Patents by Inventor Abidin Guclu Onaran
Abidin Guclu Onaran 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).
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Patent number: 12063469Abstract: A MicroElectroMechanical (MEMS) device includes a suspended electrode structure anchored to a substrate, the MEMS device having a MEMS resonance mode, and a Tuned Mass Damping (TMD) structure, wherein a portion of the suspended electrode structure forms a TMD structure having a TMD spring element and a TMD mass element, for providing a TMD resonance mode counteracting the MEMS resonance mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AGInventors: Abidin Güçlü Onaran, Marc Fueldner, Dietmar Straeussnigg
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Patent number: 12030021Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a micromechanical device and a method for manufacturing the same. The micromechanical device may comprise a membrane structure suspended on a substrate. The membrane structure may comprise a perforated gas permeable membrane comprising a plurality of perforations, and a reinforcement structure being coupled with the perforated membrane for stiffening the perforated membrane and/or for increasing the mechanical stability of the perforated membrane in order to attenuate an oscillation of the perforated membrane.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Abidin Güçlü Onaran, David Tumpold
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Publication number: 20230339743Abstract: A MEMS device includes a first deflectable membrane structure, a rigid electrode structure and a second deflectable membrane structure in a vertically spaced configuration. The rigid electrode structure is arranged between the first and second deflectable membrane structures. The first and second deflectable membrane structures each includes a deflectable portion, and the deflectable portions of the first and second deflectable membrane structures are mechanically coupled by mechanical connection elements to each other and are mechanically decoupled from the rigid electrode structure. At least a subset of the mechanical connection elements are elongated mechanical connection elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Hans-Jörg Timme, Stefan Barzen, Marc Füldner, Stefan Geißler, Matthias Friedrich Herrmann, Maria Kiriak, Abidin Güçlü Onaran, Konstantin Tkachuk, Arnaud Walther
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Patent number: 11656210Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor device including a gas sensor disposed on a first substrate, a heating element disposed within the first substrate so that the gas sensor overlaps the heating element, a processor operatively coupled to the gas sensor and the heating element, and a memory storing a program to be executed by the processor. The gas sensor is configured to measure first sensor data points and second sensor data points. The program includes instructions for performing the following steps in real-time: recording first resistance values and second resistance values of the heating element; adjusting the second sensor data points using the first sensor data points, the first resistance values, and the second resistance values to obtain corrected sensor data points; and determining sensed values from the corrected sensor data points.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AGInventors: Prashanth Makaram, Abidin Güçlü Onaran
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Publication number: 20220279270Abstract: A MicroElectroMechanical (MEMS) device includes a suspended electrode structure anchored to a substrate, the MEMS device having a MEMS resonance mode, and a Tuned Mass Damping (TMD) structure, wherein a portion of the suspended electrode structure forms a TMD structure having a TMD spring element and a TMD mass element, for providing a TMD resonance mode counteracting the MEMS resonance mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Abidin Güçlü Onaran, Marc Fueldner, Dietmar Straeussnigg
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Publication number: 20220170898Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor device including a gas sensor disposed on a first substrate, a heating element disposed within the first substrate so that the gas sensor overlaps the heating element, a processor operatively coupled to the gas sensor and the heating element, and a memory storing a program to be executed by the processor. The gas sensor is configured to measure first sensor data points and second sensor data points. The program includes instructions for performing the following steps in real-time: recording first resistance values and second resistance values of the heating element; adjusting the second sensor data points using the first sensor data points, the first resistance values, and the second resistance values to obtain corrected sensor data points; and determining sensed values from the corrected sensor data points.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Prashanth Makaram, Abidin Güçlü Onaran
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Patent number: 11287405Abstract: A sensor device includes a gas sensor disposed on a first substrate, a heating element disposed within the first substrate, a processor operatively coupled to the gas sensor and the heating element, and a memory storing a program to be executed by the processor. The gas sensor is configured to measure first sensor data points and second sensor data points. The gas sensor overlaps the heating element. The program includes instructions for performing the following steps in real-time: recording first resistance values and second resistance values of the heating element; adjusting the second sensor data points using the first sensor data points, the first resistance values, and the second resistance values to obtain corrected sensor data points; and determining sensed values from the corrected sensor data points.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AGInventors: Prashanth Makaram, Abidin Güçlü Onaran
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Publication number: 20210220778Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a micromechanical device and a method for manufacturing the same. The micromechanical device may comprise a membrane structure suspended on a substrate. The membrane structure may comprise a perforated gas permeable membrane comprising a plurality of perforations, and a reinforcement structure being coupled with the perforated membrane for stiffening the perforated membrane and/or for increasing the mechanical stability of the perforated membrane in order to attenuate an oscillation of the perforated membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Abidin Güçlü Onaran, David Tumpold
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Publication number: 20200319153Abstract: A sensor device includes a gas sensor disposed on a first substrate, a heating element disposed within the first substrate, a processor operatively coupled to the gas sensor and the heating element, and a memory storing a program to be executed by the processor. The gas sensor is configured to measure first sensor data points and second sensor data points. The gas sensor overlaps the heating element. The program includes instructions for performing the following steps in real-time: recording first resistance values and second resistance values of the heating element; adjusting the second sensor data points using the first sensor data points, the first resistance values, and the second resistance values to obtain corrected sensor data points; and determining sensed values from the corrected sensor data points.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Prashanth Makaram, Abidin Güçlü Onaran
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Patent number: 10677768Abstract: A method of sensing includes obtaining first sensor data points by a sensor, obtaining first reference data points, and determining a correlation between the first sensor data points and the first reference data points. The method of sensing further includes measuring second sensor data points by the sensor, obtaining second reference data points, and adjusting the second sensor data points using the correlation and the second reference data points to obtain corrected sensor data points. The method of sensing also includes determining sensed values from the corrected sensor data points and storing the sensed values.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AGInventors: Prashanth Makaram, Abidin Guclu Onaran
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Patent number: 10641626Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a MEMS sensor includes a membrane that is suspended from the substrate, a resonant frequency of said membrane being influenced by an ambient pressure that acts on the membrane; and an evaluation device configured to perform a first measurement based on the resonant frequency of the membrane to obtain a measurement result, where the evaluation device is configured to at least partly compensate an influence of the ambient pressure on the measurement result.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AGInventors: Christian Bretthauer, Alfons Dehe, Prashanth Makaram, Abidin Güçlü Onaran, Arnaud Walther
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Patent number: 10433070Abstract: A MEMS device includes a membrane and a counter electrode structure spaced apart from the membrane. The counter electrode structure includes a non-planar conductive layer. The MEMS device includes an air gap between the membrane and the counter electrode structure. The air gap has a non-uniform thickness.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Alfons Dehe, Abidin Güçlü Onaran
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Publication number: 20190273993Abstract: A MEMS device includes a membrane and a counter electrode structure spaced apart from the membrane. The counter electrode structure includes a non-planar conductive layer. The MEMS device includes an air gap between the membrane and the counter electrode structure. The air gap has a non-uniform thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2018Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Alfons Dehe, Abidin Güçlü Onaran
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Publication number: 20190063968Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a MEMS sensor includes a membrane that is suspended from the substrate, a resonant frequency of said membrane being influenced by an ambient pressure that acts on the membrane; and an evaluation device configured to perform a first measurement based on the resonant frequency of the membrane to obtain a measurement result, where the evaluation device is configured to at least partly compensate an influence of the ambient pressure on the measurement resultType: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Christian Bretthauer, Alfons Dehe, Prashanth Makaram, Abidin Güçlü Onaran, Arnaud Walther
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Publication number: 20190033274Abstract: A method of sensing includes obtaining first sensor data points by a sensor, obtaining first reference data points, and determining a correlation between the first sensor data points and the first reference data points. The method of sensing further includes measuring second sensor data points by the sensor, obtaining second reference data points, and adjusting the second sensor data points using the correlation and the second reference data points to obtain corrected sensor data points. The method of sensing also includes determining sensed values from the corrected sensor data points and storing the sensed values.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Prashanth Makaram, Abidin Guclu Onaran
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Patent number: 9832573Abstract: In some embodiments, a microphone system may include a deformable element that may be made of a material that is subject to deformation in response to external phenomenon. Sensing ports may be in contact with a respective region of the deformable element and may be configured to sense a deformation of a region of the deformable element and generate a signal in response thereto. The plurality of signals may be useable to determine spatial dependencies of the external phenomenon. The external phenomenon may be pressure and the signals may be useable to determine spatial dependencies of the pressure.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Silicon Audio Directional, LLCInventors: Neal A. Hall, Caesar T. Garcia, Bradley D. Avenson, Abidin Guclu Onaran
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Patent number: 9702992Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus is disclosed comprising: a housing; a proof mass movable within the housing; an optical element mounted on one of the housing and the proof mass; a reflective element on the other one of the housing and the proof mass; a light source configured to illuminate grating and minor; and one or more detectors configured to detect light incident from the reflective element and the diffractive element and generate a signal indicative of the relative displacement of proof mass and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: SILICON AUDIO SEISMIC, LLCInventors: Bradley Dean Avenson, Matthew Raymon Christensen, Caesar Theodore Garcia, Neal Allen Hall, Abidin Guclu Onaran, James Coe Schlicher, Ahmad Zaatari
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Publication number: 20160295333Abstract: In some embodiments, a microphone system may include a deformable element that may be made of a material that is subject to deformation in response to external phenomenon. Sensing ports may be in contact with a respective region of the deformable element and may be configured to sense a deformation of a region of the deformable element and generate a signal in response thereto. The plurality of signals may be useable to determine spatial dependencies of the external phenomenon. The external phenomenon may be pressure and the signals may be useable to determine spatial dependencies of the pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Neal A. Hall, Caesar T. Garcia, Bradley D. Avenson, Abidin Guclu Onaran
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Publication number: 20150293243Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus is disclosed comprising: a housing; a proof mass movable within the housing; an optical element mounted on one of the housing and the proof mass; a reflective element on the other one of the housing and the proof mass; a light source configured to illuminate grating and minor; and one or more detectors configured to detect light incident from the reflective element and the diffractive element and generate a signal indicative of the relative displacement of proof mass and the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Bradley Dean Avenson, Matthew Raymon Christensen, Caesar Theodore Garcia, Neal Allen Hall, Abidin Guclu Onaran, James Coe Schlicher, Ahmad Zaatari
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Publication number: 20150042359Abstract: An apparatus includes a coil suspended in a magnetic field, and an optical detector to detect displacement of the coil in response to a stimulus. The apparatus further includes a feedback circuit coupled to the optical detector and to the coil. A coil constant of the apparatus may be configured to a desired value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Abidin Guclu Onaran, Charles D. Thompson