Patents by Inventor Takehiko Okabe

Takehiko Okabe 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: 9449634
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere. The first lubricant has a lower molecular mass and a higher chemical polarity than those of the second lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Katsuaki To
  • Publication number: 20150332724
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere. The first lubricant has a lower molecular mass and a higher chemical polarity than those of the second lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Takehiko OKABE, Katsuaki TO
  • Patent number: 9177587
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Katsuaki To
  • Patent number: 9159354
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant that is dissolved in an organic solvent onto the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Katsuaki To
  • Patent number: 9147422
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere. The first lubricant has a lower molecular mass and a higher chemical polarity than those of the second lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Katsuaki To
  • Patent number: 9018657
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting element (1) including of a substrate (110) composed of sapphire; a laminated semiconductor layer (100) composed of an n-type semiconductor layer (140), a light emitting layer (150) and a p-type semiconductor layer (160) provided on the substrate (110); a first electrode (170) formed in the p-type semiconductor layer (160); and a second electrode (180) formed in the n-type semiconductor layer (140). Further, the first electrode (170) includes a first conductive layer (171) composed of an oxide transparent conductive material laminated on the p-type semiconductor layer (160); a reflection layer (172) which contains silver laminated on the first conductive layer (171); a second conductive layer (173) composed of an oxide conductive material laminated on the reflection layer (172); and a coating layer (174) provided so as to cover the first conductive layer (171), the reflection layer (172) and the second conductive layer (173).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Kyosuke Masuya, Takashi Hodota
  • Patent number: 8969905
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device (1) of the present invention includes: a substrate (101); a laminated semiconductor layer (20) containing a light-emitting layer, which is formed on the substrate (101); a first electrode (111) formed on the upper surface (106c) of the laminated semiconductor layer (20); and a second electrode (108) formed on an exposed surface (104c) that is formed by partially cutting the laminated semiconductor layer (20), wherein the first electrode (111) includes a transparent electrode (109) containing a hole portion (109a) through which the upper surface (106c) of the laminated semiconductor layer (20) is exposed, a junction layer (110) formed on a bottom surface (109b) and an inner wall (109d) of the hole portion (109a), and a bonding pad electrode (120) formed to cover the junction layer (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Daisuke Hiraiwa, Remi Ohba
  • Patent number: 8884329
    Abstract: It is an object to improve joining properties of electrodes and reliability of the electrodes for supplying electrical power to a semiconductor. The semiconductor light-emitting element includes an n-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, a p-type semiconductor layer, a transparent conductive layer, a p-electrode formed on the transparent conductive layer and an n-electrode formed on the n-type semiconductor layer. The p-electrode includes a p-side second metal layer composed of a metallic material containing Au and provided to be exposed to the outside and a p-side first metal layer composed of a metallic material containing Au with hardness higher than that of the metallic material composing the p-side second metal layer, the p-side first metal layer being provided closer to the transparent conductive layer than the p-side second metal layer along the p-side second metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Daisuke Hiraiwa, Mamoru Kitsukawa
  • Publication number: 20140295073
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere. The first lubricant has a lower molecular mass and a higher chemical polarity than those of the second lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Takehiko OKABE, Katsuaki To
  • Publication number: 20140295072
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant that is dissolved in an organic solvent onto the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant. A molecular mass of a compound included in the first lubricant is higher than that of the second lubricant, and a chemical polarity of the compound included in the first lubricant is lower than that of the second lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Takehiko OKABE, Katsuaki TO
  • Patent number: 8836086
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting chip (20) that is composed of: a substrate (10), which has the C plane of a sapphire single crystal as the front surface, and the side surfaces (25, 26) configured of planes that intersect all the planes equivalent to the M plane of the sapphire single crystal, and which includes modified regions (23, 24) in the side surfaces (25, 26), the modified regions being formed by laser radiation; and a light emitting element (12), which is provided on the substrate front surface (10a) of the substrate (10). In the semiconductor light emitting chip, a tilt of the substrate side surfaces with respect to the substrate front surface is suppressed. Also disclosed is a method for processing the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Hiraiwa, Takehiko Okabe
  • Publication number: 20140212577
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Takehiko OKABE, Katsuaki TO
  • Publication number: 20140212579
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant that is dissolved in an organic solvent onto the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Takehiko OKABE, Katsuaki To
  • Patent number: 8779441
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting element (1) which is provided with: a laminated semiconductor layer which is formed on a substrate, and in which a first semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type, a light emitting layer, and a second semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type; a first electrode (first electrode (170)) which is formed on a surface of the first semiconductor layer in the laminated semiconductor layer, and has a first opening (170a) used for electrical connection with an outside; and a second electrode (second electrode (180)) which is formed on a surface of the second semiconductor layer, and has a second opening (180a) used for electrical connection with the outside. The surface of the second semiconductor layer is exposed by cutting off a part of the laminated semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takehiko Okabe
  • Patent number: 8691602
    Abstract: In producing a semiconductor light-emitting chip whose substrate is composed of a sapphire single crystal, cracking in semiconductor light-emitting elements in the obtained semiconductor light-emitting chip is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Hiraiwa, Takehiko Okabe
  • Publication number: 20140079877
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium sequentially forms a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body. The lubricant layer is formed by vapor-phase lubrication without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere after forming the protection layer on the stacked body. A region having a gas pressure P3 is provided in a transport path of the stacked body after the formation of the protection layer and before the formation of the lubricant layer, satisfying relationships P3>P1 and P3>P2, where P1 denotes a process gas pressure at a time of forming the protection layer, and P2 denotes a process gas pressure at a time of forming the lubricant layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Tsutatani, Daisuke Shiomi, Satoru Ueno, Ichiro Ota, Takehiko Okabe
  • Patent number: 8669129
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device which has excellent productivity and produce a group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device and a lamp, a method for producing a group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device, in which a buffer layer (12) made of a group III nitride is laminated on a substrate (11), an n-type semiconductor layer (14) comprising a base layer (14a), a light-emitting layer (15), and a p-type semiconductor layer (16) are laminated on the buffer layer (12) in this order, comprising: a pretreatment step in which the substrate (11) is treated with plasma; a buffer layer formation step in which the buffer layer (12) having a composition represented by AlxGa1-xN (0?x<1) is formed on the pretreated substrate (11) by activating with plasma and reacting at least a metal gallium raw material and a gas containing a group V element; and a base layer formation step in which the base layer (14a)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisayuki Miki, Yasunori Yokoyama, Takehiko Okabe, Kenzo Hanawa
  • Patent number: 8643046
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor light-emitting element including a substrate; a laminated semiconductor layer in which an n-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer and a p-type semiconductor layer are laminated on the substrate in this order; one electrode joined with the p-type semiconductor layer; and another electrode joined with the n-type semiconductor layer, wherein one or both of the one and other electrodes has a structure such that an ohmic contact layer, a metal reflection layer, a first anti-diffusion layer and a first adhesion layer are laminated in this order, and the first adhesion layer has an outer peripheral portion which extends so as to be in contact with the laminated semiconductor layer, so as to completely cover the first anti-diffusion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Kyosuke Masuya, Takashi Hodota
  • Patent number: 8637888
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting element (1), which includes: an n-type semiconductor layer (140); a light emitting layer (150), which is laminated on one surface of the n-type semiconductor layer (140) such that a part of the surface is exposed, and which emits light when a current is carried therein; a p-type semiconductor layer (160) laminated on the light emitting layer (150); a multilayer reflection film (180), which is configured by alternately laminating low refractive index layers (180a) and high refractive index layers (180b) that have a refractive index higher than that of the low refractive index layers (180a) and also have transparency with respect to light emitted from the light emitting layer (150), and which is laminated on the exposed portion of the n-type semiconductor layer (140), the exposed portion being on one side of the n-type semiconductor layer; an n-conductor portion (400), which is formed by penetrating the multilayer reflection film (180), and which has one end thereof c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Hodota, Takehiko Okabe
  • Patent number: 8629473
    Abstract: The disclosed semiconductor light-emitting element is configured from layering an n-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer (160); and a first electrode (200), which is the cathode, is formed on the p-type semiconductor layer (160). Also, between the p-type semiconductor layer (160) and a reflecting layer (220b), the first electrode (200) is provided with a crystalline first transparent electrode layer (210) and a non-crystalline second transparent electrode layer (220a). The crystalline first transparent electrode layer (210) increases adhesion with the p-type semiconductor layer (160), and the non-crystalline second transparent electrode layer (220a) suppresses delamination of the reflecting layer (220b). Also, the first transparent electrode layer (210) and the second transparent electrode layer (220a) transmit light emitted from the light-emitting layer and suppress degradation of reflective characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Kyousuke Masuya