Patents by Inventor Masami Usami

Masami Usami 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: 6867502
    Abstract: A flip-chip BGA is disclosed which exhibits an excellent high-speed electric transmission characteristic while minimizing the formation of voids in sealing resin filled between a semiconductor chip and a wiring substrate. A silicon chip is flip-chip-mounted on a package substrate, and in a central area of a main surface of the silicon chip are arranged a power supply circuit, an input/output circuit, and plural bonding pads, while in the other area than the central area are arranged solder bumps in a matrix form, the solder bumps being electrically connected to the bonding pads through Cu wiring. Of the solder bumps, solder bumps for input/output power supply and solder bumps for the input and output of a data signal are arranged in a first area adjacent to the central area, and solder bumps for address signal input are arranged in a second area located outside the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Katagiri, Masami Usami, Kenji Ujiie
  • Publication number: 20030168748
    Abstract: A flip-chip BGA is disclosed which exhibits an excellent high-speed electric transmission characteristic while minimizing the formation of voids in sealing resin filled between a semiconductor chip and a wiring substrate. A silicon chip is flip-chip-mounted on a package substrate, and in a central area of a main surface of the silicon chip are arranged a power supply circuit, an input/output circuit, and plural bonding pads, while in the other area than the central area are arranged solder bumps in a matrix form, the solder bumps being electrically connected to the bonding pads through Cu wiring. Of the solder bumps, solder bumps for input/output power supply and solder bumps for the input and output of a data signal are arranged in a first area adjacent to the central area, and solder bumps for address signal input are arranged in a second area located outside the first area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Katagiri, Masami Usami, Kenji Ujiie
  • Patent number: 5661329
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes an element separating first and second grooves formed to surround active regions to be formed with a semiconductor element. In addition a third groove is formed to surround at least a portion of the first groove, when viewed from a plane view. In the semiconductor integrated circuit device, the active regions and an element separating region of a silicon layer are insulated from each other by the separating grooves extending from the main surface of the silicon layer to an underlying insulating layer, and are fed with a common fixed potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Hiramoto, Nobuo Tamba, Masami Usami, Takahide Ikeda, Kazuo Tanaka, Atsuo Watanabe, Satoru Isomura, Toshiyuki Kikuchi, Toru Koizumi
  • Patent number: 5399912
    Abstract: A hold-type latch circuit which features an increased operation margin. A feedback circuit feeds the data output logic state of a non-inversion data output terminal of the latch circuit back to a data input terminal thereof, to increase a margin in the setup time ts and holding time th in controlling the data holding capability of the latch circuit, thereby to increase the margin of thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeharu Murata, Takasi Oomori, Masami Usami, Masato Iwabuchi
  • Patent number: 5388073
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device for use in a digital data processor together with a central processing unit (CPU) receives address signals which are validated for a time period n times as long as the machine cycle of the CPU, and it stores therein input data items which are validated for a cycle equal to the machine cycle of the CPU or delivers therefrom output data items which are validated for a cycle equal to the machine cycle of the CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Usami, Akihisa Uchida, Yoshino Sakai, Masato Iwabuchi
  • Patent number: 5367490
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit wherein a logic circuit for exchanging signals with RAMS, with the RAMS being disposed centrally on the semiconductor chip or substrate, is divided into a plurality of logic circuits in accordance with the kind of signals and the divided logic circuits are disposed around the RAM in such a manner as to minimize the distance of signal transmission paths with the RAM and in order to attain high speed access to RAMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering Ltd
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akimoto, Masami Usami, Katsumi Ogiue, Hiroshi Murayama, Hitoshi Abe, Masamori Kashiyama, Yoshikuni Kobayashi, Satoru Isomura, Kinya Mitsumoto
  • Patent number: 5115393
    Abstract: Vector registers having logically equal address are arranged as two banks which can independently access ultra high speed RAM's. One bank holds all even-numbered elements of vector data and the other bank holds all odd-numbered elements of the vector data. A write address generator and a read address generator which are one half as fast as a clock rate of a machine cycle and which have a phase difference of one half period therebetween are provided so that the clock rate of the machine cycle may be set to one half of a total time of a write pitch and a read pitch of the vector registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamori Kashiyama, Koichi Ishii, Shun Kawabe, Masami Usami
  • Patent number: 5014242
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit wherein a logic circuit for exchanging signals with RAMS, with the RAMS being disposed centrally on the semiconductor chip or substrate, is divided into a plurality of logic circuits in accordance with the kind of signals and the divided logic circuits are disposed around the RAM in such a manner as to minimize the distance of signal transmission paths with the RAM and in order to attain high speed access to RAMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akimoto, Masami Usami, Katsumi Ogiue, Hiroshi Murayama, Hitoshi Abe, Masamori Kashiyama, Yoshikuni Kobayashi, Satoru Isomura, Kinya Mitsumoto
  • Patent number: 4970687
    Abstract: A bipolar type RAM having latches which accept and hold address signals, input write data and a write enable signal supplied from outside of the corresponding RAM chip, in accordance with strobe signals, and a timing generator circuit which forms the strobe signals and a write pulse required for a write operation and satisfying predetermined timing conditions, on the basis of a chip select signal supplied from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Usami, Kazuhiro Akimoto, Takeo Uchiyama, Masato Iwabuchi