Patents by Inventor Masafumi Yorozu

Masafumi Yorozu 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).

  • Publication number: 20230120514
    Abstract: A control device for controlling an annealing apparatus that performs laser annealing by causing a laser beam to be incident on a surface of a semiconductor wafer and moving a beam spot of the laser beam on the surface of the semiconductor wafer, the control device making a sweep speed of the beam spot of the laser beam faster than twice a value obtained by dividing a thermal diffusivity of the semiconductor wafer by a thickness of the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKADA, Masafumi YOROZU
  • Publication number: 20230008862
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a control device of an annealing device, which is capable of further suppressing a temperature of a surface opposite to a laser irradiation surface from rising. A beam spot of a pulsed laser beam output from a laser light source on a surface of an annealed target is shaped into a long shape in one direction by a beam shaping optical element. A movement mechanism moves the beam spot with respect to the annealed target. The control device controls the laser light source and the movement mechanism and performs annealing by performing a sweep operation of moving the beam spot in a longitudinal direction of the beam spot with respect to the annealed target while causing the pulsed laser beam to be incident on the annealed target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKADA, Masafumi YOROZU
  • Patent number: 10088365
    Abstract: An annealing object is held at a position on which a laser beam output from a laser light source is incident. An infrared detector detects heat radiation light from the annealing object. An optical element which does not allow light having a wavelength shorter than 1 ?m to be incident on the infrared detector is disposed in a pathway of the heat radiation light from the annealing object to the infrared detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Wakabayashi, Masafumi Yorozu, Yasuhiro Okada, Takaomi Suzuki, Sadahiko Kimura, Masaki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20180128686
    Abstract: An annealing object is held at a position on which a laser beam output from a laser light source is incident. An infrared detector detects heat radiation light from the annealing object. An optical element which does not allow light having a wavelength shorter than 1 ?m to be incident on the infrared detector is disposed in a pathway of the heat radiation light from the annealing object to the infrared detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Naoki Wakabayashi, Masafumi Yorozu, Yasuhiro Okada, Takaomi Suzuki, Sadahiko Kimura, Masaki Sakamoto