Patents by Inventor Yasutaka AWAKURA

Yasutaka AWAKURA 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: 20220294085
    Abstract: A coin-type secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte layer, an outer case, and a conductive elastic member. The elastic member is arranged, while being compressed in the up-down direction, between one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode and a flat plate portion of the outer case. The elastic member provides a direct or indirect electrical connection between the one electrode and the flat plate portion. The elastic member includes a plurality of projections projecting in the up-down direction. The projections include a first projection and a second projection different in yield margin from the first projection, the yield margin being a difference between compressive stress and yield stress acting in the up-down direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Kitamura, Yasutaka Awakura, Tsuyoshi Torisu
  • Patent number: 10784182
    Abstract: Provided is a bonded substrate mainly for mounting a power semiconductor in which the reliability to a thermal cycle has been enhanced as compared with a conventional one. In a bonded substrate in which a copper plate is bonded to one or both main surface(s) of a nitride ceramic substrate, a bonding layer consisting of TiN intervenes between the nitride ceramic substrate and the copper plate and is adjacent at least to the copper plate, and an Ag distribution region in which Ag atoms are distributed is set to be present in the copper plate. Preferably, an Ag-rich phase is set to be present discretely at an interface between the bonding layer and the copper plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Tani, Yasutaka Awakura, Takeshi Kaku, Takashi Ebigase
  • Patent number: 10392310
    Abstract: The porous plate-shaped filler aggregate includes a plurality of the porous plate-shaped fillers. The porous plate-shaped fillers have a uniform plate shape with an aspect ratio of 3 or more, a minimum length of 0.1 to 50 ?m, a porosity of 20 to 99%, and the deviation of the maximum length among a plurality of the porous plate-shaped fillers, which is obtained by the following formula, is 10% or less. Deviation of the maximum length (%)=standard deviation of the maximum length/average value of the maximum length×100 (Here, ‘maximum length’ is the longest length when the porous plate-shaped fillers are held between a pair of parallel planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinobu Oribe, Hiroharu Kobayashi, Takahiro Tomita, Shinsaku Maeda, Yasutaka Awakura
  • Publication number: 20170323842
    Abstract: Provided is a bonded substrate mainly for mounting a power semiconductor in which the reliability to a thermal cycle has been enhanced as compared with a conventional one. In a bonded substrate in which a copper plate is bonded to one or both main surface(s) of a nitride ceramic substrate, a bonding layer consisting of TiN intervenes between the nitride ceramic substrate and the copper plate and is adjacent at least to the copper plate, and an Ag distribution region in which Ag atoms are distributed is set to be present in the copper plate. Preferably, an Ag-rich phase is set to be present discretely at an interface between the bonding layer and the copper plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto TANI, Yasutaka AWAKURA, Takeshi KAKU, Takashi EBIGASE
  • Publication number: 20160340256
    Abstract: The porous plate-shaped filler aggregate includes a plurality of the porous plate-shaped fillers. The porous plate-shaped fillers have a uniform plate shape with an aspect ratio of 3 or more, a minimum length of 0.1 to 50 ?m, a porosity of 20 to 99%, and the deviation of the maximum length among a plurality of the porous plate-shaped fillers, which is obtained by the following formula, is 10% or less. Deviation of the maximum length (%)=standard deviation of the maximum length/average value of the maximum length×100 (Here, ‘maximum length’ is the longest length when the porous plate-shaped fillers are held between a pair of parallel planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akinobu ORIBE, Hiroharu KOBAYASHI, Takahiro TOMITA, Shinsaku MAEDA, Yasutaka AWAKURA