Patents by Inventor Keichi Yoshida

Keichi Yoshida 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: 20040145939
    Abstract: In a method for producing non-volatile semiconductor storage devices, a non-volatile semiconductor storage devices comprises a memory array (10) that includes a plurality of non-volatile storage elements and a plurality of spare storage elements, each of which enables information to be written/erased therein/therefrom electrically, and a storage element, if it is decided to be defective during a write operation, is replaced with one of the spare storage elements (10a), and information related to the defective storage element is stored in a predetermined area (10b) provided in the memory array. In the method, if the defective storage element is detected by a test, the information related to each detected defective storage element is not stored in the predetermined area of the memory array, and the one in which a rate of the defective storage elements detected by the test is under a predetermined value is extracted as a non-defective product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Keichi Yoshida, Atsushi Nozoe