Patents by Inventor Kei ITAGAKI

Kei ITAGAKI 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: 11998969
    Abstract: Provided is a forming system that expands and deforms a metal material to perform forming, the forming system including: a forming device that performs the forming; and at least one transport device that transports the metal material, in which the transport device transports the metal material to the forming device in a held state, in a case where a pretreatment device that performs pretreatment for the forming is present, the transport device transports the metal material to the pretreatment device in a held state, and during a period from a transport process in which the metal material is transported to any of devices by the transport device to a treatment process performed by any of the devices, at least one of the transport device and any of the devices continues holding the metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Itagaki, Kei Yamauchi, Kiyomasa Koukami
  • Patent number: 11935870
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is a manufacturing method for a support piece used in the formation of a dolmen structure in a semiconductor device, including processes of: (A) preparing a laminate film including a base material film, an adhesive layer, and a support piece formation film, for example, including a thermosetting resin layer, in this order; and (B) forming support pieces on a surface of the adhesive layer by singulating the support piece formation film, in which the process (B) includes a process of forming a cut in the support piece formation film partway in a thickness direction, and a process of singulating the support piece formation film in a cooled state by expansion, in this order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Ozaki, Kei Itagaki, Kohei Taniguchi, Shintaro Hashimoto, Tatsuya Yahata
  • Publication number: 20240043722
    Abstract: Disclosed is a film-shaped adhesive. An embodiment of the film-shaped adhesive contains metal particles and has a shear viscosity at 110° C. of 30000 Pa·s or less. Another embodiment of the film-shaped adhesive contains metal particles and has a loss modulus at 110° C. of 200 kPa or less. Another embodiment of the film-shaped adhesive contains metal particles, a thermosetting resin, a curing agent, and an elastomer, in which a content of the metal particles based on the total amount of the metal particles, thermosetting resin, curing agent, and elastomer is 70.0% by mass or more, and a total content of the thermosetting resin and the curing agent is 13.0% by mass or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro KURODA, Yuya HIRAMOTO, Megumi KAMONO, Kohei TANIGUCHI, Yuya AKIYAMA, Kei ITAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20230395420
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip; a support member having the semiconductor chip mounted thereon; and a bonding adhesive member provided between the semiconductor chip and the support member and adhering the semiconductor chip and the support member. The bonding adhesive member includes a sintered body of silver particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Yuya AKIYAMA, Kohei TANIGUCHI, Yuya HIRAMOTO, Megumi KAMONO, Kei ITAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20230253366
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; an adhesive member arranged on a surface of the substrate; a first chip stacked on the adhesive member with a first adhesive piece interposed therebetween; and a second chip stacked on the first chip with a second adhesive piece interposed therebetween. The adhesive member has a multilayer structure including a pair of surface layers formed of a cured product of a thermosetting resin composition and an intermediate layer arranged between the pair of surface layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Kohei TANIGUCHI, Yoshinobu OZAKI, Kei ITAGAKI, Kazuhiro YAMAMOTO, Kanami NAKAMURA, Hiroki HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220336281
    Abstract: A collet for compressing an adhesive-attached chip, the collet including a main body having a first pressing surface to which a pressing force from a compressing device is directly transmitted, and a projecting portion projecting from the main body and having a second pressing surface provided along an outer circumference of the first pressing surface, the first pressing surface and the second pressing surface forming a holding surface for holding the adhesive-attached chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TAZAWA, Kei ITAGAKI, Yoshinobu OZAKI, Ayako TAIRA
  • Publication number: 20220149009
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is a manufacturing method for a support piece used in the formation of a dolmen structure in a semiconductor device, including processes of: (A) preparing a laminate film including a base material film, an adhesive layer, and a support piece formation film, for example, including a thermosetting resin layer, in this order; and (B) forming support pieces on a surface of the adhesive layer by singulating the support piece formation film, in which the process (B) includes a process of forming a cut in the support piece formation film partway in a thickness direction, and a process of singulating the support piece formation film in a cooled state by expansion, in this order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshinobu OZAKI, Kei ITAGAKI, Kohei TANIGUCHI, Shintaro HASHIMOTO, Tatsuya YAHATA
  • Publication number: 20220149008
    Abstract: A support piece formation laminate film according to the present disclosure includes a base material film, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a support piece formation film, in this order, in which the support piece formation film has a multi-layer structure including at least a metal layer. The support piece formation laminate film is applied to a manufacturing process of a semiconductor device having a dolmen structure including a substrate, a first chip disposed on the substrate, a plurality of support pieces disposed around the first chip, on the substrate, and a second chip disposed to be supported by the plurality of support pieces and to cover the first chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Tatsuya YAHATA, Kohei TANIGUCHI, Shintaro HASHIMOTO, Yoshinobu OZAKI, Kei ITAGAKI