Patents by Inventor Reinhard Neul

Reinhard Neul 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: 20170081177
    Abstract: An interposer is provided which is made up of a flat carrier substrate including at least one front wiring plane, in which front terminal pads are formed for mounting a component on the interposer, including at least one rear wiring plane, in which rear terminal pads are formed for mounting on a component carrier, the front terminal pads and the rear terminal pads being arranged offset from each other; and including vias for electrical connection of the at least one front wiring plane and the at least one rear wiring plane. The carrier substrate includes at least one edge section and at least one center section, which are at least largely mechanically decoupled via a stress-decoupling structure. The front terminal pads are arranged exclusively on the center section for mounting the component, while the rear terminal pads are arranged exclusively on the edge section for mounting on a component carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Johannes Classen, Torsten Kramer, Jochen Reinmuth, Mirko Hattass, Lars Tebje, Daniel Christoph Meisel, Ralf Reichenbach, Friedjof Heuck, Antoine Puygranier
  • Patent number: 9593948
    Abstract: A yaw-rate sensor having a substrate and a plurality of movable substructures that are mounted over a surface of the substrate, the movable substructures being coupled to a shared, in particular, central spring element, means being provided for exciting the movable substructures into a coupled oscillation in a plane that extends parallel to the surface of the substrate, the movable substructures having Coriolis elements, means being provided for detecting deflections of the Coriolis elements induced by a Coriolis force, a first Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a first axis, a second Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a second axis, the second axis being oriented perpendicularly to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Johannes Classen, Torsten Ohms, Burkhard Kuhlmann, Axel Franke, Oliver Kohn, Daniel Christoph Meisel, Joerg Hauer, Udo-Martin Gomez, Kersten Kehr
  • Patent number: 9593949
    Abstract: A yaw-rate sensor having a substrate and a plurality of movable substructures that are mounted over a surface of the substrate, the movable substructures being coupled to a shared, in particular, central spring element, means being provided for exciting the movable substructures into a coupled oscillation in a plane that extends parallel to the surface of the substrate, the movable substructures having Coriolis elements, means being provided for detecting deflections of the Coriolis elements induced by a Coriolis force, a first Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a first axis, a second Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a second axis, the second axis being oriented perpendicularly to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Johannes Classen, Torsten Ohms, Burkhard Kuhlmann, Axel Franke, Oliver Kohn, Daniel Christoph Meisel, Joerg Hauer, Udo-Martin Gomez, Kersten Kehr
  • Patent number: 9428378
    Abstract: For the targeted influencing of the internal pressure within a cavity between two elements of a component, a getter material or an outgassing material is situated in an additional cavity between the two elements. After the two elements are bonded to one another, the additional cavity is still to be joined via a connecting opening to the cavity. The getter material or the outgassing material is then activated so that gasses are bound in the additional cavity and in the connected cavity, or an outgassing takes place. Only when the sought internal pressure has established itself in the connected cavity is the connecting opening to the additional cavity closed. In this way, the getter material or the outgassing material is only used for establishing a defined internal pressure, but no longer has any influence on the internal pressure within the cavity during ongoing operation of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Friedjof Heuck, Lars Tebje, Heiko Stahl, Jullian Gonska, Reinhard Neul
  • Publication number: 20160138666
    Abstract: A micromechanical spring for an inertial sensor, including segments of a monocrystalline base material, the segments having surfaces which are situated at a right angle to one another with respect to a plane of oscillation of the spring and normal to the plane of oscillation of the spring, the segments being manufactured in a crystal-direction-dependent etching process and each having two different orientations normal to the plane of oscillation, in which the spring includes a defined number of segments situated in a defined manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Christian HOEPPNER, Benjamin Schmidt, Mirko Hattass, Odd-Axel Pruetz, Robert Maul, Friedjof Heuck, Rolf Scheben, Torsten Ohms, Reinhard Neul
  • Publication number: 20160109236
    Abstract: A yaw-rate sensor having a substrate and a plurality of movable substructures that are mounted over a surface of the substrate, the movable substructures being coupled to a shared, in particular, central spring element, means being provided for exciting the movable substructures into a coupled oscillation in a plane that extends parallel to the surface of the substrate, the movable substructures having Coriolis elements, means being provided for detecting deflections of the Coriolis elements induced by a Coriolis force, a first Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a first axis, a second Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a second axis, the second axis being oriented perpendicularly to the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Johannes Classen, Torsten Ohms, Burkhard Kuhlmann, Axel Franke, Oliver Kohn, Daniel Christoph Meisel, Joerg Hauer, Udo-Martin Gomez, Kersten Kehr
  • Publication number: 20160102980
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a sensor element for capturing a first and a second component of a physical variable. The sensor element comprises a first measuring transducer for measuring a first component, directed in a first measuring direction, of the physical variable. The sensor element further comprises a second measuring transducer for measuring a second component, directed in a second measuring direction, of the physical variable, wherein the first and second measuring transducers are formed or arranged on or in a carrier substrate, which contains a material on or in which measuring transducers can be produced during processing with a predefined processing method, said measuring transducers being formed to measure the physical variable in a first or second measuring direction, wherein a measuring angle between the first and the second measuring direction depends on the material of the carrier substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventor: Reinhard Neul
  • Patent number: 9261363
    Abstract: A yaw rate sensor includes a drive mass element which is situated above a surface of a substrate and is drivable to vibrate by a drive device along a first axis extending along the surface, having a detection mass element, which is deflectable under the influence of a Coriolis force along a second axis perpendicular to the surface, and having a detection device by which the deflection of the detection mass element along the second axis is detectable. Due to the arrangement of the second axis perpendicular to the surface, the yaw rate sensor may be integrated into a chip together with additional yaw rate sensors suitable for detection of rotations about axes of rotation in other directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Johannes Classen, Axel Franke, Marco Quander, Joerg Hauer, Udo-Martin Gomez, Kersten Kehr
  • Publication number: 20150353345
    Abstract: Method for on-chip stress decoupling to reduce stresses in a vertical hybrid integrated component including MEMS and ASIC elements and to mechanical decoupling of the MEMS structure. The MEMS/ASIC elements are mounted above each other via at least one connection layer and form a chip stack. On the assembly side, at least one connection area is formed for the second level assembly and for external electrical contacting of the component on a component support. At least one flexible stress decoupling structure is formed in one element surface between the assembly side and the MEMS layered structure including the stress-sensitive MEMS structure, in at least one connection area to the adjacent element component of the chip stack or to the component support, the stress decoupling structure being configured so that the connection material does not penetrate into the stress decoupling structure and flexibility of the stress decoupling structure is ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Friedjof HEUCK, Ralf REICHENBACH, Daniel Christoph MEISEL, Lars TEBJE, Mirko HATTASS, Jochen REINMUTH, Torsten KRAMER, Johannes CLASSEN, Reinhard NEUL, Antoine PUYGRANIER
  • Publication number: 20150353346
    Abstract: For the targeted influencing of the internal pressure within a cavity between two elements of a component, a getter material or an outgassing material is situated in an additional cavity between the two elements. After the two elements are bonded to one another, the additional cavity is still to be joined via a connecting opening to the cavity. The getter material or the outgassing material is then activated so that gasses are bound in the additional cavity and in the connected cavity, or an outgassing takes place. Only when the sought internal pressure has established itself in the connected cavity is the connecting opening to the additional cavity closed. In this way, the getter material or the outgassing material is only used for establishing a defined internal pressure, but no longer has any influence on the internal pressure within the cavity during ongoing operation of the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Friedjof HEUCK, Lars Tebje, Heiko Stahl, Jullian Gonska, Reinhard Neul
  • Patent number: 9164123
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a micromechanical rotary acceleration sensor including a substrate with at least one anchoring device and at least two flywheel masses. At least one of the flywheel masses is connected to at least one anchoring device by means of a coupling element. The at least one anchoring device is designed in such a manner that the at least two flywheel masses are elastically deflectable from a respective rest position about at least one axis of rotation. The at least two flywheel masses is designed in such a manner that they have different natural frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Torsten Ohms, Mirko Hattass, Daniel Christoph Meisel
  • Publication number: 20150276408
    Abstract: A yaw-rate sensor having a substrate and a plurality of movable substructures that are mounted over a surface of the substrate, the movable substructures being coupled to a shared, in particular, central spring element, means being provided for exciting the movable substructures into a coupled oscillation in a plane that extends parallel to the surface of the substrate, the movable substructures having Coriolis elements, means being provided for detecting deflections of the Coriolis elements induced by a Coriolis force, a first Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a first axis, a second Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a second axis, the second axis being oriented perpendicularly to the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Johannes Classen, Torsten Ohms, Burkhard Kuhlmann, Axel Franke, Oliver Kohn, Daniel Christoph Meisel, Joerg Hauer, Udo-Martin Gomez, Kersten Kehr
  • Patent number: 9110090
    Abstract: A piezoresistive micromechanical sensor component includes a substrate, a seismic mass, at least one piezoresistive bar, and a measuring device. The seismic mass is suspended from the substrate such that it can be deflected. The at least one piezoresistive bar is provided between the substrate and the seismic mass and is subject to a change in resistance when the seismic mass is deflected. The at least one piezoresistive bar has a lateral and/or upper and/or lower conductor track which at least partially covers the piezoresistive bar and extends into the region of the substrate. The measuring device is electrically connected to the substrate and to the conductor track and is configured to measure the change in resistance over a circuit path which runs from the substrate through the piezoresistive bar and from the piezoresistive bar through the lateral and/or upper and/or lower conductor track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Christian Rettig, Achim Trautmann, Daniel Christoph Meisel, Alexander Buhmann, Manuel Engesser, Ando Feyh
  • Patent number: 9081027
    Abstract: A yaw-rate sensor having a substrate and a plurality of movable substructures that are mounted over a surface of the substrate, the movable substructures being coupled to a shared, in particular, central spring element, where the movable substructures are excitable into a coupled oscillation in a plane that extends parallel to the surface of the substrate, the movable substructures having Coriolis elements, where deflections of the Coriolis elements induced by a Coriolis force are detectable, a first Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a first axis, a second Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a second axis, the second axis being oriented perpendicularly to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Johannes Classen, Torsten Ohms, Burkhard Kuhlmann, Axel Franke, Oliver Kohn, Daniel Christoph Meisel, Joerg Hauer, Udo-Martin Gomez, Kersten Kehr
  • Publication number: 20150128700
    Abstract: A rotation rate sensor includes a substrate having a main extension plane and multiple seismic masses, in which for each seismic mass the following applies: the seismic mass is drivable at a drive oscillation, which occurs along a drive direction situated parallel to the main extension plane, the seismic mass is deflectable along two different deflection directions, each direction being perpendicular to the drive direction, the rotation rate sensor being configured to generate detection signals as a function of detected deflections of the seismic masses, one detection signal of the detection signals being associated with each deflection direction of the seismic masses, the rotation rate sensor being configured so that a linear, rotational and centrifugal acceleration of the rotation rate sensor are compensated with respect to at least one rotation axis of the rotation rate sensor through compensation in each case of two corresponding detection signals of the detection signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Reinhard NEUL
  • Patent number: 9003881
    Abstract: A yaw-rate sensor for determining a Coriolis force includes a semiconductor substrate, a mass body mounted so it is movable over the semiconductor substrate, a drive unit for setting the mass body into an oscillating movement, and a detection unit for determining a deflection of the mass body which is caused by the Coriolis force. The detection unit includes a piezoresistive element, whose electrical resistance is a function of the deformation of the piezoresistive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Daniel Christoph Meisel
  • Patent number: 8950258
    Abstract: A micromechanical angular acceleration sensor for measuring an angular acceleration is disclosed. The sensor includes a substrate, a seismic mass, at least one suspension, which fixes the seismic mass to the substrate in a deflectable manner, and at least one piezoresistive and/or piezoelectric element for measuring the angular acceleration. The piezoresistive and/or piezoelectric element is arranged in a cutout of the seismic mass. A corresponding method and uses of the sensor are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Torsten Ohms, Mirko Hattass, Daniel Christoph Meisel
  • Publication number: 20140326070
    Abstract: A yaw-rate sensor having a substrate and a plurality of movable substructures that are mounted over a surface of the substrate, the movable substructures being coupled to a shared, in particular, central spring element, means being provided for exciting the movable substructures into a coupled oscillation in a plane that extends parallel to the surface of the substrate, the movable substructures having Coriolis elements, means being provided for detecting deflections of the Coriolis elements induced by a Coriolis force, a first Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a first axis, a second Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a second axis, the second axis being oriented perpendicularly to the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Johannes Classen, Torsten Ohms, Burkhard Kuhlmann, Axel Franke, Oliver Kohn, Daniel Christoph Meisel, Joerg Hauer, Udo-Martin Gomez, Kersten Kehr
  • Publication number: 20130098154
    Abstract: A piezoresistive micromechanical sensor component includes a substrate, a seismic mass, at least one piezoresistive bar, and a measuring device. The seismic mass is suspended from the substrate such that it can be deflected. The at least one piezoresistive bar is provided between the substrate and the seismic mass and is subject to a change in resistance when the seismic mass is deflected. The at least one piezoresistive bar has a lateral and/or upper and/or lower conductor track which at least partially covers the piezoresistive bar and extends into the region of the substrate. The measuring device is electrically connected to the substrate and to the conductor track and is configured to measure the change in resistance over a circuit path which runs from the substrate through the piezoresistive bar and from the piezoresistive bar through the lateral and/or upper and/or lower conductor track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Neul, Christian Rettig, Achim Trautmann, Daniel Christoph Meisel, Alexander Buhmann, Manuel Engesser, Ando Feyh
  • Patent number: 8375786
    Abstract: A rotation-rate sensor having at least one quadrature compensation pattern, which includes at least one first electrode and one second electrode. The second electrode has a first electrode surface and a second electrode surface which are situated opposite to each other. The first electrode is situated in an intermediate space, between the first electrode surface and the second electrode surface. The first electrode surface and also the second electrode surface, over their extension, are at a different distance from the first electrode. The first electrode surface and the second electrode surface of the second electrode are at generally the same distance from each other, over their extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Neul