Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Maejima

Hiroshi Maejima 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: 20220351777
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first string unit including a first memory string including a first selection transistor and a first memory cell coupled to the first selection transistor, a second string unit including a second memory string including a second selection transistor and a second memory cell coupled to the second selection transistor, a first select gate line, a second select gate line, a first bit line, a second bit line, and a first word line. Both of the first select gate line and the second select gate line are selected in a first read operation. The first select gate line is selected and the second select gate line is not selected in a second read operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi MAEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220320065
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory chips and a circuit chip. The plurality of memory chips and the circuit chip are stacked on each other. Each of the plurality of memory chips has a memory cell array that includes a plurality of memory cells. The circuit chip includes a data latch configured to store page data for writing or reading data into or from the memory cell array of each of the memory chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoya SANUKI, Toshio FUJISAWA, Hiroshi MAEJIMA, Takashi MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220301615
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first bit line extending in a first direction and coupled to a first memory cell, a first pad coupled to the first bit line, a first sense amplifier coupled to the first pad, a second bit line being adjacent to the first bit line and extending in the first direction and coupled to a second memory cell, a second pad coupled to the second bit line, and a second sense amplifier coupled to the second pad. The first and second sense amplifiers are adjacent to each other and are arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The first and second pads are adjacent to each other and are arranged in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maejima
  • Patent number: 11430521
    Abstract: A three dimensional stacked nonvolatile semiconductor memory according to an example of the present invention includes a memory cell array comprised of first and second blocks. The first block has a first cell unit which includes a memory cell to be programmed and a second cell unit which does not include a memory cell to be programmed, and programming is executed by applying a program potential or a transfer potential to word lines in the first block after the initial potential of channels of the memory cells in the first and second cell units is set to a plus potential. In the programming, the program potential and the transfer potential are not applied to word lines in the second block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maejima
  • Patent number: 11417642
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory chips and a circuit chip. The plurality of memory chips and the circuit chip are stacked on each other. Each of the plurality of memory chips has a memory cell array that includes a plurality of memory cells. The circuit chip includes a data latch configured to store page data for writing or reading data into or from the memory cell array of each of the memory chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Sanuki, Toshio Fujisawa, Hiroshi Maejima, Takashi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11411016
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a first chip and a second chip overlaid on the first chip. The second chip includes a memory cell array provided between a second semiconductor substrate and the first chip in a first direction, and first and second wires between the memory cell array and the first chip. The memory cell array includes three or more stacked bodies regularly arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and semiconductor layers extending in the stacked bodies in the first direction. Each of the stacked bodies includes gate electrodes stacked in the first direction. The first and second wires are aligned in the second direction with a gap therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Sanuki, Keisuke Nakatsuka, Hiroshi Maejima, Kenichiro Yoshii, Takashi Maeda, Hideo Wada
  • Publication number: 20220122666
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes word lines extending in first and second directions, and separated from each other in a third direction, sense amplifier circuits that partially overlap the word lines in the third direction, memory strings intersecting the word lines and extending in the third direction, memory-side bit lines extending in the first direction, separated from each other in the second direction, and including first and second adjacent memory-side bit lines, circuit-side bit lines between the word lines and the sense amplifier circuits and partially overlapping the respective memory-side bit lines in the third direction, and contact plugs extending in the third direction and respectively connecting the memory-side bit lines and the circuit-side bit lines. The contact plugs include first and second contract plugs that are electrically connected to the first and second memory-side bit lines, respectively, and are not aligned along the first or second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroshi MAEJIMA
  • Patent number: 11282568
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a memory unit and a circuit unit bonded to the memory unit. The memory unit includes first and second memory cells, first and second bit lines respectively connected to the first and second memory cells, and first and second bonding metals respectively connected to the first and second bit lines. The circuit unit includes a sense amplifier unit including a first wire, a third bonding metal connected with the first wire and opposed to the first bonding metal, and a fourth bonding metal connected with the first wire and opposed to the second bonding metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maejima
  • Patent number: 11264106
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes separate first and second word lines respectively facing first and second portions of a semiconductor and sandwiching the semiconductor; and first and second cell transistors respectively located in the first and second portions and respectively coupled to the first and second word lines. In a first operation, a first read is executed on the second cell transistor while a first voltage and a higher second voltage are being respectively applied to the first and second word lines. In a second operation, a second read is executed on the first cell transistor while a third voltage between the first and second voltages is being applied to the second word line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maejima, Hidehiro Shiga, Masaki Kondo
  • Patent number: 11250915
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory includes: a first bit line; a first select transistor having a first terminal connected to the first bit line; a first memory cell connected to a second terminal of the first select transistor; a circuit connected to the first bit line and applying an erase voltage to be applied to the first memory cell to the bit line via the first terminal and the second terminal; and a diode connected to the first bit line and the first circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maejima, Katsuaki Isobe, Naohito Morozumi, Go Shikata, Susumu Fujimura
  • Patent number: 11244726
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes word lines extending in first and second directions, and separated from each other in a third direction, sense amplifier circuits that partially overlap the word lines in the third direction, memory strings intersecting the word lines and extending in the third direction, memory-side bit lines extending in the first direction, separated from each other in the second direction, and including first and second adjacent memory-side bit lines, circuit-side bit lines between the word lines and the sense amplifier circuits and partially overlapping the respective memory-side bit lines in the third direction, and contact plugs extending in the third direction and respectively connecting the memory-side bit lines and the circuit-side bit lines. The contact plugs include first and second contract plugs that are electrically connected to the first and second memory-side bit lines, respectively, and are not aligned along the first or second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maejima
  • Publication number: 20220036951
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having memory strings that include memory cells and first and second selection transistors. During a read operation, a controller applies a first voltage higher than ground to a source line, and a second voltage to a first and second selection gate lines that are connected to a selected memory string. The second voltage is also applied to the first selection gate lines connected to non-selected memory strings during a first period of the read operation. A third voltage higher than ground and lower than the second voltage is applied to the first selection gate lines connected to non-selected memory strings during a second period of the read operation subsequent to the first period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroshi MAEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220027094
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a memory controller configured to send a first command set including arithmetic operation target data and an address that designates a memory cell to store weight data; and a nonvolatile semiconductor memory configured to receive the first command set from the memory controller, read the weight data from the memory cell designated by the address, perform an arithmetic operation based on the arithmetic operation target data and the weight data, and send arithmetic operation result data to the memory controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi MAEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220013181
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first and second memory cells; a first word line connected to the first and second memory cells; a first bit line connected to the first memory cell; a second bit line connected to the second memory cell; a first sense amplifier connected to the first bit line; a second sense amplifier connected to the second bit line; a voltage generation circuit; and a first row decoder which supplies a voltage to the first word line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi HIOKA, Tsukasa KOBAYASHI, Koji KATO, Yuki SHIMIZU, Hiroshi MAEJIMA
  • Patent number: 11176998
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having memory strings that include memory cells and first and second selection transistors. During a read operation, a controller applies a first voltage higher than ground to a source line, and a second voltage to a first and second selection gate lines that are connected to a selected memory string. The second voltage is also applied to the first selection gate lines connected to non-selected memory strings during a first period of the read operation. A third voltage higher than ground and lower than the second voltage is applied to the first selection gate lines connected to non-selected memory strings during a second period of the read operation subsequent to the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maejima
  • Patent number: 11169742
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a memory controller configured to send a first command set including arithmetic operation target data and an address that designates a memory cell to store weight data; and a nonvolatile semiconductor memory configured to receive the first command set from the memory controller, read the weight data from the memory cell designated by the address, perform an arithmetic operation based on the arithmetic operation target data and the weight data, and send arithmetic operation result data to the memory controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maejima
  • Publication number: 20210343350
    Abstract: A memory device includes first and second memory strings, first and second word lines and a controller. The first memory string includes first and second memory cells, a first select transistor, a second select transistor, and a third select transistor between the first and second memory cells. The second memory string includes third and fourth memory cells, a fourth select transistor above the third memory cell, a fifth select transistor below the fourth memory cell, and a sixth select transistor between the third and fourth memory cells. The first word line is electrically connected to gates of the first and third memory cells. The second word line is electrically connected to gates of the second and fourth memory cells. The controller is configured to execute a read operation on one of the memory cells, the read operation including a first phase and a second phase after the first phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventor: Hiroshi MAEJIMA
  • Patent number: 11158388
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first and second memory cells; a first word line connected to the first and second memory cells; a first bit line connected to the first memory cell; a second bit line connected to the second memory cell; a first sense amplifier connected to the first bit line; a second sense amplifier connected to the second bit line; a voltage generation circuit; and a first row decoder which supplies a voltage to the first word line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hioka, Tsukasa Kobayashi, Koji Kato, Yuki Shimizu, Hiroshi Maejima
  • Publication number: 20210296298
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a first chip and a second chip overlaid on the first chip. The second chip includes a memory cell array provided between a second semiconductor substrate and the first chip in a first direction, and first and second wires between the memory cell array and the first chip. The memory cell array includes three or more stacked bodies regularly arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and semiconductor layers extending in the stacked bodies in the first direction. Each of the stacked bodies includes gate electrodes stacked in the first direction. The first and second wires are aligned in the second direction with a gap therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoya SANUKI, Keisuke NAKATSUKA, Hiroshi MAEJIMA, Kenichiro YOSHII, Takashi MAEDA, Hideo WADA
  • Publication number: 20210272946
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory chips and a circuit chip. The plurality of memory chips and the circuit chip are stacked on each other. Each of the plurality of memory chips has a memory cell array that includes a plurality of memory cells. The circuit chip includes a data latch configured to store page data for writing or reading data into or from the memory cell array of each of the memory chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoya SANUKI, Toshio FUJISAWA, Hiroshi MAEJIMA, Takashi MAEDA