Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Electric Printed Circuits, Inc.
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Publication number: 20210059045Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board of the present invention includes an insulating base film and an electrode stacked on a first surface of the base film, in which the electrode includes a low-melting-point metal layer on a surface of the electrode, and a plate- or strip-like rigid member electrically insulated from the electrode is disposed in a region of a second surface of the base film opposite from the electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2017Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Katsunari MIKAGE, Masamichi YAMAMOTO, Junichi OKAUE, Hiroshi UEDA
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Patent number: 10889086Abstract: A resin film according to one aspect of the present invention is a resin film having polyimide as a main component, the resin film including a modified layer formed in a depth direction from at least one side of the resin film; and a non-modified layer other than the modified layer, wherein a ring-opening rate of an imide ring of the polyimide in the modified layer is higher than a ring-opening rate of an imide ring of the polyimide in the non-modified layer, and an average thickness of the modified layer from the one side of the resin film is greater than or equal to 10 nm and less than or equal to 500 nm.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Kayo Hashizume, Yoshio Oka, Masamichi Yamamoto, Takashi Kasuga, Yugo Kubo, Hideki Kashihara, Hiroshi Ueda
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Patent number: 10887989Abstract: A printed wiring board of the present invention includes an insulating substrate layer; a first conductive layer laminated to one surface of the substrate layer; a second conductive layer laminated to another surface of the substrate layer; and a via hole formed along an inner surface of a connection hole that is provided, in a thickness direction, through the substrate layer and the first conductive layer, the via hole electrically coupling the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. A cross-sectional shape of the connection hole along at least one surface of the substrate layer is an irregular shape.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tadahiro Kaibuki, Daisuke Sato, Haruna Oya, Yoshiaki Yanagimoto, Atsushi Kimura, Shigeki Shimada
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Patent number: 10869389Abstract: A printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film having an insulating property, a conductive pattern that is stacked on at least one surface side of the base film and that includes a plurality of wiring portions arranged adjacent to one another, and an insulating layer that covers outer surfaces of the base film and the conductive pattern. The plurality of wiring portions have an average spacing of 1 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less and an average height of 30 ?m or more and 120 ?m or less. A filling area ratio of the insulating layer between the plurality of wiring portions adjacent to one another in sectional view is 95% or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Kohei Okamoto, Yoshihito Yamaguchi, Kousuke Miura, Hiroshi Ueda, Atsushi Kimura
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Publication number: 20200366009Abstract: A terminal 20 includes a terminal connection portion 21 connected to a counterpart terminal and a board connection portion 24 connected to a conductive path 13 of a board 11. The board connection portion 24 has a plate shape portion 25 that is a plate shape. The plate shape portion is disposed behind the terminal connection portion 21 and is soldered to the conductive path 13 of the board 11. The board connection portion has a plate-shape first projection walls 28A to 28D that are bent from edge portions of a lateral direction side of the plate shape portion 25 and that project to an opposite side to the board 11 side. The plate shape portion 25 and the first projection walls 28A to 28D have a plating layer 37 that is formed on a plate surface of the plate shape portion and the first projection walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Printed Circuits, Inc.Inventors: Takanobu SHIMADA, Hiroki HIRAI, Jyunichi ONO, Yoshio OKA, Yoshifumi UCHITA, Yoshiro ADACHI
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Patent number: 10842027Abstract: A base material for a printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; a sintered layer that is layered on at least one side surface of the base film and that is formed of a plurality of sintered metal particles; an electroless plating layer that is layered on a surface of the sintered layer that is opposite to the base film; and an electroplating layer that is layered on a surface of the electroless plating layer that is opposite to the sintered layer, wherein an arithmetic mean height Sa of the surface of the electroless plating layer opposite to the sintered layer is greater than or equal to 0.001 ?m and less than or equal to 0.5 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Kazuhiro Miyata, Takashi Kasuga, Yoshio Oka, Hiroshi Ueda
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Publication number: 20200333192Abstract: A sensor unit disclosed herein is a temperature sensor unit to be attached to an energy storage device. The temperature sensor unit includes an FPC to be positioned on an energy storage device body, a temperature sensor connected to a detection line of the FPC, a housing disposed on the FPC and covering the temperature sensor, and a biasing member elastically and deformably held in the housing and configured to bias the lower housing of the housing toward the energy storage device body by elastic restoring force to bring the temperature sensor into contact with the energy storage device body with the FPC therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2018Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Shinichi TAKASE, Yasuhiko KOTERA, Isamu HAMAMOTO, Yoshifumi UCHITA, Takayuki TSUMAGARI, Yusuke SUZUKI, Atsushi YAMANAKA
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Patent number: 10796812Abstract: A coating liquid for forming a conductive layer according to the present invention is a coating liquid for forming a conductive layer, the coating liquid containing fine metal particles, a dispersant, and a dispersion medium. In the coating liquid for forming a conductive layer, the fine metal particles contain copper or a copper alloy as a main component, the dispersant is a polyethyleneimine-polyethylene oxide graft copolymer, a polyethyleneimine moiety in the graft copolymer has a weight-average molecular weight of 300 or more and 1,000 or less, a molar ratio of polyethylene oxide chains to nitrogen atoms in the polyethyleneimine moiety is 10 or more and 50 or less, and the graft copolymer has a weight-average molecular weight of 3,000 or more and 54,000 or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Motohiko Sugiura, Issei Okada, Yoshio Oka, Atsushi Kimura, Kenji Ohki
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Patent number: 10729008Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an insulative base film; and a conductive pattern provided on at least one surface of the base film and including a wiring line including a bent portion having an angle of greater than or equal to 60° or a branched portion having an angle of greater than or equal to 60° in plan view. The wiring line is provided with a relaxation structure that relaxes stress concentration at the bent portion or the branched portion. The relaxation structure is structured such that the wiring line constitutes a wide wiring line or a dense wiring line group in a region in which a distance from the bent portion or the branched portion is less than or equal to 5 times a minimum width of the wiring line. The wide wiring line has a wiring line width that is greater than or equal to twice the minimum width of the wiring line.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Ueda, Kousuke Miura, Kou Noguchi
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Patent number: 10709016Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board according to one aspect of the present invention includes a base film having an insulating property and a conductive pattern laminated on one surface of the base film, and has a terminal connecting area toward one end edge of the conductive pattern, the flexible printed circuit board including a reinforcement member laminated on another surface of the base film and situated at least at a position opposite the terminal connecting area, wherein a shape of an end edge of the reinforcement member on the same side as an opposite end edge of the conductive pattern includes a periodic form constituted by curved lines.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Yoshio Oka, Yoshifumi Uchita, Yoshiro Adachi
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Patent number: 10653007Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board according to an aspect of the present invention includes a base film having insulating properties and a conductive pattern laminated to one surface side of the base film. The conductive pattern forms part of a circuit and includes at least one fuse portion having a cross section smaller than the other part. The flexible printed circuit board includes at least one opening passing through front and rear surfaces on at least one of the right and left sides of the fuse portion in a two-dimensional view.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Tsumagari, Yoshifumi Uchita, Shinichi Takase, Hirohisa Saito
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Patent number: 10644292Abstract: A battery wiring module is attached to a cell group including an arrangement of a plurality of cells having positive pole and negative pole electrode terminals. The battery wiring module is provided with: a plurality of connection members connecting the positive pole and negative pole electrode terminals of adjacent cells of the plurality of cells; and a flexible printed board including a plurality of voltage sensing wires for sensing voltages of the plurality of cells via the plurality of connection members. Each of the voltage sensing wires has an electric current limiting element provided somewhere therealong to limit a flow of overcurrent in the voltage sensing wires. The electric current limiting element is connected to the voltage sensing wires at a portion which is overcoated with an insulating resin.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichi Takase, Nobuyuki Matsumura, Toshifumi Uchita, Yusuke Suzuki, Junta Katayama
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Patent number: 10610928Abstract: A powder for a conductive material according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a large number of particles that contain copper as a main component and having an average primary particle diameter of 1 nm or more and 200 nm or less. The particles contain titanium on surfaces or inside thereof, and a content of the titanium is 0.003 atomic percent or more and 0.5 atomic percent or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Issei Okada, Motohiko Sugiura, Yoshio Oka, Kenji Ohki
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Patent number: 10596782Abstract: A substrate for a printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a resin film and a metal layer stacked on at least one of surfaces of the resin film. An average diffusion depth of a main metal of the metal layer in the resin film is 100 nm or less after a weather resistance test in which the substrate is held at 150° C. for seven days. The average diffusion depth is preferably 80 nm or less before the weather resistance test.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Kayo Hashizume, Yoshio Oka, Takashi Kasuga, Jinjoo Park, Hiroshi Ueda
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Publication number: 20200045814Abstract: A printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film having an insulating property, a conductive pattern that is stacked on at least one surface side of the base film and that includes a plurality of wiring portions arranged adjacent to one another, and an insulating layer that covers outer surfaces of the base film and the conductive pattern. The plurality of wiring portions have an average spacing of 1 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less and an average height of 30 ?m or more and 120 ?m or less. A filling area ratio of the insulating layer between the plurality of wiring portions adjacent to one another in sectional view is 95% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Kohei OKAMOTO, Yoshihito YAMAGUCHI, Kousuke MIURA, Hiroshi UEDA, Atsushi KIMURA
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Publication number: 20200037434Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an insulative base film; and a conductive pattern provided on at least one surface of the base film and including a wiring line including a bent portion having an angle of greater than or equal to 60° or a branched portion having an angle of greater than or equal to 60° in plan view. The wiring line is provided with a relaxation structure that relaxes stress concentration at the bent portion or the branched portion. The relaxation structure is structured such that the wiring line constitutes a wide wiring line or a dense wiring line group in a region in which a distance from the bent portion or the branched portion is less than or equal to 5 times a minimum width of the wiring line. The wide wiring line has a wiring line width that is greater than or equal to twice the minimum width of the wiring line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi UEDA, Kousuke MIURA, Kou NOGUCHI
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Patent number: 10548217Abstract: A base material for printed interconnect boards according to one aspect of the present invention includes a base film; and at least one conductive layer that is layered on the base film. The base material for printed interconnect boards includes a product in which a plurality of interconnect board pieces are regularly arrayed in plan view and includes an outer frame region surrounding the product. The outer frame region includes a proximity region within 5 mm from an outer edge of the product and includes an outside region other than the proximity region. A layered conductive layer area rate of the proximity region is smaller than a layered conductive layer area rate of the product.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Kenji Takahashi, Kouji Nitta, Shoichiro Sakai, Junichi Motomura, Maki Ikebe, Kousuke Miura, Masahiro Itou
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Patent number: 10537017Abstract: A printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film containing, as a main component, a polyimide and a conductive pattern disposed on at least one surface of the base film. The conductive pattern includes a copper particle bond layer which is fixed to the base film. An external transmittance for a wavelength of 500 nm in a conductive pattern non-formed region of the base film is 70% or less of an internal transmittance for a wavelength of 500 nm in a middle layer portion of the base film.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Kohei Okamoto, Kousuke Miura, Hiroshi Ueda, Takashi Kasuga, Kazuhiro Miyata
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Patent number: 10537020Abstract: A printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film having an insulating property and a conductive pattern disposed on at least one surface of the base film. The conductive pattern includes a copper particle bond layer which is fixed to the base film, and a lightness L* of a conductive pattern non-formed region of the base film is 60 or less. The base film may include a modified layer on one surface side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Kohei Okamoto, Kousuke Miura, Hiroshi Ueda, Takashi Kasuga, Kazuhiro Miyata
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Patent number: 10485102Abstract: A first embodiment of a substrate for a high-frequency printed wiring board according to the present disclosure is directed to a substrate for a high-frequency printed wiring board, the substrate including: a dielectric layer including a fluororesin and an inorganic filler; and a copper foil layered on at least one surface of the dielectric layer, wherein a surface of the copper foil at the dielectric layer side has a maximum height roughness (Rz) of less than or equal to 2 ?m, and a ratio of the number of inorganic atoms of the inorganic filler to the number of fluorine atoms of the fluororesin in a superficial region of the dielectric layer at the copper foil side is less than or equal to 0.08.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Shingo Kaimori, Masaaki Yamauchi, Kentaro Okamoto, Satoshi Kiya, Kazuo Murata