Patents by Inventor Yuukou MINAMIYA

Yuukou MINAMIYA 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: 20250018685
    Abstract: A windshield for vehicle including: a laminated glass including: a first glass plate; and a glass plate with a terminal having a second glass plate, a conductor having a terminal joint portion, and a terminal joined onto the terminal joint portion with lead-free solder interposed therebetween, in which: in the conductor, a feeding portion including a terminal joint portion is formed directly on the second glass plate; a first light-shielding layer is formed on a first glass plate, the first light-shielding layer covering a feeding portion of a conductor; and a second light-shielding layer is formed on the glass plate with the terminal, the second light-shielding layer covering at least a part of the conductor except for the feeding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yuukou MINAMIYA, Atsushi ITO
  • Publication number: 20240424869
    Abstract: A windshield for vehicle includes a laminated glass in which a first glass plate and a second glass plate are bonded together with an intermediate film interposed therebetween, in which the laminated glass includes a glass plate with a terminal including the second glass plate, a conductor, and the terminal, the conductor including a terminal joint portion, and the terminal being joined to the terminal joint portion of the conductor through lead-free solder; the conductor includes a feeding portion for feeding electricity to an electric function portion, and the feeding portion includes the terminal joint portion; the glass plate with the terminal includes a light-shielding layer between the second glass plate and at least a part of the conductor including the feeding portion; and a porosity of at least a forming region of the feeding portion in the light-shielding layer is 12% or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Yuukou MINAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240383235
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a windshield for vehicle, the windshield for vehicle including a glass plate with a terminal, the method including: a step (S2) of applying a silver-containing paste containing silver and glass frit, which are materials of the conductor, onto the glass plate, which is a material of the glass plate with the terminal; a step (S3) of firing the glass plate coated with the materials of the conductor to form a conductor; a step (S5) of polishing a surface of a region including the terminal joint portion of the conductor; and a step (S6) of joining the terminal onto the terminal joint portion, a surface of which has been polished, with lead-free solder interposed therebetween, in which a porosity of the terminal joint portion of the conductor after step (S5) is 10% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki TESHIMA, Yuukou MINAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240254037
    Abstract: A window glass for a vehicle includes: a glass plate having a first main surface and a second main surface; a ceramic color layer, and an organic ink layer, in which the ceramic color layer is provided at least in a periphery on the first main surface of the glass plate, the organic ink layer is provided to cover at least a partial region on the ceramic color layer provided in the periphery, and a thickness of the organic ink layer is smaller than a thickness of the ceramic color layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Jun ITO, Keiichiro URAJI, Shunsuke SADAKANE, Hiroki FUJIMOTO, Yuukou MINAMIYA, Ayaka IKEGAMI
  • Publication number: 20240246321
    Abstract: A window glass for a vehicle includes: a glass plate having a first main surface and a second main surface; a ceramic color layer; and an organic ink layer, in which the glass plate has a curved surface shape in which the first main surface is concave, and has an information transmission and reception region, the ceramic color layer is provided in a peripheral portion of the region on the first main surface, the organic ink layer is provided to cover a partial region on the first main surface and at least a partial region on the ceramic color layer, as well as a boundary portion between the glass plate and the ceramic color layer on the first main surface, and a thickness of the organic ink layer is smaller than a thickness of the ceramic color layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Ayaka IKEGAMI, Yuukou MINAMIYA, Shunsuke SADAKANE, Hiroki FUJIMOTO, Jun ITO, Keiichiro URAJI
  • Publication number: 20230391168
    Abstract: A glass for a vehicle, includes: a glass plate; a ceramic color layer formed on a surface of the glass plate; and a conductive layer formed on a surface of the ceramic color layer, the conductive layer including silver, in which the ceramic color layer is a sintered layer including a glass frit and a pigment, the glass frit includes Bi, a lead-free solder layer is formed on at least a partial region of a surface of the conductive layer including silver, and a Bi/Ag mass ratio in an outermost surface of the conductive layer including silver is less than 0.10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yuukou MINAMIYA, Kenji AOKI
  • Publication number: 20210234253
    Abstract: A vehicle window glass with a terminal includes a glass plate, and a terminal connected, by lead-free solder, to an electrically conductive layer disposed on a surface of the glass plate, wherein the terminal at least one leg connected to the electrically conductive layer by the lead-free solder, and wherein at least one portion of the leg is covered with a thermal insulating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KUWAHARA, Yuukou MINAMIYA
  • Patent number: 9986601
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle window glass, in which heater wires and a conductor wire, such as an antenna, intersect, and a mounting structure for the window glass for a vehicle. The heater wires are not noticeable and have a good appearance. A window glass for a vehicle, comprising a glass main body, a plurality of heater wires formed to extend in a horizontal direction when mounted to a vehicle, and an antenna wire formed to intersect at least one of the heater wires, wherein the smallest line width “a” of the heater wires is at most 0.4 mm, and the largest line width “b” of the antenna wire is smaller than the line width “a” in a range of intersection of the antenna wire and the heater wires extending from one end of the antenna wire to the other end of the antenna wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Yuukou Minamiya
  • Patent number: 9623726
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a windowpane for vehicles including a glass sheet, a conductor layer which is formed on the surface of the glass sheet by sintering a silver paste containing a silver powder and a glass frit and which has at least a strip part and a terminal connection part connected to the strip part, and a connection terminal soldered onto the terminal connection part with a lead-free solder alloy, in which the conductor layer has a specific resistance of from 2.5 to 6.5 ??cm, the strip part has a line width of not more than 0.35 mm, the lead-free solder alloy consists essentially of tin and silver and has a content of tin of 95% by mass or more, and cracking is not caused on the glass sheet even after elapsing 500 cycles in a prescribed thermal shock test; and a method for producing same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sagawa, Yuukou Minamiya
  • Publication number: 20150230292
    Abstract: To provide a window glass for a vehicle of which heater wires and a conductor wire such as an antenna wire intersecting the heater wires are not noticeable and which has a good appearance, and a mounting structure for the window glass for a vehicle. A window glass 1 for a vehicle, comprising a glass main body 10, a plurality of heater wires 16 formed to extend in a horizontal direction when mounted to a vehicle, and an antenna wire 18 formed to intersect at least one of the heater wires 16, wherein the smallest line width “a” of the heater wires 16 is at most 0.4 mm, and the largest line width “b” of the antenna wire is smaller than the line width “a” in a range of intersection of the antenna wire and the heater wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuukou MINAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20140008347
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a windowpane for vehicles including a glass sheet, a conductor layer which is formed on the surface of the glass sheet by sintering a silver paste containing a silver powder and a glass frit and which has at least a strip part and a terminal connection part connected to the strip part, and a connection terminal soldered onto the terminal connection part with a lead-free solder alloy, in which the conductor layer has a specific resistance of from 2.5 to 6.5 ??cm, the strip part has a line width of not more than 0.35 mm, the lead-free solder alloy consists essentially of tin and silver and has a content of tin of 95% by mass or more, and cracking is not caused on the glass sheet even after elapsing 500 cycles in a prescribed thermal shock test; and a method for producing same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SAGAWA, Yuukou MINAMIYA