Patents by Inventor Makoto Kitagawa

Makoto Kitagawa 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: 11976831
    Abstract: A method monitors an air-conditioner having a semi-conductor gas sensor, the method including: determining that a refrigerant leakage has occurred on condition that the detection value is equal to or greater than a first threshold when the fan is in operation; starting operation of the fan as a provisional operation if the detection value is equal to or greater than a second threshold when the fan is not in operation; stopping the provisional operation of the fan; determining that a refrigerant leakage has occurred on condition that the detection value is equal to or greater than a third threshold after stopping the provisional operation of the fan; and taking a predetermined action for outputting alarm information and/or limiting supply of refrigerant to the heat exchanger when a refrigerant leakage is determined to have occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., DAIKIN EUROPE N.V.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawano, Kyouji Araya, Kazuya Fukuda, Ryuuichi Toyota, Kazunari Fukagawa, Makoto Inoue, Natsuko Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20240110157
    Abstract: There are provided a cell aggregate that can be used as a cell preparation in regenerative medicine, maintains the original characteristics of cells, and has high safety, and a method for simply and safely maintaining the cell aggregate size, the cell characteristics and viability suitable for use as a cell preparation in regenerative medicine. According to an aspect of the present invention, a cell aggregate maintaining method is a method including a maintenance process of maintaining a liquid containing a plurality of the cell aggregates at a temperature which is lower than a culture temperature of the cells and at which the liquid is not frozen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji OSAFUNE, Shunjiro SUGIMOTO, Makoto RYOSAKA, Yoichi JIMBO, Fumihiko KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240074269
    Abstract: A display device is a display device provided with a display region including a plurality of pixels and a frame region surrounding the display region, and includes: a thin film transistor layer; and a light-emitting element layer including a plurality of light-emitting elements, each including a first electrode, a function layer, and a second electrode, and each having a different luminescent color, wherein the function layer includes a light-emitting layer, and a pair of holding layers sandwiching the light-emitting layer and each including a photosensitive material and a conductive nanoparticle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: MAKOTO KITAGAWA, JUN SAKUMA, Yunting SHEN
  • Publication number: 20240049585
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device includes: a) a step of preparing a substrate including an electrode and another electrode; b) a step of forming a photosensitive resin material layer on the substrate; c) a step of forming a charge transport material layer and a light-emitting material layer on the substrate; and d) a step of patterning the photosensitive resin material layer, the charge transport material layer, and the light-emitting material layer into a photosensitive resin layer, a charge transport layer, and a light-emitting layer respectively by retaining, without lifting off, non-lift-off portions of the photosensitive resin material layer, the charge transport material layer, and the light-emitting material layer, the non-lift-off portions being provided at least on a part of the electrode, and lifting off lift-off portions of the photosensitive resin material layer, the charge transport material layer, and the light-emitting material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: JUN SAKUMA, YASUSHI ASAOKA, MAKOTO KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11849591
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for power gating in a memory device are described for using one or more memory cells as drivers for load circuits of a memory device. A group of memory cells of the memory device may represent memory cells that include a switching component and that omit a memory storage element. These memory cells may be coupled with respective plate lines that may be coupled with a voltage source having a first supply voltage. Each memory cell of the group may also be coupled with a respective digit line that may be coupled with the load circuits. Respective switching components of the group of memory cells may therefore act as drivers to apply the first supply voltage to one or more load circuits by coupling a digit line with a plate line having the first supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20230368831
    Abstract: A method of performing a memory cell operation can include maintaining a plate voltage at a first access line of a memory cell during at least a first operation and a second operation of the memory cell. The method can further include charging a second access line to a first voltage greater than zero and greater than a threshold voltage of a selector device of the memory cell during the first operation on the memory cell. The method can further include, subsequent to the first operation, charging the second access line to a second voltage greater than the plate voltage plus the threshold voltage of the selector device to perform the second operation of the memory cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Makoto Kitagawa, Daniele Vimercati
  • Publication number: 20230369545
    Abstract: A light-emitting element producing method includes: a step of forming a first-charge transport layer on a first electrode; a step of applying a first photosensitive resin composition, containing first quantum dots, to the first-charge transport layer, and forming a first-quantum-dot containing layer; a step of applying a second photosensitive resin composition, containing second quantum dots, to the first-quantum-dot containing layer, and forming a second-quantum-dot containing layer; a step of forming a second-charge transport layer on the second-quantum-dot containing layer; and a step of forming a second electrode on the second-charge transport layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Akira OHSHIMA, JUN SAKUMA, Sentaro KIDA, MAKOTO KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11817147
    Abstract: Memory systems and memory programming methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Kitagawa, Adam Johnson
  • Patent number: 11749329
    Abstract: Ferroelectric memory arrays with reduced current leakage is described herein. A ferroelectric memory array may include a number of memory cells including capacitors with ferroelectric material. Providing an intermediary word line voltage to non-selected word lines that are not electrically coupled to a target memory cell during a sensing operation may reduce leakage current from an active data line electrically coupled to the target memory cell to the non-selected word lines. The intermediary word line voltage may be provided using an amplitude between an idle voltage of the data lines and zero volts. The intermediary word line voltage may be reduced closer to zero volts for performing a programming operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11676649
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for sense timing coordination are described. In some systems, to sense the logic states of memory cells, a memory device may generate an activation signal and route the activation signal over a signal line (e.g., a dummy word line) located at a memory array level of the memory device to one or more sense amplifiers. Based on receiving the activation signal, a sense amplifier may latch and determine the logic state of a corresponding memory cell. A first sense amplifier may sense a state of a first memory cell at a first time and a second sense amplifier may sense a state of a second memory cell at a second time in response to the same activation signal due to a propagation delay of the activation signal routed over the signal line (e.g., and corresponding to a propagation delay for activating a word line).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20230113576
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for power gating in a memory device are described for using one or more memory cells as drivers for load circuits of a memory device. A group of memory cells of the memory device may represent memory cells that include a switching component and that omit a memory storage element. These memory cells may be coupled with respective plate lines that may be coupled with a voltage source having a first supply voltage. Each memory cell of the group may also be coupled with a respective digit line that may be coupled with the load circuits. Respective switching components of the group of memory cells may therefore act as drivers to apply the first supply voltage to one or more load circuits by coupling a digit line with a plate line having the first supply voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventor: Makoto Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20230113550
    Abstract: A display device includes a thin film transistor layer, a light-emitting element layer including a plurality of light-emitting elements, each including a first electrode, a function layer, and a second electrode, and each having a different luminescent color. The function layer includes a light-emitting layer and a pair of holding layers sandwiching the light-emitting layer and each including a photosensitive material. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is an anode electrode and the other is a cathode electrode. The function layer includes a hole transport layer provided between the anode electrode and one holding layer of the pair of holding layers, and an electron transport layer provided between the cathode electrode and the other holding layer of the pair of holding layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventor: MAKOTO KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230024961
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for sense timing coordination are described. In some systems, to sense the logic states of memory cells, a memory device may generate an activation signal and route the activation signal over a signal line (e.g., a dummy word line) located at a memory array level of the memory device to one or more sense amplifiers. Based on receiving the activation signal, a sense amplifier may latch and determine the logic state of a corresponding memory cell. A first sense amplifier may sense a state of a first memory cell at a first time and a second sense amplifier may sense a state of a second memory cell at a second time in response to the same activation signal due to a propagation delay of the activation signal routed over the signal line (e.g., and corresponding to a propagation delay for activating a word line).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Makoto Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11521979
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for power gating in a memory device are described for using one or more memory cells as drivers for load circuits of a memory device. A group of memory cells of the memory device may represent memory cells that include a switching component and that omit a memory storage element. These memory cells may be coupled with respective plate lines that may be coupled with a voltage source having a first supply voltage. Each memory cell of the group may also be coupled with a respective digit line that may be coupled with the load circuits. Respective switching components of the group of memory cells may therefore act as drivers to apply the first supply voltage to one or more load circuits by coupling a digit line with a plate line having the first supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20220181338
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for power gating in a memory device are described for using one or more memory cells as drivers for load circuits of a memory device. A group of memory cells of the memory device may represent memory cells that include a switching component and that omit a memory storage element. These memory cells may be coupled with respective plate lines that may be coupled with a voltage source having a first supply voltage. Each memory cell of the group may also be coupled with a respective digit line that may be coupled with the load circuits. Respective switching components of the group of memory cells may therefore act as drivers to apply the first supply voltage to one or more load circuits by coupling a digit line with a plate line having the first supply voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Makoto Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11295812
    Abstract: Memory devices and memory operational methods are described. One example memory system includes a common conductor and a plurality of memory cells coupled with the common conductor. The memory system additionally includes access circuitry configured to provide different ones of the memory cells into one of a plurality of different memory states at a plurality of different moments in time between first and second moments in time. The access circuitry is further configured to maintain the common conductor at a voltage potential, which corresponds to the one memory state, between the first and second moments in time to provide the memory cells into the one memory state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Wataru Otsuka, Takafumi Kunihiro, Tomohito Tsushima, Makoto Kitagawa, Jun Sumino
  • Patent number: 11024376
    Abstract: A memory apparatus includes a memory cell disposed at an intersection of a first wiring line and a second wiring line, and including a variable resistor and a selector, the variable resistor having a resistance state that changes to a first resistance state and a second resistance state, and a drive circuit that writes data to the memory cell by changing the variable resistor from the first resistance state to the second resistance state, and erases the data stored in the memory cell by changing the variable resistor from the second resistance state to the first resistance state. When erasing the data, the drive circuit changing in a stepwise manner a voltage applied to the memory cell, and changing in a stepwise manner a current limit value that limits a magnitude of a current flowing through the memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yotaro Mori, Makoto Kitagawa, Jun Okuno, Haruhiko Terada
  • Patent number: 10991762
    Abstract: In a memory unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a memory cell array is configured, when, of a plurality of memory cells, multiple first memory cells whose corresponding fourth wiring line and first wiring line are different from one another are simultaneously accessed, to allow for simultaneous access to the multiple first memory cells, without allowing for simultaneous access to memory cells corresponding to the fourth wiring line shared by the first memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kitagawa, Yoshiyuki Shibahara, Haruhiko Terada, Yotaro Mori
  • Patent number: 10943668
    Abstract: A storage device according to the present disclosure includes: a plurality of first wiring lines extending in a first direction and including a plurality of first selection lines and a plurality of second selection lines; a plurality of second wiring lines extending in a second direction and including a plurality of third selection lines and a plurality of fourth selection lines, the second direction intersecting the first direction; a plurality of first memory cells; a first driver including a first selection line driver that drives the plurality of first selection lines on a basis of a first selection control signal and a second selection line driver that drives the plurality of second selection lines on a basis of the first selection control signal, the first and second selection line drivers being arranged side-by-side in the first direction; and a second driver including a third selection line driver that drives the plurality of third selection lines on a basis of a second selection control signal and a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruhiko Terada, Makoto Kitagawa, Yoshiyuki Shibahara, Yotaro Mori
  • Patent number: 10937493
    Abstract: Memory systems and memory programming methods are described. According to one aspect, a memory system includes program circuitry configured to provide a program signal to a memory cell to program the memory cell from a first memory state to a second memory state, detection circuitry configured to detect the memory cell changing from the first memory state to the second memory state during the provision of the program signal to the memory cell to program the memory cell, and wherein the program circuitry is configured to alter the program signal as a result of the detection and to provide the altered program signal to the memory cell to continue to program the memory cell from the first memory state to the second memory state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Kitagawa, Yogesh Luthra