Patents by Inventor Masakazu Sugimoto

Masakazu Sugimoto 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: 6395528
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA coding for a protein defined in the following (A) or (B) is obtained from Brevibacterium flavum chromosomal DNA library by cloning a DNA fragment that complicates serB deficiency of Escherichia coli as a open reading frame in the DNA fragment. (A) A protein which comprises an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID: 2 in Sequence Listing; or (B) A protein which comprises an amino acid sequence including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition or inversion of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 in Sequence Listing, and which has phosphoserine phosphatase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Hisao Ito
  • Patent number: 6373000
    Abstract: A double-sided circuit board of which a solder conductor is prevented from deformation in a cycling test so as to maintain high connection reliability, comprises an insulating layer 2 made of an organic high molecular weight resin and a circuit 3 provided on each side of the insulating layer 2, the circuits 3 on both sides being electrically connected through via-holes filled with a conductor 4 made of solder having a metal powder 6 dispersed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Nakamura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Yasushi Inoue, Megumu Nagasawa, Takuji Okeyui, Masayuki Kaneto, Shinya Ota
  • Publication number: 20020038008
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA coding for a protein defined in the following (A) or (B) is obtained from Brevibacterium flavum chromosomal DNA library by cloning a DNA fragment that complicates serB deficiency of Escherichia coli as a open reading frame in the DNA fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Applicant: Ajnomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Hisao Ito
  • Patent number: 6335076
    Abstract: A plurality of double-sided circuit boards 1 in which a circuit 4 is provided on either side of an insulating layer 3 comprising an organic high molecular resin with an alloy foil 2 as a basic substance, and two circuits 4 are electrically connected by a via with a soldered conductor 5a filled therein are laminated via an adhesive layer 6. The adhesive layer 6 has a bore opened at a predetermined position of a portion in direct contact with the circuits 4 of two double-sided circuit boards 1. A bore portion is provided with a soldered conductor 7. The circuits 4 of the two double-sided circuit boards 1 are electrically connected by the soldered conductor 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Nakamura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Yasushi Inoue, Megumu Nagasawa, Takuji Okeyui
  • Patent number: 6333469
    Abstract: A wafer-scale package structure in which a circuit board for rearranging electrode pads of a wafer is laminated on the wafer integrally. The circuit board can be divided into individual chip-size packages (CSPS) and which includes a layer of polyimide resin, and connection between the wafer and the circuit board is performed by solder bump, while the circuit board is stuck on the wafer with an adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Inoue, Masakazu Sugimoto, Megumu Nagasawa, Takuji Okeyui, Kei Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6328201
    Abstract: A multilayer wiring substrate which can be produced by a simple method and has a high connection reliability is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Inoue, Masakazu Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 6310391
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mounted structure of circuit board which can be prepared by a simple method and exhibits a good heat dissipation from chip and undergoes relaxed heat stress and a multi-layer circuit board to be incorporated in the mounted structure. A novel mounted structure of circuit board is provided comprising a core material embedded in an insulating layer, said core material having a metal layer with a heat conductivity of not less than 100 W/m·K provided on at least one side of an Ni—Fe alloy foil, said insulating layer comprising a wire conductor provided and a semiconductor element mounted on at least one side thereof, characterized in that a solder metal member for heat conduction is provided interposed between said semiconductor element and said core material so that said semiconductor element and said core material are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Megumu Nagasawa, Masakazu Sugimoto, Yasushi Inoue, Kei Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20010027245
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to produce a polymer, which is free from the troubles of the coloration and the decrease in the mechanical properties of molded articles (films, etc.), crosslinkage failure, migration (stain) or the like, by the living radical polymerization method wherein the content of impurities consisting of a transition metal and its ligand employed as a polymerization activator is reduced. A process for producing a polymer is described, comprising: a) the step of performing a polymerization reaction by using a monomer, a transition metal and its ligand and a polymerization initiator to form a polymer; and b) the step of eliminating the transition metal and its ligand contained in the polymer under the condition of a viscosity of 100 Pa•s or below, wherein the step b comprises: b1) the former step of eliminating the transition metal and its ligand insoluble in the polymer; and b2) the latter step of eliminating the transition metal and its ligand dissolved in the polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventors: Yutaka Moroishi, Michiharu Yamamoto, Tetsuo Inoue, Tomoko Doi, Masakazu Sugimoto, Fumiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 6281324
    Abstract: A semiconductive belt comprising a polyimide film having a volume resistivity of 109 &OHgr;cm to 1016 &OHgr;cm and a surface resistivity of 1010 &OHgr; to 1017 &OHgr; at 25° C. and 60% RH, wherein the amount of change of the surface resistivity between 30° C. and 85% RH and 10° C. and 15% RH in terms of common logarithm being is 1.0 or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Nakamura, Toshihiko Tomita, Masakazu Sugimoto, Junichi Nakazono, Toshiaki Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 6258449
    Abstract: A low-thermal expansion circuit board comprising an insulating layer made of an organic polymer having thereon a wiring conductor for bare chip mounting, wherein the wiring conductor is an iron-nickel-based alloy layer having a copper layer on at least one side thereof; and a low-thermal expansion multilayer circuit board having a plurality of the low-thermal expansion circuit boards via an adhesive layer, the adhesive layer having through-holes filled with solder to connect the circuits layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Megumu Nagasawa, Masakazu Sugimoto, Yasushi Inoue, Kei Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6258573
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coryneform bacterium having resistance to azaserine or &bgr;-(2-thienyl)-DL-alanine and having L-serine productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Masakazu Sugimoto, Tsuyoshi Osumi, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Wataru Hibino, Mika Ito
  • Publication number: 20010004944
    Abstract: A double-sided circuit board of which a solder conductor is prevented from deformation in a cycling test so as to maintain high connection reliability, comprises an insulating layer 2 made of an organic high molecular weight resin and a circuit 3 provided on each side of the insulating layer 2, the circuits 3 on both sides being electrically connected through via-holes filled with a conductor 4 made of solder having a metal powder 6 dispersed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Inventors: Kei Nakamura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Yasushi Inoue, Megumu Nagasawa, Takuji Okeyui, Masayuki Kaneto, Shinya Ota
  • Patent number: 6221636
    Abstract: A recombinant DNA autonomously replicable in cells of coryneform bacteria, comprising a DNA sequence coding for an aspartokinase in which feedback inhibition by L-lysine and L-threonine is substantially desensitized, and a DNA sequence coding for a diaminopimelate decarboxylase; a coryneform bacterium harboring an aspartokinase in which feedback inhibition by L-lysine and L-threonine is substantially desensitized, and comprising an enhanced DNA sequence coding for a diaminopimelate decarboxylase; and a method for producing L-lysine comprising the steps of cultivating the coryneform bacterium in an appropriate medium to allow L-lysine to be produced and accumulated in a culture of the bacterium, and collecting L-lysine from the culture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Hayakawa, Masakazu Sugimoto, Yasuhiko Yoshihara, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu
  • Patent number: 6180261
    Abstract: A low thermal expansion circuit board 1 on which a semiconductor element can be mounted with ease and high reliability, which comprises an insulating layer 3 having an Ni—Fe-based alloy foil or a titanium foil as a core, a wiring conductor 4 on both sides thereof, and an adhesive resin layer 5 on the side on which a semiconductor element is to be mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Inoue, Masakazu Sugimoto, Amane Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 6159586
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer wiring substrate for mounting a semiconductor chip, etc. The multilayer wiring substrate is comprised of a plurality of double-sided circuit substrates, each comprised of an organic high molecular weight insulating layer and wiring conductor. An adhesive is used for laminating the double-sided circuit substrates. A Ni--Fe based alloy foil or a titanium foil is embedded within the organic high molecular weight insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Inoue, Masakazu Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 6157084
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of meeting the demand for fine-pitched wiring of semiconductor element and highly dense mounting thereof, as well as the demand for a thin structure thereof, which device being superior in the adhesion property of an insulating resin to be used for sealing a semiconductor element and a film carrier, and thus highly reliable. In FIG. 1, a conductive circuit (5) is embedded so that it will not be exposed at the both surfaces (6a, 6b) of an insulator layer (6), and conductive paths (7, 8) are formed in a pair from the both surfaces (5a, 5b) of the conductive circuit (5), the conductive paths slipping relative to each other in the direction of the surface of the conductive circuit (5). The conductive paths (7, 8) are respectively connected to bumps (9, 10), and the conductive circuit (5) and bumps (9, 10) are conducted via conductive paths (7, 8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Hino, Toshiki Naito, Masakazu Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 6090597
    Abstract: A coryneform bacterium in which a DNA coding for a diaminopimelate decarboxylase and a DNA coding for a diaminopimelate dehydrogenase are enhanced is cultivated in a medium to allow L-lysine to be produced and accumulated in a culture, and L-lysine is collected from the culture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Seiko Hirano, Masakazu Sugimoto, Eiichi Nakano, Masako Izui, Atsushi Hayakawa, Yasuhiko Yoshihara, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu
  • Patent number: 6037154
    Abstract: L-serine is produced by cultivating in a medium a coryneform bacterium having L-serine productivity in which an activity of at least one of phosphoserine phosphatase and phosphoserine transaminase is enhanced, preferably, further having introduced therein a gene coding for D-3-phosophoglycerate dehydrogenase in which feedback inhibition by L-serine is desensitized, allowing L-serine to accumulate in the medium, and collecting the L-serine from the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Masakazu Sugimoto, Tsuyoshi Osumi, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Wataru Hibino, Mika Ito
  • Patent number: 6004773
    Abstract: A coryneform bacterium harboring an aspartokinase in which feedback inhibition by L-lysine and L-threonine is substantially desensitized, and comprising an enhanced DNA sequence coding for a dihydrodipicolinate reductase, an enhanced DNA sequence coding for dihydropicolinate reductase, an enhance DNA sequence coding for dihydropicolinate synthase, an enhanced DNA sequence coding for diaminopimelate decarboxylase and an enhanced DNA sequence coding for aspartate aminotransferase; a method for producing L-lysine comprising the steps of cultivating the coryneform bacterium in an appropriate medium to allow L-lysine to be produced and accumulated in a culture of the bacterium, and collecting L-lysine from the culture; and a recombinant DNA usable for production of the coryneform bacterium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Araki, Masakazu Sugimoto, Yasuhiko Yoshihara, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu
  • Patent number: 5919694
    Abstract: A phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase gene, which has mutation such as mutation to replace 625th glutamic acid from the N-terminus of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase with lysine, mutation to replace 438th arginine from the N-terminus with cysteine and the like, is introduced into Escherichia coli or coryneform bacteria, so as to produce a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase which is not substantially inhibited by aspartic acid, thereby amino acid is efficiently produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Sugimoto, Tomoko Suzuki, Hiroshi Matsui, Katsura Izui