Patents by Inventor Kouji Inada

Kouji Inada 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: 11710618
    Abstract: An ion implanter includes a high energy multistage linear acceleration unit for accelerating an ion beam. The high energy multistage linear acceleration unit includes high frequency accelerators in a plurality of stages provided along a beamline through which the ion beam travels, and electrostatic quadrupole lens devices in a plurality of stages provided along the beamline. The electrostatic quadrupole lens device in each of the stages includes a plurality of lens electrodes facing each other in a radial direction perpendicular to an axial direction, and disposed at an interval in a circumferential direction, an upstream side cover electrode covering a beamline upstream side of the plurality of lens electrodes and including a beam incident port, and a downstream side cover electrode covering a beamline downstream side of the plurality of lens electrodes and including a beam exiting port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES ION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruka Sasaki, Kouji Inada, Hayao Kawai
  • Publication number: 20220285127
    Abstract: An ion implanter includes a high energy multistage linear acceleration unit for accelerating an ion beam. The high energy multistage linear acceleration unit includes high frequency accelerators in a plurality of stages provided along a beamline through which the ion beam travels, and electrostatic quadrupole lens devices in a plurality of stages provided along the beamline. The electrostatic quadrupole lens device in each of the stages includes a plurality of lens electrodes facing each other in a radial direction perpendicular to an axial direction, and disposed at an interval in a circumferential direction, an upstream side cover electrode covering a beamline upstream side of the plurality of lens electrodes and including a beam incident port, and a downstream side cover electrode covering a beamline downstream side of the plurality of lens electrodes and including a beam exiting port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Haruka Sasaki, Kouji Inada, Hayao Kawai
  • Patent number: 9576771
    Abstract: A beam current adjuster for an ion implanter includes a variable aperture device which is disposed at an ion beam focus point or a vicinity thereof. The variable aperture device is configured to adjust an ion beam width in a direction perpendicular to an ion beam focusing direction at the focus point in order to control an implanting beam current. The variable aperture device may be disposed immediately downstream of a mass analysis slit. The beam current adjuster may be provided with a high energy ion implanter including a high energy multistage linear acceleration unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Inada, Kouji Kato
  • Patent number: 9564292
    Abstract: An ion beam measuring device includes: a mask that is used for shaping an original ion beam into a measuring ion beam including a y beam part elongated in a y direction that is perpendicular to a traveling direction of the ion beam and an x beam part elongated in an x direction that is perpendicular to the traveling direction and the y direction; a detection unit that is configured to detect an x-direction position of the y beam part and a y-direction position of the x beam part; and a beam angle calculating unit that is configured to calculate an x-direction beam angle using the x-direction position and a y-direction beam angle using the y-direction position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Ido, Kouji Inada, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9502210
    Abstract: An ion implanter includes: a beam deflector that deflects an ion beam passing through a previous stage beam path and outputs the beam to pass through a subsequent stage beam path toward a wafer; a beam filter slit that partially shields the beam traveling through the subsequent stage beam path and allows passage of a beam component having a predetermined trajectory toward the wafer; a dose cup that is disposed between the beam deflector and the beam filter slit and measures a part of the beam exiting from the beam deflector as a beam current; and a trajectory limiting mechanism that is disposed between the beam deflector and the dose cup and prevents a beam component having a trajectory deviated from the predetermined trajectory from being incident to a measurement region of the dose cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Sano, Mitsukuni Tsukihara, Haruka Sasaki, Kouji Inada
  • Patent number: 9466467
    Abstract: An ion implantation apparatus includes: a plurality of units for accelerating an ion beam generated in an ion source; and a plurality of units for adjusting a scan beam and implanting ions into a wafer. A horizontal U-shaped folder type beamline having opposite long straight portions includes the plurality of units for adjusting the scan beam in a long straight portion to have substantially the same length as the ion source and the plurality of units for accelerating the ion beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Kabasawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hitoshi Ando, Kouji Inada, Tatsuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 9390890
    Abstract: A high-energy ion implanter includes a high-energy multi-stage linear acceleration unit that accelerates an ion beam so as to generate a high-energy ion beam, a deflection unit that changes the direction of the high-energy ion beam toward a semiconductor wafer, and a beam transportation unit that transports the deflected high-energy ion beam to the wafer. The beam transportation unit includes a beam shaper, a high-energy beam scanner, a high-energy electric field type beam collimator, and a high-energy electric field type final energy filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Kabasawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Haruka Sasaki, Kouji Inada
  • Patent number: 9355847
    Abstract: A high-energy ion implanter includes: a beam generation unit that includes an ion source and a mass spectrometer; a radio frequency multi-stage linear acceleration unit; a deflection unit that includes a magnetic field type energy analysis device for filtering ions by a momentum; a beam transportation line unit; and a substrate processing/supplying unit. In this apparatus, an electric field type final energy filter that deflects a high-energy scan beam in the vertical direction by an electric field is inserted between the electric field type beam collimator and the wafer in addition to the magnetic field type mass spectrometer and the magnetic field type energy analysis device as momentum filters and the radio frequency multi-stage linear acceleration unit as a velocity filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Kabasawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Haruka Sasaki, Kouji Inada, Makoto Sano
  • Publication number: 20160133439
    Abstract: A beam current adjuster for an ion implanter includes a variable aperture device which is disposed at an ion beam focus point or a vicinity thereof. The variable aperture device is configured to adjust an ion beam width in a direction perpendicular to an ion beam focusing direction at the focus point in order to control an implanting beam current. The variable aperture device may be disposed immediately downstream of a mass analysis slit. The beam current adjuster may be provided with a high energy ion implanter including a high energy multistage linear acceleration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Kouji Inada, Kouji Kato
  • Patent number: 9269541
    Abstract: A beam current adjuster for an ion implanter includes a variable aperture device which is disposed at an ion beam focus point or a vicinity thereof. The variable aperture device is configured to adjust an ion beam width in a direction perpendicular to an ion beam focusing direction at the focus point in order to control an implanting beam current. The variable aperture device may be disposed immediately downstream of a mass analysis slit. The beam current adjuster may be provided with a high energy ion implanter including a high energy multistage linear acceleration unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Inada, Kouji Kato
  • Publication number: 20160042915
    Abstract: An ion implanter includes: a beam deflector that deflects an ion beam passing through a previous stage beam path and outputs the beam to pass through a subsequent stage beam path toward a wafer; a beam filter slit that partially shields the beam traveling through the subsequent stage beam path and allows passage of a beam component having a predetermined trajectory toward the wafer; a dose cup that is disposed between the beam deflector and the beam filter slit and measures a part of the beam exiting from the beam deflector as a beam current; and a trajectory limiting mechanism that is disposed between the beam deflector and the dose cup and prevents a beam component having a trajectory deviated from the predetermined trajectory from being incident to a measurement region of the dose cup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Makoto Sano, Mitsukuni Tsukihara, Haruka Sasaki, Kouji Inada
  • Publication number: 20150136996
    Abstract: A beam current adjuster for an ion implanter includes a variable aperture device which is disposed at an ion beam focus point or a vicinity thereof. The variable aperture device is configured to adjust an ion beam width in a direction perpendicular to an ion beam focusing direction at the focus point in order to control an implanting beam current. The variable aperture device may be disposed immediately downstream of a mass analysis slit. The beam current adjuster may be provided with a high energy ion implanter including a high energy multistage linear acceleration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Kouji Inada, Kouji Kato
  • Publication number: 20150001418
    Abstract: An ion beam measuring device includes: a mask that is used for shaping an original ion beam into a measuring ion beam including a y beam part elongated in a y direction that is perpendicular to a traveling direction of the ion beam and an x beam part elongated in an x direction that is perpendicular to the traveling direction and the y direction; a detection unit that is configured to detect an x-direction position of the y beam part and a y-direction position of the x beam part; and a beam angle calculating unit that is configured to calculate an x-direction beam angle using the x-direction position and a y-direction beam angle using the y-direction position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Noriyasu Ido, Kouji Inada, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140352615
    Abstract: A high-energy ion implanter includes a high-energy multi-stage linear acceleration unit that accelerates an ion beam so as to generate a high-energy ion beam, a deflection unit that changes the direction of the high-energy ion beam toward a semiconductor wafer, and a beam transportation unit that transports the deflected high-energy ion beam to the wafer. The beam transportation unit includes a beam shaper, a high-energy beam scanner, a high-energy electric field type beam collimator, and a high-energy electric field type final energy filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: SEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Kabasawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Haruka Sasaki, Kouji Inada
  • Publication number: 20140345522
    Abstract: A high-energy ion implanter includes: a beam generation unit that includes an ion source and a mass spectrometer; a radio frequency multi-stage linear acceleration unit; a deflection unit that includes a magnetic field type energy analysis device for filtering ions by a momentum; a beam transportation line unit; and a substrate processing/supplying unit. In this apparatus, an electric field type final energy filter that deflects a high-energy scan beam in the vertical direction by an electric field is inserted between the electric field type beam collimator and the wafer in addition to the magnetic field type mass spectrometer and the magnetic field type energy analysis device as momentum filters and the radio frequency multi-stage linear acceleration unit as a velocity filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: SEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Kabasawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Haruka Sasaki, Kouji Inada, Makoto Sano
  • Publication number: 20140150723
    Abstract: An ion implantation apparatus includes: a plurality of units for accelerating an ion beam generated in an ion source; and a plurality of units for adjusting a scan beam and implanting ions into a wafer. A horizontal U-shaped folder type beamline having opposite long straight portions includes the plurality of units for adjusting the scan beam in a long straight portion to have substantially the same length as the ion source and the plurality of units for accelerating the ion beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: SEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Kabasawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hitoshi Ando, Kouji Inada, Tatsuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 6573517
    Abstract: An ion injecting apparatus has an ion source, a mass-analyzing magnet, an accelerating/decelerating element, and deflecting elements. The mass analyzing magnet mass-analyzes an ion beam extracted from the ion source. The accelerating/de-celerating element accelerates and decelerates the ion beam at a post-stage. The deflecting elements are arranged between the mass analyzing magnet and the accelerating/decelerating element. Each direction angle of the deflecting element is determined such that a final beam trajectory in the predetermined area before being introduced into a wafer substrate is matched to each other in both an operating mode and a non-operating mode of the deflecting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Eaton Nova Corporation
    Inventors: Michiro Sugitani, Mitsukuni Tsukihara, Yoshitomo Hidaka, Mitsuaki Kabasawa, Kouji Inada