Patents by Inventor Masamichi Yamamoto

Masamichi Yamamoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20240098889
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; and a plurality of wiring portions foamed on a surface of the base film. The wiring portions include a seed layer directly or indirectly layered on the surface of the base film and a metal layer layered on the seed layer. The base film has a wiring area including the plurality of wiring portions and a non-wiring area not including the wiring portions. The plurality of wiring portions include at least one outermost boundary wiring portion and a plurality of inner wiring portions. The outermost boundary wiring portion is formed on an outermost-side of the base film in the wiring area and at a boundary between the wiring area and the non-wiring area. An average thickness of the outermost boundary wiring portion is 40?m or more. An average width of the outermost boundary wiring portion is 30 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi UEDA, Ippei TANAKA, Takashi KASUGA, Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11864312
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; and a plurality of wiring portions formed on a surface of the base film, wherein the wiring portions include a seed layer that is directly or indirectly layered on the surface of the base film and a metal layer that is layered on the seed layer, wherein the base film has a wiring area including the plurality of wiring portions and a non-wiring area not including the wiring portions, wherein the plurality of wiring portions include at least one outermost boundary wiring portion and a plurality of inner wiring portions other than the outermost boundary wiring portion, wherein the outermost boundary wiring portion is formed on an outermost side of the base film in the wiring area and at a boundary between the wiring area and the non-wiring area, wherein an average width of the outermost boundary wiring portion is 30 ?m or more, wherein an average width of the inner wiring portions is 20 ?m or less, and w
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ueda, Ippei Tanaka, Takashi Kasuga, Masamichi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220384998
    Abstract: A shielded flat cable includes a first differential signal line pair including mutually parallel first and second signal lines, first and second ground lines parallel to the first differential signal line pair arranged between the first and second ground lines, an insulating layer covering the first differential signal line pair, the first and second ground lines, a first shielding layer covering a first surface of the insulating layer, and a second shielding layer covering a second surface of the insulating layer, opposite to the first surface. The insulating layer includes an opening exposing the first ground line at the first surface of the insulating layer, and the first shielding layer is electrically connected to the first ground line through the opening. A width of the first ground line is greater than a width of each of the first and second signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Tatsuo MATSUDA, Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220167498
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; and a plurality of wiring portions formed on a surface of the base film, wherein the wiring portions include a seed layer that is directly or indirectly layered on the surface of the base film and a metal layer that is layered on the seed layer, wherein the base film has a wiring area including the plurality of wiring portions and a non-wiring area not including the wiring portions, wherein the plurality of wiring portions include at least one outermost boundary wiring portion and a plurality of inner wiring portions other than the outermost boundary wiring portion, wherein the outermost boundary wiring portion is formed on an outermost side of the base film in the wiring area and at a boundary between the wiring area and the non-wiring area, wherein an average width of the outermost boundary wiring portion is 30 ?m or more, wherein an average width of the inner wiring portions is 20 ?m or less, and w
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi UEDA, Ippei TANAKA, Takashi KASUGA, Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220147980
    Abstract: A server includes a communication interface, a memory, and a processing circuit. The memory is configured to store a plurality of user IDs and necessity information associated with each of the plurality of user IDs. Each of the plurality of user IDs is associated with a respective customer. The necessity information indicates whether the respective customer has chosen to require that use of benefits during transactions be confirmed by the respective customer before the benefits are applied to the transactions. The processing circuit is configured to receive a respective user ID and a request for code information from an information processing device via the communication interface, acquire the necessity information associated with the respective user ID from the memory, issue the code information in response to receiving the request for the code information, and transmit the code information and the necessity information to the information processing device via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220147979
    Abstract: A server includes a communication interface, a memory, and a processing circuit. The memory is configured to store a plurality of user IDs and necessity information associated with each of the plurality of user IDs. Each of the plurality of user IDs is associated with a respective customer. The necessity information indicates whether the respective customer has chosen to require that use of benefits during transactions be confirmed by the respective customer before the benefits are applied to the transactions. The processing circuit is configured to receive a respective user ID and a request for code information from an information processing device via the communication interface, acquire the necessity information associated with the respective user ID from the memory, issue the code information in response to receiving the request for the code information, and transmit the code information and the necessity information to the information processing device via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220147981
    Abstract: A server includes a communication interface, a memory, and a processing circuit. The memory is configured to store a plurality of user IDs and necessity information associated with each of the plurality of user IDs. Each of the plurality of user IDs is associated with a respective customer. The necessity information indicates whether the respective customer has chosen to require that use of benefits during transactions be confirmed by the respective customer before the benefits are applied to the transactions. The processing circuit is configured to receive a respective user ID and a request for code information from an information processing device via the communication interface, acquire the necessity information associated with the respective user ID from the memory, issue the code information in response to receiving the request for the code information, and transmit the code information and the necessity information to the information processing device via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11178755
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board of the present invention includes an insulating base film and an electrode stacked on a first surface of the base film, in which the electrode includes a low-melting-point metal layer on a surface of the electrode, and a plate- or strip-like rigid member electrically insulated from the electrode is disposed in a region of a second surface of the base film opposite from the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Katsunari Mikage, Masamichi Yamamoto, Junichi Okaue, Hiroshi Ueda
  • Patent number: 11160879
    Abstract: Provided are a transgenic non-human mammal expressing a fusion protein, wherein the fusion protein comprises an ? subunit of an ATP synthase and two distinct fluorescent proteins as a donor and an acceptor for FRET, one of the fluorescent proteins being placed at an amino terminal moiety of the ? subunit and the other being placed at a carboxyl terminal moiety of the ? subunit, and a method of screening for an agent for preventing or treating diseases in a mammal in need thereof, comprising using an above transgenic non-human mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventor: Masamichi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210312434
    Abstract: A server includes a communication interface, a memory, and a processing circuit. The memory is configured to store a plurality of user IDs and necessity information associated with each of the plurality of user IDs. Each of the plurality of user IDs is associated with a respective customer. The necessity information indicates whether the respective customer has chosen to require that use of benefits during transactions be confirmed by the respective customer before the benefits are applied to the transactions. The processing circuit is configured to receive a respective user ID and a request for code information from an information processing device via the communication interface, acquire the necessity information associated with the respective user ID from the memory, issue the code information in response to receiving the request for the code information, and transmit the code information and the necessity information to the information processing device via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210127487
    Abstract: The base material for printed circuit board according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a base material for printed circuit board comprising a base film having an insulating property, a sintering layer inducing a plurality of copper particles and formed on at least one surface of the base film and an electroless copper plating layer formed on a surface of the sintering layer, the surface being on an opposite side to the base film, and filled in the sintering layer, and wherein a lightness L* of a surface of the electroless copper plating layer, the surface being on an opposite side to the sintering layer, is 45.0 or more and 85.0 or less, a chromaticity a* thereof is 5.0 or more and 25.0 or less, and a chromaticity b* thereof is 5.0 or more and 25.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichiro AIKAWA, Motohiko SUGIURA, Takashi KASUGA, Kazuhiro MIYATA, Kayo HASHIZUME, Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210059045
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board of the present invention includes an insulating base film and an electrode stacked on a first surface of the base film, in which the electrode includes a low-melting-point metal layer on a surface of the electrode, and a plate- or strip-like rigid member electrically insulated from the electrode is disposed in a region of a second surface of the base film opposite from the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Katsunari MIKAGE, Masamichi YAMAMOTO, Junichi OKAUE, Hiroshi UEDA
  • Publication number: 20210014978
    Abstract: A base material for a printed circuit board includes a base film having an insulating property, and a sintered body layer including metal particles and layered on at least one surface of the base film. The sintered body layer includes sintered particles that are derived from the metal particles and partially embedded into the surface of the base film. The embedment ratio of the sintered particles is greater than or equal to 10% and less than or equal to 90%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Kayo HASHIZUME, Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10889086
    Abstract: A resin film according to one aspect of the present invention is a resin film having polyimide as a main component, the resin film including a modified layer formed in a depth direction from at least one side of the resin film; and a non-modified layer other than the modified layer, wherein a ring-opening rate of an imide ring of the polyimide in the modified layer is higher than a ring-opening rate of an imide ring of the polyimide in the non-modified layer, and an average thickness of the modified layer from the one side of the resin film is greater than or equal to 10 nm and less than or equal to 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Kayo Hashizume, Yoshio Oka, Masamichi Yamamoto, Takashi Kasuga, Yugo Kubo, Hideki Kashihara, Hiroshi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20200376810
    Abstract: A resin film according to one aspect of the present invention is a resin film having polyimide as a main component, the resin film including a modified layer formed in a depth direction from at least one side of the resin film; and a non-modified layer other than the modified layer, wherein a ring-opening rate of an imide ring of the polyimide in the modified layer is higher than a ring-opening rate of an imide ring of the polyimide in the non-modified layer, and an average thickness of the modified layer from the one side of the resin film is greater than or equal to 10 nm and less than or equal to 500 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Kayo HASHIZUME, Yoshio OKA, Masamichi YAMAMOTO, Takashi KASUGA, Yugo KUBO, Hideki KASHIHARA, Hiroshi UEDA
  • Publication number: 20200245458
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a base material for a printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; a sintered body layer that is layered on at least one surface of the base film and that is formed of a plurality of sintered metal particles; and an electroless plating layer that is layered on a surface of the sintered body layer that is opposite to the base film, wherein an area rate of sintered bodies of the metal particles in a cross section of the sintered body layer is greater than or equal to 50% and less than or equal to 90%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro MIYATA, Motohiko SUGIURA, Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10508249
    Abstract: The invention provides a grease composition for rolling bearings that can exhibit improved bearing life that can secure the low noise performance under high temperature conditions, and a rolling bearing where the above-mentioned grease composition is enclosed. The grease composition for rolling bearings includes a base oil, a urea thickener and a metal deactivator. The base oil has an aniline point of 110° C. or more. The urea thickener is at least one kind of diurea compound selected from the group consisting of diurea compounds represented by formula (1): R1—NHCONH—R2—NHCONH—R3 (wherein R1 and R3, which may be the same or different from each other represent a C6-30alkyl group, a C5-8cycloalkyl group or a C6-10aryl group, and R2 represents a bivalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamichi Yamamoto, Noriko Tanaka, Kenichiro Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20180216025
    Abstract: The invention provides a grease composition for rolling bearings that can exhibit improved bearing life that can secure the low noise performance under high temperature conditions, and a rolling bearing where the above-mentioned grease composition is enclosed. The grease composition for rolling bearings includes a base oil, a urea thickener and a metal deactivator. The base oil has an aniline point of 110° C. or more. The urea thickener is at least one kind of diurea compound selected from the group consisting of diurea compounds represented by formula (1): R1—NHCONH—R2—NHCONH—R3 (wherein R1 and R3, which may be the same or different from each other represent a C6-30alkyl group, a C5-8cycloalkyl group or a C6-10aryl group, and R2 represents a bivalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MASAMICHI YAMAMOTO, NORIKO TANAKA, KENICHIRO MATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20180110880
    Abstract: Provided are a transgenic non-human mammal expressing a fusion protein, wherein the fusion protein comprises an ? subunit of an ATP synthase and two distinct fluorescent proteins as a donor and an acceptor for FRET, one of the fluorescent proteins being placed at an amino terminal moiety of the ? subunit and the other being placed at a carboxyl terminal moiety of the ? subunit, and a method of screening for an agent for preventing or treating diseases in a mammal in need thereof, comprising using an above transgenic non-human mammal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventor: Masamichi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9574159
    Abstract: The invention provides a grease composition for use in an image forming apparatus, containing a thickener, a base oil and a lubricity improver, wherein the thickener is a lithium soap, the base oil is a synthetic hydrocarbon oil, the lubricity improver is a polyethylene oxide wax, and the image forming apparatus is equipped with a sliding member and a member for holding the sliding member which is driven to slide through the holding member via the grease composition, one of the sliding member or the holding member for the sliding member having a sliding surface formed from a metal, and the other having a sliding surface formed from a resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD., SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, HOSOKAWA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Matsubara, Masamichi Yamamoto, Satoshi Nakata, Koji Hosokawa