Patents by Inventor Hidenobu Abe

Hidenobu Abe 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: 7294203
    Abstract: A heat shielding member is provided in a device pulling up a silicon single crystal rod from a silicon melt stored in a quartz crucible, and equipped with a tube portion which shields radiant heat from the heater surrounding the outer peripheral face of the silicon single crystal rod, a swelling portion provided at the lower portion of the tube portion, and a ring-shape heat accumulating portion provided at the inside of the swelling portion. The heat accumulating portion is a thermal conductivity of 5 W/(m·° C.) or less, its inner peripheral face is a height (H1) of 10 mm or more and d/2 or less when the diameter of the silicon single crystal rod is referred to as d and the minimum distance (W1) between the outer peripheral face of the silicon single crystal rod and the inner peripheral face of the heat accumulating portion is formed so as to be 10 mm or more and 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Sumitomo Mitsubishi Silicon Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Harada, Yoji Suzuki, Senlin Fu, Hisashi Furuya, Hidenobu Abe
  • Patent number: 7208042
    Abstract: A silicon single crystal ingot is pulled at a pull rate so that the interior of the ingot results in a perfect region in which agglomerates of interstitial silicon-type point defects and agglomerates of vacancy-type point defects are absent, while rotating a quartz crucible for storing a silicon melt at a predetermined rotation speed and rotating the ingot pulled from the silicon melt in the opposite direction to the rotation of the quartz crucible at a predetermined rotation speed. An average rotation speed CRTAV of the quartz crucible during the pulling of a top ingot portion is set to be faster than an average rotation speed CRTAV of the quartz crucible during the pulling of a bottom ingot portion of the silicon single crystal ingot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Sumitomo Mitsubishi Silicon Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Harada, Yoji Suzuki, Hidenobu Abe
  • Publication number: 20060124052
    Abstract: A heat shielding member is provided in a device pulling up a silicon single crystal rod from a silicon melt stored in a quartz crucible, and equipped with a tube portion which shields radiant heat from the heater surrounding the outer peripheral face of the silicon single crystal rod, a swelling portion provided at the lower portion of the tube portion, and a ring-shape heat accumulating portion provided at the inside of the swelling portion. The heat accumulating portion is a thermal conductivity of 5 W/(m·° C.) or less, its inner peripheral face is a height (H1) of 10 mm or more and d/2 or less when the diameter of the silicon single crystal rod is referred to as d and the minimum distance (W1) between the outer peripheral face of the silicon single crystal rod and the inner peripheral face of the heat accumulating portion is formed so as to be 10 mm or more and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Harada, Yoji Suzuki, Senlin Fu, Hisashi Furuya, Hidenobu Abe
  • Publication number: 20050263063
    Abstract: A silicon single crystal ingot is pulled at a pull rate so that the interior of the ingot results in a perfect region in which agglomerates of interstitial silicon-type point defects and agglomerates of vacancy-type point defects are absent, while rotating a quartz crucible for storing a silicon melt at a predetermined rotation speed and rotating the ingot pulled from the silicon melt in the opposite direction to the rotation of the quartz crucible at a predetermined rotation speed. An average rotation speed CRTAV of the quartz crucible during the pulling of a top ingot portion is set to be faster than an average rotation speed CRTAV of the quartz crucible during the pulling of a bottom ingot portion of the silicon single crystal ingot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Harada, Yoji Suzuki, Hidenobu Abe