Patents by Inventor Masayuki Furuhashi

Masayuki Furuhashi 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: 11557671
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor region having a first main surface, wherein the semiconductor region includes: alternating n-type pillar layers and p-type pillar layers along the first main surface; a p-type first well layer located within each of the n-type pillar layers at a top surface of the n-type pillar layer; an n-type first source layer located within the first well layer at a top surface of the first well layer; a first side surface dielectric layer located on a side surface in a first trench located at each of boundaries between the n-type pillar layers and the p-type pillar layers, and being in contact with the first well layer and the first source layer; a first bottom surface dielectric layer located on a bottom surface in the first trench, and being at least partially in contact with one of the p-type pillar layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao Ito, Masayuki Furuhashi
  • Patent number: 11189689
    Abstract: A superjunction layer includes first pillars of a first conductivity type and second pillars of a second conductivity type. First wells are provided respectively on the second pillars to reach the first pillars and are of the second conductivity type. First impurity regions are provided respectively on the first wells and are of the first conductivity type. Second wells are provided respectively on the first pillars, spaced from the second pillars in a section of an active region that is perpendicular to a semiconductor layer, and are of the second conductivity type. Second impurity regions are provided respectively on the second wells and are of the first conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Furuhashi, Nobuo Fujiwara, Naoyuki Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20210167204
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor region having a first main surface, wherein the semiconductor region includes: alternating n-type pillar layers and p-type pillar layers along the first main surface; a p-type first well layer located within each of the n-type pillar layers at a top surface of the n-type pillar layer; an n-type first source layer located within the first well layer at a top surface of the first well layer; a first side surface dielectric layer located on a side surface in a first trench located at each of boundaries between the n-type pillar layers and the p-type pillar layers, and being in contact with the first well layer and the first source layer; a first bottom surface dielectric layer located on a bottom surface in the first trench, and being at least partially in contact with one of the p-type pillar layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanao ITO, Masayuki FURUHASHI
  • Patent number: 10854762
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an n-type drift layer formed on a semiconductor substrate having an off-angle, plurality of p-type pillar regions formed in the drift layer, and a surface electrode formed on the drift layer including the plurality of p-type pillar regions. A plurality of withstand voltage holding structures which are p-type semiconductor regions are formed in a surface layer of the drift layer including the plurality of p-type pillar regions to surround an active region. Each of the plurality of p-type pillar regions has a linear shape extending in a direction of the off-angle of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the plurality of withstand voltage holding structures has a frame-like shape including sides extending in parallel with the plurality of p-type pillar regions and sides perpendicular to the plurality of p-type pillar regions in a planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Ebihara, Masayuki Furuhashi, Takanori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200235203
    Abstract: A superjunction layer includes first pillars of a first conductivity type and second pillars of a second conductivity type. First wells are provided respectively on the second pillars to reach the first pillars and are of the second conductivity type. First impurity regions are provided respectively on the first wells and are of the first conductivity type. Second wells are provided respectively on the first pillars, spaced from the second pillars in a section of an active region that is perpendicular to a semiconductor layer, and are of the second conductivity type. Second impurity regions are provided respectively on the second wells and are of the first conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki FURUHASHI, Nobuo FUJIWARA, Naoyuki KAWABATA
  • Patent number: 10529799
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, and a semiconductor layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate. First and second pillar layers, of respective first and second conductivity types, are alternately provided in a direction in parallel with a main surface in an active region of the semiconductor layer and in a termination region. A pillar pitch in the termination region is set to be larger than a pillar pitch in the active region. A product of a width of one of the first pillar layers and effective impurity concentration of the first conductivity of the one of the first pillar layers is equal to a product of a width of one of the second pillar layers and effective impurity concentration of the second conductivity of the one of the second pillar layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Furuhashi, Kohei Ebihara
  • Publication number: 20190333988
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, and a semiconductor layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate. First and second pillar layers, of respective first and second conductivity types, are alternately provided in a direction in parallel with a main surface in an active region of the semiconductor layer and in a termination region. A pillar pitch in the termination region is set to be larger than a pillar pitch in the active region. A product of a width of one of the first pillar layers and effective impurity concentration of the first conductivity of the one of the first pillar layers is equal to a product of a width of one of the second pillar layers and effective impurity concentration of the second conductivity of the one of the second pillar layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki FURUHASHI, Kohei EBIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190074386
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an n-type drift layer formed on a semiconductor substrate having an off-angle, plurality of p-type pillar regions formed in the drift layer, and a surface electrode formed on the drift layer including the plurality of p-type pillar regions. A plurality of withstand voltage holding structures which are p-type semiconductor regions are formed in a surface layer of the drift layer including the plurality of p-type pillar regions to surround an active region. Each of the plurality of p-type pillar regions has a linear shape extending in a direction of the off-angle of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the plurality of withstand voltage holding structures has a frame-like shape including sides extending in parallel with the plurality of p-type pillar regions and sides perpendicular to the plurality of p-type pillar regions in a planar view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei EBIHARA, Masayuki FURUHASHI, Takanori TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10002931
    Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device capable of effectively increasing a threshold voltage and a method for manufacturing the silicon carbide semiconductor device. The silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a gate insulating film formed on part of surfaces of the well regions and the source region; and a gate electrode formed on a surface of the gate insulating film so as to be opposite to an end portion of the source region and the well regions. Furthermore, the gate insulating film has, in an interface region between the well regions and the gate insulating film, defects that each form a first trap having an energy level deeper than a conduction band end of silicon carbide and that include a bond between silicon and hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Furuhashi, Naruhisa Miura
  • Patent number: 9935170
    Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device can switch between an on-state and an off-state by controlling a channel region with an application of a gate voltage. The silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide layer, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The silicon carbide layer includes a channel region. The gate insulating film covers the channel region. The gate electrode faces the channel region with the gate insulating film therebetween. The resistance of the channel region in the on-state takes a minimum value at a temperature of not less than 100° C. and not more than 150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshikazu Tanioka, Yoichiro Tarui, Masayuki Furuhashi
  • Publication number: 20170250254
    Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device can switch between an on-state and an off-state by controlling a channel region with an application of a gate voltage. The silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide layer, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The silicon carbide layer includes a channel region. The gate insulating film covers the channel region. The gate electrode faces the channel region with the gate insulating film therebetween. The resistance of the channel region in the on-state takes a minimum value at a temperature of not less than 100° C. and not more than 150° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshikazu TANIOKA, Yoichiro TARUI, Masayuki FURUHASHI
  • Patent number: 9515145
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of reducing ON-resistance changes with temperature, including a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a drift layer of the first conductivity type formed on the semiconductor substrate, a first well region of a second conductivity type formed in the front surface of the drift layer, a second well region of the second conductivity type formed in the front surface of the drift layer, and a gate structure that is formed on the front surface of the drift layer and forms a channel in the first well region and a channel in the second well region. A channel resistance of the channel formed in the first well region has a temperature characteristic that the channel resistance decreases with increasing temperature and a channel resistance of the channel formed in the second well region has a temperature characteristic that the channel resistance increases with increasing temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Furuhashi, Hiroaki Okabe, Tomokatsu Watanabe, Masayuki Imaizumi
  • Publication number: 20160245790
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems that can reduce the amount of sample necessary to detect or identify, or both detect and identify, a biomolecule, and increase the rate of denaturing of the biomolecule. A device for thermally denaturing a biomolecule may include: a substrate having low thermal conductivity; a heater disposed adjacent to the substrate; a temperature sensor disposed adjacent to the substrate; a semiconductor oxide film disposed adjacent to the substrate, a nanochannel formed in a region of the semiconductor oxide film, and a cover over the nanochannel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoji Kawai, Masayuki Furuhashi, Masateru Kawaguchi, Mark Oldham, Eric Nordman
  • Publication number: 20160190261
    Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device capable of effectively increasing a threshold voltage and a method for manufacturing the silicon carbide semiconductor device. The silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a gate insulating film formed on part of surfaces of the well regions and the source region; and a gate electrode formed on a surface of the gate insulating film so as to be opposite to an end portion of the source region and the well regions. Furthermore, the gate insulating film has, in an interface region between the well regions and the gate insulating film, defects that each form a first trap having an energy level deeper than a conduction band end of silicon carbide and that include a bond between silicon and hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki FURUHASHI, Naruhisa MIURA
  • Publication number: 20150380494
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of reducing ON-resistance changes with temperature, including a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a drift layer of the first conductivity type formed on the semiconductor substrate, a first well region of a second conductivity type formed in the front surface of the drift layer, a second well region of the second conductivity type formed in the front surface of the drift layer, and a gate structure that is formed on the front surface of the drift layer and forms a channel in the first well region and a channel in the second well region. A channel resistance of the channel formed in the first well region has a temperature characteristic that the channel resistance decreases with increasing temperature and a channel resistance of the channel formed in the second well region has a temperature characteristic that the channel resistance increases with increasing temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki FURUHASHI, Hiroaki OKABE, Tomokatsu WATANABE, Masayuki IMAIZUMI
  • Patent number: 9076761
    Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device that is able to increase the gate reliability, and to provide a method for manufacturing the silicon carbide semiconductor device, and that includes: a source electrode selectively formed on a source region; a gate insulating film formed so as to extend over the source region; and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. The source region includes a first source region located below the source electrode, and a second source region surrounding the first source region. The doping concentration in a superficial layer of the second source region is lower than the doping concentration in a superficial layer of the first source region. The doping concentration in the second source region is higher in a deep portion than in a superficial portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokatsu Watanabe, Naruhisa Miura, Masayuki Furuhashi, Shiro Hino, Toshikazu Tanioka
  • Patent number: 8753951
    Abstract: In a silicon carbide MOSFET, interface state generated at an interface between a silicon carbide layer and a gate insulating film cannot be reduced sufficiently, and mobility of a carrier is decreased. To solve this problem, a silicon carbide semiconductor device according to this invention includes a substrate introduction step of introducing a substrate, which includes a silicon carbide layer on which a gate insulating film is formed, in a furnace, such that the substrate is arranged in a predetermined position of the furnace, and a heating step of heating the furnace having the substrate introduced therein while introducing nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen therein, wherein, in the heating step, nitrogen is reacted to nitride an interface between the gate insulating film and the silicon carbide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshikazu Tanioka, Masayuki Furuhashi, Masayuki Imaizumi
  • Publication number: 20140061675
    Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device that is able to increase the gate reliability, and to provide a method for manufacturing the silicon carbide semiconductor device, and that includes: a source electrode selectively formed on a source region; a gate insulating film formed so as to extend over the source region; and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. The source region includes a first source region located below the source electrode, and a second source region surrounding the first source region. The doping concentration in a superficial layer of the second source region is lower than the doping concentration in a superficial layer of the first source region. The doping concentration in the second source region is higher in a deep portion than in a superficial portion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokatsu Watanabe, Naruhisa Miura, Masayuki Furuhashi, Shiro Hino, Toshikazu Tanioka
  • Publication number: 20140055150
    Abstract: A maximum current value and pulse continuation duration are measured for each of plural pulses of tunnel current arising as a polynucleotide passes through between an electrode pair, and the polynucleotide base sequence is determined based on the maximum current value and the pulse continuation duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tomoji Kawai, Takahito Ohshiro, Kazuki Matsubara, Masayuki Furuhashi, Makusu Tsutsui, Masateru Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 8282867
    Abstract: An insert molding die, an insert molding apparatus and an insert molding method are disclosed, wherein a pair of dies 10a, 10b are arranged in a manner capable of clamping, from axis X side, an insert part 2 arranged along axis X to be insert molded. The dies 10a, 10b include first separated dies 10a1, 10b1, second separated dies 10a2, 10b2 and third separated dies 10a3, 10b3 adapted to perform the clamp operation independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Arai, Masayuki Furuhashi, Sayaka Okabe