Patents by Inventor Hideaki Kawahara

Hideaki Kawahara 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: 11444191
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a vertical drift region over a drain contact region, abutted on opposite sides by RESURF trenches. A split gate is disposed over the vertical drift region. A first portion of the split gate is a gate of an MOS transistor and is located over a body of the MOS transistor over a first side of the vertical drift region. A second portion of the split gate is a gate of a channel diode and is located over a body of the channel diode over a second, opposite, side of the vertical drift region. A source electrode is electrically coupled to a source region of the channel diode and a source region of the MOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christopher Boguslaw Kocon, Simon John Molloy, John Manning Savidge Neilson, Hideaki Kawahara
  • Patent number: 11299575
    Abstract: There is provided a water-based resin composition that contains a polymer (A) containing, as essential raw materials, a hydrogenated polybutadiene (a1) with an iodine value in the range of 5 to 25, a monomer (a2) with an acid group, and a monomer (a3) with a hydroxy group, a basic compound (B), and an aqueous medium (C), wherein the hydrogenated polybutadiene (a1) constitutes 4% to 38% by mass of the raw materials of the polymer (A), and the polymer (A) has an acid value in the range of 10 to 65 mgKOH/g. A water-based resin composition of the present invention has high storage stability and forms a coating film with good physical properties, such as high adhesiveness to various substrates and high blocking resistance, and is therefore suitably used in a water-based paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazawa, Norio Kosaka, Hideaki Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20210163651
    Abstract: There is provided a water-based resin composition that contains a polymer (A) containing, as essential raw materials, a hydrogenated polybutadiene (a1) with an iodine value in the range of 5 to 25, a monomer (a2) with an acid group, and a monomer (a3) with a hydroxy group, a basic compound (B), and an aqueous medium (C), wherein the hydrogenated polybutadiene (a1) constitutes 4% to 38% by mass of the raw materials of the polymer (A), and the polymer (A) has an acid value in the range of 10 to 65 mgKOH/g. A water-based resin composition of the present invention has high storage stability and forms a coating film with good physical properties, such as high adhesiveness to various substrates and high blocking resistance, and is therefore suitably used in a water-based paint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAZAWA, Norio KOSAKA, Hideaki KAWAHARA
  • Patent number: 10903306
    Abstract: Embodiments of a deep trench capacitor are disclosed. In one example a plurality of deep trenches is located in a first region of a semiconductor wafer, the first region having a first conductivity type. A corresponding dielectric layer is located on a surface of each of the plurality of deep trenches, and a corresponding doped polysilicon filler is located within each of the dielectric layers. Dielectric-filled trenches are located between each of the dielectric layers and the surface of the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Binghua Hu, Hideaki Kawahara, Sameer P. Pendharkar
  • Publication number: 20200373424
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a vertical drift region over a drain contact region, abutted on opposite sides by RESURF trenches. A split gate is disposed over the vertical drift region. A first portion of the split gate is a gate of an MOS transistor and is located over a body of the MOS transistor over a first side of the vertical drift region. A second portion of the split gate is a gate of a channel diode and is located over a body of the channel diode over a second, opposite, side of the vertical drift region. A source electrode is electrically coupled to a source region of the channel diode and a source region of the MOS transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Boguslaw Kocon, Simon John Molloy, John Manning Savidge Neilson, Hideaki Kawahara
  • Patent number: 10811533
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a medium voltage MOSFET having a vertical drain drift region between RESURF trenches containing field plates which are electrically coupled to a source electrode of the MOSFET. A split gate with a central opening is disposed above the drain drift region between the RESURF trenches. A two-level LDD region is disposed below the central opening in the split gate. A contact metal stack makes contact with a source region at lateral sides of the triple contact structure, and with a body contact region and the field plates in the RESURF trenches at a bottom surface of the triple contact structure. A perimeter RESURF trench surrounds the MOSFET. A field plate in the perimeter RESURF trench is electrically coupled to the source electrode of the MOSFET. An integrated snubber may be formed in trenches formed concurrently with the RESURF trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christopher Boguslaw Kocon, Hideaki Kawahara, Simon John Molloy, Satoshi Suzuki, John Manning Savidge Neilson
  • Patent number: 10741684
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a vertical drift region over a drain contact region, abutted on opposite sides by RESURF trenches. A split gate is disposed over the vertical drift region. A first portion of the split gate is a gate of an MOS transistor and is located over a body of the MOS transistor over a first side of the vertical drift region. A second portion of the split gate is a gate of a channel diode and is located over a body of the channel diode over a second, opposite, side of the vertical drift region. A source electrode is electrically coupled to a source region of the channel diode and a source region of the MOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christopher Boguslaw Kocon, Simon John Molloy, John Manning Savidge Neilson, Hideaki Kawahara
  • Patent number: 10672901
    Abstract: A device includes a transistor formed on a substrate. The transistor includes an n-type drain contact layer, an n-type drain layer, an oxide layer, a p-type body region, a p-type terminal region, body trenches, and terminal trenches. The n-type drain contact layer is near a bottom surface of the substrate. The n-type drain layer is positioned on the n-type drain contact layer. The oxide layer circumscribes a transistor region. The p-type body region is positioned within the transistor region. The p-type terminal region extends from under the oxide layer to an edge of the transistor region, thereby forming a contiguous junction with the p-type body region. The body trenches is within the transistor region and interleaves with the p-type body region, whereas the terminal trenches is outside the transistor region and interleaves with the p-type terminal region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawahara, Christopher Boguslaw Kocon, Seetharaman Sridhar, Satoshi Suzuki, Simon John Molloy
  • Patent number: 10647075
    Abstract: A friction transmission belt has a rubber layer forming a pulley contacting portion. The rubber layer is made of a rubber composition containing a crosslinked rubber component and crosslinked polyolefin particles. Examples of the crosslinked polyolefin particles can contain ultrahigh molecular weight polyolefin particles having an average molecular weight of 500,000 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Okubo, Hisashi Matsuda, Hideaki Kawahara, Shinji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10636933
    Abstract: A photodetector cell includes a substrate having a semiconductor surface layer, and a trench in the semiconductor surface layer. The trench has tilted sidewalls including a first tilted sidewall and a second tilted sidewall. A pn junction, a PIN structure, or a phototransistor includes an active p-region and an active n-region that forms a junction including a first junction along the first tilted sidewall to provide a first photodetector element and a second junction spaced apart from the first junction along the second tilted sidewall to provide a second photodetector element. At least a p-type anode contact and at least an n-type cathode contact contacts the active p-region and active n-region of the first photodetector element and second photodetector element. The tilted sidewalls provide an outer exposed or optically transparent surface for passing incident light to the first and second photodetector elements for detection of incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawahara, Henry Litzmann Edwards
  • Patent number: 10629674
    Abstract: An integrated trench capacitor and method for making the trench capacitor is disclosed. The method includes forming a trench in a silicon layer, forming a first dielectric on the exposed surface of the trench, performing an anisotropic etch of the first dielectric to expose silicon at the bottom of the trench, implanting a dopant into exposed silicon at the bottom of the trench, forming a first polysilicon layer over the first dielectric, forming a second dielectric over the first polysilicon layer, and forming a second polysilicon layer over the second dielectric to fill the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawahara, Binghua Hu, Sameer Pendharkar
  • Patent number: 10573718
    Abstract: A vertical, high-voltage MOS transistor, which has a source region, a body contact region, and a number of trenches structures with field plates, and a method of forming the MOS transistor increase the on-state resistance of the MOS transistor by reducing the trench pitch. Trench pitch can be reduced with metal contacts that simultaneously touch the source regions, the body contact regions, and the field plates. Trench pitch can also be reduced with a gate that increases the size of the LDD region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christopher Boguslaw Kocon, Simon John Molloy, John Manning Savidge Neilson, Hideaki Kawahara
  • Patent number: 10553717
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a medium voltage MOSFET having a vertical drain drift region between RESURF trenches containing field plates which are electrically coupled to a source electrode of the MOSFET. A split gate with a central opening is disposed above the drain drift region between the RESURF trenches. A two-level LDD region is disposed below the central opening in the split gate. A contact metal stack makes contact with a source region at lateral sides of the triple contact structure, and with a body contact region and the field plates in the RESURF trenches at a bottom surface of the triple contact structure. A perimeter RESURF trench surrounds the MOSFET. A field plate in the perimeter RESURF trench is electrically coupled to the source electrode of the MOSFET. An integrated snubber may be formed in trenches formed concurrently with the RESURF trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christopher Boguslaw Kocon, Hideaki Kawahara, Simon John Molloy, Satoshi Suzuki, John Manning Savidge Neilson
  • Patent number: 10538043
    Abstract: A production method of a V-belt uses a belt mold having a plurality of compression layer-shape grooves arranged adjacent to one another in a groove width direction. A shaped structure having a plurality of ridges on an outer peripheral surface is crosslinked and combined with a fabric material to form a belt slab, while the compression layer-forming portions, which are the ridges covered with the fabric material, being fitted in the respective compression layer-shape grooves of the belt mold. The belt slab is cut into ring-shaped pieces such that one ring-shaped piece corresponds to one compression layer-forming portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Hattori, Tomoaki Hata, Hirokazu Sakurai, Takashi Matsuoka, Hideaki Kawahara, Hisashi Izumi
  • Patent number: 10538042
    Abstract: A production method of a raw edge V-belt uses a belt mold having a plurality of compressed rubber layer-shape grooves arranged adjacent to one another. A shaped structure having a plurality of compressed rubber layer-forming portions on an outer peripheral surface is crosslinked to form a belt slab, while the compressed rubber layer-forming portions fitted in the respective compressed rubber layer-shape grooves of the belt mold. The belt slab is cut into ring-shaped pieces such that one ring-shaped piece corresponds to one compressed rubber layer-forming portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naohisa Harushige, Tomoaki Hata, Yusaku Taoshita, Hideaki Kawahara, Masaki Miyanishi, Yohei Hattori, Hirokazu Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10541326
    Abstract: A semiconductor device contains a vertical MOS transistor having a trench gate in trenches extending through a vertical drift region to a drain region. The trenches have field plates under the gate; the field plates are adjacent to the drift region and have a plurality of segments. A dielectric liner in the trenches separating the field plates from the drift region has a thickness great than a gate dielectric layer between the gate and the body. The dielectric liner is thicker on a lower segment of the field plate, at a bottom of the trenches, than an upper segment, immediately under the gate. The trench gate may be electrically isolated from the field plates, or may be connected to the upper segment. The segments of the field plates may be electrically isolated from each other or may be connected to each other in the trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawahara, Seetharaman Sridhar, Christopher Boguslaw Kocon, Simon John Molloy, Hong Yang
  • Patent number: 10532528
    Abstract: A shaped structure and a fabric material are set in a belt mold such that the shaped structure and the fabric material are respectively positioned inside and outside with respect to each other. While each of compression layer-forming portions comprised of ridges of the shaped structure covered with the fabric material is fitted in an associated one of compression layer-shaping grooves of the belt mold, the shaped structure is pressed toward the belt mold and heated to be crosslinked, and integrated with the fabric material, thereby molding a cylindrical belt slab. The belt slab is cut into ring-shaped pieces having two or more of the compression layer-forming portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naohisa Harushige, Kouichi Tsujino, Tomoaki Hata, Hideaki Kawahara, Hisashi Izumi, Yohei Hattori, Koichi Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 10435583
    Abstract: Provided are a curing agent for epoxy resins, which is a curing agent capable of curing an epoxy resin at room temperature, and which can form a cured product (cured coating film) having excellent adhesion even to a substrate which is not in an environment completely dried, and an epoxy resin composition obtained using the same. A curing agent for epoxy resins, containing (a1) an aromatic amine, (a2) an aliphatic amine having an aromatic ring or a cycloalkane ring, and (a3) a curing accelerator, and an epoxy resin composition containing the curing agent and an epoxy resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Tsugio Tomura, Hiroshi Moriyama, Hideaki Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20190259868
    Abstract: A device includes a transistor formed on a substrate. The transistor includes an n-type drain contact layer, an n-type drain layer, an oxide layer, a p-type body region, a p-type terminal region, body trenches, and terminal trenches. The n-type drain contact layer is near a bottom surface of the substrate. The n-type drain layer is positioned on the n-type drain contact layer. The oxide layer circumscribes a transistor region. The p-type body region is positioned within the transistor region. The p-type terminal region extends from under the oxide layer to an edge of the transistor region, thereby forming a contiguous junction with the p-type body region. The body trenches is within the transistor region and interleaves with the p-type body region, whereas the terminal trenches is outside the transistor region and interleaves with the p-type terminal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawahara, Christopher Boguslaw Kocon, Seetharaman Sridhar, Satoshi Suzuki, Simon John Molloy
  • Publication number: 20190237535
    Abstract: An integrated trench capacitor and method for making the trench capacitor is disclosed. The method includes forming a trench in a silicon layer, forming a first dielectric on the exposed surface of the trench, performing an anisotropic etch of the first dielectric to expose silicon at the bottom of the trench, implanting a dopant into exposed silicon at the bottom of the trench, forming a first polysilicon layer over the first dielectric, forming a second dielectric over the first polysilicon layer, and forming a second polysilicon layer over the second dielectric to fill the trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawahara, Binghua Hu, Sameer Pendharkar