Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Agc Inc.

Nireco Corporation

Other

Yasumasa Kato

Satoshi Yoshida

Kazutaka Ono

Atsushi Inoue

Masahiro Tsuchiya

Koichi Matsumoto

Kazushige Yoda

Yusuke Kobayashi

Isao Saito

Masaya Kunigita

Shuichi Akada

Yasuhiro Inoue

Masaaki Konishi

Yasuji Fukasawa

Akira Sugahara

Kyohei Hashimoto

Jun Nagata

Hiroshi Yamakawa

Jun Akiyama

Hirofumi Tokunaga

Junji Hori

Shigeyuki Seto

Masao Fukami

Yutaka Kitajima

Jiro Nishihama

Nozomi Otsubo

Shunji Inoue

Tomohiro Suwa

Masashi Kasajima

Tomohiro Yonemichi

Kiyota Miyazaki

Shigeru Ezaki

Shinya Ohta

Tetsushi Takiguchi

Taketoshi Taniguchi

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.

Method of determining composition effective for treating diabetes

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 (&#x3b1;) at room temperature falling within a predetermined range, &#x3b1; 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 &#x3b1; of from 32&#xd7;10to 45&#xd7;10(1/&#xb0; C.) in which E and &#x3b1; satisfies a predetermined formula, and has a predetermined composition.

Liquid crystal display panel

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 &#x3bc;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:&#x2265;&#x2212;37.1&#xd7;ln()+53.7&#x2003;&#x2003;(1).

Vehicle mounted display device

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&#xb0; C. at 100&#xb0; C./hour, holding the glass substrate at 600&#xb0; C. for 80 minutes, and lowering the temperature from 600&#xb0; C. to normal temperature at 100&#xb0; C./hour.

Alkali-free glass substrate and method for manufacturing alkali-free glass substrate

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.

Method for tempering glass plate, and tempered glass plate

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 &#x3bc;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:ln()+53.7&#x2003;&#x2003;(1).

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.

Tempered glass sheet

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.

Tempered glass plate

To provide laminated glass excellent in the quality and the cost, in which two glass plates differing in the plate thickness can easily be bent with good accuracy. Laminated glasscomprising a plurality of glass platesandbent into a predetermined shape, and an interlayerinterposed between the plurality of glass platesand, at least two glass platesandamong the plurality of glass platesanddiffering in the plate thickness, wherein the two glass platesanddiffering in the plate thickness have different glass compositions, and at an optional temperature between the annealing point and the softening point of the thick glass plate, the thick glass platehas a lower viscosity than the thin glass plate

Laminated glass and its production process

Provided is an apparatus for measuring a level of molten metal which has a simple structure and is highly robust against a change in level at a local portion of the surface of molten metal. The apparatus for measuring a level of molten metal according to a first aspect of the present invention is an apparatus which measures a level of molten metal in a mold. The apparatus includes an omnidirectional transmitting antenna; an omnidirectional receiving antenna; and a signal processor. The apparatus measures the level of molten metal in the mold using electromagnetic wave in ultra-high frequency range emitted into the mold by the omnidirectional transmitting antenna.

Apparatus for measuring level of molten metal and method for measuring level of molten metal

The method for tempering a glass sheet of the present invention comprises a heating step of heating the glass sheet to a temperature close to the softening point of the glass sheet, a quenching step of blowing a cooling medium to both surfaces in the thickness direction of the heated glass to cool it, and a pre-quenching step between the heating step and the quenching step and further has an internal heating substep of selectively heating the vicinity of the center portion in the thickness direction of the glass sheet at least in the quenching step, to create such a state that when the temperature at the center portion in the thickness direction of the glass sheet is close to the tempering point, the temperature at the surfaces in the thickness direction of the glass sheet is not higher than the annealing point.

Method for tempering glass sheet, and apparatus therefor

Disclosed is a distance measuring apparatus which includes: a first pulse generating means () which generates reference signals; a second pulse generating means () which generates subject detection signals; a time measuring section () which measures a period of time from a time when a first pulse is generated to a time when a second pulse is generated; a first phase detecting section () which detects the first phase of a signal received using a signal at a first frequency; a second phase detecting section () which detects the second phase of a signal received using a signal at a second frequency; and a distance calculating section () which calculates the distance to the subject on the basis of output from the time measuring section, the first phase detecting section and the second phase detecting section.

Distance measuring apparatus and distance measuring method

A method and an apparatus for annealing a glass sheet, which can sufficiently reduce I/T formed in the glass sheet, are provided. In the method for annealing a glass sheet G of the present invention, in a state that a heated and bent glass sheet G is placed on a forming mold, first, a region of the glass sheet G to be lifted up is cooled by cooling devices, to make the temperature of the region to be lifted up to be a temperature of at most the strain point. Next, in this state, a lift-up memberis operated to lift up the region of the glass sheet G to be lifted up, by rods, to separate the glass sheet G from the forming mold

Method and apparatus for annealing glass plate

A glass sheet for a laminated glass to be fit into a frame of an automobile in a flash-mount structure, that is a glass sheet having a good strength, is provided. In the glass sheet of the present invention, the maximum value of the plane compressive stress on the edge of the glass sheet is at least 10 MPa and at most 18 MPa, and the maximum value of the plane compressive stress inside from the edge of the glass sheet is at most 2.4 MPa.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasumasa Kato