Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Shintate

Tsuyoshi Shintate 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: 20080104832
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electronic substrate including an electronic component bonded with adhesive to a base part, comprises (a) applying a droplet containing the adhesive to an area on the base part, the area facing to the electronic component, within a range substantially equal to a size of the electronic component by using a droplet ejection head moving in relatively to the base part, and (b) mounting the electronic component on the adhesive applied to the base part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi SHINTATE
  • Patent number: 7316974
    Abstract: A wiring pattern formation method in which a wiring pattern is formed by arranging, in a region which is demarcated by a partition wall, liquid material which includes an electrically conductive material, including: arranging a resin material around the periphery of a region upon which the wiring pattern is to be formed; imparting liquid affinity to a demarcated region which has been demarcated by the resin material; narrowing down the demarcated region by flowing out the resin material towards and into the demarcated region; and forming the partition wall by curing the resin material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Uehara, Tsuyoshi Shintate, Kazuaki Sakurada
  • Patent number: 7250377
    Abstract: There is provided a multi-layered structure forming method comprising: (A) forming a first insulating material layer containing a first photo-curing material on a substrate; (B) semi-hardening the first insulating material layer by radiating light having a first wavelength to the first insulating material layer; (C) forming a conductive material layer on the semi-hardened first insulating material layer by ejecting droplets of a conductive material to the semi-hardened first insulating material layer from a nozzle of a liquid droplet ejecting apparatus; (D) forming a second insulating material layer containing a second photo-curing material so as to cover the semi-hardened first insulating material layer and the conductive material layer; and (E) forming a first insulating layer, a conductive layer positioned on the first insulating material, and a second insulating layer covering the first insulating layer and the conductive layer by simultaneously heating the first insulating material layer, the conductive
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shintate, Toshiaki Mikoshiba, Kenji Wada, Kazuaki Sakurada, Jun Yamada
  • Publication number: 20070141828
    Abstract: There is provided a multi-layered structure forming method comprising: (A) forming a first insulating material layer containing a first photo-curing material on a substrate; (B) semi-hardening the first insulating material layer by radiating light having a first wavelength to the first insulating material layer; (C) forming a conductive material layer on the semi-hardened first insulating material layer by ejecting droplets of a conductive material to the semi-hardened first insulating material layer from a nozzle of a liquid droplet ejecting apparatus; (D) forming a second insulating material layer containing a second photo-curing material so as to cover the semi-hardened first insulating material layer and the conductive material layer; and (E) forming a first insulating layer, a conductive layer positioned on the first insulating material, and a second insulating layer covering the first insulating layer and the conductive layer by simultaneously heating the first insulating material layer, the conductive
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shintate, Toshiaki Mikoshiba, Kenji Wada, Kazuaki Sakurada, Jun Yamada
  • Publication number: 20070057992
    Abstract: In a method for forming a layer using a droplet discharging device that discharges droplets from a plurality of nozzles while relatively moving a surface in a first direction with respect to a head including the plurality of nozzles, the method for forming a layer comprises: a) respectively arranging a first droplet on each of two reference regions on the surface and providing two separate patterns corresponding to the two reference regions; b) fixing the two patterns; c) making the surface lyophilic after fixing the two patterns; and d) arranging a second droplet between the two reference regions and connecting the two patterns after making the surface lyophilic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SHINTATE, Koichi MIZUGAKI, Jun YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20070046718
    Abstract: A method for forming a layer comprises (a) disposing a first droplet to two parts on an underlayer surface so as to form two dot patterns isolated each other on the underlayer surface, (b) fixing the two dot patterns to the underlayer surface, (c) giving lyophilicity with respect to a second droplet to at least the underlayer surface between the two dot patterns, and (d) disposing the second droplet to the underlayer surface between the two dot patterns so as to join the two dot patterns after the step (c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SHINTATE, Koichi MIZUGAKI, Kazuaki SAKURADA, Kenji WADA
  • Publication number: 20060292769
    Abstract: A multilayered structure forming method includes disposing a dummy post on a first insulating pattern as a first inkjet process, disposing a second insulating pattern on the first insulating pattern as a second inkjet process so as to allow the second insulating pattern to surround a side surface of the dummy post, and disposing a first conductive pattern on the second insulating pattern a third inkjet process so as to connect the first conductive pattern to the dummy post. In this method, the first inkjet process includes a process for ejecting a functional liquid containing a first conductive material having high adhesiveness to the first conductive pattern onto the first insulating pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Wada, Tsuyoshi Shintate
  • Publication number: 20060127567
    Abstract: A wiring pattern formation method in which a wiring pattern is formed by arranging, in a region which is demarcated by a partition wall, liquid material which includes an electrically conductive material, including: arranging a resin material around the periphery of a region upon which the wiring pattern is to be formed; imparting liquid affinity to a demarcated region which has been demarcated by the resin material; narrowing down the demarcated region by flowing out the resin material towards and into the demarcated region; and forming the partition wall by curing the resin material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Noboru Uehara, Tsuyoshi Shintate, Kazuaki Sakurada
  • Publication number: 20060087545
    Abstract: A pattern forming system including a feeding reel for feeding a tape form substrate that is wound up, a winding reel for winding up the tape form substrate that is fed up, and a droplet discharge apparatus for discharging a droplet onto the tape form substrate, between the feeding reel and the winding reel, to form a pattern, wherein the droplet discharge apparatus includes a table that can move while sucking the tape form substrate, with a slack mechanism for the tape form substrate being placed on the both ends of the table in the longitudinal direction of the tape form substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sakurada, Noboru Uehara, Tsuyoshi Shintate
  • Publication number: 20060065955
    Abstract: A method for forming a wiring pattern in which a plurality of electrical wirings deposited onto a substrate is conductively connected with each other through a plurality of conductive posts, the method including relatively moving a discharge head having a plurality of nozzles and a substrate in a predetermined direction while discharging droplets from predetermined nozzles among the plural nozzles to form the plural conductive posts, wherein, in the orthogonal direction of the above-referenced predetermined direction, the interval among the plural nozzles “a” and the interval among the plural conductive posts “b” satisfy an equation “b=m×a” (“m” may be any positive integer).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sakurada, Noboru Uehara, Tsuyoshi Shintate
  • Publication number: 20060068525
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wiring substrate having a wiring layer formation step that includes: a first surface processing step in which surface processing is performed on a film formation area of a substrate; a wiring formation step in which a wiring pattern is formed by placing a first liquid material on the film formation area; a second surface processing step in which surface processing is once again performed on the film formation area; and an insulating film formation step in which an insulating film is formed by placing a second liquid material in gaps in the wiring pattern, wherein an affinity between the second liquid material and the film formation area in the insulating film formation step is greater than an affinity between the first liquid material and the film formation area in the wiring formation step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Noboru Uehara, Tsuyoshi Shintate, Kazuaki Sakurada
  • Publication number: 20060068616
    Abstract: In a method of forming a wiring pattern, a plurality of electrical wirings deposited to be multilayered are conductively connected to one another through a conducting post. The method has forming the electrical wiring by discharging a first droplet including a material for forming the electrical wiring, and forming the conducting post by discharging a second droplet including a material for forming the conducting post, wherein a volume of the second droplet is greater than a volume of the first droplet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shintate, Kazuaki Sakurada, Noboru Uehara
  • Publication number: 20060068573
    Abstract: A droplet discharge apparatus is used in a multilayer structure forming method of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shintate, Kazuaki Sakurada, Jun Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060060944
    Abstract: A method for forming a multi-layered structure using a droplet-discharging device; the method comprises: (A) forming a first insulating-material layer covering the material-body surface by discharging a droplet of a first insulating material including a first photosensitive resin to a material-body surface; (B) obtaining a first insulating layer by curing in the first insulating-material layer; (C) forming a pattern of an electric conductive material layer on the first insulating layer by discharging a droplet of an electric conductive material to the first insulating layer; and (D) forming a wiring pattern on the first insulating layer by activating the pattern of the electric conductive material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shintate, Kazuaki Sakurada, Jun Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060040489
    Abstract: There is provided a multi-layered structure forming method comprising: (A) forming a first insulating material layer containing a first photo-curing material on a substrate; (B) semi-hardening the first insulating material layer by radiating light having a first wavelength to the first insulating material layer; (C) forming a conductive material layer on the semi-hardened first insulating material layer by ejecting droplets of a conductive material to the semi-hardened first insulating material layer from a nozzle of a liquid droplet ejecting apparatus; (D) forming a second insulating material layer containing a second photo-curing material so as to cover the semi-hardened first insulating material layer and the conductive material layer; and (E) forming a first insulating layer, a conductive layer positioned on the first insulating material, and a second insulating layer covering the first insulating layer and the conductive layer by simultaneously heating the first insulating material layer, the conductive
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shintate, Toshiaki Mikoshiba, Kenji Wada, Kazuaki Sakurada, Jun Yamada
  • Publication number: 20050208433
    Abstract: A pattern forming method includes the step of forming a partition wall, at least a portion of a boundary betweeen a pattern formation area and other areas, by coating droplets usng a droplet discharge method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sakurada, Tsuyoshi Shintate, Toyotaro Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20050200684
    Abstract: A pattern formation method, a pattern formation system, and an electronic device are proposed, with which manufacture of a wiring pattern or an electronic circuit or the like can be accomplished at good efficiency and in high volume. A pattern is formed upon a reel to reel substrate, which is a tape shaped substrate, and of which the end portions are wound up upon a first reel and a second reel, by using, at least, a liquid drop ejection method in which a mass of liquid material is applied by being ejected in the form of liquid drops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sakurada, Tsuyoshi Shintate, Noboru Uehara