Patents by Inventor Yasushi Usami

Yasushi Usami 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: 20230276577
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wiring substrate includes preparing a first support plate having a metal foil formed on surface of a support substrate, forming a wiring substrate on the foil such that the wiring substrate has first surface facing the foil, attaching a second support plate to second surface of the wiring substrate, and separating the support substrate from the foil after attaching the second support plate such that the foil is removed from the first surface and that the first surface is exposed. The wiring substrate has first conductor pads on the first surface, and second conductor pads on the second surface, and the method includes conducting first inspection such that conduction between the second pads is inspected before attaching the second plate to the second surface, and conducting second inspection such that conduction between the first pads is inspected after removing the foil from the first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi USAMI
  • Patent number: 10645819
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a core substrate having cavity to accommodate an electronic component and including a front conductor layer formed on front side of the core substrate, and a back conductor layer formed on back side of the core substrate, through-hole conductors formed through the core substrate such that the through-hole conductors connect the front and back conductor layers of the core substrate, a front build-up layer formed on front surface of the core substrate and including interlayer insulating layers and conductor layers, and a back build-up layer formed on back surface of the core substrate and including interlayer insulating layers and conductor layers. The conductor layers in the front build-up layer include a conductor layer sandwiching one of the interlayer insulating layers with the front conductor layer such that the conductor layer and the front conductor layer have the same electric potential in region surrounding the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki Furutani, Takema Adachi, Toshihide Makino, Yasushi Usami
  • Publication number: 20190200462
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a core substrate having cavity to accommodate an electronic component and including a front conductor layer formed on front side of the core substrate, and a back conductor layer formed on back side of the core substrate, through-hole conductors formed through the core substrate such that the through-hole conductors connect the front and back conductor layers of the core substrate, a front build-up layer formed on front surface of the core substrate and including interlayer insulating layers and conductor layers, and a back build-up layer formed on back surface of the core substrate and including interlayer insulating layers and conductor layers. The conductor layers in the front build-up layer include a conductor layer sandwiching one of the interlayer insulating layers with the front conductor layer such that the conductor layer and the front conductor layer have the same electric potential in region surrounding the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki Furutani, Takema Adachi, Toshihide Makino, Yasushi Usami
  • Patent number: 9419266
    Abstract: This polyolefin resin porous film can be easily produced, and when used as a non-aqueous electrolyte cell separator, can suppress clogging and can evince a high cell output. The polyolefin resin porous film is a porous film having a polyolefin resin as the primary component and is characterized by the average flow diameter pressure (PAP) being 1500-2500 kPa, the bubble point pressure (PBP) being 300-1500 kPa, and the ratio (Pa/PAP) of the air permeability (Pa) and the bubble point pressure (PBP) being no greater than 0.35 sec/(100 ml·kPa).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Terakawa, Takeyoshi Yamada, Yasushi Usami
  • Publication number: 20160099452
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated porous film which has both gas permeability and heat resistance and can exhibit excellent smoothness and excellent pin extraction properties when used as a separator for a battery. The laminated porous film is characterized by having a heat-resistant layer laminated on at least one surface of a polyolefin resin porous film, wherein the heat-resistant layer comprises a filler and a resin binder, and wherein the surface of the heat-resistant layer has a static friction coefficient of 0.45 or less, a gas permeability degree of 2000 sec/100 ml or less and a tensile elastic modulus of 400 to 1000 MPa when the film is stretched in the lengthwise direction at a stretching rate of 3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihito TAKAGI, Satoru Imanaka, Tomoyuki Nemoto, Yasushi Usami
  • Publication number: 20150125734
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a polyolefin resin porous film, which is resistant to wrinkling in a transporting step in a high-temperature environment due to a high shrinkage stress, has superior coating suitability, maintains pore interconnectivity, and thus has superior air permeability. The polyolefin resin porous film of the present invention has a 1% modulus in the flow direction at 90° C. of 4.5 MPa or more and an air permeability of 800 sec/100 ml or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Yamada, Yasushi Usami, Kouji Takegawa
  • Publication number: 20150044541
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated porous film which has both gas permeability and heat resistance and can exhibit excellent smoothness and excellent pin extraction properties when used as a separator for a battery. The laminated porous film is characterized by having a heat-resistant layer laminated on at least one surface of a polyolefin resin porous film, wherein the heat-resistant layer comprises a filler and a resin binder, and wherein the surface of the heat-resistant layer has a static friction coefficient of 0.45 or less, a gas permeability degree of 2000 sec/100 ml or less and a tensile elastic modulus of 400 to 1000 MPa when the film is stretched in the lengthwise direction at a stretching rate of 3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Takagi, Satoru Imanaka, Tomoyuki Nemoto, Yasushi Usami
  • Publication number: 20140087167
    Abstract: Provided is a porous polypropylene film having both air permeability properties and puncture strength. A porous polypropylene film which has an air permeability of 700 seconds/100 ml or less and a puncture strength of 1.5 N or greater, and has ? activity can be obtained when the porous polypropylene film is made to have a tensile strength in the machine direction of the film, EMD, of 100 MPa or greater, a tensile strength in the transverse direction to the machine direction, ETD, of less than 100 MPa, and a ratio of EMD and ETD, EMD/ETD, of 1.5 to 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Takeyoshi YAMADA, Yasushi Usami, Toru Terakawa
  • Patent number: 8680169
    Abstract: Provided is a porous polypropylene film having both air permeability properties and puncture strength. A porous polypropylene film which has an air permeability of 700 seconds/100 ml or less and a puncture strength of 1.5 N or greater, and has ? activity can be obtained when the porous polypropylene film is made to have a tensile strength in the machine direction of the film, EMD, of 100 MPa or greater, a tensile strength in the transverse direction to the machine direction, ETD, of less than 100 MPa, and a ratio of EMD and ETD, EMD/ETD, of 1.5 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Yamada, Yasushi Usami, Toru Terakawa
  • Patent number: 8597836
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to improve battery performance such as a rate capability of a nonaqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery using a separator constituting a thermoplastic resin-based porous film containing a filler. This invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery separator which is formed from a porous film containing a thermoplastic resin and a filler contained in the thermoplastic resin and has a content of chlorine of 10 ppm or less or a content of iron of 100 ppm or less as well as relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery using this separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakashima, Yasushi Usami, Kazutaka Sakaki
  • Patent number: 8592071
    Abstract: A laminated porous film having at least two porous layers layered one upon another. One porous layer consists of a resin layer containing a polypropylene resin. The other layer is a heat-resistant layer consisting of a resin composition whose crystal fusion peak temperature is higher than that of the resin composition of the layer containing the polypropylene resin. The laminated porous film has a ? activity and/or a ? crystal generation power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Usami, Takeyoshi Yamada, Jun Takagi
  • Publication number: 20130288132
    Abstract: This polyolefin resin porous film can be easily produced, and when used as a non-aqueous electrolyte cell separator, can suppress clogging and can evince a high cell output. The polyolefin resin porous film is a porous film having a polyolefin resin as the primary component and is characterized by the average flow diameter pressure (PAP) being 1500-2500 kPa, the bubble point pressure (PBP) being 300-1500 kPa, and the ratio (Pa/PAP) of the air permeability (Pa) and the bubble point pressure (PBP) being no greater than 0.35 sec/(100 ml·kPa).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Terakawa, Takeyoshi Yamada, Yasushi Usami
  • Patent number: 8486555
    Abstract: A process for producing a porous laminate having many micropores interconnected in the thickness direction, which comprises: a step in which a laminate is produced which comprises at least three layers comprising an interlayer made of a thermoplastic resin having a hard segment and a soft segment and two nonporous outer layers made of a filler-containing resin and located as outer layers respectively on both sides of the interlayer; a step in which the laminate obtained is impregnated with a supercritical or subcritical fluid and this state is relieved to vaporize the fluid and thereby make the interlayer porous; and a step in which the two nonporous outer layers located respectively on both sides are made porous by stretching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Usami, Tomoyuki Nemoto, Jun Takagi, Satoshi Teshima
  • Patent number: 8426054
    Abstract: A laminated porous film having a shutdown (SD) property and a high breakdown (BD) property combined includes at least two layers, which are a porous membrane layer (A layer) having a thickness of 10 ?m or greater other than non-woven fabric and a non-woven fabric layer (B layer) having a fiber diameter of 1 ?m or less. A value of the ratio (AP1/AP2) between air permeability when heating at a heating temperature of 150° C. to 200° C. for three minutes (AP1) and air permeability prior to heating (AP2) is 10 or greater at any heating temperature between 150° C. and 200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Usami, Takeyoshi Yamada, Jun Takagi
  • Publication number: 20130017430
    Abstract: As an object of the present invention, to provide a polyolefin resin porous film fulfilling high continuity, excellent dimensional stability and shutdown function which closes the pores sensitively and completely in a temperature range of 120 to 140° C. without closing the pores at less than 120° C. The present invention relates to a polyolefin resin porous film having at least one layer each of a layer comprising as the main component a polypropylene resin composition (A) and a layer comprising as the main component a polyethylene resin composition (B) fulfilling the condition (i) the melting point of the polyethylene resin composition (B) is 130° C. or higher, and the condition (ii) the melt flow rate (MFR) of the polyethylene resin composition (B) is 2.0 to 15 g/10 minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC
    Inventors: Toru Terakawa, Takeyoshi Yamada, Yasushi Usami
  • Publication number: 20130017452
    Abstract: As a porous film in which the air-permeability at the time of elongation of the porous film was adjusted, whereby, when used as a battery separator, the holes of a separator in an electrode/separator wound body have been controlled, a polypropylene series resin porous film is proposed, in which, for a porous film having a polypropylene series resin as the main component, regarding air-permeability (Pa) prior to elongation and air-permeability (Pa?) at 5% elongation, (1) Pa? is 1,000 seconds/100 ml or less and (2) Pa?/Pa is 1.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Miho Yamamoto, Takeyoshi Yamada, Yasushi Usami
  • Publication number: 20130011743
    Abstract: In order to provide a porous polypropylene film in which the ratio of change in air permeability is small and the initial air-permeating property is satisfactory even under high temperature environment, a porous polypropylene film is proposed, satisfying the following conditions (1) and (2) regarding air-permeability (Pa1) at 20° C. and air-permeability (Pa2) after heating at 95° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Yamada, Miho Yamamoto, Yasushi Usami
  • Publication number: 20120329894
    Abstract: Regarding a polypropylene series resin porous film having a polypropylene series resin as the main component, so as to exert excellent slipping ability and processability when used as a battery separator, a polypropylene series resin porous film fabricated in such a way that the coefficient of static friction against film is greater than the coefficient of static friction against SUS is proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Miho Yamamoto, Takeyoshi Yamada, Yasushi Usami
  • Patent number: 8288033
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated porous film having excellent shutdown characteristics and breakdown characteristics, good tearing strength and dimensional stability, and B activity. The laminated porous film comprises layer A, the main component of which is a polypropylene resin, and layer B which contains a polyethylene resin, and the ratio of the rearing strength (HMD) in the machine direction (MD) of the laminated porous film and the tearing strength (HTD) in the transverse direction (TD) of the laminated porous film with respect to the machine direction (HMD) (HTD) is 0.08 to 2.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Terakawa, Miho Yamamoto, Takeyoshi Yamada, Yasushi Usami
  • Publication number: 20120231323
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated porous film which has both gas permeability and heat resistance and can exhibit excellent smoothness and excellent pin extraction properties when used as a separator for a battery. The laminated porous film is characterized by having a heat-resistant layer laminated on at least one surface of a polyolefin resin porous film, wherein the heat-resistant layer comprises a filler and a resin binder, and wherein the surface of the heat-resistant layer has a static friction coefficient of 0.45 or less, a gas permeability degree of 2000 sec/100 ml or less and a tensile elastic modulus of 400 to 1000 MPa when the film is stretched in the lengthwise direction at a stretching rate of 3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBHISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Takagi, Satoru Imanaka, Tomoyuki Nemoto, Yasushi Usami