Patents by Inventor Tomoji Okuda

Tomoji Okuda 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: 11891698
    Abstract: A surface treatment device includes at least one paddle in a plate shape, in a surface treatment tank, for stirring a surface treatment solution near a substrate by reciprocally moving the paddle with respect to the substrate. The paddle is configured by integrally forming multiple square bars provided in a depth direction or a horizontal direction of the surface treatment solution at regular intervals along the substrate. A liquid draining member for draining a liquid is arranged in at least one side of an end of the paddle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoji Okuda, Daisuke Matsuyama, Masayuki Kiso, Daisuke Hashimoto, Akira Okada, Keita Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11891714
    Abstract: A holding apparatus for applying an electrolytic plating treatment to a planar workpiece, and the holding apparatus can reduce an amount of plating that is deposited on an edge part of the planar workpiece. The holding apparatus for applying the electrolytic plating treatment to the planar workpiece has a rear member and a front member facing the rear member and having an opening part. The planar workpiece is disposed between the rear member and the front member. The front member has a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of first insulating parts. The plurality of electrodes and the plurality of first insulating parts cover the edge part of the planar workpiece in a width direction of the planar workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Matsuyama, Daisuke Hashimoto, Kazuyoshi Nishimoto, Tomoji Okuda
  • Patent number: 11887882
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a holding jig that is used for applying a liquid bath treatment to a planar workpiece, has good cleaning capabilities, and avoids intimate contact of the planar workpiece with a rear member of the holding jig so that the planar workpiece can be easily detached from the holding jig after cleaning. A holding jig is used for applying a liquid bath treatment to a planar workpiece. The holding jig comprises a rear member, and a front member that faces the rear member and has an opening portion. The planar workpiece is disposed between the rear member and the front member, and the rear member has a plurality of projections formed on the surface of the rear member facing the front member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Matsuyama, Daisuke Hashimoto, Kazuyoshi Nishimoto, Tomoji Okuda
  • Patent number: 11427923
    Abstract: It is configured that a frame body is locked to a back panel by: inserting a number of first pins of the frame body into a number of first holes of the back panel; moving a fastening body outward by a moving mechanism of a lock mechanism; and fitting a notch into a concave portion at the tip of the first pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoji Okuda
  • Patent number: 11389818
    Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus for subjecting a workpiece immersed at least partly in a solution to a surface treatment has: a spray nozzle facing the workpiece for spraying a treatment solution towards a working surface of the workpiece. The surface treatment apparatus has at least one of: a spray nozzle rotator to rotate the spray nozzle in a plane parallel to the working surface of the workpiece; or a workpiece rotator to rotate the workpiece in a plane perpendicular to a spraying direction of the treatment solution sprayed from the spray nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoji Okuda, Daisuke Matsuyama, Shinji Tachibana, Masayuki Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20220119980
    Abstract: The workpiece holding jig includes a first frame body and a second frame body, both frame bodies each have a body, a conductive member, a contact member provided so as to be able to come into electrical contact with a periphery of a workpiece, and an inner circumferential seal member provided over an entire circumference of the body. Both frame bodies are configured to constitute a seal space for accommodating the periphery of the workpiece, the conductive member of both frame bodies, and the contact member of both frame bodies, in a state where each of the inner circumferential seal members and the contact member abut against the periphery of the workpiece from both sides. The inner circumferential seal member has a contact projection, and an inner surface of the contact projection is slanted outward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro MURAKOSHI, Tomoji OKUDA, Kazuyoshi NISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220098750
    Abstract: The workpiece holding jig includes a first frame body and a second frame body, both frame bodies each have a body, a conductive member, a contact member provided so as to be able to come into electrical contact with a periphery of a workpiece, and an inner circumferential seal member provided over an entire circumference of the body. Both frame bodies are configured to constitute a seal space for accommodating the periphery of the workpiece, the conductive member of both frame bodies, and the contact member of both frame bodies, in a state where each of the inner circumferential seal members and the contact member abut against the periphery of the workpiece from both sides. The conductive member of each of both frame bodies has a wide and thick shape so as to exhibit a substantially equal resistance value at a discretionary point in an entire circumference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro MURAKOSHI, Tomoji OKUDA, Kazuyoshi NISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220098751
    Abstract: The workpiece holding jig includes a first frame body and a second frame body. Both frame bodies have a body, a conductive member, a contact member provided so as to be able to come into electrical contact with a periphery of a workpiece, and an inner circumferential seal member provided over an entire circumference of the body. Both frame bodies are configured to constitute a seal space for accommodating the periphery of the workpiece, the conductive member of both frame bodies, and the contact member of both frame bodies, in a state where each of the inner circumferential seal members and the contact member abut against the periphery of the workpiece from both sides. The first frame body and/or the second frame body has a liquid inlet port for filling the seal space with a liquid, and has an exhaust port for exhausting air in the seal space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro MURAKOSHI, Tomoji OKUDA, Kazuyoshi NISHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11173513
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a surface treatment device and a paddle with improved strength and uniform plating thickness by uniformly stirring surface treatment solution near an object to be plated. Also, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a surface treatment method capable of stirring for a long period of time, by uniformizing plating thickness, and by improving a strength of a paddle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoji Okuda, Daisuke Matsuyama, Masayuki Kiso, Daisuke Hashimoto, Akira Okada, Keita Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20210102295
    Abstract: A surface treatment device includes at least one paddle in a plate shape, in a surface treatment tank, for stirring a surface treatment solution near an object to be plated by reciprocally moving the paddle with respect to the object to be plated. The paddle is configured by integrally forming multiple square bars provided in a depth direction or a horizontal direction of the surface treatment solution at regular intervals along the object to be plated. A liquid draining member for draining a liquid is arranged in at least one side of an end of the paddle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoji Okuda, Daisuke Matsuyama, Masayuki Kiso, Daisuke Hashimoto, Akira Okada, Keita Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20210102306
    Abstract: A holding apparatus for applying an electrolytic plating treatment to a planar workpiece, and the holding apparatus can reduce an amount of plating that is deposited on an edge part of the planar workpiece. The holding apparatus for applying the electrolytic plating treatment to the planar workpiece has a rear member and a front member facing the rear member and having an opening part. The planar workpiece is disposed between the rear member and the front member. The front member has a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of first insulating parts. The plurality of electrodes and the plurality of first insulating parts cover the edge part of the planar workpiece in a width direction of the planar workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Daisuke MATSUYAMA, Daisuke HASHIMOTO, Kazuyoshi NISHIMOTO, Tomoji OKUDA
  • Patent number: 10773280
    Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment apparatus including: an ultrasonic bath for performing an ultrasonic treatment on a treatment target object; a first ultrasonic vibrator provided on the front surface side of the treatment target object; and a second ultrasonic vibrator provided on the back surface side of the treatment target object; wherein the first ultrasonic vibrator does not face the second ultrasonic vibrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisamitsu Yamamoto, Masayuki Utsumi, Yoshikazu Saijo, Tomoji Okuda, Yutaka Nishinaka, Yoshinori Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20200276608
    Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus for subjecting a workpiece immersed at least partly in a solution to a surface treatment has: a spray nozzle facing the workpiece for spraying a treatment solution towards a working surface of the workpiece. The surface treatment apparatus has at least one of: a spray nozzle rotator to rotate the spray nozzle in a plane parallel to the working surface of the workpiece; or a workpiece rotator to rotate the workpiece in a plane perpendicular to a spraying direction of the treatment solution sprayed from the spray nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoji OKUDA, Daisuke MATSUYAMA, Shinji TACHIBANA, Masayuki UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20200248331
    Abstract: It is configured that a frame body is locked to a back panel by: inserting a number of first pins of the frame body into a number of first holes of the back panel; moving a fastening body outward by a moving mechanism of a lock mechanism; and fitting a notch into a concave portion at the tip of the first pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: Tomoji OKUDA
  • Publication number: 20200168499
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a holding jig that is used for applying a liquid bath treatment to a planar workpiece, has good cleaning capabilities, and avoids intimate contact of the planar workpiece with a rear member of the holding jig so that the planar workpiece can be easily detached from the holding jig after cleaning. A holding jig is used for applying a liquid bath treatment to a planar workpiece. The holding jig comprises a rear member, and a front member that faces the rear member and has an opening portion. The planar workpiece is disposed between the rear member and the front member, and the rear member has a plurality of projections formed on the surface of the rear member facing the front member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Daisuke MATSUYAMA, Daisuke HASHIMOTO, Kazuyoshi NISHIMOTO, Tomoji OKUDA
  • Publication number: 20200149180
    Abstract: A workpiece holding jig includes a back panel and a frame body, the frame body includes a main body having an annular shape, a conductive member provided all over the main body, a contact member provided along the conductive member, the contact member being electrically connected to the conductive member to come into electrical contact with a peripheral portion of the workpiece, and a seal member provided all over the main body and located on an inner side of the main body relative to the contact member, the frame body is adapted to form a sealed space that accommodates the peripheral portion of the workpiece, the conductive member, and the contact member in a state where the seal member and the contact member are in contact with the peripheral portion, and the frame body includes a liquid inlet through which a liquid is injected into the sealed space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi NISHIMOTO, Shinji TACHIBANA, Masahiro MURAKOSHI, Tomoji OKUDA
  • Patent number: 10477695
    Abstract: A drying apparatus of the present invention includes a drying tank for performing drying processing of a workpiece, a fixture for the workpiece, heating means opposed to a front surface of the workpiece, and heating means opposed to a back surface of the workpiece, wherein each heating means is inclined from a horizontal line in its longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: C. UYEMURA & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Utsumi, Tomoji Okuda, Yutaka Nishinaka, Daisuke Matsuyama
  • Publication number: 20190309435
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a surface treatment device and a paddle with improved strength and uniform plating thickness by uniformly stirring surface treatment solution near an object to be plated. Also, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a surface treatment method capable of stirring for a long period of time, by uniformizing plating thickness, and by improving a strength of a paddle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoji Okuda, Daisuke Matsuyama, Masayuki Kiso, Daisuke Hashimoto, Akira Okada, Keita Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20180133760
    Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment apparatus including: an ultrasonic bath for performing an ultrasonic treatment on a treatment target object; a first ultrasonic vibrator provided on the front surface side of the treatment target object; and a second ultrasonic vibrator provided on the back surface side of the treatment target object; wherein the first ultrasonic vibrator does not face the second ultrasonic vibrator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Hisamitsu YAMAMOTO, Masayuki UTSUMI, Yoshikazu SAIJO, Tomoji OKUDA, Yutaka NISHINAKA, Yoshinori NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20180110128
    Abstract: A drying apparatus of the present invention includes a drying tank for performing drying processing of a workpiece, a fixture for the workpiece, heating means opposed to a front surface of the workpiece, and heating means opposed to a back surface of the workpiece, wherein each heating means is inclined from a horizontal line in its longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Masayuki UTSUMI, Tomoji OKUDA, Yutaka NISHINAKA, Daisuke MATSUYAMA