Patents by Inventor Tatsuo Shibata
Tatsuo Shibata 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: 20240420785Abstract: A magnetic domain wall motion element includes a wiring layer including a first ferromagnetic layer and configured to extend in a first direction, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a spacer layer sandwiched between the wiring layer and the second ferromagnetic layer. In any cross section of the wiring layer taken along a plane perpendicular to the first direction, a first thickness of the wiring layer at a center in a width direction is thinner than a second thickness of the wiring layer at a first outer. peripheral portion outside the center in the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo YONEMURA, Tatsuo SHIBATA, Minoru OTA
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Publication number: 20240396545Abstract: A drive circuit including: a load resistor; a variable resistance element configured to have at least a first terminal and a second terminal and be capable of changing a resistance value; and a constant current source configured to determine a magnitude of a current flowing through the load resistor based on an input voltage and a resistance value of the variable resistance element, in which a voltage across the load resistor is output as an output voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji KAKINUMA, Tatsuo SHIBATA
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Patent number: 12131252Abstract: A neuromorphic device includes: first and second element groups, in which each includes magnetic domain wall movement elements, each of which includes magnetic domain wall movement and ferromagnetic layers, and a non-magnetic layer between the magnetic domain wall movement and ferromagnetic layers, a length of the magnetic domain wall movement layer of each of the magnetic domain wall movement elements belonging to the first element group in a longitudinal direction is shorter than a length of the magnetic domain wall movement layer of each of the magnetic domain wall movement elements belonging to the second element group in the longitudinal direction, and a resistance changing rate when a predetermined pulse is input is higher for each of the magnetic domain wall movement elements belonging to the first element group than for each of the magnetic domain wall movement elements belonging to the second element group.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Yamada, Tatsuo Shibata
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Publication number: 20240347252Abstract: A spin inductor includes a laminated body having a first inductor layer, a spacer layer, and a second inductor layer. The first inductor layer includes a first wiring layer, and a first ferromagnetic layer in contact with the first wiring layer. The second inductor layer includes a second wiring layer, and a second ferromagnetic layer in contact with the second wiring layer. The spacer layer is sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second wiring layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki SASAKI, Tatsuo SHIBATA, Katsuyuki NAKADA
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Publication number: 20240290822Abstract: A variable capacitor includes: a first conductive layer; a second conductive layer; and a capacitance layer sandwiched between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. Each of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer is a ferromagnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic material. The first conductive layer has a first magnetic domain and a second magnetic domain having magnetization oriented in a direction different from the first magnetic domain. In the variable capacitor, a domain wall which is a boundary between the first magnetic domain and the second magnetic domain is configured to be movable within at least an area of the first conductive layer overlapping the capacitance layer in a laminating direction in a first direction within a plane of the first conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki SASAKI, Tatsuo SHIBATA, Katsuyuki NAKADA
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Publication number: 20240268237Abstract: A magnetic domain wall motion element includes a magnetic domain wall motion layer in which a magnetic domain wall is formed, a ferromagnetic layer, and a nonmagnetic layer interposed between the magnetic domain wall motion layer and the ferromagnetic layer, wherein at least a portion of a first surface of the magnetic domain wall motion layer on a side closer to the ferromagnetic layer, at a position overlapping with the ferromagnetic layer in a plan view in a laminating direction, is curved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Minoru OTA, Tatsuo SHIBATA
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Patent number: 12058872Abstract: An integrated device includes: a substrate; and a laminated structural body. The substrate has a plurality of switching elements. The laminated structural body has a plurality of magnetic elements having a first element group disposed in a first hierarchical layer and a second element group disposed in a second hierarchical layer. Each of the plurality of magnetic elements includes a conductive layer and a laminated body including a ferromagnetic layer. The plurality of switching elements include a plurality of first switching elements connected to first ends of the conductive layers and a plurality of second switching elements connected to second ends of the conductive layers. A first switching element connected to a second magnetic element belonging to a second element group which is present between a first switching element and a second switching element connected to a first magnetic element belonging to a first element group.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Yamada, Tatsuo Shibata, Tomoyuki Sasaki
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Publication number: 20240237547Abstract: A domain wall displacement element includes a magnetoresistance element which has a reference layer and a domain wall displacement layer each containing a ferromagnetic body, a non-magnetic layer, and first and second magnetization fixed layers which are in contact with the displacement layer, wherein the first layer has a first region in contact with the displacement layer, a non-magnetic first intermediate layer, and a second region contacting the first intermediate layer, the first region has a first ferromagnetic layer contacting the first intermediate layer, the second region has a second ferromagnetic layer contacting the first intermediate layer, the first and second ferromagnetic layers are ferromagnetically coupled, a ferromagnetic layer closest to the displacement layer in the first region and a ferromagnetic layer closest to displacement layer in the second magnetization fixed layer have the same film configuration, and the first and second regions are different in film configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo YAMADA, Tatsuo SHIBATA
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Patent number: 12033062Abstract: A reservoir element includes a plurality of magnetoresistive effect elements each having a first ferromagnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer and a second ferromagnetic layer laminated in a first direction, and separated from each other, a spin orbit torque wiring that faces a part of at least one of the plurality of magnetoresistive effect elements, and a spin-conductive layer that connects at least the magnetoresistive effect elements closest to each other of the plurality of magnetoresistive effect elements, and conducts spins, wherein, the magnetoresistive effect elements are seen from the first direction, the second ferromagnetic layer overlaps part of the first ferromagnetic layer, the spin orbit torque wiring faces a first portion that does not overlap the second ferromagnetic layer in the first ferromagnetic layer when seen from the first direction, and the spin-conductive layer faces at least the first ferromagnetic layer each of the closest magnetoresistive effect elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Sasaki, Tatsuo Shibata
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Patent number: 12001811Abstract: A multiply-accumulate calculation device includes: multiple calculation units which generates output signals by multiplying an input signal corresponding to an input value and having a rising part, a signal part, and a falling part by a weight, and output the output signals; an accumulate calculation unit configured to calculate a sum of the output signals output from the plurality of multiple calculation units; and a correction unit configured to execute correction processing for correcting the sum of the output signals on the basis of a correction value including at least one of a first value incorporated into the sum by a current flowing into variable resistors of the multiple calculation units due to the rising part of the input signal, and a second value incorporated into the sum by a current flowing into the variable resistors of the multiple calculation units due to the falling part of the input signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kuniyasu Ito, Tatsuo Shibata
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Patent number: 11991931Abstract: A magnetic recording layer according to this embodiment has a magnetic domain wall inside and contains a rare gas element.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Minoru Ota, Tatsuo Shibata
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Publication number: 20240138267Abstract: A domain wall displacement element includes a magnetoresistance element which has a reference layer and a domain wall displacement layer each containing a ferromagnetic body, a non-magnetic layer, and first and second magnetization fixed layers which are in contact with the displacement layer, wherein the first layer has a first region in contact with the displacement layer, a non-magnetic first intermediate layer, and a second region contacting the first intermediate layer, the first region has a first ferromagnetic layer contacting the first intermediate layer, the second region has a second ferromagnetic layer contacting the first intermediate layer, the first and second ferromagnetic layers are ferromagnetically coupled, a ferromagnetic layer closest to the displacement layer in the first region and a ferromagnetic layer closest to displacement layer in the second magnetization fixed layer have the same film configuration, and the first and second regions are different in film configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo YAMADA, Tatsuo SHIBATA
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Patent number: 11963461Abstract: A magnetic domain wall movement element according to the present embodiment includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a nonmagnetic layer, and a second ferromagnetic layer that are laminated in an order from a side close to a substrate. On a cross-section along a lamination direction and a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the first ferromagnetic layer extends in a plan view from the lamination direction, a shortest width of the first ferromagnetic layer in the second direction is shorter than a width of the nonmagnetic layer in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Ashida, Tatsuo Shibata
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Publication number: 20240074325Abstract: A magnetic domain wall moving element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, non-magnetic layer, second ferromagnetic layer, first magnetization fixed part, second magnetization fixed part, first surface layer and second surface layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo YONEMURA, Tatsuo SHIBATA, Shogo YAMADA
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Publication number: 20240074323Abstract: A magnetic array includes: a plurality of magnetoresistance effect elements; and a pulse application device which applies a pulse to each of the plurality of magnetoresistance effect elements, wherein each of the plurality of magnetoresistance effect elements includes domain wall motion layer, ferromagnetic layer, and non-magnetic layer sandwiched between the domain wall motion layer and the ferromagnetic layer, wherein the pulse application device is configured to apply an initialization pulse and an operation pulse to each of the plurality of magnetoresistance effect elements, wherein the initialization pulse has a first pulse that is applied a plurality of times to spread a distribution of resistance values of the plurality of magnetoresistance effect elements from an initial distribution, and wherein a voltage of each first pulse is smaller than that of the operation pulse or each pulse length of the first pulse is shorter than that of the operation pulse.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo YAMADA, Tatsuo SHIBATA
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Patent number: 11871681Abstract: A magnetoresistance effect element has a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers, and the tunnel barrier layer has a spinel structure represented by a composition formula of AIn2Ox (0<x?4), and an A-site is a non-magnetic divalent cation which is one or more selected from a group consisting of magnesium, zinc and cadmium.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Sasaki, Katsuyuki Nakada, Tatsuo Shibata
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Product-sum operation device, neuromorphic device, and method for using product-sum operation device
Patent number: 11797829Abstract: The product-sum operation device includes a product operator and a sum operator. The product operator includes a plurality of product operation elements, and an alternative element that, when any of the plurality of product operation elements has malfunctioned, is used instead of the malfunctioning product operation element. Each of the plurality of product operation elements and the alternative element is a resistance change element. The sum operator includes an output detector which detects a sum of outputs from the plurality of product operation elements when the alternative element is not used.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo Shibata, Tomoyuki Sasaki -
Patent number: 11790967Abstract: A magnetic domain wall displacement element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer extending in a second direction and magnetically recordable, a nonmagnetic layer, and a first conductive part having a first intermediate layer and a second conductive part having a second intermediate layer, in which the first intermediate layer is sandwiched between first and second magnetization regions and exhibiting first and second magnetization directions, the second intermediate layer is sandwiched between a third magnetization region and exhibiting the second magnetization direction and a fourth magnetization region exhibiting the first magnetization direction in the first direction, and an area of the first magnetization region is larger than an area of the second magnetization region and an area of the third magnetization region is smaller than an area of the fourth magnetization region in a cross section in the first direction and the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Yamada, Tatsuo Shibata, Yugo Ishitani
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Patent number: 11758826Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided an integrated device including: a substrate; and a laminated structure stacked on the substrate, in which the laminated structure includes a first element group and a second element group disposed at a position farther from the substrate than the first element group, each of the first element group and the second element group includes a plurality of domain wall movement elements, each of the plurality of domain wall movement elements includes a domain wall movement layer, a ferromagnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer interposed between the domain wall movement layer and the ferromagnetic layer, and each of the domain wall movement elements belonging to the second element group has a lower critical current density required for moving a domain wall of the domain wall movement layer than each of the domain wall movement elements belonging to the first element group.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Yamada, Tatsuo Shibata
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Product-sum operation device, neuromorphic device, and method for using product-sum operation device
Patent number: 11726745Abstract: A product-sum operation device, a neuromorphic device, and a method for using the product-sum operation device are provided which can, when applied to a neural network, curb the possibility that the performance of the neural network may be greatly impaired. The product-sum operation device includes a product operator and a sum operator. The product operator includes a plurality of product operation elements, each of which is a resistance change element. The sum operator includes an output detector that detects the sum of outputs from the plurality of product operation elements and the resistance change element includes a fuse portion which is disconnected when a malfunction which increases an output current from the resistance change element has occurred in the resistance change element.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventor: Tatsuo Shibata