Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Fujimoto

Hideyuki Fujimoto 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: 20230344196
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes: a housing including: a first upper upward-facing surface, a mounting surface below the first upper upward-facing surface, inner lateral surfaces including a first inner lateral surface and a second inner lateral surface facing the first inner lateral surface, wherein the first upper upward-facing surface and the mounting surface are formed inward of the inner lateral surfaces, and a first wiring part disposed on the first upper upward-facing surface; a semiconductor laser element including: a light output surface, a first lateral surface extending from the light output surface and facing the first inner lateral surface, and a second lateral surface extending from the light output surface and opposite to the first lateral surface; and a first wire connected to the first wiring part for electrical connection of the semiconductor laser element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11728617
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes: a housing including: a first upper upward-facing surface, a second upper upward-facing surface, a mounting surface, inner lateral surfaces, a first wiring part disposed on the first upper upward-facing surface, and a second wiring part disposed on the second upper upward-facing surface; a submount including: a first main surface fixed to the mounting surface of the housing, and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface; a semiconductor laser element fixed to the second main surface of the submount; a first wire connected to the first wiring part for electrical connection of the semiconductor laser element; and a second wire connected to the second wiring part for electrical connection of the semiconductor laser element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20220239061
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes: a housing including: a first upper upward-facing surface, a second upper upward-facing surface, a mounting surface, inner lateral surfaces, a first wiring part disposed on the first upper upward-facing surface, and a second wiring part disposed on the second upper upward-facing surface; a submount including: a first main surface fixed to the mounting surface of the housing, and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface; a semiconductor laser element fixed to the second main surface of the submount; a first wire connected to the first wiring part for electrical connection of the semiconductor laser element; and a second wire connected to the second wiring part for electrical connection of the semiconductor laser element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11329449
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes: a housing including: a first upward-facing surface, at least one inner lateral surface, a recess defined by at least the first upward-facing surface and the at least one inner lateral surface, a second upward-facing surface surrounding the first upward-facing surface in a top view and located above the first upward-facing surface, and at least one third upward-facing surface formed outward of the second upward-facing surface in the top view, wherein a height of the at least one third upward-facing surface is different from a height of the second upward-facing surface; at least one first wiring part located in the recess; at least one second wiring part located on the at least one third-upward facing surface and electrically connected to the at least one first wiring part thorough an insulating part of the housing; a semiconductor laser element disposed on the first upward-facing surface of the housing; and a cap fixed to the second upward-facing surface and covering the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20200335935
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes: a housing including: a first upward-facing surface, at least one inner lateral surface, a recess defined by at least the first upward-facing surface and the at least one inner lateral surface, a second upward-facing surface surrounding the first upward-facing surface in a top view and located above the first upward-facing surface, and at least one third upward-facing surface formed outward of the second upward-facing surface in the top view, wherein a height of the at least one third upward-facing surface is different from a height of the second upward-facing surface; at least one first wiring part located in the recess; at least one second wiring part located on the at least one third-upward facing surface and electrically connected to the at least one first wiring part thorough an insulating part of the housing; a semiconductor laser element disposed on the first upward-facing surface of the housing; and a cap fixed to the second upward-facing surface and covering the
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10734784
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes: a housing including: a recess, and a plurality of wiring parts disposed inside the recess; a submount including: a first main surface fixed to a lower upward-facing surface of the recess, and a second main surface opposite to a first main surface, wherein, in a plan view of the semiconductor laser device, the submount is disposed between the first upper upward-facing surface and a second upper upward-facing surface of the recess; a semiconductor laser element; a light reflecting member; a first wire; and a second wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20200094318
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a bonding material having both preferable dispensing properties and preferable bonding properties, and also providing a bonding method employing the bonding material. Provided are: a bonding material comprising fine silver particles having an average primary particle diameter of smaller than or equal to 130 nm, and a crosslinking-type inter-particle distance keeping agent crosslinking between the fine silver particles and keeping a distance between the fine silver particles; and a bonding method employing the bonding material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki FUJIMOTO, Keiichi ENDOH, Tatsuro HORI, Satoru KURITA
  • Publication number: 20200059066
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes: a housing including: a recess, and a plurality of wiring parts disposed inside the recess; a submount including: a first main surface fixed to a lower upward-facing surface of the recess, and a second main surface opposite to a first main surface, wherein, in a plan view of the semiconductor laser device, the submount is disposed between the first upper upward-facing surface and a second upper upward-facing surface of the recess; a semiconductor laser element; a light reflecting member; a first wire; and a second wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200035637
    Abstract: There are provided a bonding material capable of bonding an electronic part to a substrate by means of a silver bonding layer which is difficult to form large cracks even if the cooling/heating cycle is repeated, and a bonded product wherein an electronic part is bonded to a substrate by using the same. In a bonded product wherein a semiconductor chip such as an SiC chip (having a bonded surface plated with silver) serving as an electronic part is bonded to a copper substrate via a silver bonding layer containing a sintered body of silver, the silver bonding layer has a shear strength of not less than 60 MPa and has a crystalline diameter of not larger than 78 nm on (111) plane thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hori, Keiichi Endoh, Hideyuki Fujimoto, Satoru Kurita
  • Patent number: 10490970
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes a base; a heat sink protruding upward from the base and including an upper surface and a lateral surface extending from the base to the upper surface; a plurality of lead electrodes separated from the heat sink; a submount including: a first main surface fixed to the lateral surface of the heat sink, and a second main surface including a first fixing part, an upper second fixing part, and a lower second fixing part; a protective element fixed to the upper second fixing part; and a wire connecting the protective element and one of the plurality of lead electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 10458004
    Abstract: To provide a silver-bismuth powder, which includes: silver; and bismuth, wherein a mass ratio (silver:bismuth) of the silver to the bismuth is 95:5 to 40:60, wherein a cumulative 50% point of particle diameter (D50) of the silver-bismuth powder in a volume-based particle size distribution thereof as measured by a laser diffraction particle size distribution analysis is 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m, and wherein an oxygen content of the silver-bismuth powder is 5.5% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Ogi, Kenichi Inoue, Atsushi Ebara, Akihiro Asano, Hideyuki Fujimoto, Takahiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190283129
    Abstract: There are provided a bonding material, which is easily printed on a metal substrate, such as a copper substrate, and which can satisfactorily bond an Si chip to the metal substrate by preventing voids from being generated in a metal bonding layer and/or on the boundary between the metal bonding layer and the Si chip or metal copper substrate even if no pre-burning is carried out when the Si chip is bonded to the metal substrate, and a bonding method using the same. In a bonding material of a metal paste containing metal particles, a solvent and a dispersant, the metal particles containing first metal particles (small particles) having an average primary particle diameter of 1 to 40 nm, second metal particles (medium particles) having an average primary particle diameter of 41 to 110 nm, and third metal particles (large particles) having an average primary particle diameter of 120 nm to 10 ?m, the weight percentages of the first, second and third metal particles being 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Endoh, Minami Kanasugi, Hideyuki Fujimoto, Satoru Kurita
  • Publication number: 20190123511
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes a base; a heat sink protruding upward from the base and including an upper surface and a lateral surface extending from the base to the upper surface; a plurality of lead electrodes separated from the heat sink; a submount including: a first main surface fixed to the lateral surface of the heat sink, and a second main surface including a first fixing part, an upper second fixing part, and a lower second fixing part; a protective element fixed to the upper second fixing part; and a wire connecting the protective element and one of the plurality of lead electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10199796
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes a base; a heat sink protruding upward from the base and including an upper surface and a lateral surface extending from the base to the upper surface; a plurality of lead electrodes separated from the heat sink; a submount including: a first main surface fixed to the lateral surface of the heat sink, and a second main surface including a first fixing part, an upper second fixing part, and a lower second fixing part; a protective element fixed to the upper second fixing part; and a wire connecting the protective element and one of the plurality of lead electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 9780523
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device comprises a base, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a third conductive layer, and a semiconductor laser chip in this order, each of which has a respective emitting-side end portion. The emitting-side end portion of the first conductive layer is in a common plane with the emitting-side end portion of the base. A thickness of the second conductive layer is greater than a thickness of the first conductive layer. The emitting-side end portion of the second conductive layer is disposed inward of the emitting-end portion of the first conductive layer. The emitting-side end portion of the third conductive layer is in a common plane with the emitting-side end portion of the second conductive layer. The emitting-side end portion of the semiconductor laser chip is disposed outward of the emitting-side end portion of the third conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Fujimoto, Masatoshi Nakagaki
  • Publication number: 20170237227
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes a base; a heat sink protruding upward from the base and including an upper surface and a lateral surface extending from the base to the upper surface; a plurality of lead electrodes separated from the heat sink; a submount including: a first main surface fixed to the lateral surface of the heat sink, and a second main surface including a first fixing part, an upper second fixing part, and a lower second fixing part; a protective element fixed to the upper second fixing part; and a wire connecting the protective element and one of the plurality of lead electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160111854
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device comprises a base, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a third conductive layer, and a semiconductor laser chip in this order, each of which has a respective emitting-side end portion. The emitting-side end portion of the first conductive layer is in a common plane with the emitting-side end portion of the base. A thickness of the second conductive layer is greater than a thickness of the first conductive layer. The emitting-side end portion of the second conductive layer is disposed inward of the emitting-end portion of the first conductive layer. The emitting-side end portion of the third conductive layer is in a common plane with the emitting-side end portion of the second conductive layer. The emitting-side end portion of the semiconductor laser chip is disposed outward of the emitting-side end portion of the third conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Hideyuki Fujimoto, Masatoshi Nakagaki
  • Publication number: 20160040271
    Abstract: To provide a silver-bismuth powder, which includes: silver; and bismuth, wherein a mass ratio (silver:bismuth) of the silver to the bismuth is 95:5 to 40:60, wherein a cumulative 50% point of particle diameter (D50) of the silver-bismuth powder in a volume-based particle size distribution thereof as measured by a laser diffraction particle size distribution analysis is 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m, and wherein an oxygen content of the silver-bismuth powder is 5.5% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Kozo OGI, Kenichi INOUE, Atsushi EBARA, Akihiro ASANO, Hideyuki FUJIMOTO, Takahiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 8995492
    Abstract: To provide a ridge-type semiconductor laser element capable of preventing inclination at the time of junction-down bonding and having high heat dissipation, in a semiconductor laser element including a substrate, a semiconductor portion disposed on the substrate and having a ridge on a surface at an opposite side from the substrate, an electrode disposed on a ridge, an insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor portion at the both sides of the ridge and a pad electrode disposed on the electrode, in which, the pad electrode side is a mounting surface side, the pad electrode is disposed extending on the insulating layer, and a spacer is disposed between the semiconductor portion and the pad electrode at parts spaced apart from the ridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Masui, Yasuhiro Kawata, Hideyuki Fujimoto, Atsuo Michiue
  • Publication number: 20140140362
    Abstract: To provide a ridge-type semiconductor laser element capable of preventing inclination at the time of junction-down bonding and having high heat dissipation, in a semiconductor laser element including a substrate, a semiconductor portion disposed on the substrate and having a ridge on a surface at an opposite side from the substrate, an electrode disposed on a ridge, an insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor portion at the both sides of the ridge and a pad electrode disposed on the electrode, in which, the pad electrode side is a mounting surface side, the pad electrode is disposed extending on the insulating layer, and a spacer is disposed between the semiconductor portion and the pad electrode at parts spaced apart from the ridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventors: Shingo Masui, Yasuhiro Kawata, Hideyuki Fujimoto, Atsuo Michiue