Patents by Inventor Hajime Shirato

Hajime Shirato 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: 4133049
    Abstract: A memory circuit arrangement employing one-transistor-per-bit memory cells in which differential sense amplifiers are utilized for detecting the state of the stored bits. First and second digit lines are arranged substantially parallel to and adjacent to each other and first and second parallel word lines are arranged substantially at right angles to the digit lines. Memory cells are connected at each cross point between the digit lines and the word lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Assignee: Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Shirato
  • Patent number: 4054865
    Abstract: A memory circuit includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in an array of intersecting rows and columns and a plurality of differential amplifiers corresponding to the number of columns in the array. The memory array is divided into first and second row groups. Each of the differential amplifiers has one input connected to the memory cells in one of the row groups in one of the columns, and a second input connected to the memory cells in the second row group and to the same column connected to the first input. An output sense amplifier has one input selectively connected to the first input of a selected differential amplifier, and a second input selectively connected to a second input of the selected differential amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Assignee: Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Shirato
  • Patent number: 3962686
    Abstract: A memory circuit employing insulated-gate field-effect transistors includes a first circuit for generating a signal upon the completion of one of the circuit functions involved in the operation of the memory circuit. That signal is applied to a second circuit which thereupon produces a timing signal that is used to control a second circuit function of the memory circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1976
    Assignee: Nippon Electric Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeki Matsue, Hajime Shirato