Patents by Inventor Hideaki Shimmoto

Hideaki Shimmoto 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: 7732268
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device to improve the quality of a polycrystal silicon upon dehydrogenating and polycrystallizing an amorphous silicon at the outside of a display region of a substrate, by forming a plurality of pixels having TFT devices using an amorphous silicon in the display region of the substrate, and forming a plurality of driving circuits having semiconductor devices using a polycrystal silicon at the outside of the display region, the method including irradiation of a first continuous oscillation laser only to the amorphous silicon in the region for forming the driving circuit and the peripheral region thereof to conduct dehydrogenation and then irradiation of a second continuous oscillation region only to the dehydrogenated region to polycrystallize the amorphous silicon, wherein the region to which the first continuous oscillation laser is irradiated is wider than the region to which the second continuous oscillation laser is irradiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimmoto, Mikio Hongo, Akio Yazaki, Takeshi Noda, Takuo Kaitoh
  • Publication number: 20080173871
    Abstract: In a display device which includes MIS transistors having semiconductor layers thereof formed of an amorphous semiconductor and MIS transistors having semiconductor layers thereof including a polycrystalline semiconductor, the present invention can enhance crystallinity of the semiconductor layers formed of the polycrystalline semiconductor when the respective MIS transistors adopt the bottom gate structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Takeshi Noda, Takahiro Kamo, Hideaki Shimmoto
  • Publication number: 20080176351
    Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a display device which can prevent the reduction of a size of a pseudo single-crystalline region having strip-like crystals in forming such a pseudo single-crystalline silicon region on a substrate. A step for forming pseudo single crystals having strip-like crystals on a preset region of a semiconductor film formed on a substrate includes a step for forming the pseudo single crystal by radiating an energy beam to a first region of the semiconductor film while moving a radiation position of the energy beam in a first direction, and a step for forming the pseudo single crystal by radiating the energy beam to a second region of the semiconductor film while moving a radiation position of the energy beam in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimmoto, Takahiro Kamo, Takeshi Noda, Takuo Kaitoh, Eiji Oue
  • Publication number: 20080050893
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device to improve the quality of a polycrystal silicon upon dehydrogenating and polycrystallizing an amorphous silicon at the outside of a display region of a substrate, by forming a plurality of pixels having TFT devices using an amorphous silicon in the display region of the substrate, and forming a plurality of driving circuits having semiconductor devices using a polycrystal silicon at the outside of the display region, the method including irradiation of a first continuous oscillation laser only to the amorphous silicon in the region for forming the driving circuit and the peripheral region thereof to conduct dehydrogenation and then irradiation of a second continuous oscillation region only to the dehydrogenated region to polycrystallize the amorphous silicon, wherein the region to which the first continuous oscillation laser is irradiated is wider than the region to which the second continuous oscillation laser is irradiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimmoto, Mikio Hongo, Akio Yazaki, Takeshi Noda, Takuo Kaitoh