Patents by Inventor Yoshio MIZUTA
Yoshio MIZUTA 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: 20240419085Abstract: An exposure apparatus according to one embodiment includes a stage and a control device. In an exposure process, the control device is configured to: calculate a calculated value of a magnification component by performing function approximation on measurement results of three or more alignment marks arranged on the substrate; set a first lower limit value and/or a first upper limit value for an alignment correction value of a magnification component; in a case where the first lower limit value is set and the calculated value is less than the first lower limit value, set the alignment correction value of the magnification component to a second correction value that is larger than the calculated value and smaller than the first correction value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Yoshio MIZUTA
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Patent number: 12125718Abstract: A bonding apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first chuck, a second chuck, and a pushpin arranged in a center portion of the second chuck. The first chuck includes a first area and a second area in a plane view. The first chuck includes a first rib arranged to divide the first area and the second area from each other in the plane view. The first area includes an area that overlaps the pushpin in the plane view. The second area encircles an outer perimeter of the first area in the plane view. The first chuck has a plurality of pins arranged at intervals in the second area, and has no pin in the area of the first area that overlaps the pushpin in the plane view.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Yoshio Mizuta
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Publication number: 20240312820Abstract: According to embodiments, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a control circuit configured to acquire, for a pair of substrates including a first substrate and a second substrate, a warp amount of the first substrate, the warp amount of the first substrate including an amount of protrusion of a portion of the first substrate relative to an edge of the first substrate; determine a desired size for a gap between the first and second substrates based on the acquired warp amount; and control a chuck movement device to move one of the first and second substrates to adjust the gap to the determined size before the first and second substrates are bonded.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventor: Yoshio MIZUTA
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Publication number: 20240297045Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes preparing a first substrate on which multiple projections distributed in a two-dimensional fashion are formed. The method includes stacking a first film over the multiple projections on the first substrate. The method includes stacking a second film on a second substrate. The method includes bonding a principal surface of the first film which is disposed on an opposite side of the first substrate to a principal surface of the second film which is disposed on an opposite side of the second substrate. The method includes performing irradiation with a laser beam from the first substrate. The method includes peeling the first substrate. A diameter of a spot area formed by the laser beam is larger than an average pitch between the projections arranged on the principal surface of the first substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Yoshio MIZUTA, Sadatoshi MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20240210839Abstract: According to one embodiment, an exposure apparatus is configured to expose a substrate to light. The exposure apparatus includes a light source, a stage and a control device. The stage is configured to hold the substrate to be exposed. The control device is configured to correct exposure amount of light. The control device is configured to: calculate magnification components in a first direction and a second direction, based on measurement results of at least three alignment marks, the first direction and the second direction crossing each other and parallel with a surface of the substrate; and correct exposure amount based on a value of a difference between the magnification component of the first direction and the magnification component of the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Yoshio MIZUTA
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Publication number: 20230411197Abstract: According to one embodiment, a bonding apparatus includes first and second stages, first and second measuring devices, a stress generator, and a controller. The controller generates a focus map for each deformation amount of the first stage based on a deformation amount of the first stage deformed by the stress generator and the shape of the first substrate held by the deformed first stage. In the alignment processing of the first substrate, when causing the first measuring device to measure an alignment mark arranged on the first substrate held by the first stage, the controller uses a focus setting based on the focus map corresponding to the deformation amount applied to the first stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Yoshio MIZUTA
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Publication number: 20230236495Abstract: An exposure apparatus according to an embodiment is configured to implement an exposure process for exposing a substrate to light. The exposure apparatus includes a stage, a storage device, and a controller. The stage is configured to hold the substrate. The storage device is configured to store a plurality of correction maps each having an alignment correction value that differs from each other. The controller is configured to control in the exposure process an exposure position relative to the substrate by selecting a correction map from the correction maps based on measurement results of a plurality of alignment marks arranged on the substrate or an amount of warpage of the substrate and moving the stage based on the selected correction map.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Yoshio MIZUTA
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Patent number: 11710649Abstract: An apparatus includes a first and second stages. The first and second stages respectively hold a first and second substrates. The second stage being opposed to the first stage. A stress application portion applies a stress to the first substrate based on a first magnification value. A calculator calculates the first magnification value based on a flatness of the first substrate and a first equation. The first equation represents a relation between flatness of a third substrate, a second magnification value, and an amount of pattern misalignment between the third substrate and a fourth substrate bonded to the third substrate. A controller controls the stress application portion to apply a stress to the first substrate on the first stage based on the first magnification value while the first and second substrates are bonded to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Yoshio Mizuta
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Publication number: 20230195002Abstract: According to one embodiment, an exposure device includes a stage, a measurement device, and a control device. For exposing a substrate, the control device calculates a first coefficient corresponding to a magnification positional misalignment in a first direction and a second coefficient corresponding to a magnification positional misalignment in a second direction based on measurement of at least three alignment marks. The control device can use the first coefficient to correct the magnification positional misalignment in the first direction and a third coefficient set based on the first correction coefficient to correct the magnification positional misalignment in the second direction. The control device can use a fourth coefficient set based on the second coefficient to correct the magnification positional misalignment in the first direction and the second coefficient to correct the magnification positional misalignment in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventor: Yoshio MIZUTA
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Publication number: 20230091517Abstract: A bonding apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first chuck, a second chuck, and a pushpin arranged in a center portion of the second chuck. The first chuck includes a first area and a second area in a plane view. The first chuck includes a first rib arranged to divide the first area and the second area from each other in the plane view. The first area includes an area that overlaps the pushpin in the plane view. The second area encircles an outer perimeter of the first area in the plane view. The first chuck has a plurality of pins arranged at intervals in the second area, and has no pin in the area of the first area that overlaps the pushpin in the plane view.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Yoshio MIZUTA
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Patent number: 11504803Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a light source which outputs a laser light, and a waveform control unit which controls a pulse waveform of the laser light irradiating the workpiece, in which the pulse waveform of the laser light controlled by the waveform control unit includes a main pulse and a foot pulse temporally preceding the main pulse, and a peak intensity of the foot pulse is smaller than a peak intensity of the main pulse, and a peak position of the main pulse is positioned in a retention time period of plasma generated due to an incidence of the foot pulse on the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.KInventors: Yoshio Mizuta, Takashi Kurita, Takeshi Watari, Yuki Kabeya, Norio Kurita, Toshiyuki Kawashima
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Publication number: 20210296147Abstract: An apparatus includes a first and second stages. The first and second stages respectively hold a first and second substrates. The second stage being opposed to the first stage. A stress application portion applies a stress to the first substrate based on a first magnification value. A calculator calculates the first magnification value based on a flatness of the first substrate and a first equation. The first equation represents a relation between flatness of a third substrate, a second magnification value, and an amount of pattern misalignment between the third substrate and a fourth substrate bonded to the third substrate. A controller controls the stress application portion to apply a stress to the first substrate on the first stage based on the first magnification value while the first and second substrates are bonded to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Yoshio MIZUTA
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Patent number: 10801432Abstract: An engine control device is provided, which includes an oxidation catalyst provided in an exhaust passage to oxidize unburned fuel within exhaust gas, a NOx catalyst provided integrally with or downstream of the oxidation catalyst, a PM filter provided in the exhaust passage downstream of the oxidation catalyst to capture fine particulate matter within the exhaust gas, a fuel injector, and a controller. When the particulate matter is accumulated by a given amount, the controller starts a PM filter regeneration control to remove the particulate matter, and after this control is started and when the accumulation amount decreases by a given amount, the controller starts a NOx catalyst regeneration control to switch between a first state in which an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio or less and a second state in which the air-fuel ratio is higher than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Hiroshi Hayashibara, Goro Tsuboi, Hiroshi Yamada, Yoshiyuki Sato, Yoshio Mizuta
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Patent number: 10599045Abstract: According to an embodiment, focus sensitivity information in which focus sensitivity expressing a relation between an aberration correction value set in an exposure device and a best focus when a pattern is formed on a first substrate by exposure of the exposure device using the aberration correction value, and the pattern are correlated is input. Moreover, on the basis of the focus sensitivity information and a surface height difference of a second substrate, the aberration correction value in which best focuses for a pattern group to be formed on the second substrate by exposure satisfy a first condition is calculated. In addition, the second substrate is exposed by the exposure device using the aberration correction value satisfying the first condition.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Toshiba Memory CorporationInventors: Yoshio Mizuta, Nobuhiro Komine
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Publication number: 20190242312Abstract: An engine control device is provided, which includes an oxidation catalyst provided in an exhaust passage to oxidize unburned fuel within exhaust gas, a NOx catalyst provided integrally with or downstream of the oxidation catalyst, a PM filter provided in the exhaust passage downstream of the oxidation catalyst to capture fine particulate matter within the exhaust gas, a fuel injector, and a controller. When the particulate matter is accumulated by a given amount, the controller starts a PM filter regeneration control to remove the particulate matter, and after this control is started and when the accumulation amount decreases by a given amount, the controller starts a NOx catalyst regeneration control to switch between a first state in which an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio or less and a second state in which the air-fuel ratio is higher than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Hiroshi Hayashibara, Goro Tsuboi, Hiroshi Yamada, Yoshiyuki Sato, Yoshio Mizuta
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Publication number: 20190232423Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a light source which outputs a laser light, and a waveform control unit which controls a pulse waveform of the laser light irradiating the workpiece, in which the pulse waveform of the laser light controlled by the waveform control unit includes a main pulse and a foot pulse temporally preceding the main pulse, and a peak intensity of the foot pulse is smaller than a peak intensity of the main pulse, and a peak position of the main pulse is positioned in a retention time period of plasma generated due to an incidence of the foot pulse on the workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Yoshio MIZUTA, Takashi KURITA, Takeshi WATARI, Yuki KABEYA, Norio KURITA, Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA
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Publication number: 20190079412Abstract: According to an embodiment, focus sensitivity information in which focus sensitivity expressing a relation between an aberration correction value set in an exposure device and a best focus when a pattern is formed on a first substrate by exposure of the exposure device using the aberration correction value, and the pattern are correlated is input. Moreover, on the basis of the focus sensitivity information and a surface height difference of a second substrate, the aberration correction value in which best focuses for a pattern group to be formed on the second substrate by exposure satisfy a first condition is calculated. In addition, the second substrate is exposed by the exposure device using the aberration correction value satisfying the first condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: Toshiba Memory CorporationInventors: Yoshio MIZUTA, Nobuhiro KOMINE
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Patent number: 10093044Abstract: In an imprinting apparatus according to one embodiment, rear surfaces of first and second templates are suctioned. A correction information calculating device calculates a second response coefficient of the second template out of first response coefficients based on a flatness relational expression and flatness of the second template. The first response coefficients are actual amounts of positional slippage of the first template from a first input adjustment value. The flatness relational expression indicates a relationship between flatness of the first template and the first response coefficients. A shape and a size of the second template are adjusted using the second response coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshio Mizuta, Manabu Takakuwa, Masato Suzuki
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Patent number: 9702286Abstract: Provided is a system where a composite catalyst into which an LNT catalyst and an oxidation catalyst are combined, a catalyzed particulate filter, an injector configured to inject a urea water solution into an exhaust gas passage, and an SCR catalyst are arranged in this order in an upstream-to-downstream direction of the flow of the exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Nagoshi, Masayuki Tetsuno, Yoshio Mizuta, Kohei Fujii, Hiroshi Yamada, Koichiro Harada, Yoshiyuki Sato, Akihide Takami
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Publication number: 20170050351Abstract: In an imprinting apparatus according to one embodiment, rear surfaces of first and second templates are suctioned. A correction information calculating device calculates a second response coefficient of the second template out of first response coefficients based on a flatness relational expression and flatness of the second template. The first response coefficients are actual amounts of positional slippage of the first template from a first input adjustment value. The flatness relational expression indicates a relationship between flatness of the first template and the first response coefficients. A shape and a size of the second template are adjusted using the second response coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshio MIZUTA, Manabu TAKAKUWA, Masato SUZUKI