Patents by Inventor Yusuke Nonaka
Yusuke Nonaka 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: 12690237Abstract: An oxide semiconductor film which has more stable electric conductivity is provided. The oxide semiconductor film comprises a crystalline region. The oxide semiconductor film has a first peak of electron diffraction intensity with a full width at half maximum of greater than or equal to 0.4 nm?1 and less than or equal to 0.7 nm?1 in a region where a magnitude of a scattering vector is greater than or equal to 3.3 nm?1 and less than or equal to 4.1 nm?1. The oxide semiconductor film has a second peak of electron diffraction intensity with a full width at half maximum of greater than or equal to 0.45 nm?1 and less than or equal to 1.4 nm?1 in a region where a magnitude of a scattering vector is greater than or equal to 5.5 nm?1 and less than or equal to 7.1 nm?1.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masashi Tsubuku, Kengo Akimoto, Hiroki Ohara, Tatsuya Honda, Takatsugu Omata, Yusuke Nonaka, Masahiro Takahashi, Akiharu Miyanaga
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Publication number: 20260156899Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor switching element having a double-gate trench gate structure. The semiconductor switching element includes an upper electrode electrically connected to a body region of a second conductivity type and an impurity region of a first conductivity type, a gate wiring connected to a gate electrode layer of the double-gate trench gate structure, and a shield wiring connected to a shield electrode of the double-gate trench gate structure. The upper electrode, the gate wiring and the shield wiring are electrically isolated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2025Publication date: June 4, 2026Inventors: Shin TAKIZAWA, Yusuke NONAKA, Kenta GODA, Takeshi HAGINO
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Patent number: 12439620Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a cell portion and a peripheral portion. The cell portion has a semiconductor element including a drift layer, a first impurity region, a second impurity region, trench-gate structures, a high-concentration layer, an interlayer insulating film, a first electrode and a second electrode. The interlayer insulating film is located on the trench-gate structures, the first impurity region and the second impurity region, and has a first contact hole communicating with the first impurity region and the second impurity region. The peripheral portion has a section facing the cell portion in one direction, and the interlayer insulating film further has a second contact hole at the section of the peripheral portion. The second contact hole exposes the first impurity region, and the first electrode is electrically connected to the first impurity region through the second contact hole in the peripheral portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Takizawa, Yusuke Nonaka, Kenta Gouda, Shunsuke Harada
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Patent number: 12426304Abstract: A semiconductor device has a cell portion and a peripheral portion. The cell portion includes a semiconductor substrate, a first impurity region, a second impurity region, and a contact region for the second impurity region. The semiconductor substrate has a drift layer. The first impurity region is on the drift layer. The second impurity region is on a surface layer portion of the first impurity region. A length of the cell portion is identical to a length of the second impurity region in one direction. The contact region extends from the cell portion to the peripheral portion. A length of a section of the contact region at the peripheral section in the one direction is defined as a protruding length, and a length of the second impurity region is defined as a second-impurity-region length. A ratio of the protruding length to the second-impurity-region length is 0.1 or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: September 23, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Gouda, Yusuke Nonaka, Takeshi Hagino
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Patent number: 12399641Abstract: There is provided a storage migration method including sending, by a maintenance PC, a power-off instruction for migration to a migration source storage, sending, by the migration source storage, storage configuration information to the maintenance PC, turning off the power of the migration source storage when it is confirmed that the maintenance PC has received the storage configuration information, sending, by the maintenance PC, the storage configuration information and a power-on instruction for migration to a migration destination storage, and outputting, by the maintenance PC, a migration completion notification when a disk drive relocated from the migration source storage can be confirmed to be set in the migration destination storage.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2024Date of Patent: August 26, 2025Assignee: HITACHI VANTARA, LTD.Inventors: Yoshiki Tamura, Hiroshi Miki, Yusuke Nonaka, Yudai Takayama
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Patent number: 12400590Abstract: Emission efficiency of a light-emitting element is improved. The light-emitting element has a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer includes a fluorescent material and a host material. The second light-emitting layer includes a phosphorescent material, a first organic compound, and a second organic compound. An emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer has a peak in a yellow wavelength region. The first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2023Date of Patent: August 26, 2025Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Takahiro Ishisone, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Yusuke Nonaka, Toshiki Sasaki
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Patent number: 12340108Abstract: Performance deterioration of a storage system is prevented. A storage controller includes one or more processors, and one or more memories configured to store one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute conversion of converting metadata before conversion for controlling the storage system into metadata after conversion in a format corresponding to a new controller newly installed in the storage system, execute control of switching an access destination between the metadata before conversion and the metadata after conversion according to an access control code during the conversion, and access the metadata before conversion without using the access control code before start of the conversion.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Hitachi Vantara, Ltd.Inventors: Shugo Ogawa, Yoshihiro Yoshii, Ryosuke Tatsumi, Tomohiro Yoshihara, Yusuke Nonaka, Hiroshi Miki
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Publication number: 20250169115Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film which includes oxidized material containing silicon and covers the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and overlap with at least the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. In the oxide semiconductor film, a first region which is provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and have a thickness less than or equal to 5 nm has a silicon concentration lower than or equal to 1.0 at. %, and a region in the oxide semiconductor film other than the first region has lower silicon concentration than the first region. At least the first region includes a crystal portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2025Publication date: May 22, 2025Inventors: Tatsuya HONDA, Masashi TSUBUKU, Yusuke NONAKA, Takashi SHIMAZU, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20250120278Abstract: A multicolor light-emitting element that utilizes fluorescence and phosphorescence and is advantageous for practical application is provided. The light-emitting element has a stacked-layer structure of a first light-emitting layer containing a host material and a fluorescent substance and a second light-emitting layer containing two kinds of organic compounds and a substance that can convert triplet excitation energy into luminescence. Note that light emitted from the first light-emitting layer has an emission peak on the shorter wavelength side than light emitted from the second light-emitting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Takahiro ISHISONE, Satoshi SEO, Yusuke NONAKA, Nobuharu OHSAWA
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Patent number: 12225739Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film which includes oxidized material containing silicon and covers the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and overlap with at least the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. In the oxide semiconductor film, a first region which is provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and have a thickness less than or equal to 5 nm has a silicon concentration lower than or equal to 1.0 at. %, and a region in the oxide semiconductor film other than the first region has lower silicon concentration than the first region. At least the first region includes a crystal portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2024Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Honda, Masashi Tsubuku, Yusuke Nonaka, Takashi Shimazu, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 12218251Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film which includes oxidized material containing silicon and covers the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and overlap with at least the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. In the oxide semiconductor film, a first region which is provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and have a thickness less than or equal to 5 nm has a silicon concentration lower than or equal to 1.0 at. %, and a region in the oxide semiconductor film other than the first region has lower silicon concentration than the first region. At least the first region includes a crystal portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Honda, Masashi Tsubuku, Yusuke Nonaka, Takashi Shimazu, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20250028470Abstract: There is provided a storage migration method including sending, by a maintenance PC, a power-off instruction for migration to a migration source storage, sending, by the migration source storage, storage configuration information to the maintenance PC, turning off the power of the migration source storage when it is confirmed that the maintenance PC has received the storage configuration information, sending, by the maintenance PC, the storage configuration information and a power-on instruction for migration to a migration destination storage, and outputting, by the maintenance PC, a migration completion notification when a disk drive relocated from the migration source storage can be confirmed to be set in the migration destination storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiki TAMURA, Hiroshi MIKI, Yusuke NONAKA, Yudai TAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20250024697Abstract: An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a multicolor light-emitting element that utilizes fluorescence and phosphorescence and is advantageous for practical application. The light-emitting element has a stacked-layer structure of a first light-emitting layer containing a host material and a fluorescent substance, a separation layer containing a substance having a hole-transport property and a substance having an electron-transport property, and a second light-emitting layer containing two kinds of organic compounds that form an exciplex and a substance that can convert triplet excitation energy into luminescence. Note that a light-emitting element in which light emitted from the first light-emitting layer has an emission spectrum peak on the shorter wavelength side than an emission spectrum peak of the second light-emitting layer is more effective.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Nobuharu OHSAWA, Yusuke NONAKA, Takahiro ISHISONE, Satoshi SEO, Takuya KAWATA
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Publication number: 20250020459Abstract: A road surface abnormality detection apparatus includes a data acquisition unit, a prediction unit, and an abnormality detection unit. The data acquisition unit acquires road surface observation data obtained by observing a road surface in a chronological order. The prediction unit predicts road surface data at a first timing from a plurality of road surface observation data at a plurality of respective timings earlier than the first timing by using a trained model generated in advance through machine learning. The abnormality detection unit detects, when a difference between road surface observation data at the first timing and the predicted road surface data at the first timing is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, an abnormality of the road surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Masahiro YAMAGUCHI, Kyota HIGA, Yusuke NONAKA, Hideo SAITO, Hideaki UCHIYAMA
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Patent number: 12171127Abstract: A multicolor light-emitting element that utilizes fluorescence and phosphorescence and is advantageous for practical application is provided. The light-emitting element has a stacked-layer structure of a first light-emitting layer containing a host material and a fluorescent substance and a second light-emitting layer containing two kinds of organic compounds and a substance that can convert triplet excitation energy into luminescence. Note that light emitted from the first light-emitting layer has an emission peak on the shorter wavelength side than light emitted from the second light-emitting layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Ishisone, Satoshi Seo, Yusuke Nonaka, Nobuharu Ohsawa
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Patent number: 12154827Abstract: A semiconductor device which has favorable electrical characteristics and can be highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator; an oxide over the first insulator; a second insulator over the oxide; a first conductor over the second insulator; a third insulator in contact with a top surface of the first insulator, a side surface of the oxide, a top surface of the oxide, a side surface of the second insulator, and a side surface of the first conductor; and a fourth insulator over the third insulator. The third insulator includes an opening exposing the first insulator, and the fourth insulator is in contact with the first insulator through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Toshihiko Takeuchi, Tsutomu Murakawa, Hiroki Komagata, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Noritaka Ishihara, Yusuke Nonaka
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Patent number: 12125906Abstract: In a semiconductor device having a lateral transistor, a source wiring layer is disposed above at least a part of an interlayer insulating film. The interlayer insulating film is electrically connected to a source electrode and is extended toward a drain region to form a source field plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichiro Yanagi, Yusuke Nonaka, Syogo Ikeura
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Publication number: 20240256167Abstract: Performance deterioration of a storage system is prevented. A storage controller includes one or more processors, and one or more memories configured to store one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute conversion of converting metadata before conversion for controlling the storage system into metadata after conversion in a format corresponding to a new controller newly installed in the storage system, execute control of switching an access destination between the metadata before conversion and the metadata after conversion according to an access control code during the conversion, and access the metadata before conversion without using the access control code before start of the conversion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Shugo OGAWA, Yoshihiro YOSHII, Ryosuke TATSUMI, Tomohiro YOSHIHARA, Yusuke NONAKA, Hiroshi MIKI
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Publication number: 20240250183Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film which includes oxidized material containing silicon and covers the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and overlap with at least the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. In the oxide semiconductor film, a first region which is provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and have a thickness less than or equal to 5 nm has a silicon concentration lower than or equal to 1.0 at. %, and a region in the oxide semiconductor film other than the first region has lower silicon concentration than the first region. At least the first region includes a crystal portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Tatsuya HONDA, Masashi TSUBUKU, Yusuke NONAKA, Takashi SHIMAZU, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20240250184Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film which includes oxidized material containing silicon and covers the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and overlap with at least the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. In the oxide semiconductor film, a first region which is provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and have a thickness less than or equal to 5 nm has a silicon concentration lower than or equal to 1.0 at. %, and a region in the oxide semiconductor film other than the first region has lower silicon concentration than the first region. At least the first region includes a crystal portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Tatsuya HONDA, Masashi TSUBUKU, Yusuke NONAKA, Takashi SHIMAZU, Shunpei YAMAZAKI