Patents by Inventor Tsutomo Kiyosawa

Tsutomo Kiyosawa 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: 20150137221
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a substrate with an off-angle; an SiC layer provided on a principal surface of the substrate, including an n type drift region, and having a trench whose bottom is located in the drift region; and a gate electrode provided in the trench in the SiC layer. In the trench in the SiC layer, a first angle formed by at least part of a first sidewall on an off-direction side and the principal surface of the substrate is an obtuse angle, and a second angle formed by at least part of a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall and the principal surface of the substrate is an acute angle, in a cross section parallel to a direction of a normal line to the principal surface of the substrate and a direction of a c-axis of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Tsutomo Kiyosawa, Kazuhiro Kagawa, Yasuyuki Yanase, Haruyuki Sorada