Patents Assigned to Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 7402756
    Abstract: A double-sided flexible circuit board with enhanced rigidity of terminals by using copper foil on an opposite side of the circuit board is provided. The flexible circuit board having wiring patterns P for connecting terminals on each of a front surface A and a back surface B of its periphery, includes: terminal patterns with linear-planar-shaped traces, the traces of which are equally spaced and disposed on the peripheries of each of the front surface and the back surface of the board; and backing patterns with planar-shaped traces, the traces of which are combined with the terminal patterns and bent so that the central portion of the backing pattern is offset from that of the terminal pattern, wherein the traces of the backing patterns are disposed on the corresponding opposite side of the traces of the terminal patterns on the board so as to be positioned overlapping with the traces of the terminal patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroji Hoshino
  • Patent number: 7381903
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a printed circuit board and an inspection method therefor capable of electrically inspecting misregistration of a solder resist and a display by silk printing with respect to a wiring pattern on a printed circuit board. The present invention provides a printed circuit board provided with a conductive layer for electromagnetic shielding including at least two targets 11, 12 formed as conductive patterns of the same shape on the printed circuit board, insulating layers 21, 22, 23, 4 greater than the targets and analogous to the targets provided in such a way as to be overlaid on the targets and an electromagnetic shielding layer 3 provided on the insulating layers, and an inspection method using the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Azeyanagi, Hideya Yoshikawa, Hiroaki Inose
  • Patent number: 6981315
    Abstract: The invention is directed toward a method of manufacturing a flexure blank whereby an opening portion is provided in a in a connecting portion of a flexure blank, an opening end portion of an insulating base layer is coated with a conductive member without exposing the opening end portion of the insulating base layer in the connecting portion, and a lower surface of the conductive member of the opening portion in the connecting portion of the flexure blank is structured such as to form the same surface as the lower surface of the insulating base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignees: Nippon Mektron, Ltd., TDK Corporation, NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norimasa Fujita, Akira Tadakuma, Yasuji Takagi, Ichiro Takadera, Akira Nojima, Masashi Shiraishi, Takeshi Wada
  • Patent number: 6972383
    Abstract: A multilayered circuit board has good imbedding properties for circuit patterns, and an interlayer insulating material having superior adhesive force and interlayer insulating properties. In a multilayered circuit board wherein interlayer connection is achieved by the contact of minute pointed protrusions, provided on a first conductive circuit layer, with a second conductive circuit layer, interlayer insulation is achieved by a film having a three-layer structure, comprising a thermoplastic film inserted between a pair of thermosetting adhesive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Akama
  • Publication number: 20040062019
    Abstract: A multilayered circuit board has good imbedding properties for circuit patterns, and an interlayer insulating material having superior adhesive force and interlayer insulating properties. In a multilayered circuit board wherein interlayer connection is achieved by the contact of minute pointed protrusions, provided on a first conductive circuit layer, with a second conductive circuit layer, interlayer insulation is achieved by a film having a three-layer structure, comprising a thermoplastic film inserted between a pair of thermosetting adhesive layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: NIPPON MEKTRON LTD.
    Inventor: Fumio Akama
  • Patent number: 6713682
    Abstract: In case of manufacturing a flexible multilayer circuit board which comprises an internal layer circuit board which can be a cable portion and an external layer circuit board which can be a component mounting portion laminated on one side or both sides of the internal layer circuit board at a predetermined position and which has a through hole plated conduction portion 12 formed at predetermined positions of the internal layer circuit board and the external layer circuit board, surface protection layers 3 and 5 formed on external surfaces of wiring patterns 1 and 4 of the internal layer circuit board are formed in a region retreated toward the outside from a position of a through hole 13 for a through hole plated conduction portion 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hirahara, Kunihiko Azeyanagi, Toshiyuki Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 6687984
    Abstract: An internal layer circuit board to which an opening portion 14 is provided at a predetermined position and a required wiring pattern 1 is formed so as to expose a terminal portion 1A to the opening portion 14 is manufactured. Subsequently, single-sided copper-clad laminates are superimposed on both sides of the internal layer circuit board through interlayer adhesive layers 6 and 7 to which another opening portion 14 is provided at a position corresponding to the opening portion 14, and two piercing slits S are previously formed to the single-sided copper-clad laminate at corresponding positions placed outside from edges of the opening portion 14 by a predetermined distance in accordance with two opposed sides of the opening portion 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Toyoshima, Katsunori Kokubun, Kunihiko Azeyanagi
  • Patent number: 6633487
    Abstract: A required interlayer circuit board 1 is constituted so as to provide a punched portion in which only a collapsible cable portion 2 for connecting a plurality of component mounting portions to each other is exposed. An external layer board 6 is superimposed on at least one side of the internal layer circuit board 1 through an adhesive member 4 to which an opening portion 5 is formed at a position corresponding to the cable portion 2, the external layer substrate 6 having an opening portion 7 at a similar position. Thereafter, a wiring pattern for the component mounting portions is formed on the external layer board 6, and a blank and pierce process of the respective component mounting portions except the cable portion is carried out, thereby integrally connecting a plurality of the component mounting portions to each other through the collapsible cable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Toyoshima, Kunihiko Azeyanagi
  • Patent number: 6617519
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board including a component mount section, which an electronic component is mounted on, and a cable section, which connects to the component mount section; circuit patterns being provided on the cable section, and covered by a soft laminated adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Wakimoto, Toshihiro Watanabe, Ryuji Moriya
  • Publication number: 20030125463
    Abstract: A fluoroelastomer composition comprising (1) a fluoroelastomer consisting essentially of tetrafluoroethylene units, perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) units and cyano group containing perfluorovinyl ether units; (2) a specified silane coupling agent; (3) a crosslinking agent and (4) an inorganic filler. This fluoroelastomer composition enables improving the moldability of a crosslinkable composition containing an inorganic filler other than carbon black.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Applicant: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyoshi Tatsu, Satoru Saito, Sunao Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6582885
    Abstract: Polyimide is produced by reacting two kinds of diamine compounds consisting of diaminopolysiloxane and a carboxyl group-containing diamine or three kinds of diamine compounds consisting of diaminopolysiloxane, a carboxyl group-containing diamine and an aromatic or alicyclic diamine with a dicarboxylic acid anhydride having a 2,5-dioxotetrahydrofuryl group as one acid anhydride group, thereby once forming a polyamic acid, and subjecting the polyamic acid to polyimidization reaction. The resulting polyimide itself is soluble in low boiling organic solvents for general purpose use, typically methyl ethyl ketone. A photosensitive composition comprising the polyimide, a photo crosslinking agent and a photo acid-generating agent forms a negative type polyimide pattern upon development with an aqueous alkali solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Lin-chiu Chiang, Jenq-Tain Lin, Nobuyuki Sensui
  • Patent number: 6523257
    Abstract: In order to realize through hole conduction of an internal layer wiring pattern 4 and respective external layer conduction layers 2 and 5 on both sides, a through hole partially blocked is formed to the internal layer wiring pattern 4 from one external layer conduction layer 2 by laser means. Similarly, another through hole which is partially blocked and displaced from the former hole within an allowable range is formed to the internal layer wiring pattern 4 from the other external layer conduction layer 5 by the laser means, thereby forming a stepped through hole 6. At last, a through hole coating layer 7 is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsunori Kokubun, Kunihiko Azeyanagi, Toshiyuki Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 6500011
    Abstract: An opening portion is provided in a connecting portion of a flexure blank, an opening end portion of an insulating base layer is coated with a conductive member without exposing the opening end portion of the insulating base layer in the connecting portion, and a lower surface of the conductive member of the opening portion in the connecting portion of the flexure blank is structured such as to form the same surface as the lower surface of the insulating base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norimasa Fujita, Akira Tadakuma, Yasuji Takagi, Ichiro Takadera, Akira Nojima, Masashi Shiraishi, Takeshi Wada
  • Patent number: 6469217
    Abstract: The polymerization initiator-containing solution obtained by mixing a specific perfluorodicarboxylic acid fluoride (A) with CsF in an aprotic polar solvent with stirring to conduct reaction and thereby form a polymerization initiator (B) and then allowing the reaction solution to stand for not less than 72 hours at a temperature of 0 to 30° C. A polymerization initiator-containing solution comprises a specific polymerization initiator (B′) and an aprotic polar solvent. The process for preparing a perfluoropolyether comprises polymerizing hexafluoropropylene oxide in the presence of the polymerization initiator-containing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Saito, Haruyoshi Tatsu, Vera Grinevskaya
  • Publication number: 20020112880
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board including a component mount section, which an electronic component is mounted on, and a cable section, which connects to the component mount section; circuit patterns being provided on the cable section, and covered by a soft laminated adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Wakimoto, Toshihiro Watanabe, Ryuji Moriya
  • Patent number: 6380337
    Abstract: A fluoroelastomer comprising constituent units derived from vinylidene fluoride (a) and constituent units derived from perfluoro(methoxypropyl vinyl ether) (b), optionally together with constituent units derived from tetrafluoroethylene (c) and/or constituent units derived from a perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether (d), wherein the constituent units (a) are contained in an amount of 65 to 85 mol %, the constituent units (b) in an amount of 0.5 to 30 mol %, the constituent units (c) in an amount of 0 to 10 mol % and the constituent units (d) in an amount of 0 to 25 mol %. The fluoroelastomer can be produced by a process comprising copolymerizing vinylidene fluoride and perfluoro(methoxypropyl vinyl ether), optionally together with tetrafluoroethylene and/or a perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether, in the presence of an iodated brominated compound represented by the general formula RBrnIm [I]. Further, there is provided a crosslinkable composition comprising the above fluoroelastomer and a peroxide crosslinking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Abe, Haruyoshi Tatsu
  • Publication number: 20020028886
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorocopolymer obtained by copolymerizing specific amounts of vinylidene fluoride, a perfluoro(lower alkyl vinyl ether), a specific fluorine compound represented by the following formula (I), a bromine-containing and/or iodine-containing vinyl monomer, and optionally, tetrafluoroethylene 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Applicant: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Abe, Haruyoshi Tatsu
  • Publication number: 20010050351
    Abstract: The polymerization initiator-containing solution of the first invention is obtained by mixing a specific perfluorodicarboxylic acid fluoride (A) with CsF in an aprotic polar solvent with stirring to conduct reaction and thereby form a polymerization initiator (B) and then allowing the reaction solution to stand for not less than 72 hours at a temperature of 0 to 30° C. The polymerization initiator-containing solution of the second invention comprises a specific polymerization initiator (B′) and an aprotic polar solvent. The process for preparing a perfluoropolyether according to the invention comprises polymerizing hexafluoropropylene oxide in the presence of the polymerization initiator-containing solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Saito, Haruyoshi Tatsu, Vera Grinevskaya
  • Publication number: 20010047048
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fluoroelastomer composition comprising (1) a fluoroelastomer which comprises (a) tetrafluoroethylene, (b) a perfluoro(C1-C5 alkyl vinyl ether) and/or a perfluoro(C3-C11 alkoxyalkyl vinyl ether) and (c) a cyano group-containing perfluorovinyl ether, (2) a hydrotalcite compound, (3) a crosslinking agent and (4) titanium dioxide (TiO2). The fluoroelastomer composition is capable of producing a fluoroelastomer molded product having excellent metal corrosion inhibition properties, and particularly, the fluoroelastomer composition is capable of producing a fluoroelastomer molded product which generates only small amount of a corrosive material when exposed to high temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2001
    Publication date: November 29, 2001
    Applicant: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Saito
  • Publication number: 20010044500
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fluoroelastomer composition comprising (1) a fluoroelastomer which comprises tetrafluoroethylene, a perfluoro (C1-C5 alkyl vinyl ether) or a perfluoro (C3-C11 (alkoxyalkyl) vinyl ether) and a cyano group-containing perfluorovinyl ether, (2) a hydrotalcite compound, (3) a crosslinking agent and (4) carbon black. The fluoroelastomer composition has excellent metal corrosion inhibition properties, and particularly, this composition generates only small amount of a corrosive material when exposed to high temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Applicant: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Saito