Patents by Inventor Andreas Ullmann

Andreas Ullmann 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: 8144495
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Walter Fix
  • Publication number: 20120057311
    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: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Merlin Welker, Walter Fix
  • Patent number: 8056815
    Abstract: An RFID transponder comprises an electronic assembly and an antenna assembly. The electronic assembly is a multi-layer film body having one or more electrically conducting functional layers and one or more electrically semiconducting functional layers. The antenna assembly has one or more electrically conducting functional layers, of which one is an antenna coil. In a first region and a second region of the body a respective one of the one or more electrically conducting functional layers forms respective first and second capacitor plates. In addition, in the first region and the second region of the body a respective one of the one or more electrically conducting functional layers of the antenna assembly is formed as a third and a fourth capacitor plate so that the electronic assembly and the antenna assembly are electrically coupled by capacitors formed respectively by the first and third and by the second and fourth capacitor plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Markus Böhm
  • Publication number: 20110253989
    Abstract: The invention concerns an organically electronic circuit (1, 2, 3), having a main substrate (80, 80a, 80b) and an organic electronic assembly (10, 11, 12) in the form of a multilayer film body with electrically conducting and semiconducting functional layers (101, 103, 105). In a first region (90) of the circuit (1, 2, 3) one of the electrically conducting functional layers (101, 105) of the electronic assembly (10, 11, 12), is shaped in the form of an electrode layer. Electrodes for organic field effect transistors or diodes are formed in that electrically conducting functional layer which is in the form of a first capacitor plate (201). In a second region (91) of the circuit (1, 2, 3) one of the electrically conducting functional layers (101, 105) of the organic electronic assembly (10, 11, 12), is in the form of an electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: POLYIC GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Klaus Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7940159
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security element in the form of a flexible, multilayer film body and to an identification system comprising a security element of this type. The security element has a receiving unit (61) for receiving an electromagnetic verification signal (7) containing a specific coding from a verification device, an output unit (66) for outputting an enable signal, and an electronic release system (63, 64, 65) having active and/or passive organic components. The electronic release system (63, 64, 65) checks whether or not a signal received by the receiving unit contains the specific coding, and drives the output unit (66) for outputting the enable signal if the signal received by the receiving unit (61) contains the specific coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignees: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG, Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Clemens, Walter Fix, Andreas Ullmann, Werner Reinhart, Beate Reinhart, legal representative
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 20100243742
    Abstract: An RFID transponder comprises an electronic assembly and an antenna assembly. The electronic assembly a multi-layer film body having one or more electrically conducting functional layers and one or more electrically semiconducting functional layers. The antenna assembly has one or more electrically conducting functional layers, of which one is an antenna coil. In a first region and a second region of the body a respective one of the one or more electrically conducting functional layers forms respective first and second capacitor plates. In addition, in the first region and the second region of the body a respective one of the one or more electrically conducting functional layers of the antenna assembly is formed as a third and a fourth capacitor plate so that the electronic assembly and the antenna assembly are electrically coupled by capacitors formed respectively by the first and third and by the second and fourth capacitor plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Markus Bohm
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20100033213
    Abstract: The invention relates to a field effect transistor comprising at least one source electrode layer and at least one drain electrode layer arranged in the same plane, a semiconductor layer, an insulator layer and a gate electrode layer, wherein the gate electrode layer, as seen perpendicular to the plane of the at least one source electrode layer and the at least one drain electrode layer, only partly covers a channel arranged between the at least one source electrode layer and the at least one drain electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Walter Fix
  • Publication number: 20090237248
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security element in the form of a flexible, multilayer film body and to an identification system comprising a security element of this type. The security element has a receiving unit (61) for receiving an electromagnetic verification signal (7) containing a specific coding from a verification device, an output unit (66) for outputting an enable signal, and an electronic release system (63, 64, 65) having active and/or passive organic components. The electronic release system (63, 64, 65) checks whether or not a signal received by the receiving unit contains the specific coding, and drives the output unit (66) for outputting the enable signal if the signal received by the receiving unit (61) contains the specific coding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Wolfgang Clemens, Walter Fix, Andreas Ullmann, Werner Reinhart
  • 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
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20090108253
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic component comprising a flexible substrate, on the surface of which is arranged a layer stack composed of thin layers, containing at least one electrical functional layer composed of an electrically conductive or semiconducting material, wherein the component comprises at least a first material, a layered second material and a layered third material and wherein, as seen perpendicular to the surface of the substrate the first material is followed by the second material and the second material is followed by the third material, wherein a first adhesion force of the second material to the first material is lower than a second adhesion force of the third material to the first material and the second material has at least one opening, via which the third material is connected to the first material in order to increase the adhesion of the second material to the first material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Alexander Knobloch, Merlin Welker, Walter Fix
  • 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