Patents by Inventor Barry Scott Whitmore

Barry Scott Whitmore 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: 6412971
    Abstract: A light source includes a substrate; an array of un-packaged light emitting semiconductor devices (LESDs), each of the LESDs having at least one surface for emitting light and a substrate surface being attached to the substrate; and a plurality of electrical connections, each electrical connection coupled for providing electrical power to a respective LESD. The LESDs are arranged on the substrate with sufficient density and light generating capability to provide a predetermined irradiation from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert John Wojnarowski, Barry Scott Whitmore, William Paul Kornrumpf
  • Patent number: 6306680
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device package includes at least one power semiconductor device mounted onto at least one electrically and thermally conductive spacer having an upper end surface bonded to a back surface of the device; a substrate of hardened substrate molding material surrounding the semiconductor device and the spacer except for an active major surface of the device and an lower end surface of the spacer, a dielectric film overlying the device active major surface and a top side of the substrate, the dielectric layer having a plurality of holes aligned with predetermined ones of the contact pads; a top side patterned metal layer on the dielectric film including portions extending into the holes electrically and thermally connected to contact pads of the device; and a backside metal layer on a substrate bottom side electrically and thermally connected to the spacer lower end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Raymond Albert Fillion, Barry Scott Whitmore, Charles Steven Korman, Albert Andreas Maria Esser
  • Patent number: 6298551
    Abstract: An interface includes a surface having an electrically conductive pad; a compliant coating over the surface having a via extending to the pad; metallization patterned over the compliant coating and extending into the via; a low modulus dielectric interface layer overlying the compliant coating and having an interface via extending to the metallization; and a floating pad structure including floating pad metallization patterned over the dielectric interface layer with a first portion forming a central pad and a second portion forming an extension from the central pad extending into the interface via. Another interface includes a substrate including a low modulus dielectric interface material having a hole extending at least partially therethrough and a floating contact structure including electrically conductive material coating the hole with at least some of the floating pad metallization forming an extension from the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert John Wojnarowski, Barry Scott Whitmore, Bernard Gorowitz
  • Patent number: 6046410
    Abstract: An interface includes a surface having an electrically conductive pad; a compliant coating over the surface having a via extending to the pad; metallization patterned over the compliant coating and extending into the via; a low modulus dielectric interface layer overlying the compliant coating and having an interface via extending to the metallization; and a floating pad structure including floating pad metallization patterned over the dielectric interface layer with a first portion forming a central pad and a second portion forming an extension from the central pad extending into the interface via. Another interface includes a substrate including a low modulus dielectric interface material having a hole extending at least partially therethrough and a floating contact structure including electrically conductive material coating the hole with at least some of the floating pad metallization forming an extension from the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert John Wojnarowski, Barry Scott Whitmore, Bernard Gorowitz
  • Patent number: 5900674
    Abstract: An interface includes a surface having an electrically conductive pad; a compliant coating over the surface having a via extending to the pad; metallization patterned over the compliant coating and extending into the via; a low modulus dielectric interface layer overlying the compliant coating and having an interface via extending to the metallization; and a floating pad structure including floating pad metallization patterned over the dielectric interface layer with a first portion forming a central pad and a second portion forming an extension from the central pad extending into the interface via. Another interface includes a substrate including a low modulus dielectric interface material having a hole extending at least partially therethrough and a floating contact structure including electrically conductive material coating the hole with at least some of the floating pad metallization forming an extension from the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert John Wojnarowski, Barry Scott Whitmore