Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Takenaka

Toshiaki Takenaka 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: 20090178839
    Abstract: Through hole (3) for product, through holes (7a, 7b) for laminate recognition marks, through holes (8a, 8b) for an X-ray recognition marks are formed on prepreg sheet (1) having mold release films (2a, 2b) attached to the front and back surfaces thereof. By masking through holes (7a, 7b) for laminate recognition mark, conductive paste (4) is filled in through hole (3) for product and through holes (8a, 8b) for X-ray recognition marks. Thereafter, mold release films (2a, 2b) are removed so as to manufacture a circuit board. Since conductive paste (4) is not filled in through holes (7a, 7b) for laminate recognition marks, a recognition mark with high laminating accuracy can be easily obtained, and a high density and high quality circuit formation substrate having improved laminating accuracy can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Yukihiro Hiraishi, Takao Okamoto, Masaya Mada
  • Publication number: 20090114338
    Abstract: An intermediate material which is adapted to manufacture a circuit board includes a prepreg sheet having a through-hole provided therein, a first film provided on a surface of the prepreg sheet and having a first hole communicating with the through-hole, a second film provided on another surface of the prepreg sheet and having a second hole communicating with the through-hole, and a conductive paste filling the though-hole, the first hole, and the second hole. The thickness t1 of the prepreg sheet, the minimum diameter rmin of the through-hole, the thickness tf1 of the first film, the diameter rf1 of the first hole, the thickness tf2 of the second film, the diameter rf2 of the second hole satisfy a relation: rf1/tf1?3, rf2/tf2?3, and rmin/(t1+tf1+tf2)?1.5. This intermediate material provides a circuit board having a fine via-conductor connected to a metal foil securely and stably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawakita, Toshiaki Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20080251193
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multi-layer circuit board having the following steps: preparing a laminated member formed of a core circuit board having a circuit pattern thereon and a prepreg sheet having a through-hole filled with conductive paste; forming a laminated structure in a manner that the laminated member is sandwiched by lamination plates; and applying heat and pressure to the laminated structure. According to the method, selecting a lamination plate so as to have thermal expansion coefficient equivalent to that of a core circuit board can protect conductive paste from distortion, thereby offering a high-quality multi-layer circuit board with reliable connection resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Yoshihiro Kawakita, Tadashi Tojyo, Yuichiro Sugita
  • Patent number: 7281325
    Abstract: A pre-preg sheet includes a substrate and a resin impregnated in the substrate. A first metal foil is placed on the pre-preg sheet to provide a laminated body. The laminated body is put in a heating device having a temperature maintained at a temperature close to a softening temperature of the resin. The laminated body is compressed at the temperature at a predetermined pressure. The first metal foil is bonded to the pre-preg sheet of the laminated body and hardening the resin, thus providing a circuit board. This method provides a stable resistance of a conductive paste filing a through-hole in the pre-preg sheet to be compressed at a small rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawakita, Toshiaki Takenaka, Tadashi Tojyo
  • Publication number: 20070107931
    Abstract: After disposing metallic foils on either surface of a prepreg sheet of low compressibility having conducting holes filled with conductive paste, the prepreg sheet is compressed in a state of being kept at a relatively low temperature, and after that, the temperature is raised under pressure to melt and harden the resin in the prepreg sheet, and thereby, the connecting resistance is stabilized, and a high-quality circuit board can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Yoshihiro Kawakita, Tadashi Tojo, Kiyohide Tatsumi
  • Patent number: 7181839
    Abstract: After disposing metallic foils on either surface of a prepreg sheet of low compressibility having conducting holes filled with conductive paste, the prepreg sheet is compressed in a state of being kept at a relatively low temperature, and after that, the temperature is raised under pressure to melt and harden the resin in the prepreg sheet, and thereby, the connecting resistance is stabilized, and a high-quality circuit board can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Yoshihiro Kawakita, Tadashi Tojo, Kiyohide Tatsumi
  • Patent number: 7143772
    Abstract: It is possible to obtain a clean high-quality circuit board by removing affected material and foreign matter produced when a hole is formed. A manufacturing method of the circuit board includes (a) preparing a film-coated board material by bonding a film material as a mask to a board material, (b) forming a hole in the film-coated board material by applying a laser beam thereto, and (c) selectively removing the unnecessary material sticking to the film-coated board material from the film-coated board material by supersonic cleaning without peeling the film material off the board material. Unnecessary material such as foreign matter is produced when the hole is formed, and the unnecessary material sticks to the board material. After removal of such unnecessary material, a conductive material is disposed in the hole, using the film material as a mask, and the film material is later removed from the board material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Kishimoto, Toshihiro Nishii, Toshiaki Takenaka, Shinji Nakamura, Akihiro Miura
  • Patent number: 7105277
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a printing plate capable of preventing paste of high viscosity adhering to an edge of a squeegee from being transferred to and left on a through hole of a printed circuit board when the paste is being filled by a squeegeeing method. The printing plate has a metal sheet (3) provided with a squeegee cleaning section (7) formed thereon and fixed to the back surface of a slanting area (5) of mask (2) attached to a plate framework (1). The through hole of the printed circuit board is filled with paste only after paste of high viscosity adhering to the edge of the squeegee is removed by the squeegee cleaning section (7), to prevent the paste from being left on the through hole, and thereby achieving the printed circuit board of excellent quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Toshihiro Nishii, Hideaki Komoda, Toshikazu Kondo, Shinji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7066344
    Abstract: A mask film includes a base material, a parting layer and a non-parting portion placed on the base material. Accordingly, an optimum adhesion strength of the mask film and a prepreg sheet can be maintained, and peeling between the mask film and prepreg sheet can be prevented. Further, by preventing the fusing adhesion between the mask film and prepreg sheet due to heat generated when forming penetration holes, a circuit board having an excellent quality is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Toshikazu Kondo, Kunio Kishimoto, Shinji Nakamura, Fumio Echigo
  • Publication number: 20060115583
    Abstract: A mask film, where squeegee cleaning part has been formed at a predetermined position, and another mask film are attached to both sides of a substrate. A through-hole formed by using a laser, and conductive paste is filled into the through-hole by using a squeezing method. As discussed above, a paste-residue can be prevented on the through-hole, so that a circuit board having high quality of connection can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Toshikazu Kondou, Yukihiro Hiraishi, Kunio Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20060064871
    Abstract: A pre-preg sheet including a substrate and a resin impregnated in the substrate is provided. A first metal foil is placed on the pre-preg sheet to provide a laminated body. The laminated body is put in a heating device having a temperature maintained at a temperature close to a softening temperature of the resin. The laminated body is compressed at the temperature at a predetermined pressure. The first metal foil is bonded to the pre-preg sheet of the laminated body and hardening the resin, thus providing a circuit board. This method provides a stable resistance of a conductive paste filling a through-hole in the pre-preg sheet to be compressed at a small rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawakita, Toshiaki Takenaka, Tadashi Tojyo
  • Patent number: 7018672
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing multi-layer circuit board comprising: a hole forming step for forming through-holes or blind-holes in a plate-form or sheet-form board material, and a filling step for filling a paste into through-holes or blind-holes formed in the hole forming step by using a filling means. A second paste is supplied to the paste in the filling process by using a paste supplying means to stabilized a viscosity of the paste and the paste is reliably filled into the through-holes or the blind-holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Matushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Toshihiro Nishii, Yuichiro Sugita, Shinji Nakamura, Hideaki Komoda, Toshikazu Kondo
  • Patent number: 6993836
    Abstract: A circuit board having stable connection resistance can be obtained. The multi-layer circuit board includes the steps of making through-holes in a incompressible substrate having films on either side thereof via a bonding layer; filling conductive paste into the through-holes; removing the films from the substrate; laminating metallic foils to either side of the substrate and heating same under pressures to harden the bonding layer, bonding the metallic foils to the substrate and electrically connecting the sides of the substrate to each other; and forming a circuit pattern by machining the metallic foils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Toshihiro Nishii, Shigeru Yamane, Shinji Nakamura, Hideaki Komoda, Kunio Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20050172483
    Abstract: It is intended to reliably form high-quality via-hole conductor with less variation, and to realize a circuit forming board having excellent connection reliability. It provides a conductive paste comprising primary particles and agglomerate of primary particles, conductive particles of 0.5 to 20 ?m in average particle diameter and 0.07 to 1.7 m2/g in specific surface area, and a binder based on thermosetting resin, and also provides an inexpensive circuit forming board with high connection reliability by using the paste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Yuichiro Sugita, Toshiaki Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20050144780
    Abstract: A highly reliable and productive manufacturing method of boards and a manufacturing apparatus are provided. The manufacturing apparatus includes heater-punches (4a) and (4b) disposed above and under pressuring holes (24) provided on positioning stage (6) which positions and laminates board materials. The apparatus also includes a supplying and discharging means of a mold-releasing sheet, and the means is formed of supply reel (22), take-up reel (23), and guide rolls (25a) and (25b). The sheet is supplied and discharged passing between heater-punches (4a) placed above pressuring holes (24) and heater-punches (4b) placed under pressuring holes (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Kunio Hishimoto, Toshiaki Takenaka, Yukihiro Hiraishi
  • Patent number: 6893530
    Abstract: A method and system of cleaning to remove cutting dust and the like generated and adhering to a board material (1a) during drilling for electrical connection, and drying the board material, in a process of manufacturing a circuit board for small electronic equipment and the like. A large amount of board materials can be treated without receiving thermal damage by performing the steps of: placing sheets of the board material that have absorbed moisture resulting from cleaning, like a stack in a vacuum chamber (11); and drying the board material by repeating evacuation and pressurization under predetermined conditions while heating the board material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Kishimoto, Toshihiro Nishii, Toshiaki Takenaka, Shinji Nakamura, Akihiro Miura
  • Patent number: 6890449
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a PCB comprising the steps of: forming through-holes in a substrate having releasing layers on front and back faces; filling conductive paste in the through-holes; removing the releasing layers and disposing metal foil on both faces of the substrate; and heat pressing them. A diameter of the through-holes is larger than that of corresponding holes formed on the releasing layers. According to the present invention, when the conductive paste is compressed, conductive paste protruding from the surface of the substrate is trapped at the edges of the through-holes. This configuration prevents short circuits with undesirable wiring patterns. So, an enough amount of the conductive paste can protrude from the surface of the substrate. Therefore, after the compression, stable electric connections inside the conductive paste and between the conductive paste and the metal foils are ensured, thus PCBs with superior reliability can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Kawamoto, Shigeru Yamane, Toshiaki Takenaka, Toshihiro Nishii
  • Publication number: 20050006139
    Abstract: After disposing metallic foils on either surface of a prepreg sheet of low compressibility having conducting holes filled with conductive paste, the prepreg sheet is compressed in a state of being kept at a relatively low temperature, and after that, the temperature is raised under pressure to melt and harden the resin in the prepreg sheet, and thereby, the connecting resistance is stabilized, and a high-quality circuit board can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Yoshihiro Kawakita, Tadashi Tojo, Kiyohide Tatsumi
  • Publication number: 20040248041
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a printing plate capable of preventing paste of high viscosity adhering to an edge of a squeegee from being transferred to and left on a through hole of a printed circuit board when the paste is being filled by a squeegeeing method. The printing plate has a metal sheet (3) provided with a squeegee cleaning section (7) formed thereon and fixed to the back surface of a slanting area (5) of mask (2) attached to a plate framework (1). The through hole of the printed circuit board is filled with paste only after paste of high viscosity adhering to the edge of the squeegee is removed by the squeegee cleaning section (7), to prevent the paste from being left on the through hole, and thereby achieving the printed circuit board of excellent quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takenaka, Toshihiro Nishii, Hideaki Komoda, Toshikazu Kondo, Shinji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6820331
    Abstract: It is possible to obtain a clean high-quality circuit board by removing affected material and foreign matter produced when a hole is formed. A manufacturing method of the circuit board includes (a) preparing a film-coated board material by bonding a film material as a mask to a board material, (b) forming a hole in the film-coated board material by applying a laser beam thereto, and (c) selectively removing the unnecessary material sticking to the film-coated board material from the film-coated board material by supersonic cleaning without peeling the film material off the board material. Unnecessary material such as foreign matter is produced when the hole is formed, and the unnecessary material sticks to the board material. After removal of such unnecessary material, a conductive material is disposed in the hole, using the film material as a mask, and the film material is later removed from the board material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Kishimoto, Toshihiro Nishii, Toshiaki Takenaka, Shinji Nakamura, Akihiro Miura