Patents by Inventor Seiya Inoue

Seiya 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).

  • Publication number: 20240136219
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes: a ceramic plate including a wafer placement portion having a reference surface on which a number of small protrusions are provided; a cooling plate including a refrigerant flow path; a joining layer with which the ceramic plate and the cooling plate are joined; a recessed groove provided in the reference surface and having a bottom surface positioned lower than the reference surface; a plug arrangement hole passing through the ceramic plate and being open to the bottom surface of the recessed groove; a porous plug disposed in the plug arrangement hole, the porous plug having a top surface positioned at the same height as the bottom surface of the recessed groove and allowing gas to flow; and a gas supply path through which gas is supplied to the porous plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya KUNO, Seiya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240136399
    Abstract: The object is to provide a technology that can shorten a routing length of a gate wire connecting a control IC that controls driving first and second semiconductor elements that are connected in parallel with each other, to a gate pad of one of the first and second semiconductor elements disposed distant from the control IC. A first semiconductor element and a second semiconductor element are disposed so that a long side of the first semiconductor element faces a side of the second semiconductor element, and a HVIC or a LVIC, the first semiconductor element, and the second semiconductor element are disposed in this order in a direction orthogonal to a first direction, the gate pad is disposed on the first semiconductor element on one side in the first direction, and the gate pad is disposed on the second semiconductor element on the other side in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Seiya SUGIMACHI, Kazufumi OKI, Okinori INOUE, Kazuhiro KAWAHARA, Kosuke YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240105428
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic plate having a wafer placement surface and an electrode, a cooling plate made of a metal-ceramic composite and having a cooling medium passage, and a joining layer configured to join the plates. A distance from the wafer placement surface to at least one of upper base or lower base of the cooling medium passage is not constant. The cooling plate has a plurality of plate portions including a first plate portion and a second plate portion, and has a structure in which the plurality of plate portions metal-joined to each other. The first plate portion has a first passage portion which is a through groove having the same shape as the cooling medium passage. The second plate portion has a second passage portion which is a bottomed groove disposed in at least part of a region facing the first passage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya KUNO, Seiya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240074945
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dental restorative curable composition that has high mechanical strength and toughness and has excellent water resistance and smoothness/gloss durability in the form of a cured product, a dental composite resin comprising the dental restorative curable composition, and a dental mill blank comprising a cured product of the dental restorative curable composition. The present invention relates to a dental restorative curable composition comprising: a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound (A) which has at least one polymer structure selected from the group consisting of a polycarbonate, a polyarylate, and an aromatic polysulfone and in which terminal hydroxy residues derived from repeating units constituting the polymer structure are directly (meth)acryloylated; a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound (B) having two or more (meth)acryloyloxy groups (excluding the (meth)acrylic acid ester compound (A)); an inorganic filler (C) having an average primary particle diameter of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi INOUE, Seiya ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240038567
    Abstract: A member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, includes: a ceramic plate that has a ceramic plate through hole; an electroconductive base plate that has a base plate through hole and that is disposed on a lower surface side of the ceramic plate; an insulating sleeve which is inserted into the base plate through hole and of which an outer peripheral surface is adhered to an inner peripheral surface of the base plate through hole via an adhesion layer; and a sleeve through hole that passes through the insulating sleeve in the up-down direction and that communicates with the ceramic plate through hole. The insulating sleeve has a tool engaging portion that is engageable with an external tool, and upon being engaged with the external tool, the tool engaging portion transmits rotation torque of the external tool to the insulating sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya INOUE, Tatsuya KUNO, Natsuki HIRATA, Kenji YONEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230420230
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes an upper substrate including a ceramic substrate and having a wafer placement surface, a lower substrate disposed on a lower surface of the upper substrate including a refrigerant flow path or a refrigerant flow-path groove, a through hole extending through the lower substrate in an up-down direction to intersect with the refrigerant flow path or the refrigerant flow-path groove, a screw hole provided in the lower surface of the upper substrate, at a position facing the through hole, a screw member inserted from a lower surface of the lower substrate into the through hole and screwed into the screw hole, and a refrigerant-leakage prevention member that prevents the refrigerant from leaking out to the lower surface of the lower substrate through the through hole into which the screw member is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kuno, Masaki Ishikawa, Seiya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230343564
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic substrate having a wafer placement surface on an upper surface thereof and containing an electrode therein; a conductive substrate disposed adjacent to a lower surface of the ceramic substrate, serving also as a plasma generating electrode, and having the same diameter as the ceramic substrate; a support substrate disposed adjacent to a lower surface of the conductive substrate, having a greater diameter than the conductive substrate, and electrically insulated from the conductive substrate; and a mounting flange constituting a part of the support substrate and radially extending out of the conductive substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya INOUE, Tatsuya KUNO
  • Publication number: 20230343566
    Abstract: A wafer placement includes an alumina substrate having a wafer placement surface at an upper surface, and incorporating an electrode; a brittle cooling substrate which is bonded to a lower surface of the alumina substrate, and in which a refrigerant flow path is formed; and a ductile connection member stored in a storage hole opened in a lower surface of the cooling substrate in a state of restricted axial rotation and in a state of being engaged with an engagement section of the storage hole, the ductile connection member having a male thread section or a female thread section, wherein the storage hole is provided in the refrigerant flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya KUNO, Seiya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230343565
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes: a ceramic substrate having a wafer placement surface at an upper surface, and incorporating an electrode; a cooling substrate which is bonded to a lower surface of the ceramic substrate, and in which a refrigerant flow path is formed; a power supply terminal connected to the electrode; and a power supply terminal hole vertically penetrating the cooling substrate and storing the power supply terminal. The power supply terminal hole intersects with the refrigerant flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya KUNO, Seiya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230317430
    Abstract: The wafer placement table includes a ceramic plate and a conductive substrate. The ceramic plate includes a plate annular portion at an outer circumference of a plate central portion having a wafer placement surface. The plate annular portion has an annular focus ring placement surface. The conductive substrate is provided on a lower surface of the ceramic plate and used as a radio-frequency source electrode. At the same height from the focus ring placement surface in the plate annular portion, a focus ring attraction electrode and a focus-ring-side radio-frequency bias electrode to which a bias radio frequency is supplied are embedded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuhisa MORIOKA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Tatsuya KUNO, Seiya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230317433
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes: a ceramic plate having a wafer placement surface on its upper surface and incorporating an electrode; an electrically conductive plate provided on a lower surface side of the ceramic plate; an electrically conductive bonding layer that bonds the ceramic plate with the electrically conductive plate; a gas intermediate passage embedded in the electrically conductive bonding layer or provided at an interface between the electrically conductive bonding layer and the electrically conductive plate; a plurality of gas supply passages extending from the gas intermediate passage through the electrically conductive bonding layer and the ceramic plate to the wafer placement surface; and a gas introduction passage provided so as to extend through the electrically conductive plate and communicate with the gas intermediate passage, the number of the gas introduction passages being smaller than the number of the gas supply passages communicating with the gas intermediate passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya INOUE, Tatsuya KUNO, Ikuhisa MORIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230317432
    Abstract: In a wafer placement table, a cooling plate having a refrigerant flow channel is provided on a bottom surface side of a ceramic plate incorporating an electrode. A gas intermediate passage that is a horizontal space is provided parallel to a wafer placement surface at a location closer to the wafer placement surface than the refrigerant flow channel in the wafer placement table and has an overlapping part that overlaps the refrigerant flow channel along the refrigerant flow channel in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya KUNO, Seiya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230298861
    Abstract: A member for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a ceramic plate having a wafer placement surface on its upper surface; and a porous plug that is disposed in a plug insertion hole penetrating the ceramic plate in a up-down direction, and allows a gas to flow, wherein the porous plug has a first porous member exposed to the wafer placement surface, and a second porous member having an upper surface covered by the first porous member, the first porous member is higher in purity and smaller in thickness than the second porous member, and the second porous member is higher in porosity than the first porous member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya INOUE, Tatsuya KUNO, Tomoki NAGAE, Yusuke OGISO, Takuya YOTO
  • Publication number: 20230290622
    Abstract: A member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, includes: a base substrate that has a wafer-placement-table support and a focus-ring-placement-table support; a focus-ring placement table that is joined to the focus-ring-placement-table support; a wafer placement table that is separate from the focus-ring placement table, that overlaps an inner peripheral portion of the focus-ring placement table in plan view, and that is joined to the inner peripheral portion of the focus-ring placement table and to the wafer-placement-table support; an internal space that is surrounded by a lower surface of the wafer placement table, an outer peripheral surface of the wafer-placement-table support, an inner peripheral surface of the focus-ring placement table, and an upper surface of the focus-ring-placement-table support; and a communication path that is provided at the base substrate and that causes the internal space and an outside of the base substrate to communicate with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Tatsuya KUNO, Seiya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230238258
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base having a wafer placement surface on its top surface and incorporating an electrode, a cooling base provided on a bottom surface side of the ceramic base, and a refrigerant flow channel groove provided in the cooling base so as to open at a bottom surface of the cooling base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya INOUE, Tatsuya KUNO
  • Publication number: 20230238224
    Abstract: A member for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus has a ceramic plate, a porous plug, an insulating lid, and pores. The ceramic plate has a wafer placement surface as an upper surface. The porous plug is disposed in a plug insertion hole penetrating the ceramic plate in an up-down direction, and allows a gas to flow. The insulating lid is provided in contact with an upper surface of the porous plug, and exposed to the wafer placement surface. A plurality of pores are provided in the insulating lid, and penetrate the insulating lid in an up-down direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya INOUE, Tatsuya KUNO, Shinya YOSHIDA, Tomoki NAGAE, Yusuke OGISO, Takuya YOTO
  • Publication number: 20230223291
    Abstract: A member for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a ceramic plate that has an upper surface including a wafer placement surface and resin porous plugs that have upper surfaces that are exposed from the wafer placement surface. The resin porous plugs are press-fitted and secured in plug insertion holes that extend through the ceramic plate in an up-down direction and allow gas to flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya INOUE, Tatsuya KUNO, Natsuki HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20230207370
    Abstract: A member for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a ceramic plate; a metal joining layer and a cooling plate (conductive substrate) provided at a lower surface of the ceramic plate; a first hole penetrating the ceramic plate in an up-down direction; and a through-hole and a gas hole (second hole) penetrating the conductive substrate in an up-down direction, and communicating with the first hole. A dense insulating case has a bottomed hole 64 opened in a lower surface, and is disposed in the first hole and the second hole. A plurality of microholes penetrates a bottom of the bottomed hole in an up-down direction. A porous plug is disposed in the bottomed hole and in contact with the bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya INOUE, Tatsuya KUNO
  • Publication number: 20230197500
    Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic substrate having a wafer placement surface on an upper surface thereof and containing an electrode therein, a cooling substrate made of a metal-ceramic composite and having a cooling medium passage therein, and a metal joining layer configured to join a lower surface of the ceramic substrate to an upper surface of the cooling substrate. A thickness of a lower part of the cooling substrate below the cooling medium passage is greater than or equal to 13 mm, or greater than or equal to 43% of an overall thickness of the cooling substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya INOUE, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Tatsuya KUNO
  • Publication number: 20230197502
    Abstract: A member for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a ceramic plate that has an upper surface including a wafer placement surface; a conductive base that is disposed on a lower surface of the ceramic plate; a first hole that extends through the ceramic plate; a second hole that extends through the conductive base; a porous plug that has an upper surface that is exposed from an upper opening of the first hole and a lower surface that is flush with or below an upper surface of the conductive base; an insulating pipe that has an upper surface that is located below the wafer placement surface and a lower surface that is located below the lower surface of the porous plug; and an integrally formed member that is obtained by integrally forming the porous plug and the insulating pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya INOUE, Tatsuya KUNO, Kanta MIYAMOTO