Patents by Inventor Shigeki Sawa

Shigeki Sawa 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: 8832935
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a printed wiring board including providing a structure having a wiring substrate having a conductor circuit, a build-up multilayer structure formed over the wiring substrate and having an outermost conductor circuit and an outermost insulative resin layer, and a solder resist layer formed over the outermost conductor circuit and outermost insulative resin layer and having openings with an opening diameter D for mounting electronic elements, forming conductor pads with a pitch of about 200 pm or less on the outermost conductor circuit in the openings of the solder resist layer, respectively, and forming solder bumps with a height H from a surface of the solder resist layer on the conductor pads on the conductor pads, respectively, such that a ratio H/D is about 0.55 to about 1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kawamura, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 8721863
    Abstract: A method for plating a belt substrate including conveying a belt substrate through a plating tank, contacting an immersed cathode power-supply device and/or an auxiliary cathode power-supply device with the belt substrate conveyed into the interior of the plating tank such that the belt substrate becomes a cathode, and electrically plating a surface of the belt substrate in the interior of the plating tank while the immersed cathode power-supply device and/or the auxiliary cathode power-supply device maintains cathode power-supply to the belt substrate conveyed into the interior portion of the plating tank. The immersed cathode power-supply device and the auxiliary cathode power-supply device are positioned in the interior portion of the plating tank and are electrically connected by a short circuit wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Tachi, Shigeki Sawa, Toshiyuki Kasuga
  • Patent number: 8624132
    Abstract: A printed wiring board including a wiring substrate provided with at least one conductor circuit, a solder resist layer provided on the surface of the wiring substrate, at least one conductor pad formed from a part of the conductor circuit exposed from an opening provided in the solder resist layer, and at least one solder bump for mounting electronic parts on the conductor pad. In the printed wiring board, since the at least one conductor pad is aligned at a pitch of about 200 ?m or less, and a ratio (W/D) of a diameter W of the solder bump to an opening diameter D of the opening formed in the solder resist layer is about 1.05 to about 1.7, connection reliability and insulation reliability can be easily improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kawamura, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 8448838
    Abstract: A solder ball loading method capable of securely loading solder balls on connection pads includes applying flux on each connection pad group of a printed wiring board flux is not applied to a contact portion between a spacer and the printed wiring board to keep the flux from attaching to the spacer. Because the flux is not attached to the spacer, when the mask is detached from the printed wiring board, the printed wiring board need not be inverted, and damage to the solder resist layer 70 is minimized. Further, the heights of the solder balls and the upper surface of the mask are made equal by using the spacer, making it possible to securely load the solder balls on the electrode pads, one solder ball for each connection pad, and to reduce a probability that solder balls are not loaded or that a plurality of the solder balls are loaded onto a single connection pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Osamu Kimura, Koji Kuribayashi
  • Patent number: 8198546
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a printed wiring board includes preparing a wiring substrate having a conductive circuit, coating a solder-resist layer over the conductive circuit, leveling a surface of the solder-resist layer so as to obtain a maximum surface roughness in a predetermined range, removing the resin film from the surface of the solder-resist layer, and forming multiple openings in the surface of the solder-resist layer to expose multiple portions of the conductive circuit so as to form multiple conductive pads for mounting an electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kawamura, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 8157157
    Abstract: A solder ball loading method capable of securely loading solder balls on connection pads includes applying flux on each connection pad group of a printed wiring board flux is not applied to a contact portion between a spacer and the printed wiring board to keep the flux from attaching to the spacer. Because the flux is not attached to the spacer, when the mask is detached from the printed wiring board, the printed wiring board need not be inverted, and damage to the solder resist layer 70 is minimized. Further, the heights of the solder balls and the upper surface of the mask are made equal by using the spacer, making it possible to securely load the solder balls on the electrode pads, one solder ball for each connection pad, and to reduce a probability that solder balls are not loaded or that a plurality of the solder balls are loaded onto a single connection pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: IBIDEN Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Osamu Kimura, Koji Kuribayashi
  • Publication number: 20120080505
    Abstract: A solder ball loading method capable of securely loading solder balls on connection pads includes applying flux on each connection pad group of a printed wiring board flux is not applied to a contact portion between a spacer and the printed wiring board to keep the flux from attaching to the spacer. Because the flux is not attached to the spacer, when the mask is detached from the printed wiring board, the printed wiring board need not be inverted, and damage to the solder resist layer 70 is minimized. Further, the heights of the solder balls and the upper surface of the mask are made equal by using the spacer, making it possible to securely load the solder balls on the electrode pads, one solder ball for each connection pad, and to reduce a probability that solder balls are not loaded or that a plurality of the solder balls are loaded onto a single connection pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: IBIDEN, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Osamu Kimura, Koji Kuribayashi
  • Publication number: 20120080504
    Abstract: A solder ball loading method capable of securely loading solder balls on connection pads includes applying flux on each connection pad group of a printed wiring board flux is not applied to a contact portion between a spacer and the printed wiring board to keep the flux from attaching to the spacer. Because the flux is not attached to the spacer, when the mask is detached from the printed wiring board, the printed wiring board need not be inverted, and damage to the solder resist layer 70 is minimized. Further, the heights of the solder balls and the upper surface of the mask are made equal by using the spacer, making it possible to securely load the solder balls on the electrode pads, one solder ball for each connection pad, and to reduce a probability that solder balls are not loaded or that a plurality of the solder balls are loaded onto a single connection pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: IBIDEN, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Osamu Kimura, Koji Kuribayashi
  • Publication number: 20120073977
    Abstract: A method for plating a belt substrate including conveying a belt substrate through a plating tank, contacting an immersed cathode power-supply device and/or an auxiliary cathode power-supply device with the belt substrate conveyed into the interior of the plating tank such that the belt substrate becomes a cathode, and electrically plating a surface of the belt substrate in the interior of the plating tank while the immersed cathode power-supply device and/or the auxiliary cathode power-supply device maintains cathode power-supply to the belt substrate conveyed into the interior portion of the plating tank. The immersed cathode power-supply device and the auxiliary cathode power-supply device are positioned in the interior portion of the plating tank and are electrically connected by a short circuit wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yasuaki TACHI, Shigeki Sawa, Toshiyuki Kasuga
  • Patent number: 8128790
    Abstract: An apparatus that performs an electrolytic plating on a plating surface of a belt substrate is provided. The apparatus includes a plating tank, a conveyor device configured to carry a belt substrate through an interior of the plating tank, an immersed cathode power-supply section provided within the interior of the plating tank, an auxiliary cathode power-supply section provided within the interior of the plating tank, and short-circuit wiring configured to short-circuit the immersed cathode power-supply section to the auxiliary cathode power-supply section. A plating method for performing electrolytic plating on a plating surface of a belt substrate is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Tachi, Shigeki Sawa, Toshiyuki Kasuga
  • Patent number: 8022314
    Abstract: A printed wiring board including a wiring substrate provided with at least one conductor circuit, a solder resist layer provided on the surface of the wiring substrate, at least one conductor pad formed from a part of the conductor circuit exposed from an opening provided in the solder resist layer, and at least one solder bump for mounting electronic parts on the conductor pad. In the printed wiring board, since the at least one conductor pad is aligned at a pitch of about 200 ?m or less, and a ratio (W/D) of a diameter W of the solder bump to an opening diameter D of the opening formed in the solder resist layer is about 1.05 to about 1.7, connection reliability and insulation reliability can be easily improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kawamura, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 8017875
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a wiring substrate, one or more conductor circuits provided on the wiring substrate, a solder resist layer provided on a surface of the wiring substrate and having multiple openings, the openings exposing multiple parts of the conductor circuits forming multiple conductor pads for mounting electronic parts, and multiple solder bumps formed on the conductor pads, respectively. The conductor pads are aligned at a pitch of about 200 ?m or less, and a ratio W/D of a diameter W of the solder bumps to an opening diameter D of the openings formed in the solder resist layer is about 1.05 to about 1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kawamura, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20110214915
    Abstract: A printed wiring board comprises a wiring substrate provided with at least one conductor circuit, a solder resist layer provided on the surface of the wiring substrate, at least one conductor pad formed from a part of the conductor circuit exposed from an opening provided in the solder resist layer, and at least one solder bump for mounting electronic parts on the conductor pad. In the printed wiring board, since the at least one conductor pad is aligned at a pitch of about 200 ?m or less, and a ratio (W/D) of a diameter W of the solder bump to an opening diameter D of the opening formed in the solder resist layer is about 1.05 to about 1.7, connection reliability and insulation reliability can be easily improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichiro KAWAMURA, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 8003897
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a wiring substrate provided with at least one conductor circuit, a solder resist layer formed on the surface of the wiring substrate, covering the at least one conductor circuit, conductor pads formed on a part of the at least one conductor circuit exposed from respective openings provided in the solder resist layer for mounting electronic parts, and solder bumps formed on the respective conductor pads. Connection reliability and insulation reliability are easily improved by making the ratio (H/D) of a height H from solder resist layer surface the solder bump to an opening diameter of the opening about 0.55 to about 1.0 even in narrow pitch structure under the pitch of the opening provided in the solder resist layer of about 200 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kawamura, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20110061232
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a printed wiring board including providing a structure having a wiring substrate having a conductor circuit, a build-up multilayer structure formed over the wiring substrate and having an outermost conductor circuit and an outermost insulative resin layer, and a solder resist layer formed over the outermost conductor circuit and outermost insulative resin layer and having openings with an opening diameter D for mounting electronic elements, forming conductor pads with a pitch of about 200 pm or less on the outermost conductor circuit in the openings of the solder resist layer, respectively, and forming solder bumps with a height H from a surface of the solder resist layer on the conductor pads on the conductor pads, respectively, such that a ratio H/D is about 0.55 to about 1.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kawamura, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 7866529
    Abstract: A solder ball loading unit for loading a solder balls to be turned to a solder bumps on a connection pad of a printed wiring board, including a ball arranging mask having a plurality of openings corresponding to the connection pad of the printed wiring board, a cylinder member located above the ball arranging mask for gathering the solder balls just below the opening portion by sucking air from the opening portion, and a moving mechanism for moving the cylinder member in the horizontal direction, the moving mechanism moving the solder balls gathered on the ball arranging mask by moving the cylinder member and dropping the solder balls onto the connection pads of the printed wiring board through the opening in the ball arranging mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsunori Sumita, Yoichiro Kawamura, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Isao Tsuchiya, Yoshiyuki Mabuchi, Osamu Kimura
  • Publication number: 20100155129
    Abstract: A printed wiring board comprises a wiring substrate provided with at least one conductor circuit, a solder resist layer formed on the surface of the wiring substrate, covering the at least one conductor circuit, conductor pads formed on a part of the at least one conductor circuit exposed from respective openings provided in the solder resist layer for mounting electronic parts, and solder bumps formed on the respective conductor pads. Connection reliability and insulation reliability are easily improved by making the ratio (H/D) of a height H from solder resist layer surface the solder bump to an opening diameter of the opening about 0.55 to about 1.0 even in narrow pitch structure under the pitch of the opening provided in the solder resist layer of about 200 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichiro KAWAMURA, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 7714233
    Abstract: A printed wiring board including a wiring substrate provided with at least one conductor circuit, a solder resist layer formed on the surface of the wiring substrate, covering the at least one conductor circuit, conductor pads formed on a part of the at least one conductor circuit exposed from respective openings provided in the solder resist layer for mounting electronic parts, and solder bumps formed on the respective conductor pads. The ratio (H/D) of a height H of the solder bumps from solder resist layer surface to an opening diameter of the openings are made to be about 0.55 to about 1.0 with the pitch of the openings provided in the solder resist layer of about 200 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kawamura, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20100065323
    Abstract: A printed wiring board comprises a wiring substrate provided with at least one conductor circuit, a solder resist layer provided on the surface of the wiring substrate, at least one conductor pad formed from a part of the conductor circuit exposed from an opening provided in the solder resist layer, and at least one solder bump for mounting electronic parts on the conductor pad. In the printed wiring board, since the at least one conductor pad is aligned at a pitch of about 200 ?m or less, and a ratio (W/D) of a diameter W of the solder bump to an opening diameter D of the opening formed in the solder resist layer is about 1.05 to about 1.7, connection reliability and insulation reliability can be easily improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Kawamura, Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Hironori Tanaka, Naoaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20090294516
    Abstract: A solder ball loading method capable of securely loading solder balls on connection pads includes applying flux on each connection pad group of a printed wiring board flux is not applied to a contact portion between a spacer and the printed wiring board to keep the flux from attaching to the spacer. Because the flux is not attached to the spacer, when the mask is detached from the printed wiring board, the printed wiring board need not be inverted, and damage to the solder resist layer 70 is minimized. Further, the heights of the solder balls and the upper surface of the mask are made equal by using the spacer, making it possible to securely load the solder balls on the electrode pads, one solder ball for each connection pad, and to reduce a probability that solder balls are not loaded or that a plurality of the solder balls are loaded onto a single connection pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Sawa, Katsuhiko Tanno, Osamu Kimura, Koji Kuribayashi