Patents by Inventor Makoto IKENAGA

Makoto IKENAGA 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: 20240030159
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a lead frame, a conductive member, a resin composition and a sealing resin. The semiconductor element has an element front surface and an element back surface facing away in a first direction. The semiconductor element is mounted on the lead frame. The conductive member is bonded to the lead frame, electrically connecting the semiconductor element and the lead frame. The resin composition covers a bonded region where the conductive member and lead frame are bonded while exposing part of the element front surface. The sealing resin covers part of the lead frame, the semiconductor element, and the resin composition. The resin composition has a greater bonding strength with the lead frame than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and lead frame and a greater bonding strength with the conductive member than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and conductive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Hidetoshi ABE, Makoto IKENAGA, Kensei TAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230402432
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a mounting layer, switching elements, a moisture-resistant layer and a sealing resin. The substrate has a front surface facing in a thickness direction. The mounting layer is electrically conductive and disposed on the front surface. Each switching element includes an element front surface facing in the same direction in which the front surface faces along the thickness direction, a back surface facing in the opposite direction of the element front surface, and a side surface connected to the element front surface and the back surface. The switching elements are electrically bonded to the mounting layer with their back surfaces facing the front surface. The moisture-resistant layer covers at least one side surface. The sealing resin covers the switching elements and the moisture-resistant layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji HAYASHI, Akihiro SUZAKI, Masaaki MATSUO, Ryuta WATANABE, Makoto IKENAGA
  • Patent number: 11804453
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a lead frame, a conductive member, a resin composition and a sealing resin. The semiconductor element has an element front surface and an element back surface facing away in a first direction. The semiconductor element is mounted on the lead frame. The conductive member is bonded to the lead frame, electrically connecting the semiconductor element and the lead frame. The resin composition covers a bonded region where the conductive member and lead frame are bonded while exposing part of the element front surface. The sealing resin covers part of the leadframe, the semiconductor element, and the resin composition. The resin composition has a greater bonding strength with the lead frame than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and lead frame and a greater bonding strength with the conductive member than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Abe, Makoto Ikenaga, Kensei Takamoto
  • Patent number: 11776936
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, amounting layer, switching elements, a moisture-resistant layer and a sealing resin. The substrate has a front surface facing in a thickness direction. The mounting layer is electrically conductive and disposed on the front surface. Each switching element includes an element front surface facing in the same direction in which the front surface faces along the thickness direction, a back surface facing in the opposite direction of the element front surface, and a side surface connected to the element front surface and the back surface. The switching elements are electrically bonded to the mounting layer with their back surfaces facing the front surface. The moisture-resistant layer covers at least one side surface. The sealing resin covers the switching elements and the moisture-resistant layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Hayashi, Akihiro Suzaki, Masaaki Matsuo, Ryuta Watanabe, Makoto Ikenaga
  • Publication number: 20230096699
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a lead frame, a conductive member, a resin composition and a sealing resin. The semiconductor element has an element front surface and an element back surface facing away in a first direction. The semiconductor element is mounted on the lead frame. The conductive member is bonded to the lead frame, electrically connecting the semiconductor element and the lead frame. The resin composition covers a bonded region where the conductive member and lead frame are bonded while exposing part of the element front surface. The sealing resin covers part of the leadframe, the semiconductor element, and the resin composition. The resin composition has a greater bonding strength with the lead frame than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and lead frame and a greater bonding strength with the conductive member than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and conductive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hidetoshi ABE, Makoto IKENAGA, Kensei TAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11545446
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a lead frame, a conductive member, a resin composition and a sealing resin. The semiconductor element has an element front surface and an element back surface facing away in a first direction. The semiconductor element is mounted on the lead frame. The conductive member is bonded to the lead frame, electrically connecting the semiconductor element and the lead frame. The resin composition covers a bonded region where the conductive member and lead frame are bonded while exposing part of the element front surface. The sealing resin covers part of the lead frame, the semiconductor element, and the resin composition. The resin composition has a greater bonding strength with the lead frame than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and lead frame and a greater bonding strength with the conductive member than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Abe, Makoto Ikenaga, Kensei Takamoto
  • Publication number: 20220108977
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, amounting layer, switching elements, a moisture-resistant layer and a sealing resin. The substrate has a front surface facing in a thickness direction. The mounting layer is electrically conductive and disposed on the front surface. Each switching element includes an element front surface facing in the same direction in which the front surface faces along the thickness direction, a back surface facing in the opposite direction of the element front surface, and a side surface connected to the element front surface and the back surface. The switching elements are electrically bonded to the mounting layer with their back surfaces facing the front surface. The moisture-resistant layer covers at least one side surface. The sealing resin covers the switching elements and the moisture-resistant layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Kenji HAYASHI, Akihiro SUZAKI, Masaaki MATSUO, Ryuta WATANABE, Makoto IKENAGA
  • Patent number: 11233037
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, amounting layer, switching elements, a moisture-resistant layer and a sealing resin. The substrate has a front surface facing in a thickness direction. The mounting layer is electrically conductive and disposed on the front surface. Each switching element includes an element front surface facing in the same direction in which the front surface faces along the thickness direction, a back surface facing in the opposite direction of the element front surface, and a side surface connected to the element front surface and the back surface. The switching elements are electrically bonded to the mounting layer with their back surfaces facing the front surface. The moisture-resistant layer covers at least one side surface. The sealing resin covers the switching elements and the moisture-resistant layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Hayashi, Akihiro Suzaki, Masaaki Matsuo, Ryuta Watanabe, Makoto Ikenaga
  • Publication number: 20210305175
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a lead frame, a conductive member, a resin composition and a sealing resin. The semiconductor element has an element front surface and an element back surface facing away in a first direction. The semiconductor element is mounted on the lead frame. The conductive member is bonded to the lead frame, electrically connecting the semiconductor element and the lead frame. The resin composition covers a bonded region where the conductive member and lead frame are bonded while exposing part of the element front surface. The sealing resin covers part of the lead frame, the semiconductor element, and the resin composition. The resin composition has a greater bonding strength with the lead frame than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and lead frame and a greater bonding strength with the conductive member than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and conductive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hidetoshi ABE, Makoto IKENAGA, Kensei TAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210134762
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, amounting layer, switching elements, a moisture-resistant layer and a sealing resin. The substrate has a front surface facing in a thickness direction. The mounting layer is electrically conductive and disposed on the front surface. Each switching element includes an element front surface facing in the same direction in which the front surface faces along the thickness direction, a back surface facing in the opposite direction of the element front surface, and a side surface connected to the element front surface and the back surface. The switching elements are electrically bonded to the mounting layer with their back surfaces facing the front surface. The moisture-resistant layer covers at least one side surface. The sealing resin covers the switching elements and the moisture-resistant layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji HAYASHI, Akihiro SUZAKI, Masaaki MATSUO, Ryuta WATANABE, Makoto IKENAGA
  • Patent number: 10706790
    Abstract: Provided is a novel display device without deterioration of display quality or a novel display device in which flickering due to a reduced refresh rate is suppressed. The display device includes a pixel for displaying a still image at a frame frequency of less than or equal to 1 Hz. The pixel includes a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer includes a molecule whose dipole moment is greater than or equal to 0 debye and less than or equal to 3 debye. Thus, flickering due to a reduced refresh rate can be suppressed, which leads to an improvement in display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Niikura, Makoto Ikenaga, Daisuke Kubota, Ryo Hatsumi
  • Publication number: 20180336840
    Abstract: Provided is a novel display device without deterioration of display quality or a novel display device in which flickering due to a reduced refresh rate is suppressed. The display device includes a pixel for displaying a still image at a frame frequency of less than or equal to 1 Hz. The pixel includes a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer includes a molecule whose dipole moment is greater than or equal to 0 debye and less than or equal to 3 debye. Thus, flickering due to a reduced refresh rate can be suppressed, which leads to an improvement in display quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NIIKURA, Makoto IKENAGA, Daisuke KUBOTA, Ryo HATSUMI
  • Patent number: 9957213
    Abstract: A novel organic compound that can be used in a variety of liquid crystal devices or a liquid crystal composition containing the novel organic compound is provided. An organic compound represented by General Formula (G1) is provided. A novel liquid crystal composition containing the organic compound is provided. In General Formula (G1), Ar1 and Ar2 separately represent a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkylene group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkenylene group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms. In addition, m and n separately represent 0 or 1. R1 and R2 separately represent a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 11 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group having 1 to 11 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO.
    Inventors: Momoko Kato, Yasuhiro Niikura, Makoto Ikenaga, Manabu Kobayashi, Tetsuji Ishitani
  • Patent number: 9580651
    Abstract: An organic compound represented by General Formula (G100) is provided. A novel liquid crystal composition containing the organic compound is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Momoko Kato, Yasuhiro Niikura, Makoto Ikenaga, Manabu Kobayashi, Tetsuji Ishitani
  • Patent number: 9212308
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition for forming a polymer/liquid crystal composite in which disorder of an orientation state is reduced is provided. The liquid crystal composition includes a liquid crystal material exhibiting a blue phase and a liquid crystalline monomer represented by the following general formula (G1). Note that the liquid crystal composition may include a non-liquid-crystalline monomer and a polymerization initiator. In the general formula (G1), X represents a mesogenic skeleton; and Y1 and Y2 individually represent an alkylene group having a sum of carbon atoms and/or oxygen atoms of 1 to 20. Also in the general formula (G1), the alkylene group and the alkyl group may include a carbonyl group and may have an ether bond. In addition, the carbonyl group and the ether bond may form an ester structure. In the general formula (G1), Z1 and Z2 individually represent an acryloyl group or a methacryloyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Sachiko Kawakami, Makoto Ikenaga, Takahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9150786
    Abstract: A novel polymerizable monomer compound that can be used for a variety of liquid crystal devices is provided. Particularly, a novel liquid crystal composition including the novel polymerizable monomer compound and exhibiting a blue phase is provided. Further, a liquid crystal display device manufactured with the use of the liquid crystal composition is provided. A polymerizable monomer compound represented by the following general formula (G1) is provided. In the general formula (G1), n and m are individually an integer from 1 to 20 and may be the same as or different from each other, and R1 and R2 individually represent hydrogen or a methyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ikenaga, Daisuke Kubota, Takahiro Yamamoto, Sachiko Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20150255029
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is a novel display device without deterioration of display quality or a novel display device in which flickering due to a reduced refresh rate is suppressed. [Solution] The display device includes a pixel for displaying a still image at a frame frequency of less than or equal to 1 Hz. The pixel includes a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer has a dielectric constant anisotropy of higher than or equal to 2 and lower than or equal to 3.8. Thus, flickering due to a reduced refresh rate can be suppressed, which leads to an improvement in display quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NIIKURA, Makoto IKENAGA, Manabu KOBAYASHI, Ryo HATSUMI
  • Patent number: 9088444
    Abstract: A signal-transferring device having a first circuit and a second circuit that operate on different ground references, and a third circuit for transferring signals while providing insulation between the first circuit and the second circuit. The second circuit switches a logic level of an output signal in accordance with the logic level of an input signal notified by the first circuit, and notifies the first circuit about the logic level of the output signal. The first circuit notifies the second circuit about the logic level of the input signal not only when the logic level of the input signal has been switched, but also when the logic level of the output signal notified by the second circuit does not match the logic level of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Sasabe, Hirotaka Takihara, Makoto Ikenaga, Toshiyuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9011989
    Abstract: Defective display by a liquid crystal display device is reduced. In a liquid crystal composition which contains a liquid crystal material exhibiting a blue phase and has a transmission spectrum with a single peak in a temperature range where the liquid crystal material exhibits a blue phase, it is found that the blue phase of the liquid crystal material can be stabilized in a wide temperature range by polymer stabilization treatment. Thus, the liquid crystal composition allows the polymer stabilization treatment to be achieved in a wider temperature range. This makes it possible to reduce defective orientation in a composite of polymer and liquid crystal formed by subjecting the liquid crystal composition to the treatment. As a result, it is possible to reduce defective display by a liquid crystal display device which includes the composite of polymer and liquid crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Takahiro Yamamoto, Makoto Ikenaga
  • Patent number: 9011714
    Abstract: An object is to provide a novel liquid crystal composition that can be used for a variety of liquid crystal devices. Particularly, a novel liquid crystal composition is used to achieve a reduction in driving voltage of a liquid crystal element and a reduction in power consumption of a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal composition includes a polymerizable monomer represented by the general formula (G1), a nematic liquid crystal, and a chiral agent. In the general formula (G1), n and m are individually an integer from 1 to 20, and R1 and R2 individually represent hydrogen or a methyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ikenaga, Daisuke Kubota, Takahiro Yamamoto, Sachiko Kawakami