Patents by Inventor Eiji Kodera

Eiji Kodera 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).

  • Patent number: 8237343
    Abstract: Provided is a spark plug that includes a center electrode extending in an axial direction, a cylindrical insulator that holds the center electrode, and a cylindrical main metal fitting, which has a ground electrode at a tip portion thereof. The cylindrical main metal fitting includes a tool engagement portion for mounting the spark plug to an engine and a metal fitting-side fitting portion provided at a rear side of the main metal fitting opposite from the tip portion. The metal fitting-side fitting portion holds the insulator in a tightly fitted state in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Hotta, Eiji Kodera, Kazushige Ohbayashi, Noriyasu Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20090102345
    Abstract: A spark plug 100, comprising a center electrode 3 which is extended in an axial direction, a cylindrical insulator 2 which holds the center electrode 3, and a cylindrical main metal fitting 1 which has a ground electrode 10 at a tip end portion and a tool engagement portion 8 for mounting on an engine, wherein the main metal fitting 1 has a part of a rear end side from the tool engagement portion 8 as a metal fitting-side fitting portion 9 and holds the insulator 2 in a tightly fitted state in a radial direction by the metal fitting-side fitting portion 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Hotta, Eiji Kodera, Kazushige Ohbayashi, Noriyasu Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7239014
    Abstract: A capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate which can reliably eliminate noise and attain extremely low resistance and low inductance in connections between an IC chip and the capacitor, and a printed wiring substrate and capacitor for use in the same. A capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate 100 on which an IC chip is mounted includes a capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate 110 and an IC chip 101 mounted on the capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate 110. A printed wiring substrate 120 includes a number of connection-to-IC substrate bumps 152 and a closed-bottomed capacitor accommodation cavity 121 formed therein. A capacitor 130 is disposed in the cavity 121 and includes a pair of electrode groups 133E and 133F and a number of connection-to-IC capacitor bumps 131 connected to either one of the paired electrode groups 133E and 133F. The connection-to-IC capacitor bumps 131 are flip-chip-bonded to corresponding connection-to-capacitor bumps 103 on the IC chip 101.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouki Ogawa, Eiji Kodera
  • Publication number: 20050258548
    Abstract: A capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate which can reliably eliminate noise and attain extremely low resistance and low inductance in connections between an IC chip and the capacitor, and a printed wiring substrate and capacitor for use in the same. A capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate 100 on which an IC chip is mounted includes a capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate 110 and an IC chip 101 mounted on the capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate 110. A printed wiring substrate 120 includes a number of connection-to-IC substrate bumps 152 and a closed-bottomed capacitor accommodation cavity 121 formed therein. A capacitor 130 is disposed in the cavity 121 and includes a pair of electrode groups 133E and 133F and a number of connection-to-IC capacitor bumps 131 connected to either one of the paired electrode groups 133E and 133F. The connection-to-IC capacitor bumps 131 are flip-chip-bonded to corresponding connection-to-capacitor bumps 103 on the IC chip 101.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Kouki Ogawa, Eiji Kodera
  • Patent number: 6952049
    Abstract: A capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate which can reliably eliminate noise and attain extremely low resistance and low inductance in connections between an IC chip and the capacitor, and a printed wiring substrate and capacitor for use in the same. A capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate 100 on which an IC chip is mounted includes a capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate 110 and an IC chip 101 mounted on the capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate 110. A printed wiring substrate 120 includes a number of connection-to-IC substrate bumps 152 and a closed-bottomed capacitor accommodation cavity 121 formed therein. A capacitor 130 is disposed in the cavity 121 and includes a pair of electrode groups 133E and 133F and a number of connection-to-IC capacitor bumps 131 connected to either one of the paired electrode groups 133E and 133F. The connection-to-IC capacitor bumps 131 are flip-chip-bonded to corresponding connection-to-capacitor bumps 103 on the IC chip 101.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouki Ogawa, Eiji Kodera
  • Patent number: 6852655
    Abstract: The invention is to offer such a dielectric ceramic enabling to simultaneously sinter with the low resistant conductor of Ag based metals and Cu based metals, having the excellent mechanical strength and exhibiting the excellent dielectric characteristics in the GHz zone. Mixed powders of Si: 20 to 30 weight %, B: 5 to 30 weight %, Al: 20 to 30 weight %, Ca: 10 to 20 weight %, and Zn: 10 to 20 weight % are prepared, melted, and rapidly cooled to produce glass frits. The glass frits are granulated and mixed with gahnite filler and titania filler which are inorganic filler powders. Subsequently, a binder is thrown into the powders to produce a composition of dielectric ceramic, and then is formed, followed by sintering. The mixed powders may contain at least one kind of alkali metal of Li, K and Na.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Kodera, Kazuyuki Fujii, Makoto Baba, Hidetoshi Mizutani, Manabu Sato
  • Patent number: 6841740
    Abstract: A printed-wiring substrate including a capacitor element, as well as a method for fabricating the printed-wiring substrate. An insulating substrate 3 is molded by placing a capacitor element 13 in a mold and charging a resin 4 into the mold. Therefore, the capacitor element 13 having a size (i.e., electrostatic capacitance) sufficient to suppress switching noise of an IC chip 15 and stabilize operation power voltage can be disposed, while providing a dimensional margin. Since the possibility of failing to embed the capacitor element 13 decreases, the printed-wiring substrate can be fabricated at reduced cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouki Ogawa, Eiji Kodera
  • Publication number: 20030216240
    Abstract: The invention is to offer such a dielectric ceramic enabling to simultaneously sinter with the low resistant conductor of Ag based metals and Cu based metals, having the excellent mechanical strength and exhibiting the excellent dielectric characteristics in the GHz zone. Mixed powders of Si: 20 to 30 weight %, B: 5 to 30 weight %, Al: 20 to 30 weight %, Ca: 10 to 20 weight %, and Zn: 10 to 20 weight % are prepared, melted, and rapidly cooled to produce glass frits. The glass frits are granulated and mixed with gahnite filler and titania filler which are inorganic filler powders. Subsequently, a binder is thrown into the powders to produce a composition of dielectric ceramic, and then is formed, followed by sintering. The mixed powders may contain at least one kind of alkali metal of Li, K and Na.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Kodera, Kazuyuki Fujii, Makoto Baba, Hidetoshi Mizutani, Manabu Sato
  • Publication number: 20020011351
    Abstract: A printed-wiring substrate including a capacitor element, as well as a method for fabricating the printed-wiring substrate. An insulating substrate 3 is molded by placing a capacitor element 13 in a mold and charging a resin 4 into the mold. Therefore, the capacitor element 13 having a size (i.e., electrostatic capacitance) sufficient to suppress switching noise of an IC chip 15 and stabilize operation power voltage can be disposed, while providing a dimensional margin. Since the possibility of failing to embed the capacitor element 13 decreases, the printed-wiring substrate can be fabricated at reduced cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventors: Kouki Ogawa, Eiji Kodera
  • Patent number: 6338893
    Abstract: A ceramic printed circuit substrate includes a glass ceramic substrate and a surface circuit pattern, which is formed on the substrate by use of a conductive paste. The conductive paste contains conductive components of silver and platinum and filler components of molybdenum, tungsten, manganese dioxide, silicon dioxide and copper oxide. A ceramic green sheet and a surface circuit pattern formed thereon by use of the conductive paste are simultaneously fired at a temperature not higher than 1000° C., thereby yielding the ceramic printed circuit substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Kodera, Hitoshi Nagura, Hironori Sato, Shigeru Taga