Patents by Inventor Hideki Niwayama

Hideki Niwayama 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: 20240075627
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measuring apparatus includes a projection unit that projects a pattern onto a subject, a plurality of image capturing units that capture images of the subject from mutually different points of view, and a processing unit that calculates a distance value to the subject by performing association using image groups captured of the subject by the plurality of image capturing units, wherein the processing unit integrates information based on a first image group that was captured by projecting the pattern onto the subject, and information based on a second image group that was captured without projecting the pattern onto the subject, into integrated images or evaluation values to be used during the association such that features of the images from both the first image group and the second image group remain, and calculates the distance value using the integrated images that have been integrated or the evaluation values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: YUTAKA NIWAYAMA, TAKUMI TOKIMITSU, SHINJI UCHIYAMA, DAISUKE WATANABE, TAKAMASA SASAKI, HIDEKI MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11114527
    Abstract: A terrace insulating film (SL) to be overridden by a gate electrode (G) of an nLDMOS device is configured by LOCOS, and a device isolation portion (SS) is configured by STI. Furthermore, on an outermost periphery of an active region where a plurality of nLDMOS devices are formed, a guard ring having the same potential as that of a drain region (D) is provided. And, via this guard ring, the device isolation portion (SS) is formed in a periphery of the active region, thereby not connecting but isolating the terrace insulating film (SL) and the device isolation portion (SS) from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Koshimizu, Hideki Niwayama, Kazuyuki Umezu, Hiroki Soeda, Atsushi Tachigami, Takeshi Iijima
  • Patent number: 10790388
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with improved performance. A channel region and a well region having a lower impurity concentration than the channel region are formed in a semiconductor substrate on the source region side of an LDMOS. The channel region partially overlaps a gate electrode in plan view. In the gate length direction of the LDMOS, an end of the well region in the channel region is at a distance from the end of the gate electrode on the source region side of the LDMOS in a manner to be away from the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Koshimizu, Komaki Inoue, Hideki Niwayama
  • Publication number: 20200212176
    Abstract: A terrace insulating film (SL) to be overridden by a gate electrode (G) of an nLDMOS device is configured by LOCOS, and a device isolation portion (SS) is configured by STI. Furthermore, on an outermost periphery of an active region where a plurality of nLDMOS devices are formed, a guard ring having the same potential as that of a drain region (D) is provided. And, via this guard ring, the device isolation portion (SS) is formed in a periphery of the active region, thereby not connecting but isolating the terrace insulating film (SL) and the device isolation portion (SS) from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto KOSHIMIZU, Hideki NIWAYAMA, Kazuyuki UMEZU, Hiroki SOEDA, Atsushi TACHIGAMI, Takeshi IIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190189737
    Abstract: A terrace insulating film (SL) to be overridden by a gate electrode (G) of an nLDMOS device is configured by LOCOS, and a device isolation portion (SS) is configured by STI. Furthermore, on an outermost periphery of an active region where a plurality of nLDMOS devices are formed, a guard ring having the same potential as that of a drain region (D) is provided. And, via this guard ring, the device isolation portion (SS) is formed in a periphery of the active region, thereby not connecting but isolating the terrace insulating film (SL) and the device isolation portion (SS) from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto KOSHIMIZU, Hideki NIWAYAMA, Kazuyuki UMEZU, Hiroki SOEDA, Atsushi TACHIGAMI, Takeshi IIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190067472
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with improved performance. A channel region and a well region having a lower impurity concentration than the channel region are formed in a semiconductor substrate on the source region side of an LDMOS. The channel region partially overlaps a gate electrode in plan view. In the gate length direction of the LDMOS, an end of the well region in the channel region is at a distance from the end of the gate electrode on the source region side of the LDMOS in a manner to be away from the gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto KOSHIMIZU, Komaki INDUE, Hideki NIWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20130087828
    Abstract: A terrace insulating film (SL) to be overridden by a gate electrode (G) of an nLDMOS device is configured by LOCOS, and a device isolation portion (SS) is configured by STI. Furthermore, on an outermost periphery of an active region where a plurality of nLDMOS devices are formed, a guard ring having the same potential as that of a drain region (D) is provided. And, via this guard ring, the device isolation portion (SS) is formed in a periphery of the active region, thereby not connecting but isolating the terrace insulating film (SL) and the device isolation portion (SS) from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventors: Makoto Koshimizu, Hideki Niwayama, Kazuyuki Umezu, Hiroki Soeda, Atsushi Tachigami, Takeshi Iijima