Patents by Inventor Kazuo Maeda

Kazuo Maeda 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: 6685525
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an inexpensive lamp, which suppresses distortion of a bulb and prevents decrease in commercial value and breakage of the bulb. In a glass bulb having one end thereof communicating with an exhaust tube, an assembly of a filament, metal foils and lead wires is disposed. In this state, the whole glass bulb is heated by a burner. The end opposite to the exhaust tube of the glass bulb is pinch-sealed to form a pinch-sealed portion. Subsequently, an expanded portion is formed by charging a protective gas from the exhaust tube into the glass bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 6673725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a semiconductor device manufacturing method for forming an interlayer insulating film having a low dielectric constant by coating a copper wiring. The low dielectric constant insulating film is formed by reaction of a plasma of a film-forming gas containing an oxygen-containing gas of N2O, H2O, or CO2, ammonia (NH3), and at least one of an alkyl compound having a siloxane bond and methylsilane (SiHn(CH3)4−n: n=0, 1, 2, 3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignees: Canon Sales Co., Inc., Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimi Shioya, Kouichi Ohira, Kazuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 6649495
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device in which a barrier insulating film and a main insulating film having low relative dielectric constant are sequentially formed while a wiring mainly consisting of copper film is coated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignees: Canon Sales Co., Inc., Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimi Shioya, Yuhko Nishimoto, Tomomi Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikakura, Kazuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 6645883
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a film forming method for forming an insulating film having a low dielectric constant. This method comprises the steps of adding at least one diluting gas of an inert gas and a nitrogen gas (N2) to a major deposition gas component consisting of siloxane and N2O, converting the resultant deposition gas into plasma, causing reaction in the plasma, and forming an insulating film 25,27, or 28 on a substrate targeted for film formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignees: Canon Sales Co., Inc., Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youichi Yamamoto, Hiroshi Ikakura, Tomomi Suzuki, Yuichiro Kotake, Yoshimi Shioya, Kouichi Ohira, Shoji Ohgawara, Kazuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 6642157
    Abstract: There is provided the film forming method of forming the insulating film 204 containing silicon on the substrate 103 by plasmanizing the compound having the siloxane bonds and the oxidizing gas to react with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignees: Canon Sales Co., Inc., Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimi Shioya, Yuichiro Kotake, Youichi Yamamoto, Tomomi Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikakura, Shoji Ohgawara, Kouichi Ohira, Kazuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 6630412
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device manufacturing method for forming an interlayer insulating film having a low dielectric constant on a substrate 21 from a surface of which a copper wiring 23 is exposed, the interlayer insulating film consists of multi-layered insulating films 24, 25, 29 and the insulating film 24, that contacts to the copper wiring 23, out of the multi-layered insulating films 24, 25, 29 is formed by plasmanizing a film forming gas containing at least an alkyl compound having siloxane bonds and any one of nitrogen (N2) and ammonia (NH3) to react.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignees: Canon Sales Co., Inc., Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimi Shioya, Kouichi Ohira, Kazuo Maeda, Tomomi Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikakura, Youichi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20030181062
    Abstract: There is provided a method for improving film quality of an insulating film, which includes the steps of forming a silicon oxide film on a substrate, and heating the silicon oxide film by contacting an exposed surface of the silicon oxide film with a steam-containing atmosphere after the silicon oxide film is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Setsu Suzuki, Kazuo Maeda
  • Publication number: 20030123147
    Abstract: A film for forming a 3D display body capable of obtaining a 3D image having higher display quality and a higher cubic feeling, by developing a 3D image containing right-eye image display portions a and left-eye display portions b in mixtures, wherein a laminate phase difference film 3 is formed by laminating, on a transparent support member 1, a plurality of phase differences films 3′ such as a polycarbonate film or stretched PVA film having birefringence in such a fashion that the optical axes thereof cross one another; predetermined portions of the laminate phase difference film 3 are removed; an appropriate synthetic resin 6 is packed into the removed portions and are set to the right-eye image display portions a; and portions of the laminate phase difference film 3 other than the right-eye image display portions a are set to the left-eye image display portions b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Sadeg M. Faris, Yashiro Minami, Yingqiu Jiang, Kazuo Maeda, Yuen-Ming Chang, Yuzuru Ohkawara, David C. Swift, Adam W. Divelbiss
  • Publication number: 20030109136
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which a barrier insulating film covering a copper wiring is formed by a plasma enhanced CVD method. The method comprises the steps of connecting a supply power source for supplying high frequency power of a frequency of 1 MHz or more to a first electrode 2, and holding a substrate 21 on a second electrode 3 facing the first electrode 2, the substrate 21 on which a copper wiring is formed; supplying a film forming gas containing an alkyl compound and an oxygen-containing gas between the first and second electrodes 2, 3, and regulating a gas pressure of the film forming gas to 1 Torr or less; and supplying the high frequency power to any one of the first and second electrodes 2, 3 to convert the film forming gas into a plasma state, and allowing the alkyl compound and the oxygen-containing gas of the film forming gas to react with each other and thus form a barrier insulating film covering the surface of the substrate 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Applicant: CANON SALES CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yoshimi Shioya, Yuhko Nishimoto, Tomomi Suzuki, Kazuo Maeda
  • Publication number: 20030104689
    Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, in which a main insulating film whose relative dielectric constant is drastically reduced can be formed on a barrier insulating film that covers wirings mainly consist of copper film. The configuration of the method is that film forming gas containing either siloxane or methylsilane, oxygen-containing gas, and etching gas, is transformed into plasma to cause reaction so as to form an insulating film 35b having low dielectric constant on a substrate 21 subject to deposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Applicant: CANON SALES CO., INC. AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimi Shioya, Kazuo Maeda, Hiroshi Ikakura
  • Patent number: 6548426
    Abstract: There is provided a method for improving film quality of an insulating film, which includes the steps of forming a silicon oxide film on a substrate, and heating the silicon oxide film by contacting an exposed surface of the silicon oxide film with a steam-containing atmosphere after the silicon oxide film is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignees: Canon Sales Co., Ltd., Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Setsu Suzuki, Kazuo Maeda
  • Publication number: 20030042613
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a semiconductor device in which a barrier insulating film is formed to cover a copper film or a wiring consisting mainly of the copper film. In structure, the barrier insulating film 34a comprises a double-layered structure or more that is provided with at least a first barrier insulating film 34aa containing silicon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen or silicon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon, and a second barrier insulating film 34ab containing silicon, oxygen and hydrogen or silicon, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Applicant: CANON SALES CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yoshimi Shioya, Yuhko Nishimoto, Kazuo Maeda, Tomomi Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikakura
  • Publication number: 20030045096
    Abstract: There are provided the steps of exposing a surface of a copper (Cu) wiring layer formed over a semiconductor substrate to a plasma of a gas selected from the group consisting of an ammonia gas, a mixed gas of nitrogen and hydrogen, a CF4 gas, a C2F6 gas and a NF3 gas, exposing the surface of the copper (Cu) wiring layer to an atmosphere or a plasma of a gas selected from the group consisting of an ammonia gas, an ethylenediamine gas, a &bgr;-diketone gas, a mixed gas consisting of the ammonia gas and a hydrocarbon gas (CxHy), and a mixed gas consisting of a nitrogen gas and the hydrocarbon gas (CxHy), and forming a Cu diffusion preventing insulating film on the copper (Cu) wiring layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshimi Shioya, Yuhko Nishimoto, Tomomi Suzuki, Shoji Ohgawara, Kazuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 6524972
    Abstract: A method for forming an interlayer insulating film is disclosed. This method comprises the steps of: forming an underlying insulating film on an object to be formed; and forming a porous SiO2 film on said underlying insulating film by a Chemical Vapor Deposition that employs a source gas containing TEOS (tetraethoxy silane) and O3 where the O3 is contained in the source gas with first concentration that is lower than concentration necessary for oxidizing the TEOS. Alternative method for forming an interlayer insulating film is also disclosed. This method comprises the step of: forming an underlying insulating film on an object to be formed; performing Cl (chlorine) plasma treatment for the underlying insulating film; and forming a porous SiO2 film on the underlying insulating film by a Chemical Vapor Deposition that employs a source gas containing TEOS (tetraethoxy silane) and O3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignees: Canon Sales Co., Inc., Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 6514884
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for reforming a surface of a base layer before thin film deposition, wherein a base thermal SiO2 film is exposed to a gas selected from the group consisting of AX4, AHnCl4−n and ARnX4−n, wherein A represents Si, Ge or Sn, X represents I, Br, F or Cl and R represents CmH2m+1, wherein “n” is 1, 2 or 3 and “m” is a natural number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 6514855
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a semiconductor device manufacturing method for forming a via hole or a contact hole in an interlayer insulating film with a low dielectric constant. The method includes the steps of forming a nitrogen containing insulating film on a substrate, forming a porous insulating film on the nitrogen-containing insulating film, forming an opening in the underlying insulating film and the porous insulating film, and forming a nitrogen containing insulating film on the surface of the porous insulating film and on the surface of the opening by bringing these surfaces into contact with a plasma of any one of an ammonia gas, a nitrogen gas, and an oxygen nitride gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignees: Canon Sales Co., Inc., Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomi Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikakura, Kazuo Maeda, Yoshimi Shioya, Koichi Ohira
  • Publication number: 20030022468
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device in which a barrier insulating film and a main insulating film having low relative dielectric constant are sequentially formed while a wiring mainly consisting of copper film is coated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshimi Shioya, Yuhko Nishimoto, Tomomi Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikakura, Kazuo Maeda
  • Publication number: 20030007243
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a 3D image display body which is used to display 3D images in which right-eye image display parts a and left-eye image display parts b are mixed, the method having a phase-difference film that is disposed on a transparent support with an adhesive agent interposed. Specified portions of the above-mentioned phase-difference film are then cut away by means of an ultra-hard blade, so that a plurality of grooves that extend from one side of the phase-difference film to the other side are formed side by side in the phase-difference film. A display member is then superimposed on or bonded to the phase-difference film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Kazuo Maeda, Yoshihiro Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 6504154
    Abstract: A non-destructive sugar content measuring apparatus having a plurality of trays on which vegetables and fruits are to be placed, a transport device for successively delivering the trays at appropriate intervals, and first, second and third measuring sections provided in the course of a transport path and at which laser beams having wavelengths &lgr;1, &lgr;2 and &lgr;3 are respectively made incident on each vegetable or fruit and the amount of light of each laser beam emergent from the vegetable or fruit is measured with a detector provided at each measuring section and the absorbance of each laser beam is determined from the amount of incident light made incident on the vegetable or fruit and the amount of detected light which has been measured with the detector, to measure the sugar content of the vegetables and fruits on the basis of each absorbance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junji Iida, Akira Terashima, Kazuo Maeda, Shintaro Ishikawa, Shinji Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 6500752
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a semiconductor device manufacturing method of forming an inter-wiring layer insulating film having a low dielectric constant to cover a copper wiring. In construction, in a semiconductor device manufacturing method of forming an insulating film 34 having a low dielectric constant on a substrate 20, the insulating film 34 is formed by plasmanizing a film forming gas, that consists of at least any one of alkyl compound having siloxane bonds and methylsilane (SiHn(CH3)4−n: n=0, 1, 2, 3), any one oxygen-containing gas selected from a group consisting of N2O, H2O, and CO2, and ammonia (NH3) to react.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignees: Canon Sales Co., Inc., Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taizo Oku, Junichi Aoki, Youichi Yamamoto, Takashi Koromokawa, Kazuo Maeda