Patents by Inventor Yasuaki Tominaga

Yasuaki Tominaga 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: 8434229
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head manufacturing method includes, in the following order, preparing a substrate having a flow path mold; arranging a first layer serving as a flow path wall member so as to cover the flow path mold; curing a portion of the first layer serving as a flow path sidewall; arranging a second layer so as to cover the cured portion of the first layer and the flow path mold; planarizing the second layer by pressing the second layer toward the substrate; arranging the ejection port in the first layer and the second layer; and forming the flow path by removing the flow path mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiko Okano, Yasuaki Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20120124835
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejection head manufacturing method including step A of preparing a substrate having the flow path mold; step B of arranging a first layer serving as the flow path wall member so as to cover the flow path mold; step C of curing a portion serving as a flow path sidewall of the first layer; step D of arranging a second layer so as to cover the cured portion of the first layer and the flow path mold; step E of planarizing the second layer by pressing the second layer toward the substrate side; step F of arranging the ejection port in the first layer and the second layer; and step G of forming the flow path by removing the flow path mold in this order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Okano, Yasuaki Tominaga
  • Patent number: 8097118
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head having an ejection port-forming member in which an ejection port configured to eject liquid is formed, includes the steps of preparing a substrate including a base substrate; a first layer composed of a resin composition not containing a polymerization initiator but containing a compound that can be polymerized by irradiation with active energy rays under the presence of the polymerization initiator; and a second layer composed of an active energy ray-curable resin composition containing the polymerization initiator; pressing a mold, on which a pattern of the ejection port has been formed, against the first layer and the second layer; irradiating the second layer with the active energy rays while the mold is being pressed against the first layer and the second layer; bonding the second layer to another supporting substrate; and detaching the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuaki Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20100255424
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head including a flow path forming member connected to a discharge port on or above a substrate, the method including: providing a layer containing a photosensitive resin on or above the substrate; providing a mask layer that enables reduction of transmission of light with a photosensitive wavelength of the photosensitive resin, at an area on the layer containing the photosensitive resin, the area corresponding to the flow path; performing exposure for the layer containing the photosensitive resin using the mask layer to make the layer containing the photosensitive resin be a pattern having the shape of the flow path; providing a layer that becomes the flow path forming member, so as to cover the pattern; forming the discharge port at a part of the layer that becomes the flow path forming member; and forming the flow path by removing the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoji Shiba, Kazunari Ishizuka, Yasuaki Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20100154985
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head having an ejection port-forming member in which an ejection port configured to eject liquid is formed, includes the steps of preparing a substrate including a base substrate; a first layer composed of a resin composition not containing a polymerization initiator but containing a compound that can be polymerized by irradiation with active energy rays under the presence of the polymerization initiator; and a second layer composed of an active energy ray-curable resin composition containing the polymerization initiator; pressing a mold, on which a pattern of the ejection port has been formed, against the first layer and the second layer; irradiating the second layer with the active energy rays while the mold is being pressed against the first layer and the second layer; bonding the second layer to another supporting substrate; and detaching the base substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuaki Tominaga