Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Toyoda

Hiroshi Toyoda 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: 6054770
    Abstract: An electric solid state device comprises a substrate, an amorphous thin film formed on the substrate, and a conductive thin film formed on the amorphous thin film. In this device, an interatomic distance calculated from a peak position of a halo pattern appearing in diffraction measurement of the material of the amorphous thin film is substantially equal to an interplanar space between those two adjacent specific crystal planes of the material of the conductive thin film, which are defined at least by respective atomic strings arranged in a predetermined direction in the respective planes and separated from each other by the smallest interatomic distance possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Toyoda, Jun-ichi Wada, Masahiko Hasunuma, Hisashi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6001461
    Abstract: An electronic part comprising an amorphous thin film formed on a substrate; and a metal wiring formed on the surface of the amorphous thin film; wherein an interatomic distance corresponding to a peak of halo pattern appearing in diffraction measurement of the amorphous thin film approximately matches with a spacing of a particular crystal plane defined with the first nearest interatomic distance of the metal wiring. An electronic part provided with a metal wiring formed of highly orientated crystal wherein half or more of all grain boundaries are small angle grain boundaries defined by one of grain boundaries with a relative misorientation of 10.degree. or less in tilt, rotation and combination thereof around orientation axes of neighboring crystal grains; coincidence boundaries where a .SIGMA. value is 10 or less; and grain boundaries with a relative misorientation of 3.degree. or less from the coincidence boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Toyoda, Hisashi Kaneko, Masahiko Hasunuma, Takashi Kawanoue, Hiroshi Tomita, Akihiro Kajita, Masami Miyauchi, Takashi Kawakubo, Sachiyo Ito
  • Patent number: 5896316
    Abstract: An electrically erasable and programmable read only memory device unavoidably creates weak electric field between control electrodes and drain nodes of non-selected floating gate type field effect transistors connected to either selected word or bit line in an erasing/programming operation; however, the direction of the electric field is changed during the erasing/programming operation so as to prevent the non-selected floating gate type field effect transistors from disturbing phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Toyoda
  • Patent number: 5808166
    Abstract: In the formulae, R.sup.1 represents alkyl; and R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and X independently represent halogen. The present invention relates to a method for producing 3,4-dihydroxy-3-cyclobutene-1, 2-dione of general formula (II) by hydrolyzing 3-alkoxy-2, 2, 4, 4-tetrahalogenocyclobutanone derivative of general formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Kyowa Yuka Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Shimizu, Takeshi Usami, Hiroshi Toyoda, Asako Okajima, Shoshiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 5709958
    Abstract: An electronic part comprising an amorphous thin film formed on a substrate; and a metal wiring formed on the surface of the amorphous thin film; wherein an interatomic distance corresponding to a peak of halo pattern appearing in diffraction measurement of the amorphous thin film approximately matches with a spacing of a particular crystal plane defined with the first nearest interatomic distance of the metal wiring. An electronic part provided with a metal wiring formed of highly orientated crystal wherein half or more of all grain boundaries are small angle grain boundaries defined by one of grain boundaries with a relative misorientation of 10.degree. or less in tilt, rotation and combination thereof around orientation axes of neighboring crystal grains; coincidence boundaries where a .SIGMA. value is 10 or less; and grain boundaries with a relative misorientation of 3.degree. or less from the coincidence boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Toyoda, Hisashi Kaneko, Masahiko Hasunuma, Takashi Kawanoue, Hiroshi Tomita, Akihiro Kajita, Masami Miyauchi, Takashi Kawakubo, Sachiyo Ito
  • Patent number: 5681685
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photopolymerizable composition comprising squarylium compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents lower alkyl having 2 to 8 carbon atoms, a radical generator and an addition-polymerizable compound having at least one ethylenic unsaturated double bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuguo Yamaoka, Kenichi Koseki, Ikuo Shimizu, Hiroshi Toyoda, Hirotaka Kinoshita, Shoshiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 5660970
    Abstract: There are described a novel squarylium compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## and an optical information recording medium using the squarylium compound in the recording layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignees: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd., Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Shimizu, Hiroshi Toyoda, Yukiyoshi Ito, Tsutomu Sato
  • Patent number: 5517445
    Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor memory device, includes a memory cell having a capacitor formed by stacking a semiconductor layer and a ferroelectric layer between a pair of electrodes, the semiconductor layer and the ferroelectric layer forming a semiconductor-ferroelectric junction, a writing circuit in which a voltage higher than a coercive electric field of the ferroelectric material is applied to the capacitor of the memory cell to align a polarization direction of the ferroelectric layer in a predetermined direction so as to set a capacitance of the capacitor at a predetermined value, thereby writing data corresponding to the predetermined value of the capacitance, and a reading circuit in which a voltage less than the coercive electric field of the ferroelectric layer is applied to the capacitor of the memory cell in which the data is written, thereby reading the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Inventors: Motomasa Imai, Kazuhide Abe, Koji Yamakawa, Hiroshi Toyoda, Yoshiko Kohanawa, Mitsuo Harata
  • Patent number: 5400275
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of memory cells arranged in the form of a matrix to constitute rows-and columns, a plurality of first driving lines, connected to the memory cells, for transmitting a first driving signal to the memory cells, one of the plurality of first driving lines being selected by a row address, a plurality of second driving lines, connected to the memory cells, for transmitting a second driving signal to the memory cells, one of the plurality of second driving lines being selected by a column address, a plurality of read/write lines, connected to the memory cells, for performing read/write operations with respect to the memory cells, and a plurality of sense amplifiers connected to the read/ write lines, wherein one of the plurality of sense amplifiers is selected by the column address, and the memory cells in the same column are connected to the same sense amplifier through the read/write lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhide Abe, Hiroshi Toyoda, Koji Yamakawa, Motomasa Imai, Koji Sakui
  • Patent number: 5391741
    Abstract: There are described a novel squarylium compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## and an optical information recording medium using the squarylium compound in the recording layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Shimizu, Hiroshi Toyoda, Yukiyoshi Ito, Tsutomu Sato
  • Patent number: 5297077
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device comprises a ferroelectric capacitor, a voltage output circuit for outputting a first voltage for reversely polarizing the ferroelectric capacitor and a second voltage by which the polarization of the ferroelectric capacitor is not reversed, regardless of data stored in the ferroelectric capacitor, a first reference capacitor having a such a capacitance as to accumulate less charge than charge which the ferroelectric capacitor accumulates, when the second voltage is applied to the ferroelectric capacitor, a second reference capacitor having such a capacitance that as to accumulate greater charge than the charge which the ferroelectric capacitor accumulates while the ferroelectric capacitor is forwardly polarized, when the first voltage is applied to the ferroelectric capacitor, thus reversely polarizing the ferroelectric capacitor, a sense amplifier connected to the ferroelectric capacitor and the first or second reference capacitor, a reference-capacitor selecting circuit for con
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Motomasa Imai, Hiroshi Toyoda, Kazuhide Abe, Koji Yamakawa, Hisakazu Iizuka, Mitsuo Harata, Koji Sakui
  • Patent number: 5155573
    Abstract: A ferroelectric capacitor includes a ferroelectric layer consisting of lead zirconate titanate formed on a silicon substrate, a plurality of rectangular trenches formed in the direction of thickness of the ferroelectric layer with a ferroelectric material therebetween, and first and second electrodes consisting of metal tungsten buried in the trenches to oppose each other with the ferroelectric material therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhide Abe, Hiroshi Toyoda, Koji Yamakawa, Motomasa Imai, Mitsuo Harata, Koji Sakui
  • Patent number: 4870894
    Abstract: A wobble plate type compressor is disclosed which includes a compressor housing having a plurality of cylinders and a crank chamber adjacent the cylinders therein. A reciprocative piston is slidably fitted within each of the cylinders. A drive mechanism is coupled to the pistons. The drive mechanism includes a drive shaft which is rotatably supported in an opening of a front end plate and extends into the compressor housing. The drive shaft is supported by a radial bearing. The drive shaft is attached on to an end surface of a cam rotor at an inclindation angle .theta..sub.1 and rotates therewith. The angle .theta..sub.1 is determined so that under severe operating conditions the interior surface of the radial bearing and the exterior surface of the drive shaft are uniformly contacted with each other to prevent damages due to partial contact. In alternative embodiments, the radial bearing is formed with a conical inner surface to insure uniform contact between it and the exterior surface of the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Sanden Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Toyoda, Shigemi Shimizu, Hideharu Hatakeyama, Shuzo Kumagai, Hareo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4834148
    Abstract: A reinforcement binding machine using a steel wire comprises a means for feeding the steel wire into a binding station for binding reinforcements together, a guide means provided with a guide path for guiding the steel wire fed into the binding station along a curve encircling the reinforcements and defining the binding station, a means for twisting the steel wire looped by the guide path and defining a slot through which the steel wire fed into the binding station is capable of passing, and a means for rotating the twisting means about the axis crossing the axis of the loop formed from the steel wire so as to twist the steel wire, the twisting means being provided with a pair of pins opposed to each other through the slot and adapted to be moved relatively in the axial direction with respect to the loop, and a means for normally biasing at least one of the pins toward the other one of the pins such that the end faces of the pins are abutted against each other within the binding station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Kihan
    Inventors: Hiroshi Muguruma, Hiroshi Toyoda, Takayasu Sawano
  • Patent number: 4577674
    Abstract: A guide roll particularly suitable for conveying workpieces of high temperature, which: includes a steel core shaft internally provided with a cooling water passage along the axis thereof; a ceramic sleeve covering the circumference of the core shaft and constituted by a plurality of separable annular ceramic segments loosely fitted on and along the length of the core shaft; and fixing members for holding the respective annular ceramic in axially abutted state on the core shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Shinichi Harada, Hiroshi Toyoda, Katsuhiko Honma, Shigeru Matsushita
  • Patent number: 4070594
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a light source device to be utilized mainly for projection purposes in which a plurality of light-emitting sections and a plurality of non-light-emitting sections are alternately connected. Each light emitting section consisting of a halogen lamp comprising a lamp tube made of quartz and enclosing a coiled filament as a single light emitting element and sealing therein inert gas and halogen while the non-light-emitting section consisting of a supporting member for supporting the halogen lamp, the halogen lamps being electrically interconnected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Assignee: Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Fuchi, Hiroshi Toyoda
  • Patent number: 3945765
    Abstract: A refrigerant compressor having pistons reciprocated in respective cylinder by a wobble plate driven by an input rotor which is secured on a drive shaft, which compressor has a reduced volume and an improved lubricant system. An end plate of a housing for the compressor supports and bears the drive shaft and is formed with an oil port extending from a shaft seal cavity mounting a shaft seal of the drive shaft to a gap between the end plate and the rotor, with the drive shaft being formed with another oil port extending the shaft seal cavity and a gap between the rotor and the wobble plate whereby the lubricant oil flows through the gap between the rotor and the wobble plate, the oil port in the drive shaft, the shaft seal cavity, the oil port in the end plate, and the gap between the rotor and the end plate in the order. The rotor is formed with an annular recess on a surface thereof facing the end plate and in eccentricity from the rotating axis of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1976
    Assignee: Sankyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Toyoda, Shigemi Shimizu, Kiyoshi Terauchi, Masaharu Hiraga
  • Patent number: D249160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Toyoda
  • Patent number: D300598
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ueda, Hiroshi Toyoda, Kazunori Mano, Toshiaki Tsuruha, Akinobu Kanza