Patents by Inventor Masanobu Baba

Masanobu Baba 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: 20130234095
    Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor storage device includes a word line, a first electrode, a high resistance ion diffusion layer, a second electrode, and a bit line. The word line is made of a conductive material extending in a first direction. The first electrode is provided on the word line. The high resistance ion diffusion layer is provided on the first electrode. The second electrode is provided on the ion diffusion layer and configured to supply a metal into the ion diffusion layer upon application of a positive voltage relative to the first electrode. The bit line is provided on the second electrode and made of a conductive material extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The ion diffusion layer contains oxygen at a higher concentration on the word line side than on the bit line side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventor: Masanobu BABA
  • Patent number: 8339834
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes: a first line; a second line intersecting with the first line; and a memory cell arranged at a position where the second line intersects with the first line, wherein, the memory cell includes: a variable resistance element; and a negative resistance element connected in series to the variable resistance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsukasa Nakai, Yasuhiro Nojiri, Shuichi Kuboi, Motoya Kishida, Akiko Nomachi, Masanobu Baba, Hiroyuki Fukumizu
  • Patent number: 8306667
    Abstract: To achieve a reduction in power consumption by allowing a plurality of air conditioners to communicate with each other and thereby leveling their air-conditioning capacities with no load variations involved by temperature variations. An air-conditioning apparatus 100 may include a plurality of air conditioners and a computing section for control, where each air conditioner includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit that form a closed refrigeration cycle. The indoor units of the plurality of air conditioners are installed in an area to be air-conditioned. The computing section for control may allow the plurality of air conditioners to communicate with each other, thereby leveling their air-conditioning capacities based on air-conditioning load detected by each air conditioner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu Baba, Masahiko Takagi, Norikazu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8249751
    Abstract: Control units for three indoor units of air conditioners installed in a same indoor space are connected by a communication line. Each of the control units can grasp the detection information of the human detection sensor, preset temperature information of the remote controller, inlet temperature information of the inlet temperature sensor of all of the other air conditioners in the same space. On the basis of the above-mentioned information, each of the control units calculates an air-conditioning load of each of the air-conditioning target spaces and the air-conditioning load of an entire air-conditioning space on the basis of these air-conditioning target spaces in the same manner. A compressor is driven and controlled on the basis of a calculation result thereof to perform a power-saving operation of the entire air-conditioning space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Takagi, Masanobu Baba, Norikazu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20110205781
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes: a first line; a second line intersecting with the first line; and a memory cell arranged at a position where the second line intersects with the first line, wherein, the memory cell includes: a variable resistance element; and a negative resistance element connected in series to the variable resistance element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsukasa Nakai, Yasuhiro Nojiri, Shuichi Kuboi, Motoya Kishida, Akiko Nomachi, Masanobu Baba, Hiroyuki Fukumizu
  • Publication number: 20110192186
    Abstract: The rear side outer peripheral edge of a propeller fan rotated and driven by a motor, of a propeller fan drive unit, is surrounded by a bell mouth. An upper plate, a lower plate, a side plate, and a machine room plate constitute an air duct at the suction side, outside the radial direction of the propeller fan. The cross-section of the bell mouth, at a first position in the vicinity where a blade of the propeller fan is closest, and where the distance between the propeller fan and the plate constituting the air duct outside the radial direction is relatively narrow, is made to be such that an expansion angle ?1 of the bell mouth suction side is made small. The overlapped height Hb of the propeller fan and the bell mouth is made large against a cross-section at a second position where the distance between the propeller fan and a plate is relatively large. The shape of the cross-section of the bell mouth is made to change gradually between the first position and the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Yasuaki Kato, Takahide Tadokoro, Masanobu Baba, Hiroyuki Takada
  • Publication number: 20100174414
    Abstract: Control units for three indoor units of air conditioners installed in a same indoor space are connected by a communication line. Each of the control units can grasp the detection information of the human detection sensor, preset temperature information of the remote controller, inlet temperature information of the inlet temperature sensor of all of the other air conditioners in the same space. On the basis of the above-mentioned information, each of the control units calculates an air-conditioning load of each of the air-conditioning target spaces and the air-conditioning load of an entire air-conditioning space on the basis of these air-conditioning target spaces in the same manner. A compressor is driven and controlled on the basis of a calculation result thereof to perform a power-saving operation of the entire air-conditioning space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko TAKAGI, Masanobu Baba, Norikazu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20100125370
    Abstract: To achieve a reduction in power consumption by allowing a plurality of air conditioners to communicate with each other and thereby leveling their air-conditioning capacities with no load variations involved by temperature variations. An air-conditioning apparatus 100 may include a plurality of air conditioners and a computing section for control, where each air conditioner includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit that form a closed refrigeration cycle. The indoor units of the plurality of air conditioners are installed in an area to be air-conditioned. The computing section for control may allow the plurality of air conditioners to communicate with each other, thereby leveling their air-conditioning capacities based on air-conditioning load detected by each air conditioner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu BABA, Masahiko Takagi, Norikazu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20060071258
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate, a capacitor provided above the semiconductor substrate and including a bottom electrode, a dielectric film provided on the bottom electrode, and a top electrode provided on the dielectric film, a mask film provided on the top electrode and used as a mask when a pattern of the capacitor is formed, wherein an inclination of a side surface of the mask film is gentler than an inclination of a side surface of the top electrode and an inclination of a side surface of the dielectric film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tomioka, Tomoaki Ishida, Masatoshi Fukushima, Masanobu Baba, Hiroyuki Kanaya, Haoren Zhuang