Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
  • Patent number: 11372022
    Abstract: An electrical contactor includes: an installing portion; a base end portion extending continuously toward the installing portion; a plurality of arm portions extending from the base end portion in a longitudinal direction; a coupling portion coupled to the tip of each of the arm portions; a pedestal portion provided continuously toward the coupling portion; and a contact portion provided at a lower end of the pedestal portion, wherein each of the plurality of arm portions elastically supports the contact portion in contact with a first contact target, and a curved portion is provided on the coupling portion side or the base end portion side of a closest-to-contact-portion arm portion that is the closest to the contact portion among the plurality of arm portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: Yasutaka Kishi, Masahiro Wakazawa
  • Patent number: 11340289
    Abstract: An electrical contactor capable of coping with an electrical test under a high temperature environment and realizing reliable positioning is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventor: Eichi Osato
  • Publication number: 20220099702
    Abstract: An object is to enhance the durability of substrates of a probe substrate and/or the probe substrate and a member to be joined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS, TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K.
    Inventors: TOSHINORI OMORI, KAZUYA GOTO, YASUAKI OSANAI, TAKASHI AKINIWA, TAKEKI SUGISAWA, TAKESHI KONDO, SHINTARO ABE, MAKI WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220074971
    Abstract: An electrical connecting device includes an insulating probe (10) including a bottom-side plunger (11), a top-side plunger (12), and a barrel (13), and a probe head (30) including a combined guide plate (30A) having a conductive region (301) made of a conductive material and an insulating region (302) made of an insulating material arranged adjacent to each other in a planar view. The bottom-side plunger (11) and the top-side plunger (12) are electrically connected to each other inside the barrel (13), and the bottom-side plunger (11) and the top-side plunger (12) are electrically insulated from the barrel (13). The probe head (30) holds the insulating probe (10) in a state in which the barrel (13) penetrates through the conductive region (301). The barrel (13) of the insulating probe (10) is connected to a ground potential via the conductive region (301) when an inspection object (4) is measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventor: Akihiro SHUTO
  • Patent number: 11255878
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to make it possible to improve electrical inspection of an object to be inspected by making the conduction characteristics of the electrical signal flowing through an electrical contactor better. An electrical contactor according to the present disclosure includes: a pedestal portion having, at a lower end thereof, a contact portion that comes into contact with a first contact target of an object to be inspected; a base end portion extending continuously toward an installing portion that comes into contact with a second contact target of a substrate electrically connected to an inspection device side; and at least three or more arm portions provided between the base end portion and the pedestal portion, each of the at least three or more arm portions having one end supported by the base end portion and another end coupled to the pedestal portion to elastically support the contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: Yasutaka Kishi, Masahiro Wakazawa
  • Patent number: 11249109
    Abstract: An electric connection device includes a probe (10) and a probe head (20). The probe (10) includes: a tubular barrel (11), a rod-like top-side plunger (121), and a rod-like bottom-side plunger (122). The top- and bottom-side plungers are connected to the barrel (11) with tips thereof exposed from respective open ends of the barrel (11). The probe head (2) includes guide plates (211 and 212) which are spaced apart from each other in the axial direction of the probe (10) and each include a through-hole through which a body of the barrel (11) penetrates. A protrusion (13) having an outer diameter greater than the body of the barrel (11) is provided on the circumference of the probe (10). The guide plates (211 and 212) include a support guide plate in which the through-hole has a diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the protrusion (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventor: Mika Nasu
  • Patent number: 11245113
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a first oxide semiconductor having a first conductivity type; a first charging layer disposed on the first oxide semiconductor layer, and composed by including a first insulating material and a second oxide semiconductor having the first conductivity type; a second charging layer disposed on the first charging layer; a third oxide semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type disposed on the second charging layer; and a hydroxide layer disposed between the first charging layer and the third oxide semiconductor layer, and containing a hydroxide of a metal constituting the third oxide semiconductor layer. The highly reliable secondary battery is capable of improving an energy density and increasing battery characteristics (electricity accumulation capacity).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Takashi Tonokawa, Yutaka Kosaka, Kazuyuki Tsunokuni, Hikaru Takano, Shigefusa Chichibu, Kazunobu Kojima
  • Patent number: 11209460
    Abstract: An electrical connection device includes: a plurality of probes (10) in which distal end portions contact an inspection object (2) during measurement; and a space transformer (30) including a plurality of connection wirings (33), in each of which a first terminal electrically connected to any of proximal end portions of the plurality of probes (10) is arranged on a first main surface (301), and a second terminal is exposed to a second main surface (302), and having a short-circuit wiring pattern formed on the first main surface, the short-circuit wiring pattern electrically connecting, to the same connection wiring (33), proximal end portions of a plurality of same-potential probes (10) set at a same potential during measurement among the plurality of probes (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventor: Tatsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 11204370
    Abstract: A probe includes: a rod-shaped plunger (11) including a tip section (111) and an insertion section (112) connected to the tip section (111); a tube-shaped barrel (12) in which the insertion section (112) of the plunger (11) is located inside; and a conductive first fixing member (131) which is located in an area where the plunger (11) and the barrel (12) face each other and is configured to fix the plunger (11) to the barrel (12), the first fixing member (131) having a lower melting point than that of the material of both of the plunger (11) and the barrel (12). The gap between the plunger (11) and the barrel (12) is filled with the first fixing member (131) without any voids in a cross section of the probe in an area where the plunger (11) and the barrel (12) overlap each other, including the area where the first fixing member (131) is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Mika Nasu, Osamu Takeuti
  • Publication number: 20210376548
    Abstract: To provide a method of manufacturing an electrical contactor including a volute spring structure extending in upward and downward directions formed integrally using a single material, having mechanical simplicity and excellent functionality, and functioning as an electric circuit achieving connection without loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventor: TOMOAKI KUGA
  • Patent number: 11150268
    Abstract: An electric connection device, includes: a circuit trace-included member (30); a probe (10) including a base that connects to a circuit trace formed in the circuit trace-included member (30) and a tip that comes into contact with an inspection subject (2); a probe head (20) which is provided next to the circuit trace-included member (30) and holds the probe (10); and a fixing component (100) which is located in the probe head (20) with an end protruding from the probe head (20) toward the circuit trace-included member (30), the end being fixed to a fixing surface (301) of the circuit trace-included member (30) that faces the probe head (20) to connect the probe head (20) and the circuit trace-included member (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventor: Tatsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 11099227
    Abstract: Included are an insulating plate 41 including a plurality of insulating synthetic resin layers, wiring circuits 44a, 44b, and 44c provided in the insulating plate 41, a thin-film resistor 46 formed to be buried in the insulating plate 41 and electrically connected to the wiring circuits 44a, 44b, and 44c, a heat dissipating portion 47 provided over one surface of the insulating plate to be opposed to the thin-film resistor 46 via a part of the plurality of insulating synthetic resin layers and having higher heat conductivity than that of the insulating plate 41, a pedestal portion 48 formed to be buried in the insulating plate 41 and provided to be opposed to the thin-film resistor 46 via a part of the plurality of insulating synthetic resin layers on an opposite side of the heat dissipating portion 47 and having higher heat conductivity than that of the insulating plate 41, and a heat dissipation and pedestal connecting portion 49 connecting the heat dissipating portion 47 to the pedestal portion 48 and havi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Noboru Otabe, Yoshiyuki Fukami
  • Patent number: 11085948
    Abstract: An electric connection device includes: a probe (11); a probe head (12) that holds the probe (11); and an electrode substrate (13) on which an electrode pad (131) to be connected to a proximal end of the probe (11) is provided. The probe head (12) is provided with a guide pin (14) for alignment of the probe head (12) and the electrode substrate (13), and the electrode substrate (13) is provided with a guide hole group composed of a plurality of guide holes corresponding to the guide pin (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventor: Shinji Katou
  • Patent number: 11067602
    Abstract: To maintain the horizontalness of a probe card even, if the number of measured DUTs is increased. An electrical connecting apparatus according to the present, disclosure comprises a support member having a lower surface region in which a level part is formed and a wiring board provided adjacent to the lower surface of the support member, and to be connected to a testing device side. The electrical connecting apparatus comprises: a connection unit having multiple connection terminals; a probe substrate electrically connecting multiple probes to the connection terminals; multiple anchors arranged on the upper surface of the probe substrate; and multiple supports functioning as supports between corresponding ones of the anchors and the support member via the wiring board and the connection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kudo, Takayuki Narumi, Yoshinori Kikuchi, Takao Yasuta
  • Patent number: 11022627
    Abstract: A probe 20 electrically connecting a first contact target to a second contact target includes a tubular barrel portion 50, a first plunger portion 60 partially inserted into a first end of the barrel portion 50 and electrically contacting the first contact target, and a second plunger portion 70 partially inserted into a second end of the barrel portion 50 and electrically contacting the second contact target. The barrel portion 50 includes a first barrel portion 51 having an inside diameter ?1i, and a second barrel portion 52 arranged inside the first barrel portion 51 and having an outside diameter ?2o. The first barrel portion 51 includes a first spring portion 151. The second barrel portion 52 includes a second spring portion 152. The first plunger portion 60 includes a main body portion 61 having a longer dimension than an inside diameter of the first barrel portion 51.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventor: Mika Nasu
  • Publication number: 20210156901
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a prober that is able to carry out accurate inspection of semiconductor device in wafer state by reducing the effect of the external noises and the leakage of current and further by eliminating the stray capacitance of the chuck stage against the prober housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Katsuo YASUTA, Mamoru ARUGA
  • Patent number: 10989738
    Abstract: To reduce inspection time by changing an action speed of a movable axis movable part while considering size information of an electrode terminal as a contact destination of a probe. An inspection apparatus of the present disclosure is an inspection apparatus with a plurality of movable probes that brings each of the movable probes into contact with each of a plurality of objects to be inspected on a board to be inspected so as to measure electrical characteristics between the objects to be inspected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Fukami
  • Patent number: 10989739
    Abstract: The present invention provides a probe card holder including a plate-shaped frame formed with an opening approximately the same size as the probe card, a plurality of card bottom surface holding portions that are provided around a peripheral edge of the opening in the frame and that hold a bottom surface of the probe card while biasing the bottom surface, and a plurality of card top surface supporting portions that support the top surface of the probe card. Each card bottom surface holding portion includes an L-shaped member with a base portion and a bottom surface supporting portion, a knob that is linked to a tip end portion of the base portion and a biasing member that is disposed between the knob and the top surface of the frame and that biases the bottom surface supporting member upward toward the bottom surface of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: Hideki Hirota, Takao Yasuta, Takayuki Narumi, Yoshinori Kikuchi
  • Patent number: D918150
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventor: Eichi Osato
  • Patent number: D931228
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: Yasutaka Kishi, Masahiro Wakazawa