Patents by Inventor Makoto Kiyama
Makoto Kiyama 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).
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Patent number: 11462670Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material includes: a base material that is a semiconductor; and an additive element that differs from an element constituting the base material. An additional band formed of the additive element is present within a forbidden band of the base material. A density of states of the additional band has a ratio of greater than or equal to 0.1 relative to a maximum value of a density of states of a valence band adjacent to the forbidden band of the base material.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota School FoundationInventors: Masahiro Adachi, Makoto Kiyama, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Tsunehiro Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20220266578Abstract: The present invention is a flame-resistant layered molded article in which one surface of a fiber sheet material containing at least infusible fibers A, particularly a fiber sheet material containing infusible fibers A and thermoplastic fibers B, is exposed to the outside of a molded article, and in which at least a part of the other surface side is joined to a thermoplastic resin C forming a molded article body. As a flame-resistant layered molded article, the present invention can realize to exhibit the high flame resistance and flame-shielding property that are required, and to ensure the desired strength and stiffness and good moldability that are required overall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Makoto WADA, Masaru HARADA, Kazuya OKUBO, Osamu NIWA, Hiroshi KIYAMA
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Patent number: 11282997Abstract: A plate-shaped thermoelectric conversion material having a first main surface and a second main surface on the opposite side of the first main surface is formed of semiconductor grains that are in contact with one another. The semiconductor grains each include a particle composed of a semiconductor containing an amorphous phase, and an oxidized layer covering the particle. The distance between the first main surface and the second main surface exceeds 0.5 mm.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Adachi, Makoto Kiyama, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20210384397Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material contains a matrix composed of a semiconductor and nanoparticles disposed in the matrix, and the nanoparticles have a lattice constant distribution ?d/d of 0.0055 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Adachi, Makoto Kiyama, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Ryo Toyoshima
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Patent number: 11139422Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material contains a matrix composed of a semiconductor and nanoparticles disposed in the matrix, and the nanoparticles have a lattice constant distribution ?d/d of 0.0055 or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES. LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Adachi, Makoto Kiyama, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Ryo Toyoshima
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Patent number: 11024705Abstract: A semi-insulating gallium arsenide crystal substrate has a main surface with a plane orientation of (100) and a diameter of 2R mm, the main surface having a specific resistance with an average value of 5×107 ?·cm or more and with a standard deviation divided by the average value of the specific resistance, or with a coefficient of variation, of 0.50 or less in each of three measurement areas having their centers at distances of 0 mm, 0.5R mm, and (R-17) mm, respectively, from the center of the main surface in the [010] direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Kawamoto, Makoto Kiyama, Yukio Ishikawa, Katsushi Hashio
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Publication number: 20210091289Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material includes: a base material that is a semiconductor composed of a base material element; a first additional element that is an element different from the base material element, has a vacant orbital in a d orbital or f orbital located internal to an outermost shell of the first additional element and forms a first additional level in a forbidden band of the base material; and a second additional element that is an element different from both of the base material element and the first additional element and forms a second additional level in the forbidden band of the base material. A difference is 1 between the number of electrons in an outermost shell of the second additional element and the number of electrons in at least one outermost shell of the base material element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2018Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA SCHOOL FOUNDATIONInventors: Masahiro ADACHI, Kotaro HIROSE, Makoto KIYAMA, Takashi MATSUURA, Yoshiyuki YAMAMOTO, Tsunehiro TAKEUCHI, Shunsuke NISHINO
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Publication number: 20200403136Abstract: A thermoelectric material element includes: a thermoelectric material portion composed of a thermoelectric material that includes a first crystal phase and a second crystal phase during an operation, the second crystal phase being different from the first crystal phase; a first electrode disposed in contact with the thermoelectric material portion; and a second electrode disposed in contact with the thermoelectric material portion and disposed to be separated from the first electrode. During the operation, the thermoelectric material portion includes a first temperature region having a first temperature, and a second temperature region having a second temperature lower than the first temperature of the first temperature region. A ratio of the first crystal phase to the second crystal phase in the first temperature region is larger than a ratio of the first crystal phase to the second crystal phase in the second temperature region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA SCHOOL FOUNDATIONInventors: Masahiro ADACHI, Makoto KIYAMA, Takashi MATSUURA, Yoshiyuki YAMAMOTO, Do-Gyun BYEON, Tsunehiro TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20200381509Abstract: A semi-insulating gallium arsenide crystal substrate has a main surface with a plane orientation of (100) and a diameter of 2R mm, the main surface having a specific resistance with an average value of 5×107 ?·cm or more and with a standard deviation divided by the average value of the specific resistance, or with a coefficient of variation, of 0.50 or less in each of three measurement areas having their centers at distances of 0 mm, 0.5R mm, and (R-17) mm, respectively, from the center of the main surface in the [010] direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2017Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shinya KAWAMOTO, Makoto KIYAMA, Yukio ISHIKAWA, Katsushi HASHIO
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Patent number: 10837124Abstract: A gallium nitride substrate has a surface with a diameter of not less than 100 mm, a difference being not less than 0.1 cm?1 and not more than 2 cm?1 between maximum and minimum values of wave numbers at a maximum peak of peaks corresponding to an E2H phonon mode in micro-Raman scattering mapping measurement at each of square regions having sides each having a length of 2 mm, the square regions being located at a total of five locations including a central location and four circumferential edge locations on the surface of the gallium nitride substrate, a difference being not more than 2 cm?1 between maximum and minimum values of the wave numbers at the maximum peak of the peaks corresponding to the E2H phonon mode at all of measurement points in the five locations.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Kiyama, Ryu Hirota, Seiji Nakahata
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Publication number: 20200203591Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material contains a matrix composed of a semiconductor and nanoparticles disposed in the matrix, and the nanoparticles have a lattice constant distribution ?d/d of 0.0055 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro ADACHI, Makoto KIYAMA, Yoshiyuki YAMAMOTO, Ryo TOYOSHIMA
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Publication number: 20200105992Abstract: A plate-shaped thermoelectric conversion material having a first main surface and a second main surface on the opposite side of the first main surface is formed of semiconductor grains that are in contact with one another. The semiconductor grains each include a particle composed of a semiconductor containing an amorphous phase, and an oxidized layer covering the particle. The distance between the first main surface and the second main surface exceeds 0.5 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro ADACHI, Makoto KIYAMA, Yoshiyuki YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200032419Abstract: A gallium nitride substrate has a surface with a diameter of not less than 100 mm, a difference being not less than 0.1 cm?1 and not more than 2 cm?1 between maximum and minimum values of wave numbers at a maximum peak of peaks corresponding to an E2H phonon mode in micro-Raman scattering mapping measurement at each of square regions having sides each having a length of 2 mm, the square regions being located at a total of five locations including a central location and four circumferential edge locations on the surface of the gallium nitride substrate, a difference being not more than 2 cm?1 between maximum and minimum values of the wave numbers at the maximum peak of the peaks corresponding to the E2H phonon mode at all of measurement points in the five locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto KIYAMA, Ryu HIROTA, Seiji NAKAHATA
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Patent number: 10458043Abstract: A gallium nitride substrate has a surface with a diameter of not less than 100 mm, a difference being not less than 0.1 cm?1 and not more than 2 cm?1 between maximum and minimum values of wave numbers at a maximum peak of peaks corresponding to an E2H phonon mode in micro-Raman scattering mapping measurement at each of square regions having sides each having a length of 2 mm, the square regions being located at a total of five locations including a central location and four circumferential edge locations on the surface of the gallium nitride substrate, a difference being not more than 2 cm?1 between maximum and minimum values of the wave numbers at the maximum peak of the peaks corresponding to the E2H phonon mode at all of measurement points in the five locations.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Kiyama, Ryu Hirota, Seiji Nakahata
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Patent number: 10443151Abstract: There is provided a gallium nitride substrate having a C plane as a surface with a diameter of not less than 100 mm, the gallium nitride substrate including first regions and second regions having different average values of band-edge emission intensities in a micro photoluminescence mapping at 25° C. in a square region located in the C plane and having sides each having a length of 2 mm, an average value Ibe1a of the band-edge emission intensities of the first regions and an average value Ibe2a of the band-edge emission intensities of the second regions satisfying the following relational expressions (I) and (II): Ibe1a>Ibe2a . . . (I) and 2.1?Ibe1a/Ibe2a?9.4 . . . (II).Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Kiyama, Ryu Hirota, Seiji Nakahata
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Publication number: 20190214538Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material includes: a base material that is a semiconductor; and an additive element that differs from an element constituting the base material. An additional band formed of the additive element is present within a forbidden band of the base material. A density of states of the additional band has a ratio of greater than or equal to 0.1 relative to a maximum value of a density of states of a valence band adjacent to the forbidden band of the base material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota School FoundationInventors: Masahiro ADACHI, Makoto KIYAMA, Yoshiyuki YAMAMOTO, Tsunehiro TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20180237946Abstract: There is provided a gallium nitride substrate having a C plane as a surface with a diameter of not less than 100 mm, the gallium nitride substrate including first regions and second regions having different average values of band-edge emission intensities in a micro photoluminescence mapping at 25° C. in a square region located in the C plane and having sides each having a length of 2 mm, an average value Ibe1a of the band-edge emission intensities of the first regions and an average value Ibe2a of the band-edge emission intensities of the second regions satisfying the following relational expressions (I) and (II): Ibe1a>Ibe2a . . . (I) and 2.1?Ibe1a/Ibe2a?9.4 . . . (II).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto KIYAMA, Ryu HIROTA, Seiji NAKAHATA
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Patent number: 10006147Abstract: There is provided a gallium nitride substrate having a C plane as a surface with a diameter of not less than 100 mm, the gallium nitride substrate including first regions and second regions having different average values of band-edge emission intensities in a micro photoluminescence mapping at 25° C. in a square region located in the C plane and having sides each having a length of 2 mm, an average value Ibe1a of the band-edge emission intensities of the first regions and an average value Ibe2a of the band-edge emission intensities of the second regions satisfying the following relational expressions (I) and (II): Ibe1a>Ibe2a??(I) and 2.1?Ibe1a/Ibe2a?9.4??(II).Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Kiyama, Ryu Hirota, Seiji Nakahata
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Publication number: 20170137966Abstract: A gallium nitride substrate has a surface with a diameter of not less than 100 mm, a difference being not less than 0.1 cm?1 and not more than 2 cm?1 between maximum and minimum values of wave numbers at a maximum peak of peaks corresponding to an E2H phonon mode in micro-Raman scattering mapping measurement at each of square regions having sides each having a length of 2 mm, the square regions being located at a total of five locations including a central location and four circumferential edge locations on the surface of the gallium nitride substrate, a difference being not more than 2 cm?1 between maximum and minimum values of the wave numbers at the maximum peak of the peaks corresponding to the E2H phonon mode at all of measurement points in the five locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto KIYAMA, Ryu HIROTA, Seiji NAKAHATA
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Patent number: 9647058Abstract: A diode having excellent switching characteristics is provided. A diode includes a silicon carbide substrate, a stop layer, a drift layer, a guard ring, a Schottky electrode, an ohmic electrode, and a surface protecting film. At a measurement temperature of 25° C., a product R•Q of a forward ON resistance R of the diode and response charges Q of the diode satisfies relation of R•Q?0.24×Vblocking2. The ON resistance R is found from forward current-voltage characteristics of the diode. A reverse blocking voltage Vblocking is defined as a reverse voltage which produces breakdown of the diode. The response charges Q are found by integrating a capacitance (C) obtained in reverse capacitance-voltage characteristics of the diode in a range from 0 V to Vblocking.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Kiyama, Takashi Matsuura, Mitsuru Shimazu