Patents Assigned to C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11946144
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electroless Pd plating solution which enables formation of a Pd plating film forming a plating film having excellent wire bondability even after a high-temperature thermal history. An electroless Pd plating solution of the present invention includes: a Palladium compound, a reducing agent, a complexing agent, and at least one selected from a group consisting of Ge and rare earth element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Maeda, Katsuhisa Tanabe, Tomohiro Kawahara
  • Patent number: 11891698
    Abstract: A surface treatment device includes at least one paddle in a plate shape, in a surface treatment tank, for stirring a surface treatment solution near a substrate by reciprocally moving the paddle with respect to the substrate. The paddle is configured by integrally forming multiple square bars provided in a depth direction or a horizontal direction of the surface treatment solution at regular intervals along the substrate. A liquid draining member for draining a liquid is arranged in at least one side of an end of the paddle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoji Okuda, Daisuke Matsuyama, Masayuki Kiso, Daisuke Hashimoto, Akira Okada, Keita Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11891714
    Abstract: A holding apparatus for applying an electrolytic plating treatment to a planar workpiece, and the holding apparatus can reduce an amount of plating that is deposited on an edge part of the planar workpiece. The holding apparatus for applying the electrolytic plating treatment to the planar workpiece has a rear member and a front member facing the rear member and having an opening part. The planar workpiece is disposed between the rear member and the front member. The front member has a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of first insulating parts. The plurality of electrodes and the plurality of first insulating parts cover the edge part of the planar workpiece in a width direction of the planar workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Matsuyama, Daisuke Hashimoto, Kazuyoshi Nishimoto, Tomoji Okuda
  • Patent number: 11887882
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a holding jig that is used for applying a liquid bath treatment to a planar workpiece, has good cleaning capabilities, and avoids intimate contact of the planar workpiece with a rear member of the holding jig so that the planar workpiece can be easily detached from the holding jig after cleaning. A holding jig is used for applying a liquid bath treatment to a planar workpiece. The holding jig comprises a rear member, and a front member that faces the rear member and has an opening portion. The planar workpiece is disposed between the rear member and the front member, and the rear member has a plurality of projections formed on the surface of the rear member facing the front member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Matsuyama, Daisuke Hashimoto, Kazuyoshi Nishimoto, Tomoji Okuda
  • Publication number: 20230407487
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an etchant that can provide good deposition of a metal plating such as a nickel plating, despite its acidity, and a method of surface treatment of aluminum or an aluminum alloy using the etchant. Included is an etchant containing a zinc compound and a fluorine compound and having a pH of 4.5 to 6.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: C.Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuma Maekawa, Katsuhisa Tanabe, Sayuri Tanaka, Fuminori Shibayama
  • Patent number: 11814717
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a palladium plating solution and a plating method for improving a bath stability of a palladium plating, without decreasing a deposition property of the palladium plating. A palladium plating solution for improving a bath stability, without decreasing a deposition property, comprising: an aqueous palladium compound: one or more complexing agent containing a compound having at least an ethylenediamine or a propylenediamine skeleton; a formic acid or a formate; and a sulfur compound, wherein the palladium plating solution is having two or more sulfide groups in a molecule of the sulfur compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Kaneko, Yuhei Oogami, Katsuhisa Tanabe, Tsuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11718916
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a new electroless plating film which can prevent the diffusion of molten solder to a metal material constituting a conductor. The present invention is an electroless Co—W plating film, wherein content of W is in an amount of 35 to 58 mass % and a thickness of the film is 0.05 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Iguchi, Akio Itamura, Shoichi Fukui, Yukinori Oda, Masaaki Sato, Yoshihito Il, Hiroki Okubo
  • Publication number: 20230203665
    Abstract: A gold plating solution containing a gold cyanide salt, a reducing agent that is formaldehyde or its precursor, and an iron cyanide compound, and not containing a chelate compound having two or more iminodiacetic acid groups or aminomethylenephosphonic acid groups, is brought into contact with a chelating resin having an iminodiacetic acid group or an aminomethylenephosphonic acid group, thereby removing iron ions from the gold plating solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei KANEKO, Katsuhisa Tanabe, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Naoshi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20230151493
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a metal displacement solution that can provide good adhesion to a plating film (metal film), and a method for surface treatment of aluminum or an aluminum alloy using the metal displacement solution. Included is a metal displacement solution which contains a zinc compound, a nickel compound, a germanium compound, and a fluorine compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: C.Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuma Maekawa, Katsuhisa Tanabe, Sayuri Tanaka, Fuminori Shibayama
  • Patent number: 11560640
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a filling plating system and a filling plating method capable of filling plating sufficiently even if the plating is interrupted between electrolytic plating cells. A filling plating system for forming filling plating in a via hole and/or a through hole of a work to be plated, comprising: a plurality of electrolytic plating cells; and an additive adhesion region arranged between each of the plurality of electrolytic plating cells, wherein solution containing one or more kinds of additive selected from at least a leveler comprising nitrogen-containing organic compound, a brightener comprising sulfur-containing organic compound, and a carrier comprising polyether compound, is directly adhered to the work to be plated at the additive adhesion region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Okamachi, Naoyuki Omura, Kanako Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220389587
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a new electroless plating film which can prevent the diffusion of molten solder to a metal material constituting a conductor. The present invention is an electroless Co—W plating film, wherein content of W is in an amount of 35 to 58 mass % and a thickness of the film is 0.05 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji IGUCHI, Akio ITAMURA, Shoichi FUKUI, Yukinori ODA, Masaaki SATO, Yoshihito II, Hiroki OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20220388279
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a plating film which can improve soldering bond reliability of solder bond against the accumulation of thermal history. The present invention is a multilayer plating film comprising an electroless nickel-germanium alloy plating film; an electroless palladium plating film; and an electroless gold plating film in this order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa TANABE, Tatsushi SOMEYA, Naoki NAKANO, Kazuki YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11492706
    Abstract: An electroless palladium plating liquid containing at least hydrazine or a salt thereof as a reducing agent, which has excellent bath stability in the vicinity of acidity to neutrality range, long-term stability, and is capable of suppressing the Pd film deposition rate decrease caused by elution of etching resist. An electroless palladium plating solution of the invention includes a palladium compound, hydrazine or its salt, at least one selected from a group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1) or its salt and a compound represented by the following formula (2) or its salt; and a pH of 8 or less, NH2NHCOR1 (1), (NH2NHCO)2(R2)n (2), wherein R1 represents H, NH2, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, NHNH2, or an aromatic group, wherein each of these groups may have a substituent; R2 represents (CH2) or an aromatic group, wherein each of these groups may have a substituent; and n represents an integer of 0 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Sasamura, Tatsushi Someya, Katsuhisa Tanabe, Shinsuke Wada, Eriko Furuya
  • Patent number: 11427923
    Abstract: It is configured that a frame body is locked to a back panel by: inserting a number of first pins of the frame body into a number of first holes of the back panel; moving a fastening body outward by a moving mechanism of a lock mechanism; and fitting a notch into a concave portion at the tip of the first pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoji Okuda
  • Patent number: 11421325
    Abstract: A present invention provides a method for manufacturing a printed wiring board having excellent plating adhesion to a resin substrate having low surface roughness such as having surface roughness Ra of 0.2 ?m or less, having excellent treating solution stability, and having high penetrability into the resin substrate. The method for manufacturing a resin substrate includes a step 1A or a step 1B; and a step 2 after the step 1A or the step 1B; and the steps are conducted before conducting electroless plating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Saijo, Hisamitsu Yamamoto, Nobuhiko Naka
  • Patent number: 11415167
    Abstract: A shaft member of an embodiment includes: a base material having a shaft shape and made of steel; a low phosphorus plating layer that is laminated on the base material, that includes phosphorus, and in which the phosphorus content is 4.5 mass % or less; and a base plating layer that is formed as an electrolytic nickel phosphorus plating layer or a high phosphorus plating layer laminated between the base material and the low phosphorus plating layer. It is thus possible to increase the strength of the shaft member and decrease the size of the shaft member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Kita, Seiya Ozawa, Takahiro Mori, Shoji Iguchi, Osamu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11389818
    Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus for subjecting a workpiece immersed at least partly in a solution to a surface treatment has: a spray nozzle facing the workpiece for spraying a treatment solution towards a working surface of the workpiece. The surface treatment apparatus has at least one of: a spray nozzle rotator to rotate the spray nozzle in a plane parallel to the working surface of the workpiece; or a workpiece rotator to rotate the workpiece in a plane perpendicular to a spraying direction of the treatment solution sprayed from the spray nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoji Okuda, Daisuke Matsuyama, Shinji Tachibana, Masayuki Utsumi
  • Patent number: 11248305
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for, in copper electrolytic plating containing silver ions as an alloy component, obtaining a copper electrolytic plating film in which co-deposition of sulfur can be significantly suppressed and which is excellent in physical properties such as strength and hardness even after a high-temperature heat treatment at about 200° C. or higher. The present invention is a copper electrolytic plating bath comprising copper ions, an acid, chloride ions, and a complexing agent, wherein the copper electrolytic plating bath further comprises silver ions as an alloy component, and wherein methionine or a derivative thereof is contained as the complexing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Omura, Yuki Itakura, Kazunari Kato, Raihei Ikumoto
  • Patent number: 11173513
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a surface treatment device and a paddle with improved strength and uniform plating thickness by uniformly stirring surface treatment solution near an object to be plated. Also, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a surface treatment method capable of stirring for a long period of time, by uniformizing plating thickness, and by improving a strength of a paddle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoji Okuda, Daisuke Matsuyama, Masayuki Kiso, Daisuke Hashimoto, Akira Okada, Keita Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20210289637
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a novel printed wiring board having much higher adhesion between a filler-containing insulating resin substrate and a plating film. The method comprises the steps of: subjecting a filler-containing insulating resin substrate to a swelling treatment; a roughening treatment; a reduction treatment; and electroless plating, wherein the filler-containing insulating resin substrate after the reduction treatment is treated with a first treating solution and a second treating solution, and then is subjected to the electroless plating, wherein the first treating solution has a pH of 7 or higher and comprises: at least one selected from the group consisting of ethylene-based glycol ether represented by CmH(2m+1)-(OC2H4)n-OH, where m=an integer of 1 to 4, n=an integer of 1 to 4, and propylene-based glycol ether represented by CxH(2x+1)-(OC3H6)y-OH, where x=an integer of 1 to 4, y=an integer of 1 to 3, and wherein the second treating solution has a pH of 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu SAIJO, Hisamitsu YAMAMOTO, Nobuhiko NAKA