Patents by Inventor Yuji Furuta

Yuji Furuta 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: 6517892
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor comprising (1) an electrically conducting polymer composition formed on the surface of an oxide film which is formed on a valve-acting metal, by specifying the viscosity of an oxidizing agent solution and/or a monomer solution, particularly by specifying the viscosity to less than about 100 cp, (2) an electroconducting polymer composition formed on the surface of an oxide film layer which is formed on a valve-acting metal, wherein the electroconducting polymer layer comprising a monomer compound or a derivative thereof as a repeating unit and also containing an anionic dopant is polymerized by setting the humidity in the atmosphere to from about 10% to less than about 60%; (3) an anode body having provided on the outer surface thereof a solid electrolyte formed of an electrically conducting polymer containing a lamellar structure, wherein the solid electrolyte provided on the dielectric film formed on a valve acting metal occupies from about 10 to about 95% of the space in a por
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakai, Ryuji Monden, Toru Sawaguchi, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Yuji Furuta, Hideki Ohata
  • Publication number: 20020191367
    Abstract: To provide a solid electrolytic capacitor where solid electrolyte is formed at the cut end part and at the masking part to a larger thickness than in other parts, where the adhesion of the solid electrolyte formed on the valve acting metal oxide film is improved, and whereby the capacitor is highly stabilized in various basic properties such as capacitance, dielectric loss (tan &dgr;), leakage current and short circuit defective ratio and also in the reflow soldering heat resistance and moisture resistance load characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakai, Ryuji Monden, Yuji Furuta, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Tatsuo Obata
  • Patent number: 6483694
    Abstract: An electrode for electrolytic capacitors having a large capacitance and having excellent tan &dgr;, heat resistance, humidity resistance and stability. An electrolytic capacitor using the electrode. An electrode obtained by attaching a compound having a siloxane bond onto the surface of an electrode body including a valve-acting metal having formed thereon a dielectric film. The compound having a siloxane bond is attached by coating, dipping or vapor deposition. A solid electrolytic capacitor obtained by forming an electrolyte including an electrically conducting polymer on the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Showa Denko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuji Monden, Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Furuta, Hideki Ohata
  • Publication number: 20020167427
    Abstract: A system and method that prevent an input of variable length codes in which short length codes continue from being interrupted without an increase of a circuit scale are provided. The system comprises a variable length decoding device for decoding variable length codes, a buffer for buffering the variable length codes to be supplied to the variable length decoding device, a detector for detecting whether or not a occupation rate of the variable length codes in the buffer has increased, and a discarder for discarding the variable length codes to be supplied to the buffer when the detected result by the detector represents that the occupation rate of the variable length codes in the buffer has increased. The system further comprises an elementary stream extractor, disposed between the discarding device and the buffer, for extracting an elementary stream defined in MPEG standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventor: Yuji Furuta
  • Patent number: 6478309
    Abstract: A constant velocity joint boot includes a bellowed portion and the first crest portion of the bellowed portion is formed to have the same outer diameter as the first cylindrical portion, and the length of the membrane extending from the first crest portion through the second root portion to the second crest portion is set to be almost the same as that extending from the second crest portion through the third root portion to the third crest portion, and the depth of the second root portion h and the depth of the third root portion H satisfy a relational expression H/1.3≦h≦H/1.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Yuji Furuta
  • Patent number: 6466421
    Abstract: Disclosed are a solid electrolytic capacitor comprising a valve-acting metal, an oxide dielectric layer formed on a surface of the valve-acting metal and a solid electrolyte layer provided on the dielectric film layer, in which the electrically conducting polymer composition layer contains as a dopant at least one anion selected from (1) an alkoxy-substituted naphthalene monosulfonate anion, (2) a heterocyclic sulfonate anion, and (3) an anion of an aliphatic polycyclic compound or a combination thereof with another anion having a dopant ability and a method for producing such a solid electrolytic capacitor. The solid electrolytic capacitor of the invention is excellent in voltage resistance, high frequency property, tan &dgr;, leakage current, heat resistance (reflow property), etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Ryuji Monden, Atsushi Sakai, Toru Sawaguchi, Hideki Ohata, Koro Shirane, Hiroshi Konuma, Yuji Furuta, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Yoshiaki Ikenoue
  • Publication number: 20020141141
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor is obtained by mounting a plurality of single plate capacitor elements within a chip by employing a stacking structure such as parallel stacking, opposing stacking, each layer-opposing stacking or closest stacking. As a result, a compact and high-capacitance element can be easily manufactured. The single plate capacitor element is preferably an element having an unfolded fan-like shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nitoh, Atsushi Sakai, Wataru Minamida, Yuji Furuta
  • Patent number: 6454953
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a solid electrolytic capacitor with excellent electrostatic capacitance and reduced dispersion of capabilities by treating the surface of a chemically formed aluminum film to form a dielectric film which is in contact an electrically conducting substance provided thereon with sufficiently high adhesion. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing the solid electrolytic capacitor, which includes providing an organic electrically conducting polymer as a solid electrolyte on a chemically formed aluminum substrate having thereon an aluminum oxide dielectric film, where a chemically formed aluminum substrate, which was cut into a predetermined shape, is treated with an aqueous acid solution to dissolve a part of the dielectric film on the substrate surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Showa Denko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Furuta, Katsuhiko Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 6449140
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solid electrolytic capacitor having a structure that relieves thermal stress, prevents leakage current, exhibits low impedance and ensures high reliability. The solid electrolytic capacitor element has a valve-acting metal substrate with a dielectric film and an edge part acting as an anode, an insulating layer circumferentially provided on the substrate, a solid electrolyte layer and an electrically conducting layer having a carbon paste layer and a metal powder-containing electrically conducting layer formed in this order on the entire substrate surface opposite to the anode with respect to the insulating layer and acting as a cathode. The electrically conducting layer is provided within a region of the carbon paste layer or with a spacing from the cathode side edge part of the insulating layer. The present invention also provides a method for producing the element, and a solid electrolytic capacitor using the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Furuta, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Takashi Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20020105777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid electrolytic capacitor comprising a solid electrolyte layer and an electrically conducting layer comprising metallic powder or an electrically conducting layer comprising an electrically conducting carbon layer and a layer formed thereon and comprising metallic powder in which at least one of said layers contains a rubber-like elastic material; a production process thereof; a solid electrolyte for use in the solid electrolytic capacitor; a production process of the solid electrolyte; an electrically conducting paste for use in the solid electrolytic capacitor; and an electrically carbon conducting paste for use in the solid electrolytic capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Ryuji Monden, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Furuta, Hideki Ohata, Koro Shirane, Hiroshi Konuma
  • Patent number: 6430032
    Abstract: To provide a solid electrolytic capacitor where solid electrolyte is formed at the cut end part and at the masking part to a larger thickness than in other parts, where the adhesion of the solid electrolyte formed on the valve acting metal oxide film is improved, and whereby the capacitor is highly stabilized in various basic properties such as capacitance, dielectric loss (tan &dgr;), leakage current and short circuit defective ratio and also in the reflow soldering heat resistance and moisture resistance load characteristics. These solid electrolytic capacitor can be obtained by forming electrically conducting polymer on a dielectric film by specifying time for dipping of the surface of a valve actiong metal porous body with a solution containing a monomer and with a solution containing an oxidizing agent, time for vaporization of the solvent of the solution containing a monomer, and polymerization conditions after dipping of the solution containing an oxidizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Showa Denko K. K.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakai, Ryuji Monden, Yuji Furuta, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Tatsuo Obata
  • Patent number: 6421227
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor is obtained by mounting a plurality of single plate capacitor elements within a chip by employing a stacking structure such as parallel stacking, opposing stacking, each layer-opposing stacking or closest stacking. As a result, a compact and high-capacitance element can be easily manufactured. The single plate capacitor element is preferably an element having an unfolded fan-like shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nitoh, Atsushi Sakai, Wataru Minamida, Yuji Furuta
  • Publication number: 20020064225
    Abstract: In an MPEG data processing circuit, inputted MPEG system stream is divided into a data block to be processed (for example; video elementary data portion) and a data block to be not processed (for example, non-video elementary data portion) The data to be processed are stored one by one in a primary storing section (a barrel shifter) while the numbers of data stored in the primary storing section or the data to be not processed are stored one by one in a secondary storing section (a FIFO buffer), responsive to kinds of blocks, in a predetermined storing form to be managed. After necessary data processing is conducted on the data of the block to be processed, both the data block to be processed and the data block to be not processed are finally combined to each other to be outputted as an MPEG system stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Furuta
  • Patent number: 6381121
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid electrolytic capacitor comprising a solid electrolyte layer and an electrically conducting layer comprising metallic powder or an electrically conducting layer comprising an electrically conducting carbon layer and a layer formed thereon and comprising metallic powder in which at least one of said layers contains a rubber-like elastic material; a production process thereof; a solid electrolyte for use in the solid electrolytic capacitor; a production process of the solid electrolyte; an electrically conducting paste for use in the solid electrolytic capacitor; and an electrically carbon conducting paste for use in the solid electrolytic capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Showa Denko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuji Monden, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Furuta, Hideki Ohata, Koro Shirane, Hiroshi Konuma
  • Publication number: 20020039274
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a valve acting metal having microfine pores, a dielectric film formed on a surface of the valve acting metal, and a solid electrolyte layer provided on the dielectric film, in which at least a portion of the solid electrolyte layer is of a lamellar structure. In particular, a solid electrolytic capacitor includes an electrically conducting polymer having a specified condensed ring structure containing (1) a solid electrolyte layer containing a sulfoquinone anion having a sulfo anion group and a quinone structure and other anion, and (2) a solid electrolyte layer containing an anthracenesulfonate ion and other anion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Konuma, Koro Shirane, Ryuji Monden, Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Furuta, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Toru Sawaguchi, Hideko Ohata, Yoshiaki Ikenoue
  • Patent number: 6363132
    Abstract: An asynchronous data conversion system enables high conversion efficiency and reliability to be secured because it is capable of preventing lack of the data or redundancy of the data, and if lack of the data or redundancy of the data occurs, it is capable of detecting it by way of error. In a system where a write clock is asynchronized with a read clock, from the state relationship of HIGH/LOW in between a write enable signal and a read enable signal, a write ready signal with a writing to a latching section as holding state, a read ready signal with a reading-out as holding state are generated at a ready signal generating section synchronizcd with the write clock. When it is incapable of writing to latching section newly, outputting a write error signal from a write error detecting section. When the data for reading-out to the latch section does not exist, outputting the read error signal from the read error detecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Furuta
  • Publication number: 20020034060
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a valve acting metal having microfine pores, a dielectric film formed on a surface of the valve acting metal, and a solid electrolyte layer provided on the dielectric film, in which at least a portion of the solid electrolyte layer is of a lamellar structure. In particular, a solid electrolytic capacitor includes an electrically conducting polymer having a specified condensed ring structure containing (1) a solid electrolyte layer containing a sulfoquinone anion having a sulfo anion group and a quinone structure and other anion, and (2) a solid electrolyte layer containing an anthracenesulfonate ion and other anion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Konuma, Koro Shirane, Ryuji Monden, Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Furuta, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Toru Sawaguchi, Hideki Ohata, Yoshiaki Ikenoue
  • Patent number: 6351370
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a valve acting metal having microfine pores, a dielectric film formed on a surface of the valve acting metal, and a solid electrolyte layer provided on the dielectric film, in which at least a portion of the solid electrolyte layer is of a lamellar structure. In particular, a solid electrolytic capacitor includes an electrically conducting polymer having a specified condensed ring structure containing (1) a solid electrolyte layer containing a sulfoquinone anion having a sulfo anion group and a quinone structure and other anion, and (2) a solid electrolyte layer containing an anthracenesulfonate ion and other anion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Konuma, Koro Shirane, Ryuji Monden, Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Furuta, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Toru Sawaguchi, Hideko Ohata, Yoshiaki Ikenoue
  • Publication number: 20020021547
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solid electrolytic capacitor having a structure that relieves thermal stress, prevents leakage current, exhibits low impedance and ensures high reliability. The solid electrolytic capacitor element has a valve-acting metal substrate with a dielectric film and an edge part acting as an anode, an insulating layer circumferentially provided on the substrate, a solid electrolyte layer and an electrically conducting layer having a carbon paste layer and a metal powder-containing electrically conducting layer formed in this order on the entire substrate surface opposite to the anode with respect to the insulating layer and acting as a cathode. The electrically conducting layer is provided within a region of the carbon paste layer or with a spacing from the cathode side edge part of the insulating layer. The present invention also provides a method for producing the element, and a solid electrolytic capacitor using the element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Furuta, Katsuhiko Yamazaki, Takashi Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20020015277
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor is obtained by mounting a plurality of single plate capacitor elements within a chip by employing a stacking structure such as parallel stacking, opposing stacking, each layer-opposing stacking or closest stacking. As a result, a compact and high-capacitance element can be easily manufactured. The single plate capacitor element is preferably an element having an unfolded fan-like shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nitoh, Atsushi Sakai, Wataru Minamida, Yuji Furuta