Patents by Inventor Taku Umebayashi

Taku Umebayashi 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: 20130328144
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor chip; and a second semiconductor chip that is stacked on the first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip includes a first wiring portion of which a side surface is exposed at a side portion of the first semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chip includes a second wiring portion of which a side surface is exposed at a side portion of the second semiconductor chip. The respective side surfaces of the first wiring portion and the second wiring portion, which are exposed at the side portions of the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, are covered by a conductive layer, and the first wiring portion and the second wiring portion are electrically connected to each other through the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuo Yoshihara, Taku Umebayashi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hironobu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8536670
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor chip; and a second semiconductor chip that is stacked on the first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip includes a first wiring portion of which a side surface is exposed at a side portion of the first semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chip includes a second wiring portion of which a side surface is exposed at a side portion of the second semiconductor chip. The respective side surfaces of the first wiring portion and the second wiring portion, which are exposed at the side portions of the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, are covered by a conductive layer, and the first wiring portion and the second wiring portion are electrically connected to each other through the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuo Yoshihara, Taku Umebayashi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hironobu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8410569
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a first substrate including a light-sensing portion configured to perform photoelectric conversion of incident light and a wiring portion provided on a light-incident side; an optically transparent second substrate provided on a wiring portion side of the first substrate at a certain distance; a through-hole provided in the first substrate; a through-via provided in the through-hole; a front-surface-side electrode connected to the through-via and provided on a front surface of the first substrate; a back-surface-side electrode connected to the through-via and provided on a back surface of the first substrate; and a stopper electrode provided on the front-surface-side electrode and filling a space between the front-surface-side electrode and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuo Yoshihara, Masaya Nagata, Naoto Sasaki, Taku Umebayashi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Yoichi Otsuka, Isaya Kitamura, Tokihisa Kaneguchi, Keishi Inoue, Toshihiko Hayashi, Hiroyasu Matsugai, Mayoshi Aonuma, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20120056288
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor chip; and a second semiconductor chip that is stacked on the first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip includes a first wiring portion of which a side surface is exposed at a side portion of the first semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chip includes a second wiring portion of which a side surface is exposed at a side portion of the second semiconductor chip. The respective side surfaces of the first wiring portion and the second wiring portion, which are exposed at the side portions of the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, are covered by a conductive layer, and the first wiring portion and the second wiring portion are electrically connected to each other through the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yoshihara, Taku Umebayashi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hironobu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20110102657
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a first semiconductor section including a first wiring layer at one side thereof; a second semiconductor section including a second wiring layer at one side thereof, the first and second semiconductor sections being secured together with the respective first and second wiring layer sides of the first and second semiconductor sections facing each other; a conductive material extending through the first semiconductor section to the second wiring layer of the second semiconductor section and by means of which the first and second wiring layers are in electrical communication; and an opening, other than the opening for the conductive material, which extends through the first semiconductor section to the second wiring layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takahashi, Taku Umebayashi
  • Publication number: 20110024858
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a first substrate including a light-sensing portion configured to perform photoelectric conversion of incident light and a wiring portion provided on a light-incident side; an optically transparent second substrate provided on a wiring portion side of the first substrate at a certain distance; a through-hole provided in the first substrate; a through-via provided in the through-hole; a front-surface-side electrode connected to the through-via and provided on a front surface of the first substrate; a back-surface-side electrode connected to the through-via and provided on a back surface of the first substrate; and a stopper electrode provided on the front-surface-side electrode and filling a space between the front-surface-side electrode and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yoshihara, Masaya Nagata, Naoto Sasaki, Taku Umebayashi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Yoichi Otsuka, Isaya Kitamura, Tokihisa Kaneguchi, Keishi Inoue, Toshihiko Hayashi, Hiroyasu Matsugai, Masayoshi Aonuma, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20100238331
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided as a back-illuminated solid-state imaging device. The device is manufactured by bonding a first semiconductor wafer with a pixel array in a half-finished product state and a second semiconductor wafer with a logic circuit in a half-finished product state together, making the first semiconductor wafer into a thin film, electrically connecting the pixel array and the logic circuit, making the pixel array and the logic circuit into a finished product state, and dividing the first semiconductor wafer and the second semiconductor being bonded together into microchips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Umebayashi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Reijiroh Shohji
  • Patent number: 7297577
    Abstract: An SOI device, and a method for producing the SOI device, for use in an SRAM memory having enhanced stability. The SRAM is formed with a wider W and a fully-depleted FET. The wider FET is extended by an expitaxial silicon sidewall, and the performance of the FET is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Taku Umebayashi
  • Patent number: 7087956
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device having a memory element and a logic element formed on the same semiconductor substrate, a transistor of the memory element comprises a gate electrode (16) embedded within a trench (13) formed in a semiconductor substrate (11) through a gate insulating film (15) and a diffusion layer (17) formed on the side of the semiconductor substrate (11) at a sidewall of the trench (13), and a take-out electrode (20) connected to the diffusion layer (17) is provided so that the take-out electrode overlaps the gate electrode (16) through a first interlayer insulating film (insulating film) (18) on the gate electrode (16). A word line (16) is provided in the trench (13) and an impurity concentration of the diffusion layer (17) is decreased as a depth thereof is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Taku Umebayashi
  • Publication number: 20060148162
    Abstract: An SOI device, and a method for producing the SOI device, for use in an SRAM memory having enhanced stability. The SRAM is formed with a wider W and a fully-depleted FET. The wider FET is extended by an expitaxial silicon sidewall, and the performance of the FET is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventor: Taku Umebayashi
  • Publication number: 20030011032
    Abstract: To provide a DRAM in which junction leak is suppressed without increasing capacity of a capacitor and a contact area between a diffusion layer and a take-out electrode is increased to decrease contact resistance between them, whereby small-sizing of the DRAM cell can be achieved and an insulating withstand voltage across a gate electrode and the take-out electrode can be secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventor: Taku Umebayashi