Patents by Inventor Atsunori Shibuya
Atsunori Shibuya has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11462870Abstract: A wiring board includes a wiring board body and a coaxial connector. The coaxial connector includes coaxial terminals and a housing. The coaxial terminals are arranged in row. Each of the coaxial terminals includes a signal terminal and a ground terminal. The ground terminal includes a tubular main body and first and second contact pieces that respectively extend from the main body and respectively include first and second contact portions in contact with the wiring board body, in a transparent plan view seen through the wiring board along a normal direction of the wiring board body. A part of the first contact piece of a first coaxial terminal overlaps with a part of the second contact piece of a second coaxial terminal adjacent to the first coaxial terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: ADVANTEST Corporation, Molex, LLCInventors: Takahito Seshimo, Atsunori Shibuya, Masayuki Arai, Masataka Oyama, Shigeru Akiyama, Ayako Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11462859Abstract: A coaxial terminal includes a signal terminal, a tubular ground terminal that covers the signal terminal, and an insulating member interposed between the signal terminal and the ground terminal. The signal terminal includes a main body that is covered by the insulating member, an upper contact piece that extends from the main body to +Z direction side, and a lower contact piece that extends from the main body to ?Z direction side. The insulating member has an opening through which a part of the main body is exposed. A following formula (1) is satisfied: L2?½×L1??(1) where L1 is a length of the insulating member along an axial direction of the coaxial terminal, L2 is a length of the opening along the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: ADVANTEST Corporation, Molex, LLCInventors: Takahito Seshimo, Atsunori Shibuya, Masayuki Arai, Masataka Oyama, Shigeru Akiyama, Ayako Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20210376529Abstract: A coaxial terminal includes a signal terminal, a tubular ground terminal that covers the signal terminal, and an insulating member interposed between the signal terminal and the ground terminal. The signal terminal includes a main body that is covered by the insulating member, an upper contact piece that extends from the main body to +Z direction side, and a lower contact piece that extends from the main body to ?Z direction side. The insulating member has an opening through which a part of the main body is exposed. A following formula (1) is satisfied: L2?½×L1??(1) where L1 is a length of the insulating member along an axial direction of the coaxial terminal, L2 is a length of the opening along the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicants: ADVANTEST Corporation, Molex, LLCInventors: Takahito Seshimo, Atsunori Shibuya, Masayuki Arai, Masataka Oyama, Shigeru Akiyama, Ayako Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20210376544Abstract: A wiring board includes a wiring board body and a coaxial connector. The coaxial connector includes coaxial terminals and a housing. The coaxial terminals are arranged in row. Each of the coaxial terminals includes a signal terminal and a ground terminal. The ground terminal includes a tubular main body and first and second contact pieces that respectively extend from the main body and respectively include first and second contact portions in contact with the wiring board body, in a transparent plan view seen through the wiring board along a normal direction of the wiring board body. A part of the first contact piece of a first coaxial terminal overlaps with a part of the second contact piece of a second coaxial terminal adjacent to the first coaxial terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicants: ADVANTEST Corporation, Molex, LLCInventors: Takahito Seshimo, Atsunori Shibuya, Masayuki Arai, Masataka Oyama, Shigeru Akiyama, Ayako Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8008937Abstract: A diagnosis board is electrically connected with a test apparatus for testing a device-under-test and used in diagnosing the test apparatus. The test apparatus has a test head containing test modules for sending/receiving signals to/from the device-under-test. The diagnosis board has a plurality of sub-boards arranged substantially on the same plane, substantially forming a plane as a unit, and connected with each part of a plurality of terminals of the test modules and used for diagnosing the connected terminals, each of the plurality of sub-boards having a plate-like shape. The diagnosis board also has a fixing section for attaching and fixing the plurality of sub-boards in a body to the test head.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2009Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventor: Atsunori Shibuya
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Patent number: 7913002Abstract: A test apparatus includes a bus switch unit capable of switching the output ports to select which of the output ports an input signal is output from, a control unit for inputting a plurality of control signals, according to a test program for testing the electronic device, to the bus switch unit and controlling which of the output ports each of the control signals is output from, a plurality of slots provided corresponding to the plurality of output ports, and a device interface capable of switching the connectors, which couple the plurality of slots and the electronic device, to select which of the connectors the slot is coupled to, wherein the device interface further includes a diagnosis decoder for sequentially supplying each of the test modules with a diagnosis signal via each of the connectors, and the control unit detects which of the test modules the diagnosis signal received via each of the connectors is supplied to and which of the connectors each of the output ports is coupled to based on a resultType: GrantFiled: August 20, 2004Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventors: Nobuei Washizu, Atsunori Shibuya
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Patent number: 7688092Abstract: A performance board able to secure low loss, low reflection, stable transmission characteristics even when using a high frequency signal to test an electronic device and able to suppress signal leakage to the outside and entry of noise, provided with a base board having a signal pattern electrically connected with a socket formed on its front surface, a coaxial connector to which a coaxial cable electrically connecting the performance board and test apparatus is connected, passing through the base board from the back surface toward the front surface, and having a front exposed part of the center contact bent and electrically connected to the signal pattern, and a cover member covering the front exposed part of the center contact and correcting the impedance of the front exposed part.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Mineo, Atsunori Shibuya
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Publication number: 20090206858Abstract: There is provided a test apparatus having a test head containing test modules for sending/receiving signals to/from a device-under-test, a device mounting section having a socket for mounting the device-under-test and a performance board placed on the test head to connect each terminal of the test module with each terminal of the device-under-test via the device mounting section, and the performance board has a plurality of sub-boards each containing a part of a plurality of wires for connecting the test module with the device-under-test and a fixing section for attaching and fixing the plurality of sub-boards in a body to the test head.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2009Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: Advantest CorporationInventor: Atsunori Shibuya
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Patent number: 7548078Abstract: There is provided a test apparatus having a test head containing test modules for sending/receiving signals to/from a device-under-test, a device mounting section having a socket for mounting the device-under-test and a performance board placed on the test head to connect each terminal of the test module with each terminal of the device-under-test via the device mounting section, and the performance board has a plurality of sub-boards each containing a part of a plurality of wires for connecting the test module with the device-under-test and a fixing section for attaching and fixing the plurality of sub-boards in a body to the test head.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventor: Atsunori Shibuya
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Publication number: 20090033347Abstract: A performance board able to secure low loss, low reflection, stable transmission characteristics even when using a high frequency signal to test an electronic device and able to suppress signal leakage to the outside and entry of noise, provided with a base board having a signal pattern electrically connected with a socket formed on its front surface, a coaxial connector to which a coaxial cable electrically connecting the performance board and test apparatus is connected, passing through the base board from the back surface toward the front surface, and having a front exposed part of the center contact bent and electrically connected to the signal pattern, and a cover member covering the front exposed part of the center contact and correcting the impedance of the front exposed part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Hiroyuki Mineo, Atsunori Shibuya
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Patent number: 7405582Abstract: A performance board able to secure low loss, low reflection, stable transmission characteristics even when using a high frequency signal to test an electronic device and able to suppress signal leakage to the outside and entry of noise, provided with a base board having a signal pattern electrically connected with a socket formed on its front surface, a coaxial connector to which a coaxial cable electrically connecting the performance board and test apparatus is connected, passing through the base board from the back surface toward the front surface, and having a front exposed part of the center contact bent and electrically connected to the signal pattern, and a cover member covering the front exposed part of the center contact and correcting the impedance of the front exposed part.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Mineo, Atsunori Shibuya
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Publication number: 20080133165Abstract: The test apparatus includes: a plurality of test modules that transmit/receive signals to/from the plurality of DUTs; a test head on which the plurality of test modules are placed; a plurality of device interface sections each of which is disposed between the test head and the plurality of test modules, includes a wiring that connects between a connector of the test head connected to the corresponding device under test and the test module and an identification information output section that outputs identification information indicative of the type of the device interface section, and is being capable of exchanging in accordance with the corresponding DUT and test module; and a control device connected to the plurality of test modules that controls the test module. Each test module includes: a reading section that reads the identification information; and a command processing section that returns the identification information to the control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATIONInventors: SATOSHI IWAMOTO, ATSUNORI SHIBUYA, KOICHI YATSUKA
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Publication number: 20070296432Abstract: A performance board able to secure low loss, low reflection, stable transmission characteristics even when using a high frequency signal to test an electronic device and able to suppress signal leakage to the outside and entry of noise, provided with a base board having a signal pattern electrically connected with a socket formed on its front surface, a coaxial connector to which a coaxial cable electrically connecting the performance board and test apparatus is connected, passing through the base board from the back surface toward the front surface, and having a front exposed part of the center contact bent and electrically connected to the signal pattern, and a cover member covering the front exposed part of the center contact and correcting the impedance of the front exposed part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2006Publication date: December 27, 2007Applicant: Advantest CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Mineo, Atsunori Shibuya
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Patent number: 7265569Abstract: A test apparatus for testing electronic devices, comprising a control section for generating control signals based on a test program set in advance to test the electronic devices, a plurality of test modules for generating test signals to be supplied to the electronic devices on the basis of the control signals, a device interface having connectors, provided in correspondence to the plurality of test modules, for supplying the test signals generated by corresponding test modules to predetermined pins of the electronic devices, wherein a test module for generating source power to be supplied to the electronic device outputs the source power only when it is connected with a connector set in advance among the plurality of connectors and does not output source power when it is not connected with the connector set in advance.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Inventor: Atsunori Shibuya
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Publication number: 20070069758Abstract: There is provided a test apparatus having a test head containing test modules for sending/receiving signals to/from a device-under-test, a device mounting section having a socket for mounting the device-under-test and a performance board placed on the test head to connect each terminal of the test module with each terminal of the device-under-test via the device mounting section, and the performance board has a plurality of sub-boards each containing a part of a plurality of wires for connecting the test module with the device-under-test and a fixing section for attaching and fixing the plurality of sub-boards in a body to the test head.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Applicant: Advantest CorporationInventor: Atsunori Shibuya
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Patent number: 7185255Abstract: A test apparatus for testing an electronic device, includes a test module for sending and/or receiving a test signal to and/or from the electronic device, a test head including a plurality of Test Head (TH) slots for detachably holding the test module, a diagnosis module for performing diagnosis of the test module, and a coupling device including a plurality of Performance Board (PB) slots being electrically coupled to the TH slots respectively for detachably holding the diagnosis module. The diagnosis module held in one of the PB slots diagnoses the test module held in one of the TH slots being electrically coupled to one of the PB slots.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2004Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventor: Atsunori Shibuya
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Publication number: 20060125499Abstract: A test apparatus for testing electronic devices, comprising a control section for generating control signals based on a test program set in advance to test the electronic devices, a plurality of test modules for generating test signals to be supplied to the electronic devices on the basis of the control signals, a device interface having connectors, provided in correspondence to the plurality of test modules, for supplying the test signals generated by corresponding test modules to predetermined pins of the electronic devices, wherein a test module for generating source power to be supplied to the electronic device outputs the source power only when it is connected with a connector set in advance among the plurality of connectors and does not output source power when it is not connected with the connector set in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2005Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventor: Atsunori Shibuya
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Publication number: 20060041694Abstract: A test apparatus includes a bus switch unit capable of switching the output ports to select which of the output ports an input signal is output from, a control unit for inputting a plurality of control signals, according to a test program for testing the electronic device, to the bus switch unit and controlling which of the output ports each of the control signals is output from, a plurality of slots provided corresponding to the plurality of output ports, and a device interface capable of switching the connectors, which couple the plurality of slots and the electronic device, to select which of the connectors the slot is coupled to, wherein the device interface further includes a diagnosis decoder for sequentially supplying each of the test modules with a diagnosis signal via each of the connectors, and the control unit detects which of the test modules the diagnosis signal received via each of the connectors is supplied to and which of the connectors each of the output ports is coupled to based on a resultType: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2004Publication date: February 23, 2006Applicant: Advantest CorporationInventors: Nobuei Washizu, Atsunori Shibuya
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Patent number: 6995578Abstract: A coupling unit for electrically coupling a performance board on which an electronic device is mounted and a tester control unit for generating a control signal for controlling a test of the electronic device includes a board containing unit for containing a test board electrically coupled to the tester control unit in order that the test board is replaceable on one of a plurality of different holding positions and a coupling cable whose one end is coupled to the test board held in the holding position and the other end is coupled to the performance board.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventors: Atsunori Shibuya, Masashi Hoshino
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Publication number: 20040232930Abstract: A coupling unit for electrically coupling a performance board on which an electronic device is mounted and a tester control unit for generating a control signal for controlling a test of the electronic device includes a board containing unit for containing a test board electrically coupled to the tester control unit in order that the test board is replaceable on one of a plurality of different holding positions and a coupling cable whose one end is coupled to the test board held in the holding position and the other end is coupled to the performance board.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Atsunori Shibuya, Masashi Hoshino