Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Mitani
Tomohiro Mitani 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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Patent number: 11967564Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming an insulating film on a surface of a semiconductor layer of a semiconductor substrate; forming a contact hole in the insulating film; forming a conductor material on the insulating film to be in contact with the semiconductor layer through the contact hole; and patterning the conductor material using an alignment key included in the conductor material.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Aiko Kaji, Haruhito Ichikawa, Shuhei Mitani, Tomohiro Mimura, Yukihiro Wakasugi, Narumasa Soejima
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Patent number: 9960091Abstract: A package includes: a semiconductor element; a case having an opening and housing the semiconductor element; and a lid having a rectangular parallelepiped shape and occluding the opening of the case. In the package, the lid is joined to an end portion of the opening of the case, and includes a bent portion surrounded by a portion joining the lid to the case and extending along a longitudinal side of the lid.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignees: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Tomohiro Mitani, Takashi Uchida, Georg Refcio
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Publication number: 20170343572Abstract: An inertial sensor includes oscillating-type angular velocity sensing element (32), IC (34) for processing signals supplied from angular velocity sensing element (32), capacitor (36) for processing signals, and package (38) for accommodating angular velocity sensing element (32), IC (34), capacitor (36). Element (32) and IC (34) are housed in package (38) via a vibration isolator, which is formed of TAB tape (46), plate (40) on which IC (34) is placed, where angular velocity sensing element (32) is layered on IC (34), and outer frame (44) placed outside and separately from plate (40) and yet coupled to plate (40) via wiring pattern (42).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Hideo Ohkoshi, Tomohiro Mitani
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Patent number: 9778279Abstract: An inertial sensor includes oscillating-type angular velocity sensing element (32), IC (34) for processing signals supplied from angular velocity sensing element (32), capacitor (36) for processing signals, and package (38) for accommodating angular velocity sensing element (32), IC (34), capacitor (36). Element (32) and IC (34) are housed in package (38) via a vibration isolator, which is formed of TAB tape (46), plate (40) on which IC (34) is placed, where angular velocity sensing element (32) is layered on IC (34), and outer frame (44) placed outside and separately from plate (40) and yet coupled to plate (40) via wiring pattern (42).Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Ohkoshi, Tomohiro Mitani
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Publication number: 20170200662Abstract: A package includes: a semiconductor element; a case having an opening and housing the semiconductor element; and a lid having a rectangular parallelepiped shape and occluding the opening of the case. In the package, the lid is joined to an end portion of the opening of the case, and includes: a bent portion formed in a more interior position on the lid than a joint portion corresponding to a longitudinal side and along the joint portion corresponding to the longitudinal side, in a top view, among sides of the lid which are joined to the case; and a flat portion not including a bent portion formed in a more interior position on the lid than a joint portion corresponding to a short side and along the joint portion corresponding to the short side, in the top view, among the sides of the lid which are joined to the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2017Publication date: July 13, 2017Inventors: Tomohiro MITANI, Takashi UCHIDA, Georg REFCIO
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Patent number: 9448068Abstract: A placing member is configured to be supported from an outside by a terminal electrically connected to a terminal electrode, and an X-axis-direction extended portion, a Y-axis-direction extended portion, and a Z-axis-direction extended portion are provided in the terminal. This configuration provides an angular velocity sensor, in which a problem such that Y-axis-direction and Z-axis-direction vibrations applied from the outside cannot be damped is eliminated, and all the vibrations in three axis directions can be damped.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Uchida, Toshio Yamazaki, Tomohiro Mitani
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Publication number: 20150300820Abstract: A placing member is configured to be supported from an outside by a terminal electrically connected to a terminal electrode, and an X-axis-direction extended portion, a Y-axis-direction extended portion, and a Z-axis-direction extended portion are provided in the terminal. This configuration provides an angular velocity sensor, in which a problem such that Y-axis-direction and Z-axis-direction vibrations applied from the outside cannot be damped is eliminated, and all the vibrations in three axis directions can be damped.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Takashi UCHIDA, Toshio YAMAZAKI, Tomohiro MITANI
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Patent number: 9091543Abstract: A placing member is configured to be supported from an outside by a terminal electrically connected to a terminal electrode, and an X-axis-direction extended portion, a Y-axis-direction extended portion, and a Z-axis-direction extended portion are provided in the terminal. This configuration provides an angular velocity sensor, in which a problem such that Y-axis-direction and Z-axis-direction vibrations applied from the outside cannot be damped is eliminated, and all the vibrations in three axis directions can be damped.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Uchida, Toshio Yamazaki, Tomohiro Mitani
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Publication number: 20150135830Abstract: A placing member is configured to be supported from an outside by a terminal electrically connected to a terminal electrode, and an X-axis-direction extended portion, a Y-axis-direction extended portion, and a Z-axis-direction extended portion are provided in the terminal. This configuration provides an angular velocity sensor, in which a problem such that Y-axis-direction and Z-axis-direction vibrations applied from the outside cannot be damped is eliminated, and all the vibrations in three axis directions can be damped.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: TAKASHI UCHIDA, TOSHIO YAMAZAKI, TOMOHIRO MITANI
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Publication number: 20140352430Abstract: An inertial sensor includes oscillating-type angular velocity sensing element (32), IC (34) for processing signals supplied from angular velocity sensing element (32), capacitor (36) for processing signals, and package (38) for accommodating angular velocity sensing element (32), IC (34), capacitor (36). Element (32) and IC (34) are housed in package (38) via a vibration isolator, which is formed of TAB tape (46), plate (40) on which IC (34) is placed, where angular velocity sensing element (32) is layered on IC (34), and outer frame (44) placed outside and separately from plate (40) and yet coupled to plate (40) via wiring pattern (42).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Hideo OHKOSHI, Tomohiro MITANI
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Patent number: 8826734Abstract: An inertial sensor includes oscillating-type angular velocity sensing element (32), IC (34) for processing signals supplied from angular velocity sensing element (32), capacitor (36) for processing signals, and package (38) for accommodating angular velocity sensing element (32), IC (34), capacitor (36). Element (32) and IC (34) are housed in package (38) via a vibration isolator, which is formed of TAB tape (46), plate (40) on which IC (34) is placed, where angular velocity sensing element (32) is layered on IC (34), and outer frame (44) placed outside and separately from plate (40) and yet coupled to plate (40) via wiring pattern (42).Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hideo Ohkoshi, Tomohiro Mitani
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Patent number: 8646332Abstract: An inertial sensor includes oscillating-type angular velocity sensing element, IC for processing signals supplied from angular velocity sensing element, capacitor for processing signals, and package for accommodating angular velocity sensing element, IC, capacitor. Element and IC are housed in package via a vibration isolator, which is formed of TAB tape, plate on which IC is placed, where angular velocity sensing element is layered on IC, and outer frame placed outside and separately from plate and yet coupled to plate via wiring pattern.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hideo Ohkoshi, Tomohiro Mitani
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Publication number: 20140020466Abstract: An inertial sensor includes oscillating-type angular velocity sensing element (32), IC (34) for processing signals supplied from angular velocity sensing element (32), capacitor (36) for processing signals, and package (38) for accommodating angular velocity sensing element (32), IC (34), capacitor (36). Element (32) and IC (34) are housed in package (38) via a vibration isolator, which is formed of TAB tape (46), plate (40) on which IC (34) is placed, where angular velocity sensing element (32) is layered on IC (34), and outer frame (44) placed outside and separately from plate (40) and yet coupled to plate (40) via wiring pattern (42).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Ohkoshi, Tomohiro Mitani
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Patent number: 8561467Abstract: The angular velocity sensor of the present invention has one end connected to holding section and the other end connected to weighting section. According to the angular velocity sensor, driving arm has a dog-leg structure of arms extending in a direction perpendicular to a connecting direction of holding section and weighting section.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yasunobu Kobayashi, Takashi Kawai, Tomohiro Mitani, Youhei Ashimori
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Publication number: 20120312094Abstract: A placing member (80) is configured to be supported from an outside by a terminal (81) electrically connected to a terminal electrode, and an X-axis-direction extended portion (84), a Y-axis-direction extended portion (82), and a Z-axis-direction extended portion (83) are provided in the terminal (81). This configuration provides an angular velocity sensor, in which a problem such that Y-axis-direction and Z-axis-direction vibrations applied from the outside cannot be damped is eliminated, and all the vibrations in three axis directions can be damped.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2011Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Uchida, Toshio Yamazaki, Tomohiro Mitani
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Publication number: 20110179869Abstract: The angular velocity sensor of the present invention has one end connected to holding section and the other end connected to weighting section. According to the angular velocity sensor, driving arm has a dog-leg structure of arms extending in a direction perpendicular to a connecting direction of holding section and weighting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2009Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yasunobu Kobayashi, Takashi Kawai, Tomohiro Mitani, Youhei Ashimori
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Publication number: 20110036167Abstract: An inertial sensor includes oscillating-type angular velocity sensing element, IC for processing signals supplied from angular velocity sensing element, capacitor for processing signals, and package for accommodating angular velocity sensing element, IC, capacitor. Element and IC are housed in package via a vibration isolator, which is formed of TAB tape, plate on which IC is placed, where angular velocity sensing element is layered on IC, and outer frame placed outside and separately from plate and yet coupled to plate via wiring pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Ohkoshi, Tomohiro Mitani
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Patent number: 7234352Abstract: An angular velocity sensor includes a tuning fork unit; a base block provided with a terminal for outputting an output signal from the tuning fork unit to the exterior; a cover for housing the tuning fork unit in a space defined by combination with the base block; a circuit board for fixing the terminal on the base block, the circuit board being provided with a processing circuit for processing the output signal from the tuning fork unit; and a casing for housing the base block, the cover, and the circuit board. The terminal on the base block is fixed to the circuit board, with a clearance being defined by the base block and the circuit board. The terminal on the base block in the clearance has a flexure portion, and the flexure portion absorbs a vibration of a high frequency applied from the exterior.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2005Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tomohiro Mitani
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Patent number: 7155975Abstract: A high-reliability complex sensor is protected against vibration and electromagnetic wave noise from outside. A shield case is provided with a power conjunction terminal, GND conjunction terminal, angular velocity conjunction terminal, X axis acceleration conjunction terminal and Y axis acceleration conjunction terminal. Both a power supply terminal of an angular velocity detection device and a power supply terminal of an acceleration detection device are electrically connected with a power connector terminal of a protection case, via the power conjunction terminal of the shield case. Both a GND terminal of the angular velocity detection device and a GND terminal of the acceleration detection device are electrically connected with a GND connector terminal of the protection case, via the GND conjunction terminal of the shield case. A circuit board is contained completely within the shield case.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Mitani, Shoichi Takeno, Katsuhiko Omoto
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Patent number: RE46514Abstract: The An angular velocity sensor of the present invention has one end connected to a holding section and the other another end connected to a weighting section. According to the angular velocity sensor, a driving arm has a dog-leg bent structure of arms extending in a direction perpendicular to a connecting direction of the holding section and the weighting section.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunobu Kobayashi, Takashi Kawai, Tomohiro Mitani, Youhei Ashimori