Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Hachiyanagi

Toshihiro Hachiyanagi 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: 10833154
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a substrate and an insulating structure. In an aspect, an anchor can include a portion of the substrate that extends into the insulating structure or a portion of the insulating structure that extends into the substrate. In another aspect, a process of forming an electronic device can include patterning a substrate to define a trench and a first anchor; and forming an insulating structure within the trench and adjacent to the first anchor. In a further aspect, a process of forming an electronic device can include patterning a substrate to define a trench having a sidewall and a first pillar spaced apart from the sidewall; doping the first pillar to change a conductivity type of the first pillar; and forming an insulating structure that surrounds the first pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon M. Grivna, Steven M. Etter, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Miki Ichiyanagi, Toshihiro Hachiyanagi
  • Publication number: 20190035886
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a substrate and an insulating structure. In an aspect, an anchor can include a portion of the substrate that extends into the insulating structure or a portion of the insulating structure that extends into the substrate. In another aspect, a process of forming an electronic device can include patterning a substrate to define a trench and a first anchor; and forming an insulating structure within the trench and adjacent to the first anchor. In a further aspect, a process of forming an electronic device can include patterning a substrate to define a trench having a sidewall and a first pillar spaced apart from the sidewall; doping the first pillar to change a conductivity type of the first pillar; and forming an insulating structure that surrounds the first pillar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon M. GRIVNA, Steven M. ETTER, Hiroyuki SUZUKI, Miki ICHIYANAGI, Toshihiro HACHIYANAGI
  • Patent number: 10115790
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a substrate and an insulating structure. In an aspect, an anchor can include a portion of the substrate that extends into the insulating structure or a portion of the insulating structure that extends into the substrate. In another aspect, a process of forming an electronic device can include patterning a substrate to define a trench and a first anchor; and forming an insulating structure within the trench and adjacent to the first anchor. In a further aspect, a process of forming an electronic device can include patterning a substrate to define a trench having a sidewall and a first pillar spaced apart from the sidewall; doping the first pillar to change a conductivity type of the first pillar; and forming an insulating structure that surrounds the first pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon M. Grivna, Steve M. Etter, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Miki Ichiyanagi, Toshihiro Hachiyanagi
  • Publication number: 20170084687
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a substrate and an insulating structure. In an aspect, an anchor can include a portion of the substrate that extends into the insulating structure or a portion of the insulating structure that extends into the substrate. In another aspect, a process of forming an electronic device can include patterning a substrate to define a trench and a first anchor; and forming an insulating structure within the trench and adjacent to the first anchor. In a further aspect, a process of forming an electronic device can include patterning a substrate to define a trench having a sidewall and a first pillar spaced apart from the sidewall; doping the first pillar to change a conductivity type of the first pillar; and forming an insulating structure that surrounds the first pillar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon M. GRIVNA, Steve M. ETTER, Hiroyuki SUZUKI, Miki ICHIYANAGI, Toshihiro HACHIYANAGI
  • Patent number: 8735997
    Abstract: A transistor structure that improves ESD withstand voltages is offered. A high impurity concentration drain layer is formed in a surface of an intermediate impurity concentration drain layer at a location separated from a drain-side end of a gate electrode. And a P-type impurity layer is formed in a surface of a substrate between the gate electrode and the high impurity concentration drain layer so as to surround the high impurity concentration drain layer. When a parasitic bipolar transistor is turned on by an abnormal surge, electrons travel from a source electrode to a drain electrode. Here, electrons travel dispersed in the manner to avoid a vicinity X of the surface of the substrate and travel through a deeper path to the drain electrode as indicated by arrows in FIG. 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Toshihiro Hachiyanagi, Masafumi Uehara, Katsuyoshi Anzai
  • Patent number: 7611957
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a semiconductor resistor layer, which reduces a difference between a theoretical resistance value and a measured resistance value. An interlayer insulation film is formed on the whole surface of a semiconductor substrate, and then the interlayer insulation film is selectively etched to form contact holes partially exposing a polysilicon resistor layer, a source region and a drain region. The patterning size of the polysilicon resistor layer is designed by defining the lengths between the adjacent contact holes on the polysilicon resistor layer as the lengths of resistor elements. Then, ion implantation is performed to the polysilicon resistor layer through the contact holes to form low resistance regions (regions where high concentration of impurities are implanted) on the polysilicon resistor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Nishibe, Toshihiro Hachiyanagi
  • Publication number: 20080067617
    Abstract: A transistor structure that improves ESD withstand voltages is offered. A high impurity concentration drain layer is formed in a surface of an intermediate impurity concentration drain layer at a location separated from a drain-side end of a gate electrode. And a P-type impurity layer is formed in a surface of a substrate between the gate electrode and the high impurity concentration drain layer so as to surround the high impurity concentration drain layer. When a parasitic bipolar transistor is turned on by an abnormal surge, electrons travel from a source electrode to a drain electrode. Here, electrons travel dispersed in the manner to avoid a vicinity X of the surface of the substrate and travel through a deeper path to the drain electrode as indicated by arrows in FIG. 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Toshihiro Hachiyanagi, Masafumi Uehara, Katsuyoshi Anzai
  • Publication number: 20070178636
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a semiconductor resistor layer, which reduces a difference between a theoretical resistance value and a measured resistance value. An interlayer insulation film is formed on the whole surface of a semiconductor substrate, and then the interlayer insulation film is selectively etched to form contact holes partially exposing a polysilicon resistor layer, a source region and a drain region. The patterning size of the polysilicon resistor layer is designed by defining the lengths between the adjacent contact holes on the polysilicon resistor layer as the lengths of resistor elements. Then, ion implantation is performed to the polysilicon resistor layer through the contact holes to form low resistance regions (regions where high concentration of impurities are implanted) on the polysilicon resistor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Nishibe, Toshihiro Hachiyanagi
  • Patent number: 7157779
    Abstract: An operational withstand voltage of a high voltage MOS transistor is enhanced and a variation in a saturation current Idsat is suppressed. A gate insulation film is formed on a P-type semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode is formed on the gate insulation film. A first low impurity concentration source layer and a first low impurity concentration drain layer are formed by tilt angle ion implantation of double charge phosphorus ions (31P++) using the gate electrode as a mask. Then a second low impurity concentration source layer and a second low impurity drain layer are formed by tilt angle ion implantation of single charge phosphorus ions (31P+).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Nishibe, Toshihiro Hachiyanagi
  • Publication number: 20050116285
    Abstract: An operational withstand voltage of a high voltage MOS transistor is enhanced. An N?-type drain layer is formed in a surface of a P-type semiconductor substrate to overlap a gate electrode so that a surface of the N?-type drain layer below the gate electrode becomes depleted when a drain-source voltage Vds greater than a gate-source voltage Vgs is applied to the N?-type drain layer. Consequently, a channel current Ie of the high voltage MOS transistor flows through deep region of the N?-type drain layer under the surface depletion layer to avoid flowing through the surface region at an edge of the N?-type drain layer where an electric field converges. This results in reduced substrate current Isub and enhanced operational withstand voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Nishibe, Toshihiro Hachiyanagi
  • Publication number: 20050104138
    Abstract: An operational withstand voltage of a high voltage MOS transistor is enhanced and a variation in a saturation current Idsat is suppressed. A gate insulation film is formed on a P-type semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode is formed on the gate insulation film. A first low impurity concentration source layer and a first low impurity concentration drain layer are formed by tilt angle ion implantation of double charge phosphorus ions (31P++) using the gate electrode as a mask. Then a second low impurity concentration source layer and a second low impurity drain layer are formed by tilt angle ion implantation of single charge phosphorus ions (31P+).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Nishibe, Toshihiro Hachiyanagi