Patents by Inventor Toshio Kurosawa

Toshio Kurosawa 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: 9578739
    Abstract: Metal foil provided with an electrically resistive layer, characterized in that an alloy (in particular, a NiCrAlSi alloy) resistive layer containing 1 to 6 mass % of Si is formed on the metal foil controlled to have a ten-point average roughness Rz, which was measured by an optical method, of 4.0 to 6.0 ?m, and the variation in the resistance value of the electrically resistive layer is within ±10%. Provided is a copper foil that allows embedding of a resistive material in a board by further forming an electrically resistive layer on the copper foil, and further allows improving the adhesiveness and suppressing the variation in resistance value within a certain range. As needed, metal foil provided in advance with a copper-zinc alloy layer formed on the surface thereof and a stabilizing layer composed of at least one component selected from zinc oxide, chromium oxide, and nickel oxide formed on the copper-zinc alloy layer is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 9099229
    Abstract: The present invention provides a metal foil provided with an electrical resistance layer, in which peeling between the metal foil and the electrical resistance layer disposed on the metal foil can be prevented and variation in the resistivity of the resistance layer can be reduced, and a method of manufacturing the same. The present invention includes a metal foil with an electrical resistance layer including a metal foil having a surface of a ten-point mean roughness Rz, which is measured by an optical method according to 1 ?m or less and the surface being treated by irradiation with ion beams at an ion beam intensity of 0.70-2.10 sec·W/cm2 and an electrical resistance layer disposed on the surface of the metal foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 8749342
    Abstract: A copper foil with an electric resistance film in which a film with higher electrical resistivity than the metal foil is provided on the metal foil, wherein a plurality of electric resistance films with different electric resistance is arranged in parallel on the same metal foil. With conventionally used built-in resistor elements, one resistor element is configured of one type of substance on the copper foil. Nevertheless, when actually mounting the resistor elements, the circuit design tolerance can be increased and the number of man-hours can be reduced with two resistor elements and further with a plurality of resistor elements compared to a case with one resistor element. This invention aims to provide a metal foil with a built-in resistor element comprising two or more types of resistor elements on one metal foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Ohsaka, Toshio Kurosawa, Takashi Natsume
  • Publication number: 20140041910
    Abstract: Metal foil provided with an electrically resistive layer, characterized in that an alloy (in particular, a NiCrAlSi alloy) resistive layer containing 1 to 6 mass % of Si is formed on the metal foil controlled to have a ten-point average roughness Rz, which was measured by an optical method, of 4.0 to 6.0 ?m, and the variation in the resistance value of the electrically resistive layer is within ±10%. Provided is a copper foil that allows embedding of a resistive material in a board by further forming an electrically resistive layer on the copper foil, and further allows improving the adhesiveness and suppressing the variation in resistance value within a certain range. As needed, metal foil provided in advance with a copper-zinc alloy layer formed on the surface thereof and a stabilizing layer composed of at least one component selected from zinc oxide, chromium oxide, and nickel oxide formed on the copper-zinc alloy layer is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshio Kurosawa
  • Publication number: 20140015635
    Abstract: The present invention provides a metal foil provided with an electrical resistance layer, in which peeling between the metal foil and the electrical resistance layer disposed on the metal foil can be prevented and variation in the resistivity of the resistance layer can be reduced, and a method of manufacturing the same. The present invention includes a metal foil with an electrical resistance layer including a metal foil having a surface of a ten-point mean roughness Rz, which is measured by an optical method according to 1 ?m or less and the surface being treated by irradiation with ion beams at an ion beam intensity of 0.70-2.10 sec·W/cm2 and an electrical resistance layer disposed on the surface of the metal foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Kurosawa
  • Publication number: 20140014498
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a metal foil with an electric resistance layer which can stably obtain electric characteristics of a resistive element, suppress peeling between the metal foil and the electric resistance layer disposed on the metal foil, and realize a high sheet resistance value and the method includes forming an electric resistance layer on a metal foil having a 10-point average roughness Rz, which is measured by the optical method according to 1 ?m or less and whose surface is treated by irradiation with ion beams at an ion beam intensity of 0.70 to 2.10 sec·W/cm2 by vapor deposition while applying oxygen as an atmospheric gas using a sputtering target containing nickel, chromium, and silicon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Kurosawa
  • Publication number: 20130344322
    Abstract: Provided are: a metal foil provided with an electrically resistive film comprising nickel, chromium, silicon and oxygen; the metal foil provided with an electrically resistive film having an oxygen concentration of 20 to 60 at %; the metal foil provided with an electrically resistive film having chromium (Cr) and silicon (Si) concentrations (at %) satisfying that Cr/(Cr+Si)×100 [%] is 73 to 79%; and the metal foil provided with an electrically resistive film having a nickel (Ni) concentration of 2 to 10 at %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Kurosawa
  • Publication number: 20120094114
    Abstract: A metal foil comprising an electric resistance film in which the metal foil is made of copper or copper alloy, the surface roughness of at least one surface thereof is set to a 10-point average roughness Rz of 6.0 ?m to 8.0 ?m, and an electric resistance film is formed on that surface, wherein the peel strength of the electric resistance film is 0.60 kN/m or more, and variation of the resistance value of the electric resistance film is ±10% or less. Provided is a copper foil with an electric resistance film in which an electric resistance film is formed on the copper foil to enable the resistor to be built into the substrate, the adhesiveness thereof to a resin substrate is ensured, and variation of the resistance value of the electric resistance film is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshio Kurosawa
  • Publication number: 20110236714
    Abstract: A copper foil with an electric resistance film in which a film with higher electrical resistivity than the metal foil is provided on the metal foil, wherein a plurality of electric resistance films with different electric resistance is arranged in parallel on the same metal foil. With conventionally used built-in resistor elements, one resistor element is configured of one type of substance on the copper foil. Nevertheless, when actually mounting the resistor elements, the circuit design tolerance can be increased and the number of man-hours can be reduced with two resistor elements and further with a plurality of resistor elements compared to a case with one resistor element. This invention aims to provide a metal foil with a built-in resistor element comprising two or more types of resistor elements on one metal foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeo Ohsaka, Toshio Kurosawa, Takashi Natsume