Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Ichikawa

Hirofumi Ichikawa 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: 20240021752
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device includes providing a light-emitting element having element electrodes including a positive element electrode and a negative element electrode, a wiring substrate having wiring layers, and conductive members each electrically connecting one of the element electrodes and a corresponding one of the wiring layers, with at least one member of the element electrodes, the wiring layers, or the conductive members containing Au; arranging, between a lower surface of the light-emitting element and the wiring substrate, a resin composition in a liquid state; oxidizing a component B in the resin composition in contact with the at least one member containing Au; and after the oxidizing of the component B, heating and curing the resin composition not in contact with the at least one member containing Au.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi AMARI, Yasunori SHIMIZU, Hirofumi ICHIKAWA, Hiroshi IWATA
  • Publication number: 20210336094
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a resin package including: a resin part, and a plurality of leads including a first lead and a second lead, wherein the resin package has a concave portion having a bottom face at which a part of an upper surface of the first lead and a part of an upper surface of the second lead are exposed from the resin part; a light emitting element mounted on the bottom face of the concave portion; and a sealing member covering the light emitting element in the concave portion. The plurality of leads comprise a plurality of notch parts including a first notch part on a first side corresponding to a first outer side surface of the resin package and a second notch part on a second side corresponding to a second outer side surface of the resin package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi ICHIKAWA, Masaki HAYASHI, Shimpei SASAOKA, Tomohide MIKI
  • Patent number: 11094854
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means or an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ichikawa, Masaki Hayashi, Shimpei Sasaoka, Tomohide Miki
  • Publication number: 20200287096
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means or an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi ICHIKAWA, Masaki HAYASHI, Shimpei SASAOKA, Tomohide MIKI
  • Patent number: 10700241
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means or an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ichikawa, Masaki Hayashi, Shimpei Sasaoka, Tomohide Miki
  • Patent number: 10573788
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means or an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ichikawa, Masaki Hayashi, Shimpei Sasaoka, Tomohide Miki
  • Patent number: 10573789
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means or an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ichikawa, Masaki Hayashi, Shimpei Sasaoka, Tomohide Miki
  • Publication number: 20190088825
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means or an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi ICHIKAWA, Masaki HAYASHI, Shimpei SASAOKA, Tomohide MIKI
  • Publication number: 20190035981
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means or an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi ICHIKAWA, Masaki HAYASHI, Shimpei SASAOKA, Tomohide MIKI
  • Patent number: 10115870
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means or an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ichikawa, Masaki Hayashi, Shimpei Sasaoka, Tomohide Miki
  • Publication number: 20180301600
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means or an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi ICHIKAWA, Masaki HAYASHI, Shimpei SASAOKA, Tomohide MIKI
  • Patent number: 9960326
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a base substrate having a recessed portion at a flat upper surface thereof. The recessed portion has an inner wall. A sealing member is provided in the recessed portion. The sealing member contains surface-treated particles, or particles coexisting with a dispersing agent. The particles have a particle diameter of 1 nm or more and 100 ?m or less. The particles are made of an organic material or an inorganic material. The organic material and the inorganic material are free of a phosphor. The at least a part of an edge portion of the sealing member is a region located in the vicinity of an edge of the recessed portion which is a boundary between a surface of the inner wall and the flat upper surface. The at least one of the particles and aggregates of particles are unevenly distributed in the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Kuramoto, Akiko Yamasaki, Hirofumi Ichikawa, Yasunori Shimizu, Akihiro Ota
  • Patent number: 9893250
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes at least one light emitting element including a plurality of semiconductor layers; and a light transmissive sealing member covering the at least one light emitting element. The light transmissive sealing member comprises a light transmissive sealing resin containing a silicone resin having a siloxane bond scaffold having methyl and phenyl groups as a principal ingredient. The light transmissive sealing resin has a refractive index in a range between 1.45 and 1.52, a durometer type D hardness at 25° C. specified by JIS K 6253 in a range between 20 and 70, and a DMA tan ?-based glass transition temperature (Tg) in a range between 20° C. and 70° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ichikawa, Tomoki Tanisada, Yasunori Shimizu, Masafumi Kuramoto
  • Publication number: 20170162765
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a base substrate having a recessed portion at a flat upper surface thereof. The recessed portion has an inner wall. A sealing member is provided in the recessed portion. The sealing member contains surface-treated particles, or particles coexisting with a dispersing agent. The particles have a particle diameter of 1 nm or more and 100 ?m or less. The particles are made of an organic material or an inorganic material. The organic material and the inorganic material are free of a phosphor. The at least a part of an edge portion of the sealing member is a region located in the vicinity of an edge of the recessed portion which is a boundary between a surface of the inner wall and the flat upper surface. The at least one of the particles and aggregates of particles are unevenly distributed in the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi KURAMOTO, Akiko YAMASAKI, Hirofumi ICHIKAWA, Yasunori SHIMIZU, Akihiro OTA
  • Publication number: 20170141273
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means or an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi ICHIKAWA, Masaki HAYASHI, Shimpei SASAOKA, Tomohide MIKI
  • Patent number: 9653662
    Abstract: A light emitting device (100) according to the present disclosure includes a base substrate (10) having a recessed portion (15) at its upper surface (11); a light emitting element (20) provided in the recessed portion (15); and a sealing member (30) provided in the recessed portion (15), in which the sealing member (30) contains surface-treated particles (40), or particles (40) coexisting with a dispersing agent, and at least a part of an edge portion of the sealing member (30) is a region located in the vicinity of an edge (17) of the recessed portion, and in which at least one of the particles (40) and aggregates (41) of particles are unevenly distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Kuramoto, Akiko Yamasaki, Hirofumi Ichikawa, Yasunori Shimizu, Akihiro Ota
  • Patent number: 9559274
    Abstract: Provided a light emitting device comprising: a package; a light emitting element disposed in the package; an encapsulation member that covers the light emitting element, the encapsulation member being formed from a resin composition that contains a fluorescent material, a resin, and nanoparticles selected from at least one of the group consisting of aluminum oxide nanoparticles, titanium oxide nanoparticles, zinc oxide nanoparticles, zirconium oxide nanoparticles, and silicon oxide nanoparticles, wherein when the resin composition includes silicon oxide nanoparticles, the content of the silicon oxide nanoparticles is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Ota, Seitaro Akagawa, Hirofumi Ichikawa, Yasunori Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9537071
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means of an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ichikawa, Masaki Hayashi, Shimpei Sasaoka, Tomohide Miki
  • Patent number: 9490411
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device having a resin package which provides an optical reflectivity equal to or more than 70% at a wavelength between 350 nm and 800 nm after thermal curing, and in which a resin part and a lead are formed in a substantially same plane in an outer side surface, includes a step of sandwiching a lead frame provided with a notch part, by means of an upper mold and a lower mold, a step of transfer-molding a thermosetting resin containing a light reflecting material in a mold sandwiched by the upper mold and the lower mold to form a resin-molded body in the lead frame and a step of cutting the resin-molded body and the lead frame along the notch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ichikawa, Masaki Hayashi, Shimpei Sasaoka, Tomohide Miki
  • Patent number: 9472735
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a package and at least one light-emitting element. The package includes a concave portion which has a bottom surface. The bottom surface includes sides, package distances between opposite sides among the sides, a longest package distance among the package distances, a lower side among the sides, and an upper side among the sides opposite to the lower side. The at least one light-emitting element is arranged on the bottom surface of the concave portion and has a polygonal shape viewed along a front direction. The polygonal shape has light-emitting element distances between vertexes of the polygonal shape and has a longest light-emitting element distance among the light-emitting element distances. The at least one light-emitting element is arranged such that a light-emitting element lateral line along the longest light-emitting element distance is substantially parallel to a package lateral line along the longest package distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ichikawa, Motohisa Kitani, Junya Narita, Keisuke Kurashita, Takanori Akaishi