Patents by Inventor Yuki Kitai

Yuki Kitai 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: 11958951
    Abstract: A resin composition is provided containing a polymer having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (1) in the molecule, and an inorganic filler, in which the inorganic filler contains silica in which a ratio of a number of Si atoms contained in silanol groups to a total number of Si atoms is 3% or less. In Formula (1), Z represents an arylene group, R1 to R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R4 to R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Koda, Yuki Kitai, Atsushi Wada, Yasunori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11866536
    Abstract: A copper-clad laminate includes an insulating layer formed of a cured product of a resin composition and a surface treated copper foil in contact with the insulating layer, in which the resin composition contains a compound having at least one group specified in the present application and a crosslinking type curing agent; and the surface treated copper foil is a surface treated copper foil including a finely roughened particle treatment layer of copper on at least one surface side of copper foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kitai, Masashi Koda, Yasunori Hoshino, Atsushi Wada, Mikio Sato
  • Patent number: 11820105
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a prepreg including a resin composition or a semi-cured product of the resin composition and a fibrous base material, in which the resin composition contains a modified polyphenylene ether compound terminally modified with a substituent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond, and a crosslinkable curing agent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond in a molecule, the fibrous base material is quartz glass cloth, the prepreg contains a silane coupling agent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond in a molecule, in an amount of 0.01% by mass or more and less than 3% by mass with respect to the prepreg, and a cured product of the prepreg has a dielectric loss tangent of 0.002 or less at 10 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Sato, Hiroaki Fujiwara, Yuki Kitai, Masashi Koda, Yasunori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11770904
    Abstract: A surface treated copper foil includes: a copper foil; a finely roughened particle treatment layer of copper on at least one surface of the copper foil, the finely roughened particle treatment layer including fine copper particles having a particle size of 40 to 200 nm; a heat resistance treatment layer containing nickel on the finely roughened particle treatment layer; a rust prevention treatment layer containing at least chromium on the heat resistance treatment layer; and a silane coupling agent treatment layer on the rust prevention treatment layer. An amount of nickel attached in the heat resistance treatment layer is 30 to 60 mg/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., FUKUDA METAL FOIL & POWDER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kitai, Takeshi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20230272213
    Abstract: A resin composition includes: a polyphenylene ether compound having at least one of groups expressed by formulas (1) and (2), a curing agent reactable with the polyphenylene ether compound, a styrene-based polymer having structural units expressed by formulas (3) and (4); and an inorganic filler containing boron nitride, wherein a content of the inorganic filler is 100 to 320 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of a total of the polyphenylene ether compound, the curing agent, and the styrene-based polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori HOSHINO, Yuki KITAI, Mikio SATO
  • Publication number: 20230257578
    Abstract: A resin composition includes: a polyphenylene ether compound; a curing agent reactable with the polyphenylene ether compound; and an inorganic filler including a boron nitride filler, wherein a particle size distribution of the inorganic filler, which is measured by a laser diffraction-based particle size distribution measuring method, has at least two peaks in a particle diameter range of 0.8 to 30.0 ?m, the peaks including at least one peak in a particle diameter range of 0.8 to 5.0 ?m and at least one peak in a particle diameter range of 5.0 to 30.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio SATO, Yuki KITAI, Yasunori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20230212392
    Abstract: A resin composition for wiring board material contains a thermosetting resin and a thermally expandable microcapsule, in which the relative dielectric constant (10 GHz) of a cured product of the resin composition is more than 1.0 and 2.2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin LIN, Yuki KITAI
  • Publication number: 20230054257
    Abstract: A copper-clad laminate includes an insulating layer that contains a cured product of a resin composition containing a polymer having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (1) in a molecule, and a metal foil that is laminated on the insulating layer, and in which a chromium element amount, on an exposed surface of the insulating layer exposed by an etching treatment of the copper-clad laminate is 7.5 at % or less with respect to a total element amount on the exposed surface, and ten-point average roughness of the exposed surface is 2.0 ?m or less. In Formula (1), Z represents an arylene group, R1 to R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R4 to R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki INOUE, Tatsuya ARISAWA, Yuki KITAI
  • Publication number: 20220389189
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a resin composition, which contains a polyphenylene ether compound, a curing agent, boron nitride, and an inorganic filler other than the boron nitride, in which the content of boron nitride is 15 to 70 parts by volume with respect to 100 parts by volume of the sum of the polyphenylene ether compound and the curing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio SATO, Yuki KITAI, Yasunori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20220356289
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a resin composition, which contains a modified polyphenylene ether compound of which a terminal is modified with a substituent having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond and a free radical compound, in which the free radical compound has at least one free radical group selected from the group consisting of structures represented by Formulas (1), (2), (3) and (4) in a molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi WADA, Masashi KODA, Ryusei KOZAWA, Yuki KITAI
  • Publication number: 20220356279
    Abstract: An aspect of the present application relates to a resin composition, which contains a polymer having a structural unit represented by Formula (1) in a molecule and a free radical compound and in which the free radical compound has at least one free radical group selected from the group consisting of structures represented by Formulas (2), (3), (4) and (5) in the molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi WADA, Masashi KODA, Ryusei KOZAWA, Yuki KITAI
  • Publication number: 20220289969
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a resin composition containing a modified polyphenylene ether compound of which a terminal is modified with a substituent having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond and an inorganic filler, in which the inorganic filler contains silica in which a ratio of a number of Si atoms contained in silanol groups to a total number of Si atoms is 3% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi KODA, Yuki KITAI, Atsushi WADA, Yasunori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20220275122
    Abstract: A resin composition is provided containing a polymer having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (1) in the molecule, and an inorganic filler, in which the inorganic filler contains silica in which a ratio of a number of Si atoms contained in silanol groups to a total number of Si atoms is 3% or less. In Formula (1), Z represents an arylene group, R1 to R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R4 to R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi KODA, Yuki KITAI, Atsushi WADA, Yasunori HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 11401393
    Abstract: A prepreg includes a resin composition or a semi-cured product of the resin composition, and a glass cloth, wherein the resin composition contains a modified polyphenylene ether compound terminally modified with a substituent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond, and a crosslinkable curing agent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond in a molecule, a content of the modified polyphenylene ether compound is 40 to 90 mass % with respect to a total mass of the modified polyphenylene ether compound and the crosslinkable curing agent, a cured product of the resin composition has a relative permittivity of 2.6 to 3.8, the glass cloth has a relative permittivity of 4.7 or less and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.0033 or less, and a cured product of the prepreg has a relative permittivity of 2.7 to 3.8 and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.002 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kitai, Mikio Sato, Yasunori Hoshino, Masashi Koda, Takayoshi Ozeki, Hiroaki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20220220272
    Abstract: A copper clad laminate includes: an insulating layer containing a cured product of a resin composition; and a surface treated copper foil on one surface or both surfaces of the insulating layer, the resin composition containing a polymer, and the surface treated copper foil including a finely roughened particle treatment layer of copper on at least one surface side of a copper foil, the finely roughened particle treatment layer being formed of fine copper particles having a particle size of 40 to 200 nm, a heat resistance treatment layer containing nickel provided on the finely roughened particle treatment layer, a rust prevention treatment layer containing at least chromium provided on the heat resistance treatment layer, a silane coupling agent layer provided on the rust prevention treatment layer, and an amount of nickel attached in the heat resistance treatment layer being 30 to 60 mg/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki KITAI, Masashi KODA, Yasunori HOSHINO, Atsushi WADA, Mikio SATO
  • Patent number: 11351755
    Abstract: A metal-clad laminate includes an insulating layer including a cured product of a resin composition, and a metal foil disposed on at least one principal surface of the insulating layer. The resin composition includes a thermosetting curing agent and a polyphenylene ether copolymer. The polyphenylene ether copolymer has an intrinsic viscosity ranging from 0.03 dl/g to 0.14 dl/g, inclusive. The intrinsic viscosity is measured in methylene chloride at 25° C. And the polyphenylene ether copolymer has, at a molecular terminal, a group represented by one of formula (1) and formula (2) at an average number of more than or equal to 0.8 and less than 1.5 per one molecule. Further, the metal foil includes a barrier layer containing cobalt on a first surface of the metal foil. The first surface is in contact with the insulating layer, and has a ten-point average roughness (Rz) of less than or equal to 2.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kitai, Hiroaki Fujiwara, Mikio Sato
  • Publication number: 20220159830
    Abstract: A prepreg includes: a resin composition or a semi-cured product thereof; and a fibrous base material, wherein the resin composition contains a polymer having a structural unit expressed by the formula (1) in a molecule, and a curing agent each at a predetermined content rate. A cured product of the resin composition has a Dk of 2.6 to 3.8, and the fibrous base material includes a glass cloth having a Dk of 4.7 or less and a Df of 0.0033 or less. A cured product of the prepreg has a Dk of 2.7 to 3.8, and a Df of 0.002 or less. In the formula (1), Z represents an arylene group, R1 to R3 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R4 to R6 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori HOSHINO, Yuki KITAI, Atsushi WADA, Masashi KODA, Mikio SATO
  • Publication number: 20220106426
    Abstract: A copper-clad laminate includes an insulating layer formed of a cured product of a resin composition and a surface treated copper foil in contact with the insulating layer, in which the resin composition contains a compound having at least one group specified in the present application and a crosslinking type curing agent; and the surface treated copper foil is a surface treated copper foil including a finely roughened particle treatment layer of copper on at least one surface side of copper foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki KITAI, Masashi KODA, Yasunori HOSHINO, Atsushi WADA, Mikio SATO
  • Publication number: 20220087032
    Abstract: A surface treated copper foil includes: a copper foil; a finely roughened particle treatment layer of copper on at least one surface of the copper foil, the finely roughened particle treatment layer including fine copper particles having a particle size of 40 to 200 nm; a heat resistance treatment layer containing nickel on the finely roughened particle treatment layer; a rust prevention treatment layer containing at least chromium on the heat resistance treatment layer; and a silane coupling agent treatment layer on the rust prevention treatment layer. An amount of nickel attached in the heat resistance treatment layer is 30 to 60 mg/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicants: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki KITAI, Takeshi OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11254100
    Abstract: A metal-clad laminate includes an insulating layer including a cured product of a resin composition, and a metal foil disposed on a principal surface of the insulating layer. The resin composition includes a polyphenylene ether copolymer and a thermosetting curing agent, the polyphenylene ether copolymer having an intrinsic viscosity measured in methylene chloride at 25° C. of between 0.03 dl/g and 0.12 dl/g, inclusive. And the polyphenylene ether copolymer has, at a molecular terminal, a group represented by formula (1) or formula (2) at an average number of 1.5 to 3 per one molecule. Further, the metal foil has a first surface that is in contact with the insulating layer, the first surface having a 10-point average roughness (Rz) of 2.0 ?m or less. And the metal foil includes a barrier layer disposed at a side of the first surface, the barrier layer containing cobalt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kitai, Akira Irifune, Yuki Inoue, Yuki Tokuda