Patents by Inventor Masako Ohya

Masako Ohya 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: 8295032
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solid electrolytic capacitor having sufficiently low impedance at high frequencies in which a conductive polymer formed on a dielectric oxide film has good adherence to the dielectric oxide film, and a manufacturing method of the solid electrolytic capacitor. The solid electrolytic capacitor of the present invention includes a valve metal; a dielectric oxide film layer formed on a surface of the valve metal; and a solid electrolyte layer, comprising a conductive polymer layer, formed on the dielectric oxide film layer. The conductive polymer layer contains, as an additive, 0.1 wt % to 30 wt % of an organic oligomer having an average degree of polymerization of 2 to 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Tokin Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Sugawara, Masako Ohya, Kazuyuki Katoh
  • Patent number: 7835138
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor is provided in which volume efficiency of its capacitor element is improved. A converting substrate having an anode terminal forming portion and cathode terminal portion obtained by forming notches on faces exposed on outside faces of the anode and cathode portions and performing plating in the notches in portions in which the anode and cathode portions of a lower-face electrode type solid electrolytic capacitor is connected to the capacitor element and, after a sheathing resin is formed therein, the sheathed portion and converting substrate are cut along cutting planes to form fillet forming faces on the outside faces of the anode portion and cathode portion of the lower-face electrode type solid electrolytic capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Tokin Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamashita, Kazuhiro Koike, Kazuyuki Kato, Masako Ohya, Kunihiko Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7717967
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solid electrolytic capacitor has the steps of: mixing valve metal powders with organic binder for granulation, press-molding granulated powders embedded with a valve metal lead, sintering a press-molded compact in vacuum to produce a sintered body, and anodizing the sintered body to form a dielectric oxide film layer. The method further has a step of performing a cathode electrolytic cleaning to the sintered body before the step of forming the dielectric oxide film layer. The cathode electrolytic cleaning is performed in an acid solution, which is a mixed acid solution of hydrofluoric acid, nitric acid, and sulfuric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: NEC TOKIN Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Sugawara, Masako Ohya, Katsuhiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100065434
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a solid electrolytic capacitor in which an electrolyte layer containing a conductive polymer is formed by chemical oxidative polymerization on a dielectric oxide film layer formed by anodizing surfaces of a valve metal, an ammonium peroxodisulfate solution adjusted to pH 6 to 8 is used as an oxidant in forming the conductive polymer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: NEC TOKIN Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhisa SUGAWARA, Kazuyuki Katoh, Masako Ohya
  • Publication number: 20090147446
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solid electrolytic capacitor having sufficiently low impedance at high frequencies in which a conductive polymer formed on a dielectric oxide film has good adherence to the dielectric oxide film, and a manufacturing method of the solid electrolytic capacitor. The solid electrolytic capacitor of the present invention includes a valve metal; a dielectric oxide film layer formed on a surface of the valve metal; and a solid electrolyte layer, comprising a conductive polymer layer, formed on the dielectric oxide film layer. The conductive polymer layer contains, as an additive, 0.1 wt % to 30 wt % of an organic oligomer having an average degree of polymerization of 2 to 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: NEC TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Sugawara, Masako Ohya, Kazuyuki Katoh
  • Publication number: 20090056093
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solid electrolytic capacitor has the steps of: mixing valve metal powders with organic binder for granulation, press-molding granulated powders embedded with a valve metal lead, sintering a press-molded compact in vacuum to produce a sintered body, and anodizing the sintered body to form a dielectric oxide film layer. The method further has a step of performing a cathode electrolytic cleaning to the sintered body before the step of forming the dielectric oxide film layer. The cathode electrolytic cleaning is performed in an acid solution, which is a mixed acid solution of hydrofluoric acid, nitric acid, and sulfuric acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC TOKIN Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Sugawara, Masako Ohya, Katsuhiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090059479
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor is provided in which volume efficiency of its capacitor element is improved. A converting substrate having an anode terminal forming portion and cathode terminal portion obtained by forming notches on faces exposed on outside faces of the anode and cathode portions and performing plating in the notches in portions in which the anode and cathode portions of a lower-face electrode type solid electrolytic capacitor is connected to the capacitor element and, after a sheathing resin is formed therein, the sheathed portion and converting substrate are cut along cutting planes to form fillet forming faces on the outside faces of the anode portion and cathode portion of the lower-face electrode type solid electrolytic capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Daisuke YAMASHITA, Kazuhiro Koike, Kazuyuki Kato, Masako Ohya, Kunihiko Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20040233613
    Abstract: In an electric double layer capacitor having a pair of collectors, a pair of polarizing electrodes interposed between the collectors and faced each other with a separator interposed between the polarizing electrodes, each collector has a metallic foil and a conductive polymer layer located between the metallic foil and the polarizing electrode. The conductive polymer layer is formed by conductive polymer identical with that of the polarizing electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: NEC TOKIN Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kasahara, Masako Ohya, Makoto Unno
  • Patent number: 6532144
    Abstract: In an electric double layer capacitor, at least three frame-shaped gaskets are stacked. A cell member of a pair of polarized electrodes sandwiching a porous separator is accommodated within a central gasket so as to be sandwiched between a pair of current collectors. Upper and lower frame shaped gaskets are adhered on both side edges of the central gasket such that the current collectors are sandwiched and held with two gaskets confronting to seal the inside of the central gasket. A step portion is formed in an inner peripheral end surface of at least one of the gaskets confronting such that each of the side edges of the collectors is received in this step portion, whereby making it easy to position the current collector in the gasket. This step portion also makes it possible to bond the current collector to the gasket at a low stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: NEC TOKIN Corporation
    Inventors: Masako Ohya, Susumu Saitou
  • Patent number: 6392868
    Abstract: An electric double-layer capacitor has a pair of thrust plates for thrusting a stacked cell pair and a gasket for encapsulating the stacked cell pair together with the thrust plates. The thrust plate has slanted side surfaces for effecting a close contact with a packaging overcoat. The thrust plates and the mounting gasket are coupled together by an interdigitaion relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masako Ohya, Kazuya Mimura, Yutaka Nakazawa, Satoshi Abe, Satoshi Arai, Takashi Yasuda, Toshihisa Nagasawa, Koji Sakata, Mitsuru Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20020051335
    Abstract: In an electric double layer capacitor of the present invention, at least three frame-shaped gaskets are stacked. A cell member of a couple of polarized electrodes sandwiching a porous separator is accommodated within a central gasket so as to be sandwiched between a pair of current collectors. Upper and lower frame shaped gaskets are adhered on both ends side of the central gasket such that the current collectors are sandwiched and held with two gaskets confronting to seal the inside of the central gasket. A step portion is formed in an inner peripheral end surface of at least one of the gaskets confronting such that each of side edges of the collectors is received in this step portion, whereby making it easy to position the current collector in the gasket. This step portion also makes it possible to bond the current collector to the gasket at a low stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masako Ohya, Susumu Saitou
  • Patent number: 6377441
    Abstract: An electric double-layer capacitor has a porous separator, a pair of polarizable electrodes confronting each other with the separator interposed therebetween, and an electrolytic solution, all accommodated in a gasket frame. The separator is electrically non-conductive and ion-permeable, and is impregnated with the electrolytic solution. The gasket frame has an opening sealed by a collector held against the surface of the polarizable electrode which faces away from the separator. The collector which seals the opening in the gasket frame comprises two laminated collector sheets. Since there is almost no possibility that both the two laminated collector sheets will crack or break, the electrolytic solution is reliably prevented from leaking out of the gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Inventors: Masako Ohya, Yoshiki Inoue
  • Patent number: 6320741
    Abstract: The present invention provides a electrical double layer capacitor that can prevent the leakage of an electrolyte solution to the outside that is caused by the fractures occurring in the collectors, and thereby both the yield during manufacture processing and the reliability can be improved. Chamfered portions 20 are formed on the corners that are the border between components that are adjacent to the surfaces 12a and 12a of the polarizing electrodes 12 that do not contact a separator 11 and a collector 13, and thereby, the stress focus on these corners, which occurs easily at the contacting portions between the polarizing electrode 12 and the collector 13, occurs with difficulty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masako Ohya, Satoshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20010021097
    Abstract: An electric double-layer capacitor has a pair of thrust plates for thrusting a stacked cell pair and a gasket for encapsulating the stacked cell pair together with the thrust plates. The thrust plate has slanted side surfaces for effecting a close contact with a packaging overcoat. The thrust plates and the mounting gasket are coupled together by an interdigitaion relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventors: Masako Ohya, Kazuya Mimura, Yutaka Nakazawa, Satoshi Abe, Satoshi Arai, Takashi Yasuda, Toshihisa Nagasawa, Koji Sakata, Mitsuru Ogawa