Patents by Inventor Yoshinobu Urayama

Yoshinobu Urayama 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: 8329047
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a liquid discharge head including a silicon substrate having, on a first surface, energy generating elements, and a supply port penetrating the substrate from the first surface to a second surface, which is a rear surface of the first surface of the substrate. The method includes the steps of: preparing the silicon substrate having a sacrifice layer at a portion on the first surface where the ink supply port is to be formed and an etching mask layer having a plurality of openings on the second surface, the volume of a portion of the sacrifice layer at a position corresponding to a portion between two adjacent said openings being smaller than the volume of a portion of the sacrifice layer at a position corresponding to the opening; etching the silicon substrate from the plurality of openings and etching the sacrifice layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadanobu Nagami, Junichi Kobayashi, Takeshi Terada, Makoto Watanabe, Hiroyuki Abo, Mitsunori Toshishige, Yoshinori Tagawa, Shuji Koyama, Kenji Fujii, Masaki Ohsumi, Jun Yamamuro, Hiroyuki Murayama, Yoshinobu Urayama, Taichi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 8128204
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head and a method of forming the same. The liquid ejection head includes a substrate, an ejection port, a liquid channel, and a supply port. The substrate has, above one side thereof, an energy generating element configured to generate energy used to eject liquid. The ejection port, from which a liquid is ejected, is located at a position corresponding to the energy generating element. The liquid channel communicates with the ejection port and penetrates the substrate from the one side to another side of the substrate. The supply port communicates with the liquid channel. The substrate has a projecting layer extending inward of an inner peripheral portion of an opening in the supply port in the one side, and the projecting layer and the energy generating element are formed of the same material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyasu Ozaki, Junichi Kobayashi, Shuji Koyama, Tadanobu Nagami, Yoshinori Tagawa, Kenji Fujii, Hiroyuki Murayama, Masaki Ohsumi, Jun Yamamuro, Yoshinobu Urayama, Hiroyuki Abo, Takeshi Terada, Masahisa Watanabe, Taichi Yonemoto
  • Publication number: 20110107598
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head and a method of forming the same. The liquid ejection head includes a substrate, an ejection port, a liquid channel, and a supply port. The substrate has, above one side thereof, an energy generating element configured to generate energy used to eject liquid. The ejection port, from which a liquid is ejected, is located at a position corresponding to the energy generating element. The liquid channel communicates with the ejection port and penetrates the substrate from the one side to another side of the substrate. The supply port communicates with the liquid channel. The substrate has a projecting layer extending inward of an inner peripheral portion of an opening in the supply port in the one side, and the projecting layer and the energy generating element are formed of the same material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyasu Ozaki, Junichi Kobayashi, Shuji Koyama, Tadanobu Nagami, Yoshinori Tagawa, Kenji Fujii, Hiroyuki Murayama, Masaki Ohsumi, Jun Yamamuro, Yoshinobu Urayama, Hiroyuki Abo, Takeshi Terada, Masahisa Watanabe, Taichi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 7930824
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet recording head includes the steps of: forming an adhesive layers and the side walls of a flow path on a substrate; pasting a dry film, which is a part of a flow path forming member, on the side walls; and forming discharge ports in the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Ohsumi, Shuji Koyama, Yoshinori Tagawa, Hiroyuki Murayama, Kenji Fujii, Yoshinobu Urayama, Jun Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 7901064
    Abstract: An ink jet recording head includes: a substrate; a plurality of ink discharge ports formed to a front face side of the substrate, and a plurality of ink flow paths communicating with the ink discharge ports; an ink supply opening extending through the substrate and communicating with the plurality of ink flow paths; and a filter formed in an opening portion of the ink supply opening arranged in the front face side of the substrate, the filter being constituted of two or more stacked films having formed therein a plurality of opening portions. In this case, the stacked films are arranged with a spacing therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Urayama, Kenji Fujii, Masaki Ohsumi, Jun Yamamuro, Hiroyuki Murayama, Yoshinori Tagawa, Shuji Koyama
  • Patent number: 7891784
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head and a method of forming the same. The liquid ejection head includes a substrate, an ejection port, a liquid channel, and a supply port. The substrate has, above one side thereof, an energy generating element configured to generate energy used to eject liquid. The ejection port, from which a liquid is ejected, is located at a position corresponding to the energy generating element. The liquid channel communicates with the ejection port and penetrates the substrate from the one side to another side of the substrate. The supply port communicates with the liquid channel. The substrate has a projecting layer extending inward of an inner peripheral portion of an opening in the supply port in the one side, and the projecting layer and the energy generating element are formed of the same material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyasu Ozaki, Junichi Kobayashi, Shuji Koyama, Tadanobu Nagami, Yoshinori Tagawa, Kenji Fujii, Hiroyuki Murayama, Masaki Ohsumi, Jun Yamamuro, Yoshinobu Urayama, Hiroyuki Abo, Takeshi Terada, Masahisa Watanabe, Taichi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 7862158
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet head which discharges ink, comprising: a step of preparing a silicon substrate; a step of forming a membrane having a layer in which a plurality of holes are disposed to constitute a filter mask, and a layer with which a first surface is coated in such a manner that the first surface is not exposed from the plurality of holes on the first surface of the substrate; a step of forming a close contact enhancing layer on the membrane formed on the substrate; a step of forming a channel constituting member on the close contact enhancing layer to constitute a plurality of discharge ports and a plurality of ink channels communicating with the plurality of discharge ports; a step of forming an ink supply port communicating with the plurality of ink channels in the silicon substrate by anisotropic etching from a second surface facing the first surface of the substrate; and a step of forming a filter in a portion of the close contact enhancing layer positioned in an opening of the in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Fujii, Shuji Koyama, Masaki Osumi, Shingo Nagata, Jun Yamamuro, Yoshinori Tagawa, Hiroyuki Murayama, Yoshinobu Urayama
  • Patent number: 7753502
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet head which discharges ink, comprising: a step of preparing a silicon substrate; a step of forming a membrane having a layer in which a plurality of holes are disposed to constitute a filter mask, and a layer with which a first surface is coated in such a manner that the first surface is not exposed from the plurality of holes on the first surface of the substrate; a step of forming a close contact enhancing layer on the membrane formed on the substrate; a step of forming a channel constituting member on the close contact enhancing layer to constitute a plurality of discharge ports and a plurality of ink channels communicating with the plurality of discharge ports; a step of forming an ink supply port communicating with the plurality of ink channels in the silicon substrate by anisotropic etching from a second surface facing the first surface of the substrate; and a step of forming a filter in a portion of the close contact enhancing layer positioned in an opening of the in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Fujii, Shuji Koyama, Masaki Osumi, Shingo Nagata, Jun Yamamuro, Yoshinori Tagawa, Hiroyuki Murayama, Yoshinobu Urayama
  • Publication number: 20100147793
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a liquid discharge head including a silicon substrate having, on a first surface, energy generating elements, and a supply port penetrating the substrate from the first surface to a second surface, which is a rear surface of the first surface of the substrate. The method includes the steps of: preparing the silicon substrate having a sacrifice layer at a portion on the first surface where the ink supply port is to be formed and an etching mask layer having a plurality of openings on the second surface, the volume of a portion of the sacrifice layer at a position corresponding to a portion between two adjacent said openings being smaller than the volume of a portion of the sacrifice layer at a position corresponding to the opening; etching the silicon substrate from the plurality of openings and etching the sacrifice layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadanobu Nagami, Junichi Kobayashi, Takeshi Terada, Makoto Watanabe, Hiroyuki Abo, Mitsunori Toshishige, Yoshinori Tagawa, Shuji Koyama, Kenji Fujii, Masaki Ohsumi, Jun Yamamuro, Hiroyuki Murayama, Yoshinobu Urayama, Taichi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 7735961
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head including an energy generating element configured to generate energy required for discharging a liquid, a substrate having the energy generating element formed thereon, and an orifice member provided on the substrate and including a plurality of discharge ports facilitating discharging the liquid and a plurality of flow paths communicating respectively with the plurality of discharge ports. The orifice member is constituted by a first resin forming a portion connected to at least the substrate and a second resin connected to the first resin and forming the plurality of discharge ports, and the first resin includes a silane material in a larger amount than the second resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuji Koyama, Yoshinori Tagawa, Kenji Fujii, Hiroyuki Murayama, Masaki Ohsumi, Jun Yamamuro, Yoshinobu Urayama
  • Publication number: 20090183368
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet recording head includes the steps of: forming an adhesive layers and the side walls of a flow path on a substrate; pasting a dry film, which is a part of a flow path forming member, on the side walls; and forming discharge ports in the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki OHSUMI, Shuji KOYAMA, Yoshinori TAGAWA, Hiroyuki MURAYAMA, Kenji FUJII, Yoshinobu URAYAMA, Jun YAMAMURO
  • Patent number: 7523553
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet recording head includes the steps of forming adhesive layers and side walls of a flow path on a substrate; pasting a ceiling layer, which is a part of a flow path forming member, on the side walls; and forming discharge ports in the ceiling layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Ohsumi, Shuji Koyama, Yoshinori Tagawa, Hiroyuki Murayama, Kenji Fujii, Yoshinobu Urayama, Jun Yamamuro
  • Publication number: 20080180486
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head and a method of forming the same. The liquid ejection head includes a substrate, an ejection port, a liquid channel, and a supply port. The substrate has, above one side thereof, an energy generating element configured to generate energy used to eject liquid. The ejection port, from which a liquid is ejected, is located at a position corresponding to the energy generating element. The liquid channel communicates with the ejection port and penetrates the substrate from the one side to another side of the substrate. The supply port communicates with the liquid channel. The substrate has a projecting layer extending inward of an inner peripheral portion of an opening in the supply port in the one side, and the projecting layer and the energy generating element are formed of the same material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyasu Ozaki, Junichi Kobayashi, Shuji Koyama, Tadanobu Nagami, Yoshinori Tagawa, Kenji Fujii, Hiroyuki Murayama, Masaki Ohsumi, Jun Yamamuro, Yoshinobu Urayama, Hiroyuki Abo, Takeshi Terada, Masahisa Watanabe, Taichi Yonemoto
  • Publication number: 20070295687
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet head which discharges ink, comprising: a step of preparing a silicon substrate; a step of forming a membrane having a layer in which a plurality of holes are disposed to constitute a filter mask, and a layer with which a first surface is coated in such a manner that the first surface is not exposed from the plurality of holes on the first surface of the substrate; a step of forming a close contact enhancing layer on the membrane formed on the substrate; a step of forming a channel constituting member on the close contact enhancing layer to constitute a plurality of discharge ports and a plurality of ink channels communicating with the plurality of discharge ports; a step of forming an ink supply port communicating with the plurality of ink channels in the silicon substrate by anisotropic etching from a second surface facing the first surface of the substrate; and a step of forming a filter in a portion of the close contact enhancing layer positioned in an opening of the in
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Fujii, Shuji Koyama, Masaki Osumi, Shingo Nagata, Jun Yamamuro, Yoshinori Tagawa, Hiroyuki Murayama, Yoshinobu Urayama
  • Publication number: 20070289942
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet head which discharges ink, comprising: a step of preparing a silicon substrate; a step of forming a membrane having a layer in which a plurality of holes are disposed to constitute a filter mask, and a layer with which a first surface is coated in such a manner that the first surface is not exposed from the plurality of holes on the first surface of the substrate; a step of forming a close contact enhancing layer on the membrane formed on the substrate; a step of forming a channel constituting member on the close contact enhancing layer to constitute a plurality of discharge ports and a plurality of ink channels communicating with the plurality of discharge ports; a step of forming an ink supply port communicating with the plurality of ink channels in the silicon substrate by anisotropic etching from a second surface facing the first surface of the substrate; and a step of forming a filter in a portion of the close contact enhancing layer positioned in an opening of the in
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: KENJI FUJII, Shuji Koyama, Masaki Osumi, Shingo Nagata, Jun Yamanuro, Yoshinori Tagawa, Hiroyuki Murayama, Yoshinobu Urayama
  • Patent number: 7300596
    Abstract: The method of manufacturing a recording head has a flow path wall forming step of forming flow path walls on a substrate having energy generating elements formed thereon, an imbedded material depositing step of depositing an imbedded material between the flow path walls and on a top of each flow path wall, a flattening step of polishing a top of the deposited imbedded material, until the top of the flow path wall is exposed, and a step of forming an orifice plate on the tops of the polished imbedded material and the exposed flow path wall. In the step of forming the flow path walls, patterning of a close contact property improvement layer is simultaneously performed to improve a close contact property between the flow path wall and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Murayama, Shuji Koyama, Yoshinori Tagawa, Kenji Fujii, Masaki Ohsumi, Yoshinobu Urayama, Jun Yamamuro, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Masahisa Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7287847
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet head which discharges ink, comprising: a step of preparing a silicon substrate; a step of forming a membrane having a layer in which a plurality of holes are disposed to constitute a filter mask, and a layer with which a first surface is coated in such a manner that the first surface is not exposed from the plurality of holes on the first surface of the substrate; a step of forming a close contact enhancing layer on the membrane formed on the substrate; a step of forming a channel constituting member on the close contact enhancing layer to constitute a plurality of discharge ports and a plurality of ink channels communicating with the plurality of discharge ports; a step of forming an ink supply port communicating with the plurality of ink channels in the silicon substrate by anisotropic etching from a second surface facing the first surface of the substrate; and a step of forming a filter in a portion of the close contact enhancing layer positioned in an opening of the in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Fujii, Shuji Koyama, Masaki Osumi, Shingo Nagata, Jun Yamamuro, Yoshinori Tagawa, Hiroyuki Murayama, Yoshinobu Urayama
  • Publication number: 20070178248
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet recording head includes the steps of: forming an adhesive layers and the side walls of a flow path on a substrate; pasting a dry film, which is a part of a flow path forming member, on the side walls; and forming discharge ports in the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki OHSUMI, Shuji Koyama, Yoshinori Tagawa, Hiroyuki Murayama, Kenji Fujii, Yoshinobu Urayama, Jun Yamamuro
  • Publication number: 20070176990
    Abstract: An ink jet recording head includes: a substrate; a plurality of ink discharge ports formed to a front face side of the substrate, and a plurality of ink flow paths communicating with the ink discharge ports; an ink supply opening extending through the substrate and communicating with the plurality of ink flow paths; and a filter formed in an opening portion of the ink supply opening arranged in the front face side of the substrate, the filter being constituted of two or more stacked films having formed therein a plurality of opening portions. In this case, the stacked films are arranged with a spacing therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Urayama, Kenji Fujii, Masaki Ohsumi, Jun Yamamuro, Hiroyuki Murayama, Yoshinori Tagawa, Shuji Koyama
  • Publication number: 20070091147
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head including an energy generating element configured to generate energy required for discharging a liquid, a substrate having the energy generating element formed thereon, and an orifice member provided on the substrate and including a plurality of discharge ports facilitating discharging the liquid and a plurality of flow paths communicating respectively with the plurality of discharge ports. The orifice member is constituted by a first resin forming a portion connected to at least the substrate and a second resin connected to the first resin and forming the plurality of discharge ports, and the first resin includes a silane material in a larger amount than the second resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuji Koyama, Yoshinori Tagawa, Kenji Fujii, Hiroyuki Murayama, Masaki Ohsumi, Jun Yamamuro, Yoshinobu Urayama