Patents by Inventor Tatsuo Asuma

Tatsuo Asuma 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: 11680322
    Abstract: A method for forming a film on a substrate by continuous vapor deposition includes: introducing the substrate into a film-forming apparatus; conveying the substrate into a pretreatment compartment of a pressure reduction chamber of the film-forming apparatus; performing plasma pretreatment of the substrate including supplying a plasma source gas composed of argon and at least one of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide gas and ethylene, introducing the plasma source gas that has been supplied as plasma into a gap between a magnet of the pretreatment compartment and a pretreatment roller such that the plasma is entrapped in the gap, and holding the plasma and applying a voltage between the pretreatment roller and a plasma-supply nozzle; conveying the substrate into a vapor deposition compartment of the pressure reduction chamber; and forming the film by vapor deposition on a surface of the substrate which has been pretreated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Asuma, Shigeki Matsui, Teruhisa Komuro
  • Publication number: 20180171480
    Abstract: A roller-type continuous vapor deposition film-forming apparatus for a substrate that is to be conveyed at high speed, comprising a plasma pretreatment device and a film-forming apparatus provided in series, wherein a substrate conveying compartment 12A, a pretreatment compartment 12B and film formation compartment 12C are formed inside a chamber 3; and a substrate S is wound from an unwinding roller 13 onto a plasma pretreatment roller 20 and film formation roller 25, which are provided in series, via guide rollers 14a-14d, and is taken up by a take-up roller 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: TATSUO ASUMA, SHIGEKI MATSUI, TERUHISA KOMURO
  • Patent number: 9822440
    Abstract: Employed is a roller-type continuous vapor-deposited film forming device in which a film-forming section and a preprocessing section provided with a plasma preprocessing device are arranged in series at a distance from each other. With a substrate transported at a high speed, plasma (P) is supplied to the substrate surface side while set to an electrically positive potential by a plasma preprocessing means for supplying the plasma toward the substrate (S) in a space enclosed in a preprocessing roller, and enclosed in a plasma supply means for supplying a plasma-forming gas and in a magnet (21), which is a magnetism formation means. An active preprocessed surface is formed on the surface of the substrate (S). An inorganic oxide vapor-deposited film having as a principal component thereof an aluminum oxide containing AL-C covalent bonds is immediately formed at high speed in succession on the preprocessed surface of the substrate to produce a highly adhesive transparent vapor-deposited film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Matsui, Tatsuo Asuma, Teruhisa Komuro, Hiroshi Miyama, Takakazu Goto, Kaoru Miyazaki, Hiroshi Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20150275349
    Abstract: Employed is a roller-type continuous vapor-deposited film forming device in which a film-forming section and a preprocessing section provided with a plasma preprocessing device are arranged in series at a distance from each other. With a substrate transported at a high speed, plasma (P) is supplied to the substrate surface side while set to an electrically positive potential by a plasma preprocessing means for supplying the plasma toward the substrate (S) in a space enclosed in a preprocessing roller, and enclosed in a plasma supply means for supplying a plasma-forming gas and in a magnet (21), which is a magnetism formation means. An active preprocessed surface is formed on the surface of the substrate (S). An inorganic oxide vapor-deposited film having as a principal component thereof an aluminum oxide containing AL-C covalent bonds is immediately formed at high speed in succession on the preprocessed surface of the substrate to produce a highly adhesive transparent vapor-deposited film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Matsui, Tatsuo Asuma, Teruhisa Komuro, Hiroshi Miyama, Takakazu Goto, Kaoru Miyazaki, Hiroshi Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20140311409
    Abstract: A roller-type continuous vapor deposition film-forming apparatus for a substrate that is to be conveyed at high speed, comprising a plasma pretreatment device and a film-forming apparatus provided in series, wherein a substrate conveying compartment 12A, a pretreatment compartment 12B and film formation compartment 12C are formed inside a chamber 3; and a substrate S is wound from an unwinding roller 13 onto a plasma pretreatment roller 20 and film formation roller 25, which are provided in series, via guide rollers 14a-14d, and is taken up by a take-up roller 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Asuma, Shigeki Matsui, Teruhisa Komuro