Patents Examined by Alexander O. Williams
  • Patent number: 10249707
    Abstract: A laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor, comprising a substrate (110), a source electrode (150), a drain electrode (140), a body region (160), and a well region on the substrate, the well region comprising: an insertion-type well (122) having P-type doping, being arranged below the drain electrode and being connected to the drain electrode; N wells (124), arranged on two sides of the insertion-type well; and P wells (126), arranged next to the N wells and being connected to the N wells; the source electrode and the body region are arranged in the P well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: CSMC TECHNOLOGIES FAB2 CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shukun Qi
  • Patent number: 10233075
    Abstract: A method for forming a filter net on an MEMS sensor and an MEMS sensor are disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: disposing a dissociable adhesive tape on a base material, and forming a filter net on an adhesive surface of the dissociable adhesive tape; transferring the filter net on a film to form a self-adhesive coiled material; and transferring and adhering the filter net on the self-adhesive coiled material to collecting a hole of the MEMS sensor. The filter net formed by the method have fine and uniform meshes, and a yield is high. In addition, the method is suitable for large-scale and industrialized production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Goertek Inc.
    Inventors: Junkai Zhan, Zonglin Zhou, Guanxun Qiu, Mengjin Cai
  • Patent number: 10026702
    Abstract: A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a first interconnection member having a through-hole; a semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole and having an active surface having connection pads disposed thereon and an inactive surface opposing the active surface; an encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the first interconnection member and the inactive surface of the semiconductor chip; a second interconnection member disposed on the first interconnection member and the active surface of the semiconductor chip; and a passivation layer disposed on the second interconnection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Doo Hwan Lee, Jong Rip Kim, Hyoung Joon Kim, Jin Yul Kim, Kyung Seob Oh
  • Patent number: 9960128
    Abstract: A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a first interconnection member having a through-hole; a semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole and having an active surface having connection pads disposed thereon and an inactive surface opposing the active surface; an encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the first interconnection member and the inactive surface of the semiconductor chip; a second interconnection member disposed on the first interconnection member and the active surface of the semiconductor chip; and a passivation layer disposed on the second interconnection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Doo Hwan Lee, Jong Rip Kim, Hyoung Joon Kim, Jin Yul Kim, Kyung Seob Oh
  • Patent number: 9935071
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor device having an upper surface and a side, wherein the upper surface and the side form a corner of the semiconductor device. The semiconductor package also includes a lateral bump structure disposed on the side and implementing a lateral signal path of the semiconductor device. The semiconductor package further includes a vertical bump structure disposed over the upper surface and implementing a vertical signal path of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Po-Chun Lin, Chin-Lung Chu
  • Patent number: 8736048
    Abstract: A multi-chip module (MCM) structure comprises more than one semiconductor chip lying in a horizontal plane, the MCM having individual chip contact patches on the chips and a flexible heat sink having lateral compliance and extending in a plane in the MCM and secured in a heat exchange relation to the chips through the contact patches. The MCM has a mismatch between the coefficient of thermal expansion of the heat sink and the MCM and also has chip tilt and chip height mismatches. The flexible heat sink with lateral compliance minimizes or eliminates shear stress and shear strain developed in the horizontal direction at the interface between the heat sink and the chip contact patches by allowing for horizontal expansion and contraction of the heat sink relative to the MCM without moving the individual chip contact patches in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Mark D. Schultz
  • Patent number: 8653668
    Abstract: A bonding structure and a copper bonding wire for semiconductor device include a ball-bonded portion formed by bonding to the aluminum electrode a ball formed on a front end of the copper bonding wire. After being heated at any temperature between 130° C. and 200° C., the ball-bonded portion exhibits a relative compound ratio R1 of 40-100%, the relative compound ratio R1 being a ratio of a thickness of a Cu—Al intermetallic compound to thicknesses of intermetallic compounds that are composed of Cu and Al and formed on a cross-sectional surface of the ball-bonded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignees: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Materials Co., Ltd., Nippon Micrometal Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Uno, Takashi Yamada, Atsuo Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8519537
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor package using an interposer is provided. In an embodiment, an interposer is provided having a first die electrically coupled to a first side of the interposer and a second die electrically coupled to a second side of the interposer. The interposer is electrically coupled to an underlying substrate, such as a packaging substrate, a high-density interconnect, a printed circuit board, or the like. The substrate has a cavity such that the second die is positioned within the cavity. The use of a cavity may allow smaller conductive bumps to be used, thereby allowing a higher number of conductive bumps to be used. A heat sink may be placed within the cavity to aid in the dissipation of the heat from the second die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-Puu Jeng, Kim Hong Chen, Shang-Yun Hou, Chao-Wen Shih, Cheng-Chieh Hsieh, Chen-Hua Yu
  • Patent number: 8497573
    Abstract: In one implementation, a high power semiconductor package is configured as a buck converter including a control transistor, a sync transistor, a driver integrated circuit (IC) for driving the control and sync transistors, and a conductive clip extending from a sync drain on a top surface of the sync transistor to a control source on a top surface of the control transistor. The conductive clip may also connect to substrate pads such as a leadframe pad for current input and output. In this manner, the conductive clip provides an efficient connection between the control source and the sync drain by direct mechanical connection and large surface area conduction, thereby enabling a package with significantly reduced electrical resistance, form factor, complexity, and cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: International Rectifier Corporation
    Inventors: Eung San Cho, Chuan Cheah
  • Patent number: 8450847
    Abstract: A method for producing an optoelectronic device includes providing a carrier, applying at least one first metal layer on the carrier, providing at least one optical component, applying at least one second metal layer on the at least one optical component, and mechanically connecting the carrier to the at least one optical component by the at least one first and the at least one second metal layer, wherein the connecting includes friction welding or is friction welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Ninz, Herbert Brunner
  • Patent number: 8300838
    Abstract: A method of modeling a room impulse response according to an embodiment of the invention includes receiving a sound pressure signal that is obtained by a microphone when an impulse-type sound source is excited and detecting a room impulse response; determining boundaries between a plurality of intervals of the room impulse response such that the room impulse response is divided into the plurality of intervals on a time domain; and modeling the room impulse response for each of the plurality of divided intervals using at least two different modeling schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Semyung Wang, Mincheol Shin
  • Patent number: 8227916
    Abstract: A semiconductor package structure is provided. The structure includes a semiconductor chip having a plurality of interconnect layers formed thereover. A first passivation layer is formed over the plurality of interconnect layers. A stress buffer layer is formed over the first passivation layer. A bonding pad is formed over the stress buffer layer. A second passivation layer is formed over a portion of the bonding pad, the second passivation having at least one opening therein exposing a portion of the bonding pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Inventors: Hsiu-Ping Wei, Shin-Puu Jeng, Hao-Yi Tsai, Hsien-Wei Chen, Yu-Wen Liu, Ying-Ju Chen, Tzuan-Horng Liu
  • Patent number: 8217453
    Abstract: A three terminal bi-directional laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor which includes two uni-directional LDMOS transistors in series sharing a common drain node, and configured such that source nodes of the uni-directional LDMOS transistors serve as source and drain terminals of the bi-directional LDMOS transistor. The source is shorted to the backgate of each LDMOS transistor. The gate node of each LDMOS transistor is clamped to its respective source node to prevent source-gate breakdown, and the gate terminal of the bi-directional LDMOS transistor is connected to the gate nodes of the constituent uni-directional LDMOS transistors through blocking diodes. The common drain is a deep n-well which isolates the two p-type backgate regions. The gate node clamp can be a pair of back-to-back zener diodes, or a pair of self biased MOS transistors connected source-to-source in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Sameer P. Pendharkar
  • Patent number: 8208647
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention can relate to methods and devices for determining a room acoustic impulse response in a time domain. In one embodiment, an acoustic input signal from an acoustic signal source is emitted into an acoustic room, an acoustic output signal is detected by an acoustic measuring device in the room and fed from the acoustic measuring device to an evaluating device and, via the evaluating device, from a reference signal corresponding to the acoustic input signal, and the acoustic output signal, if necessary after prior processing of the acoustic output signal, a room acoustic impulse response in the time domain of the acoustic room is calculated in realtime and prepared for output in that, temporally in parallel and continuously, the acoustic input signal is emitted, the acoustic output signal is detected and, via the evaluating device, the room acoustic impulse response in the time domain is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: SDA Software Design Ahnert GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ahnert, Stefan Feistel, Alexandru Radu Miron
  • Patent number: 8193627
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, an IC chip mounting package is arranged such that an IC chip and a film base member are connected via an interposer, and a section in which the IC chip, the film base member, and the interposer are connected is sealed with sealing resin. The sealing resin is provided by potting sealing resin around the interposer via a potting nozzle, or is provided by potting the sealing resin around the IC chip, that is, via a device hole. Moreover, the sealing resin has a coefficient of linear expansion of not more than 80 ppm/° C., a viscosity of not less than 0.05 Pa·s but not more than 0.25 Pa·s, and also includes filler having a particle size of not more than 1 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Kudose, Tomokatsu Nakagawa, Tatsuya Katoh
  • Patent number: 8183696
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip, an encapsulant embedding the semiconductor chip, first contact pads on a first main face of the semiconductor package and second contact pads on a second main face of the semiconductor package opposite to the first main face. The diameter d in micrometers of an exposed contact pad area of the second contact pads satisfies d?(8/25)x+142 ?m, wherein x is the pitch of the second contact pads in micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Meyer, Rainer Leuschner, Gerald Ofner, Reinhard Hess, Recai Sezi
  • Patent number: 8138588
    Abstract: A package frame for use in packaging microelectromechanical devices and/or spatial light modulators comprises a frame, a stiffener, and a heat dissipater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Bradley Morgan Haskett
  • Patent number: 8093699
    Abstract: A circuit device in which highly reliable sealing with a resin can be achieved is provided. A semiconductor chip is provided on one surface of an insulating resin film and a conductive layer that is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip is provided on another surface of the insulating resin film. A solder ball (electrode) for the connection to a circuit board is provided on the conductive layer. An insulating resin layer is further provided between the conductive layer and the circuit board to embed the electrode therein. In this manner, the circuit device is formed. A side face of the semiconductor chip is covered with the insulating resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kohara, Ryosuke Usui, Hideki Mizuhara, Yasunori Inoue
  • Patent number: RE42972
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor pellet mounted on a pellet mounting area of the main surface of a base substrate, in which first electrode pads arranged on the back of the base substrate are electrically connected to bonding pads arranged on the main surface of the semiconductor pellet. The base substrate is formed of a rigid substrate, and its first electrode pads are electrically connected to the second electrode pads arranged on its reverse side. The semiconductor pellet is mounted on the pellet mounting area of the main surface of the base substrate, with its main surface downward, and its bonding pads are connected electrically with the second electrode pads of the base substrate through bonding wires passing through slits formed in the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Kunihiko Nishi
  • Patent number: RE43444
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor pellet mounted on a pellet mounting area of the main surface of a base substrate, in which first electrode pads arranged on the back of the base substrate are electrically connected to bonding pads arranged on the main surface of the semiconductor pellet. The base substrate is formed of a rigid substrate, and its first electrode pads are electrically connected to the second electrode pads arranged on its reverse side. The semiconductor pellet is mounted on the pellet mounting area of the main surface of the base substrate, with its main surface downward, and its bonding pads are connected electrically with the second electrode pads of the base substrate through bonding wires passing through slits formed in the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Kunihiko Nishi