Patents Assigned to ROHM
  • Patent number: 8747643
    Abstract: Copper plating baths containing a leveling agent that is a reaction product of one or more of certain cyclodiaza-compounds with one or more epoxide-containing compounds that deposit copper on the surface of a conductive layer are provided. Such plating baths deposit a copper layer that is substantially planar on a substrate surface across a range of electrolyte concentrations. Methods of depositing copper layers using such copper plating baths are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC
    Inventors: Zukhra I. Niazimbetova, Maria Anna Rzeznik
  • Patent number: 8749219
    Abstract: A current generating circuit may include a first current source configured to generate a first current having positive temperature characteristics; a second current source configured to generate a second current; a compensation transistor configured as an NPN bipolar transistor, and arranged such that the second current flows through from its collector and its emitter; and a first current mirror circuit configured to multiply a base current of the compensation transistor by a first coefficient so as to generate a third current. The current generating circuit may be configured to output a fourth current that is proportional to the difference between the first current and the third current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8747953
    Abstract: The present invention provides stable aqueous thermosetting binder compositions having a total solids content of 15 wt. % or higher, preferably, 20 wt. % or higher, and having extended shelf life comprising one or more reducing sugar, one or more primary amine compound, and one or more stabilizer acid or salt having a pKa of 8.5 or less. The total amount of stabilizer used may range from 5 to 200 mole %, based on the total moles of primary amine present in the binder. The stabilizer may be an organic stabilizer chosen from a monocarboxylic acid, a dicarboxylic acid, a fatty acid, an acid functional fatty acid ester, an acid functional fatty acid ether, or an inorganic stabilizer chosen from a mineral acid, a mineral acid amine or ammonia salt, and a Lewis acid, and mixtures thereof. The compositions can be used to provide binders for substrate materials including, for example, glass fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: William Christopher Finch, Charles James Rand, C. Damien Rodowski, Barry Weinstein, Drew Elliot Williams
  • Patent number: 8748080
    Abstract: Topcoat layer compositions are provided that are applied above a photoresist composition. The compositions find particular applicability to immersion lithography processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC
    Inventors: Deyan Wang, Chunyi Wu
  • Publication number: 20140152216
    Abstract: According to the voltage VU that occurs at one end of at least one of multiple coils of a fan motor, a back electromotive force detection circuit generates a detection signal BEMFU asserted in a cyclic manner when a fan motor is stably rotating. A lock protection circuit detects a lock state of the fan motor rotor. A period detection unit measures the detection signal BEMFU period. A synchronization pulse generating circuit generates a synchronization pulse having a period that is 1/N (N represents an integer of 2 or more) of that of the detection signal BEMFU measured in a previous cycle. A lock judgment unit counts the synchronization pulse in increments of cycles of the detection signal BEMFU. When the count value exceeds a predetermined threshold value M (M represents an integer of 2 or more) which is greater than N, the lock mode judgment signal is asserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiya SUZUKI, Yuki GOHARA
  • Publication number: 20140152419
    Abstract: [Object] A method for efficiently manufacturing chip resistors is provided. [Means] The method includes the steps of preparing at least three conductive elongated boards 711 made of an electrically conductive material and a resistive member 702 made of a resistive material, arranging the at least three conductive elongated boards 711 apart from each other along a width direction crossing a longitudinal direction in which one of the at least three conductive elongated boards 711 is elongated, forming a resistor aggregate 703 by bonding the resistive member 702 to the at least three conductive elongated boards 711, and collectively dividing the resistor aggregate 703 into a plurality of chip resistors by punching so that each of the chip resistors includes two electrodes and a resistor portion bonded to the two electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Naka
  • Publication number: 20140151648
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes at least two light-emissive units provided between a cathode electrode and an anode electrode opposed to the cathode electrode, each of the light-emissive units including at least one light-emissive layer. The light-emissive units are partitioned from each other by at least one charge generation layer, the charge generation layer being an electrically insulating layer having a resistivity of not less than 1.0×102 ?cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: ROHM COMPANY, LTD
    Inventor: Junji Kido
  • Patent number: 8742691
    Abstract: A main transformer is arranged such that a load is connected to its secondary winding side. A first error amplifier generates a feedback signal that corresponds to the difference between a detection signal which indicates the electrical state of the load and a predetermined first reference voltage. A current generating resistor is arranged between a current generating transistor and a fixed voltage terminal. A second error amplifier is arranged such that the first input terminal receives the electric potential at a node that connects the current generating transistor and the current generating resistor, a predetermined second reference voltage is input to the second input terminal thereof, and the output terminal thereof is connected to the control terminal of the current generating transistor. An adjustment resistor is arranged between the output terminal of the first error amplifier and a node that connects the current generating transistor and the current generating resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Imanaka
  • Patent number: 8742552
    Abstract: The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor chip, an island having an upper surface to which the semiconductor chip is bonded, a lead arranged around the island, a bonding wire extended between the surface of the semiconductor chip and the upper surface of the lead, and a resin package collectively sealing the semiconductor chip, the island, the lead and the bonding wire, while the lower surface of the island and the lower surface of the lead are exposed on the rear surface of the resin package, and the lead is provided with a recess concaved from the lower surface side and opened on a side surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Koga, Taro Nishioka
  • Patent number: 8742834
    Abstract: A control unit alternately repeats a first state in which a first switch and a third switch are on and a second state in which a second switch and a fourth switch are on. A voltage detection unit compares the output voltage that occurs at one terminal (OUT terminal) of an output capacitor with a negative threshold voltage, and generates an abnormality detection signal which is asserted when the output voltage is higher than the threshold voltage Vt. When the abnormality detection signal is asserted, the control unit switches the on resistance of the first switch to a value that is higher than that in a normal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Motoki
  • Patent number: 8741940
    Abstract: Synergistic microbicidal compositions containing N-(n-butyl)-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one or N-methyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Richard Levy, Megan Anne Diehl, Dolores Ann Shaw, Eileen Fleck Warwick
  • Patent number: 8742644
    Abstract: A power generation apparatus includes a dielectric, a movable member being opposed to the dielectric with a predetermined distance, and an electret and an opposing electrode that are formed on the surface of the movable member facing the dielectric so as to generate a fringe electric field penetrating the dielectric between the two electrodes. When the volume occupancy of the dielectric between the electret and the opposing electrode varies in accordance with a displacement of the movable member, the power generation apparatus outputs the electric charge induced in the opposing electrode as electric current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Rohm Co., Ltd., Kansai University
    Inventors: Seiji Aoyagi, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 8744254
    Abstract: There is provided a lens control device that feeds a motor current to a lens drive motor which drives lens according to the motor current, the lens control device including: a servo computation portion that calculates a motor current setting value such that a deviation of the position of the lens to which a correction offset has been adjusted from a target position is reduced; a motor driver that generates the motor current according to the motor current setting value; and a calibration computation portion that adjusts the correction offset such that an average value of the motor current approaches zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Saito, Koji Saito
  • Patent number: 8742177
    Abstract: A continuous process and system for preparing branched aldehydes by reacting aldehyde with an acid polymeric catalyst absent any metal from Group VIII to produce a product having about 10 to 99.99% by weight branched unsaturated aldehyde and at least 92% selectivity of reaction to the branched aldehyde and recycling a portion of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Rohm and Haas Company, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Michael C. Becker, Robert J. Olsen, James F. Tate, Jose Antonio Trejo-O'Reilly
  • Patent number: 8741779
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus for processing an object to be processed using a plasma. The apparatus includes a processing chamber defining a processing cavity for containing an object to be processed and a process gas therein, a microwave radiating antenna having a microwave radiating surface for radiating a microwave in order to excite a plasma in the processing cavity, and a dielectric body provided so as to be opposed to the microwave radiating surface, in which the distance D between the microwave radiating surface and a surface of the dielectric body facing away from the microwave radiating surface, which is represented with the wavelength of the microwave being a distance unit, is determined to be in the range satisfying the inequality 0.7×n/4?D?1.3×n/4 (n being a natural number).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: ROHM Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Kazuhide Ino, Takahiro Arakawa
  • Publication number: 20140146238
    Abstract: A switching power supply device has a switching controller adapted to generate an output voltage from an input voltage by turning on and off a switching device by a non-linear control method according to a comparison signal and a timer signal, a main comparator adapted to generate the comparison signal by comparing a feedback voltage based on the output voltage with a predetermined reference voltage, a timer adapted to output the timer signal as a one-shot pulse when a predetermined fixed period elapses after the switching device is turned from on to off or vice versa, and a reverse current detector adapted to detect a reverse current to the switching device to forcibly turn off the switching device. The timer and the reverse current detector are turned on at a pulse edge in the comparison signal, and are turned off on ending their respective operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140146426
    Abstract: An overvoltage protection portion (14) includes a transistor (P1) that achieves continuity with an input voltage (VIN) used as an output voltage (VOUT) to an internal circuit when the input voltage (VIN) applied to an external terminal (T1) is not in an overvoltage state. The overvoltage protection portion (14) also includes: a transistor (P2) operating as a short circuit that short-circuits the source and the gate of the transistor (P1) and that interrupts the input voltage (VIN) when the input voltage (VIN) is in the overvoltage state; a resistor (R2); and a Zener diode (ZD1). The overvoltage protection portion (14) also includes: a transistor (NTr1) operating as a bypass circuit that supplies a constant output voltage (VOUT) from the external terminal (T1) to the internal circuit when the input voltage (VIN) is brought into the overvoltage state; a resistor (R3); and a Zener diode (ZD2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140145223
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including: a substrate made of GaAs; and a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, in which part of the substrate on a side opposite to the semiconductor layer is removed by etching so that the semiconductor light emitting device has a thickness of not more than 60 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadahiro HOSOMI, Kentaro MINESHITA
  • Patent number: 8735293
    Abstract: A method for chemical mechanical polishing of a substrate comprising a germanium-antimony-tellurium chalcogenide phase change alloy using a chemical mechanical polishing composition comprising water; 1 to 40 wt % colloidal silica abrasive particles having an average particle size of ?50 nm; and 0 to 5 wt % quarternary ammonium compound; wherein the chemical mechanical polishing composition is oxidizer free and chelating agent free; and, wherein the chemical mechanical polishing composition has a pH >6 to 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhendong Liu
  • Patent number: 8735507
    Abstract: The instant invention provides a crosslinkable aqueous composition, method of producing the same, crosslinked compositions, and method of producing the same. The crosslinkable composition comprising: an aqueous dispersion comprising; (a) water; (b) a polycarbamate comprising at least an average of 2.0 carbamate functional groups; (c) a polyaldehyde comprising at least two aldehyde groups; (d) an acid catalyst; and (e) optionally one or more surfactants; wherein said aqueous dispersion has a pH in the range of less than 7; and wherein said composition is capable of being crosslinked at a temperature in range of less than 80° C. upon substantial removal of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Eric Greyson, John N. Argyropoulos, Paul Foley, Andrew Swartz, Nahrain E. Kamber, Caroline Slone, Manesh N. Sekharan