Patents by Inventor Saori INOUE

Saori INOUE 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: 11912011
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a composite sheet which comprises a nitride sintered body having a porous structure and a semi-cured product of a thermosetting resin composition impregnated into the nitride sintered body, the line roughness Rz specified by JIS B 0601:2013 of at least one main surface being 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Minakata, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Saori Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240064895
    Abstract: A circuit board having electrodes has good thermal conductivity and excellent voltage resistance and a method of producing the same. The circuit board includes a first ceramic layer, a second ceramic layer laminated thereon, and a first metal layer between the ceramic layers. The circuit board has a metal layer existing zone between the ceramic layers, and a metal layer non-existing zone having no metal layer between the ceramic layers. The ceramic layers join in the metal layer non-existing zone, and the second ceramic layer is a porous boron nitride layer having voids filled with a thermosetting composition cured material. The method includes disposing a second ceramic sheet on a first laminate metal layer including a first ceramic layer and the first metal layer laminated thereon, and pressurizing under heating. The second ceramic sheet is a porous boron nitride sheet having voids filled with a thermosetting composition semi-cured material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenji MIYATA, Shohji IWAKIRI, Saori INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230271888
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure provides a production method for a composite, the method including: a cooling step of performing cooling under a pressurized condition in a state where a heated molten material of a thermosetting composition is brought into contact with a resin-impregnated body, in which the above-described resin-impregnated body includes a nitride sintered body having a porous structure and a semi-cured product of the thermosetting composition impregnated into the above-described nitride sintered body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Nobuya SUZUKI, Saori INOUE, Yasuhisa UESHIMA, Ryo YOSHIMATSU, Ryuji KOGA
  • Publication number: 20230227370
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure provides a composite body including: a nitride sintered body having a porous structure; and a semi-cured product of a thermosetting composition impregnated into the above-described nitride sintered body, in which dielectric breakdown voltage is 4.5 kV or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Nobuya SUZUKI, Saori INOUE, Yasuhisa UESHIMA, Ryo YOSHIMATSU, Ryuji KOGA
  • Publication number: 20230122917
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a semi-cured product composite containing: a porous body; and a semi-cured product of a thermally curable composition impregnated in the porous body, wherein the thermally curable composition contains an epoxy compound and a cyanate compound, and an equivalent ratio of an epoxy group of the epoxy compound to a cyanate group of the cyanate compound in the thermally curable composition is 1.0 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Eri KANEKO, Mana OKI, Saori INOUE, Kohji TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20220410530
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a composite sheet which comprises a nitride sintered body having a porous structure and a semi-cured product of a thermosetting resin composition impregnated into the nitride sintered body, the line roughness Rz specified by JIS B 0601:2013 of at least one main surface being 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MINAKATA, Tomoya YAMAGUCHI, Saori INOUE
  • Patent number: 11492299
    Abstract: A nitride-based ceramics resin composite body having thermal conductivity, electrical insulation, and adhesion to adherends equal to conventional products, and having improved heat resistance reliability during the reflow process, and a thermal conductive insulating adhesive sheet using the same are provided. A nitride-based ceramics resin composite body in which a thermosetting resin composition is impregnated in a porous nitride-based ceramics sintered body is provided. The thermosetting resin composition includes a specific epoxy resin and a bismaleimide triazine resin, and a water absorption of the thermosetting resin composition in a completely cured state measured in accordance with method A in JIS K7209 (2000) is 1% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Minakata, Eri Sasaki, Toshitaka Yamagata, Saori Inoue, Ryo Yoshimatu, Ryuji Koga
  • Publication number: 20220250994
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a method for producing a composite, including a step of placing a porous boron nitride sintered body immersed in a resin composition under a pressurized condition and then placing the boron nitride sintered body immersed in the resin composition under a pressure condition lower than the pressurized condition, wherein the step is repeated a plurality of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Saori INOUE, Shoji IWAKIRI, Yoshitaka MINAKATA, Ryo YOSHIMATSU, Ryuji KOGA, Tomoya YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220194870
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composite including a nitride sintered body having a porous structure and a semi-cured product of a heat-curable composition impregnated into the nitride sintered body, wherein a dielectric breakdown voltage obtainable after disposing the composite between adherends, heating and pressurizing the composite for 5 minutes under the conditions of 200° C. and 10 MPa, and further heating the composite for 2 hours under the conditions of 200° C. and atmospheric pressure, is greater than 5 kV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MINAKATA, Eri SASAKI, Saori INOUE, Mana OKI
  • Publication number: 20220177375
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a composite including: a porous boron nitride sintered body; and a resin filled in pores of the boron nitride sintered body, wherein the boron nitride sintered body has an average pore diameter of 3.5 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Saori INOUE, Shoji IWAKIRI, Yoshitaka MINAKATA, Ryo YOSHIMATSU, Ryuji KOGA, Tomoya YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11034623
    Abstract: A thermal conductive member includes: first and second surface layers including an insulating material A, and an intermediate layer including an insulating material B. The insulating material A includes a first boron nitride sintered body having an orientation degree of hexagonal boron nitride primary particles of 0.6 to 1.4, and a first heat curable resin composition impregnating in the first boron nitride sintered body. The insulating material B includes a second boron nitride sintered body having an orientation degree of hexagonal boron nitride primary particles of 0.01 to 0.05, and a second heat curable resin composition impregnating in the second boron nitride sintered body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Saori Inoue, Toshitaka Yamagata, Yoshitaka Minakata, Ryo Yoshimatsu, Ryuji Koga
  • Publication number: 20210032171
    Abstract: A nitride-based ceramics resin composite body having thermal conductivity, electrical insulation, and adhesion to adherends equal to conventional products, and having improved heat resistance reliability during the reflow process, and a thermal conductive insulating adhesive sheet using the same are provided. A nitride-based ceramics resin composite body in which a thermosetting resin composition is impregnated in a porous nitride-based ceramics sintered body is provided. The thermosetting resin composition includes a specific epoxy resin and a bismaleimide triazine resin, and a water absorption of the thermosetting resin composition in a completely cured state measured in accordance with method A in JIS K7209 (2000) is 1% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MINAKATA, Eri SASAKI, Toshitaka YAMAGATA, Saori INOUE, Ryo YOSHIMATU, Ryuji KOGA
  • Publication number: 20200406586
    Abstract: A ceramic-metal temporary bonding body to inhibit breakage and degradation of a ceramic resin composite having low strength includes: a ceramic resin composite in which a non-oxide ceramic sintered body is impregnated with a thermosetting resin composition having cyanate groups in such a manner that a degree of cure calculated by differential scanning calorimetry is 5.0% or more and 70% or less; and a metal plate temporarily bonded to at least one surface of the ceramic resin composite. A shear bond strength between the ceramic resin composite and the metal plate is 0.1 MPa or more and 1.0 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MINAKATA, Toshitaka YAMAGATA, Saori INOUE, Ryo YOSHIMATU, Ryuji KOGA
  • Patent number: 10615096
    Abstract: Provided is a heat dissipation structure for an electric circuit device excellent in mass-productivity and heat radiation performance. A heat dissipation structure for an electric circuit device, the structure including a layered structure comprising: a heatsink exposed on the electric circuit device; a thermal conductive member; and a cooler, wherein the thermal conductive member is a ceramic-resin composite in which a resin composition is impregnated in a ceramic sintered body, the ceramic sintered body comprising ceramic primary particles integrated into a three-dimensional structure, and wherein the thermal conductive member is arranged such that the thermal conductive member directly contacts with at least one of the heatsink and the cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshitaka Yamagata, Saori Inoue, Hideki Hirotsuru, Ryoh Yoshimatu, Ryuji Koga
  • Publication number: 20200031723
    Abstract: A thermal conductive member includes: first and second surface layers including an insulating material A, and an intermediate layer including an insulating material B. The insulating material A includes a first boron nitride sintered body having an orientation degree of hexagonal boron nitride primary particles of 0.6 to 1.4, and a first heat curable resin composition impregnating in the first boron nitride sintered body. The insulating material B includes a second boron nitride sintered body having an orientation degree of hexagonal boron nitride primary particles of 0.01 to 0.05, and a second heat curable resin composition impregnating in the second boron nitride sintered body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Saori INOUE, Toshitaka YAMAGATA, Yoshitaka MINAKATA, Ryo YOSHIMATSU, Ryuji KOGA
  • Patent number: 10519370
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a red phosphor, a light emitting element using the phosphor, and a light emitting device using the light emitting element. A phosphor represented by the general formula: Cax+yEuySiAlN3 in which x+y is 1.0 or more and 1.1 or less, y is 0.004 or more and 0.012 or less, the phosphor being activated with Eu, and some of the Ca element(s) being substituted with the Eu element(s), wherein the phosphor has a lattice constant a of 0.9747 nm or more and 0.9770 nm or less, and a lattice constant c of 0.5050 nm or more and 0.5055 nm or less, and wherein the phosphor has a Ca content of 27.8% by mass or more and 28.8% by mass or less, a dissolved oxygen content in the phosphor of 0.3% by mass or more and 1.2% by mass or less, and an Eu content of 0.4% by mass or more and 1.2% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Saori Inoue, Tomohiro Nomiyama
  • Patent number: 10487013
    Abstract: Provided is a ceramic-resin composite body that has good mass productivity and product properties (heat dissipation properties, insulation properties and adhesive properties), and particularly a ceramic-resin composite that can dramatically improve the heat dissipation properties for electronic devices. The ceramic-resin composite body includes: 35 to 70% by volume of a sintered body having a monolithic structure in which non-oxide ceramic primary particles having an average major diameter of from 3 to 60 ?m and an aspect ratio of from 5 to 30 are three-dimensionally continuous; and 65 to 30% by volume of a thermosetting resin composition having an exothermic onset temperature of 180° C. or more and a curing rate of from 5 to 60% as determined with a differential scanning calorimeter, and having a number average molecular weight of from 450 to 4800, wherein the sintered body is impregnated with the thermosetting resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Taiki Nishi, Hideki Hirotsuru, Toshikatsu Mitsunaga, Saori Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190189534
    Abstract: Provided is a heat dissipation structure for an electric circuit device excellent in mass-productivity and heat radiation performance. A heat dissipation structure for an electric circuit device, the structure including a layered structure comprising: a heatsink exposed on the electric circuit device; a thermal conductive member; and a cooler, wherein the thermal conductive member is a ceramic-resin composite in which a resin composition is impregnated in a ceramic sintered body, the ceramic sintered body comprising ceramic primary particles integrated into a three-dimensional structure, and wherein the thermal conductive member is arranged such that the thermal conductive member directly contacts with at least one of the heatsink and the cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Toshitaka YAMAGATA, Saori INOUE, Hideki HIROTSURU, Ryoh YOSHIMATU, Ryuji KOGA
  • Publication number: 20190092695
    Abstract: Provided is a ceramic-resin composite body that has good mass productivity and product properties (heat dissipation properties, insulation properties and adhesive properties), and particularly a ceramic-resin composite that can dramatically improve the heat dissipation properties for electronic devices. The ceramic-resin composite body includes: 35 to 70% by volume of a sintered body having a monolithic structure in which non-oxide ceramic primary particles having an average major diameter of from 3 to 60 ?m and an aspect ratio of from 5 to 30 are three-dimensionally continuous; and 65 to 30% by volume of a thermosetting resin composition having an exothermic onset temperature of 180° C. or more and a curing rate of from 5 to 60% as determined with a differential scanning calorimeter, and having a number average molecular weight of from 450 to 4800, wherein the sintered body is impregnated with the thermosetting resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Taiki Nishi, Hideki Hirotsuru, Toshikatsu Mitsunaga, Saori Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180265781
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a red phosphor, a light emitting element using the phosphor, and a light emitting device using the light emitting element. A phosphor represented by the general formula: Cax+yEuySiAlN3 in which x+y is 1.0 or more and 1.1 or less, y is 0.004 or more and 0.012 or less, the phosphor being activated with Eu, and some of the Ca element(s) being substituted with the Eu element(s), wherein the phosphor has a lattice constant a of 0.9747 nm or more and 0.9770 nm or less, and a lattice constant c of 0.5050 nm or more and 0.5055 nm or less, and wherein the phosphor has a Ca content of 27.8% by mass or more and 28.8% by mass or less, a dissolved oxygen content in the phosphor of 0.3% by mass or more and 1.2% by mass or less, and an Eu content of 0.4% by mass or more and 1.2% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Saori Inoue, Tomohiro Nomiyama