Patents by Inventor Kazunori Kondo

Kazunori Kondo 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: 20170009022
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin composition containing components (A), (B), and (C), component (A) being a silicone resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 3,000-500,000 and having constituent units represented by compositional formula (1), component (B) being an epoxy resin curing agent, and component (C) being a filler. The present invention is capable of providing a resin film and a resin composition whereby wafers can be molded (wafer molding) in batch fashion, the resin composition having good molding properties with respect to large-diameter thin-film wafers in particular while at the same time imparting low warpage after molding and good wafer-protective ability, the resin composition also facilitating the molding step and being suitable for use in wafer-level packaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori KONDO, Yoichiro ICHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20160315025
    Abstract: A film-forming resin composition for use in encapsulating large-diameter thin-film wafers includes (A) a silicone resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 3,000 to 500,000 and containing repeating units of formula (1) wherein R1 to R4 are monovalent hydrocarbon groups, but R3 and R4 are not both methyl, m and n are integers of 0 to 300, R5 to R8 are divalent hydrocarbon groups, a and b are positive numbers such that a+b=1, and X is a specific divalent organic moiety; (B) a phenolic compound of formula (7) wherein Y is a carbon atom or a tetravalent hydrocarbon group of 2 to 20 carbon atoms, and R13 to R16 are monovalent hydrocarbon groups or hydrogen atoms; and (C) a filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kondo, Yoichiro Ichioka, Hideto Kato
  • Patent number: 9472438
    Abstract: A wafer processing laminate, a wafer processing member, a temporary adhering material for processing wafer, and a method for manufacturing a thin wafer using the same. The wafer processing laminate includes a support, a temporary adhesive material layer formed thereon and a wafer laminated on the temporary adhesive material layer, where the wafer has a circuit-forming front surface and a back surface to be processed. The temporary adhesive material layer includes a first temporary adhesive layer of a thermoplastic organopolysiloxane polymer layer (A) releasably adhered on a surface of the wafer, a second temporary adhesive layer of a radiation curable polymer layer (B) laminated on the first temporary adhesive layer, and a third temporary adhesive layer of a thermoplastic organopolysiloxane polymer layer (A?) laminated on the second temporary adhesive layer and releasably adhered to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kondo, Hideto Kato, Michihiro Sugo, Shohei Tagami, Hiroyuki Yasuda
  • Patent number: 9447305
    Abstract: A silicone resin comprising constitutional units represented by formula (1) and having a Mw of 3,000-500,000 contains 10-50 wt % of (A-1) a first silicone resin having a silicone content of 10-40 wt % and (A-2) a second silicone resin having a silicone content of 50-80 wt %. A resin composition comprising the silicone resin can be formed in film form, and it possesses satisfactory covering or encapsulating performance to large size/thin wafers. The resin composition or resin film ensures satisfactory adhesion, low warpage, and wafer protection. The resin film is useful in wafer-level packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kondo, Yoichiro Ichioka, Hideto Kato
  • Publication number: 20160122586
    Abstract: A silicone resin comprising constitutional units represented by formula (1) and having a Mw of 3,000-500,000 contains 10-50 wt % of (A-1) a first silicone resin having a silicone content of 10-40 wt % and (A-2) a second silicone resin having a silicone content of 50-80 wt %. A resin composition comprising the silicone resin can be formed in film form, and it possesses satisfactory covering or encapsulating performance to large size/thin wafers. The resin composition or resin film ensures satisfactory adhesion, low warpage, and wafer protection. The resin film is useful in wafer-level packages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori KONDO, Yoichiro ICHIOKA, Hideto KATO
  • Publication number: 20160010716
    Abstract: A foreign object discharge hole is provided at a position that is located on a lowermost side of the cover when a shock absorber is in a mounted state, and a size of the foreign object discharge hole is set to be similar to or larger than a size of a space between an outlet port and a harness. This can ensure that a foreign object introduced into the cover is discharged out of the cover via the foreign object discharge hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Tatsuya KEIDA, Ikuhide IYODA, Masaaki TABATA, Takashi KUROKOUCHI, Kazunori KONDO, Umi TANABE
  • Patent number: 8883913
    Abstract: A resin composition which can be formed into a film for use in molding a large diameter thin film wafer is provided. The composition comprises components (A) a silicone resin containing repeating units represented by the following formulae (1-1), (1-2), and (1-3) and having a weight average molecular weight as measured by GPC in terms of polystyrene of 3,000 to 500,000, wherein r, s, and t are independently a positive integer; the silicon atom at the terminal of the units constituting the repeating units represented by the formulae (1-1), (1-2), and (1-3) is bonded to the terminal carbon atom of the X1, X2, or X3 in the same or different unit; R1 is independently a monovalent hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 8 carbon atoms; X1, X2, and X3 are independently a divalent group; (B) a thermosetting resin; and (C) a filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kondo, Michihiro Sugo
  • Patent number: 8808865
    Abstract: There is disclosed an adhesive composition comprising the following Components (A), (B) and (C), wherein a minimum melt viscosity of the composition is less than 500 Pa·s, a temperature which gives the minimum melt viscosity is less than 200° C., and, a melt viscosity at 200° C. of the composition is 500 Pa·s or more: (A) a polymer having a reactive functional group (B) a thermosetting resin (C) a compound having flux activity. As a result, there is provided an adhesive composition which can be suitably used for preparation of a semiconductor apparatus, particularly an adhesive composition which difficultly causes voids between bumps at the bonding, difficultly causes positional divergence of bumps, and difficultly causes voids after completion of solder bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazunori Kondo
  • Patent number: 8796410
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a polymer having repeating units represented by the formulas (1-1), (1-2) and (1-3) and weight-average molecular weight of from 3,000 to 500,000, as determined by GPC using tetrahydrofuran as a solvent, reduced to polystyrene. Another aspect of the present invention provides an adhesive composition comprising (A) the polymer, (B) a thermosetting resin, and (C) a compound having flux activity. Further, the present invention provides an adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer made of the adhesive composition, a protective material for a semiconductor device, which has the adhesive layer, and a semiconductor device having a cured product obtained from the adhesive composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michihiro Sugo, Kazunori Kondo
  • Publication number: 20140106137
    Abstract: A wafer processing laminate, a wafer processing member, a temporary adhering material for processing wafer, and a method for manufacturing a thin wafer using the same. The wafer processing laminate includes a support, a temporary adhesive material layer formed thereon and a wafer laminated on the temporary adhesive material layer, where the wafer has a circuit-forming front surface and a back surface to be processed. The temporary adhesive material layer includes a first temporary adhesive layer of a thermoplastic organopolysiloxane polymer layer (A) releasably adhered on a surface of the wafer, a second temporary adhesive layer of a radiation curable polymer layer (B) laminated on the first temporary adhesive layer, and a third temporary adhesive layer of a thermoplastic organopolysiloxane polymer layer (A?) laminated on the second temporary adhesive layer and releasably adhered to the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori KONDO, Hideto KATO, Michihiro SUGO, Shohei TAGAMI, Hiroyuki YASUDA
  • Patent number: 8673537
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photo-curable resin composition, which contains a polyimide silicone having a primary alcoholic hydroxyl group, as a component (A); at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an amino condensation product modified with formalin or a formalin-alcohol and a phenol compound having two or more in average of methylol group or alkoxymethylol group in one molecule thereof, as a component (B); and a photo-acid generator as a component (C). When used as an adhesive, the photo-curable resin composition further contains a multifunctional epoxy compound as a component (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Furuya, Michihiro Sugo, Hideto Kato, Kazunori Kondo, Shohei Tagami, Tomoyuki Goto
  • Patent number: 8596726
    Abstract: An automobile wheel 10 comprising: (a) a rim 20; and (b) a disc 30 including: a plurality of spokes 33; and a disc flange 35 positioned at an outside end in the wheel radial direction, the disc having decorative holes 34, in which the rim and the disc flange are joined together, wherein a part of the disc flange, which corresponds to a radially outside end S of each of the spokes, is cut out toward an outside in a wheel axial direction relative to a disc-flange inside end edge 35a of the disc flange on an inside in the wheel axial direction to form a notch 36, and a minimum distance a1 between the notch and an outer periphery of the decorative hole is smaller than a width a2 of the disc flange at a middle position CD of the decorative hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Topy Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunori Kondo, Takehiro Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20130289225
    Abstract: There is disclosed an adhesive composition comprising the following Components (A), (B) and (C), wherein a minimum melt viscosity of the composition is less than 500 Pa·s, a temperature which gives the minimum melt viscosity is less than 200° C., and, a melt viscosity at 200° C. of the composition is 500 Pa·s or more: (A) a polymer having a reactive functional group (B) a thermosetting resin (C) a compound having flux activity. As a result, there is provided an adhesive composition which can be suitably used for preparation of a semiconductor apparatus, particularly an adhesive composition which difficultly causes voids between bumps at the bonding, difficultly causes positional divergence of bumps, and difficultly causes voids after completion of solder bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazunori KONDO
  • Patent number: 8501879
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus adhesive composition having excellent adhesion properties when pressure-bonded and has excellent connection reliability and insulation reliability when hardened and an adhesive sheet using this adhesive composition. An adhesive composition including: (A) a silicone resin constituted of a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (1); (B) a thermosetting resin; and (C) a compound having a flux activity, where R1 to R4 represent univalent hydrocarbon groups having carbon numbers from 1 to 8, which are equal to or different from each other; each of l and m is an integer from 1 to 100; each of a, b, c, and d is 0 or a positive number and meets 0<(c+d)/(a+b+c+d)?1.0; and each of X and Y is a bivalent organic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kondo, Michihiro Sugo, Hideto Kato
  • Patent number: 8466041
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a lamination type semiconductor integrated device that can simultaneously attain grinding force resistance during back side grinding of a semiconductor wafer, heat resistance during anisotropic dry etching and the like, chemical resistance during plating and etching, smooth debonding of a support substrate for processing at the end, and low adherend staining; the method comprises at least a step of back side grinding of a first semiconductor wafer having a device formed on its surface and a step of laminating by electrical bonding the first semiconductor wafer with a second semiconductor wafer having a device formed on its surface, wherein, at the time of back side grinding of the first semiconductor wafer, back of the first semiconductor wafer is ground after surface of formed device on the first semiconductor wafer is bonded to a support substrate for processing by using a pressure-sensitive silicone adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Kuroda, Kazunori Kondo, Hideto Kato
  • Publication number: 20130119749
    Abstract: An automobile wheel 10 comprising: (a) a rim 20; and (b) a disc 30 including: a plurality of spokes 33; and a disc flange 35 positioned at an outside end in the wheel radial direction, the disc having decorative holes 34, in which the rim and the disc flange are joined together, wherein a part of the disc flange, which corresponds to a radially outside end S of each of the spokes, is cut out toward an outside in a wheel axial direction relative to a disc-flange inside end edge 35a of the disc flange on an inside in the wheel axial direction to form a notch 36, and a minimum distance a1 between the notch and an outer periphery of the decorative hole is smaller than a width a2 of the disc flange at a middle position CD of the decorative hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: TOPY KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunori Kondo, Takehiro Fujioka
  • Patent number: 8408622
    Abstract: A frame molding is provided. The frame molding includes a frame molding main body having first claws and a holder member assembled with the frame molding main body. A holder member includes a metal holder portion and a resin holder portion fixed to the metal holder portion. The resin holder has receiving portions that are crimped by the claws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yanai, Katsuhiko Takeuchi, Kazunori Kondo
  • Publication number: 20120299203
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a polymer having repeating units represented by the formulas (1-1), (1-2) and (1-3) and weight-average molecular weight of from 3,000 to 500,000, as determined by GPC using tetrahydrofuran as a solvent, reduced to polystyrene. Another aspect of the present invention provides an adhesive composition comprising (A) the polymer, (B) a thermosetting resin, and (C) a compound having flux activity. Further, the present invention provides an adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer made of the adhesive composition, a protective material for a semiconductor device, which has the adhesive layer, and a semiconductor device having a cured product obtained from the adhesive composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihiro SUGO, Kazunori KONDO
  • Patent number: 8315780
    Abstract: There is provided a high pressure fuel pump control system for an internal combustion engine which enables fuel pressure control with high precision without being restricted by the number of cylinders of the internal combustion engine or the number of phase sensor signals and the number of cam noses which vertically drives a plunger of a high pressure fuel pump even when a camshaft phase varies by a variable valve timing mechanism by using the high pressure fuel pump with a solenoid valve. The control system has a means which changes an effective stroke by driving the solenoid valve in the high pressure fuel pump, and has a means which changes the drive timing of the high pressure fuel pump based on a cylinder recognition value of the internal combustion engine with the cam angle detecting means as an origin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Toyohara, Kazunori Kondo, Satoru Okubo, Takashi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20120235284
    Abstract: A film-like wafer mold material for molding a wafer in a lump, the material including a multilayer structure constituted of at least a first film layer and a second film layer provided on the first film layer, wherein the first film layer contains a silicone-backbone-containing polymer, a cross-linking agent, and a filler, and the second film layer, contains a silicone-backbone-containing polymer and a cross-linking agent, and further contains a filler in such a manner that a content rate of the filler becomes 0 or above and less than 100 when a content rate of the filler contained in the first film layer is assumed to be 100. The film-like wafer mold material has excellent transference performance with respect to a thin-film wafer with a large diameter, also has low-warp properties and excellent wafer protection performance after form shaping (after molding), and is preferably used for a wafer level package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihiro SUGO, Kazunori KONDO