Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Electric Printed Circuits, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20210148766
    Abstract: A sensor unit disclosed herein is a sensor unit that is to be mounted in a housing section included in a device, and the sensor unit includes a FPC including a detection line and having flexibility, a temperature sensor connected to a connection portion of the detection line on a surface of the FPC, and an elastic member disposed on the surface of the FPC so as to be elastically deformable. The elastic member is to be elastically compressed within the housing section to press a first plate member mounted on a back surface of the FPC toward the device by a resilient force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Shinichi TAKASE, Yoshifumi UCHITA, Takayuki TSUMAGARI
  • Patent number: 11013113
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a base material for a printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; and a metal layer that is layered on at least one surface of the base film and that includes copper as a main component, wherein in a content per unit area in a region of 100 nm or less from an interface of the metal layer with the base film, Cr<0.1 mg/m2, and Ni<0.1 mg/m2, wherein an arithmetic mean roughness (Sa) of the surface of the base film on which the metal layer is layered is less than 0.10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiko Sugiura, Issei Okada, Takashi Kasuga, Yoshio Oka, Kenji Ohki
  • Patent number: 11013124
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; a conductive pattern that is partially layered on a surface side of the base film; a coating layer that is layered on a surface of a layered structure including the base film and the conductive pattern and having an opening portion that partially exposes the conductive pattern; and a tin plating layer that is layered on a surface of the conductive pattern exposed from the opening portion, wherein an average peel length of the coating layer from the conductive pattern with an inner edge of the opening portion as a base end is less than or equal to 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Ryuta Ohsuka, Koji Nitta, Shoichiro Sakai, Junichi Okaue
  • Publication number: 20210136921
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a printed circuit board according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a step of forming a resist pattern, and a step of forming a conductive pattern by using the resist pattern. The resist pattern has an acute angle portion in which an outer edge of a resist is bent to form an acute angle in a plan view. In a corner portion of the acute angle portion, an outer-side outer edge of the resist is rounded, and a radius of curvature of the outer-side outer edge is more than or equal to a distance from the outer-side outer edge to another outer edge adjacent thereto in a direction away from a center of curvature of the outer-side outer edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Kou NOGUCHI, Hiroshi UEDA
  • Patent number: 10980114
    Abstract: A printed circuit board according to one embodiment of the present invention is a printed circuit board including a plate-shaped or a sheet-shaped insulating material having a penetrating hole, and a metal plating layer layered on both surfaces of the insulating material and an inner peripheral surface of the insulating material, wherein an inner diameter of the penetrating hole monotonically decreases from a top surface of the insulating material toward a back surface, and wherein the inner diameter of the penetrating hole at a center in a thickness direction of the insulating material is smaller than an average of an opening diameter on the top side and an opening diameter on the back side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Eiko Imazaki, Koji Nitta, Kousuke Miura, Shoichiro Sakai, Kenji Takahashi, Masahiro Matsumoto, Hirohisa Saito
  • Publication number: 20210098848
    Abstract: A wiring module includes a flat line that is mounted on a power storage element group including power storage elements and a line-side connector that is to be fitted to a device-side connector included in a control unit of the power storage element group. The flat line includes an extra section extending from the power storage element group and a bending restricting plate is disposed on a portion of the extra section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS,INC.
    Inventors: Shinichi TAKASE, Hideo TAKAHASHI, Isamu HAMAMOTO, Yoshifumi UCHITA, Takayuki TSUMAGARI
  • Patent number: 10965046
    Abstract: A terminal 20 includes a terminal connection portion 21 connected to a counterpart terminal and a board connection portion 24 connected to a conductive path 13 of a board 11. The board connection portion 24 has a plate shape portion 25 that is a plate shape. The plate shape portion is disposed behind the terminal connection portion 21 and is soldered to the conductive path 13 of the board 11. The board connection portion has a plate-shape first projection walls 28A to 28D that are bent from edge portions of a lateral direction side of the plate shape portion 25 and that project to an opposite side to the board 11 side. The plate shape portion 25 and the first projection walls 28A to 28D have a plating layer 37 that is formed on a plate surface of the plate shape portion and the first projection walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Printed Circuits, Inc.
    Inventors: Takanobu Shimada, Hiroki Hirai, Jyunichi Ono, Yoshio Oka, Yoshifumi Uchita, Yoshiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 10952321
    Abstract: A printed circuit board according to one aspect of the present invention includes an insulating layer having a through-hole, a conductive layer laminated on an inner circumferential surface of the through-hole, and metal plating layers laminated on a surface of the conductive layer facing opposite the insulating layer and laminated on both surfaces of the insulating layer, wherein an average thickness of the insulating layer is greater than or equal to 5 ?m and less than or equal to 50 ?m, wherein an average thickness of the metal plating layers is greater than or equal to 3 ?m and less than or equal to 50 ?m, wherein a hole diameter of the through-hole gradually increases from a first end of the through-hole at one surface of the insulating layer to a second end of the through-hole at another surface of the insulating layer, wherein the hole diameter of the through-hole at the first end is greater than or equal to 1.5 times, and less than or equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Takahashi, Koji Nitta, Shoichiro Sakai, Junichi Okaue
  • Publication number: 20210068255
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board includes: an electrically insulating substrate layer; an electrically conductive pattern stacked on at least one surface of the substrate layer; and a cover layer that is disposed on a stack including the substrate layer and the electrically conductive pattern and covers a surface of the stack, which surface is on the side on which the electrically conductive pattern is present. The electrically conductive pattern has a coil region including a coil. In the substrate layer or the cover layer, a high-magnetic permeability member is present in at least a region that overlaps the coil region in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TAKEMOTO, Hiroshi UEDA
  • Publication number: 20210059045
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board of the present invention includes an insulating base film and an electrode stacked on a first surface of the base film, in which the electrode includes a low-melting-point metal layer on a surface of the electrode, and a plate- or strip-like rigid member electrically insulated from the electrode is disposed in a region of a second surface of the base film opposite from the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Katsunari MIKAGE, Masamichi YAMAMOTO, Junichi OKAUE, Hiroshi UEDA
  • Patent number: 10889086
    Abstract: A resin film according to one aspect of the present invention is a resin film having polyimide as a main component, the resin film including a modified layer formed in a depth direction from at least one side of the resin film; and a non-modified layer other than the modified layer, wherein a ring-opening rate of an imide ring of the polyimide in the modified layer is higher than a ring-opening rate of an imide ring of the polyimide in the non-modified layer, and an average thickness of the modified layer from the one side of the resin film is greater than or equal to 10 nm and less than or equal to 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Kayo Hashizume, Yoshio Oka, Masamichi Yamamoto, Takashi Kasuga, Yugo Kubo, Hideki Kashihara, Hiroshi Ueda
  • Patent number: 10887989
    Abstract: A printed wiring board of the present invention includes an insulating substrate layer; a first conductive layer laminated to one surface of the substrate layer; a second conductive layer laminated to another surface of the substrate layer; and a via hole formed along an inner surface of a connection hole that is provided, in a thickness direction, through the substrate layer and the first conductive layer, the via hole electrically coupling the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. A cross-sectional shape of the connection hole along at least one surface of the substrate layer is an irregular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Kaibuki, Daisuke Sato, Haruna Oya, Yoshiaki Yanagimoto, Atsushi Kimura, Shigeki Shimada
  • Patent number: 10869389
    Abstract: A printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film having an insulating property, a conductive pattern that is stacked on at least one surface side of the base film and that includes a plurality of wiring portions arranged adjacent to one another, and an insulating layer that covers outer surfaces of the base film and the conductive pattern. The plurality of wiring portions have an average spacing of 1 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less and an average height of 30 ?m or more and 120 ?m or less. A filling area ratio of the insulating layer between the plurality of wiring portions adjacent to one another in sectional view is 95% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Kohei Okamoto, Yoshihito Yamaguchi, Kousuke Miura, Hiroshi Ueda, Atsushi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20200366009
    Abstract: A terminal 20 includes a terminal connection portion 21 connected to a counterpart terminal and a board connection portion 24 connected to a conductive path 13 of a board 11. The board connection portion 24 has a plate shape portion 25 that is a plate shape. The plate shape portion is disposed behind the terminal connection portion 21 and is soldered to the conductive path 13 of the board 11. The board connection portion has a plate-shape first projection walls 28A to 28D that are bent from edge portions of a lateral direction side of the plate shape portion 25 and that project to an opposite side to the board 11 side. The plate shape portion 25 and the first projection walls 28A to 28D have a plating layer 37 that is formed on a plate surface of the plate shape portion and the first projection walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Printed Circuits, Inc.
    Inventors: Takanobu SHIMADA, Hiroki HIRAI, Jyunichi ONO, Yoshio OKA, Yoshifumi UCHITA, Yoshiro ADACHI
  • Patent number: 10842027
    Abstract: A base material for a printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; a sintered layer that is layered on at least one side surface of the base film and that is formed of a plurality of sintered metal particles; an electroless plating layer that is layered on a surface of the sintered layer that is opposite to the base film; and an electroplating layer that is layered on a surface of the electroless plating layer that is opposite to the sintered layer, wherein an arithmetic mean height Sa of the surface of the electroless plating layer opposite to the sintered layer is greater than or equal to 0.001 ?m and less than or equal to 0.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Miyata, Takashi Kasuga, Yoshio Oka, Hiroshi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20200333192
    Abstract: A sensor unit disclosed herein is a temperature sensor unit to be attached to an energy storage device. The temperature sensor unit includes an FPC to be positioned on an energy storage device body, a temperature sensor connected to a detection line of the FPC, a housing disposed on the FPC and covering the temperature sensor, and a biasing member elastically and deformably held in the housing and configured to bias the lower housing of the housing toward the energy storage device body by elastic restoring force to bring the temperature sensor into contact with the energy storage device body with the FPC therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Shinichi TAKASE, Yasuhiko KOTERA, Isamu HAMAMOTO, Yoshifumi UCHITA, Takayuki TSUMAGARI, Yusuke SUZUKI, Atsushi YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 10796812
    Abstract: A coating liquid for forming a conductive layer according to the present invention is a coating liquid for forming a conductive layer, the coating liquid containing fine metal particles, a dispersant, and a dispersion medium. In the coating liquid for forming a conductive layer, the fine metal particles contain copper or a copper alloy as a main component, the dispersant is a polyethyleneimine-polyethylene oxide graft copolymer, a polyethyleneimine moiety in the graft copolymer has a weight-average molecular weight of 300 or more and 1,000 or less, a molar ratio of polyethylene oxide chains to nitrogen atoms in the polyethyleneimine moiety is 10 or more and 50 or less, and the graft copolymer has a weight-average molecular weight of 3,000 or more and 54,000 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiko Sugiura, Issei Okada, Yoshio Oka, Atsushi Kimura, Kenji Ohki
  • Patent number: 10729008
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an insulative base film; and a conductive pattern provided on at least one surface of the base film and including a wiring line including a bent portion having an angle of greater than or equal to 60° or a branched portion having an angle of greater than or equal to 60° in plan view. The wiring line is provided with a relaxation structure that relaxes stress concentration at the bent portion or the branched portion. The relaxation structure is structured such that the wiring line constitutes a wide wiring line or a dense wiring line group in a region in which a distance from the bent portion or the branched portion is less than or equal to 5 times a minimum width of the wiring line. The wide wiring line has a wiring line width that is greater than or equal to twice the minimum width of the wiring line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ueda, Kousuke Miura, Kou Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10709016
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board according to one aspect of the present invention includes a base film having an insulating property and a conductive pattern laminated on one surface of the base film, and has a terminal connecting area toward one end edge of the conductive pattern, the flexible printed circuit board including a reinforcement member laminated on another surface of the base film and situated at least at a position opposite the terminal connecting area, wherein a shape of an end edge of the reinforcement member on the same side as an opposite end edge of the conductive pattern includes a periodic form constituted by curved lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshio Oka, Yoshifumi Uchita, Yoshiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 10653007
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board according to an aspect of the present invention includes a base film having insulating properties and a conductive pattern laminated to one surface side of the base film. The conductive pattern forms part of a circuit and includes at least one fuse portion having a cross section smaller than the other part. The flexible printed circuit board includes at least one opening passing through front and rear surfaces on at least one of the right and left sides of the fuse portion in a two-dimensional view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Tsumagari, Yoshifumi Uchita, Shinichi Takase, Hirohisa Saito