Patents by Inventor Yoshihide Yamaguchi

Yoshihide Yamaguchi 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: 20240316529
    Abstract: A problem is to provide a formed adsorber having excellent adsorption and desorption performance for fuel vapor (in particular, n-butane) of a wide concentration range from a low concentration to a high concentration. A formed product including activated carbon fiber, granular activated carbon, and a binder is prepared. A weight ratio of the activated carbon fiber to the granular activated carbon is 5 to 95 parts by weight of the activated carbon fiber to 95 to 5 parts by weight of the granular activated carbon, in a total weight of the activated carbon fiber and the granular activated carbon, a content ratio of the binder in the formed adsorber is 0.3 to 20 parts by weight of the binder to 100 parts by weight of the activated carbon fiber and the granular activated carbon, the granular activated carbon has a total pore volume ranging from 0.90 to 2.50 cm3/g, and the activated carbon fiber has a total pore volume ranging from 0.50 to 1.20 cm3/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicants: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Watanabe, Dongyeon Ryu, Minoru Yada, Takuya Nakagawa, Shogo Minezawa, Masahito Hosoi, Koji Iwamoto, Kyohei Yamaguchi, Tamami Ina
  • Publication number: 20240308341
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a housing that includes an opening and a first wall, in which the housing is attached to a vehicle in an orientation in which the opening faces an upper side in a vertical direction of the vehicle, and the first wall faces a rear side in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, an image display device, and a transparent cover. The first wall includes a pinch part pinched by one hand of an operator. The pinch part includes a first recessed portion and a second recessed portion, which are spaced apart from each other. The first recessed portion is recessed toward the second recessed portion. The second recessed portion is recessed toward the first recessed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki Miyoshi, Yasuhiro Katsumata, Akira Yamanaka, Hiroshi Sano, Yoshihide Takada, Takahiro Osawa, Tetsuya Suganuma, Yu Kobayashi, Makoto Fujii, Koichi Kase, Shuhei Yamaguchi, Tadashi Okubo, Ryosuke Tsuchite
  • Publication number: 20240258115
    Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing method or apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a first process in which, for a semiconductor wafer having a film to be processed containing a typical metal element disposed on a surface thereof, an organometallic complex is formed on a surface of the film by increasing a temperature of the wafer after supplying an organic gas having a Lewis basic partial molecular structure into the processing chamber and adsorbing the gas onto the film, and the organometallic complex is vaporized and desorbed, and then a second process in which the organometallic complex formed on the surface of the film is vaporized and desorbed by stopping the supply of the gas and then increasing the temperature of the wafer stepwise after adsorbing the gas onto the surface of the film at a low temperature while supplying the organic gas containing the organic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventor: Yoshihide YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11915939
    Abstract: A semiconductor fabricating method for a film to be processed containing a transition metal on an upper surface of a semiconductor wafer placed in a processing chamber in a container being etched with a gas for complexing the transition metal supplied into the processing chamber, including a first step of adsorbing, to the film, the complexing gas, while supplying the complexing gas, then increasing a temperature of the wafer to form an organic metal complex on a surface of the film, and volatilizing and desorbing the organic metal complex, and a second step of adsorbing, to the surface of the film, the complexing gas at a low temperature, while supplying the complexing gas, then stopping the supply of the complexing gas, and stepwise increasing the temperature of the wafer to volatilize and desorb an organic metal complex formed on the surface of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihide Yamaguchi, Sumiko Fujisaki
  • Publication number: 20230027528
    Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing method using a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus 100 including a treating chamber 1, the method including: a first process of supplying a complexing gas into the treating chamber in which a wafer 2 having a surface having a transition metal-containing film formed thereon is placed, to adsorb an organic compound as a component of the complexing gas to the transition metal-containing film, the transition metal-containing film containing a transition metal element; and a second process of heating the wafer in which the organic compound is adsorbed to the transition metal-containing film, to react the organic compound with the transition metal element, thereby converting the organic compound into an organometallic complex, and desorbing the organometallic complex, wherein the organic compound has Lewis basicity, and is a multidentate ligand molecule capable of forming a bidentate or more coordination bond with the transition metal element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshihide Yamaguchi, Kiyohiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20230005749
    Abstract: A semiconductor fabricating method for a film to be processed containing a transition metal on an upper surface of a semiconductor wafer placed in a processing chamber in a container being etched with a gas for complexing the transition metal supplied into the processing chamber, including a first step of adsorbing, to the film, the complexing gas, while supplying the complexing gas, then increasing a temperature of the wafer to form an organic metal complex on a surface of the film, and volatilizing and desorbing the organic metal complex, and a second step of adsorbing, to the surface of the film, the complexing gas at a low temperature, while supplying the complexing gas, then stopping the supply of the complexing gas, and stepwise increasing the temperature of the wafer to volatilize and desorb an organic metal complex formed on the surface of the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshihide Yamaguchi, Sumiko Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 11515169
    Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a stage installed inside a processing chamber and holding a semiconductor substrate having a high-k insulating film including silicate; and a gas supply line including a first system supplying reactive gas to the processing chamber and a second system supplying catalytic gas to the processing chamber, wherein mixed gas which includes complex forming gas reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film to form a first volatile organometallic complex and complex stabilizing material gas increasing stability of the first organometallic complex is supplied as the reactive gas, and catalytic gas using a second organometallic complex, which modifies the high-k insulating film and promotes a formation reaction of the first organometallic complex, as a raw material is supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihide Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11515167
    Abstract: Provided is a plasma etching method which enables etching with high accuracy while controlling and reducing surface roughness of a transition metal film. The etching is performed for the transition metal film, which is formed on a sample and contains a transition metal element, by a first step of isotropically generating a layer of transition metal oxide on a surface of the transition metal film while a temperature of the sample is maintained at 100° C. or lower, a second step of raising the temperature of the sample to a predetermined temperature of 150° C. or higher and 250° C. or lower while a complexation gas is supplied to the layer of transition metal oxide, a third step of subliming and removing a reactant generated by an reaction between the complexation gas and the transition metal oxide formed in the first step while the temperature of the sample is maintained at 150° C. or higher and 250° C. or lower, and a fourth step of cooling the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sumiko Fujisaki, Yoshihide Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Kazunori Shinoda, Kohei Kawamura, Yutaka Kouzuma, Masaru Izawa
  • Patent number: 11380523
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus that can etch a metal film containing a transition metal element at high speed and with high accuracy by using a complexing gas. The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a vacuum container 60; a processing chamber 1 that is provided in the vacuum container, and includes a stage 4 on which a sample 3 formed with a metal film containing a transition metal element is placed; and a vaporization chamber 2 that is provided in the vacuum container, and includes a vaporizing nozzle unit 70 configured to vaporize a complexing gas raw material liquid supplied from an outside. A complexing gas obtained by vaporizing the complexing gas raw material liquid is introduced into the processing chamber to etch the metal film of the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihide Yamaguchi, Sumiko Fujisaki
  • Publication number: 20210358760
    Abstract: Provided is a plasma etching method which enables etching with high accuracy while controlling and reducing surface roughness of a transition metal film. The etching is performed for the transition metal film, which is formed on a sample and contains a transition metal element, by a first step of isotropically generating a layer of transition metal oxide on a surface of the transition metal film while a temperature of the sample is maintained at 100° C. or lower, a second step of raising the temperature of the sample to a predetermined temperature of 150° C. or higher and 250° C. or lower while a complexation gas is supplied to the layer of transition metal oxide, a third step of subliming and removing a reactant generated by an reaction between the complexation gas and the transition metal oxide formed in the first step while the temperature of the sample is maintained at 150° C. or higher and 250° C. or lower, and a fourth step of cooling the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Sumiko FUJISAKI, Yoshihide YAMAGUCHI, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Kazunori SHINODA, Kohei KAWAMURA, Yutaka KOUZUMA, Masaru IZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210335622
    Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a stage installed inside a processing chamber and holding a semiconductor substrate having a high-k insulating film including silicate; and a gas supply line including a first system supplying reactive gas to the processing chamber and a second system supplying catalytic gas to the processing chamber, wherein mixed gas which includes complex forming gas reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film to form a first volatile organometallic complex and complex stabilizing material gas increasing stability of the first organometallic complex is supplied as the reactive gas, and catalytic gas using a second organometallic complex, which modifies the high-k insulating film and promotes a formation reaction of the first organometallic complex, as a raw material is supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshihide Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210233747
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus that can etch a metal film containing a transition metal element at high speed and with high accuracy by using a complexing gas. The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a vacuum container 60; a processing chamber 1 that is provided in the vacuum container, and includes a stage 4 on which a sample 3 formed with a metal film containing a transition metal element is placed; and a vaporization chamber 2 that is provided in the vacuum container, and includes a vaporizing nozzle unit 70 configured to vaporize a complexing gas raw material liquid supplied from an outside. A complexing gas obtained by vaporizing the complexing gas raw material liquid is introduced into the processing chamber to etch the metal film of the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihide YAMAGUCHI, Sumiko FUJISAKI
  • Patent number: 10910230
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a container in which a processing chamber is installed; a stage installed in the processing chamber and configured to hold a semiconductor substrate; a gas supply line configured to supply reactive gas to the processing chamber; and a vacuum line configured to exhaust the processing chamber, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a high-k insulating film, and as the reactive gas, mixed gas including complex-forming gas forming a volatile organometallic complex by reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film and complex stabilizing material gas that increases stability of the organometallic complex is supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihide Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200051828
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a container in which a processing chamber is installed; a stage installed in the processing chamber and configured to hold a semiconductor substrate; a gas supply line configured to supply reactive gas to the processing chamber; and a vacuum line configured to exhaust the processing chamber, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a high-k insulating film, and as the reactive gas, mixed gas including complex-forming gas forming a volatile organometallic complex by reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film and complex stabilizing material gas that increases stability of the organometallic complex is supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshihide Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10460953
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a container in which a processing chamber is installed; a stage installed in the processing chamber and configured to hold a semiconductor substrate; a gas supply line configured to supply reactive gas to the processing chamber; and a vacuum line configured to exhaust the processing chamber, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a high-k insulating film, and as the reactive gas, mixed gas including complex-forming gas forming a volatile organometallic complex by reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film and complex stabilizing material gas that increases stability of the organometallic complex is supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihide Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20190131120
    Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a stage installed inside a processing chamber and holding a semiconductor substrate having a high-k insulating film including silicate; and a gas supply line including a first system supplying reactive gas to the processing chamber and a second system supplying catalytic gas to the processing chamber, wherein mixed gas which includes complex forming gas reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film to form a first volatile organometallic complex and complex stabilizing material gas increasing stability of the first organometallic complex is supplied as the reactive gas, and catalytic gas using a second organometallic complex, which modifies the high-k insulating film and promotes a formation reaction of the first organometallic complex, as a raw material is supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Yoshihide YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180308707
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a container in which a processing chamber is installed; a stage installed in the processing chamber and configured to hold a semiconductor substrate; a gas supply line configured to supply reactive gas to the processing chamber; and a vacuum line configured to exhaust the processing chamber, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a high-k insulating film, and as the reactive gas, mixed gas including complex-forming gas forming a volatile organometallic complex by reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film and complex stabilizing material gas that increases stability of the organometallic complex is supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshihide YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9001528
    Abstract: A shielded electronic component including a wiring board, at least one semiconductor chip mounted on a main surface of the wiring board, a sealant which seals the whole of an upper surface of the wiring board, and a nickel (Ni) plating film formed on an upper surface of the sealant is provided. The Ni plating film is formed on a palladium (Pd) pretreatment layer formed on the upper surface of the sealant with using high-pressure CO2 in a state of protecting a back surface of the wiring board, and is electrically connected with an end portion of a ground wiring layer of the wiring board or a ground (GND) connection through-hole connected with the end portion of the ground wiring layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chiko Yorita, Yoshihide Yamaguchi, Yuji Shirai, Yu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8992665
    Abstract: Provided is a valuable-metal recovery method for recovering metals from lithium ion batteries using comparatively simple equipment and without using a cumbersome process. In said method, a positive electrode material from lithium ion batteries, containing lithium and a transition metal, is dissolved in an acidic solution, thereby generating lithium ions and ions of the transition metal in the acidic solution. Said acidic solution and a recovery liquid are then made to flow with an anion-permeable membrane interposed therebetween, causing the lithium ions to permeate from the acidic solution to recovery solution. Lithium ions are then recovered from the recovery liquid containing dissolved lithium ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Yamaguchi, Takehiko Hasebe, Yasuko Yamada
  • Publication number: 20130287654
    Abstract: A valuable metal recovery method of recovering metals from a lithium ion battery without using complicate steps and by a relatively simple and convenient facility is intended to be provided. For attaining the purpose, lithium is leached selectively from a positive electrode active material containing a composite oxide of lithium and transition metal elements by using a solution showing a weak acidity at a pH of 4 to 7 so that the high Li/Co selectivity is high and a Li recovery rate is high, and lithium is recovered from the leaching solution. By using a solute that the acidity of the acidic solution spontaneously disappears due to evolution of a gas after leaching of lithium, neutralization step is no more required and the volume of liquid wastes is decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Yasuko Yamada, Yoshihide Yamaguchi, Masahide Okamoto