Patents by Inventor KENSUKE MOTOZONO

KENSUKE MOTOZONO 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: 10453885
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging apparatus and an electronic device capable of reducing a product yield and reliability risk. By forming a contact by forming an opening in an insulating film on a back surface of a peripheral circuit region without connecting a light-shielding metal on the peripheral circuit region to the ground (GND), the light-shielding metal is connected to a Si substrate. Furthermore, a light-shielding metal on a pixel region is connected to the ground (GND). Therefore, by disposing an isolated region (insulating region) where no metal is formed between the light-shielding metal on the pixel region and the light-shielding metal on the peripheral circuit region, the light-shielding metal on the pixel region does not cause a short circuit with the light-shielding metal on the peripheral circuit region. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS solid-state imaging apparatus used for an imaging apparatus such as a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Iwabuchi, Kazuhiro Satou, Kensuke Motozono, Masatoshi Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20180247966
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging apparatus and an electronic device capable of reducing a product yield and reliability risk. By forming a contact by forming an opening in an insulating film on a back surface of a peripheral circuit region without connecting a light-shielding metal on the peripheral circuit region to the ground (GND), the light-shielding metal is connected to a Si substrate. Furthermore, a light-shielding metal on a pixel region is connected to the ground (GND). Therefore, by disposing an isolated region (insulating region) where no metal is formed between the light-shielding metal on the pixel region and the light-shielding metal on the peripheral circuit region, the light-shielding metal on the pixel region does not cause a short circuit with the light-shielding metal on the peripheral circuit region. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS solid-state imaging apparatus used for an imaging apparatus such as a camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: SHIN IWABUCHI, KAZUHIRO SATOU, KENSUKE MOTOZONO, MASATOSHI IWAMOTO