Patents by Inventor Kazuo Nakame

Kazuo Nakame 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).

  • Contact probe, method of manufacturing the contact probe, and device and method for inspection
    Publication number: 20040075454
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a contact probe includes an electroforming step of, using a resist film (522) arranged on a substrate (521) as a pattern frame having a shape corresponding to a contact probe, performing electroforming to fill a gap in the resist film (522) to form a metal layer (526), a tip end shaping step of obliquely removing and sharpening that part of the metal layer (526) which serves as a tip end portion of the contact probe, and a take-out step of taking out only the metal layer (526) from the pattern frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hirata, Tsuyoshi Haga, Toshiyuki Numazawa, Kazuo Nakame, Kazunori Okada, Jun Yorita