Patents Assigned to PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 7846838
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an electronic component on a surface of a substrate with the electronic component having, seen at right angles to the surface of the substrate, at least two electrical functional layers which are arranged one above the other and such that they overlap at least in a surface area F, with the at least two electrical functional layers on the substrate being structured directly or indirectly using a continuous process, with a first electrical functional layer of the at least two electrical functional layers being structured such that a first length/width dimension of the first electrical functional layer parallel to the surface of the substrate and in a relative movement direction of the substrate is at least 5 ?m longer/wider, preferably more than 1 mm longer/wider, than a length/width dimension of the surface area F in the relative movement direction and parallel to the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Polyic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Knobloch, Andreas Ullmann, Walter Fix, Merlin Welker
  • Patent number: 7847695
    Abstract: The invention relates to an external package, particularly one with a conductive coating and in whose surroundings an RFID tag is used. The conductive area of the electrically conductive layer is interrupted by a structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jurgen Ficker, Markus Lorenz, Wolfgang Clemens, Markus Bohm
  • Patent number: 7843342
    Abstract: An organic electronic module has a clock generator having n organic switching elements connected in series. The output of the nth organic switching element is connected to the input of the first organic switching element. The outputs of two or more organic switching elements are connected to respective inputs of a first electronic circuit of the electronic module tapping off two or more clock signals such that a first clock signal for a first electronic circuit is tapped from the output of a first one of the switching elements and a second clock signal, phase-shifted with respect to the first clock signal, for the first electronic circuit is tapped from the output of a second switching element different than the first switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Polyic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Merlin Welker, Walter Fix
  • Publication number: 20100277441
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security element for the identification of a security document, in particular a banknote, a valuable paper or a paper document, comprising at least one electrically controllable display element and at least one piezoelectric energy source which controls the at least one display element. The security element is formed by a flexible multilayered film body comprising the at least one electrically controllable display element containing a display layer having liquid crystals that can be oriented in an electric field, and comprising the at least one piezoelectric energy source which controls the at least one display element and has at least one layer composed of piezoelectric material, wherein the security element has a thickness of at most 70 ?m in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the film body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicants: POLYIC GMBH & CO. KG, LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Stahl, Gerrit Hackl, Steffen Weiss, Klaus Ludwig, Johannes Schad
  • Patent number: 7812343
    Abstract: A multilayer composite body has an electronic function, in particular, an electronic subassembly comprising a plurality of organic electronic components, such as transistors, diodes, capacitors and so on, having at least one common layer, e.g., a semiconductor layer and/or insulation layer, wherein the common layer may be superfluous in one or more of the components. There thus is provided a structure of an entire subassembly such as an RFID tag, wherein the entire tag with all of its components is implemented in one production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Merlin Welker, Walter Fix
  • Publication number: 20100245112
    Abstract: The invention concerns a multi-layer flexible film body (6), in particular a label film or packaging film as well as a goods identification system and uses of such a film body. The film body (6) has a carrier layer and a decorative layer system (11) which provides optically recognisable information. A plurality of layers of the decorative layer system form an electronically controlled display element (65), by the activation of which the optically recognisable information becomes visible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicants: POLYIC GMBH & CO. KG, LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Ludwig, Wolfgang Clemens, Johannes Schad
  • Patent number: 7786818
    Abstract: An electronic component includes an RFID transponder, and also a security document comprises such an electronic component. The electronic component has a modulator for modulating a carrier signal, the modulator being constructed from at least two organic field effect transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Bohm, Walter Fix, Andreas Ullmann
  • Publication number: 20100214748
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic circuit and to a method for the manufacture of an electronic circuit comprising at least two electronic components on a common flexible substrate, wherein the at least two electronic components in each case have at least one electrical functional layer composed of identical functional layer material. The electrical functional layers are formed from identical functional layer material and from layer regions of a layer formed in strip-type fashion on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Leon Willem Greeff, John Graham Peacock
  • Patent number: 7724550
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device (5) in the form of a flexible multilayer film body, in particular an RFID transponder, and to a rectifier (52) for such an electronic device. The rectifier (52) has at least two organic diodes or organic field effect transistors each having at least one electrical functional layer composed of a semiconducting organic material. The rectifier (52) furthermore has two or more charging or charge-reversal capacitors which are connected up to the two or more organic diodes or organic field effect transistors in such a way that the charging or charge-reversal capacitors can be charged via different current paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Bohm, Dietmar Zipperer, Andreas Ullmann, Markus Lorenz
  • Patent number: 7709865
    Abstract: An organic field effect transistor includes a well-ordered substrate layer on which organic functional material is deposited. A method of increasing the charge carrier mobility of the organic field effect transistor substrate layer is achieved by depositing onto the substrate an organic functional material, the substrate being in the form of a well-ordered layer. The method and transistor include using a well-ordered plastics film as the substrate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Clemens, Henning Rost
  • Patent number: 7678857
    Abstract: In order to increase the viscosity of semiconductive polymers in solution, they are mixed with non-semiconductive polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Adolf Bernds, Wolfgang Clemens, Alexander Friedrich Knobloch, Andreas Ullmann
  • Patent number: 7641857
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus for determining an analyte in a liquid sample includes the following apparatus components: a test element with a test field for applying the liquid sample, the test element experiencing a detectable modification due to the analyte to be determined, a detector which detects the modification and generates an electrical detector signal as a function of it, an evaluation circuit arranged downstream of the detector, which evaluates the detector signal to form a measurement result, a display device connected to the evaluation circuit for displaying the measurement result, and an electrical power supply for supplying electrical power to the electrical apparatus components. At least some of the electrical apparatus components are formed on the basis of polymer electronics so that the analyte can be determined straightforwardly, conveniently and inexpensively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Clemens, Axel Gerlt, Bernd Rosicke
  • Patent number: 7589553
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic module having two or more organic circuit elements connected together to give a logic circuit, said organic circuit elements being made up of organic components, in particular organic field effect transistors. The logic circuit comprises at least one filter module (5), which has an input (53) connected to one of the organic logic circuit elements, and an output (55), and is designed to filter out from the signals present at the input (53) the spurious signals generated by different signal propagation times in the organic components of the logic circuit elements, and to provide a regenerated binary signal at the output (55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Merlin Welker, Walter Fix
  • Patent number: 7576294
    Abstract: A switching element for polymer electronic devices is constructed from organic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Clemens, Jürgen Ficker, Alexander Friedrich Knobloch, Andreas Ullmann
  • Patent number: 7534034
    Abstract: A device for detecting and/or transmitting at least one environmental influence, and a method for producing the same. The device comprises at least one receiver element and an evaluation circuit that is substantially composed of organic functional material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Clemens, Herbert Schewe
  • Publication number: 20090121218
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an electronic circuit, and to an electronic circuit, having at least one organic electrical functional layer and at least one data storage unit, the data storage unit being configured with two electrically conductive layer contacts. The two electrically conductive layer contacts are arranged alongside one another and are electrically conductively connected to one another either by an electrically conductive dry substance or by an electrically conductive solidified substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: POLYIC GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Walter Fix
  • Patent number: 7483275
    Abstract: A method for the production of an encapsulated and at least partly organic electronic device wherein the device comprises a combination of three groups of different electronic units or components which may be separate discrete structures arranged to be produced independently from one another electrically conductively interconnected, the groups including inorganic units, passive units and active units or active components such as antennae, diodes (rectifier diodes and/or light-emitting diodes), some of which units may be organic, e.g., organic transistors, and so on, and forming a resulting optimized circuit. The components of the three groups of units forming the resulting circuit are combined on a one piece flexible substrate film which can also serve as an encapsulation layer for the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Clemens, Walter Fix, Jörg Zapf
  • Patent number: 7479670
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic component made primarily from organic materials with high resolution structuring, in particular to an organic field effect transistor (OFET) with a small source-drain distance, and to a production method thereof. The organic electronic component has depressions and/or modified regions in which the conductor tracks/electrodes, which can be metallic, for example, are arranged, and which have been produced by means of a laser during production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Walter Fix, Ronan Martin, Andreas Ullmann
  • Publication number: 20090001359
    Abstract: The invention relates to an organic electronic component with improved voltage stability and a method for producing it, wherein the voltage stability in the device is improved by targeted addition of additives and/or by formation of an interlayer. The invention for the first time makes it possible to stabilize organic electronic components by modification with a reducing, oxidizing and/or redox system comprising one and/or more functional materials and/or by incorporation of one or more interlayers comprising, as main constituent, a reducing, oxidizing and/or redox system, primarily in the area of relatively high voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: POLYIC GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jasmin Worle, Andreas Ullmann, Henning Rost
  • Patent number: 7442954
    Abstract: The invention relates to an organic electronic component such as an organic field effect transistor and a method for producing said component, the semiconducting layer of the component being patterned, although the component can be produced by an inexpensive printing method. In order to achieve this, the lower functional layer is prepared by a treatment such that it has partial regions on which wetting takes place in the subsequent process step, and partial regions on which wetting is not effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Clemens, Walter Fix, Andreas Ullmann