Patents Assigned to Micronics
  • 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: 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: 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: 10991933
    Abstract: A secondary battery according to the present invention includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a charging layer arranged between the first electrode (11) and the second electrode and containing a mixture of an insulating material and a first n-type oxide semiconductor material, an n-type oxide semiconductor layer arranged between the charging layer and the first electrode and containing a second n-type oxide semiconductor material, a p-type oxide semiconductor layer (16) arranged between the charging layer and the second electrode and containing a p-type oxide semiconductor material, a mixture layer arranged between the charging layer and the p-type oxide semiconductor layer and containing a mixture of silicon oxide and a third n-type oxide semiconductor material, and a conductive layer arranged between the first electrode and the n-type oxide semiconductor layer and containing a metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: Takuo Kudoh, Harutada Dewa, Hikaru Takano, Tomokazu Saito, Takashi Tonokawa
  • Patent number: 10969442
    Abstract: A test system is characterized by a holding unit that holds a light-receiving unit receiving light emitted from a test object and an optical path forming unit that is formed with an optical transmission path as a path of the light received by the light-receiving unit, in which the optical transmission path is formed of a different member from the light-receiving unit. Since the test system has such a configuration, replacement of the light-receiving unit that receives the light emitted from the test object can be facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventor: Osamu Arai
  • Publication number: 20210098920
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical contactor that is formed from a small number of components that can improve the conductivity in the electrical contactor, while improving the slidability of an elastic member and the electrical contact stability with a contact target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventor: Tomoaki KUGA
  • Jig
    Patent number: 10962568
    Abstract: Provided is a jig enabling detachment and attachment of a probe head from and to an electric connecting apparatus without using a special holding device. A jig (50) is applied to an electric connecting apparatus (10) electrically connecting a device under test to a testing apparatus for the device under test. The electric connecting apparatus includes a wiring substrate (22) and a probe head (28) secured to the wiring substrate with a plurality of set screws (26) and including a plurality of probes (34) made of a magnetic body. The jig (50) includes a plate (52) and a magnet (54) attached to the plate. The plate can detachably be attached to the probe head, and the magnet is opposed to a lower end portion (34 b) of each of the probes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventor: Akihiro Shuto
  • Publication number: 20210091400
    Abstract: To provide a manufacturing method of a secondary battery capable of increasing discharge capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TSUNOKUNI, Tomokazu SAITO, Yuki SATO, Hikaru TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20210041482
    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: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: YASUTAKA KISHI, MASAHIRO WAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210041480
    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 an electrical signal flowing through an electrical contactor better.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: YASUTAKA KISHI, MASAHIRO WAKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10908182
    Abstract: An electrical connecting apparatus includes a contact unit provided on a substrate to contact an electrode terminal of a test subject in response to receipt of a load. The contact unit includes multiple plate-like members stacked in the thickness directions of the plate-like members and supported on the substrate in such a manner that a contact surface formed at an end surface of each of the plate-like members contacts a wiring pattern on the substrate. At least some of the multiple plate-like members are contacts including a base, and an arm having one end supported by the base and an opposite end where a tip portion to contact the electrode terminal is formed. The arm has a surface to contact a surface of an adjacent one of the plate-like members to form a conductive path connecting the tip portion and the wiring pattern through the adjacent plate-like member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventor: Eichi Osato
  • Patent number: 10906149
    Abstract: The invention provides a machine tool capable of expanding the slidable range of the moving unit without making the oil feeding system complicated. A machine tool in which a moving unit slides against a supporting unit with a sliding surface of the supporting unit facing a sliding surface of the moving unit, comprises a first oil groove formed on an unexposed portion of the sliding surface of the supporting unit; a second oil groove formed on an unexposed portion of the sliding surface of the moving unit; and an oil inlet formed on one of the first oil groove and the second oil groove. Lubricant fed through the oil inlet is supplied to the other of the first oil groove and the second oil groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: STAR MICRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rui Ota
  • Patent number: 10901031
    Abstract: Provided is an electric connecting apparatus 10 including a plurality of probes 20, a probe substrate 16 connected to base end portions 20b of the probes 20, and a probe support body 18, when tip end portions 20a of the probes 20 are pressed by a device under test, preventing the adjacent probes 20 from interfering. The probe support body 18 includes a plate-like guide portion 30 including guide holes through which the probes 20 pass. The guide portion 30 includes an upper guide portion 31, a lower guide portion 32, and a middle guide portion 33. The probes pass through the guide holes of the upper guide portion 31, the middle guide portion 33, and the lower guide portion 32 to be guided toward the device under test. The middle guide portion 33 is provided to be movable in a perpendicular direction X perpendicular to a thickness direction Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Masatomo Uebayashi, Akihisa Akahira, Tomoaki Kuga
  • Patent number: 10892452
    Abstract: A cell structure of the present invention includes first and second sheet shaped cells, each including a first electrode and a second electrode, and an insulating member arranged between the first and second sheet shaped cells. Here, the second electrode of the first sheet-shaped cell and the second electrode of the second sheet-shaped cell face each other. The first sheet shaped cell includes a tab portion extended on an XY plane to outside of the second sheet shaped cell and the second sheet shaped cell includes a tab portion extended on the XY plane to outside of the first sheet shaped cell. The second electrodes are connected through a tab lead arranged from the tab portion to the tab portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: Gouichi Iwao, Makoto Kikuta, Masami Sano
  • Patent number: 10859599
    Abstract: An electrical connection device includes: a probe (10); and a probe head (20) including a top portion (21) allowing penetration of the probe (10), a bottom portion (23) disposed closer to a distal end portion than the top portion (21) and allowing penetration of the probe (10), and an upper guide portion (24) and a lower guide portion (25), which are disposed between the top portion (21) and the bottom portion (23) and allow penetration of the probe (10), wherein the probe (10) is held in a curved state between the top portion (21) and the bottom portion (23), the probe (10) buckles by contact of the distal end portion with an inspection object (2), and at least a continuous portion of the probe (10), which ranges from a portion where the probe (10) in a buckling state penetrates the bottom portion (23) to a portion where the probe (10) penetrates the lower guide portion (25), is a high-rigidity portion (101) made to have higher rigidity than a buckling portion of the probe (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Takayuki Hayashizaki, Hisao Narita
  • Patent number: D918150
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventor: Eichi Osato