, from 0 to 1% of K2O, from 5.5 to 14% of MgO, from 0 to 2% of ZrO2, and from 0 to 6% of B2O3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Shigeki Sawamura, Suguru Murayama, Hiroyuki Ohkawa, Yusuke Kobayashi, Kazutaka Ono, Tetsuya Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20180297888
    Abstract: A wavelength-selective transmissive glass has a light transmittance Tmore than 315 nm and 400 nm or less at a wavelength of more than 315 nm and 400 nm or less represented by the formula shown below of 1% or more in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm and a light transmittance T315 nm or less at a wavelength of 315 nm or less represented by the formula shown below of 60% or less in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm. Ak is a weighting factor at a wavelength k (nm) for calculating T (light transmittance) defined in ISO-9050:2003, and Tk is a transmittance at the wavelength k (nm) in terms of a plate thickness of 6 mm: Tmore than 315 nm and 400 nm or less=(?k=more than 315400 Ak×Tk)/(?k=more than 315400 Ak) T315 nm or less=(?k=300315 Ak×Tk)/(?k=300315 Ak).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicants: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED, TSUBOTA LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke NAGAI, Tetsuya NAKASHIMA, Yutaka KUROIWA, Hiroyuki HIJIYA, Masamichi TANIDA, AKIO KOIKE, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Kazuo TSUBOTA, Toshihide KURIHARA, Hidemasa TORII
  • Patent number: 10082616
    Abstract: To provide a glass plate excellent in the internal transmittance of light rays in the visible region. A glass plate consisting of multicomponent oxide glass, which has an effective optical path length of from 25 to 200 cm, a thickness of from 0.5 to 10 mm, and an average internal transmittance in the visible region of at least 80% and a chromaticity Y of tristimulus values in the XYZ colorimetric system as defined in JIS Z8701 (Appendix) of at least 90%, under the effective optical path length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hijiya, Yusuke Arai, Yutaka Kuroiwa, Tetsuya Nakashima, Yuki Kondo
  • Publication number: 20180222789
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a glass for a data storage medium substrate which contains a specific amount of each of SiO2, Al2O3, MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO, Li2O, Na2O, and K2O, in molar percentage based on the oxides, and does not substantially contain B2O3 or ZrO2, wherein the sum of the Li2O, Na2O, and K2O contents (R2O), the molar ratio of the SiO2 content to the Al2O3 content (SiO2/Al2O3), and the molar ratio of the sum of the SiO2 and Al2O3 contents (SiO2+Al2O3) to R2O [(SiO2+Al2O3)/R2O] fall within their specific ranges, formula (1): 90<[SiO2]+2×[Al2O3]+0.8×[RO]?0.5×[R2O] [in formula (1), RO represents the sum of the MgO, CaO, SrO, and BaO contents] is satisfied, and the glass transition point Tg, the alkali resistance, and the acid resistance fall within their specific ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Eriko MAEDA, Hiroyuki HIJIYA, Kensuke NAGAI, Tetsuya NAKASHIMA, Yutaka KUROIWA
  • Publication number: 20180079680
    Abstract: To provide chemically tempered glass which is less likely to break even if scratched. Chemically tempered glass, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 56 to 72% of SiO2, from 8 to 20% of Al2O3, from 9 to 25% of Na2O, from 0 to 2% of K2O, and from 0 to 15% of MgO, and which has a surface compressive stress of at least 900 MPa and an internal tensile stress of at most 30 MPa. Glass for chemical tempering, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 56 to 69% of SiO2, from 8 to 16% of Al2O3, from 9 to 22% of Na2O, from 0 to 1% of K2O, from 5.5 to 14% of MgO, from 0 to 2% of ZrO2, and from 0 to 6% of B2O3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shusaku AKIBA, Shigeki SAWAMURA, Suguru MURAYAMA, Hiroyuki OHKAWA, Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Kazutaka ONO, Tetsuya NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20180066814
    Abstract: A glass plate, with a thickness ? of 1.0 mm or more, having first and second main surfaces and end surfaces, includes 1 to 80 weight ppm of iron in terms of Fe2O3 with 0.1 to 10.0 weight ppm of Fe2+; and 0.1 to 10.0 weight ppm of Ni, Mn, Cr, Co and V in total. In a sample with a size of 50 mm×50 mm×8 obtained from the glass plate, and an arithmetic average roughness of the main surfaces and first and second cut surfaces being 0.1 ?m or less, a first average absorbance coefficient for a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm measured on the first main surface in a normal direction is 0.009 or less, and a ratio of a second average absorbance coefficient measured on the first cut surface, to the first absorbance coefficient is 1.3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yusuke ARAI, Naoya Wada, Hiroyuki Hijiya, Tetsuya Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9896374
    Abstract: To provide chemically tempered glass which is less likely to break even if scratched. Chemically tempered glass, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 56 to 72% of SiO2, from 8 to 20% of Al2O3, from 9 to 25% of Na2O, from 0 to 2% of K2O, and from 0 to 15% of MgO, and which has a surface compressive stress of at least 900 MPa and an internal tensile stress of at most 30 MPa. Glass for chemical tempering, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 56 to 69% of SiO2, from 8 to 16% of Al2O3, from 9 to 22% of Na2O, from 0 to 1% of K2O, from 5.5 to 14% of MgO, from 0 to 2% of ZrO2, and from 0 to 6% of B2O3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Shigeki Sawamura, Suguru Murayama, Hiroyuki Ohkawa, Yusuke Kobayashi, Kazutaka Ono, Tetsuya Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20180044232
    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: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Seiki OHARA, Kazutaka ONO, Tetsuya NAKASHIMA, Hiroyuki OHKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180037498
    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: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Seiki Ohara, Kazutaka Ono, Tetsuya Nakashima, Hiroyuki Ohkawa
  • 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: 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
  • Patent number: 9714193
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a float glass for chemical strengthening, containing a bottom surface coming into contact with a molten metal at the time of forming and a top surface opposing the bottom surface, in which a difference ?(N—Na2O2) determined by subtracting a square of a normalized Na2O surface concentration of the bottom surface which is a value obtained by dividing an Na2O concentration in the bottom surface by an Na2O concentration at a depth position of 100 ?m therefrom, from a square of a normalized Na2O surface concentration of the top surface which is a value obtained by dividing an Na2O concentration in the top surface by an Na2O concentration at a depth position of 100 ?m therefrom, is 0.040 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuichi Suzuki, Tetsuya Nakashima, Jun Sasai
  • Publication number: 20170183254
    Abstract: To provide chemically tempered glass which is less likely to break even if scratched. Chemically tempered glass, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 56 to 72% of SiO2, from 8 to 20% of Al2O3, from 9 to 25% of Na2O, from 0 to 2% of K2O, and from 0 to 15% of MgO, and which has a surface compressive stress of at least 900 MPa and an internal tensile stress of at most 30 MPa. Glass for chemical tempering, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 56 to 69% of SiO2, from 8 to 16% of Al2O3, from 9 to 22% of Na2O, from 0 to 1% of K2O, from 5.5 to 14% of MgO, from 0 to 2% of ZrO2, and from 0 to 6% of B2O3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Shigeki Sawamura, Suguru Murayama, Hiroyuki Ohkawa, Yusuke Kobayashi, Kazutaka Ono, Tetsuya Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9656906
    Abstract: To provide chemically tempered glass which is less likely to break even if scratched. Chemically tempered glass, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 56 to 72% of SiO2, from 8 to 20% of Al2O3, from 9 to 25% of Na2O, from 0 to 2% of K2O, and from 0 to 15% of MgO, and which has a surface compressive stress of at least 900 MPa and an internal tensile stress of at most 30 MPa. Glass for chemical tempering, which comprises, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 56 to 69% of SiO2, from 8 to 16% of Al2O3, from 9 to 22% of Na2O, from 0 to 1% of K2O, from 5.5 to 14% of MgO, from 0 to 2% of ZrO2, and from 0 to 6% of B2O3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Shigeki Sawamura, Suguru Murayama, Hiroyuki Ohkawa, Yusuke Kobayashi, Kazutaka Ono, Tetsuya Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9552292
    Abstract: A storage management apparatus configured to allocate physical addresses in a physical storage area, to virtual addresses in a virtual storage area for storing data is provided. The storage management apparatus includes a processor that executes a process to define, in the physical area, a continuous area having a plurality of continuous physical addresses, and define, based on a virtual address to which a physical address in the continuous area has initially been allocated, an allocation range of virtual addresses for allocating the defined continuous area; and allocate a physical address in the defined continuous area to a virtual address in the defined relation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Fumihiro Ooba, Shuko Yasumoto, Hisashi Osanai, Shunsuke Motoi, Daisuke Fujita, Tetsuya Nakashima, Eiji Hamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160238778
    Abstract: To provide a glass plate excellent in the internal transmittance of light rays in the visible region. A glass plate consisting of multicomponent oxide glass, which has an effective optical path length of from 25 to 200 cm, a thickness of from 0.5 to 10 mm, and an average internal transmittance in the visible region of at least 80% and a chromaticity Y of tristimulus values in the XYZ colorimetric system as defined in JIS Z8701 (Appendix) of at least 90%, under the effective optical path length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HIJIYA, Yusuke Arai, Yutaka Kuroiwa, Tetsuya Nakashima, Yuki Kondo