Patents by Inventor Minoru Nizaka

Minoru Nizaka 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: 6834004
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit including a logic circuit is disclosed, in which the decoder area can be reduced and which has an effect of reduction of the whole chip size. Among the MOS FETs included in the logic circuit, those other than a MOS FET for supplying electric charges via an output terminal have threshold voltage values lower than the threshold voltage value of the MOS FET for supplying electric charges. The direction of the gate width of each MOS FET is perpendicular to the direction along which word lines extend in the memory cell areas, and all of the MOS FETs are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the direction along which the word lines extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Takano, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Minoru Nizaka, Tomohiro Kitano
  • Patent number: 6831484
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit including a logic circuit is disclosed, in which the decoder area can be reduced and which has an effect of reduction of the whole chip size. Among the MOS FETs included in the logic circuit, those other than a MOS FET for supplying electric charges via an output terminal have threshold voltage values lower than the threshold voltage value of the MOS FET for supplying electric charges. The direction of the gate width of each MOS FET is perpendicular to the direction along which word lines extend in the memory cell areas, and all of the MOS FETs are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the direction along which the word lines extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Takano, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Minoru Nizaka, Tomohiro Kitano
  • Publication number: 20040036507
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit including a logic circuit is disclosed, in which the decoder area can be reduced and which has an effect of reduction of the whole chip size. Among the MOS FETs included in the logic circuit, those other than a MOS FET for supplying electric charges via an output terminal have threshold voltage values lower than the threshold voltage value of the MOS FET for supplying electric charges. The direction of the gate width of each MOS FET is perpendicular to the direction along which word lines extend in the memory cell areas, and all of the MOS FETs are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the direction along which the word lines extend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Susumu Takano, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Minoru Nizaka, Tomohiro Kitano
  • Publication number: 20030112673
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit including a logic circuit is disclosed, in which the decoder area can be reduced and which has an effect of reduction of the whole chip size. Among the MOS FETs included in the logic circuit, those other than a MOS FET for supplying electric charges via an output terminal have threshold voltage values lower than the threshold voltage value of the MOS FET for supplying electric charges. The direction of the gate width of each MOS FET is perpendicular to the direction along which word lines extend in the memory cell areas, and all of the MOS FETs are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the direction along which the word lines extend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Susumu Takano, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Minoru Nizaka, Tomohiro Kitano
  • Patent number: 6545892
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit including a logic circuit is disclosed, in which the decoder area can be reduced and which has an effect of reduction of the whole chip size. Among the MOS FETs included in the logic circuit, those other than a MOS FET for supplying electric charges via an output terminal have threshold voltage values lower than the threshold voltage value of the MOS FET for supplying electric charges. The direction of the gate width of each MOS FET is perpendicular to the direction along which word lines extend in the memory cell areas, and all of the MOS FETs are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the direction along which the word lines extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Takano, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Minoru Nizaka, Tomohiro Kitano
  • Publication number: 20010005148
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit including a logic circuit is disclosed, in which the decoder area can be reduced and which has an effect of reduction of the whole chip size. Among the MOS FETs included in the logic circuit, those other than a MOS FET for supplying electric charges via an output terminal have threshold voltage values lower than the threshold voltage value of the MOS FET for supplying electric charges. The direction of the gate width of each MOS FET is perpendicular to the direction along which word lines extend in the memory cell areas, and all of the MOS FETs are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the direction along which the word lines extend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Takano, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Minoru Nizaka, Tomohiro Kitano
  • Patent number: 5682389
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory device has a built-in test pattern generator used during diagnostics of control signal lines. An internal test pattern generator supplies a test pattern to digit lines so that short circuit between decoded signal lines to a column selector changes the internal test pattern, thereby effectively screening out a defective product. Digit lines of the memory device are sequentially coupled through the column selector with a sense amplifier circuit in a diagnostic operation to see whether or not any defective component is incorporated therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Nizaka
  • Patent number: 5325323
    Abstract: An erasable and programmable ROM with an identification code includes an internal circuit operating as an EPROM, a code reading circuit having a code setting circuit for storing a predetermined identification code, an output circuit, and a switching circuit for transferring an output of an internal circuit to the output circuit. The switching circuit is turned on to transfer the output signal of the internal circuit to the output circuit directly, when information in the internal circuit is read out. On the other hand, the switching circuit is turned off to separate the output circuit from the internal circuit, when the identification code is read out from the code setting circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Nizaka
  • Patent number: 5293561
    Abstract: A write-in voltage source is incorporated in an electrically erasable read only memory device for supplying a write-in voltage level to memory circuits of a redundant unit as well as a data storage, and comprises a first control circuit responsive to a first instruction signal indicative of a power voltage level or a write-in voltage level and producing first and second control signals complementary to each other, a second control circuit responsive to a second instruction signal indicative of a ground voltage level and producing third and fourth control signals complementary to each other, a first level-shifting circuit responsive to the first to third control signals and producing one of the write-in voltage level, the power voltage level and the ground voltage level, and a second level-shifting circuit responsive to the first, second, and fourth control signals and producing one of the write-in voltage level, the power voltage level and the ground voltage level so that the first and second level-shifting c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Nizaka