Patents by Inventor Naoya Kuwasaki

Naoya Kuwasaki 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: 9060432
    Abstract: Provided are a flexible circuit board with excellent bendability and durability against hard conditions particularly in a repeated bend portion having a small curvature radius, and a method of producing the same. The flexible circuit board includes a resin layer and a wiring formed of a metal foil and is used with a bend portion provided at least one position of the wiring. The metal foil is made of a metal having a cubic crystal structure, and a cross section of the wiring cut in a thickness direction from a ridge line in the bend portion forms a principal orientation on any one of planes within a range of (20 1 0) to (1 20 0) in a rotation direction from (100) to (110) with [001] set as a zone axis. The wiring is formed so that the metal foil is made of a metal having a cubic crystal structure, and that the ridge line in the bend portion has an angle in a range of 2.9° to 87.1° relative to one of fundamental crystal axes <100> in a surface of the metal foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Hattori, Keiichi Kimura, Naoya Kuwasaki
  • Publication number: 20140254114
    Abstract: Provided are a flexible circuit board with excellent bendability and durability against hard conditions particularly in a repeated bend portion having a small curvature radius, and a method of producing the same. The flexible circuit board includes a resin layer and a wiring formed of a metal foil and is used with a bend portion provided at at least one position of the wiring. The metal foil is made of a metal having a cubic crystal structure, and a cross section of the wiring cut in a thickness direction from a ridge line in the bend portion forms a principal orientation on any one of planes within a range of (20 1 0) to (1 20 0) in a rotation direction from (100) to (110) with [001] set as a zone axis. The wiring is formed so that the metal foil is made of a metal having a cubic crystal structure, and that the ridge line in the bend portion has an angle in a range of 2.9° to 87.1° relative to one of fundamental crystal axes <100> in a surface of the metal foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi HATTORI, Keiichi KIMURA, Naoya KUWASAKI
  • Patent number: 8557392
    Abstract: In order to provide a flexible laminate circuit board using a surface treated copper foil satisfying all of a bonding strength of a copper foil with respect to polyimide, acid resistance, and etching property, in a flexible laminate circuit board formed by a copper foil on the surface of a polyimide resin layer, the copper foil is a surface treated copper foil formed by depositing an Ni—Zn alloy onto at least one surface of a untreated copper foil, and the Zn deposition amount in the deposited Ni—Zn alloy is 6% or more and 15% or less of the (Ni deposition amount+Zn deposition amount), and the Zn deposition amount is 0.08 mg/dm2 or more to provide a flexible copper clad laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel & Sumikin Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Fujisawa, Yuji Suzuki, Takeo Uno, Koichi Hattori, Naoya Kuwasaki
  • Publication number: 20110315212
    Abstract: There are provided a dye-sensitized solar cell easy to manufacture, high in power extraction efficiency, and suitable for upsizing, and a method for manufacturing the dye-sensitized solar cell. The dye-sensitized solar cell 10 comprises a transparent substrate 12; a porous semiconductor layer 14 having a dye adsorbed thereto; a conductive metal film 16; and a substrate 20 provided with a conductive film 18 and arranged opposite to the transparent substrate 12. A large number of deep poriform through-holes 24 are irregularly formed in the conductive metal film 16. The dye-sensitized solar cell 10 includes a large number of porous semiconductor particles 25 one end of which is exposed to an electrolyte 22 through the conductive metal film 16 and the other end of which joins the porous semiconductor layer 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Shuzi Hayase, Naoya Kuwasaki, Mitsuru Kohno, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110189501
    Abstract: In order to provide a flexible laminate circuit board using a surface treated copper foil satisfying all of a bonding strength of a copper foil with respect to polyimide, acid resistance, and etching property, in a flexible laminate circuit board formed by a copper foil on the surface of a polyimide resin layer, the copper foil is a surface treated copper foil formed by depositing an Ni—Zn alloy onto at least one surface of a untreated copper foil, and the Zn deposition amount in the deposited Ni—Zn alloy is 6% or more and 15% or less of the (Ni deposition amount+Zn deposition amount), and the Zn deposition amount is 0.08 mg/dm2 or more to provide a flexible cupper clad laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicants: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel Chemical Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Fujisawa, Yuji Suzuki, Takeo Uno, Koichi Hattori, Naoya Kuwasaki