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Number of patents: 162
Last date: January 02, 2001

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6169027	Method of removing surface oxides found on a titanium oxynitride layer using a nitrogen containing plasma The invention consists in a method of filling recesses in a surface layer of a workpiece with conductive material including the steps of: forming a barrier layer on the surface; depositing a layer of conductive material on to the barrier layer; and forcing, flowing...	01/02/2001
6166442	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is comprised of a first wire that has a plurality of via holes formed in the vicinity of an end thereof and that is connected to a conductor of a different layer through the via holes, and a plurality of slits that are provided para...	12/26/2000
6158183	Resilient panels A panel for a padded enclosure, such as a large animal treatment room in veterinary practices, has a resilient body with an impermeable skin or a plastics coating (5) over one face (1) and the edges (2). The edges have longitudinal grooves (4) and the coa...	12/12/2000
6149507	Wafer polishing apparatus having measurement device and polishing method A polishing method and apparatus for a semiconductor wafer includes a loading section having a loading platform for mounting a loading cassette, and a loading robot arm for transferring a wafer from the loading cassette. The apparatus includes a standby s...	11/21/2000
6145900	Gun-shaped tweezer having a non-rotatable head/body connection for adsorbing a semiconductor wafer A tweezer for adsorbing a semiconductor device allows easy and safe handling of the wafer by preventing rotation of the tweezer due to the weight of a wafer adsorbed off-center, and the breakage of the wafer caused thereby. The tweezer has a gun-shaped bo...	11/14/2000
6137318	Logic circuit having dummy MOS transistor A constantly conductive MOS transistor is placed in a logic circuit including a plurality of switching MOS transistors. The switching MOS transistors and the constantly conductive MOS transistor are connected in series and each receive a control signal at...	10/24/2000
6133148	Method of depositing film for semiconductor device in single wafer type apparatus using a lamp heating method A method of depositing a thin film for a semiconductor device using a lamp heating type apparatus. In the method, a wafer is loaded into a processing chamber of the apparatus, and the pressure of the chamber and the temperature of a susceptor installed in...	10/17/2000
6124623	Semiconductor device having channel stop regions An object of the present invention is to manufacture a semiconductor device excellent in withstand-voltage property of each element formed in a peripheral element region portion, without incurring complexity of a manufacturing process. Impurity ions are i...	09/26/2000
6118328	Semiconductor integrated circuit having virtual power supply line and power control transistor The invention intends to provide a semiconductor integrated circuit including MOS transistors, which is able to operate at a high-speed with a low power supply voltage in the active mode, and to reduce the power consumption resulting from the leakage curr...	09/12/2000
6119245	Semiconductor storage device and method of controlling it The aim is to improve reliability and life of a semiconductor storage device using memory elements for which deterioration is a problem. In a semiconductor disk device equipped with a flash memory section 110 having memory elements M(0)~M(9) having a plur...	09/12/2000
6113754	Sputtering apparatus having a target backing plate equipped with a cooling line and sputtering method using the same A sputtering apparatus for manufacturing semiconductor devices, and a sputtering method using the same, allows for the formation of metal layers having good step coverage and good deposition rate. The sputtering apparatus for manufacturing semiconductor d...	09/05/2000
6115297	Semiconductor memory circuit with a control circuit rising cell drain potential slowly A semiconductor memory circuit includes a memory cell subarray, a subarray driver and a cell drain potential generator. The memory cell subarray includes word lines, memory cell transistors and a cell drain line selection transistor. Each of the memory ce...	09/05/2000
6112430	Vacuum dryer and method of drying semiconductor device using the same A vacuum dryer and a method of drying a semiconductor device using the same are provided. In the present invention, a vacuum dryer using isopropyl alcohol vapor, including an outer bath, an inner bath, a main water supply line, a supplementary water suppl...	09/05/2000
6113697	Method of and apparatus for coating a wafer with a minimal layer of photoresist In a photoresist coating apparatus and method, a rotating wafer is scanned with a spray nozzle from which the photoresist issues. The rotational speed of the wafer is varied based on the relative position of the nozzle above the wafer. The varying of the ...	09/05/2000
6113700	Gas diffuser having varying thickness and nozzle density for semiconductor device fabrication and reaction furnace with gas diffuser A gas diffuser for semiconductor device fabrication has the form of a hermetic cylinder with a hollow formed therein and is provided with a gas inlet opened upward for the gas to flow into the hollow, and a disk-shaped diffusion plate disposed in the lowe...	09/05/2000
6113734	Apparatus for opening/closing a process chamber door of ovens used for manufacturing semiconductor devices An apparatus for opening/closing a process chamber door of an oven for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a boss formed at one side of an opening of the process chamber, a shaft which passes freely through the center of the boss, bearings attac...	09/05/2000
6114237	Method of forming contacts for a semiconductor device A method of forming contacts of a semiconductor device while improving a step coverage and increasing margins between the device and an adjacent device. The novel method comprises the steps of forming an interlayer insulating film. A contact hole is forme...	09/05/2000
6111637	Apparatus and method for examining wafers A method and an apparatus for examining wafers includes a wafer cassette having a capacity for holding a plurality of wafers located on each of first and second locaters. The wafer cassettes are fixedly held on the first and second locaters during the waf...	08/29/2000
6111815	Synchronous burst nonvolatile semiconductor memory A synchronous semiconductor burst nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes first and second address counter circuits and a counter selection circuit in order to output an address signal to a first latch circuit for storing therein data from a memory cell...	08/29/2000
6108928	Vacuum dryer of drying semiconductor device using the same A vacuum dryer and a method of drying a semiconductor device using the same are provided. In the present invention, a vacuum dryer using isopropyl alcohol vapor, including an outer bath, an inner bath, a main water supply line, a supplementary water suppl...	08/29/2000
6107792	Test board having a plurality of power supply wiring patterns A test board for testing a semiconductor IC device has a plurality of device attachment pads which are to be electrically connected to a plurality of I/O pins of the semiconductor IC device, a plurality of land pads which are to be electrically connected ...	08/22/2000
6107577	Flat surface-mounted multi-purpose wire A flat, surface mounted, flexible, multi-purpose wire has a plurality of flat elongated conductors spaced apart in a generally parallel relationship. Each of the flat conductors includes a plurality of conductive layers. At least one optical fiber lies le...	08/22/2000
6103618	Method for forming an interconnection in a semiconductor element A method for forming an interconnection in a semiconductor element includes a process for forming a groove on an underlying substrate so as to correspond to the designed pattern of the interconnection. An underlayer for improving crystalline orientation o...	08/15/2000
6104059	Non-volatile memory having a silicide film on memory control gates and peripheral circuit transistor gates In a non-volatile memory, memory cells have respective floating gates formed of a first polysilicon and respective control gates formed of a second polysilicon. Further, in the non-volatile memory, peripheral circuits include transistors having respective...	08/15/2000
6104095	Printed circuit board and chip-on-board packages using same A printed circuit board (PCB) for use in chip-on-board (COB) packages reduces failures due to warping of the COB packages. The PCB includes a board body having a upper surface and a lower surface, a chip bonding area on the upper surface for attaching a s...	08/15/2000
6104625	Voltage generator A rectifier circuit 30 of a voltage genetator rectifies alternating current signals provided through electromagnetic induction of a coil. The rectified signals are boosted by rectifying the voltage of nodes of the coil by capacitors, and the voltage genet...	08/15/2000
6104655	Semiconductor storage device A semiconductor device that enables a reduction in power consumption and a stable operation, and which can be manufactured easily and with a high level of integration. In an invention exemplifying the present application, a sense circuit constituting a DR...	08/15/2000
6100102	Method of in-line monitoring for shallow pit on semiconductor substrate A method of in-line monitoring for shallow pits formed on a semiconductor substrate using an electron beam. The electron beam is scanned across exposed pads on the semiconductor substrate and relative concentrations of secondary electrodes are examined to...	08/08/2000
6100948	Matrix-type display capable of being repaired by pixel unit and a repair method therefor A matrix-type display capable of being repaired by pixel unit, Two or more of signal lines such as scanning lines, image signal lines and auxiliary signal lines and a pixel electrode are overlapped via an insulating layer, so that a defect such as the dis...	08/08/2000
6099242	Wafer aligning apparatus for semiconductor device fabrication A wafer aligning apparatus for semiconductor device fabrication includes a cassette support on which is mounted a cassette holding wafers immersed in a non-conducting fluid. A guide roller is composed of carbon fiber reinforced polyether and rotates in co...	08/08/2000
6099302	Semiconductor wafer boat with reduced wafer contact area A boat for semiconductor wafers has reduced contact surface area with the wafer, thereby preventing distortion of the wafer during heating. The boat has an upper member; a lower member, a plurality of wafers being loaded between the upper member and the l...	08/08/2000
6098164	Microprocessor with common bus for memory and peripheral circuit having data latch generator Disclosed herein is a microcomputer of the present invention. The microcomputer comprises a memory, a peripheral circuit including a circuit whose change of state is fast and which latches data to be held by the circuit therein in response to a data latch...	08/01/2000
6096161	Dry etching apparatus having means for preventing micro-arcing A dry etching apparatus used for manufacture of a semiconductor device includes a plasma confinement ring secured by screws to a cathode, an anode, and a metal focusing ring extending around the anode for enhancing the uniformity of the plasma. The screws...	08/01/2000
6098023	Driving control system and monitoring device for fan filter unit in semiconductor clean room A monitoring device and a driving control system for a fan filter unit in a semiconductor clean room for monitoring the operating state of the fan filter unit. The monitoring device includes a switching section in each fan filter unit which alternately ap...	08/01/2000
6097654	Semiconductor memory A semiconductor memory of wherein the delay of control signals for controlling sense amplifiers is efficiently controlled, without extensively changing a currently-used fabricating process. A dummy bit line pair are arranged between desired bit line pairs...	08/01/2000
6097055	Capacitor and method for fabricating the same A multiple tubular shaped capacitor electrode of a semiconductor capacitor with an increased surface area and a method for fabricating thereof. The multiple tubular shaped capacitor includes at least two tubular shapes whose side portions are overlapped w...	08/01/2000
6093229	Drive checking system for fan filter units in clean room A fan drive checking system, for an air conditioning system in a clean room having a fan filter unit (FFU), includes a flow sensor for sensing air flow inside a housing of a FFU. The sensor provides a sensor signal indicative of normal and adverse flow co...	07/25/2000
6093653	Gas mixture for etching a polysilicon electrode layer and etching method using the same A gas mixture for etching a polysilicon electrode layer in a plasma etching apparatus, and a method for etching the electrode layer using the same. The etching gas mixture is a mixture of Cl2 gas and N2 gas, wherein the N2...	07/25/2000
6092221	Method for calculating remaining life of semiconductor disk device A method for calculating the remaining life of a semiconductor disk device including a step for calculating the number of sectors remained employable in the reserve area, a step for calculating the number of sectors which have been fully employed and the ...	07/18/2000
6091095	Semiconductor storage A sense amplifier for amplifying the potential difference between paired bit lines has a first transistor having the drain thereof connected to a bit line BL and the gate thereof connected to a bit line /BL, a second transistor having the drain thereof co...	07/18/2000

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