Patents by Inventor Hideki Kitagawa

Hideki Kitagawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20200183208
    Abstract: Provided is an active matrix substrate provided with a substrate (1), a peripheral circuit that includes a first oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor (TFT) (101), a plurality of second oxide semiconductor TFTs (102) disposed in a display area, and a first inorganic insulating layer (11) covering the plurality of second oxide semiconductor TFTs (102), the first oxide semiconductor TFT (101) having a lower gate electrode (3A), a gate insulating layer (4), an oxide semiconductor (5A) disposed so as to face the lower gate electrode with the gate insulating layer interposed therebetween, a source electrode (7A) and a drain electrode (8A), and an upper gate electrode (BG) disposed on the oxide semiconductor (5A) with an insulating layer that includes the first inorganic insulating layer (11) interposed therebetween, and furthermore having, on the upper gate electrode (BG), a second inorganic insulating layer (17) covering the first oxide semiconductor TFT (101).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuo KIKUCHI, Tohru DAITOH, Hajime IMAI, Toshikatsu ITOH, Hisao OCHI, Hideki KITAGAWA, Masahiko SUZUKI, Teruyuki UEDA, Ryosuke GUNJI, Kengo HARA, Setsuji NISHIMIYA
  • Publication number: 20200185425
    Abstract: Each of pixel regions of an active matrix substrate (1002) includes: a lower insulating layer (5); an oxide semiconductor layer (7) that is arranged on the lower insulating layer and includes an active region (7a) of an oxide semiconductor TFT; an upper insulating layer (9) that is arranged on a portion of the oxide semiconductor layer so as not to be in contact with the lower insulating layer; an upper gate layer (10) that is arranged on the upper insulating layer and includes an upper gate electrode (10a) and one of a plurality of gate bus lines (GL); and a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein: the oxide semiconductor layer 7 further includes an extension region (7e) that extends from the active region (7a) in a direction x different from a channel length direction y of the oxide semiconductor TFT as seen from a normal direction to the substrate; and the extension region (7e) is arranged on the substrate side of one of the plurality of gate bus lines (GL) with an upper insulating layer (9) interp
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Kengo HARA, Tohru DAITOH, Hajime IMAI, Tetsuo KIKUCHI, Hideki KITAGAWA, Teruyuki UEDA, Masahiko SUZUKI, Setsuji NISHIMIYA, Toshikatsu ITOH
  • Patent number: 10649293
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate, pixel electrodes, switching components, an electrode, a line, a terminal, an insulating film, and a conductive film. The switching components are disposed in a layer lower than the pixel electrodes. The electrode is disposed in a layer different from a layer in which the pixel electrodes are disposed. The line includes sections disposed in a layer lower than the switching components in a display area. The terminal is disposed in a layer upper than the line in a non-display area. The insulating film includes a section disposed between the line and the switching components in the display area and a section disposed between the terminal and the substrate in the non-display area. The conductive film is disposed on the insulating film in a layer between the line and the terminal to connect the line to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Kitagawa, Tohru Daitoh, Hajime Imai, Yoshihito Hara, Masaki Maeda, Toshikatsu Itoh, Tatsuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10620468
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display panel substrate includes a transparent conductive film formation step of forming a transparent conductive film on a flattening film that covers a switching component disposed on a substrate, a metallic film formation step of forming a metallic film so as to cover the transparent conductive film after the transparent conductive film formation step, a line formation step of forming a line by etching the metallic film after the metallic film formation step, and a transparent electrode formation step of forming a transparent electrode that is connected to the line by etching the transparent conductive film after the wire formation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshikatsu Itoh, Tohru Daitoh, Hajime Imai, Masaki Maeda, Hideki Kitagawa, Yoshihito Hara, Tatsuya Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20200111433
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an active matrix substrate (100) includes a display region (DR) defined by a plurality of pixel regions (P) arranged in a matrix and a peripheral region (FR) located around the display region. The active matrix substrate includes a substrate (1), a first TFT (10), and a second TFT (20). The first TFT is supported by the substrate and disposed in the peripheral region. The second TFT is supported by the substrate and disposed in the display region. The first TFT includes a crystalline silicon semiconductor layer (11), which is an active layer. The second TFT includes an oxide semiconductor layer (21), which is an active layer. The first TFT and the second TFT each have a top-gate structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuo KIKUCHI, Hideki KITAGAWA, Hajime IMAI, Toshikatsu ITOH, Masahiko SUZUKI, Teruyuki UEDA, Kengo HARA, Setsuji NISHIMIYA, Tohru DAITOH
  • Publication number: 20200073155
    Abstract: An electronic component board includes a conductive film, an insulating film, and a transparent electrode film. The insulating film is disposed in a layer upper than the conductive film to cover a side surface and an upper surface of the conductive film. The transparent electrode film is disposed in a layer upper than the insulating film. The transparent electrode film includes an electrode portion and a covering portion. The electrode portion includes an electrode. The electrode portion is electrically connected to the conductive film. The covering portion is separated from the electrode portion and electrically insulated from the conductive film and the electrode portion to overlap the conductive film and the insulating film that covers the conductive film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Hideki KITAGAWA, Yoshihito HARA, Masaki MAEDA, Tatsuya KAWASAKI, Yoshiharu HIRATA, Hajime IMAI, Tohru DAITOH
  • Publication number: 20200058678
    Abstract: Provided is an active matrix substrate (100A) including: a gate metal layer (15) that has a two-layer structure composed of a Cu layer (15b) and a Ti layer (15a); a first insulating layer (16) on the gate metal layer (15); a source metal layer (18) that is formed on the first insulating layer (16) and has a two-layer structure composed of a Cu layer (18b) and a Ti layer (18a); a second insulating layer (19) on the source metal layer (18); a conductive layer (25) that is formed on the second insulating layer (19), and is in contact with the gate metal layer (15) within a first opening (16a1) formed in the first insulating layer (16) and is in contact with the source metal layer (18) within a second opening (19a2) formed in the second insulating layer (19); and a first transparent conductive layer (21) that is formed on the conductive layer (25) and includes any of a pixel electrode, a common electrode and an auxiliary capacitor electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Teruyuki UEDA, Hideki KITAGAWA, Tohru DAITOH, Hajime IMAI, Masahiko SUZUKI, Setsuji NISHIMIYA, Tetsuo KIKUCHI, Toshikatsu ITOH, Kengo HARA
  • Publication number: 20200027958
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of thin film transistors supported on a substrate and an inorganic insulating layer covering the plurality of thin film transistors. Each thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. At least one of the gate insulating layer and the inorganic insulating layer is an insulating layer stack having a multilayer structure including a silicon oxide layer and a silicon nitride layer. The insulating layer stack further includes an intermediate layer disposed between the silicon oxide layer and the silicon nitride layer, the intermediate layer having a refractive index nC higher than a refractive index nA of the silicon oxide layer and lower than a refractive index nB of the silicon nitride layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Masahiko SUZUKI, Hideki KITAGAWA, Tetsuo KIKUCHI, Toshikatsu ITOH, Setsuji NISHIMIYA, Teruyuki UEDA, Kengo HARA, Hajime IMAI, Tohru DAITOH
  • Publication number: 20200020756
    Abstract: An oxide semiconductor TFT (201) of an active matrix substrate includes an oxide semiconductor layer (107), an upper gate electrode (112) disposed on a part of the oxide semiconductor layer via a gate insulating layer, and a source electrode (113) and a drain electrode (114). As viewed from a normal direction of the substrate, the oxide semiconductor layer (107) includes a first portion (p1) that overlaps the upper gate electrode, and a second portion (p2) that is located between the first portion and the source contact region or drain contact region, such that the gate insulating layer does not cover the second portion. The upper gate electrode (112) has a multilayer structure including an alloy layer (112L) that is in contact with the gate insulating layer and a metal layer (112U) that is disposed on the alloy layer. The metal layer is made of a first metallic element M; the alloy layer is made of an alloy containing the first metallic element M; and the first metallic element M is Cu, Mo, or Cr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Teruyuki UEDA, Hideki KITAGAWA, Tohru DAITOH, Hajime IMAI, Masahiko SUZUKI, Setsuji NISHIMIYA, Tetsuo KIKUCHI, Toshikatsu ITOH, Kengo HARA
  • Patent number: 10520761
    Abstract: A method of producing a substrate having an alignment mark includes a process of forming a lower layer side metal film on a substrate and forming a lower layer side alignment mark base having a lower layer side alignment mark that is a hole, a process of forming an upper layer side metal film on the substrate and the lower layer side metal film, a process of forming a photoresist film on the upper layer side metal film and forming a lower layer side alignment mark overlapping portion overlapping a part of the lower layer side alignment mark with patterning, an etching process of removing with etching selectively portions of the lower and upper layer side metal films not overlapping the lower layer side alignment mark overlapping portion and forming an upper layer side alignment mark that is the upper layer side metal film, and a photoresist removing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Maeda, Yoshihito Hara, Tohru Daitoh, Hajime Imai, Hideki Kitagawa, Toshikatsu Itoh, Tatsuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10505770
    Abstract: A signal processing device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of signal processing units and a pseudo signal generating unit. The plurality of signal processing units are provided in a plurality of reception antennas which receive reflection signals of a transmission signal reflected on an object, and perform signal processing in parallel on beat signals which are generated based on the transmission signal and the reflections signals. The pseudo signal generating unit generates a pseudo signal imitating the beat signal, and inputs the pseudo signal as a target of the signal processing into the plurality of signal processing units in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignees: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, ASAHI KASEI MICRODEVICES CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Enomoto, Kazuhiro Komatsu, Kenta Iwai, Takeshi Tanaka, Minoru Uehara, Tsuyoshi Sakakibara, Naoto Kusakawa, Hideki Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 10481453
    Abstract: A method includes a pixel electrode forming process of forming a pixel electrode formed from a transparent electrode film on a gate insulation film that covers a gate electrode, a semiconductor film forming process being performed after the pixel electrode forming process and forming a semiconductor film on the gate insulation film such that a part of the semiconductor film covers the pixel electrode, an annealing process being performed after the semiconductor film forming process and processing the semiconductor film with annealing, and an etching process being performed after the annealing process and processing the semiconductor film with etching such that a channel section overlapping the gate electrode is formed in a same layer as the pixel electrode. The etching and the annealing performed on one of the transparent electrode film and the semiconductor film is less likely to adversely affect another one of the films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihito Hara, Tohru Daitoh, Hajime Imai, Masaki Maeda, Hideki Kitagawa, Toshikatsu Itoh, Tatsuya Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20190326443
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a thin film transistor including a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, the semiconductor layer includes a layered structure including a first oxide semiconductor layer including In and Zn, in which an atomic ratio of In with respect to all metallic elements included in the first oxide semiconductor layer is higher than an atomic ratio of Zn, a second oxide semiconductor layer including In and Zn, in which an atomic ratio of Zn with respect to all metallic elements included in the second oxide semiconductor layer is higher than an atomic ratio of In, and an intermediate oxide semiconductor layer arranged between the first oxide semiconductor layer and the second oxide semiconductor layer, and the first and second oxide semiconductor layers are crystalline oxide semiconductor layers, and the intermediate oxide semiconductor layer is an amorphous oxide semiconductor layer, and the first oxide semiconductor layer is
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiko SUZUKI, Hajime IMAI, Hideki KITAGAWA, Tetsuo KIKUCHI, Setsuji NISHIMIYA, Teruyuki UEDA, Kengo HARA, Tohru DAITOH, Toshikatsu ITOH
  • Patent number: 10443122
    Abstract: A device of executing vacuum processing has a chamber capable of keeping the chamber as a whole in a depressurized state; a feeding roller so disposed as to hang a reinforcement fiber down in the chamber; a processor so disposed in the chamber as to pass the reinforcement fiber hung down in the chamber through the processor; a capture device so disposed as to capture and keep a leading end of the reinforcement fiber passing the processor and vertically falling down in place; a winding bobbin configured to wind the reinforcement fiber processed by the processor; and a resilient cord withdrawn in synchronism with the winding bobbin from a first position where the resilient cord surrounds the leading end kept in place by the capture device to a second position where the resilient cord gets in contact with and leads the reinforcement fiber to the winding bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, Kaji Seisakusho Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yukihiro Nakada, Kenichiro Watanabe, Yasutomo Tanaka, Hideki Kitagawa, Kenichi Sodeno
  • Publication number: 20190296056
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a source metal layer including a plurality of source bus lines and a gate metal layer including a plurality of gate bus lines, and a thin film transistor arranged in each pixel region, wherein: the thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer arranged on the gate electrode with a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween, and a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein the gate electrode is formed in the gate metal layer and is electrically connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of gate bus lines, the gate metal layer has a layered structure including a copper alloy layer and a copper layer arranged on the copper alloy layer, wherein the copper alloy layer is of a copper alloy including Cu and at least one additive metal element, wherein the additive metal element includes Al, and an Al content of the copper alloy is 2 at % or more and 8 at % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: TERUYUKI UEDA, YOSHIHITO HARA, TOHRU DAITOH, HAJIME IMAI, HIDEKI KITAGAWA, MASAKI MAEDA, TATSUYA KAWASAKI, YOSHIHARU HIRATA, TETSUO KIKUCHI, TOSHIKATSU ITOH
  • Patent number: 10386473
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a first processing unit, a second processing unit, and a speed determining unit. Of these units, the first processing unit determines at least speed including ambiguity caused by phase folding back within a predetermined speed measurement range, from phase rotation of frequency components detected in time-series for a same target, using a beat signal obtained by transmitting and receiving, a plurality of times, a predetermined first modulation wave. The second processing unit determines at least speed that is uniquely determined within the speed measurement range, from Doppler frequency included in frequency components indicating a target, using a beat signal obtained by transmitting and receiving a predetermined second modulation wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Morinaga, Kazuma Natsume, Hideki Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 10332968
    Abstract: A semiconductor device (100) is provided with a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer (5), a gate electrode (3), a gate insulating layer (4), and a source electrode (7s) and a drain electrode (7d) that are in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, at least one electrode of the source electrode (7s), the drain electrode (7d), and the gate electrode (3) has a multilayer structure that includes a first layer (3A, 7A) containing copper and a second layer (3B, 7B) containing titanium or molybdenum, the thickness of the first layer (3A, 7A) is more than the thickness of the second layer (3B, 7B), when the source electrode (7s) or the drain electrode (7d) has the multilayer structure, the second layer is arranged on the oxide semiconductor layer side of the first layer so as to be in contact with the surface of the oxide semiconductor layer (5), when the gate electrode (3) has the multilayer structure, the second layer is arranged on the substrate (1) side of the first layer, and the thick
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Fujita, Hajime Imai, Hisao Ochi, Tetsuo Kikuchi, Hideki Kitagawa, Masahiko Suzuki, Shingo Kawashima, Tohru Daitoh
  • Publication number: 20190121189
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes source bus lines, gate bus lines, a thin-film transistor and a pixel electrode provided for each pixel region, a common electrode disposed on the pixel electrode with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween, and a spin-on-glass layer disposed, in a display region, between a gate metal layer and a source metal layer. The pixel electrode is formed of the same metal oxide film of which an oxide semiconductor layer of the thin-film transistor is formed. The spin-on-glass layer has an opening, in each pixel region, in a portion where the thin-film transistor is formed. At an intersection portion where one of the source bus lines and one of the gate bus lines intersect, the spin-on-glass layer is located between the source bus line and gate bus line. In each pixel region, the spin-on-glass layer is located between at least a portion of the pixel electrode and a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: YOSHIHITO HARA, HIDEKI KITAGAWA, TOHRU DAITOH, HAJIME IMAI, MASAKI MAEDA, TATSUYA KAWASAKI, TOSHIKATSU ITOH
  • Publication number: 20190113789
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display panel substrate includes a transparent conductive film formation step of forming a transparent conductive film on a flattening film that covers a switching component disposed on a substrate, a metallic film formation step of forming a metallic film so as to cover the transparent conductive film after the transparent conductive film formation step, a line formation step of forming a line by etching the metallic film after the metallic film formation step, and a transparent electrode formation step of forming a transparent electrode that is connected to the line by etching the transparent conductive film after the wire formation step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Toshikatsu ITOH, Tohru DAITOH, Hajime IMAI, Masaki MAEDA, Hideki KITAGAWA, Yoshihito HARA, Tatsuya KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 10263016
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a first TFT (10), a second TFT (20) disposed per pixel, and a circuit including the first TFT. The first and second TFTs each include a gate electrode (102A, 102B), a gate insulating layer (103), an oxide semiconductor layer (104A, 104B), and source and drain electrodes in contact with an upper surface of the oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer (104A, 104B) has a stacked structure including a first semiconductor layer (104e, 104c) in contact with the source and drain electrodes and a second semiconductor layer that is disposed on a substrate-side of the first semiconductor layer and that has a smaller energy gap than the first semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layers (104A) and (104B) are different from each other in terms of the composition and/or the number of stacked layers. The first TFT has a larger threshold voltage than the second TFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisao Ochi, Tohru Daitoh, Hajime Imai, Tetsuo Fujita, Hideki Kitagawa, Tetsuo Kikuchi, Masahiko Suzuki, Teruyuki Ueda