Patents by Inventor Andreas Plettner

Andreas Plettner 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: 7402460
    Abstract: Method of producing electrical units consisting of chips with contact elements, wherein the contact elements are suited for the direct connection with contact terminals of external electric components in an electrically conductive manner, wherein the connection of the contact elements with the chips is effected before the individual chips are removed from the grouping predefined by the wafer and consisting of rows and columns, and the contact elements are made of a metallized plastic foil or metallic foil to be applied onto the chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Inventor: Andreas Plettner
  • Publication number: 20070143006
    Abstract: System for the vehicle-assisted storing and removal of goods in a warehouse with automatic position determination of at least the stored goods, comprising a plurality of transponder devices that are placed in the floor of the warehouse in a distributed manner. Each transponder device stores information that represents, at least indirectly, the position of the corresponding transponder devices inside the warehouse. The inventive system also comprises a vehicle for transporting goods to be stored and removed, a reading device, which is mounted on the vehicle while automatically reading out information from transponders driven over by the vehicle, and a computer device, which receives the information read out from the transponders by the reading device, and which from this information, determines and stores at least the position at which the goods are stored inside the warehouse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: INDYON GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Plettner
  • Patent number: 7053854
    Abstract: A unit for shielding a transponder includes at least a chip and an antenna structure with application-specific spatial dimensions and which is secured to an electrically conductive surface. The unit includes a film having formed thereon or therein a highly permeable material at least in an area having the spatial dimensions of the antenna structure of the transponder. The highly permeable material is subdivided into elongate shielding elements and free spaces arranged between the respective shielding elements such that when the substrate has been attached to the transponder, the shielding elements will be oriented parallel to a magnetic field induced in the antenna structure of the transponder, so as to suppress eddy currents which are generated by the electrically conductive surface in the antenna structure, when the transponder is being introduced in a magnetic field of a respective reading device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Flexchip AG
    Inventors: Andreas Plettner, Arno Stein
  • Patent number: 6940455
    Abstract: A transponder comprising a chip having contact pads and at least two coupling elements, which are conductively connected with the contact pads, wherein the coupling elements are touch-free relative to each other and formed in a self-supported as well as free-standing way and are essentially extended parallel to the chip plane, the total mounting height of the transponder corresponds essentially to the mounting height of the chip, and the coupling elements are in geometry and size adapted for acting as a dipole antenna or in conjunction with an evaluation unit as a plate capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Inventor: Andreas Plettner
  • Publication number: 20050104796
    Abstract: A unit for shielding a transponder includes at least a chip and an antenna structure with application-specific spatial dimensions and which is secured to an electrically conductive surface. The unit includes a film having formed thereon or therein a highly permeable material at least in an area having the spatial dimensions of the antenna structure of the transponder. The highly permeable material is subdivided into elongate shielding elements and free spaces arranged between the respective shielding elements such that when the substrate has been attached to the transponder, the shielding elements will be oriented parallel to a magnetic field induced in the antenna structure of the transponder, so as to suppress eddy currents which are generated by the electrically conductive surface in the antenna structure, when the transponder is being introduced in a magnetic field of a respective reading device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: Flexchip AG
    Inventors: Andreas Plettner, Arno Stein
  • Publication number: 20030140487
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing a carrier tape with a plurality of electrical units, whereby the carrier tape is intended for the manufacture of transponders and the method comprises the following steps: provision of a plurality of prefabricated chips with at least one connection surface; provision of a carrier tape for accommodating the chips; feeding of the carrier tape to a chip placement device, placing of at least one chip on the carrier tape, provision of a metallized plastic foil or metallic foil for forming at least one contact element; feeding of the metallized plastic foil or metallic foil to the carrier tape, joining of the metallized plastic foil or metallic foil to at least one connection surface of at least one chip for producing an electrical unit from the chip and contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventor: Andreas Plettner
  • Patent number: 6514790
    Abstract: In a method for handling in parallel a plurality of circuit chips, which are arranged in a first arrangement, which corresponds to their arrangement in the original wafer, on the surface of an auxiliary carrier, the plurality of circuit chips is picked up by a plurality of pick up devices. The plurality of pick up devices with the picked up circuit chips is moved simultaneously to one or several carriers, in such a way that, simultaneously with the motion, the first arrangement of the circuit chips is changed into a second arrangement, which is different from the first arrangement. Then the circuit chips are simultaneously placed in the second arrangement on the one or several carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Andreas Plettner, Karl Haberger, Christof Landesberger
  • Patent number: 6417075
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing very thin substrate layers, particularly thin semiconductor areas, which may comprise integrated circuits. In the method two substrates (1, 2) are bonded by their faces via one or several intermediate connecting layers (3, 4). At least one of the bonding layers or the face of one of the substrates is structured before in such a way that channel-shaped recesses (5) are formed which permit a lateral penetration of an etching agent. The resulting wafer stack is thinned from one side down to the desired thickness of the layer. Finally, this thin layer is detached from the remaining substrate by introduction of the etching agent into the channel-shaped recesses. This detaching process is a low-price wet chemical process that does not expose the chip and the added value integrated thereon to any risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Karl Haberger, Andreas Plettner
  • Publication number: 20010053675
    Abstract: A transponder comprising a chip having contact pads and at least two coupling elements, which are conductively connected with the contact pads, wherein the coupling elements are touch-free relative to each other and formed in a self-supported as well as free-standing way and are essentially extended parallel to the chip plane, the total mounting height of the transponder corresponds essentially to the mounting height of the chip, and the coupling elements are in geometry and size adapted for acting as a dipole antenna or in conjunction with an evaluation unit as a plate capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventor: Andreas Plettner
  • Patent number: 6185513
    Abstract: A data recorder has at least one sensor unit to compile at least one measurement value to be recorded during a monitoring interval, a control unit to control the compiling and recording of measurement data, a clock unit to provide a reference time on the basis of which the actual measurement times can be defined, a memory unit to store the measurement values compiled and the corresponding reference time provided for each measurement value, a battery unit for power supply, a fixation unit to fix the data recorder to an item to be monitored, and an interruption unit which interrupts the recording and/or compiling of measurement data upon any manipulation of the fixation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Plettner, Karl Haberger
  • Patent number: 5985739
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing a semiconductor structure with a highly conductive buried layer with the following steps: an insulating layer is applied to a first surface of a first semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer is applied on a surface of a layer of highly conductive material which is physically separate from the first semiconductor substrate and then the insulation layers are bonded together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Andreas Plettner, Karl Haberger