Patents by Inventor Masahiko Sano

Masahiko Sano 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: 7982236
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light emitting element capable or realizing at least one of lower resistance, higher output, higher power efficiency (1m/W), higher mass productivity and lower cost of the element using a light transmissive electrode for an electrode arranged exterior to the light emitting structure. A semiconductor light emitting element includes a light emitting section, a first electrode and a second electrode on a semiconductor structure including first and second conductive type semiconductor layers, the first and the second electrodes respectively including at least two layers of a first layer of a light transmissive conductive film conducting to the first and the second conductive type semiconductor and a second layer arranged so as to conduct with the first layer. First and second light transmissive insulating films are respectively arranged so as to overlap at least one part of the first and the second layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Sano, Takahiko Sakamoto, Keiji Emura, Katsuyoshi Kadan
  • Publication number: 20110114840
    Abstract: The present invention is: a package main body section having a hollow section; and an electronic device provided in the hollow section in the package main body section, in the package main body section, there being formed a through hole, through which the hollow section communicates with outside of the package main body section, and in the through hole, there being provided a sealing section in which a vicinity of the through hole is partly heated and a constituent material of the package main body section is melted to thereby block the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Takao Yamazaki, Masahiko Sano, Seiji Kurashina, Yoshimichi Sogawa
  • Publication number: 20100320479
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus and a production method of the apparatus are provided that can emit light with less color unevenness at high luminance. The apparatus includes a light emitting device, a transparent member receiving incident light emitted from the device, and a covering member. The transparent member is formed of an inorganic material light conversion member including an externally exposed emission surface, and a side surface contiguous to the emission surface. The covering member contains a reflective material, and covers at least the side surfaces of the transparent member. Substantially only the emission surface serves as the emission area of the apparatus. It is possible to provide emitted light having excellent directivity and luminance. Emitted light can be easily optically controlled. In the case where each light emitting apparatus is used as a unit light source, the apparatus has high secondary usability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Shunsuke Minato, Masahiko Sano
  • Publication number: 20100264445
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including a substrate, an electrode and a light emitting region is provided. The substrate may have protruding portions formed in a repeating pattern on substantially an entire surface of the substrate while the rest of the surface may be substantially flat. The cross sections of the protruding portions taken along planes orthogonal to the surface of the substrate may be semi-circular in shape. The cross sections of the protruding portions may in alternative be convex in shape. A buffer layer and a GaN layer may be formed on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu NIKI, Motokazu Yamada, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Shioji
  • Publication number: 20100267181
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including a substrate, an electrode and a light emitting region is provided. The substrate may have protruding portions formed in a repeating pattern on substantially an entire surface of the substrate while the rest of the surface may be substantially flat. The cross sections of the protruding portions taken along planes orthogonal to the surface of the substrate may be semi-circular in shape. The cross sections of the protruding portions may in alternative be convex in shape. A buffer layer and a GaN layer may be formed on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu NIKI, Motokazu Yamada, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Shioji
  • Publication number: 20100264446
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including a substrate, an electrode and a light emitting region is provided. The substrate may have protruding portions formed in a repeating pattern on substantially an entire surface of the substrate while the rest of the surface may be substantially flat. The cross sections of the protruding portions taken along planes orthogonal to the surface of the substrate may be semi-circular in shape. The cross sections of the protruding portions may in alternative be convex in shape. A buffer layer and a GaN layer may be formed on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu NIKI, Motokazu Yamada, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Shioji
  • Publication number: 20100266815
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including a substrate, an electrode and a light emitting region is provided. The substrate may have protruding portions formed in a repeating pattern on substantially an entire surface of the substrate while the rest of the surface may be substantially flat. The cross sections of the protruding portions taken along planes orthogonal to the surface of the substrate may be semi-circular in shape. The cross sections of the protruding portions may in alternative be convex in shape. A buffer layer and a GaN layer may be formed on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu NIKI, Motokazu Yamada, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Shioji
  • Publication number: 20100264447
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including a substrate, an electrode and a light emitting region is provided. The substrate may have protruding portions formed in a repeating pattern on substantially an entire surface of the substrate while the rest of the surface may be substantially flat. The cross sections of the protruding portions taken along planes orthogonal to the surface of the substrate may be semi-circular in shape. The cross sections of the protruding portions may in alternative be convex in shape. A buffer layer and a GaN layer may be formed on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu NIKI, Motokazu Yamada, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Shioji
  • Patent number: 7804101
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including a substrate, an electrode and a light emitting region is provided. The substrate may have protruding portions formed in a repeating pattern on substantially an entire surface of the substrate while the rest of the surface may be substantially flat. The cross sections of the protruding portions taken along planes orthogonal to the surface of the substrate may be semi-circular in shape. The cross sections of the protruding portions may in alternative be convex in shape. A buffer layer and a GaN layer may be formed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu Niki, Motokazu Yamada, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Shioji
  • Patent number: 7795585
    Abstract: A vacuum package has a chamber in which pressure is reduced to less than the atmospheric pressure, a functional component sealed in the chamber, and a material forming at least a part of the chamber. The material has at least one through hole to evacuate the chamber. In a cross section perpendicular to the material taken along the through hole, an edge portion of the material forming the through hole has an obtuse angle. The through hole is sealed with a sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Sogawa, Takao Yamazaki, Masahiko Sano, Seiji Kurashina, Yuji Akimoto
  • Patent number: 7745245
    Abstract: At least one recess and/or protruding portion is created on the surface portion of a substrate for scattering or diffracting light generated in a light emitting region. The recess and/or protruding portion has a shape that prevents crystal defects from occurring in semiconductor layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu Niki, Motokazu Yamada, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Shioji
  • Patent number: 7635875
    Abstract: At least one recess and/or protruding portion is created on the surface portion of a substrate for scattering or diffracting light generated in a light emitting region. The recess and/or protruding portion has a shape that prevents crystal defects from occurring in semiconductor layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu Niki, Motokazu Yamada, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Shioji
  • Publication number: 20090140146
    Abstract: A vacuum package has a chamber in which pressure is reduced to less than the atmospheric pressure, a functional component sealed in the chamber, and a material forming at least a part of the chamber. The material has at least one through hole to evacuate the chamber. In a cross section perpendicular to the material taken along the through hole, an edge portion of the material forming the through hole has an obtuse angle. The through hole is sealed with a sealing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi SOGAWA, Takao YAMAZAKI, Masahiko SANO, Seiji KURASHINA, Yuji AKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 7496124
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor laser device has an improved stability of the lateral mode under high output power and a longer lifetime, so that the device can be applied to write and read light sources for recording media with high capacity. The nitride semiconductor laser device includes an active layer, a p-side cladding layer, and a p-side contact layer laminated in turn. The device further includes a waveguide region of a stripe structure formed by etching from the p-side contact layer. The stripe width provided by etching is within the stripe range of 1 to 3 ?m and the etching depth is below the thickness of the p-side cladding layer of 0.1 ?m and above the active layer. Particularly, when a p-side optical waveguide layer includes a projection part of the stripe structure and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer on the projection part and the projection part of the p-side optical waveguide layer has a thickness of not more than 1 ?m, an aspect ratio is improved in far field image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Tokuya Kozaki, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Nakamura, Shinichi Nagahama
  • Publication number: 20090042328
    Abstract: At least one recess and/or protruding portion is created on the surface portion of a substrate for scattering or diffracting light generated in a light emitting region. The recess and/or protruding portion has a shape that prevents crystal defects from occurring in semiconductor layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu NIKI, Motokazu Yamada, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Shioji
  • Publication number: 20080303043
    Abstract: At least one recess and/or protruding portion is created on the surface portion of a substrate for scattering or diffracting light generated in a light emitting region. The recess and/or protruding portion has a shape that prevents crystal defects from occurring in semiconductor layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu NIKI, Motokazu Yamada, Masahiko Sano, Shuji Shioji
  • Publication number: 20080296609
    Abstract: A substrate 1 for growing nitride semiconductor has a first and second face and has a thermal expansion coefficient that is larger than that of the nitride semiconductor. At least n-type nitride semiconductor layers 3 to 5, an active layer 6 and p-type nitride semiconductor layers 7 to 8 are laminated to form a stack of nitride semiconductor on the first face of the substrate 1. A first bonding layer including more than one metal layer is formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 8. A supporting substrate having a first and second face has a thermal expansion coefficient that is larger than that of the nitride semiconductor and is equal or smaller than that of the substrate 1 for growing nitride semiconductor. A second bonding layer including more than one metal layer is formed on the first face of the supporting substrate. The first bonding layer 9 and the second bonding layer 11 are faced with each other and, then, pressed with heat to bond together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Nagahama, Masahiko Sano, Tomoya Yanamoto, Keiji Sakamoto, Masashi Yamamoto, Daisuke Morita
  • Patent number: 7417229
    Abstract: An infrared absorption film (first through third infrared absorption films) that constitutes a photoreceptor of a thermal-type infrared detection element comprises a laminate film in which a film composed of a novel SiCO material having high absorption on the short-wavelength end (approximately 8 to 10 ?m) of the waveband (atmospheric window) from 8 to 14 ?m is combined with a film composed of SiO, SiN, SiC, SiON, SiCN, or another material having high absorption on the long-wavelength end (approximately 10 to 14 ?m) of the abovementioned waveband. Infrared rays on the short-wavelength end that could not be effectively utilized by the conventional thermal infrared detection element can thereby be absorbed by the SiCO membrane, infrared rays throughout the abovementioned waveband can be effectively utilized, and the sensitivity of the thermal infrared detection element can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: NEC Corporatioin
    Inventors: Tokuhito Sasaki, Masahiko Sano
  • Publication number: 20080185606
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light emitting element capable or realizing at least one of, preferably, most of lower resistance, higher output, higher power efficiency (1 m/W), higher mass productivity and lower cost of the element using a light transmissive electrode for an electrode arranged exterior to the light emitting structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Sano, Takahiko Sakamoto, Keiji Emura, Katsuyoshi Kadan
  • Patent number: 7390684
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus comprising a light emitting device (101) disposed on a supporting body (105), and coating layers ((108, 109) that bind a fluorescent substance that absorbs light emitted by the light emitting device (101) and emits light of a different wavelength and secures the fluorescent substance onto the surface of the light emitting device (101). The coating layers (108, 109) are made of an inorganic material including an oxide and a hydroxide, each containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of Si, Al, Ga, Ti, Ge, P, B, Zr, Y, Sn, Pb and alkali earth metals. Also an adhesive layer (110) is made of the same inorganic material as that of the coating layers (108, 109).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiro Izuno, Kouki Matsumoto, Shinichi Nagahama, Masahiko Sano, Tomoya Yanamoto, Keiji Sakamoto