Patents by Inventor Tsuyohiro Ihata

Tsuyohiro Ihata 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: 20080061796
    Abstract: A signal detecting apparatus includes a component extractor extracting a voltage component whose absolute value is not less than a predetermined value from an electronic signal generated by a tester for testing an electric property of a device under test; a rate-of-change calculator calculating a time rate-of-change of a level of the voltage component extracted by the component extractor; a determiner determining whether the voltage component is identified as an irregular signal having a sudden change in voltage, based on the time rate-of-change calculated by the rate-of-change calculator; and a notifier notifying a user of a result of determination when the determiner determines that the voltage component is identified as the irregular signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Yasuo TAKADA, Tsuyohiro IHATA
  • Publication number: 20070279038
    Abstract: A signal detecting apparatus includes a component extractor extracting a voltage component whose absolute value is not less than a predetermined value from an electronic signal generated by a tester for testing an electric property of a device under test; a rate-of-change calculator calculating a time rate-of-change of a level of the voltage component extracted by the component extractor; a determiner determining whether the voltage component is identified as an irregular signal having a sudden change in voltage, based on the time rate-of-change calculated by the rate-of-change calculator; and a notifier notifying a user of a result of determination when the determiner determines that the voltage component is identified as the irregular signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Yasuo Takada, Tsuyohiro Ihata
  • Patent number: 6671653
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor test system and a monitor apparatus for monitoring a test history such as numbers of operation of relays. The semiconductor test system tests a semiconductor device by controlling test circuits therein through a tester bus and monitors the test history. The test system includes a plurality of buffer circuits for receiving signal information from the tester bus and storing the signal information therein, and a computer for storing the signal information from the buffer circuits in a file and analyzing the signal information in the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Advantest Corp.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Masafumi Nakamura, Tsuyohiro Ihata
  • Publication number: 20020165692
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor test system and a monitor apparatus for monitoring a test history such as numbers of operation of relays. The semiconductor test system tests a semiconductor device by controlling test circuits therein through a tester bus and monitors the test history. The test system includes a plurality of buffer circuits for receiving signal information from the tester bus and storing the signal information therein, and a computer for storing the signal information from the buffer circuits in a file and analyzing the signal information in the file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Masafumi Nakamura, Tsuyohiro Ihata