Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Sawada

Masatoshi Sawada 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: 7911027
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to effectively absorb a power noise and to implement the stable operation of a circuit. The invention provides a semiconductor device comprising a bypass capacitor including an MOS structure having a gate electrode formed to be extended from a power wiring region to a portion provided under an empty region which is adjacent to the power wiring region and has no other functional layer, and formed through a capacitive insulating film on a diffusion region having one conductivity type, and a substrate contact formed under a ground wiring region and fixing a substrate potential, wherein the bypass capacitor has a contact to come in contact with the power wiring which is formed on a surface of the gate electrode and has the diffusion region having the one conductivity type and a diffusion region of the substrate contact connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsumi Itoh, Masatoshi Sawada, Junko Honma, Kenji Shimazaki, Hiroyuki Tsujikawa, Hiroshi Benno
  • Patent number: 7307333
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to effectively absorb a power noise and to implement the stable operation of a circuit. The invention provides a semiconductor device comprising a bypass capacitor including an MOS structure having a gate electrode formed to be extended from a power wiring region to a portion provided under an empty region which is adjacent to the power wiring region and has no other functional layer, and formed through a capacitive insulating film on a diffusion region having one conductivity type, and a substrate contact formed under a ground wiring region and fixing a substrate potential, wherein the bypass capacitor has a contact to come in contact with the power wiring which is formed on a surface of the gate electrode and has the diffusion region having the one conductivity type and a diffusion region of the substrate contact connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsumi Itoh, Masatoshi Sawada, Junko Honma, Kenji Shimazaki, Hiroyuki Tsujikawa, Hiroshi Benno
  • Publication number: 20070187777
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to effectively absorb a power noise and to implement the stable operation of a circuit. The invention provides a semiconductor device comprising a bypass capacitor including an MOS structure having a gate electrode formed to be extended from a power wiring region to a portion provided under an empty region which is adjacent to the power wiring region and has no other functional layer, and formed through a capacitive insulating film on a diffusion region having one conductivity type, and a substrate contact formed under a ground wiring region and fixing a substrate potential, wherein the bypass capacitor has a contact to come in contact with the power wiring which is formed on a surface of the gate electrode and has the diffusion region having the one conductivity type and a diffusion region of the substrate contact connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsumi Itoh, Masatoshi Sawada, Junko Honma, Kenji Shimazaki, Hiroyuki Tsujikawa, Hiroshi Benno
  • Publication number: 20050017320
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to effectively absorb a power noise and to implement the stable operation of a circuit. The invention provides a semiconductor device comprising a bypass capacitor including an MOS structure having a gate electrode formed to be extended from a power wiring region to a portion provided under an empty region which is adjacent to the power wiring region and has no other functional layer, and formed through a capacitive insulating film on a diffusion region having one conductivity type, and a substrate contact formed under a ground wiring region and fixing a substrate potential, wherein the bypass capacitor has a contact to come in contact with the power wiring which is formed on a surface of the gate electrode and has the diffusion region having the one conductivity type and a diffusion region of the substrate contact connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Mitsumi Itoh, Masatoshi Sawada, Junko Honma, Kenji Shimazaki, Hiroyuki Tsujikawa, Hiroshi Benno
  • Publication number: 20020109205
    Abstract: By changing the shape of a bypass capacitor, inserting an inductance cell and using the bypass capacitor for each operating frequency characteristic, power source noise is absorbed to realize the stabilized operation of a circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sawada, Mitsumi Ito, Hiroyuki Tsujikawa
  • Patent number: 6434730
    Abstract: After a layout for a semiconductor device including power and ground lines has been defined, patterns for bypass capacitors, which will be located under the power lines, are created. In this case, a pattern for a semiconductor device, where a bypass capacitor array is inlaid and substrate contacts are located under ground lines, is defined based on design rules input. Next, power lines are extracted and resized. Thereafter, logical operations are performed to place the bypass capacitors and the bypass capacitors are resized. Subsequently, logical operations are performed to define interconnecting diffused layers and the diffused layers are resized. Since the patterns for the power lines have already been defined before the patterns for the bypass capacitors are created, the patterns for the bypass capacitors to be placed under the power lines can be defined automatically. Thus, a pattern for a miniaturized semiconductor device with reduced power supply noise can be created automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsumi Ito, Hiroyuki Tsujikawa, Seijiro Kojima, Masatoshi Sawada
  • Patent number: D251432
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Assignee: Dynamics Corporation of America
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sawada, Bruno M. Valbona