Patents by Inventor Daisuke Maekawa

Daisuke Maekawa 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: 11921803
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indicating location status. A computing device can receive a query from a user device, a current time, and a location for the user device. The computing device identifies results responsive to the query, including one or more business results that are each associated with a business location and operating hours. The computing device can select a subset of the business results as open results based on the operating hours of the business results, the current time, and travel times from the device location to the respective business locations. Data can be provided for a search engine results page that designates the subset of the business results as open results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Daisuke Ikeda, Ryoichi Imaizumi, Kaleigh S. Smith, Keiji Maekawa
  • Patent number: 9123577
    Abstract: Electrical isolation in non-volatile memory is provided by air gaps formed using sacrificial films of differing etch rates. A high etch rate material is formed in an isolation trench. Flowable chemical vapor deposition processes are used to form high etch rate films, and curing is performed to increase their etch rate. A low etch material is formed over the high etch rate material and provides a controlled etch back between charge storage regions in a row direction. A discrete low etch rate layer can be formed or the high etch rate material can be oxidized to form an upper region with a lower etch rate. A controlled etch back enables formation of a wrap-around dielectric and control gate structure in the row direction with minimized variability in the dimensions of the structures. At least a portion of the high etch rate material is removed to form air gaps for isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Hitomi Fujimoto, Hiroaki Iuchi, Ming Tian, Daisuke Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20140159135
    Abstract: Electrical isolation in non-volatile memory is provided by air gaps formed using sacrificial films of differing etch rates. A high etch rate material is formed in an isolation trench. Flowable chemical vapor deposition processes are used to form high etch rate films, and curing is performed to increase their etch rate. A low etch material is formed over the high etch rate material and provides a controlled etch back between charge storage regions in a row direction. A discrete low etch rate layer can be formed or the high etch rate material can be oxidized to form an upper region with a lower etch rate. A controlled etch back enables formation of a wrap-around dielectric and control gate structure in the row direction with minimized variability in the dimensions of the structures. At least a portion of the high etch rate material is removed to form air gaps for isolation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Hitomi Fujimoto, Hiroaki Iuchi, Ming Tian, Daisuke Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20130307044
    Abstract: Air gap isolation in non-volatile memory arrays and related fabrication processes are provided. Electrical isolation between adjacent active areas of a substrate can be provided, at least in part, by bit line air gaps that are elongated in a column direction between the active areas. A blocking layer can be introduced to inhibit the formation of materials in the air gaps during subsequent process steps. The blocking layer may result in selective air gap formation or varying dimension of air gaps at cell areas relative to select gate areas in the memory. The blocking layer may result in a smaller vertical dimension for air gaps formed in the isolation regions at select gate areas relative to cell areas. The blocking layer may inhibit formation of air gaps at the select gate areas in other examples. Selective etching, implanting and different isolation materials may be used to selectively define air gaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Ming Tian, Daisuke Maekawa, Naoki Watakabe, Seiji Shimabukuro, Hiroaki Iuchi, Hitomi Nakajima