Patents by Inventor Isao Sakama

Isao Sakama 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: 7592914
    Abstract: A tablet PTP package contains a multiplicity of tablets by a resin PVC and a metal sheet such as an aluminum sheet. An elongate space pattern is formed in a part of the aluminum sheet on the lower surface of the package to form an island area constituting an antenna. A small radio IC inlet including an IC chip mounted on a small antenna is arranged on the reverse surface (upper surface of the package) of the portion of the aluminum sheet corresponding to the island area. The small radio IC inlet and the second antenna formed by the island area are electrostatically coupled to each other with the resin PVC as a dielectric member, and thus a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag is configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Patent number: 7586446
    Abstract: To improve electronic part packaging efficiency without sacrificing the transmission distance of a radio IC tag, a recess is formed in the front side surface of a printed wiring board. An IC chip is placed in the recess so that the IC chip does not protrude from the front side surface, a first major surface 1a and a second major surface of the printed wiring board. Antenna elements of an antenna are formed on the front side surface on the opposite sides, respectively, of the IC chip, and the antenna is connected to the IC chip. The antenna is a dipole antenna of a length equal to half the wavelength of radio waves to be radiated by the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Patent number: 7557890
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display with an IC tag in which information of an IC chip can be read from the surface of the liquid crystal display, while the IC chip can be mounted on the small-size liquid crystal display without lowering the attraction of design thereof. A common electrode is formed in a wide region of an upper electrode layer constituting the liquid crystal display. Antennas are formed in a region of an edge portion of the upper electrode layer where the common electrode is not formed, and within the region of a surface-side glass. An IC chip is placed out of the region of the surface-side glass. X-axis and Y-axis matrix electrodes are formed in a region of a lower electrode layer opposite to the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Publication number: 20090159881
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus including a chip which is fabricated in large numbers on a wafer and has a plurality of information blocks. In the method, a unique information bit is written in a chip discrimination block of each chip 10 within a shot, which is a segmented region of the wafer, by a fixed pattern method. In addition, an information bit uniquely given to each shot within the wafer is written by a mask shift method. Further, an information bit uniquely given to each wafer is written in a wafer discrimination block of the chip 10 which is fabricated on the wafer by the mask shift method and mask combination method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Hidehiko KANDO, Isao Sakama
  • Patent number: 7535365
    Abstract: A radio frequency IC tag is provided which is excellent in weatherability, dustproofness, waterproofness, and static protection and capable of making a communication distance long even though each antenna section is made small in configuration. A first antenna equipped with an IC chip is formed on an upper surface of a first spacer. A second antenna is formed on a lower surface of a top cover. A second spacer is shaped in hollow form. The first spacer and the top cover are disposed on both sides of the second spacer with the first antenna and the second antenna being opposite to each other. Each of the first spacer, the second spacer and the top cover is formed of a synthetic resin. Thus, the IC chip and each antenna section are not exposed to the outside and hence weatherability is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Patent number: 7535364
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus which ensures a wide reading area on a reader antenna and a reading operability of information recorded in a small-sized radio frequency IC tag is provided. The apparatus includes an auxiliary antenna of ?/2 long disposed near to a radiating antenna of ?/2 long and including plural conductive elements in an array. When the IC tag approaches the auxiliary antenna, a subsidiary tuning circuit is formed between it and an inlet antenna of IC tag, so making tuning complementary to each other. The inlet antenna having an antenna length shorter than the tuning frequency can receive energy from the auxiliary antenna efficiently and is excited integrally with the auxiliary antenna to thereby spread a reading area by apparatus and increase the communication distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Patent number: 7523541
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing a small radio frequency IC tag, where the radio frequency IC tag which can obtain sufficiently long communication distance with radio wave in the microwave band even if an antenna is made small and the radio frequency IC tag is embedded in metal material. An O-shaped antenna is formed to narrow the width of a neck part in which an IC chip is mounted and widen the width of radiating electrodes constituting radiating part of radio wave. The radiating electrodes are formed into offset structure on right and left sides of the feeding point so that areas of right and left radiating parts of the feeding point in which the IC chip is mounted are unsymmetrical. Further, a ground electrode is provided so that a dielectric body is held between the radiating electrodes and the ground electrode and the radiating electrode is connected to the ground electrode at the side of the dielectric body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Publication number: 20090085751
    Abstract: An RFID tag having mounted thereon an IC chip capable of receiving and delivering information from and to an external source without contact. In the RFID tag, a central axis of its own antenna having mounted thereon the IC chip coincides with a center of the RFID tag, and an antenna width is controlled. That is, a position of the central axis of the antenna is controlled to correct the mass eccentricity of the RFID tag. Further, the RFID tag is an RFID tag having mounted thereon the IC chip capable of receiving and delivering information from and to an external source without contact, and an RFID tag having attached thereon the IC chip at a position in which a first and a second antenna lengths are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Shimpei Hesaki, Nobuhiro Kudo
  • Patent number: 7508347
    Abstract: An RFIC tag includes an IC chip and a thin metal plate. The IC chip is mounted approximately in the center of a slit part on the thin metal plate. The thin metal plate has connecting parts at both longitudinal-direction ends fixed on a metal member by soldering, and the undersurface of the slit part, which has an L-shaped slit thereon, is lifted a predetermined height from the surface of the metal member. The total length (L2+L1+L2) is ¼ or shorter than the communication wavelength ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Publication number: 20090027210
    Abstract: In an RFID tag mounting package mounted with an RFID tag and a manufacturing method thereof, in order to have sufficient communication performance without spoiling the design property of the package to which a conductive film is applied, a package is obtained by assembling a structural material in which a metallic film is formed on a base material made of paper or the like. In the package, a slot is provided in the metallic film of a folded portion, in a spot where portions (the folded portion and an external packaging portion) of the structural material overlap each other. An inlet operates as an RFID tag, includes an antenna and an IC chip connected to the antenna, and is mounted on the inner surface of the folded portion in conformity with the position of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Isao SAKAMA, Koichi Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20090009330
    Abstract: An RFID tag mounting circuit board has a configuration in which an RFIC chip, a minimum antenna, a circuit which matches the impedance of the RFIC chip and that of the antenna are mounted on a printed circuit board. With this configuration, the area occupied by the antenna of an RFID tag is suppressed, and decrease in the component mounting density of the printed circuit board is suppressed. The RFID tag mounting circuit board is configured to be capable of managing the histories of all components on a per-printed-circuit-board basis by attaching a reading device for an RFIC chip to a chip mounter which mounts an IC chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Isao SAKAMA, Minoru ASHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 7468774
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display with an IC tag in which information of an IC chip can be read from the surface of the liquid crystal display, while the IC chip can be mounted on the small-size liquid crystal display without lowering the attraction of design thereof. A common electrode is formed in a wide region of an upper electrode layer constituting the liquid crystal display. Antennas are formed in a region of an edge portion of the upper electrode layer where the common electrode is not formed, and within the region of a surface-side glass. An IC chip is placed out of the region of the surface-side glass. X-axis and Y-axis matrix electrodes are formed in a region of a lower electrode layer opposite to the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Publication number: 20080309836
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display with an IC tag in which information of an IC chip can be read from the surface of the liquid crystal display, while the IC chip can be mounted on the small-size liquid crystal display without lowering the attraction of design thereof. A common electrode is formed in a wide region of an upper electrode layer constituting the liquid crystal display. Antennas are formed in a region of an edge portion of the upper electrode layer where the common electrode is not formed, and within the region of a surface-side glass. An IC chip is placed out of the region of the surface-side glass. X-axis and Y-axis matrix electrodes are formed in a region of a lower electrode layer opposite to the common electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Publication number: 20080252462
    Abstract: An RFID tag according to the present invention includes a first antenna on which an IC chip is mounted and a second antenna extending from an end of the first antenna in a direction at right angles to the first antenna. The first antenna has an arbitrarily electrical length and the second antenna has an electrical length of ?/2 or an integral multiple of ?/2. A resin base film having a thickness of approximately 50 ?m is disposed on the back side of the first antenna and the second antenna. With this configuration of a tag antenna, the second antenna resonates with the first antenna to exhibit a radio wave amplifying effect. Therefore, a long communication distance can be achieved even if the electrical length of the first antenna is chosen to be short or the thickness of the base film is chosen to be thin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventor: Isao SAKAMA
  • Publication number: 20080246616
    Abstract: A media case and a circuit pattern sheet with a simple configuration is provided that allows highly dense collection and reliable recognition of housed disk media. The media case 1 can house disk media 50 provided with an RFID tag (not illustrated in the drawing). This media case 1 includes an antenna element 51a being formed on its back plane to exchange an electromagnetic wave signal with the outside of the media case 1; a waveguide line 52a formed in the vicinity of its center therethrough along the disk media 50 from the antenna element 51a to guide high-frequency signals representing the electromagnetic wave signals to the antenna element 51a; and a resonance element 53a being formed adjacent to this waveguide line 52a and electromagnetically induced by the high-frequency signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Isao SAKAMA, Osamu Hoshino
  • Patent number: 7405664
    Abstract: A radio frequency IC tag and a manufacturing method for the same includes an IC chip on which information is stored, and an antenna for transmitting the information that is stored on the IC chip. In the antenna, a power-feeding part on which the IC chip is mounted extends along a direction in which an electric current flows. Radiation parts are formed so that the width of the radiation parts becomes wider than that of the power-feeding part with respect to the longitudinal axis of the power-feeding part. The radiation parts extend from the power-feeding part, at both sides thereof, along the direction in which the electric current flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Publication number: 20080172860
    Abstract: A small radio frequency IC tag which can obtain sufficiently long communication distance with radio wave in the microwave band even if an antenna is made small and the radio frequency IC tag is embedded in metal material. An O-shaped antenna is formed to narrow the width of a neck part in which an IC chip is mounted and widen the width of radiating electrodes constituting radiating part of radio wave. The radiating electrodes are formed into offset structure on right and left sides of the feeding point so that areas of right and left radiating parts of the feeding point in which the IC chip is mounted are unsymmetrical. Further, a ground electrode is provided so that a dielectric body is held between the radiating electrodes and the ground electrode and the radiating electrode is connected to the ground electrode at the side of the dielectric body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Publication number: 20080111662
    Abstract: A RFID tag read equipment includes a read device and an antenna system including first to third antennas. The read device outputs the question wave as a high-frequency current, and reads the predetermined data by demodulating the answer wave when the answer wave is inputted therein as a high-frequency current. The first to third antennas output the high-frequency current when they receive the electromagnetic wave, and radiate the electromagnetic wave when the high-frequency current is inputted therein. Here, the first antenna is connected to the read device via a feeder wire, the second antenna being located such that its radiation direction is made parallel and opposite to radiation direction of the first antenna, the third antenna being connected to the second antenna via a feeder wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa
  • Publication number: 20080111760
    Abstract: An RFIC tag includes an IC chip and a thin metal plate. The IC chip is mounted approximately in the center of a slit part on the thin metal plate. The thin metal plate has connecting parts at both longitudinal-direction ends fixed on a metal member by soldering, and the undersurface of the slit part, which has an L-shaped slit thereon, is lifted a predetermined height from the surface of the metal member. The total length (L2+L1+L2) is ¼ or shorter than the communication wavelength ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Isao SAKAMA, Minoru ASHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20080106419
    Abstract: The present invention provides a biological implantation RFID tag which can be subcutaneously implanted in a small animal without significantly stressing it and which exhibits improved communication performance, and an insertion jig used to implant the biological implantation RFID tag in the living body of a small animal. A biological implantation RFID tag is implanted in the living body of a small animal to transmit and receive an electromagnetic wave to and from the exterior of the living body to allow an ID assigned to the animal to be read. The biological implantation RFID tag includes an inlet having an IC chip that stores the ID and a main antenna, a support around which the inlet is wound to form an inlet portion, and an auxiliary antenna connected to the main antenna to extend it. Implanting the biological implantation RFID tag in the living body allows the inlet portion to be implanted in a subcutaneous tissue layer with most of the auxiliary antenna projecting out from the living body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Isao Sakama, Minoru Ashizawa, Hiroshi Abe