Patents by Inventor Masahiro Karatsu

Masahiro Karatsu 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: 7661361
    Abstract: A printing and drying method comprising laying a support sheet 20 elongated in the long direction so as to bridge both a printing zone 42 and a drying zone 44, in the printing zone 42, giving the support sheet 20 a first tension F1, in that state, printing the support sheet 20 with predetermined patterns, then feeding the support sheet 20 toward the drying zone 44, in the drying zone 44, giving the support sheet 20 on which the predetermined patterns were printed a second tension F2, and in that state, drying it in a drying chamber 62. The first tension F1 and the second tension F2 are given by separate tension giving means, and the second tension F2 is tension given along the support sheet 20 in the long direction and able to prevent shrinkage of the support sheet 20 in the long direction while passing through the drying zone 44.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Kanasugi, Tamotsu Ishiyama, Shigeki Sato, Masahiro Karatsu, Tsuneo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7491283
    Abstract: At the time of pressing an electrode layer 12a against a surface of a green sheet 10a having a thickness of 3 ?m or thinner to bond the electrode layer 12a with the surface of the green sheet 10a, an adhesive layer 28 having a thickness of 0.02 to 0.3 ?m is formed on a surface of the electrode layer 12a or the surface of the green sheet 10a. It is possible to easily transfer a dry type electrode layer to the surface of the green sheet with high accuracy without breaking or deforming the green sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Karatsu, Shigeki Satou, Takeshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 7491282
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a multi-layered ceramic electronic component which can reliably prevent a multi-layered unit including a ceramic green sheet and an electrode layer from being damaged and efficiently laminate a desired number of the multi-layered units, thereby manufacturing the multi-layered ceramic electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Karatsu, Shigeki Sato, Masaaki Kanasugi
  • Patent number: 7360305
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multi-layered ceramic electronic component includes positioning a multi-layered unit including a release layer, an electrode layer and a ceramic green sheet formed on a support sheet in such a manner that the surface of the multi-layered unit is located on a base substrate and a step of pressing the multi-layered unit toward the base substrate, thereby laminating the multi-layered unit on the base substrate, and employs as the base substrate a base substrate having such surface roughness as to include per 0.01 mm2 thereof not more than one protrusion that can penetrate the ceramic green sheet of the multi-layered unit laminated on the base substrate to half or more the thickness of the ceramic green sheet and include per 100 mm2 thereof not more than one protrusion that can completely penetrate the ceramic green sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Karatsu, Shigeki Sato, Masaaki Kanasugi
  • Patent number: 7323214
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet excellent in permeability in high frequencies and to provide a method for manufacturing the same. The electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet of the present invention comprises insulating layers on the both sides of a magnetic layer. The magnetic layer is formed by densely depositing a large amount of magnetic powder such that the powder undergoes plastic deformation. Each magnetic powder is made to be a composite magnetic material formed of the soft magnetic metal phase consisting of a flaky soft magnetic metal powder and the insulating phase consisting of an insulating film formed on the surface of the soft magnetic metal phase. Additionally, another configuration can be taken in which a conductive layer is arranged on one of the insulating layers arranged on both sides of the magnetic layer, and the conductive layer is covered with an insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Wakayama, Masahiro Karatsu, Tsutomu Chou, Yasuo Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20070017091
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a multi-layered ceramic electronic component which can reliably prevent a multi-layered unit including a ceramic green sheet and an electrode layer from being damaged and efficiently laminate a desired number of the multi-layered units, thereby manufacturing the multi-layered ceramic electronic component. The method for manufacturing a multi-layered ceramic electronic component according to the present invention includes a step of positioning a multi-layered unit including a release layer, an electrode layer and a ceramic green sheet formed on a support sheet in such a manner that the surface of the multi-layered unit is located on a base substrate and a step of pressing the multi-layered unit toward the base substrate, thereby laminating the multi-layered unit on the base substrate, and employs as the base substrate a base substrate having such surface roughness as to include per 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Karatsu, Shigeki Sato, Masaaki Kanasugi
  • Publication number: 20060213382
    Abstract: A printing and drying method comprising laying a support sheet 20 elongated in the long direction so as to bridge both a printing zone 42 and a drying zone 44, in the printing zone 42, giving the support sheet 20 a first tension F1, in that state, printing the support sheet 20 with predetermined patterns, then feeding the support sheet 20 toward the drying zone 44, in the drying zone 44, giving the support sheet 20 on which the predetermined patterns were printed a second tension F2, and in that state, drying it in a drying chamber 62. The first tension F1 and the second tension F2 are given by separate tension giving means, and the second tension F2 is tension given along the support sheet 20 in the long direction and able to prevent shrinkage of the support sheet 20 in the long direction while passing through the drying zone 44.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Kanasugi, Tamotsu Ishiyama, Shigeki Sato, Masahiro Karatsu, Tsuneo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20060196592
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a multi-layered ceramic electronic component which can reliably prevent a multi-layered unit including a ceramic green sheet and an electrode layer from being damaged and efficiently laminate a desired number of the multi-layered units, thereby manufacturing the multi-layered ceramic electronic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventors: Masahiro Karatsu, Shigeki Sato, Masaaki Kanasugi
  • Publication number: 20060180269
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a multi-layered ceramic electronic component which can reliably prevent a multi-layered unit including a ceramic green sheet and an electrode layer from being damaged and efficiently laminate a desired number of the multi-layered units, thereby manufacturing the multi-layered ceramic electronic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Masahiro Karatsu, Shigekl Sato, Masaaki Kanasugi
  • Publication number: 20060044731
    Abstract: At the time of pressing an electrode layer 12a against a surface of a green sheet 10a having a thickness of 3 ?m or thinner to bond the electrode layer 12a with the surface of the green sheet 10a, an adhesive layer 28 having a thickness of 0.02 to 0.3 ?m is formed on a surface of the electrode layer 12a or the surface of the green sheet 10a. It is possible to easily transfer a dry type electrode layer to the surface of the green sheet with high accuracy without breaking or deforming the green sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Karatsu, Shigeki Satou, Takeshi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20050012652
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet excellent in permeability in high frequencies and to provide a method for manufacturing the same. The electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet of the present invention comprises insulating layers on the both sides of a magnetic layer. The magnetic layer is formed by densely depositing a large amount of magnetic powder such that the powder undergoes plastic deformation. Each magnetic powder is made to be a composite magnetic material formed of the soft magnetic metal phase consisting of a flaky soft magnetic metal powder and the insulating phase consisting of an insulating film formed on the surface of the soft magnetic metal phase. Additionally, another configuration can be taken in which a conductive layer is arranged on one of the insulating layers arranged on both sides of the magnetic layer, and the conductive layer is covered with an insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Wakayama, Masahiro Karatsu, Tsutomu Chou, Yasuo Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 6310837
    Abstract: The invention is a magnetic recording medium which is effectively protected against forgery by the alteration of recorded data, and a method for carrying out writing and reading on this magnetic recording medium. The magnetic recording medium of the invention comprises a recording material composed of a crystalline alloy containing Fe and Al . In the recoding material, the total amount of Fe and Al is at least 90 at % and the atomic ratio Al/(Fe+Al) ranges from 0.30 to 0.45. The recording material changes from a disordered phase to an ordered phase by heating. The recording material has a saturation magnetization of at least 45 emu/g prior to heating and lowers its saturation magnetization by at least 35 emu/g upon heating. Dark regions are observable in a bright-field image of the recording material by transmission electron microscopy, the dark regions accounting for 15-60% of the recording material in areal ratio and having a maximum breadth of 10-200 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignees: TDK Corporation, Tokyo Magnetic Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Chou, Masao Shigeta, Masahiro Karatsu, Mari Fujii, Chikara Ishizaka, Katsumi Saito, Katsuhiko Wakayama, Shohei Mimura, Masahiro Ito