Patents by Inventor Takaya KANDO

Takaya KANDO 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: 20180245230
    Abstract: A tin-plated product contains: a substrate 10 of copper or a copper alloy; an underlying layer 12 of nickel which is formed on the surface of the substrate 10; and an outermost layer 14 containing tin, the outermost layer 14 being formed on the surface of the underlying layer 12, the outermost layer 14 being composed of a copper-tin alloy layer 14a of a large number of crystal grains of a copper-tin alloy, tin layers 14b of tin having an average thickness of 0.01 to 0.20 micrometers, and a plurality of copper-nickel-tin alloy layers 14c of a copper-nickel-tin alloy, each of the tin layers 14b being formed in a corresponding one of recessed portions between adjacent two of the crystal grains of the copper-tin alloy on the outermost surface of the copper-tin alloy layer, the copper-nickel-tin alloy layers 14c being arranged on the side of the underlying layer 12 in the copper-tin alloy layer 14a so as to be apart from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicants: Dowa Metaltech Co., Ltd., Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta SONODA, Hiroto NARIEDA, Hideki ENDO, Akira SUGAWARA, Hirotaka KOTANI, Jyun TOYOIZUMI, Takaya KANDO, Yuya KISHIBATA