Patents by Inventor Kazuyuki Nakanishi

Kazuyuki Nakanishi 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: 11949413
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of line layers; a first line; and a second line that is not connected to the first line and is redundantly provided to transfer a signal having a level same as a level of a signal transferred through the first line. The first line and the second line are included in different layers out of the plurality of line layers, and a distance between the first line and the second line is longer than an interlayer distance between line layers next to each other out of the plurality of line layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Nakanishi, Akio Hirata
  • Patent number: 11711070
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first latch circuit that includes a first inverting circuit, a second inverting circuit, a third inverting circuit, and a fourth inverting circuit; a first first-type well region; a second first-type well region; and a second-type well region. In a plan view, a distance between a drain of a first-type MOS transistor in the first inverting circuit and a drain of a first-type MOS transistor in the third inverting circuit is longer than a distance between the drain of the first-type MOS transistor in the first inverting circuit and a drain of a first-type MOS transistor in the fourth inverting circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20220209773
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of line layers; a first line; and a second line that is not connected to the first line and is redundantly provided to transfer a signal having a level same as a level of a signal transferred through the first line. The first line and the second line are included in different layers out of the plurality of line layers, and a distance between the first line and the second line is longer than an interlayer distance between line layers next to each other out of the plurality of line layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuyuki NAKANISHI, Akio HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20220209752
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first latch circuit that includes a first inverting circuit, a second inverting circuit, a third inverting circuit, and a fourth inverting circuit; a first first-type well region; a second first-type well region; and a second-type well region. In a plan view, a distance between a drain of a first-type MOS transistor in the first inverting circuit and a drain of a first-type MOS transistor in the third inverting circuit is longer than a distance between the drain of the first-type MOS transistor in the first inverting circuit and a drain of a first-type MOS transistor in the fourth inverting circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventor: Kazuyuki NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20220200595
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first line; a second line that is not connected to the first line and is provided to transfer a signal having a level same as a level of a signal transferred through the first line; and another line different from the first line and the second line. In a line layer, a distance between the first line and the second line is longer than a distance between the first line and the other line, and is longer than a distance between the second line and the other line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuyuki NAKANISHI, Akio HIRATA
  • Patent number: 11115009
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first flip-flop that includes a first slave latch, a second flip-flop that includes a second slave latch, and a clock generation circuit that provides a common clock signal to the first flip-flop and the second flip-flop. The first slave latch includes a first inverter, a first feedback inverter that receives an output signal from the first inverter, and a first switch that is connected between an input terminal of the first inverter and an output terminal of the first feedback inverter. The first flip-flop outputs an output signal from the output terminal of the first feedback inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20200343881
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first flip-flop that includes a first slave latch, a second flip-flop that includes a second slave latch, and a clock generation circuit that provides a common clock signal to the first flip-flop and the second flip-flop. The first slave latch includes a first inverter, a first feedback inverter that receives an output signal from the first inverter, and a first switch that is connected between an input terminal of the first inverter and an output terminal of the first feedback inverter. The first flip-flop outputs an output signal from the output terminal of the first feedback inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventor: Kazuyuki NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 10593702
    Abstract: A well potential supply region is provided in an N-type well region of a cell array. Adjacent gates disposed in both sides of the well potential supply region in the horizontal direction and adjacent gates disposed in further both sides thereof are disposed at the same pitch. In addition, an adjacent cell array includes four gates each of which is opposed to the adjacent gates in the vertical direction. In other words, regularity in the shape of the gate patterns in the periphery of the well potential supply region is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Socionext Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Tamaru, Kazuyuki Nakanishi, Hidetoshi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10283785
    Abstract: An amorphous carbon film contains carbon as a main component, not more than 30 at. % of hydrogen, not more than 20 at. % of nitrogen and not more than 3 at. % of oxygen (all excluding 0 at. %), and when the total amount of the carbon is taken as 100 at. %, the amount of carbon having an sp2 hybrid orbital is not less than 70 at. % and less than 100 at. %. Nitrogen and oxygen are concentrated on a surface side of the film and when detected from a surface layer by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, oxygen content ratio is not less than 4 at. % and not more than 15 at. % and nitrogen content ratio is not less than 10 at. % and not more than 30 at. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Iseki, Kazuyuki Nakanishi, Yasuhiro Ozawa, Naoki Ueda, Masafumi Koizumi
  • Publication number: 20180366490
    Abstract: A well potential supply region is provided in an N-type well region of a cell array. Adjacent gates disposed in both sides of the well potential supply region in the horizontal direction and adjacent gates disposed in further both sides thereof are disposed at the same pitch. In addition, an adjacent cell array includes four gates each of which is opposed to the adjacent gates in the vertical direction. In other words, regularity in the shape of the gate patterns in the periphery of the well potential supply region is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Masaki TAMARU, Kazuyuki NAKANISHI, Hidetoshi NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10083985
    Abstract: A well potential supply region is provided in an N-type well region of a cell array. Adjacent gates disposed in both sides of the well potential supply region in the horizontal direction and adjacent gates disposed in further both sides thereof are disposed at the same pitch. In addition, an adjacent cell array includes four gates each of which is opposed to the adjacent gates in the vertical direction. In other words, regularity in the shape of the gate patterns in the periphery of the well potential supply region is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Masaki Tamaru, Kazuyuki Nakanishi, Hidetoshi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9941270
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a predetermined region in which a standard cell is disposed, and also includes: a first circuit connected to a first ground power line; a second circuit that is connected to a second ground power line and formed from the standard cells; and a protection circuit interposed and connected between the first circuit and the second circuit. The protection circuit includes: a resistor connected in series between the first circuit and the second circuit; and a protector that is interposed and connected between a node of the resistor on the second circuit side and the second ground power line and clamps a potential difference between the node and the second ground power line to a predetermined voltage or lower. The protection circuit is formed in a protection cell disposed in the predetermined region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Nakanishi, Daisuke Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9871503
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit connected between a first node and a second node includes first to fourth transistors. When a signal at the second node changes, the fourth transistor is turned on, and a potential obtained by shifting a third potential by the threshold of the fourth transistor is applied to the gate of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20170331464
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit connected between a first node and a second node includes first to fourth transistors. When a signal at the second node changes, the fourth transistor is turned on, and a potential obtained by shifting a third potential by the threshold of the fourth transistor is applied to the gate of the second transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventor: Kazuyuki NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20170317101
    Abstract: A well potential supply region is provided in an N-type well region of a cell array. Adjacent gates disposed in both sides of the well potential supply region in the horizontal direction and adjacent gates disposed in further both sides thereof are disposed at the same pitch. In addition, an adjacent cell array includes four gates each of which is opposed to the adjacent gates in the vertical direction. In other words, regularity in the shape of the gate patterns in the periphery of the well potential supply region is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Masaki TAMARU, Kazuyuki NAKANISHI, Hidetoshi NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170301665
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a predetermined region in which a standard cell is disposed, and also includes: a first circuit connected to a first ground power line; a second circuit that is connected to a second ground power line and formed from the standard cells; and a protection circuit interposed and connected between the first circuit and the second circuit. The protection circuit includes: a resistor connected in series between the first circuit and the second circuit; and a protector that is interposed and connected between a node of the resistor on the second circuit side and the second ground power line and clamps a potential difference between the node and the second ground power line to a predetermined voltage or lower. The protection circuit is formed in a protection cell disposed in the predetermined region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuyuki NAKANISHI, Daisuke MATSUOKA
  • Patent number: 9755622
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit connected between a first node and a second node includes first to fourth transistors. When a signal at the second node changes, the fourth transistor is turned on, and a potential obtained by shifting a third potential by the threshold of the fourth transistor is applied to the gate of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 9741740
    Abstract: A well potential supply region is provided in an N-type well region of a cell array. Adjacent gates disposed in both sides of the well potential supply region in the horizontal direction and adjacent gates disposed in further both sides thereof are disposed at the same pitch. In addition, an adjacent cell array includes four gates each of which is opposed to the adjacent gates in the vertical direction. In other words, regularity in the shape of the gate patterns in the periphery of the well potential supply region is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Masaki Tamaru, Kazuyuki Nakanishi, Hidetoshi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20160301397
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit connected between a first node and a second node includes first to fourth transistors. When a signal at the second node changes, the fourth transistor is turned on, and a potential obtained by shifting a third potential by the threshold of the fourth transistor is applied to the gate of the second transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventor: Kazuyuki NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20160247820
    Abstract: A well potential supply region is provided in an N-type well region of a cell array. Adjacent gates disposed in both sides of the well potential supply region in the horizontal direction and adjacent gates disposed in further both sides thereof are disposed at the same pitch. In addition, an adjacent cell array includes four gates each of which is opposed to the adjacent gates in the vertical direction. In other words, regularity in the shape of the gate patterns in the periphery of the well potential supply region is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Masaki TAMARU, Kazuyuki NAKANISHI, Hidetoshi NISHIMURA