Patents by Inventor Yasumasa Kato

Yasumasa Kato 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: 11701336
    Abstract: The treatment of diabetes mellitus with excellent hypoglycemic effect that suppresses lactic acidosis without substantially increasing the blood lactate concentration. A composition for treating diabetes mellitus with hypoglycemic effect that suppresses lactic acidosis without substantially increasing the blood lactate concentration, and the composition has branched-chain amino acids and salts of biguanide derivatives and derivatives of biguanide derivatives or branched-chain amino acids as the active components. The composition will be more effective when leucine, isoleucine, or valine is included as branched-chain amino acids, and metformin as the biguanide derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Yasumasa Kato
  • Publication number: 20230142463
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel having a predetermined size, containing a wiring film formed of a metal, an insulating film containing an inorganic substance and a substrate formed of a non-alkali glass, in which the metal has the product of a Young's modulus (E) and a thermal expansion coefficient (?) at room temperature falling within a predetermined range, ? of the inorganic substance is smaller than that of the non-alkali glass, the non-alkali glass has E of from 70 GPa to 95 GPa and ? of from 32×10?7 to 45×10?7 (1/° C.) in which E and ? satisfies a predetermined formula, and has a predetermined composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutaka ONO, Yasumasa KATO, Masaya KUNIGITA
  • Publication number: 20230140716
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel having a predetermined size, containing a wiring film formed of a metal, an insulating film containing an inorganic substance and a substrate formed of a non-alkali glass, in which the metal has the product of a Young's modulus (E) and a thermal expansion coefficient (?) at room temperature falling within a predetermined range, ? of the inorganic substance is smaller than that of the non-alkali glass, the non-alkali glass has E of from 70 GPa to 95 GPa and a of from 32×10?7 to 45×10?7 (1/° C.) in which E and ? satisfies a predetermined formula, and has a predetermined composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutaka ONO, Yasumasa KATO, Masaya KUNIGITA
  • Patent number: 11586084
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel having a predetermined size, containing a wiring film formed of a metal, an insulating film containing an inorganic substance and a substrate formed of a non-alkali glass, in which the metal has the product of a Young's modulus (E) and a thermal expansion coefficient (?) at room temperature falling within a predetermined range, ? of the inorganic substance is smaller than that of the non-alkali glass, the non-alkali glass has E of from 70 GPa to 95 GPa and ? of from 32×10?7 to 45×10?7 (1/° C.) in which E and ? satisfies a predetermined formula, and has a predetermined composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Ono, Yasumasa Kato, Masaya Kunigita
  • Patent number: 11332403
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle-mounted display device disposed in an interior member of a vehicle. The vehicle-mounted display device of the invention includes: a display panel; a cover glass covering the display panel; a housing accommodating the display panel; and a holding portion holding a position of the housing, in which the cover glass is a tempered glass having a thickness being 0.5 to 2.5 mm, a thickness of a compressive stress layer being 10 ?m or more, and a surface compressive stress of the compressive stress layer being 650 MPa or higher, and when the thickness (unit: mm) of the cover glass is represented by x and an energy absorption rate (unit: %) of the holding portion is represented by y, Expression (1) is satisfied, and impact resistance of the cover glass is excellent: y??37.1×ln(x)+53.7??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kyohei Hashimoto, Atsushi Inoue, Yasuhiro Inoue, Yasumasa Kato, Yasuji Fukasawa, Yusuke Kobayashi, Masaaki Konishi
  • Publication number: 20220112126
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a strengthened glass sheet having a first main surface, a second main surface which faces the first main surface, and an end surface, in which at least one of the first main surface and the second main surface has a surface compressive stress formed by a chemical strengthening treatment, the strengthened glass sheet includes a strengthened portion in which a planar compressive stress is formed along the end surface in a direction parallel with the end surface, the planar compressive stress of the strengthened portion has a maximum value of 1-120 MPa, and the strengthened portion has a width, as measured from the end surface in a direction normal to the end surface, of 0.5 times or more a thickness of the strengthened glass sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Isao SAITO, Yasumasa KATO, Takuma FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20210093600
    Abstract: The treatment of diabetes mellitus with excellent hypoglycemic effect that suppresses lactic acidosis without substantially increasing the blood lactate concentration. A composition for treating diabetes mellitus with hypoglycemic effect that suppresses lactic acidosis without substantially increasing the blood lactate concentration, and the composition has branched-chain amino acids and salts of biguanide derivatives and derivatives of biguanide derivatives or branched-chain amino acids as the active components. The composition will be more effective when leucine, isoleucine, or valine is included as branched-chain amino acids, and metformin as the biguanide derivative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventor: Yasumasa KATO
  • Patent number: 10822264
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkali-free glass substrate, in which when two arbitrary sites in one main surface thereof are selected, an absolute value of a difference between a thermal shrinkage ratio in an arbitrary direction at one site and a thermal shrinkage ratio in a direction orthogonal to the arbitrary direction at another site is 2 ppm or less, provided that the thermal shrinkage ratio is calculated by measuring a deformation amount in a measuring direction of the glass substrate between before and after a heat treatment of raising a temperature from normal temperature to 600° C. at 100° C./hour, holding the glass substrate at 600° C. for 80 minutes, and lowering the temperature from 600° C. to normal temperature at 100° C./hour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Takiguchi, Shunji Inoue, Kazutaka Ono, Hirofumi Tokunaga, Jun Akiyama, Yasumasa Kato, Taketoshi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10654742
    Abstract: To provide a method for tempering glass to obtain tempered glass having high surface quality and a deep compression stress layer. The present invention relates to a method for tempering a glass plate comprising a preparation step of preparing a glass plate having a surface temperature of at most the strain point, an internal heating step of heating the internal temperature of the glass plate to be at least the annealing point, while maintaining the surface temperature of the glass plate within 10 minutes, or to be at most the strain point, and a cooling step of cooling the glass plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Saito, Yasumasa Kato
  • Publication number: 20190375673
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle-mounted display device disposed in an interior member of a vehicle. The vehicle-mounted display device of the invention includes: a display panel; a cover glass covering the display panel; a housing accommodating the display panel; and a holding portion holding a position of the housing, in which the cover glass is a tempered glass having a thickness being 0.5 to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kyohei HASHIMOTO, Atsushi INOUE, Yasuhiro INOUE, Yasumasa KATO, Yasuji FUKASAWA, Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Masaaki KONISHI
  • Patent number: 10450218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle-mounted display device disposed in an interior member of a vehicle. The vehicle-mounted display device of the invention includes: a display panel; a cover glass covering the display panel; a housing accommodating the display panel; and a holding portion holding a position of the housing, in which the cover glass is a tempered glass having a thickness being 0.5 to 2.5 mm, a thickness of a compressive stress layer being 10 ?m or more, and a surface compressive stress of a compressive layer being 650 MPa or higher, and when the thickness (unit: mm) of the cover glass is represented by x and an energy absorption rate (unit: %) of the holding portion is represented by y. Expression (1) is satisfied, and impact resistance of the cover glass is excellent: y??37.1×ln(x)+53.7??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kyohei Hashimoto, Atsushi Inoue, Yasuhiro Inoue, Yasumasa Kato, Yasuji Fukasawa, Yusuke Kobayashi, Masaaki Konishi
  • Publication number: 20190317376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel having a predetermined size, containing a wiring film formed of a metal, an insulating film containing an inorganic substance and a substrate formed of a non-alkali glass, in which the metal has the product of a Young's modulus (E) and a thermal expansion coefficient (?) at room temperature falling within a predetermined range, ? of the inorganic substance is smaller than that of the non-alkali glass, the non-alkali glass has E of from 70 GPa to 95 GPa and ? of from 32×10?7 to 45×10?7 (1/° C.) in which E and ? satisfies a predetermined formula, and has a predetermined composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutaka ONO, Yasumasa KATO, Masaya KUNIGITA
  • Patent number: 10386686
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel having a predetermined size, containing a wiring film formed of a metal, an insulating film containing an inorganic substance and a substrate formed of a non-alkali glass, in which the metal has the product of a Young's modulus (E) and a thermal expansion coefficient (?) at room temperature falling within a predetermined range, ? of the inorganic substance is smaller than that of the non-alkali glass, the non-alkali glass has E of from 70 GPa to 95 GPa and ? of from 32×10?7 to 45×10?7 (1/° C.) in which E and ? satisfies a predetermined formula, and has a predetermined composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Ono, Yasumasa Kato, Masaya Kunigita
  • Publication number: 20190002332
    Abstract: To provide a method for tempering glass to obtain tempered glass having high surface quality and a deep compression stress layer. The present invention relates to a method for tempering a glass plate comprising a preparation step of preparing a glass plate having a surface temperature of at most the strain point, an internal heating step of heating the internal temperature of the glass plate to be at least the annealing point, while maintaining the surface temperature of the glass plate within 10 minutes, or to be at most the strain point, and a cooling step of cooling the glass plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Isao SAITO, Yasumasa KATO
  • Publication number: 20180214396
    Abstract: The treatment of diabetes mellitus with excellent hypoglycemic effect that suppresses lactic acidosis without substantially increasing the blood lactate concentration. A composition for treating diabetes mellitus with hypoglycemic effect that suppresses lactic acidosis without substantially increasing the blood lactate concentration, and the composition has branched-chain amino acids and salts of biguanide derivatives and derivatives of biguanide derivatives or branched-chain amino acids as the active components. The composition will be more effective when leucine, isoleucine, or valine is included as branched-chain amino acids, and metformin as the biguanide derivative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Yasumasa KATO
  • Patent number: 9950945
    Abstract: To provide a tempered glass sheet having a thickness of from 1.8 to less than 2.5 mm, which is capable of satisfying the fragmentation quality and impact strength quality required for windowpanes for automobiles. A tempered glass sheet having a first surface, a second surface opposed to the first surface and a side surface connecting the first and second surfaces, and having a thickness of from 1.8 to less than 2.5 mm, wherein at the first surface, the average value of the surface compressive stress is within a range of from 100 to 160 MPa, and the average value of the surface strength is within a range of from 220 to 400 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yasumasa Kato, Kazushige Yoda, Jiro Nishihama
  • Patent number: 9944550
    Abstract: There is provided a tempered glass plate, wherein a thickness of the tempered glass plate is less than or equal to 2.7 mm, wherein on a surface of the tempered glass plate, a plurality of stress marks are formed, wherein a distance between closest stress marks of the plurality of stress marks is less than or equal to 20 mm, wherein the surface of the tempered glass plate includes a first virtual circle that is formed by connecting points that are separated from a center of one of the plurality of stress marks by 2.5 mm, wherein the tempered glass plate includes a non elastic-wave region that is not affected by an elastic-wave generated during fracturing, and wherein, in the non elastic-wave region, an average number of cracks that exist in the first virtual circle is greater than or equal to 3.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazushige Yoda, Masao Fukami, Shinya Ohta, Yasumasa Kato, Shigeru Ezaki
  • Publication number: 20180065881
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle-mounted display device disposed in an interior member of a vehicle. The vehicle-mounted display device of the invention includes: a display panel; a cover glass covering the display panel; a housing accommodating the display panel; and a holding portion holding a position of the housing, in which the cover glass is a tempered glass having a thickness being 0.5 to 2.5 mm, a thickness of a compressive stress layer being 650 MPa or higher, and when the thickness (unit: mm) of the cover glass is represented by x and an energy absorption rate (unit: %) of the holding portion is represented by y. Expression (1) is satisfied, and impact resistance of the cover glass is excellent: y??37.1×ln(x)+53.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kyohei HASHIMOTO, Atsushi INOUE, Yasuhiro INOUE, Yasumasa KATO, Yasuji FUKASAWA, Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Masaaki KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20170329192
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel having a predetermined size, containing a wiring film formed of a metal, an insulating film containing an inorganic substance and a substrate formed of a non-alkali glass, in which the metal has the product of a Young's modulus (E) and a thermal expansion coefficient (?) at room temperature falling within a predetermined range, ? of the inorganic substance is smaller than that of the non-alkali glass, the non-alkali glass has E of from 70 GPa to 95 GPa and ? of from 32×10?7 to 45×10?7 (1/° C.) in which E and a satisfies a predetermined formula, and has a predetermined composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazutaka ONO, Yasumasa Kato, Masaya Kunigita
  • Publication number: 20170267572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkali-free glass substrate, in which when two arbitrary sites in one main surface thereof are selected, an absolute value of a difference between a thermal shrinkage ratio in an arbitrary direction at one site and a thermal shrinkage ratio in a direction orthogonal to the arbitrary direction at another site is 2 ppm or less, provided that the thermal shrinkage ratio is calculated by measuring a deformation amount in a measuring direction of the glass substrate between before and after a heat treatment of raising a temperature from normal temperature to 600° C. at 100° C./hour, holding the glass substrate at 600° C. for 80 minutes, and lowering the temperature from 600° C. to normal temperature at 100° C./hour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsushi TAKIGUCHI, Shunji INOUE, Kazutaka ONO, Hirofumi TOKUNAGA, Jun AKIYAMA, Yasumasa KATO, Taketoshi TANIGUCHI