Patents by Inventor Kazunari Maki

Kazunari Maki 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: 20240124955
    Abstract: This hot-rolled copper alloy sheet contains Mg: 0.2 mass % or more and 2.1 mass % or less, Al: 0.4 mass % or more and 5.7 mass % or less, and Ag: 0.01 mass % or less, with a remainder being Cu and inevitable impurities, an area ratio of Cube orientation (area ratio of crystal orientation) measured by an EBSD method is 5% or less, an average KAM value when a boundary between adjacent pixels where an orientation difference between the pixels is 5° or more is regarded as a crystal grain boundary is 2.0 or less, and an average crystal grain size ? in a sheet-thickness central portion is 40 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke NAKASATO, Kazunari MAKI, Yasuhiro TSUGAWA, U TANI
  • Patent number: 11926889
    Abstract: A copper alloy plate containing in a center part of a plate thickness direction more than 2.0% (% by mass) and 32.5% or less of Zn; 0.1% or more and 0.9% or less of Sn; 0.05% or more and less than 1.0% of Ni; 0.001% or more and less than 0.1% of Fe, and 0.005% or more and 0.1% or less of P; and the balance Cu, including a surface layer part in which a surface Zn concentration in a surface is 60% or less of a center Zn concentration in the center part, having a depth from the surface to where Zn concentration is 90% of the center Zn concentration; and in the surface layer, the Zn concentration increases from the surface toward the center part in the plate thickness direction at a concentration gradient of 10% by mass/?m or more and 1000% by mass/?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Morikawa, Naoki Miyashima, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki
  • Patent number: 11920228
    Abstract: Providing a copper alloy plate, in which center Mg concentration at a center part in a plate thickness direction 0.1 mass % or more and less than 0.3 mass %, center P concentration is 0.001 mass % or more and 0.2 mass % or less, and the balance is composed of Cu and inevitable impurities; in which surface Mg concentration at a surface is 70% or less of the center Mg concentration; in which a surface layer part defined by a prescribed thickness from the surface has a concentration gradient of Mg of 0.05 mass %/?m or more and 5 mass %/?m or less increasing from surface toward center part of the plate thickness direction; and in which restraint of color change of the surface and increase of electrical contact resistance, and adhesiveness of a plating film are excellent due to maximum Mg concentration in the surface layer part is 90% of the center Mg concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Akisaka, Naoki Miyashima, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki
  • Patent number: 11905614
    Abstract: A terminal material having a base material in which at least a surface is made of Cu or Cu alloy; an Ni layer with at thickness of 0.1 ?m to 1.0 ?m inclusive on the base material; a Cu—Sn intermetallic compound layer with a thickness of 0.2 ?m to 2.5 ?m inclusive on the Ni layer; and an Sn layer with a thickness of 0.5 ?m to 3.0 ?m inclusive on the Cu—Sn intermetallic compound layer, when cross sections of the Cu—Sn intermetallic compound layer and the Sn layer are analyzed by the EBSD method with a measuring step 0.1 ?m and a boundary in which misorientation between adjacent pixels is 2° or more is deemed to be a crystal boundary, an average crystal grain size Dc of the Cu—Sn intermetallic compound layer is 0.5 ?m or more, and a grain size ratio Ds/Dc is five or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Miyashima, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki, Seiichi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20230395278
    Abstract: In this slit copper material, a purity of Cu is 99.96% by mass or greater, a ratio W/t of a plate width W to a plate thickness t is 10 or greater, an electrical conductivity is 97.0% IACS or greater, and an average value of orientation densities at ?2=5°, in a range of ?1=0° to 90°, and at ?=0° in a plate center portion is 2.0 or greater and less than 30.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUNAGA, Kosei FUKUOKA, Kazunari MAKI
  • Patent number: 11795525
    Abstract: To improve adhesion between a plating film reducing contact electrical resistance and a copper alloy plate containing Mg. A copper alloy plate containing Mg of more than 1.2% by mass and 2% by mass or less and the balance Cu and inevitable impurities in a center portion in a plate thickness direction, in the copper alloy plate, a surface Mg concentration at a surface is 30% or less of a center Mg concentration at the center portion in the plate thickness direction, a surface layer portion having a depth from the surface to where a Mg concentration is 90% of the center Mg concentration is provided, and in the surface layer portion, the Mg concentration increases from the surface toward the center portion of the plate thickness direction with a concentration gradient of 0.2% by mass/?m or more and 50% by mass/?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Miyashima, Takanori Kobayashi, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki, Hiroyuki Mori, Yuki Ito
  • Patent number: 11781234
    Abstract: A copper alloy plate including 0.3 mass % or more and 1.2 mass % or less of Mg, 0.001 mass % or more and 0.2 mass % or less of P, and the balance Cu with inevitable impurities in a thickness center portion in a plate thickness direction; Mg concentration on a plate surface is 30% or less of bulk Mg concentration at the thickness center portion; a surface layer part having a depth from the plate surface to where it is 90% of the bulk Mg concentration is provided; and in the surface layer part, the Mg concentration increases from the plate surface toward the thickness center portion with a concentration gradient 1.8 mass %/?m or more and 50 mass %/?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Miyashima, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki, Kenji Kubota
  • Publication number: 20230313342
    Abstract: A slit copper material, a purity of Cu is comprises 99.96% by mass or greater of Cu. In this slit copper material, a ratio W/t of a plate width W to a plate thickness t is 10 or greater, an electrical conductivity is 97.0% IACS or greater, a ratio B/A of an average crystal grain size B in a plate surface layer portion to an average crystal grain size A in a plate center portion is in a range of 0.80 or greater and 1.20 or less, and the average crystal grain size A in the plate center portion is 25 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUNAGA, Kosei FUKUOKA, Kazunari MAKI
  • Publication number: 20230313341
    Abstract: A copper alloy plastically-worked material comprises Mg in the amount of 10-100 mass ppm and a balance of Cu and inevitable impurities, which comprise 10 mass ppm or less of S, 10 mass ppm or less of P, 5 mass ppm or less of Se, 5 mass ppm or less of Te, 5 mass ppm or less of Sb, 5 mass ppm or less of Bi and 5 mass ppm or less of As. The total amount of S, P, Se, Te, Sb, Bi, and As is 30 mass ppm or less. The mass ratio of [Mg]/[S+P+Se+Te+Sb+Bi+As] is 0.6 or greater and 50 or less. The electrical conductivity is 97% IACS or greater. The tensile strength is 275 MPa or less. The heat-resistant temperature after draw working is 150° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUNAGA, Yuki ITO, Kosei FUKUOKA, Kazunari MAKI, Kenji MORIKAWA, Shinichi FUNAKI, Hiroyuki MORI
  • Publication number: 20230250514
    Abstract: This copper alloy contains greater than 10 mass ppm and less than 100 mass ppm of Mg, with a balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, which comprise: 10 mass ppm or less of S, 10 mass ppm or less of P, 5 mass ppm or less of Se, 5 mass ppm or less of Te, 5 mass ppm or less of Sb, 5 mass ppm or less of Bi, and 5 mass ppm or less of As. The total amount of S, P, Se, Te, Sb, Bi, and As is 30 mass ppm or less. The mass ratio [Mg]/[S+P+Se+Te+Sb+Bi+As] is 0.6 to 50, an electrical conductivity is 97% IACS or greater. The half-softening temperature ratio TLD/TTD is greater than 0.95 and less than 1.08. The half-softening temperature TLD is 210° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUNAGA, Kosei FUKUOKA, Kazunari MAKI, Kenji MORIKAWA, Shinichi FUNAKI, Hiroyuki MORI
  • Publication number: 20230243020
    Abstract: A copper alloy plastically-worked material comprises Mg in the amount of greater than 10 mass ppm and 100 mass ppm or less and a balance of Cu and inevitable impurities, that comprise 10 mass ppm or less of S, 10 mass ppm or less of P, 5 mass ppm or less of Se, 5 mass ppm or less of Te, 5 mass ppm or less of Sb, 5 mass ppm or less of Bi, and 5 mass ppm or less of As. The total amount of S, P, Se, Te, Sb, Bi, and As is 30 mass ppm or less. The mass ratio of [Mg]/[S+P+Se+Te+Sb+Bi+As] is 0.6 or greater and 50 or less, the electrical conductivity is 97% IACS or greater. The tensile strength is 200 MPa or greater. The heat-resistant temperature is 150° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUNAGA, Yuki ITO, Kosei FUKUOKA, Kazunari MAKI, Kenji MORIKAWA, Shinichi FUNAKI, Hiroyuki MORI
  • Publication number: 20230243018
    Abstract: This copper alloy of one aspect contains greater than 10 mass ppm and less than 100 mass ppm of Mg, with a balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, in which among the inevitable impurities, a S amount is 10 mass ppm or less, a P amount is 10 mass ppm or less, a Se amount is 5 mass ppm or less, a Te amount is 5 mass ppm or less, an Sb amount is 5 mass ppm or less, a Bi amount is 5 mass ppm or less, an As amount is 5 mass ppm or less, a total amount of S, P, Se, Te, Sb, Bi, and As is 30 mass ppm or less, a mass ratio [Mg]/[S+P+Se+Te+Sb+Bi+As] is 0.6 to 50, an electrical conductivity is 97% IACS or greater, and a residual stress ratio at 150° C. for 1000 hours is 20% or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUNAGA, Kosei FUKUOKA, Kazunari MAKI, Kenji MORIKAWA, Shinichi FUNAKI, Hiroyuki MORI
  • Publication number: 20230243019
    Abstract: This copper alloy contains 10-100 mass ppm of Mg, with a balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, which comprise; 10 mass ppm or less of S, 10 mass ppm or less of P, 5 mass ppm or less of Se, 5 mass ppm or less of Te, 5 mass ppm or less of Sb, 5 mass ppm or less of Bi, 5 mass ppm or less of As. The total amount of S, P, Se, Te, Sb, Bi, and As is 30 mass ppm or less. The mass ratio [Mg]/[S+P+Se+Te+Sb+Bi+As] is 0.6 to 50. The electrical conductivity is 97% IACS or greater. The half-softening temperature is 200° C. or higher. The residual stress ratio RSG at 180° C. for 30 hours is 20% or greater. The ratio RSG/RSB at 180° C. for 30 hours is greater than 1.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUNAGA, Kosei FUKUOKA, Kazunari MAKI, Kenji MORIKAWA, Shinichi FUNAKI, Hiroyuki MORI
  • Patent number: 11655523
    Abstract: This copper alloy for electronic or electric devices includes: Mg: 0.15 mass % or greater and less than 0.35 mass %; and P: 0.0005 mass % or greater and less than 0.01 mass %, with a remainder being Cu and unavoidable impurities, wherein an amount of Mg [Mg] and an amount of P [P] in terms of mass ratio satisfy [Mg]+20×[P]<0.5, and 0.20<(NFJ2/(1?NFJ3))0.5?0.45 is satisfied in a case where a proportion of J3, in which all three grain boundaries constituting a grain boundary triple junction are special grain boundaries, to total grain boundary triple junctions is represented by NFJ3, and a proportion of J2, in which two grain boundaries constituting a grain boundary triple junction are special grain boundaries and one grain boundary is a random grain boundary, to the total grain boundary triple junctions is represented by NFJ2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Matsunaga, Kenichiro Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Mori, Kazunari Maki, Yoshiteru Akisaka
  • Publication number: 20230143481
    Abstract: A Cu—Ni—Si based copper alloy containing Ni and Si: in a center portion in a plate thickness direction, containing 0.4% by mass or more and 5.0% by mass or less of Ni, 0.05% by mass or more and 1.5% by mass or less of Si, and the balance Cu and inevitable impurities; where an Ni concentration on a plate surface is 70% or less of a center Ni concentration in the thickness center portion; a surface layer portion having a depth from the plate surface to be 90% of the center Ni concentration; in the surface layer portion, the Ni concentration increases from the plate surface toward the thickness center portion at 5.0% by mass/µm or more and 100% by mass/µm or less of a concentration gradient; to improve the electric connection reliability under high-temperature environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sakai, Naoki Miyashima, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki
  • Patent number: 11613794
    Abstract: A superconductivity stabilizing material used for a superconducting wire and which is formed of a copper material containing at least one of additive elements selected from Ca, Sr, Ba, and rare earth elements in a range of 3 ppm by mass or more and 100 ppm by mass or less in total, with a remainder being Cu and unavoidable impurities, in which the total concentration of the unavoidable impurities, excluding O, H, C, N, and S which are gas components, is 5 ppm by mass or more and 100 ppm by mass or less, the half-softening temperature thereof is 200° C. or lower, the Vickers hardness thereof is 55 Hv or more, and the residual resistance ratio (RRR) thereof is 50 or more and 500 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosei Fukuoka, Yuki Ito, Kazunari Maki
  • Publication number: 20230047984
    Abstract: Providing a copper alloy plate, in which center Mg concentration at a center part in a plate thickness direction 0.1 mass % or more and less than 0.3 mass %, center P concentration is 0.001 mass % or more and 0.2 mass % or less, and the balance is composed of Cu and inevitable impurities; in which surface Mg concentration at a surface is 70% or less of the center Mg concentration; in which a surface layer part defined by a prescribed thickness from the surface has a concentration gradient of Mg of 0.05 mass %/m or more and 5 mass %/m or less increasing from surface toward center part of the plate thickness direction; and in which restraint of color change of the surface and increase of electrical contact resistance, and adhesiveness of a plating film are excellent due to maximum Mg concentration in the surface layer part is 90% of the center Mg concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Akisaka, Naoki Miyashima, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki
  • Patent number: 11572633
    Abstract: A tin-plated copper terminal material in which on a substrate made of copper or copper alloy, a nickel-or-nickel-alloy layer, a copper-tin alloy layer, and a tin layer are laminated in this order; in this material, the tin layer has an average thickness 0.2 ?m to 1.2 ?m inclusive; the copper-tin alloy layer is a compound alloy layer in which Cu6Sn5 is a main ingredient and part of copper in the Cu6Sn5 is substituted with nickel, and an average crystal grain size is 0.2 ?m to 1.5 ?m inclusive; part of the copper-tin alloy layer appears on a surface of the tin layer and tin solidification parts exist like islands; and the tin solidification parts have an average diameter 10 ?m to 1000 ?m inclusive in a direction along the surface of the tin layer and an area ratio to the surface of the tin layer 1% to 90% inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuyumi Mawatari, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki, Yuki Inoue, Kiyotaka Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20220380924
    Abstract: A terminal material having a base material in which at least a surface is made of Cu or Cu alloy; an Ni layer with at thickness of 0.1 ?m to 1.0 ?m inclusive on the base material; a Cu—Sn intermetallic compound layer with a thickness of 0.2 ?m to 2.5 ?m inclusive on the Ni layer; and an Sn layer with a thickness of 0.5 ?m to 3.0 ?m inclusive on the Cu—Sn intermetallic compound layer, when cross sections of the Cu—Sn intermetallic compound layer and the Sn layer are analyzed by the EBSD method with a measuring step 0.1 ?m and a boundary in which misorientation between adjacent pixels is 2° or more is deemed to be a crystal boundary, an average crystal grain size Dc of the Cu—Sn intermetallic compound layer is 0.5 ?m or more, and a grain size ratio Ds/Dc is five or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Miyashima, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki, Seiichi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20220316028
    Abstract: A copper alloy plate containing in a center part of a plate thickness direction more than 2.0% (% by mass) and 32.5% or less of Zn; 0.1% or more and 0.9% or less of Sn; 0.05% or more and less than 1.0% of Ni; 0.001% or more and less than 0.1% of Fe, and 0.005% or more and 0.1% or less of P; and the balance Cu, including a surface layer part in which a surface Zn concentration in a surface is 60% or less of a center Zn concentration in the center part, having a depth from the surface to where Zn concentration is 90% of the center Zn concentration; and in the surface layer, the Zn concentration increases from the surface toward the center part in the plate thickness direction at a concentration gradient of 10% by mass/?m or more and 1000% by mass/?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Morikawa, Naoki Miyashima, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki