Patents by Inventor Tomoya Oohiraki

Tomoya Oohiraki 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: 10607915
    Abstract: A joined body manufacturing method includes: a laminating step for forming a laminated body in which either a copper circuit substrate (first member) or a ceramic substrate (second member) is coated beforehand with a temporary fixing material the main ingredient of which is a saturated fatty acid, the copper circuit substrate and the ceramic substrate are stacked and positioned by the temporary fixing material which has been melted, and by cooling the temporary fixing material the stacked copper substrate and ceramic substrate are temporarily fixed; and a joining step for forming a joined body in which the copper circuit substrate and the ceramic substrate are joined by heating with pressurizing the laminated body in the stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Oohiraki, Sotaro Oi, Kimihito Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10453772
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-sink-attached power-module substrate, in which a metal layer and first layers are formed from aluminum sheets having a purity of 99.99 mass % or greater and a heat sink and second layers are formed from aluminum sheets having a purity lower than that of the metal layer and the first layers: when a thickness is t1 (mm), a joined-surface area is A1 (mm2), yield strength at 25° C. is ?11 (N/mm2), yield strength at 200° C. is ?12 (N/mm2) in the second layers; a thickness is t2 (mm), a joined-surface area is A2 (mm2), yield strength at 25° C. is ?21 (N/mm2), and yield strength at 200° C. is ?22 (N/mm2) in the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Oohiraki, Sotaro Oi
  • Patent number: 10211068
    Abstract: Preventing a deformation when a metal layer made of copper or copper alloy is brazed on an aluminum-made cooler, a power-module substrate with cooler having low thermal resistance and high bonding reliability is provided: a circuit layer made of copper or copper alloy is bonded on one surface of a ceramic board and a metal layer made of copper or copper alloy is bonded on the other surface of the ceramic board; a second metal layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy is bonded to the metal layer by solid-phase diffusion; and a cooler made of aluminum alloy is brazed on the second metal layer with Al-based Mg-included brazing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sotaro Oi, Tomoya Oohiraki, Takeshi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20180301391
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-sink-attached power-module substrate, in which a metal layer and first layers are formed from aluminum sheets having a purity of 99.99 mass % or greater and a heat sink and second layers are formed from aluminum sheets having a purity lower than that of the metal layer and the first layers: when a thickness is t1 (mm), a joined-surface area is A1 (mm2), yield strength at 25° C. is ?11 (N/mm2), yield strength at 200° C. is ?12 (N/mm2) in the second layers; a thickness is t2 (mm), a joined-surface area is A2 (mm2), yield strength at 25° C. is ?21 (N/mm2), and yield strength at 200° C. is ?22 (N/mm2) in the heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoya Oohiraki, Sotaro Oi
  • Patent number: 10068829
    Abstract: A power-module substrate unit having at least one power-module substrate including one ceramic substrate, a circuit layer formed on one surface of the ceramic substrate, and a metal layer formed on another surface of the ceramic substrate, and a heat sink on which the metal layer of the power-module substrate is bonded, in which the metal layer is made of an aluminum plate having purity of 99.99 mass % or higher; the heat sink is made of an aluminum plate having purity of 99.90 mass % or lower; and the circuit layer has a stacking structure of a first layer made of an aluminum plate having the purity of 99.99 mass % or higher and being bonded to the ceramic substrate and a second layer made of the aluminum plate having the purity lower than 99.90 mass % and being bonded on a surface of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sotaro Oi, Tomoya Oohiraki
  • Patent number: 10032648
    Abstract: A maximum length of a heat sink is set as “L” and a warp amount of the heat sink is set as “Z”; the warp amount “Z” is set as a positive value if a bonded surface of the heat sink to a metal layer is deformed to be concave or the warp amount “Z” is set as a negative value if the bonded surface is deformed to be convex; a ratio Z/L of the maximum length “L” and the warp amount “Z” measured at 25° C. is in a range not smaller than ?0.005 and not larger than 0.005, and the ratio Z/L is in the range not smaller than ?0.005 and not larger than 0.005 even when it is heated to 280° C. and then cooled to 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Oohiraki, Sotaro Oi
  • Patent number: 9837363
    Abstract: In a power-module substrate unit, a circuit layer is structured by a plurality of small circuit layers; a ceramic substrate layer is structured by at least one plate; the small circuit layers are formed to have a layered structure having a first aluminum layer bonded on one surface of the ceramic substrate layer and a first copper layer bonded on the first aluminum layer by solid diffusion; a radiation plate is made of copper or copper alloy; the metal layer and the radiation plate are bonded by solid diffusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sotaro Oi, Tomoya Oohiraki
  • Publication number: 20170309499
    Abstract: Preventing a deformation when a metal layer made of copper or copper alloy is brazed on an aluminum-made cooler, a power-module substrate with cooler having low thermal resistance and high bonding reliability is provided: a circuit layer made of copper or copper alloy is bonded on one surface of a ceramic board and a metal layer made of copper or copper alloy is bonded on the other surface of the ceramic board; a second metal layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy is bonded to the metal layer by solid-phase diffusion; and a cooler made of aluminum alloy is brazed on the second metal layer with Al-based Mg-included brazing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sotaro Oi, Tomoya Oohiraki, Takeshi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20170229320
    Abstract: To prevent braze stain and improve solder bondability of a semiconductor chip without deteriorating bondability between a metal plate and a ceramic substrate: a producing method of a power-module substrate by braze-bonding a metal plate which is blanked by press working on a metal raw-plate on one surface of a ceramic substrate: in the metal plate, a height of burrs is 0.021 mm or smaller, a thickness of a fracture surface is 0.068 mm or larger; the metal plate is stacked on the ceramic substrate so as to stack a surface thereof on a side at which the burrs are generated is in contact with the one surface of the ceramic substrate and brazed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoya Oohiraki, Sotaro Oi
  • Publication number: 20170154855
    Abstract: In a power-module substrate unit, a circuit layer is structured by a plurality of small circuit layers; a ceramic substrate layer is structured by at least one plate; the small circuit layers are formed to have a layered structure having a first aluminum layer bonded on one surface of the ceramic substrate layer and a first copper layer bonded on the first aluminum layer by solid diffusion; a radiation plate is made of copper or copper alloy; the metal layer and the radiation plate are bonded by solid diffusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Sotaro OI, Tomoya OOHIRAKI
  • Publication number: 20170141011
    Abstract: A joined body manufacturing method includes: a laminating step for forming a laminated body in which either a copper circuit substrate (first member) or a ceramic substrate (second member) is coated beforehand with a temporary fixing material the main ingredient of which is a saturated fatty acid, the copper circuit substrate and the ceramic substrate are stacked and positioned by the temporary fixing material which has been melted, and by cooling the temporary fixing material the stacked copper substrate and ceramic substrate are temporarily fixed; and a joining step for forming a joined body in which the copper circuit substrate and the ceramic substrate are joined by heating with pressurizing the laminated body in the stacking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoya Oohiraki, Sotaro Oi, Kimihito Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 9579739
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing power-module substrates, after bonding copper-circuit plates 30 at intervals on a ceramic plate 21 having an area in which ceramic substrates can be formed abreast, by dividing the ceramic plate 21 between the copper-circuit plates 30, in which: bonding-material layers 71 of active-metal brazing material having same shapes as outer shapes of the copper-circuit plates 30 are formed on the ceramic plate 21; temporal-stick material 72 including polyethylene glycol as a major ingredient is spread on the copper-circuit plates 30, the bonding-material layers 71 and the copper-circuit plates 30 are temporarily fixed on the ceramic plate 21 in a state of laminating with positioning by the temporal-stick material 72; and a laminated assembly thereof is pressurized in a laminating direction and heated, so that the ceramic plate and the copper-circuit plates are bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Oohiraki, Sotaro Oi, Kimihito Nishikawa, Hiromasa Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20170053852
    Abstract: A power-module substrate unit having at least one power-module substrate including one ceramic substrate, a circuit layer formed on one surface of the ceramic substrate, and a metal layer formed on another surface of the ceramic substrate, and a heat sink on which the metal layer of the power-module substrate is bonded, in which the metal layer is made of an aluminum plate having purity of 99.99 mass % or higher; the heat sink is made of an aluminum plate having purity of 99.90 mass % or lower; and the circuit layer has a stacking structure of a first layer made of an aluminum plate having the purity of 99.99 mass % or higher and being bonded to the ceramic substrate and a second layer made of the aluminum plate having the purity lower than 99.90 mass % and being bonded on a surface of the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Sotaro Oi, Tomoya Oohiraki
  • Publication number: 20160254209
    Abstract: A maximum length of a heat sink is set as “L” and a warp amount of the heat sink is set as “Z”; the warp amount “Z” is set as a positive value if a bonded surface of the heat sink to a metal layer is deformed to be concave or the warp amount “Z” is set as a negative value if the bonded surface is deformed to be convex; a ratio Z/L of the maximum length “L” and the warp amount “Z” measured at 25° C. is in a range not smaller than ?0.005 and not larger than 0.005, and the ratio Z/L is in the range not smaller than ?0.005 and not larger than 0.005 even when it is heated to 280° C. and then cooled to 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoya Oohiraki, Sotaro Oi
  • Publication number: 20160001388
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing power-module substrates, after bonding copper-circuit plates 30 at intervals on a ceramic plate 21 having an area in which ceramic substrates can be formed abreast, by dividing the ceramic plate 21 between the copper-circuit plates 30, in which: bonding-material layers 71 of active-metal brazing material having same shapes as outer shapes of the copper-circuit plates 30 are formed on the ceramic plate 21; temporal-stick material 72 including polyethylene glycol as a major ingredient is spread on the copper-circuit plates 30, the bonding-material layers 71 and the copper-circuit plates 30 are temporarily fixed on the ceramic plate 21 in a state of laminating with positioning by the temporal-stick material 72; and a laminated assembly thereof is pressurized in a laminating direction and heated, so that the ceramic plate and the copper-circuit plates are bonded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoya Oohiraki, Sotaro Oi, Kimihito Nishikawa, Hiromasa Hayashi