Patents by Inventor Shinji Otani

Shinji Otani 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: 8988855
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body and an outer electrode. The outer electrode is disposed on the ceramic body. The outer electrode includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a resin, a first metal component, and a second metal component having a higher melting point than the first metal component. The second conductive layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is includes a plating film. An alloy particle containing the first metal component and the second metal component protrudes to the second conductive layer side from a surface of the first conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoyasu Sakurada, Kota Zenzai, Hisayoshi Omori, Takashi Kanayama, Shinji Otani, Naoki Shimizu, Seiji Katsuta
  • Publication number: 20140285951
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes: a laminated body having a plurality of capacitor elements stacked to have principal surfaces thereof overlapped with each other. The capacitor elements each include a valve-action metallic substrate having two principal surfaces opposed to each other, a dielectric oxide film covering a surface of the valve-action metallic substrate, and a cathode layer covering a surface of the dielectric oxide film. The laminated body has two principal surfaces and more than one side surface, and has at least one of the side surfaces with the valve-action metallic substrates exposed. An anode terminal is electrically connected to the side surface of the laminated body having the valve-action metallic substrates exposed therefrom, and the cathode layers and the anode terminal are insulated with insulators interposed therebetween, the insulators being obtained from the cathode layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Shinji Otani, Koji Fujimoto, Yoshihiro Koshido
  • Publication number: 20130283973
    Abstract: A clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body capable of forming a sintered silver alloy body, which is not easily discolored even in the atmosphere and has excellent tensile strength, flexural strength, surface hardness (hereinafter, sometimes collectively referred to as ‘mechanical strength’), elongation or the like, powder for the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a method for manufacturing the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a sintered silver alloy body and a method for manufacturing the sintered silver alloy body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaji, Yasuo Ido, Shinji Otani
  • Patent number: 8496726
    Abstract: A clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body capable of forming a sintered silver alloy body, which is not easily discolored even in the atmosphere and has excellent tensile strength, flexural strength, surface hardness (hereinafter, sometimes collectively referred to as ‘mechanical strength’), elongation or the like, powder for the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a method for manufacturing the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a sintered silver alloy body and a method for manufacturing the sintered silver alloy body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaji, Yasuo Ido, Shinji Otani
  • Publication number: 20130106560
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body, an inner electrode, an outer electrode, and a connecting portion. The inner electrode is disposed inside the ceramic body. The end portion of the inner electrode extends to a surface of the ceramic body. The outer electrode is disposed on the surface of the ceramic body so as to cover the end portion of the inner electrode. The outer electrode includes a resin and a metal. The connecting portion is disposed so as to extend from an inside of the outer electrode to an inside of the ceramic body. In a portion of the surface of the ceramic body on which the outer electrode is disposed, the length of the connecting portion that extends in a direction in which the inner electrode is extends about 2.4 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kota ZENZAI, Hisayoshi OMORI, Takashi KANAYAMA, Kiyoyasu SAKURADA, Naoki SHIMIZU, Seiji KATSUTA, Shinji OTANI
  • Publication number: 20130107421
    Abstract: A ceramic body includes an inner electrode disposed inside the ceramic body and in which an end portion of the inner electrode extends to a surface of the ceramic body. An electrode layer is formed on the surface of the ceramic body so as to cover the end portion of the inner electrode, the electrode layer including a resin, a first metal filler that contains a first metal component, and a second metal filler that contains a second metal component having a higher melting point than the first metal component. A step of heating the electrode layer is performed to form an electrode including a metal layer that is located on the surface of the ceramic body and that includes the first and second metal components and a metal contained in the inner electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota ZENZAI, Hisayoshi OMORI, Takashi KANAYAMA, Kiyoyasu SAKURADA, Naoki SHIMIZU, Seiji KATSUTA, Shinji OTANI
  • Publication number: 20130107420
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body and an outer electrode. The outer electrode is disposed on the ceramic body. The outer electrode includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a resin, a first metal component, and a second metal component having a higher melting point than the first metal component. The second conductive layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is includes a plating film. An alloy particle containing the first metal component and the second metal component protrudes to the second conductive layer side from a surface of the first conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoyasu SAKURADA, Kota ZENZAI, Hisayoshi OMORI, Takashi KANAYAMA, Shinji OTANI, Naoki SHIMIZU, Seiji KATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20120325050
    Abstract: A clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body capable of forming a sintered silver alloy body, which is not easily discolored even in the atmosphere and has excellent tensile strength, flexural strength, surface hardness (hereinafter, sometimes collectively referred to as ‘mechanical strength’), elongation or the like, powder for the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a method for manufacturing the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a sintered silver alloy body and a method for manufacturing the sintered silver alloy body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAJI, Yasuo IDO, Shinji OTANI
  • Patent number: 8308841
    Abstract: A clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body capable of forming a sintered silver alloy body, which is not easily discolored even in the atmosphere and has excellent tensile strength, flexural strength, surface hardness (hereinafter, sometimes collectively referred to as ‘mechanical strength’), elongation or the like, powder for the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a method for manufacturing the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a sintered silver alloy body and a method for manufacturing the sintered silver alloy body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaji, Yasuo Ido, Shinji Otani
  • Patent number: 8244154
    Abstract: A method is provided for recycling a toner container including a casing configured to house a toner, a sleeve protruding from the casing, and one cap with a brim to be bonded with a distal edge of the sleeve to be closed comprising: removing an area including an interface between the brim and the distal edge to form a new distal edge on the sleeve; removing a part of the one cap remaining in the sleeve; filling a toner in the casing; fitting another cap into the sleeve so that the brim of the another cap comes in contact with the new distal edge; and bonding the new distal edge and the brim of the another cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Ito, Katsuaki Ohnishi, Hideaki Takeuchi, Shinji Otani
  • Publication number: 20120128523
    Abstract: A clay-like composition for forming a sintered copper body of the present invention includes a powder constituent containing a copper-containing metal powder which contains copper and a copper-containing oxide powder which contains copper; a binder; and water, wherein the amount of oxygen contained in the powder constituent is in a range of from 4 mass % to 8 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaji, Yoshifumi Yamamoto, Yasuo Ido, Shinji Otani
  • Patent number: 8171662
    Abstract: A method for processing a separation and rupture portion of a display label is a method for forming, on the display label attached to an attachment target object, the separation and rupture portion for rupturing the display label upon separation of the display label from the attachment target object. This method includes attaching, to the attachment target object, the display label having a back side on which an adhesive layer is formed, and then forming a slit serving as the separation and rupture portion on the display label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Itoh, Katsuaki Ohnishi, Hideaki Takeuchi, Shinji Otani, Shigeru Nishiyama, Tsutomu Ashikari, Eiichi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120098168
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a sintered silver alloy body of the present invention includes steps of adding copper oxide to a silver-containing clay-like composition that contains silver-containing metal powder containing silver, a binder, and water to manufacture a clay-like composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body; making an object by making the clay-like composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body into an arbitrary shape; and baking the object in a reduction atmosphere or a non-oxidizing atmosphere after the object is dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaji, Yasuo Ido, Shinji Otani
  • Publication number: 20110250089
    Abstract: A clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body capable of forming a sintered silver alloy body, which is not easily discolored even in the atmosphere and has excellent tensile strength, flexural strength, surface hardness (hereinafter, sometimes collectively referred to as ‘mechanical strength’), elongation or the like, powder for the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a method for manufacturing the clayish composition for forming a sintered silver alloy body, a sintered silver alloy body and a method for manufacturing the sintered silver alloy body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaji, Yasuo Ido, Shinji Otani
  • Publication number: 20110132637
    Abstract: A conductive resin composition which allows a resin electrode which is favorable in terms of shape and adhesion to a ceramic device to be formed reliably, and a chip-type electronic component including resin electrodes formed with the conductive resin component are described. The conductive resin composition contains a linear bifunctional epoxy resin having a molecular weight of 11000 to 40000 and a terminal glycidyl group, a conductive silver powder, and a solvent, and has a yield value of 3.6 Pa or less. In addition, the conductive powder can have a surface attached to a fatty acid or a salt thereof, and the ratio of the fatty acid or salt thereof to the conductive powder is 0.5 wt % or less. Furthermore, the conductive powder can be spherical, and the ratio of the conductive powder in solids constituting the conductive resin composition can be 42 to 54 vol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji OTANI, Akihiro Nomura
  • Publication number: 20110020603
    Abstract: Disclosed is a capacitor which has a high capacitance and a low equivalent series resistance. The capacitor includes a conductive base material composed of a plating film having a specific surface area of 100 mm2/mm3 or more, a dielectric film on a surface of the conductive base material, and an opposed conductor formed so as to be opposed to the conductive base material with the dielectric film interposed therebetween. The plating film constituting the conductive base material is formed by electrolytic plating or electroless plating, and may have a porous form, wire-like form or broccoli-like form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuo KUNISHI, Junichi Saito, Daisuke Megumi, Yoshinori Ueda, Yasuaki Kainuma, Mikiya Kobayashi, Shinji Otani
  • Publication number: 20100088936
    Abstract: A method for processing a separation and rupture portion of a display label is a method for forming, on the display label attached to an attachment target object, the separation and rupture portion for rupturing the display label upon separation of the display label from the attachment target object. This method includes attaching, to the attachment target object, the display label having a back side on which an adhesive layer is formed, and then forming a slit serving as the separation and rupture portion on the display label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Itoh, Katsuaki Ohnishi, Hideaki Takeuchi, Shinji Otani, Shigeru Nishiyama, Tsutomu Ashikari, Eiichi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20100092207
    Abstract: A method is provided for recycling a toner container including a casing configured to house a toner, a sleeve protruding from the casing, and one cap with a brim to be bonded with a distal edge of the sleeve to be closed comprising: removing an area including an interface between the brim and the distal edge to form a new distal edge on the sleeve; removing a part of the one cap remaining in the sleeve; filling a toner in the casing; fitting another cap into the sleeve so that the brim of the another cap comes in contact with the new distal edge; and bonding the new distal edge and the brim of the another cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Ito, Katsuaki Ohnishi, Hideaki Takeuchi, Shinji Otani
  • Patent number: 7094512
    Abstract: An electrophotographic printing method which comprises using a charge controlling agent containing a monoazo iron complex compound of the formula (1) as an effective component, wherein A1, A2, B1 and B2 are respectively independently H, an alkyl group or a halogen atom, J is H, an alkali metal, NH4 or an alkylammonium, they may be two or more kinds, X1 and X2 are respectively independently H, an alkyl group or a halogen atom, and Y1 and Y2 are respectively independently H, an alkyl group or an aromatic group which may have a substituent, provided that a case in which A1, A2, B1, B2, X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 are hydrogen at the same time is excluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Otsuka, Kazuo Nemoto, Shinji Otani, Noriyuki Suzuki, Eisuke Yamada, Masaki Okubo
  • Patent number: 6897000
    Abstract: A method for producing a charge controlling agent comprisinig a reaction product of an aromatic hydroxycarboxylic acid and a calcium compound bonded by at least one bondinig system selected from the group consisting of coordinate bonding, covalent bonding and ionic bonding, characterized in that the aromatic hydroxycarboxylic acid and the calcium compound are reacted by dropwise adding a solution of the aromatic hydroxycarboxylic acid to a solution of the calcium compound as a metal-imparting agent, a charge controlling agent produced by said method, which has a shape coefficient (SF-1) average value of at most 250 and a shape coefficient (SF-2) average value of at most 200, and an electrostatic image developing toner containing said charge controlling agent having a presence ratio on a toner surface of at least 2.0 mg/1 g of toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Otani, Noriyuki Suzuki, Hideyuki Otsuka, Mitsutoshi Anzai