Patents by Inventor Shigeo Kondo
Shigeo Kondo 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).
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Publication number: 20190214405Abstract: According to one embodiment, the stacked body includes a first stacked portion including a plurality of electrode layers, a second stacked portion including a plurality of electrode layers, and being disposed separately from the first stacked portion in the first direction, and a connection portion including a high dielectric layer provided between the first stacked portion and the second stacked portion and having a dielectric constant higher than a dielectric constant of the insulator. The column-shaped portion includes a first portion provided in the first stacked portion and extending in the first direction of the stacked body, a second portion provided in the second stacked portion and extending in the first direction, and an intermediate portion provided in the connection portion and connected the first portion to the second portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATIONInventors: Kaito SHIRAI, Hideto Takekida, Tatsuo Izumi, Reiko Shamoto, Takahisa Kanemura, Shigeo Kondo
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Publication number: 20190088313Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory of an embodiment includes memory cells, a word line, bit lines, and a controller. The word line is coupled to a plurality of memory cells. The plurality of bit lines are respectively coupled to the plurality of memory cells. The controller executes a first write, and classifies a plurality of memory cells to which the second data should be written into a plurality of subgroups in accordance with a result of the first write, and after the classification, the controller executes a second write that includes a first program loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Toshiba Memory CorporationInventor: Shigeo KONDO
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Publication number: 20180277222Abstract: According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of memory cells, a word line driving circuit, a sense amplifier circuit, and a controller. The memory cell connected to the selected word line is written with data using a write sequence including a plurality of write loops each including a write operation of applying a write voltage to the selected word line by the word line driving circuit and a verify operation of detecting data of the memory cell by the sense amplifier circuit. The controller determines an (n+k)-th (where n is an integer not less than 1 and k is an integer not less than 2) verify operation based on comparison between an n-th verify operation and an (n+1)-th verify operation in the write sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Toshiba Memory CorporationInventor: Shigeo KONDO
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Publication number: 20180277231Abstract: A word-line controller applies a voltage to a selected word-line. A bit-line controller applies voltages to bit-lines. A detector detects data of memory-cells. A write sequence of writing data in selected memory-cells connected to the selected word-line has at least one write-loop including a write operation of applying a plurality of write voltages with the word-line controller and the bit-line controller, and a verify operation of verifying with the detection circuit whether a threshold voltage of each of the selected memory-cells has reached a plurality of reference voltages for corresponding write data. The word-line controller and the bit-line controller select a write voltage corresponding to a threshold voltage of each of the selected memory-cells from among the write voltages with respect to each of the write-loops, and apply the selected write voltage to the selected memory-cell in a subsequent write operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Toshiba Memory CorporationInventor: Shigeo KONDO
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Patent number: 9985044Abstract: A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment, includes a first stacked body, a second stacked body, an intermediate conductive layer, an intermediate insulating layer, a semiconductor pillar, a charge storage film, and an insulating film. The semiconductor pillar includes a first part, a second part, and a third part. The charge storage film includes a first charge storage portion and a second charge storage portion. The charge storage film includes at least one first element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, hafnium, and aluminum. The insulating film provides in at least a portion between the intermediate conductive layer and the first part. The insulating film not includes the first element, or the insulating film has a concentration of the first element lower than a concentration of the first element of the charge storage film.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Tokuhira, Takahisa Kanemura, Shigeo Kondo, Michiru Hogyoku
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Publication number: 20180130810Abstract: A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a first stacked body, a second stacked body, an intermediate conductive layer, an intermediate insulating layer, a semiconductor pillar, a charge storage film, and an insulating film. The semiconductor pillar includes a first part, a second part, and a third part. The charge storage film includes a first charge storage portion and a second charge storage portion. The charge storage film includes at least one first element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, hafnium, and aluminum. The insulating film provides in at least a portion between the intermediate conductive layer and the first part. The insulating film not includes the first element, or the insulating film has a concentration of the first element lower than a concentration of the first element of the charge storage film.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki TOKUHIRA, Takahisa KANEMURA, Shigeo KONDO, Michiru HOGYOKU
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Patent number: 9966604Abstract: An electrochemical device manufactured using an electrode layer in which severe increase of electrode resistance is prevented and/or a solid electrolyte layer in which severe decrease of ion conductivity of a solid electrolyte is prevented is provided. The electrochemical device includes a pair of electrode layers, and a solid electrolyte layer provided between the pair of electrode layers, wherein at least one layer of the electrode layers and the solid electrolyte layer is composed of first particles each providing a function of the at least one layer, second particles and a binder which is composed of an organic polymer and binds the first and second particles, and wherein the at least one layer is formed from a mixture material containing the first particles and binder particles, each of the binder particles including the second particle and the binder carried on at least a part of a surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeo Kondo, Yasumasa Takeuchi, Yuji Shinohara, Takeo Kawase
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Publication number: 20170263326Abstract: A memory device capable of narrowing the threshold voltage distribution thereof includes word lines, bit lines, memory cells, a word line driver configured to apply voltage to a selected word line, a sense amplifier circuit configured to detect data of the memory cell, and a controller configured to control the word line driver and the sense amplifier. A write sequence includes a write operation in which write voltage is applied to the selected word line by the word line driver, and a verify operation in which, when a threshold voltage of the selected memory cell reaches a reference voltage, writing to the selected memory cell is completed. Based on second data that is written later than the first data to an adjacent memory cell adjacent to the selected memory cell, the controller changes the reference voltage used for completing the writing to the selected memory cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventor: Shigeo KONDO
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Publication number: 20170263614Abstract: A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment, includes a first stacked body, a second stacked body, an intermediate conductive layer, an intermediate insulating layer, a semiconductor pillar, a charge storage film, and an insulating film. The semiconductor pillar includes a first part, a second part, and a third part. The charge storage film includes a first charge storage portion and a second charge storage portion. The charge storage film includes at least one first element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, hafnium, and aluminum. The insulating film provides in at least a portion between the intermediate conductive layer and the first part. The insulating film not includes the first element, or the insulating film has a concentration of the first element lower than a concentration of the first element of the charge storage film.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: HIROKI TOKUHIRA, TAKAHISA KANEMURA, SHIGEO KONDO, MICHIRU HOGYOKU
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Patent number: 9761318Abstract: A memory device capable of narrowing the threshold voltage distribution thereof includes word lines, bit lines, memory cells, a word line driver configured to apply voltage to a selected word line, a sense amplifier circuit configured to detect data of the memory cell, and a controller configured to control the word line driver and the sense amplifier. A write sequence includes a write operation in which write voltage is applied to the selected word line by the word line driver, and a verify operation in which, when a threshold voltage of the selected memory cell reaches a reference voltage, writing to the selected memory cell is completed. Based on second data that is written later than the first data to an adjacent memory cell adjacent to the selected memory cell, the controller changes the reference voltage used for completing the writing to the selected memory cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Toshiba Memory CorporationInventor: Shigeo Kondo
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Patent number: 9640274Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes word lines, bit lines, and memory cells at intersections of the word lines and the bit lines. A driver is configured to a voltage to a selected word line. A sense amplifier is configured to detect data of the memory cells. A controller is configured to control the driver and the sense amplifier. A writing sequence of writing data to a selected memory cell connected to the selected word line includes a plurality of writing loops including a write operation and a verify operation. The controller is configured to perform the write operation on the selected memory cell a predetermined number of times corresponding to write data to be written to the selected memory cell, without the verify operation, after a threshold voltage of the selected memory cell connected to the selected word line reaches a first level.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Shigeo Kondo
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Patent number: 9257718Abstract: A secondary battery that can avoid reduction in battery capacity over the lapse of charge-discharge cycles and can exhibit high performance is provided. The secondary battery includes a laminated body having a pair of electrodes and an electrolyte layer provided between the pair of electrodes, the electrolyte layer including electrolyte particles, the laminated body having an end portion, and a restrictor provided so as to cover at least the end portion of the laminated body for restricting expansion of the electrolyte layer in the plane direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeo Kondo, Yasumasa Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20160027512Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a control unit, during the read sequence performed to an interested cell, performing a first read operation to detect that a threshold voltage of an adjacent cell is higher than a second reference voltage higher, performing a second read operation to detect that the threshold voltage of the interested cell is higher than a first reference voltage while applying a first bit line voltage to the adjacent bit line when threshold voltages of the adjacent cells are lower than the second reference voltage, and to detect that the threshold voltage of the interested cell is higher than the first reference voltage while applying a second bit line voltage higher than the first bit line voltage to the adjacent bit line when threshold voltages of the adjacent cells are higher than the second reference voltage, after the first read operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Daisuke HAGISHIMA, Mitsutoshi Nakamura, Shigeo Kondo, Michiru Hogyoku
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Patent number: 9208887Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor memory device according to one embodiment includes: a cell array; and a data writing unit that repeatedly executes a write loop including a programming operation of applying a program voltage to a selected word line and a passage voltage to non-selected word lines during writing of data, in which, when a difference between the passage voltage used in an n-th write loop and the passage voltage used in an n+1-th write loop is expressed as ?Vn and when a condition of L<M (L and M are integers) is satisfied, the data writing unit executes the write loop using the passage voltage where ?V (L?1)<?VL, ?VL??V (M?1), and ?V (M?1)<?VM.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Shigeo Kondo
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Patent number: 9190659Abstract: A secondary battery that can avoid reduction in battery capacity over the lapse of charge-discharge cycles and can exhibit high performance is provided. The secondary battery includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and an electrolyte layer provided between the first and second electrode layers, the electrolyte layer including electrolyte particles, wherein at least one of the first and second electrode layers includes a base member having a major surface on which a plurality of concave portions are formed and an electrode material filled in at least the concave portions, the major surface facing to the electrolyte layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeo Kondo, Yasumasa Takeuchi, Yoshiharu Ajiki
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Publication number: 20150262693Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device according to embodiment comprises: a memory cell array configured to include word lines and memory strings, the memory strings having memory cells connected in series, the memory cells being connected to the word lines; and a control unit configured to execute a read sequence to read data page-by-page, the control unit, during the read sequence on a first page, executing a read operation by applying a first read-pass voltage to a second word line and reading data in the first page, and executing a re-read operation by applying a second read-pass voltage different from the first read-pass voltage to the second word line and reading data in a first cell in a case where data read from a first cell group in the first page coincides with a specific first reference pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Shigeo KONDO
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Publication number: 20150187424Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor memory device according to one embodiment includes: a cell array; and a data writing unit that repeatedly executes a write loop including a programming operation of applying a program voltage to a selected word line and a passage voltage to non-selected word lines during writing of data, in which, when a difference between the passage voltage used in an n-th write loop and the passage voltage used in an n+1-th write loop is expressed as ?Vn and when a condition of L<M (L and M are integers) is satisfied, the data writing unit executes the write loop using the passage voltage where ?V (L?1)<?VL, ?VL??V (M?1), and ?V (M?1)<?VM.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2015Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Shigeo KONDO
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Publication number: 20150086874Abstract: An electrochemical device manufactured using an electrode layer in which severe increase of electrode resistance is prevented and/or a solid electrolyte layer in which severe decrease of ion conductivity of a solid electrolyte is prevented is provided. The electrochemical device includes a pair of electrode layers, and a solid electrolyte layer provided between the pair of electrode layers, wherein at least one layer of the electrode layers and the solid electrolyte layer is composed of first particles each providing a function of the at least one layer, second particles and a binder which is composed of an organic polymer and binds the first and second particles, and wherein the at least one layer is formed from a mixture material containing the first particles and binder particles, each of the binder particles including the second particle and the binder carried on at least a part of a surface thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Shigeo KONDO, Yasumasa TAKEUCHI, Yuji SHINOHARA, Takeo KAWASE
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Patent number: 8870976Abstract: A secondary battery that can avoid reduction in battery capacity over the lapse of charge-discharge cycles and can exhibit high performance is provided. A method for manufacturing a secondary battery, the secondary battery including a laminated body having a pair of electrodes and an electrolyte layer provided between the pair of electrodes, the laminated body having an end portion, and a restrictor provided so as to cover at least the end portion of the laminated body for restricting expansion of the electrolyte layer in the plane direction thereof, the method includes preparing a mold, the pair of electrodes and electrolyte particles for forming the electrolyte layer, joining the pair of electrodes and the electrolyte layer together by pressing the electrodes and the electrolyte particles within the mold to form the laminated body, and providing the restrictor so as to cover at least the end portion of the laminated body removed from the mold.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shigeo Kondo, Yasumasa Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20140234695Abstract: A secondary battery that can avoid reduction in battery capacity over the lapse of charge-discharge cycles and can exhibit high performance is provided. The secondary battery includes a laminated body having a pair of electrodes and an electrolyte layer provided between the pair of electrodes, the electrolyte layer including electrolyte particles, the laminated body having an end portion, and a restrictor provided so as to cover at least the end portion of the laminated body for restricting expansion of the electrolyte layer in the plane direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeo KONDO, Yasumasa TAKEUCHI