Patents by Inventor Alois Kleewein

Alois Kleewein 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).

  • Patent number: 8058965
    Abstract: An electrical multi-layer component includes a body having a stack of ceramic layers, with a top and a bottom. First and second connection surfaces are on the bottom of the body. Electrode surfaces are in metallization layers among the ceramic layers. Via contacts are between metallization layers. At least one of the via contacts is connected electrically to an electrode surface or to a connection surface. An electrode surface connected to one of the connection surfaces, through a corresponding via contact, is a first electrode structure or a second electrode structure. At least one of the first or second electrode structures includes a via contact that has a blind end. A shortest distance between the first and second electrode structures is a vertical distance from the blind end to: (i) a metallization layer above or below the blind end, or (ii) a blind end of another electrode structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Christian Block, Holger Flühr, Alois Kleewein, Günter Pudmich, Heinz Ragossnig
  • Publication number: 20110037559
    Abstract: An electrical multi-layer component includes a body having a stack of ceramic layers, with a top and a bottom. First and second connection surfaces are on the bottom of the body. Electrode surfaces are in metallization layers among the ceramic layers. Via contacts are between metallization layers. At least one of the via contacts is connected electrically to an electrode surface or to a connection surface. An electrode surface connected to one of the connection surfaces, through a corresponding via contact, is a first electrode structure or a second electrode structure. At least one of the first or second electrode structures includes a via contact that has a blind end. A shortest distance between the first and second electrode structures is a vertical distance from the blind end to: (i) a metallization layer above or below the blind end, or (ii) a blind end of another electrode structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Christian Block, Holger Flühr, Alois Kleewein, Günter Pudmich, Heinz Ragossnig
  • Patent number: 7710233
    Abstract: An electrical component having multiple layers includes dielectric layers that are stacked to form a main body, electrodes positioned at intervals between at least some of the dielectric layers, and at least two bumps configured to act as electrical contacts for the electrical component. The bumps are on a surface of the main body. The electrical component also includes contacts in the main body that electrically connect bumps and electrodes. The electrodes define first and second electrode stacks, each of which contacts one of the bumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Epcos AG
    Inventors: Thomas Feichtinger, Gunther Pudmich, Sebastian Brunner, Alois Kleewein, Robert Krumphals