Patents by Inventor Shinji Kawano

Shinji Kawano 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: 20230299030
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a pad formed on a surface of a substrate, a bonding wire for connecting the pad to an external circuit, and a resin layer covering at least a connection portion between the pad and the bonding wire and exposing at least a part of the substrate outside the pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuaki MAWATARI, Shinji KAWANO
  • Patent number: 11699672
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a pad formed on a surface of a substrate, a bonding wire for connecting the pad to an external circuit, and a resin layer covering at least a connection portion between the pad and the bonding wire and exposing at least a part of the substrate outside the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Fujieda, Kazuaki Mawatari, Shinji Kawano
  • Publication number: 20220128650
    Abstract: In a radar apparatus, a high-frequency integrated circuit is mounted to a board, and a shielding case encloses the high-frequency integrated circuit. A radio-absorbing and heat-dissipative gel is arranged to cover at least part of the high-frequency integrated circuit and to be in contact with the shielding case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke TAINAKA, Akira SHINTAI, Shinji KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20220132711
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a board, a high-frequency integrated circuit mounted to the board, a metallic housing arranged to face the high-frequency integrated circuit, and a radio-absorbing and heat-dissipating unit. The radio-absorbing and heat-dissipating unit includes a radio-absorbing and heat-dissipative gel. The radio-absorbing and heat-dissipating unit is configured to cover at least part of the high-frequency integrated circuit and to be in contact with the metallic case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke TAINAKA, Akira SHINTAI, Shinji KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20210335740
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a pad formed on a surface of a substrate, a bonding wire for connecting the pad to an external circuit, and a resin layer covering at least a connection portion between the pad and the bonding wire and exposing at least a part of the substrate outside the pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Mariko FUJIEDA, Kazuaki MAWATARI, Shinji KAWANO
  • Patent number: 11127702
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a pad formed on a surface of a substrate, a bonding wire for connecting the pad to an external circuit, and a resin layer covering at least a connection portion between the pad and the bonding wire and exposing at least a part of the substrate outside the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Fujieda, Kazuaki Mawatari, Ryuta Ikoma, Kazuya Hirasawa, Shinji Kawano
  • Patent number: 10983022
    Abstract: A pressure sensor detects a pressure of a pressure transmitting medium. The pressure sensor includes a sensor substrate and a protection film. The sensor substrate includes a recess recessed relative to a periphery thereof and a thin portion thinner than the periphery due to the recess. The protection film is provided on a bottom surface of the recess that is one side of the thin portion and a part of a lateral surface of the recess, and the protection film suppresses an adhesion of a contamination contained in the pressure transmitting medium. The pressure sensor includes an adhesion suppressing portion that includes an uneven section formed in at least a part of the lateral surface, and a liquid repellent film repellent to liquid in the pressure transmitting medium and provided as the protection film on the uneven section to exhibit a lotus effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kawano, Kazuaki Mawatari
  • Patent number: 10921205
    Abstract: A pressure sensor generates an electrical output according to a fluid pressure in a detection space applied to a diaphragm. The diaphragm is flexibly deformable in a thickness direction. The pressure sensor includes a pressure receiving recess defining the detection space and a protection film covering the pressure receiving recess. The protection film has a corner portion provided in an inner corner area of the pressure receiving recess and a thin film portion having a uniform thickness. The corner portion is located outside the diaphragm in an in-plane direction orthogonal to the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru Kanazawa, Kazuyuki Ono, Shinji Kawano
  • Publication number: 20190252336
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a pad formed on a surface of a substrate, a bonding wire for connecting the pad to an external circuit, and a resin layer covering at least a connection portion between the pad and the bonding wire and exposing at least a part of the substrate outside the pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Mariko FUJIEDA, Kazuaki MAWATARI, Ryuta IKOMA, Kazuya HIRASAWA, Shinji KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20190178738
    Abstract: A pressure sensor detects a pressure of a pressure transmitting medium. The pressure sensor includes a sensor substrate and a protection film. The sensor substrate includes a recess recessed relative to a periphery thereof and a thin portion thinner than the periphery due to the recess. The protection film is provided on a bottom surface of the recess that is one side of the thin portion and a part of a lateral surface of the recess, and the protection film suppresses an adhesion of a contamination contained in the pressure transmitting medium. The pressure sensor includes an adhesion suppressing portion that includes an uneven section formed in at least a part of the lateral surface, and a liquid repellent film repellent to liquid in the pressure transmitting medium and provided as the protection film on the uneven section to exhibit a lotus effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Shinji KAWANO, Kazuaki MAWATARI
  • Publication number: 20190120709
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pressure sensor configured to generate an electrical output according to a fluid pressure in a detection space applied to a diaphragm. The diaphragm is flexibly deformable in a thickness direction. The pressure sensor includes a pressure receiving recess defining the detection space and a protection film covering the pressure receiving recess. The protection film has a corner portion provided in an inner corner area of the pressure receiving recess. The corner portion is located outside the diaphragm in an in-plane direction orthogonal to the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Takeru KANAZAWA, Kazuyuki ONO, Shinji KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20170101079
    Abstract: Provided is a brake pedal device for an automotive vehicle that is capable of rotating a lower portion of a brake pedal toward a front side of a vehicle body by using force generated by a collision and suitably preventing disengagement of a link member under normal conditions before the collision. A brake pedal device includes a brake pedal 6 pivotally supported to be freely rotatable on a rotation center axis (X) provided at a pedal bracket 3 fixed to a vehicle body, and a link member 4 which is rotatably connected to the brake pedal by a connection part 5 and has a master cylinder connection part 44 coupled to a master cylinder 9 through a push rod 8, a collision part 43 which collides with a part of the vehicle body in a frontal collision of a vehicle, and an engagement part 42 which engages with the brake pedal and disengages toward a front side of the vehicle body in the collision between the collision part and the part of the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Shuichiro KAWAGUCHI, Shinji KAWANO, Masaharu ISHIZUKI
  • Patent number: 9524065
    Abstract: A capacitance operation device includes an operation plate, an electrode, and an electrode film. The operation plate has an operation surface to be contact-operated by an operation body. The electrode outputs a detection signal according to a change in capacitance generated between the electrode and the operation body. The electrode film supports the electrode. The operation plate has a rear surface on a side opposite to the operation surface. The rear surface is formed with a groove. The groove is filled with an adhesive agent, and the electrode film is adhered to the operation plate with the adhesive agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kawano, Hiroyuki Mimura, Atsushi Katoh
  • Publication number: 20140307182
    Abstract: A capacitance operation device includes an operation plate, an electrode, and an electrode film. The operation plate has an operation surface to be contact-operated by an operation body. The electrode outputs a detection signal according to a change in capacitance generated between the electrode and the operation body. The electrode film supports the electrode. The operation plate has a rear surface on a side opposite to the operation surface. The rear surface is formed with a groove. The groove is filled with an adhesive agent, and the electrode film is adhered to the operation plate with the adhesive agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kawano, Hiroyuki Mimura, Atsushi Katoh
  • Publication number: 20140281163
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a plurality of nonvolatile semiconductor memories configured to hold data, or a conversion table for converting a logical address of the data into a physical address of the data, a table memory configured to hold the conversion table, an interface configured to exchange data and a table with the plurality of nonvolatile semiconductor memories based on a command issue request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shigeaki KAWAMURA, Shinji Kawano
  • Patent number: 8429366
    Abstract: A memory control device according to an example of the invention comprises an allocation section allocating a plurality of memory regions of a memory module, an available space storage section storing data in available space of a first memory region that is one of the plurality of memory regions and, when no more space becomes available in the first memory region, store data in available space of a following second memory region, and a copying section copying a plurality of items of to-be-copied data that is stored in the first memory region but not in the second memory region to the second memory region after no more space becomes available in the first memory region in such a manner that a copying operation is divided into a plurality of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinji Kawano, Kazuo Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8301850
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a first memory chip includes a first temporary memory and a first block, a second memory chip includes a second temporary memory and a second block, and a memory controller that controls writing of logical pages to the first and second memory chips. The memory controller forms a second unit having the same page number as the first unit by the first temporary memory and the lowermost physical page in the first block, forms a third unit having the same page number as the first unit by the second temporary memory and the lowermost physical page in the second block, and writes the logical pages by an interleave operation in order of the second unit, the third unit, the first unit in the first block, and the first unit in the second block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinji Kawano, Kazunori Sato, Hitoshi Shimono, Eriko Chiba
  • Publication number: 20110060866
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a first memory chip includes a first temporary memory and a first block, a second memory chip includes a second temporary memory and a second block, and a memory controller that controls writing of logical pages to the first and second memory chips. The memory controller forms a second unit having the same page number as the first unit by the first temporary memory and the lowermost physical page in the first block, forms a third unit having the same page number as the first unit by the second temporary memory and the lowermost physical page in the second block, and writes the logical pages by an interleave operation in order of the second unit, the third unit, the first unit in the first block, and the first unit in the second block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Shinji Kawano, Kazunori Sato, Hitoshi Shimono, Eriko Chiba
  • Patent number: 7895405
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory card that has a sufficient storage capacity when an EC application writes data to a storage is provided. A usage area for the EC application in an EEPROM 3 in a TRM 1 is expanded. The expansion is such that a partition generated in a flash memory 2 outside the TRM 1 is assigned to the EC application while a partition table is allocated in the internal EEPROM 3. Because the partition table is in the TRM 1, only a CPU 7 in the TRM 1 is able to access the generated partition table. Secrecy of stored contents increases because the access to the expanded area is limited to the CPU 7 in the TRM 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromi Ebara, Shinji Kawano, Futoshi Nakabe
  • Publication number: 20090182937
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory card that has a sufficient storage capacity when an EC application writes data to a storage is provided. A usage area for the EC application in an EEPROM 3 in a TRM 1 is expanded. The expansion is such that a partition generated in a flash memory 2 outside the TRM 1 is assigned to the EC application while a partition table is allocated in the internal EEPROM 3. Because the partition table is in the TRM 1, only a CPU 7 in the TRM 1 is able to access the generated partition table. Secrecy of stored contents increases because the access to the expanded area is limited to the CPU 7 in the TRM 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Hiromi EBARA, Shinji KAWANO, Futoshi NAKABE