Patents by Inventor Michiya Kohiki

Michiya Kohiki 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: 20200036010
    Abstract: There is provided a negative electrode current collector for a secondary battery comprising an electrodeposited copper foil, having: a normal tensile strength of 500 MPa to 750 MPa and a tensile strength after heating at 400° C. for one hour of at least 50% of the normal tensile strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Michiya Kohiki, Masafumi Ishii
  • Patent number: 10349531
    Abstract: Provided herein is a carrier-attached copper foil having desirable laser drillability through an ultrathin copper layer, preferred for fabrication of a high-density integrated circuit substrate. The carrier-attached copper foil includes an interlayer and an ultrathin copper layer that are provided in this order on one or both surfaces of a carrier. The surface roughness Sz and the surface roughness Sa on the interlayer side of the ultrathin copper layer satisfy Sz?3.6 ?m, and Sz/Sa?14.00 as measured with a laser microscope in case of detaching the carrier from the carrier-attached copper foil according to JIS C 6471 after the carrier-attached copper foil is laminated to an insulating substrate from the ultrathin copper layer side under a pressure of 20 kgf/cm2 and heated at 220° C. for 2 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyamoto, Michiya Kohiki
  • Patent number: 10257938
    Abstract: The present invention provides a surface-treated copper foil capable of imparting the profile shape of the substrate surface after removal of the copper foil, the profile shape maintaining fine wiring formability and achieving satisfactory adhesion of electroless copper plating coating. The present invention also provides a resin substrate provided with a profile shape of the surface maintaining fine wiring formability and achieving satisfactory adhesion of electroless copper plating coating. The surface-treated copper foil of the present invention is a surface-treated copper foil, wherein a surface-treated layer is formed on a copper foil, and the proportion of the area corresponding to the particles of the surface of the surface-treated layer is 0.1 to 0.85.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Michiya Kohiki
  • Patent number: 10187983
    Abstract: Provided is a copper foil provided with a carrier which enables to form an extremely fine circuit and to suppress the disconnection of a circuit well. A copper foil provided with a carrier having, in order, an intermediate layer and an ultrathin copper layer on one side or both sides of the carrier, wherein the ultrathin copper layer is an electrolytic copper layer; and the thickness of the ultrathin copper layer measured by using a gravimetric method is 1.5 ?m or less and the number of pinholes in the ultrathin copper layer is 0 pinholes/m2 or more and 5 pinholes/m2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Michiya Kohiki, Tomota Nagaura
  • Patent number: 10178775
    Abstract: Provided is a copper foil provided with a carrier which enables, in a laminate produced by laminating a copper foil provided with a carrier on a resin substrate, to peel the ultrathin copper layer from the carrier well. A copper foil provided with a carrier having, in order, a carrier, an intermediate layer, and an ultrathin copper layer, wherein, when the surface of the carrier opposite to the ultrathin copper layer is measured using a laser microscope based on JIS B0601-1994, the ten point average roughness Rz of the surface is 6.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Miyoshi, Michiya Kohiki, Masafumi Ishii
  • Patent number: 9930776
    Abstract: Provided is an ultrathin copper foil which has improved thickness accuracy of an ultrathin copper layer on a supporting copper foil. An ultrathin copper foil which is provided with a supporting copper foil, a releasing layer that is laminated on the supporting copper foil, and an ultrathin copper layer that is laminated on the releasing layer. The thickness accuracy of the ultrathin copper layer as determined by a weight thickness method is 3.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Michiya Kohiki
  • Publication number: 20180063950
    Abstract: Provided is a copper foil provided with a carrier in which the laser hole-opening properties of the ultrathin copper layer are good and which is suitable for producing a high-density integrated circuit substrate. A copper foil provided with a carrier having, in order, a carrier, an intermediate layer, and an ultrathin copper layer, wherein the specular gloss at 60° in an MD direction of the intermediate layer side surface of the ultrathin copper layer is 140 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Michiya KOHIKI
  • Publication number: 20170362733
    Abstract: A copper foil with a release layer is provided that capable of forming a circuit, of such as an embedded trace substrate, by a subtractive method in a simple process. A copper foil with a release layer, containing, in this order, a release layer; a barrier layer having dissolution resistance to a copper etchant; and a copper foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventor: MICHIYA KOHIKI
  • Patent number: 9839124
    Abstract: Provided is a copper foil provided with a carrier in which the laser hole-opening properties of the ultrathin copper layer are good and which is suitable for producing a high-density integrated circuit substrate. A copper foil provided with a carrier having, in order, a carrier, an intermediate layer, and an ultrathin copper layer, wherein the specular gloss at 60° in an MD direction of the intermediate layer side surface of the ultrathin copper layer is 140 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Michiya Kohiki
  • Patent number: 9788423
    Abstract: Provided is a copper foil for a printed wiring board including a roughened layer on at least one surface thereof. In the roughened layer, the average diameter D1 at the particle bottom being apart from the bottom of each particle by 10% of the particle length is 0.2 to 1.0 ?m, and the ratio L1/D1 of the particle length L1 to the average diameter D1 at the particle bottom is 15 or less. In the copper foil for printed wiring board, when a copper foil for printed wiring having a roughened layer is laminated to a resin and then the copper layer is removed by etching, the sum of areas of holes accounting for the resin roughened surface having unevenness is 20% or more. The present invention involves the development of a copper foil for a semiconductor package substrate that can avoid circuit erosion without causing deterioration in other properties of the copper foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Tomota Nagaura, Michiya Kohiki, Terumasa Moriyama
  • Patent number: 9578741
    Abstract: Provided is a copper foil for a printed wiring board including a roughened layer on at least one surface thereof. In the roughened layer, the average diameter D1 at the particle bottom being apart from the bottom of each particle by 10% of the particle length is 0.2 to 1.0 ?m, and the ratio L1/D1 of the particle length L1 to the average diameter D1 at the particle bottom is 15 or less. In the copper foil for printed wiring board, when a copper foil for printed wiring having a roughened layer is laminated to a resin and then the copper layer is removed by etching, the sum of areas of holes accounting for the resin roughened surface having unevenness is 20% or more. The present invention involves the development of a copper foil for a semiconductor package substrate that can avoid circuit erosion without causing deterioration in other properties of the copper foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Tomota Nagaura, Michiya Kohiki, Terumasa Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20170019991
    Abstract: Provided herein is a carrier-attached copper foil having desirable laser drillability through an ultrathin copper layer, preferred for fabrication of a high-density integrated circuit substrate. The carrier-attached copper foil includes an interlayer and an ultrathin copper layer that are provided in this order on one or both surfaces of a carrier. The surface roughness Sz and the surface roughness Sa on the interlayer side of the ultrathin copper layer satisfy Sz?3.6 ?m, and Sz/Sa?14.00 as measured with a laser microscope in case of detaching the carrier from the carrier-attached copper foil according to JIS C 6471 after the carrier-attached copper foil is laminated to an insulating substrate from the ultrathin copper layer side under a pressure of 20 kgf/cm2 and heated at 220° C. for 2 hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyamoto, Michiya Kohiki
  • Publication number: 20160381806
    Abstract: The present invention provides a copper foil with a carrier including an ultra-thin copper layer having a thickness of 0.9 ?m or less and capable of preferably preventing generation of pin holes during peeling of the carrier. A copper foil with a carrier including a carrier, an intermediate layer, and an ultra-thin copper layer in this order, wherein the ultra-thin copper layer has a thickness of 0.9 ?m or less, the surface close to the ultra-thin copper layer of the carrier has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 0.3 ?m or less, as measured with a laser microscope according to JIS B0601-1994, and the releasing strength during peeling of the carrier by a 90° releasing method according to JIS C 6471 8.1 is 20 N/m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: YOSHIYUKI MIYOSHI, MICHIYA KOHIKI, TOMOTA NAGAURA
  • Publication number: 20160381805
    Abstract: The present invention provides a copper foil with a carrier including an ultra-thin copper layer having a thickness of 0.9 ?m or less and capable of preferably preventing generation of pin holes during peeling of the carrier. A copper foil with a carrier including a carrier, an intermediate layer, and an ultra-thin copper layer in this order, wherein the ultra-thin copper layer has a thickness of 0.9 ?m or less, and the releasing strength during peeling of the carrier by a 90° releasing method according to JIS C 6471 8.1 is 10 N/m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: YOSHIYUKI MIYOSHI, MICHIYA KOHIKI, TOMOTA NAGAURA
  • Publication number: 20160374205
    Abstract: The present invention provides a copper foil with a carrier having a small absolute value of the difference in releasing strength between the copper foil with a carrier prepared by laminating and hot-pressing the surface close to an ultra-thin copper layer of the copper foil with a carrier to an insulating substrate and used after the carrier is peeled off and the copper foil with a carrier prepared by laminating and hot-pressing the surface close to the carrier of the copper foil with a carrier to an insulating substrate and used after the ultra-thin copper layer is peeled off, while generation of swelling during laminating of the copper foil with a carrier to the insulating substrate by hot pressing is prevented, discoloring of the surface of the ultra-thin copper layer due to oxidation is prevented, and the circuit formability is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: TERUMASA MORIYAMA, YOSHIYUKI MIYOSHI, TOMOTA NAGAURA, MICHIYA KOHIKI
  • Publication number: 20160242281
    Abstract: Provided is a copper foil for a printed wiring board including a roughened layer on at least one surface thereof. In the roughened layer, the average diameter D1 at the particle bottom being apart from the bottom of each particle by 10% of the particle length is 0.2 to 1.0 ?m, and the ratio L1/D1 of the particle length L1 to the average diameter D1 at the particle bottom is 15 or less. In the copper foil for printed wiring board, when a copper foil for printed wiring having a roughened layer is laminated to a resin and then the copper layer is removed by etching, the sum of areas of holes accounting for the resin roughened surface having unevenness is 20% or more. The present invention involves the development of a copper foil for a semiconductor package substrate that can avoid circuit erosion without causing deterioration in other properties of the copper foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Tomota Nagaura, Michiya Kohiki, Terumasa Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20160234935
    Abstract: Provided is a copper foil provided with a carrier in which the laser hole-opening properties of the ultrathin copper layer are good and which is suitable for producing a high-density integrated circuit substrate. A copper foil provided with a carrier having, in order, a carrier, an intermediate layer, and an ultrathin copper layer, wherein the specular gloss at 60° in an MD direction of the intermediate layer side surface of the ultrathin copper layer is 140 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventor: MICHIYA KOHIKI
  • Publication number: 20160212846
    Abstract: Provided is a copper foil provided with a carrier which enables to form an extremely fine circuit and to suppress the disconnection of a circuit well. A copper foil provided with a carrier having, in order, an intermediate layer and an ultrathin copper layer on one side or both sides of the carrier, wherein the ultrathin copper layer is an electrolytic copper layer; and the thickness of the ultrathin copper layer measured by using a gravimetric method is 1.5 ?m or less and the number of pinholes in the ultrathin copper layer is 0 pinholes/m2 or more and 5 pinholes/m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Michiya KOHIKI, Tomota NAGAURA
  • Publication number: 20160212857
    Abstract: Provided is a copper foil provided with a carrier which enables, in a laminate produced by laminating a copper foil provided with a carrier on a resin substrate, to peel the ultrathin copper layer from the carrier well. A copper foil provided with a carrier having, in order, a carrier, an intermediate layer, and an ultrathin copper layer, wherein, when the surface of the carrier opposite to the ultrathin copper layer is measured using a laser microscope based on JIS B0601-1994, the ten point average roughness Rz of the surface is 6.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: YOSHIYUKI MIYOSHI, MICHIYA KOHIKI, MASAFUMI ISHII
  • Publication number: 20160157356
    Abstract: The present invention provides a surface-treated copper foil capable of imparting the profile shape of the substrate surface after removal of the copper foil, the profile shape maintaining fine wiring formability and achieving satisfactory adhesion of electroless copper plating coating. The present invention also provides a resin substrate provided with a profile shape of the surface maintaining fine wiring formability and achieving satisfactory adhesion of electroless copper plating coating. The surface-treated copper foil of the present invention is a surface-treated copper foil, wherein a surface-treated layer is formed on a copper foil, and the proportion of the area corresponding to the particles of the surface of the surface-treated layer is 0.1 to 0.85.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventor: MICHIYA KOHIKI