Patents by Inventor Shinobu Suwazono

Shinobu Suwazono 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).

  • Solid state imaging apparatus having a plurality of metal wirings for supplying driving pulses to transfer electrodes of vertical CCD registers
    Patent number: 6097433
    Abstract: Shunt wirings (12) in the form of a conductive light intercepting film which covers over vertical CCD registers and also serves to supply power, project into locations between adjacent photoelectric transducers (11) in the vertical direction, and the distance between the projecting portions of adjacent ones of the metal wirings is set to 0.2 .mu.m or less and is limited to a distance with which an electric field between adjacent ones of the metal wirings is 10.sup.7 V/cm or less and the adjacent metal wirings do not suffer from short-circuiting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawai, Michihiro Morimoto, Masayuki Furumiya, Chihiro Ogawa, Keisuke Hatano, Yasuaki Hokari, Takashi Sato, Nobuhiko Mutoh, Ichiro Murakami, Shinobu Suwazono, Hiroaki Utsumi, Kouichi Arai, Kozo Orihara, Nobukazu Teranishi, Takao Tamura