Patents by Inventor Yoji YASUI

Yoji YASUI 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: 12265202
    Abstract: To appropriately suppress reflection of far-infrared rays, and appropriately form an antireflection film. A far-infrared ray transmission member (20) includes a base material (30) that transmits far-infrared rays, and a functional film (32) that is formed on the base material (30) and includes a low refractive index layer (34) containing oxide as a principal component and having a refractive index equal to or smaller than 1.5 with respect to light at a wavelength of 10 ?m. The low refractive index layer (34) contains MgO as a principal component, and a content of MgO is equal to or larger than 50 mass % and equal to or smaller than 100 mass % with respect to the entire low refractive index layer (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Yoji Yasui, Kazunobu Maeshige, Takahiro Mashimo, Takuji Oyama, Nobutaka Aomine, Manaya Kubono
  • Publication number: 20250028101
    Abstract: To provide improved scratch resistance while transmitting light in a plurality of wavelength ranges. A transmission member (20) includes a base material (30) that transmits far-infrared rays, and a first functional film (32) that is formed on the base material (30). Average transmittance of the transmission member (20) with respect to light at a wavelength from 8 ?m to 12 ?m is equal to or larger than 50%, and transmittance of the transmission member (20) with respect to light from a laser beam source that emits light in a wavelength range from 0.8 ?m to 1.8 ?m is equal to or larger than 80%. A refractive index of an outermost layer (34) of the first functional film (32) with respect to light from the laser beam source is equal to or larger than 1.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yoji YASUI, Kenji KITAOKA
  • Publication number: 20250001732
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite substrate for graphene film production, the composite substrate including: a substrate having a thermal expansion coefficient of 2.0×10?6 (K?1) or less; an oxide film; and a metal film containing Cu or Ni, in this order, in which a prescribed diffraction peak is observed by XRD measurement for the metal film by a ?-2? method, and in a chart obtained by the XRD measurement, a diffraction peak derived other than the prescribed diffraction peak is not observed, or an intensity of diffraction peak other than the prescribed diffraction peak is 1/10 or less of an intensity of the prescribed diffraction peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi WATANABE, Yoji YASUI
  • Publication number: 20240425967
    Abstract: To appropriately transmit a far infrared ray and improve scratch resistance. A far-infrared transmitting member 20 includes a substrate 30 that transmits a far infrared ray and a first functional film 32 that is formed on the substrate 30 and includes a NiOx layer 34 containing NiOx as a main component, an average transmittance of light having a wavelength of 8 ?m to 12 ?m is 50% or more, and a maximum value Hmax of indentation hardness in a range of an indentation depth of 40 nm or more and 110 nm or less from the surface of the functional film measured by a nanoindentation method is 10 GPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hidehisa INOUE, Yoji YASUI
  • Publication number: 20240427059
    Abstract: To appropriately transmit far-infrared rays and improve scratch resistance. A far-infrared transmitting member (20) includes a base material (30) that transmits far-infrared rays and a first functional film (32) formed on the base material (30), in which an average transmittance for light having a wavelength of 8 ?m to 12 ?m is 50% or more, an outermost layer (36) of the first functional film (32) is a layer containing ZrO2 as a main component, a content of ZrO2 is 50 mass % or more and 100 mass % or less with respect to the whole outermost layer (36), and a refractive index of the outermost layer (36) with respect to light having a wavelength of 550 nm is 2.05 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Yoji YASUI
  • Publication number: 20230347718
    Abstract: A decrease in the detection accuracy of infrared rays is suppressed. Vehicle glass includes a light shielding region in which a far-infrared ray transmitting region is formed, the far-infrared ray transmitting region including an opening and a far-infrared ray transmitting member (20) disposed in the opening. In the far-infrared ray transmitting member (20), the average transmittance of far-infrared rays having wavelengths of 8 ?m to 13 ?m at a first position (P1) in a case where the far-infrared rays are emitted in a direction perpendicular to a surface (20a) on a vehicle exterior side is different from the average transmittance of the far-infrared rays having wavelengths of 8 ?m to 13 ?m at a second position (P2) that is lower than the first position (P1) in the vertical direction in a case where the vehicle glass is mounted to a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuo NAGASHIMA, Mitsuyoshi KOBAYASHI, Yoji YASUI, Kenji KITAOKA
  • Publication number: 20230228925
    Abstract: To appropriately transmit far-infrared rays while ensuring design. A far-infrared ray transmission member (20) includes a base material (30) configured to transmit far-infrared rays, and a functional film (31) formed on the base material (30). Dispersion of reflectances with respect to pieces of light at a wavelength of 360 nm to 830 nm in increments of 1 nm is equal to or smaller than 30, a reflectance with respect to visible light defined by JIS R3106 is equal to or lower than 25%, and an average transmittance with respect to light at a wavelength of 8 ?m to 12 ?m is equal to or higher than 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yoji YASUI, Kazunobu MAESHIGE, Takahiro MASHIMO, Takuji OYAMA, Nobutaka AOMINE, Tatsuo NAGASHIMA, Mitsuyoshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230194759
    Abstract: To appropriately suppress reflection of far-infrared rays, and appropriately form an antireflection film. A far-infrared ray transmission member (20) includes a base material (30) that transmits far-infrared rays, and a functional film (32) that is formed on the base material (30) and includes a low refractive index layer (34) containing oxide as a principal component and having a refractive index equal to or smaller than 1.5 with respect to light at a wavelength of 10 ?m. The low refractive index layer (34) contains MgO as a principal component, and a content of MgO is equal to or larger than 50 mass % and equal to or smaller than 100 mass % with respect to the entire low refractive index layer (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yoji YASUI, Kazunobu MAESHIGE, Takahiro MASHIMO, Takuji OYAMA, Nobutaka AOMINE, Manaya KUBONO