Patents by Inventor Eiji Toyoda

Eiji Toyoda 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: 8389347
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a field effect transistor, includes: forming a mask of an insulating film on a semiconductor layer containing Si formed on a semiconductor substrate; forming the semiconductor layer into a mesa structure by performing etching with the use of the mask, the mesa structure extending in a direction parallel to an upper face of the semiconductor substrate; narrowing a distance between two sidewalls of the mesa structure and flattening the sidewalls by performing a heat treatment in a hydrogen atmosphere, the two sidewalls extending in the direction and facing each other; forming a gate insulating film covering the mesa structure having the sidewalls flattened; forming a gate electrode covering the gate insulating film; and forming source and drain regions at portions of the mesa structure, the portions being located on two sides of the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tezuka, Eiji Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20120295997
    Abstract: A resin kneaded material has not more than 30 pores having a pore diameter of not less than 20 ?m in a surface area of 4.00 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TORINARI, Hirofumi ONO, Minoru YAMANE, Eiji TOYODA, Yuusaku SHIMIZU, Tsutomu NISHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20120296010
    Abstract: An encapsulating sheet is obtained by subjecting a kneaded material to plastic working, the kneaded material including an epoxy resin represented by General Formula (1) below, a curing agent, and an inorganic filler, (where R1 to R4 are the same or different, and each represents a methyl group or a hydrogen atom; and X represents —CH2—, —O—, or —S—).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuusaku SHIMIZU, Eiji TOYODA, Tomoo YAMAGUCHI, Yasunobu INA
  • Patent number: 8304817
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a field effect transistor, includes: forming a mask of an insulating film on a semiconductor layer containing Si formed on a semiconductor substrate; forming the semiconductor layer into a mesa structure by performing etching with the use of the mask, the mesa structure extending in a direction parallel to an upper face of the semiconductor substrate; narrowing a distance between two sidewalls of the mesa structure and flattening the sidewalls by performing a heat treatment in a hydrogen atmosphere, the two sidewalls extending in the direction and facing each other; forming a gate insulating film covering the mesa structure having the sidewalls flattened; forming a gate electrode covering the gate insulating film; and forming source and drain regions at portions of the mesa structure, the portions being located on two sides of the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tezuka, Eiji Toyoda
  • Patent number: 8298872
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a semiconductor device having a structure wherein a semiconductor chip 3 is mounted on a wiring circuit substrate 2 and sealed with a resin. A wiring circuit substrate 2 having a connecting conductor portion that can be connected to an electrode of the chip is formed on a metal support layer 1 in a way such that the substrate can be separated from the metal support layer, the chip 3 is mounted on the wiring circuit substrate 2, a sheet-shaped resin composition T is placed on the chip and heated on the chip to seal the chip, and the metal support layer is separated and divided to obtain individual semiconductor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Oda, Eiji Toyoda, Mitsuaki Fusumada
  • Patent number: 8269213
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition for semiconductor encapsulation, which comprises: (A) an epoxy resin having at least two epoxy groups in a molecule thereof; (B) a compound having at least two phenolic hydroxyl groups in a molecule thereof; and (C) particles of a compound represented by general formula (1), the particles having a maximum particle diameter of not greater than 30 ?m and a standard deviation of not greater than 5 ?m, the particles being dispersed in the epoxy resin composition: wherein X1 to X5, which may be the same or different, are each a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 9 carbon atoms, or a fluorine atom. The epoxy resin composition is an encapsulation material excellent in pot life, fluidity and curability, and has a lower chloride ion content. The epoxy resin composition provides a highly reliable semiconductor device excellent in moisture resistant reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Noro, Naohide Takamoto, Eiji Toyoda
  • Patent number: 8252700
    Abstract: In a method of heat treating a wafer obtained by slicing a silicon single crystal ingot manufactured by the Czochralski method, a rapid heating/cooling heat treatment is carried out by setting a holding time at an ultimate temperature of 1200° C. or more and a melting point of silicon or less to be equal to or longer than one second and to be equal to or shorter than 60 seconds in a mixed gas atmosphere containing oxygen having an oxygen partial pressure of 1.0% or more and 20% or less and argon, and an oxide film having a thickness of 9.1 nm or less or 24.3 nm or more is thus formed on a surface of the silicon wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Covalent Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Senda, Hiromichi Isogai, Eiji Toyoda, Kumiko Murayama, Koji Araki, Tatsuhiko Aoki, Haruo Sudo, Koji Izunome, Susumu Maeda, Kazuhiko Kashima
  • Publication number: 20120184091
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a method for heat treating a silicon wafer reducing grown-in defects while suppressing generation of slip during RTP and improving surface roughness of the wafer. The method performing a first heat treatment while introducing a rare gas, the first heat treatment comprising the steps of rapidly heating the wafer to T1 of 1300° C. or higher and the melting point of silicon or lower, keeping the wafer at T1, rapidly cooling the wafer to T2 of 400-800° C. and keeping the wafer at T2; and performing a second heat treatment while introducing an oxygen gas in an amount of 20-100 vol. %, the second heat treatment comprising the steps of keeping the wafer at T2, rapidly heating the wafer from T2 to T3 of 1250° C. or higher and the melting point of silicon or lower, keeping the wafer at T3 and rapidly cooling the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: Covalent Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Senda, Hiromichi Isogai, Eiji Toyoda, Kumiko Murayama, Koji Araki, Tatsuhiko Aoki, Haruo Sudo, Koji Izunome, Susumu Maeda, Kazuhiko Kashima
  • Publication number: 20120153513
    Abstract: A thermosetting encapsulation adhesive sheet which is used for encapsulating a chip type device (1) having connection electrodes (bumps) (3) and mounted on a wiring circuit board (2). The thermosetting encapsulation adhesive sheet is composed of an epoxy resin composition having a viscosity of 5×104 to 5×106 Pa·s as measured at a temperature of 80 to 120° C. before thermosetting thereof. The thermosetting encapsulation adhesive sheet makes it possible to conveniently encapsulate a hollow device with an improved yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Toyoda, Hiroshi Noro
  • Publication number: 20120139088
    Abstract: A silicon wafer for preventing a void defect in a bulk region from becoming source of contamination and slip generation in a device process is provided. And a heat-treating method thereof for reducing crystal defects such as COP in a region near the wafer surface to be a device active region is provided. The silicon wafer has a surface region 1 which is a defect-free region and a bulk region 2 including void defect of a polyhedron whose basic shape is an octahedron in which a corner portion of the polyhedron is in the curved shape and an inner-wall oxide film the void defect is removed. The silicon wafer is provided by performing a heat-treating method in which gas to be supplied, inner pressure of spaces and a maximum achievable temperature are set to a predetermined value when subjecting the silicon wafer produced by a CZ method to RTP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Covalent Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Senda, Hiromichi Isogai, Eiji Toyoda, Koji Araki, Tatsuhiko Aoki, Haruo Sudo, Koji Izunome, Susumu Maeda, Kazuhiko Kashima, Hiroyuki Saito
  • Publication number: 20120055015
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an electronic parts device allowing for easy overmolding and underfilling without requiring a jig for preventing leakage of the melted resin composition, and a resin composition sheet for electronic parts encapsulation used therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji TOYODA, Shigetomi KIDO
  • Publication number: 20110229697
    Abstract: A label sheet for cleaning is formed of a label for cleaning including a cleaning layer having a 180° peeling adhesion to a silicon wafer of 0.20 N/10 mm or less after receiving an active energy and an adhesive layer provided on one of surfaces of said cleaning layer, and a separator on which the label is removably provided through the adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto NAMIKAWA, Yoshio TERADA, Jirou NUKAGA, Eiji TOYODA
  • Publication number: 20110229675
    Abstract: A label sheet for cleaning is formed of a label for cleaning including a cleaning layer having a 180° peeling adhesion to a silicon wafer of 0.20 N/10 mm or less after receiving an active energy and an adhesive layer provided on one of surfaces of said cleaning layer, and a separator on which the label is removably provided through the adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto NAMIKAWA, Yoshio TERADA, Jirou NUKAGA, Eiji TOYODA
  • Patent number: 7977219
    Abstract: In a manufacturing method for a silicon wafer, a first heat treatment process is performed on the silicon wafer while introducing a first gas having an oxygen gas in an amount of 0.01 vol. % or more and 1.00 vol. % or less and a rare gas, and a second heat treatment process is performed while stopping introducing the first gas and introducing a second gas having an oxygen gas in an amount of 20 vol. % or more and 100 vol. % or less and a rare gas. In the first heat treatment process, the silicon wafer is rapidly heated to first temperature of 1300° C. or higher and a melting point of silicon or lower at a first heating rate, and kept at the first temperature. In the second heat treatment process, the silicon wafer is kept at the first temperature, and rapidly cooled from the first temperature at a first cooling rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Covalent Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Isogai, Takeshi Senda, Eiji Toyoda, Kumiko Murayama, Koji Izunome, Susumu Maeda, Kazuhiko Kashima
  • Publication number: 20110163355
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a field effect transistor, includes: forming a mask of an insulating film on a semiconductor layer containing Si formed on a semiconductor substrate; forming the semiconductor layer into a mesa structure by performing etching with the use of the mask, the mesa structure extending in a direction parallel to an upper face of the semiconductor substrate; narrowing a distance between two sidewalls of the mesa structure and flattening the sidewalls by performing a heat treatment in a hydrogen atmosphere, the two sidewalls extending in the direction and facing each other; forming a gate insulating film covering the mesa structure having the sidewalls flattened; forming a gate electrode covering the gate insulating film; and forming source and drain regions at portions of the mesa structure, the portions being located on two sides of the gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tezuka, Eiji Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20110165738
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a field effect transistor, includes: forming a mask of an insulating film on a semiconductor layer containing Si formed on a semiconductor substrate; forming the semiconductor layer into a mesa structure by performing etching with the use of the mask, the mesa structure extending in a direction parallel to an upper face of the semiconductor substrate; narrowing a distance between two sidewalls of the mesa structure and flattening the sidewalls by performing a heat treatment in a hydrogen atmosphere, the two sidewalls extending in the direction and facing each other; forming a gate insulating film covering the mesa structure having the sidewalls flattened; forming a gate electrode covering the gate insulating film; and forming source and drain regions at portions of the mesa structure, the portions being located on two sides of the gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tezuka, Eiji Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20110143501
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a semiconductor device having a structure wherein a semiconductor chip 3 is mounted on a wiring circuit substrate 2 and sealed with a resin. A wiring circuit substrate 2 having a connecting conductor portion that can be connected to an electrode of the chip is formed on a metal support layer 1 in a way such that the substrate can be separated from the metal support layer, the chip 3 is mounted on the wiring circuit substrate 2, a sheet-shaped resin composition T is placed on the chip and heated on the chip to seal the chip, and the metal support layer is separated and divided to obtain individual semiconductor devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi ODA, Eiji TOYODA, Mitsuaki FUSUMADA
  • Patent number: 7923314
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a field effect transistor, includes: forming a mask of an insulating film on a semiconductor layer containing Si formed on a semiconductor substrate; forming the semiconductor layer into a mesa structure by performing etching with the use of the mask, the mesa structure extending in a direction parallel to an upper face of the semiconductor substrate; narrowing a distance between two sidewalls of the mesa structure and flattening the sidewalls by performing a heat treatment in a hydrogen atmosphere, the two sidewalls extending in the direction and facing each other; forming a gate insulating film covering the mesa structure having the sidewalls flattened; forming a gate electrode covering the gate insulating film; and forming source and drain regions at portions of the mesa structure, the portions being located on two sides of the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tezuka, Eiji Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20100319151
    Abstract: A cleaning sheet for cleaning foreign matters away from the interior of the substrate processing equipment is provided. The cleaning sheet includes a cleaning layer having substantially no tackiness and having a tensile modulus of not lower than 0.98 N/mm2 as determined according to JIS K7127. Alternatively, the cleaning sheet includes a cleaning layer having a Vickers hardness of not lower than 10 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Namikawa, Yoshio Terada, Jirou Nukaga, Eiji Toyoda, Hirofumi Fujii, Daisuke Uenda, Asami Funatsu, Nobuaki Maruoka, Hitoshi Ishizaka, Yasuhiro Amano
  • Patent number: 7846258
    Abstract: A cleaning sheet comprises a cleaning layer provided on one side of a base material, from which cleaning layer F?, Cl?, Br?, NO2?, NO3?, PO43?, SO42?, Na+, NH4+ and K+ are extractable with pure water each in an amount of not greater than 20 ppm, when extracted under boiling at 120° C. for 1 hour, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on the other side of the base material, a carrying material with cleaning capacity comprising the aforementioned cleaning sheet laminated on a carrying material with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The present disclosure also relates to a method for cleaning a substrate processing equipment which comprises conveying the aforementioned carrying material with cleaning capacity into the substrate processing equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Terada, Makoto Namikawa, Eiji Toyoda