Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Opm Laboratory Co., Ltd

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Words, Ltd., Japan

Yoshiyuki Uchinono

Satoshi Abe

Norio Yoshida

Isao Fuwa

Yoshikazu Higashi

Masataka Takenami

Isamu Matsumoto

Kenichi Tanaka

Shinya Watanabe

Atsushi Sakaguchi

Shinya Ishizaki

Kimitake Okugawa

Noboru Urata

Takashi Shindo

Yoshimitsu Nakamura

Akira Fukuoka

Syoji Kuroki

Masahide Muto

Kazuho Morimoto

Masaki Kondo

Yutaka Iwahori

Toshiyuki Suzuki

Ryoji Yokotani

Koji Nishioka

Mikio Mori

Masaru Sugimoto

Takuma Hashimoto

Hideyoshi Kimura

Satoshi Mori

Akifumi Nakamura

Kazuo Sawada

Hiroshi Iwano

Yasufumi Masaki

Youichiro Nakahara

Naoto Ikegawa

Masanori Morimoto

Takeshi Ikemura

Yasunori Miki

Syunichi Nakayama

Masaharu Ishikawa

Kenji Jonen

Shin Sato

Shouichi Nagata

Hiroshi Yanagida

Kyohei Uemura

Yutara Iwahori

To manufacture a sprue-bush which is capable of suitably cooling a melt raw resin in a raw resin-flow path as a whole, there is provided a method for manufacturing a sprue-bush, wherein a shaped part is located on a base part to manufacture the sprue-bush, the base part comprising a raw resin-flow path and a cooling medium-flow path, wherein, in the shaped part, a downstream raw resin-flow path portion is located and a downstream cooling medium-flow path portion is also located, the downstream raw resin-flow path portion corresponding to a downstream side region of a raw resin-flow path of the sprue-bush, the downstream cooling medium-flow path portion being positioned around the downstream raw resin-flow path portion and corresponding to a downstream side region of a cooling medium-flow path of the sprue-bush, and wherein the downstream cooling medium-flow path portion is located to surround the downstream raw resin-flow path portion.

Sprue-bush and method for manufacturing sprue-bush

There is provided a more efficient method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object. The method of the present invention comprises a successive formation of a plurality of solidified layers through a light beam irradiation, wherein the solidified layers are provided by a hybrid of combined systems of an after irradiation system and a simultaneous irradiation system, the after irradiation system being such that the light beam irradiation is performed after a formation of a powder layer, the simultaneous irradiation system being such that the light beam irradiation is performed while a raw material is supplied.

Method for manufacturing three-dimensional shaped object

There is provided a mold including a movable side mold, a fixed side mold and a sprue bush, the sprue bush including a flow path for a cooling fluid of the fixed side mold, wherein inlet and outlet ports of the flow path for the cooling fluid are in a direct connection with a cooling tube, respectively, the cooling tube being located along a space portion provided in the fixed side mold, and wherein the space portion is in a form of an opening provided in at least one of opposed surfaces of the fixed side mold.

Mold and method for manufacturing mold

In order to provide a sprue-bush which is capable of suitably cooling a melt raw resin in a raw resin-flow path as a whole, there is provided a sprue-bush, comprising a raw resin-flow path and a cooling medium-flow path located around the raw resin-flow path, wherein a width dimension of the raw-resin flow path gradually becomes larger toward a downstream side-end surface of the sprue-bush, and wherein the downstream side-end surface of the sprue-bush is a heat transfer surface.

Sprue-bush

There is provided a method for creating machining data for a hybrid ultraprecision machining device for manufacturing a micro-machined product from a workpiece, the machining device comprising: an electromagnetic-wave-machining means for roughly machining the workpiece; a precision-machining means for precisely machining the roughly machined workpiece; and a shape-measurement means, wherein the creation of the machining data makes use of: information on original shape corresponding to shape of the workpiece; information on roughly-machining shape to be removed from the workpiece by the electromagnetic-wave-machining means; and stereoscopic model of after-electromagnetic-wave-machining shape which is obtained by subtracting the roughly-machining shape from the original shape, wherein the machining data is created for electromagnetic-wave machining on the basis of information on a plurality of sliced portions obtained by partially slice-cutting from the stereoscopic model of the after-electromagnetic-wave-machining shape.

Method for creating machining data for use in hybrid ultraprecision machining device, and hybrid ultraprecision machining device

There is provided a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, comprising the steps of: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing sintering of the powder of the predetermined portion or melting and subsequent solidification thereof; and (ii) forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the resulting solidified layer, and then irradiating another predetermined portion of the new powder layer with the light beam, the steps (i) and (ii) being repeatedly performed, wherein the three-dimensional shaped object is manufactured such that it has three different solidified portions of high-density, intermediate-density and low-density solidified portions in at least a part of the object, and wherein the intermediate-density solidified portion is formed to be located in a part of a surface of the three-dimensional shaped object.

Method for manufacturing three-dimensional shaped object and three-dimensional shaped object

There is provided a method for determining a machining means in a hybrid ultraprecision machining device for manufacturing a micro-machined product from a workpiece, the machining device comprising: an electromagnetic-wave-machining means for roughly machining the workpiece; a precision-machining means for precisely machining the roughly machined workpiece; and a shape-measurement means for measuring a shape of the workpiece upon use of the electromagnetic-wave machining means and the precision-machining means, wherein a choice is made between the electromagnetic-wave-machining means and the precision-machining means in the determination of the machining means, on the basis of: information on a stereoscopic model of the micro-machined product; information on a removal volume to be removed from a volume of the workpiece in the manufacturing of the micro-machined product; and data on a removal process time of the electromagnetic-wave-machining means and data on a removal process time of the precision-machining means.

Method for determining a machining means in hybrid ultraprecision machining device, and hybrid ultraprecision machining device

There is provided a manufacturing method of the three-dimensional shaped object, the method being capable of suitably reducing the local raised portion which can occur during the light beam irradiation under the condition of the divided sub-irradiation paths. The manufacturing method of the present invention is performed by repetition of a powder-layer forming and a solidified-layer forming, wherein an irradiation path of the light beam is divided into a plurality of sub-irradiation paths including a short sub-irradiation path with its length being shorter than a predetermined length and a long sub-irradiation path with its length being the predetermined length or longer, and wherein an irradiation mode of the light beam is changed depending on the lengths of the sub-irradiation paths.

A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, comprising: (i) forming a powder layer on a base plate by a sliding movement of a squeegee blade, followed by forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of the powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing sintering of the powder of the predetermined portion or melting and subsequent solidification thereof; and (ii) forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the resulting solidified layer, and then irradiating another predetermined portion of the new powder layer with the light beam, steps (i) and (ii) being repeatedly performed,

There is provided a hybrid ultraprecision machining device for manufacturing a micro-machined product from a workpiece, the machining device comprising: an electromagnetic-wave-machining means for roughly machining the workpiece; a precision-machining means for precisely machining the roughly machined workpiece, the precision-machining means being equipped with a replaceable cutting tool selected from the group consisting of a planar tool, a shaper tool, a fly-cutting tool, a diamond-turning tool and a micro-milling tool; a shape-measurement means for measuring a shape of the workpiece upon use of the electromagnetic-wave machining means and the precision-machining means; and a control means for controlling the electromagnetic-wave-machining means or the precision-machining means, based on information on the shape of the workpiece, the shape being measured by the shape-measuring means.

Hybrid ultraprecision machining device and hybrid ultraprecision machining method

There is provided a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, the method comprising the repeated steps of: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing a sintering of the powder in the predetermined portion or a melting and subsequent solidification thereof; and (ii) forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the resulting solidified layer, followed by the irradiation of a predetermined portion of the powder layer with the light beam, wherein a part of a surface portion of the three-dimensional shaped object is formed as a low-density solidified portion whose solidified density ranges from 50% to 90% so that an application of pressure can be performed by a gas flowing through the low-density solidified portion.

Method for manufacturing three-dimensionally shaped object, three-dimensionally shaped object obtained thereby, and method for manufacturing molded article

There is provided a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, the method comprising the repeated steps of: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing a sintering of the powder in the predetermined portion or a melting and subsequent solidification thereof; and (ii) forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the resulting solidified layer, followed by the irradiation of a predetermined portion of the powder layer with the light beam, wherein a heater element is disposed on the solidified layer during the repeated steps (i) and (ii), and thereby the heater element is situated within the three-dimensional shaped object.

Method for manufacturing three-dimensionally shaped object and three-dimensionally shaped object

A circuit board includes: an insulating substrate; and a circuit formed on the insulating substrate. The circuit includes: a undercoat layer with a circuit pattern formed by irradiating a metal thin film covering a surface of the insulating substrate with a laser along an outer shape of the circuit so as to partly remove the metal thin film along the outer shape of the circuit; a Cu plating layer, a Ni plating layer and a Au plating layer formed by metal plating and sequentially provided on a surface of the undercoat layer. A first middle plating layer and a second middle plating layer are provided between the Ni plating layer and the Au plating layer. The first middle plating layer includes metal with a less noble standard electrode potential with respect to Au and is in contact with the Au plating layer. The second middle plating layer includes metal with a noble standard electrode potential with respect to the metal in the first middle plating layer and is in contact with the first middle plating layer.

Circuit board and method of manufacturing the same

In a contact for a connector, a metal material id processed to be bent in a predetermined shape in a manner so that a terminal portion is formed in the vicinity of an end and a contacting portion is formed in the vicinity of the other end. A nickel plating layer as a foundation plating layer and a gold plating layer are formed on substantially entire surface of the contact including the terminal portion and the contacting portion. Laser beams are irradiated at a portion between the terminal portion and the contacting portion, and especially in the vicinity of the terminal portion so that the nickel plating layer as the foundation plating layer is unsheathed by removing the gold plating layer or gold in the gold plating layer and nickel in the foundation layer are alloyed. Nickel and the alloy of nickel and gold respectively have low wetting property with respect to solder, so that diffusion of melted solder stops at the portion.

Connector-use contact and production method for component to be soldered

A light-emitting device () has a submount () and a plate for heat transfer () having a metallic plate (). The submount () has a mount base (), at least one light-emitting diode chip () mounted thereon and electrically conducting lines (-) formed on the mount base () to be connected electrically to the light-emitting diode chip (). A first plane () of the mount base () of the submount () is bonded thermally to the first plate (). For example, the plate is a circuit board having a metallic plate (), and the submount () is bonded thermally to the metallic plate () of the one of the at least one plate (). In an example, a second plate for heat transfer is also bonded thermally to a second plane of the mount base () for providing a plurality of heat transfer paths.

Light-emitting device

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Yoshiyuki Uchinono