Patents by Inventor Fumiteru Asai

Fumiteru Asai 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).

  • Publication number: 20080138618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a removable pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing an acrylic polymer, a photopolymerization initiator and a crosslinking agent, in which the acrylic polymer and the photopolymerization initiator each are chemically bonded to the crosslinking agent. The present invention also relates to a removable pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing an acrylic polymer and a photopolymerization initiator, the composition further containing a crosslinking agent having a reactive functional group which is capable of reacting with a reactive functional group of the acrylic polymer and a reactive functional group of the photopolymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takatoshi Sasaki, Fumiteru Asai, Toshio Shintani, Tomokazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20080118764
    Abstract: An adhesive sheet for processing semiconductor wafers and/or substrates comprises a UV- and/or radiation-transmittable base film and an adhesive layer that undergoes a polymerization curing reaction by means of UV rays and/or radiation, wherein the adhesive layer comprises at least a tackifier and a surfactant. The adhesive sheet of the present invention can be to lower the adhesive strength to the optimal level during pick up or the like after irradiation with UV rays and/or radiation, while maintaining adhesion with adherends before irradiation with UV rays and/or radiation by ensuring that, regardless of the texture on the surface of adherends such as semiconductor wafers and/or substrates, the adhering surface favorably conforms to the texture with preserving enough adhesive and cohesive strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio SHINTANI, Akiyoshi Yamamoto, Fumiteru Asai, Kouichi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20080108262
    Abstract: The present invention provides an adhesive sheet for water jet laser dicing, comprising an adhesive layer laminated on a base film which has a mean opening diameter of 5 ?m to 30 ?m. According to the adhesive sheet of the invention, a base film having a mean opening diameter of a certain size is used, thus ensuring better permeability to liquids originating in a liquid stream, and preventing the material that is being processed from being separated by the liquids from the adhesive sheet. In addition, the relatively low mean opening diameter makes it possible to control rippling on the surface of the base film and kept the surface flat, resulting in better adhesion to the material being processed and ensuring that the material being processed is secured during the dicing stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiteru Asai, Takatoshi Sasaki, Toshio Shintani, Tomokazu Takahashi, Tsubasa Miki, Akiyoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20080085397
    Abstract: An adhesive sheet for laser processing comprises an adhesive layer laminated on the surface of a base film, wherein the base film has a textured contact-reducing layer on the back side thereof. According to the adhesive sheet for laser processing of the present invention, the melting of the base film caused by the local concentration of laser beam energy at the places irradiated with the laser beam can be effectively prevented. Accordingly, the back side of the base film can be prevented from locally adhering to the processing table in the dicing apparatus, and subsequent steps, namely, drawing the base film to separate the workpiece from the adhesive layer, and individually recovering these, can be carried out easily and efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiteru Asai, Toshio Shintani, Takatoshi Sasaki, Akiyoshi Yamamoto, Tomokazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20080057270
    Abstract: An adhesive sheet for water jet laser dicing, comprises an adhesive layer laminated on a base film, wherein the adhesive sheet has perforations, has a porosity of 3 to 90% and has a fracture elongation of at least 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa Miki, Fumiteru Asai, Tomokazu Takahashi, Takatoshi Sasaki, Toshio Shintani, Akiyoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20080057306
    Abstract: An adhesive sheet for laser processing, comprises a base film and an adhesive layer laminated on the surface of the base film, wherein the base film has a melting protection layer on the back side thereof. According to the adhesive sheet for laser processing of the present invention, the melting of the base film caused by the local concentration of laser beam energy at the places irradiated with the laser beam can be effectively prevented. Accordingly, the back side of the base film can be prevented from locally adhering to the processing table in the dicing apparatus, and subsequent steps, namely, drawing the base film to separate the workpiece from the adhesive layer, and individually recovering these, can be carried out easily and efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takatoshi Sasaki, Tomokazu Takahashi, Fumiteru Asai, Akiyoshi Yamamoto, Toshio Shintani
  • Publication number: 20080057253
    Abstract: An adhesive sheet for water jet laser dicing, comprises an adhesive layer laminated on a base film, wherein the adhesive constituting the adhesive layer is an energy radiation curing type adhesive, and said adhesive sheet has an adhesive strength of at least 1.5 N/20 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takatoshi Sasaki, Tsubasa Miki, Fumiteru Asai, Tomokazu Takahashi, Toshio Shintani, Akiyoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20070264498
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for processing a semiconductor wafer or semiconductor substrate, which includes a base material and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer which is polymerizable and curable by an energy ray, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer being disposed on a surface of the base material, in which the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer includes a base polymer, a multifunctional acrylate-based oligomer which has an energy-ray polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond and has a molecular weight of 1000 to 2500, and a multifunctional acrylate-based compound which has an energy-ray polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond and has a molecular weight of 200 to 700. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet of the invention is excellent in follow-up properties to a minute unevenness with a depth of about 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio Shintani, Fumiteru Asai
  • Publication number: 20070190318
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet for dicing which is to be applied to an active surface in the state of being not wholly covered with a native oxide film. The adhesive tape or sheet includes a substrate, and a radiation-curable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer disposed on at least one side of the substrate, in which the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains an acrylic polymer (A) having a weight-average molecular weight of 500,000 or higher and at least one radiation-polymerizable compound (B) selected from cyanurate compounds having one or more groups containing a carbon-carbon double bond and isocyanurate compounds having one or more groups containing a carbon-carbon double bond, and the ratio of the radiation-polymerizable compound (B) with respect to 100 parts by weight of the acrylic polymer (A) is 5 to 150 parts by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiteru Asai, Toshio Shintani, Yuji Okawa, Tomokazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7231706
    Abstract: An anisotropic conductive film is prepared by winding an insulated wire around a core member to form one roll of a winding layer, placing an insulating resin film on the obtained winding layer, and repeating the step of winding the insulated wire and the step of placing the insulating resin film to give a laminate alternately having the winding layer comprising a single row of insulated wires and an insulating resin layer made from the insulating resin film. A coating layer and insulating resin layer are melted to integrate the winding layer and the insulating resin layer. The laminate then is sliced along a plane forming an angle with the insulated wire in a desired film thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Yamaguchi, Ichiro Suehiro, Fumiteru Asai, Yuji Hotta
  • Patent number: 7156669
    Abstract: The present invention provides an anisotropic conductive film for testing an electronic component, which comprises a film substrate comprising an insulating resin and plural conductive paths insulated from each other and penetrating the film substrate in the thickness direction, preferably, an anisotropic conductive film wherein the plural conductive paths are disposed in a houndstooth check pattern and the distance between conductive paths between adjacent rows of conductive paths is smaller than the distance between conductive paths within a row of conductive paths. In another preferable embodiment, the insulating resin comprises a naphthalene skeleton epoxy resin crosslinked with a phenol resin and an acrylic rubber, and both ends of the plural conductive paths are exposed on both the front and the back surfaces of the film substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiteru Asai, Masato Noro
  • Publication number: 20060257651
    Abstract: According to the invention, a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for use in dicing of a workpiece is provided which comprises a base film and at least a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on the base film, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer comprises an acrylic polymer that contains at least 5% by weight of a monomer unit having an alkoxyl group in its side chain. According to the structure, there are provided a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for dicing that can produce good pickup performance even after a long time and a method of picking up a product worked with the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Toshio Shintani, Tomokazu Takahashi, Syouji Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Kiuchi, Fumiteru Asai, Kouji Akazawa
  • Publication number: 20050132568
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a method of producing a highly reliable anisotropic conductive film having conductive paths disposed at a narrow pitch and comparatively highly protruding from the principal plane of a film substrate, which is free of a short-circuit (contact) of the ends of adjacent conductive paths and an unprotruded conductive path. The production method of the present invention includes preparing a structural precursor wherein plural conductive paths 52 comprising conductive wires penetrate a film substrate 51 made from an insulating polymer in the thickness direction thereof, while being insulated from each other and the end face of each conductive path 52 is present in the same plane as the principal plane of the film substrate 51, and applying a reactive ion etching to the principal plane of the film substrate 51 to allow the ends 52a, 52b of the conductive path 52 to protrude from the principal planes 51a, 51b of the film substrate 51.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiteru Asai, Masato Noro
  • Publication number: 20050077542
    Abstract: The present invention provides an anisotropic conductive film for testing an electronic component, which comprises a film substrate comprising an insulating resin and plural conductive paths insulated from each other and penetrating the film substrate in the thickness direction, preferably, an anisotropic conductive film wherein the plural conductive paths are disposed in a houndstooth check pattern and the distance between conductive paths between adjacent rows of conductive paths is smaller than the distance between conductive paths within a row of conductive paths. In another preferable embodiment, the insulating resin comprises a naphthalene skeleton epoxy resin crosslinked with a phenol resin and an acrylic rubber, and both ends of the plural conductive paths are exposed on both the front and the back surfaces of the film substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiteru Asai, Masato Noro
  • Patent number: 6811927
    Abstract: A battery highly inhibited from suffering self-discharge. The battery is characterized by containing a built-in polymer which has in the molecule a carbodiimide unit represented the following formula (I): —[—R—N═C═N—)]n—  (I) wherein R means an organic group and n means an integer of 1 to 10,000).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masakatsu Urairi, Keisuke Kii, Yutaka Kishii, Yutaka Yamamura, Masao Abe, Sadahito Misumi, Fumiteru Asai
  • Publication number: 20040079474
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a production method capable of efficiently producing an anisotropic conductive connector having a structure wherein the center line of plural conductive paths penetrating in the thickness direction of a film substrate forms an angle with a line perpendicular to the principal plane of the film substrate, which shows high reliability of connection with the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiteru Asai, Kazuo Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20030201118
    Abstract: The present invention provides a production method of an anisotropic conductive film, which method includes the steps of
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Yamaguchi, Ichiro Suehiro, Fumiteru Asai, Yuji Hotta
  • Patent number: 6613608
    Abstract: An anisotropic conductive film 2 is superimposed on a circuit face 1a of a semiconductor wafer 1, and sandwiched and depressurizably surrounded with a flexible film 3 and a rigid plate 4 (or two flexible films) in the laminating direction, followed by depressurization of the surrounded interior by pressurizing at least in the laminating direction and heating the laminate as is from the outside, thereby joining the semiconductor wafer and the anisotropic conductive film, to produce a semiconductor wafer with an anisotropic conductive film. By forming an inhibiting layer on the rear face of a semiconductor wafer, the inhibiting layer warps in the direction antagonizing an expansion-shrinkage force produced on the anisotropic conductive film, and the warping of the entirety can be inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Yamaguchi, Yuji Hotta, Fumiteru Asai
  • Patent number: 6566608
    Abstract: The present invention provides a production method of an anisotropic conductive film, which method includes the steps of (a) winding an insulated wire around a core member to form one roll of a winding layer, this insulated wire including a metal conductor wire and a coating layer made from an insulating resin, this coating layer being formed on the wire, placing an insulating resin film on the obtained winding layer, and repeating the winding and the placing to give a laminate alternately having the winding layer having a single row of insulated wires and an insulating resin layer made from the insulating resin film, (b) partially or entirely melting at least one of the coating layer and the insulating resin layer to integrate the winding layer and the insulating resin layer, and (c) slicing the laminate along a plane forming an angle with the insulated wire in a desired film thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Yamaguchi, Ichiro Suehiro, Fumiteru Asai, Yuji Hotta
  • Publication number: 20010032733
    Abstract: The present invention provides a production method of an anisotropic conductive film, which method includes the steps of
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventors: Miho Yamaguchi, Ichiro Suehiro, Fumiteru Asai, Yuji Hotta