Patents by Inventor Noboru OTABE

Noboru OTABE 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: 20220149549
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an electrical connecting apparatus that can realize a stable electrical connecting property by expanding a contact area between an electrode region of a wiring substrate and a connector as compared to the prior art, and suppressing contact resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Shou HARAKO, Noboru OTABE, Hiroshi KAMIYA, Yoshiyuki FUKAMI, Shogo MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 11099227
    Abstract: Included are an insulating plate 41 including a plurality of insulating synthetic resin layers, wiring circuits 44a, 44b, and 44c provided in the insulating plate 41, a thin-film resistor 46 formed to be buried in the insulating plate 41 and electrically connected to the wiring circuits 44a, 44b, and 44c, a heat dissipating portion 47 provided over one surface of the insulating plate to be opposed to the thin-film resistor 46 via a part of the plurality of insulating synthetic resin layers and having higher heat conductivity than that of the insulating plate 41, a pedestal portion 48 formed to be buried in the insulating plate 41 and provided to be opposed to the thin-film resistor 46 via a part of the plurality of insulating synthetic resin layers on an opposite side of the heat dissipating portion 47 and having higher heat conductivity than that of the insulating plate 41, and a heat dissipation and pedestal connecting portion 49 connecting the heat dissipating portion 47 to the pedestal portion 48 and havi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Noboru Otabe, Yoshiyuki Fukami
  • Publication number: 20200400739
    Abstract: Included are an insulating plate 41 including a plurality of insulating synthetic resin layers, wiring circuits 44a, 44b, and 44c provided in the insulating plate 41, a thin-film resistor 46 formed to be buried in the insulating plate 41 and electrically connected to the wiring circuits 44a, 44b, and 44c, a heat dissipating portion 47 provided over one surface of the insulating plate to be opposed to the thin-film resistor 46 via a part of the plurality of insulating synthetic resin layers and having higher heat conductivity than that of the insulating plate 41, a pedestal portion 48 formed to be buried in the insulating plate 41 and provided to be opposed to the thin-film resistor 46 via a part of the plurality of insulating synthetic resin layers on an opposite side of the heat dissipating portion 47 and having higher heat conductivity than that of the insulating plate 41, and a heat dissipation and pedestal connecting portion 49 connecting the heat dissipating portion 47 to the pedestal portion 48 and havi
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Noboru OTABE, Yoshiyuki FUKAMI
  • Patent number: 10705122
    Abstract: Provided is a probe card with which the adjustment of height deviations of needle tip parts of probes and the adjustment of parallelism between the probes and an object to be inspected are simplified. The probe card 1 has: a wiring substrate 2 having wiring 4 therein or on a surface thereof or the like; a plurality of probes 3; and a dielectric film 6. The dielectric film 6 is disposed to be spaced a distance away from a main surface 8 of the wiring substrate 2 at a position spaced away further from the wiring substrate 2 than the needle tip parts 13 of the probes 3, so that one surface 21 of the dielectric film 6 faces the needle tip parts 13 and faces the main surface 8 that is a probe installation surface of the wiring substrate 2. The probe card 1 configures a state in which the needle tip parts 13 face an electrode of an object to be inspected with the dielectric film 6 interposed between the probe card 1 and the needle tip parts 13, during an inspection of the object to be inspected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Fukami, Hidehiro Kiyofuji, Noboru Otabe
  • Publication number: 20190154730
    Abstract: Provided is a probe card with which the adjustment of height deviations of needle tip parts of probes and the adjustment of parallelism between the probes and an object to be inspected are simplified. The probe card 1 has: a wiring substrate 2 having wiring 4 therein or on a surface thereof or the like; a plurality of probes 3; and a dielectric film 6. The dielectric film 6 is disposed to be spaced a distance away from a main surface 8 of the wiring substrate 2 at a position spaced away further from the wiring substrate 2 than the needle tip parts 13 of the probes 3, so that one surface 21 of the dielectric film 6 faces the needle tip parts 13 and faces the main surface 8 that is a probe installation surface of the wiring substrate 2. The probe card 1 configures a state in which the needle tip parts 13 face an electrode of an object to be inspected with the dielectric film 6 interposed between the probe card 1 and the needle tip parts 13, during an inspection of the object to be inspected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki FUKAMI, Hidehiro KIYOFUJI, Noboru OTABE
  • Patent number: 9271393
    Abstract: A multilayer wiring base plate includes an insulating plate including a plurality of synthetic resin layers made of an insulating material, a wiring circuit provided in the insulating plate, a thin-film resistor formed along at least one of the synthetic resin layers to be buried in the synthetic resin layer and inserted in the wiring circuit, and a heat expansion and contraction restricting layer formed to be buried in the synthetic resin layer adjacent to the synthetic resin layer in which the thin-film resistor is formed to be buried, arranged along the thin-film resistor, and having a smaller linear expansion coefficient than a linear expansion coefficient of the adjacent synthetic resin layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Noboru Otabe, Toshinori Omori, Takayasu Sugai
  • Patent number: 9113546
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric film body is made by forming a film body to have a shape in accordance with a desired electric characteristic and includes a film forming process for forming an electric film body on a board layer, an electric characteristic measuring process for measuring an electric characteristic in a surface of the electric film body formed in the film forming process, an electric film body shape setting process for setting a shape of the electric film body based on the electric characteristic measured in the electric characteristic measuring process, and an electric film body forming process for forming the electric film body formed in the shape set in the electric film body shape setting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: Takayasu Sugai, Noboru Otabe
  • Publication number: 20140118017
    Abstract: A multilayer wiring base plate includes an insulating plate including a plurality of synthetic resin layers made of an insulating material, a wiring circuit provided in the insulating plate, a thin-film resistor formed along at least one of the synthetic resin layers to be buried in the synthetic resin layer and inserted in the wiring circuit, and a heat expansion and contraction restricting layer formed to be buried in the synthetic resin layer adjacent to the synthetic resin layer in which the thin-film resistor is formed to be buried, arranged along the thin-film resistor, and having a smaller linear expansion coefficient than a linear expansion coefficient of the adjacent synthetic resin layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Noboru OTABE, Toshinori OMORI, Takayasu SUGAI
  • Publication number: 20140072780
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric film body is made by forming a film body to have a shape in accordance with a desired electric characteristic and includes a film forming process for forming an electric film body on a board layer, an electric characteristic measuring process for measuring an electric characteristic in a surface of the electric film body formed in the film forming process, an electric film body shape setting process for setting a shape of the electric film body based on the electric characteristic measured in the electric characteristic measuring process, and an electric film body forming process for forming the electric film body formed in the shape set in the electric film body shape setting process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventors: Takayasu SUGAI, Noboru OTABE