Patents Assigned to Epcos AG
  • Patent number: 10446298
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrical component is disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes providing a carrier element providing a material having a temperature-dependent resistance, applying the material on a surface of the carrier element for producing a resistance layer on the carrier element and subsequently sintering the resistance layer for linking the resistance layer to the carrier element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Josef Mörth, Gilbert Landfahrer, Gerald Kloiber, Anna Moshammer
  • Patent number: 10447224
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a line filter (1), which is configured to be installed onto a system cable (2), wherein the line filter (1) comprises a magnetic component (4), wherein the line filter (1) defines a cable path (6) through the line filter (1), wherein the line filter (1) is configured to allow a placement of the system cable (2) along the cable path (6) at the time of an installation, thereby providing a magnetic coupling of the system cable (2) to the magnetic component (4), and wherein the line filter (1) comprises an insulation displacement connector (16) and a shunt component (5) wherein the insulation displacement connector (16) is configured to be tightened at the time of the installation, thereby providing a galvanic connection of the system cable (2) to the shunt component (5). Further, the present invention concerns a method of installing a line filter (1) onto a system cable (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Epcos AG
    Inventors: Andrew Tucker, Norbert Jarfas
  • Patent number: 10395870
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a relay (1), having a first terminal (2), a second terminal (3), a contact (4) which in a closed state brings about an electrical connection between the first and second terminals (2, 3) and which in an opened state electrically disconnects the first and second terminals (2, 3), a first electromagnet (5) which is configured in such a way that it places the contact (4) in the closed state if the first electromagnet (5) is switched on, and a second electromagnet (6) which is configured in such a way that it keeps the contact (4) in the closed state if the contact (4) is in the closed state and the second electromagnet (6) is switched on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventor: Peter Bobert
  • Patent number: 10395843
    Abstract: An electrical connection contact (5) for a ceramic component (2) is specified. The connection contact (5) comprises a first material (M1) and a second material (M2) arranged thereon, wherein the first material (M1) has a high electrical conductivity and the second material (M2) has a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Epcos AG
    Inventors: Markus Koini, Christoph Auer, Jürgen Konrad, Franz Rinner, Markus Puff, Monika Stadlober, Thomas Wippel
  • Patent number: 10389105
    Abstract: An overvoltage protection element and a method for producing an overvoltage protection element is disclosed. In an embodiment, the overvoltage protection element includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a discharge region arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein a porous discharge dielectric is arranged in the discharge region, and wherein the overvoltage protection element is configured to discharge a gas in pores of the discharge dielectric and produce an electrically conductive connection between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Manfred Schweinzger, Stefan Obermair, Pavol Dudesek
  • Patent number: 10381543
    Abstract: A multi-layer component (1) is specified, comprising a main body (2) with an external contact (3) arranged thereon, a further contact (5) for electrically contacting the multi-layer component (1), and a connecting element (4) for connecting the external contact (3) and the further contact (5), wherein the connecting element (4) is embodied in such a way that a decoupling of mechanical stresses that occur in the further contact (5) from the external contact (3) is brought about.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Martin Galler, Harald Kastl, Siegfried Fellner, Axel Pecina, Marion Ottlinger, Peter Gerletz, Robert Krumphals, Wolfgang Athenstaedt, Ivan Jagust, Zdravko Mijocevic, Zeljko Maric
  • Patent number: 10374141
    Abstract: Provision is made of a method for producing a piezoelectric multilayer component (1), in which piezoelectric green sheets, at least one ply (21) containing an auxiliary material having a first and a second component and layers (20) containing electrode material are arranged one above another alternately and sintered, wherein, during the sintering, the first and second components of the auxiliary material chemically react, and the at least one ply (21) containing the auxiliary material is degraded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Döllgast, Wolfgang Athenstaedt, Marion Ottlinger, Marlene Fritz
  • Patent number: 10361018
    Abstract: A method for producing a multilayer component (21) is specified, which involves providing a body having dielectric layers (3) arranged one above another and first and second electrically conductive layers (4, 84, 5, 85) arranged therebetween. The first conductive layers (4, 84) are connected to a first auxiliary electrode (6) and the second conductive layers (5, 85) are connected to a second auxiliary electrode (7). The body (1, 81) is introduced into a medium and a voltage is applied between the first and second auxiliary electrodes (6, 7) for producing a material removal. Furthermore, a multilayer component is specified, which has depressions (20) formed by an electrochemically controlled material removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Franz Rinner, Dieter Somitsch, Christoph Auer, Gerhard Fuchs
  • Patent number: 10354807
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing electrode foils (1) for capacitors (10), comprising the method steps of: A) providing a metal foil (1), B) transferring microstructures (2) located on a stamping die onto a main surface of the metal foil by a reforming process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Epcos AG
    Inventor: Erkan Kuzeci
  • Publication number: 20190204162
    Abstract: A sensor element and a method for producing a sensor element are disclosed. In an embodiment a sensor element for temperature measurement includes a ceramic carrier and at least one NTC layer printed on the carrier, wherein the NTC layer covers at least part of a surface of the carrier, and wherein the sensor element is designed for wireless contacting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicants: EPCOS AG, EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Jan Ihle, Anke Weidenfelder, Christl Lisa Mead, Gerald Kloiber
  • Patent number: 10333204
    Abstract: An antenna component is disclosed. In an embodiment the antenna component including a first, second and third electrical conductors and a magnetic core integrally embodied having different section, wherein the first, second and third electrical conductors are located at different sections of the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Felipe Jerez, Anneliese Drespling, Elmar Walter, Stephan Buehlmaier, Joern Schliewe
  • Patent number: 10325703
    Abstract: A varistor component and a method for securing a varistor component are disclosed. In an embodiment, a varistor includes a first external contact, a second external contact, a varistor electrically connected to the first external contact, a path between the varistor and the second external contact and an active releasing device including a shutter and a heat sensitive element, wherein the heat sensitive element releases the shutter under abnormal operation conditions and the shutter closes the path between the varistor and the second external contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Shaoyu Sun, Xiaojia Tian, Rongguang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10319493
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a main body having an electrode and a contact element. The contact element is directly mechanically and electrically conductively connected to the electrode in order to form an electrical connection between the main body and the contact element. The electrical and mechanical connection between the electrode and the contact element is free of melting regions of the materials of the electrode and of the contact element that are involved in the connection. Furthermore, the connection is realized in a manner free of connection material, for example, in a manner free of solder material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Gerald Kloiber, Heinz Strallhofer
  • Patent number: 10292272
    Abstract: A device for orienting contact terminals on an electrical component such that they fit to a circuit board of an electric circuit is disclosed. In an embodiment the device includes a carrier element configured to receive the electrical component and a plurality of bending elements, wherein the carrier element has a plurality of holes, each hole penetrating the carrier element from an upper side to an underside, wherein a respective section of the bending elements is secured to the carrier element and a respective end of the bending elements projects into a respective hole of the carrier element, and wherein the bending elements are configured such that the respective end of the bending elements, upon insertion of a respective contact terminal of the electrical component into the respective hole from the upper side of the carrier element, is bent within the hole and clamps the respective contact terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Florian Velden, Guenter Feist
  • Publication number: 20190131208
    Abstract: A multi-layer carrier system and a method for producing a multi-layer carrier system are disclosed. In an embodiment a multi-layer carrier system includes at least one multi-layer ceramic substrate and at least one matrix module of heat-producing semiconductor components, wherein the semiconductor components are arranged on the multi-layer ceramic substrate, and wherein the matrix module is electrically conductively connected to a driver circuit by way of the multi-layer ceramic substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Thomas Feichtinger, Franz Rinner, Günter Pudmich, Werner Rollett, Michael Weilguni
  • Patent number: 10276306
    Abstract: A method of producing a fully active multilayer element including producing a fully active stack, and optionally sintering of the fully active stack or a green precursor thereof; applying outer electrodes onto sides A? and C? of the fully active stack and contacting of the uncoated inner electrodes so that the two outer electrodes electrically connect to the uncoated inner electrode layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Franz Rinner, Dieter Somitsch
  • Patent number: 10278285
    Abstract: A component assembly is disclosed. In an embodiment the assembly includes a carrier, a metallic structure arranged on the carrier, wherein the metallic structure comprises at least one cavity and an electrical component arranged at least in part in the cavity, wherein the metallic structure comprises at least two part regions which are not connected to each other by any further part of the metallic structure, and wherein the cavity is located between the two part regions. The assembly further includes two contact areas located on the carrier, wherein the component is located on the two contact areas such that each part region of the two part regions is located on one of the two contact areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Brunner, Thomas Feichtinger
  • Patent number: 10262778
    Abstract: A multilayer component and a mathod for producing a multilayer component are disclosed. In an embodiment the multilayer component includes a ceramic main element being a varistor ceramic and at least one metal structure, wherein the metal structure is cosintered, and wherein the main element is doped with a material of the metal structure in such a way that a diffusion of the material from the metal structure into the main element during a sintering operation is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Uwe Wozniak, Thomas Feichtinger
  • Patent number: 10256026
    Abstract: A transformer component for setting an inductance and method for manufacturing a transformer component are disclosed. In an embodiment, the transformer component includes a first core part with a middle limb and a second core part with a middle limb, an end side of the middle limb of the first core part and an end side of the middle limb of the second core part being opposite one another. The first core part and the second core part respectively have a bearing area with a respective slope. A width of a gap between the end side of the middle limb of the first core part and the end side of the middle limb of the second core part depends on a position in which the bearing area of the first core part bears against the bearing area of the second core part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Frey, Matthias Haubner, Günter Feist
  • Publication number: 20190098739
    Abstract: A process for producing ozone and an apparatus for ozone generation are disclosed. In an embodiment, a process for producing ozone includes applying an input voltage to an input area of a piezoelectric transformer so that a high voltage is generated in an output area of the piezoelectric transformer, surrounding the piezoelectric transformer with an oxygenic process gas so that the ozone is formed from the process gas by the high voltage generated in the output area, measuring an amount of the generated ozone using a sensor and adapting the input voltage applied to the piezoelectric transformer on a basis of the measured amount of the generated ozone in order to set an ozone generation rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Michael Weilguni, Markus Puff, Pavol Kudela