Patents by Inventor Kazutoshi Ishii

Kazutoshi Ishii 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: 7351595
    Abstract: In a manufacturing method for a semiconductor device, a main body wafer having an interlayer insulating film is formed, and a monitor wafer on which a monitor element is formed is provided. Characteristics of the main body wafer are copied onto the monitor element by simultaneously processing the main body wafer and the monitor wafer through BPSG densification during formation of the interlayer insulating film. The characteristic of the monitor element is measured by checking a process influence of the monitor element. Manufacturing conditions are set in accordance with the process influence of the monitor element. Variations in electric characteristics of the main body wafer are reduced in accordance with the set manufacturing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Jun Osanai, Yuichiro Kitajima, Yukimasa Minami, Keisuke Uemura, Miwa Wake
  • Patent number: 7335518
    Abstract: In a manufacturing method for a semiconductor device, a main body wafer is formed, and a monitor wafer on which a monitor element is formed is provided. Characteristics of the main body wafer are copied onto the monitor element by simultaneously processing the main body wafer and the monitor wafer. The characteristic of the monitor element is measured by checking a process influence of the monitor element. Manufacturing conditions are set in accordance with the process influence of the monitor element. Variations in electric characteristics of the main body wafer are reduced in accordance with the set manufacturing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Jun Osanai, Yuichiro Kitajima, Yukimasa Minami, Keisuke Uemura, Miwa Wake
  • Patent number: 7192790
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device which is capable of manufacturing the semiconductor device with a high quality in high yields while reducing variations in electric characteristic is disclosed. The manufacturing method according to the present invention includes a main body wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a semiconductor device to be completed as a product is formed and a monitor wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a monitor element is formed, the processes sharing a monitoring step alone, the main body wafer manufacturing process including a variation reduction step, the monitor wafer manufacturing process including a quality check step and a condition setting step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Jun Osanai, Yuichiro Kitajima, Yukimasa Minami, Keisuke Uemura, Miwa Wake
  • Patent number: 7161198
    Abstract: An N-channel MOS transistor of a semiconductor device having a high withstand voltage employs a drain structure with a low concentration and a large diffusion depth, which causes a problem in that a sufficiently high withstand voltage cannot be obtained due to a parasitic NPN transistor formed among the drain, the well, and the semiconductor substrate which are arranged in the stated order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Omi, Hitomi Watanabe, Kazutoshi Ishii, Naoto Saitoh
  • Patent number: 7129099
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device which is capable of manufacturing the semiconductor device with a high quality in high yields while reducing variations in electric characteristic is disclosed. The manufacturing method according to the present invention includes a main body wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a semiconductor device to be completed as a product is formed and a monitor wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a monitor element is formed, the processes sharing a monitoring step alone, the main body wafer manufacturing process including a variation reduction step, the monitor wafer manufacturing process including a quality check step and a condition setting step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Jun Osanai, Yuichiro Kitajima, Yukimasa Minami, Keisuke Uemura, Miwa Wake
  • Patent number: 7043328
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device which is capable of manufacturing the semiconductor device with a high quality in high yields while reducing variations in electric characteristic is disclosed. The manufacturing method according to the present invention includes a main body wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a semiconductor device to be completed as a product is formed and a monitor wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a monitor element is formed, the processes sharing a monitoring step alone, the main body wafer manufacturing process including a variation reduction step, the monitor wafer manufacturing process including a quality check step and a condition setting step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Jun Osanai, Yuichiro Kitajima, Yukimasa Minami, Keisuke Uemura, Miwa Wake
  • Publication number: 20050142673
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device which is capable of manufacturing the semiconductor device with a high quality in high yields while reducing variations in electric characteristic is disclosed. The manufacturing method according to the present invention includes a main body wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a semiconductor device to be completed as a product is formed and a monitor wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a monitor element is formed, the processes sharing a monitoring step alone, the main body wafer manufacturing process including a variation reduction step, the monitor wafer manufacturing process including, a quality check step and a condition setting step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Jun Osanai, Yuichiro Kitajima, Yukimasa Minami, Keisuke Uemura, Miwa Wake
  • Publication number: 20050130332
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device which is capable of manufacturing the semiconductor device with a high quality in high yields while reducing variations in electric characteristic is disclosed. The manufacturing method according to the present invention includes a main body wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a semiconductor device to be completed as a product is formed and a monitor wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a monitor element is formed, the processes sharing a monitoring step alone, the main body wafer manufacturing process including a variation reduction step, the monitor wafer manufacturing process including a quality check step and a condition setting step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Jun Osanai, Yuichiro Kitajima, Yukimasa Minami, Keisuke Uemura, Miwa Wake
  • Patent number: 6906345
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device having a reduced size, increased accuracy, and flattened element isolation regions with an decreased size. A plurality of MOSFETs having gate oxide films with different thicknesses and element isolation regions are formed by a manufacturing method employing oxygen implantation. An oxygen-ion implantation process and an annealing process are applied to a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Ishii
  • Publication number: 20050124083
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device which is capable of manufacturing the semiconductor device with a high quality in high yields while reducing variations in electric characteristic is disclosed. The manufacturing method according to the present invention includes a main body wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a semiconductor device to be completed as a product is formed and a monitor wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a monitor element is formed, the processes sharing a monitoring step alone, the main body wafer manufacturing process including a variation reduction step, the monitor wafer manufacturing process including a quality check step and a condition setting step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Jun Osanai, Yuichiro Kitajima, Yukimasa Minami, Keisuke Uemura, Miwa Wake
  • Publication number: 20050124081
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device which is capable of manufacturing the semiconductor device with a high quality in high yields while reducing variations in electric characteristic is disclosed. The manufacturing method according to the present invention includes a main body wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a semiconductor device to be completed as a product is formed and a monitor wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a monitor element is formed, the processes sharing a monitoring step alone, the main body wafer manufacturing process including a variation reduction step, the monitor wafer manufacturing process including a quality check step and a condition setting step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Jun Osanai, Yuichiro Kitajima, Yukimasa Minami, Keisuke Uemura, Miwa Wake
  • Publication number: 20050124082
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device which is capable of manufacturing the semiconductor device with a high quality in high yields while reducing variations in electric characteristic is disclosed. The manufacturing method according to the present invention includes a main body wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a semiconductor device to be completed as a product is formed and a monitor wafer manufacturing process for manufacturing a wafer on which a monitor element is formed, the processes sharing a monitoring step alone, the main body wafer manufacturing process including a variation reduction step, the monitor wafer manufacturing process including a quality check step and a condition setting step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Jun Osanai, Yuichiro Kitajima, Yukimasa Minami, Keisuke Uemura, Miwa Wake
  • Patent number: 6777752
    Abstract: In a power management semiconductor device or analog semiconductor device having a CMOS and a resistor, a conductivity type of a gate electrode of the CMOS is P-type as to both an NMOS and a PMOS, a short channel and a low threshold voltage are possible since an E-type PMOS is surface channel type, the short channel and the low threshold voltage are possible since a buried channel type NMOS is extremely shallow for the reason that arsenic having a small diffusion coefficient can be used as an impurity for threshold control, and the resistor used in a voltage dividing circuit or CR circuit is formed of polycrystalline silicon thinner than the polycrystalline silicon of the same layer as the gate electrode or a thin film metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Osanai, Hisashi Hasegawa, Sumio Koiwa, Kazutoshi Ishii
  • Patent number: 6747319
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including multiple high-voltage drive transistors in its output section is improved in electrostatic withstand voltage by connecting electrostatic protection transistors in parallel with the high-voltage drive transistors connected to the output pads. The drain withstand voltage of the electrostatic protection transistors is made lower than the drain withstand voltage of the high-voltage drive transistors. In addition, the channel length of electrostatic protection transistors is made short to enable efficient bipolar operation of the electrostatic protection transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kojima, Kazutoshi Ishii, Masaaki Kamiya, Yasuhiro Moya
  • Patent number: 6713820
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided in which each of contacts between a source and a drain of a MOS transistor and a metallic wiring is either a contact having an arbitrary one side longer than the other side, or source contacts and well contacts are made batting contacts each having an arbitrary one side of a diffusion region having the same polarity as that of a well shorter than the other side. Thus, the contact shape is longitudinal in a transistor width direction, which makes it possible that a large current is caused to flow with a small interval of gates thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Omi, Kazutoshi Ishii
  • Publication number: 20040058490
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device having a reduced size, increased accuracy, and flattened element isolation regions with an decreased size. A plurality of MOSFETs having gate oxide films with different thicknesses and element isolation regions are formed by a manufacturing method employing oxygen implantation. An oxygen-ion implantation process and an annealing process are applied to a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Ishii
  • Patent number: 6596593
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device having a reduced size, increased accuracy, and flattened element isolation regions with an decreased size. A plurality of MOSFETs having gate oxide films with different thicknesses and element isolation regions are formed by a manufacturing method employing oxygen implantation. An oxygen-ion implantation process and an annealing process are applied to a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Ishii
  • Patent number: 6545322
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device with high electrostatic resistance. A semiconductor device is provided with a transistor for input-output protection having a desired size in which its channel length is varied with respect to a channel width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Toshihiko Omi
  • Publication number: 20030049907
    Abstract: An N-channel MOS transistor of a semiconductor device having a high withstand voltage employs a drain structure with a low concentration and a large diffusion depth, which causes a problem in that a sufficiently high withstand voltage cannot be obtained due to a parasitic NPN transistor formed among the drain, the well, and the semiconductor substrate which are arranged in the stated order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Toshihiko Omi, Hitomi Watanabe, Kazutoshi Ishii, Naoto Saitoh
  • Patent number: 6492680
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device for driving a display element of an organic EL display device, in which an output current is controlled with high accuracy. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a field effect MOS transistor capable of obtaining a high accuracy output current and used for an output circuit for driving the display element of the organic EL display device, and further, a fuse trimming element is provided to its gate electrode, so that the device is constructed by the field effect MOS transistor capable of obtaining a more accurate output current. Besides, the field effect MOS transistor has such a structure that even if Vth fluctuates, fluctuation in an output current value is kept low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ishii, Tetsuo Shioura