Patents by Inventor Shinjiro Tsuji

Shinjiro Tsuji 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: 11498119
    Abstract: An injection device of a light metal injection molding machine of the disclosure includes: a melting cylinder that heats and melts a billet pushed along a cylinder hole and stores molten metal; an injection cylinder that injects, by an inserted plunger, the molten metal supplied by free fall due to the own weight from the melting cylinder through a communication path that can be opened and closed; and a molten metal pot in which a molten metal supply/discharge port connected to the melting cylinder is opened at a location in the melting cylinder that does not face an opening of the communication path on the melting cylinder side, and molten metal in an amount in excess of a capacity that can be stored in the melting cylinder is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinjiro Tsuji, Shuji Kai
  • Publication number: 20220339696
    Abstract: An injection device of a light metal injection molding machine of the disclosure includes: a melting cylinder that heats and melts a billet pushed along a cylinder hole and stores molten metal; an injection cylinder that injects, by an inserted plunger, the molten metal supplied by free fall due to the own weight from the melting cylinder through a communication path that can be opened and closed; and a molten metal pot in which a molten metal supply/discharge port connected to the melting cylinder is opened at a location in the melting cylinder that does not face an opening of the communication path on the melting cylinder side, and molten metal in an amount in excess of a capacity that can be stored in the melting cylinder is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinjiro TSUJI, Shuji KAI
  • Patent number: 10479061
    Abstract: A component bonding device includes a bonding tool which sucks a film-like component and which bonds the film-like component to a substrate. The bonding tool includes: a plurality of suction blocks, each of which has a suction hole for sucking the film-like component; and a suction block holding portion which has a block holding-available region capable of holding the plurality of suction blocks, and which holds the plurality of suction blocks so as to be arranged in a row in the block holding-available region. The suction block holding portion allows change of a holding position of at least one of the plurality of suction blocks to any desired position in the block holding-available region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Kameda, Shinjiro Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10065275
    Abstract: A component crimping apparatus includes a crimping tool that sucks a film-like component and presses a crimping section of the sucked film-like component against the substrate to crimp the film-like component to the substrate. The crimping tool includes a block holding portion that includes a guide member extending in one direction within a horizontal plane, first suction blocks that are provided movably along the guide member and that sucks an upper part of the crimping section of the film-like component, a second suction block that is provided movably along the guide member of the block holding portion and that sucks an upper part of a non-crimping section of the film-like component and a block fixation unit that fixes the first suction blocks and the second suction block to the guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Kameda, Shinjiro Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9983421
    Abstract: A component mounting line includes a first and a second component mounting devices. The first component mounting device adheres anisotropic conductive members to a region of a part of one side and a region of the other side of the substrate, temporarily crimps electronic components onto the region of the part of the one side and the region of the other side to which the anisotropic conductive members are adhered, and mainly crimps the electronic components onto the region of the other side. The second component mounting device adheres the anisotropic conductive members to remaining regions of the one side of the substrate, temporarily crimps the electronic components onto the remaining regions of the one side to which the anisotropic conductive members are adhered, and mainly crimps the electronic components onto the region of the part of the one side and the remaining regions of the one side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Adachi, Shinjiro Tsuji, Nobuyuki Kakita, Shingo Yamada
  • Patent number: 9872395
    Abstract: A component crimping apparatus includes: a substrate holding part that holds a substrate of a transparent material, a component previously attached to each electrode of electrodes juxtaposed in an edge of the substrate through a photo-curable adhesive member; a supporting part that supports, by a transparent member, a region under the electrodes in the substrate; crimping tools that are juxtaposed over the transparent member and press the components to the substrate; and a light irradiating part that irradiates the adhesive member with light through the transparent member when the crimping tools press the components to the substrate. The crimping tools are configured movably in an arrangement direction of the crimping tools, the transparent member has a dimension capable of covering a whole region of a movable range of the crimping tools, and the light irradiating part irradiates a whole region of the transparent member with the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yamada, Shinjiro Tsuji, Satoshi Adachi, Yasutaka Tsuboi, Toshihiko Tsujikawa
  • Patent number: 9739300
    Abstract: A component crimping apparatus includes: a substrate holding part that holds a substrate of a transparent material, a component previously attached to each electrode of electrodes juxtaposed in an edge of the substrate through a photo-curable adhesive member; a supporting part having a base part with an optical path and a transparent member on the base part and connected to the optical path, and supports, by the transparent member, a region under a targeted electrode in the substrate; a crimping tool arranged over the transparent member and presses the component to the substrate; a light irradiating part that irradiates the adhesive member attached to the targeted electrode with light through the optical path; and a light shielding member that covers a portion in which the transparent member is not installed in an opening part of the optical path in the base part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yamada, Shinjiro Tsuji, Satoshi Adachi, Yasutaka Tsuboi, Toshihiko Tsujikawa
  • Publication number: 20160286664
    Abstract: A component mounting line includes a first and a second component mounting devices. The first component mounting device adheres anisotropic conductive members to a region of a part of one side and a region of the other side of the substrate, temporarily crimps electronic components onto the region of the part of the one side and the region of the other side to which the anisotropic conductive members are adhered, and mainly crimps the electronic components onto the region of the other side. The second component mounting device adheres the anisotropic conductive members to remaining regions of the one side of the substrate, temporarily crimps the electronic components onto the remaining regions of the one side to which the anisotropic conductive members are adhered, and mainly crimps the electronic components onto the region of the part of the one side and the remaining regions of the one side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi ADACHI, Shinjiro TSUJI, Nobuyuki KAKITA, Shingo YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20160113164
    Abstract: A component crimping apparatus includes a crimping tool that sucks a film-like component and presses a crimping section of the sucked film-like component against the substrate to crimp the film-like component to the substrate. The crimping tool includes a block holding portion that includes a guide member extending in one direction within a horizontal plane, first suction blocks that are provided movably along the guide member and that sucks an upper part of the crimping section of the film-like component, a second suction block that is provided movably along the guide member of the block holding portion and that sucks an upper part of a non-crimping section of the film-like component and a block fixation unit that fixes the first suction blocks and the second suction block to the guide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Akira KAMEDA, Shinjiro TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20160052197
    Abstract: A component crimping apparatus includes: a substrate holding part that holds a substrate of a transparent material, a component previously attached to each electrode of electrodes juxtaposed in an edge of the substrate through a photo-curable adhesive member; a supporting part that supports, by a transparent member, a region under the electrodes in the substrate; crimping tools that are juxtaposed over the transparent member and press the components to the substrate; and a light irradiating part that irradiates the adhesive member with light through the transparent member when the crimping tools press the components to the substrate. The crimping tools are configured movably in an arrangement direction of the crimping tools, the transparent member has a dimension capable of covering a whole region of a movable range of the crimping tools, and the light irradiating part irradiates a whole region of the transparent member with the light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Akira YAMADA, Shinjiro TSUJI, Satoshi ADACHI, Yasutaka TSUBOI, Toshihiko TSUJIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160052196
    Abstract: A component crimping apparatus includes: a substrate holding part that holds a substrate of a transparent material, a component previously attached to each electrode of electrodes juxtaposed in an edge of the substrate through a photo-curable adhesive member; a supporting part having a base part with an optical path and a transparent member on the base part and connected to the optical path, and supports, by the transparent member, a region under a targeted electrode in the substrate; a crimping tool arranged over the transparent member and presses the component to the substrate; a light irradiating part that irradiates the adhesive member attached to the targeted electrode with light through the optical path; and a light shielding member that covers a portion in which the transparent member is not installed in an opening part of the optical path in the base part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Akira YAMADA, Shinjiro TSUJI, Satoshi ADACHI, Yasutaka TSUBOI, Toshihiko TSUJIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150367618
    Abstract: A component bonding device includes a bonding tool which sucks a film-like component and which bonds the film-like component to a substrate. The bonding tool includes: a plurality of suction blocks, each of which has a suction hole for sucking the film-like component; and a suction block holding portion which has a block holding-available region capable of holding the plurality of suction blocks, and which holds the plurality of suction blocks so as to be arranged in a row in the block holding-available region. The suction block holding portion allows change of a holding position of at least one of the plurality of suction blocks to any desired position in the block holding-available region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Akira KAMEDA, Shinjiro TSUJI
  • Patent number: 8062450
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus capable of easily splicing ACF tapes that are thin and are hard to handle. The tape splicing apparatus splices two ACF tapes (210) each having an ACF (212), and includes: a first holding unit that holds one of the ACF tapes (210); a second holding unit that holds the other one of the ACF tapes (210); a positioning unit (115) that positions the ACF tapes (210) to be overlapped in a thickness direction; and a pressing unit (116) that presses the overlapped ACF tapes (210) in the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kozo Odawara, Shinjiro Tsuji, Yuichi Takakura, Masayuki Ida, Ryouichirou Katano
  • Patent number: 7803231
    Abstract: A substrate edge part cleaning apparatus judging a cleaning degree of glass substrates when cleaning edge parts of the glass substrates used for liquid crystal display. The substrate edge part cleaning apparatus 100 having a cleaning head wiping an edge part of a substrate for display A while moving rectilinearly, and having a camera 117 capturing images of the proximity of an edge of a color filter which is placed on the substrate, by moving together with the cleaning head. The camera 117 obtains surface status information of the substrate part which has been cleaned, and the substrate edge part cleaning apparatus 100 further includes a cleaning degree judgment unit 306 judging a cleaning degree based on the surface status information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ryouichirou Katano, Shinjiro Tsuji
  • Patent number: 7799142
    Abstract: A board terminal cleaning apparatus for cleaning a terminal portion by bringing a cleaning member in contact with the terminal portion of a board comprises a first support member that supports the cleaning member in a first position, a second support member that supports the cleaning member in a second position, a cleaning head that pressurizes part of the cleaning member supported between the first position and the second position by bringing the part in contact with the terminal portion of the board, a support member moving unit that moves the first support member and the second support member in the direction along the terminal portion, and a cleaning head moving unit that moves the cleaning head in the direction along the terminal portion at a second movement velocity different from the first movement velocity of the first support member and the second support member by the support member moving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Watanabe, Shinjiro Tsuji, Keiji Fujiwara, Ryouichirou Katano
  • Patent number: 7716818
    Abstract: A method for transferring a substrate includes moving first and second substrate holding sections opposite each other, moving a first substrate stage holding the substrate so as to be disposed between the first and second substrate holding sections, delivering the substrate from the first substrate stage to the first and second substrate holding sections by releasing the holding of the substrate by the first substrate stage and holding the substrate by the first and second substrate holding sections, moving the first and second substrate holding sections from a first substrate taking-over position to a second substrate taking-over position, moving a second substrate stage so as to be disposed in the interval between the first and second substrate holding sections at the second substrate taking-over position, and delivering the substrate to the second substrate stage by releasing the substrate and holding the substrate by the second substrate stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinjiro Tsuji, Takahiko Murata, Keiji Fujiwara, Kozo Odawara
  • Patent number: 7653989
    Abstract: The final-bonder is equipped with a warping correction unit that is equipped in parallel with a backup stage with a distance of about 20 mm from such backup stage, and that includes accordion pads for sucking a liquid crystal panel; the backup stage that supports, from the back, the liquid crystal panel when pressure is applied to its outer edge portion at the bonding of semiconductor components; and a pressure head that carries out final bonding of the semiconductor components onto the outer edge portion of the liquid crystal panel by applying pressure and heat to them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Murata, Shinjiro Tsuji, Kozo Odawara, Ryouichirou Katano
  • Publication number: 20090288777
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus capable of easily splicing ACF tapes that are thin and are hard to handle. The tape splicing apparatus splices two ACF tapes (210) each having an ACF (212), and includes: a first holding unit that holds one of the ACF tapes (210); a second holding unit that holds the other one of the ACF tapes (210); a positioning unit (115) that positions the ACF tapes (210) to be overlapped in a thickness direction; and a pressing unit (116) that presses the overlapped ACF tapes (210) in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kozo Odawara, Shinjiro Tsuji, Yuichi Takakura, Masayuki Ida, Ryouichirou Katano
  • Publication number: 20090065029
    Abstract: A board terminal cleaning apparatus for cleaning a terminal portion by bringing a cleaning member in contact with the terminal portion of a board comprises a first support member that supports the cleaning member in a first position, a second support member that supports the cleaning member in a second position, a cleaning head that pressurizes part of the cleaning member supported between the first position and the second position by bringing the part in contact with the terminal portion of the board, a support member moving unit that moves the first support member and the second support member in the direction along the terminal portion, and a cleaning head moving unit that moves the cleaning head in the direction along the terminal portion at a second movement velocity different from the first movement velocity of the first support member and the second support member by the support member moving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Masaya Watanabe, Shinjiro Tsuji, Keiji Fujiwara, Ryouichirou Katano
  • Publication number: 20080301932
    Abstract: The final-bonder (103) is equipped with: a warping correction unit (201) that is equipped in parallel with a backup stage (203) with a distance of about 20 mm from such backup stage (203), and that includes accordion pads (202) for sucking a liquid crystal panel; the backup stage (203) that supports, from the back, the liquid crystal panel when pressure is applied to its outer edge portion at the boding of semiconductor components; and a pressure head (204) that carries out final bonding of the semiconductor components onto the outer edge portion of the liquid crystal panel by applying pressure and heat to them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Takahiko Murata, Shinjiro Tsuji, Kozo Odawara, Ryouichirou Katano