Patents by Inventor Toshifumi NIHEI

Toshifumi NIHEI 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: 20230331651
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a fluorovinyl ether compound, whereby it is possible to suppress the generation of byproducts. The method for producing a fluorovinyl ether compound of the present invention is a method for producing a fluorovinyl ether compound, which comprises heat-treating a compound having a group represented by the formula (1): F—C(?O)—CF(X)—(CF2)n—O— in the presence of an oxide containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of alkali metal elements and alkaline earth metal elements, to obtain a fluorovinyl ether compound having a group represented by the formula (2): CF2?CF—O—, wherein the specific surface area of the oxide before the heat treatment is at least 1.0 m2/g. In the formula (1), n is 0 or 1, wherein when n is 0, X is CF3 and when n is 1, X is F.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Taku YAMADA, Toshifumi NIHEI
  • Publication number: 20190002342
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass having a first principal surface and a second principal surface facing the first principal surface, at least a portion of the first principal surface being chemically strengthened, wherein the depth of a compressive stress layer in at least a portion of the first principal surface continuously changes. This chemically strengthened glass can be suitably used in an application in which chemical strengthening characteristics that differ among different regions in the same plane are desired in a chemically strengthened glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Nakagawa, Shinya Ota, Toshifumi Nihei, Maya Hatano, Hiroki Ishibashi, Shuichi Yamashita, Atsushi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20180009705
    Abstract: A glass sheet is a single glass sheet having a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface. The glass sheet has a curvature part curved in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A radius of curvature in the first direction of the curvature part is 8,500 mm or less. At least a part of the first surface has been chemically strengthened in the curvature part. In the first direction within the chemically strengthened region in the curvature part, an Na amount in the first surface is smaller than the Na amount in the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki ISHIBASHI, Shinya OTA, Koji NAKAGAWA, Atsushi NAKANO, Toshifumi NIHEI, Maya HATANO, Shuichi YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 9663396
    Abstract: A glass sheet has one surface and the other surface facing the one surface in a thickness direction, wherein a fluorine concentration (average fluorine concentration by SIMS at a depth of 1 to 24 ?m) in the one surface is higher than that in the other surface. The following expression is satisfied: 0.07??F/?H2O. ?F (mol %) is a value obtained by subtracting an average fluorine concentration in the surface having the lower fluorine concentration from that in the surface having the higher fluorine concentration, and ?H2O (mol %) is an absolute value of a value obtained by subtracting an average H2O concentration in the surface having the higher fluorine concentration from that in the surface having the lower fluorine concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyasaka, Hideko Nakada, Yasuo Hayashi, Makoto Fukawa, Toshifumi Nihei, Masanobu Shirai, Naoki Okahata, Koji Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Yamanaka, Kunio Watanabe, Shiro Tanii, Nobuaki Ikawa, Daisuke Kobayashi, Junichi Miyashita, Ryosuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20150079347
    Abstract: A glass sheet has one surface and the other surface facing the one surface in a thickness direction, wherein a fluorine concentration (average fluorine concentration by SIMS at a depth of 1 to 24 ?m) in the one surface is higher than that in the other surface. The following expression is satisfied: 0.07??F/?H2O. ?F (mol %) is a value obtained by subtracting an average fluorine concentration in the surface having the lower fluorine concentration from that in the surface having the higher fluorine concentration, and ?H2O (mol %) is an absolute value of a value obtained by subtracting an average H2O concentration in the surface having the higher fluorine concentration from that in the surface having the lower fluorine concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi MIYASAKA, Hideko NAKADA, Yasuo HAYASHI, Makoto FUKAWA, Toshifumi NIHEI, Masanobu SHIRAI, Naoki OKAHATA, Koji NAKAGAWA, Kazuhiko YAMANAKA, Kunio WATANABE, Shiro TANII, Nobuaki IKAWA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Junichi MIYASHITA, Ryosuke KATO
  • Publication number: 20150072129
    Abstract: A glass sheet includes 4 mol % or more of Al2O3. In the glass sheet, a surface Na2O amount in one surface of the glass sheet is lower than the surface Na2O amount in the other surface of the glass sheet by 0.2 mass % to 1.2 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoki OKAHATA, Koji NAKAGAWA, Kazuhiko YAMANAKA, Kunio WATANABE, Shiro TANII, Nobuaki IKAWA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Junichi MIYASHITA, Ryosuke KATO, Toshifumi NIHEI, Yoichi SERA, Yasuo HAYASHI, Makoto FUKAWA