Patents by Inventor Dieter Fuchs

Dieter Fuchs 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: 9105487
    Abstract: A super junction semiconductor device includes a substrate layer of a first conductivity type and an epitaxial layer adjoining the substrate layer and including first columns of the first conductivity type and second columns of a second conductivity type. The first and second columns extend along a main crystal direction into the epitaxial layer and have vertical dopant profiles perpendicular to the first surface. The vertical dopant profile of at least one of the first and second columns includes first portions separated by second portions. In each of the first portions a dopant concentration varies by at most 30% of a maximum value within the respective first portion. In the second portions the dopant concentration is lower than in the adjoining first portions. A ratio of a total length of the first portions to a total length of the first and second portions is at least 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Schulze, Johannes Laven, Dieter Fuchs, Werner Schustereder, Roman Knoefler
  • Publication number: 20140175851
    Abstract: A seat spring base is provided for a vehicle seat. The seat spring base encompasses a seat mat and coupling elements. The coupling elements are designed to be coupled with a seat frame of the vehicle seat. The coupling elements each form a receiving area for the seat frame, and each exhibit a functional section. The receiving area is arranged between the functional sections and the seat mat. The functional sections are spaced a distance A apart from each other, and the seat spring base exhibits a bridging device to bridge the distance. The bridging device is arranged on the functional sections of the at least two coupling elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Andrew LEUCHTMANN, Dieter FUCHS, Joerg WIEGELMANN
  • Publication number: 20140175593
    Abstract: A super junction semiconductor device includes a substrate layer of a first conductivity type and an epitaxial layer adjoining the substrate layer and including first columns of the first conductivity type and second columns of a second conductivity type. The first and second columns extend along a main crystal direction into the epitaxial layer and have vertical dopant profiles perpendicular to the first surface. The vertical dopant profile of at least one of the first and second columns includes first portions separated by second portions. In each of the first portions a dopant concentration varies by at most 30% of a maximum value within the respective first portion. In the second portions the dopant concentration is lower than in the adjoining first portions. A ratio of a total length of the first portions to a total length of the first and second portions is at least 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Schulze, Johannes Laven, Dieter Fuchs, Werner Schustereder, Roman Knoefler
  • Patent number: 8710620
    Abstract: A manufacturing method provides a semiconductor device with a substrate layer and an epitaxial layer adjoining the substrate layer. The epitaxial layer includes first columns and second columns of different conductivity types. The first and second columns extend along a main crystal direction along which channeling of implanted ions occurs from a first surface into the epitaxial layer. A vertical dopant profile of one of the first and second columns includes first portions separated by second portions. In the first portions a dopant concentration varies by at most 30%. In the second portions the dopant concentration is lower than in the first portions. The ratio of a total length of the first portions to the total length of the first and second portions is at least 50%. The uniform dopant profiles improve device characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Schulze, Johannes Laven, Dieter Fuchs, Werner Schustereder, Roman Knoefler
  • Publication number: 20140021590
    Abstract: A manufacturing method provides a semiconductor device with a substrate layer and an epitaxial layer adjoining the substrate layer. The epitaxial layer includes first columns and second columns of different conductivity types. The first and second columns extend along a main crystal direction along which channeling of implanted ions occurs from a first surface into the epitaxial layer. A vertical dopant profile of one of the first and second columns includes first portions separated by second portions. In the first portions a dopant concentration varies by at most 30%. In the second portions the dopant concentration is lower than in the first portions. The ratio of a total length of the first portions to the total length of the first and second portions is at least 50%. The uniform dopant profiles improve device characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Schulze, Johannes Laven, Dieter Fuchs, Werner Schustereder, Roman Knoefler
  • Publication number: 20070290009
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plastic closure for a glass vessel, comprising a ring-shaped top with an outside surface and an inside surface, optionally with a plastic base area, which is arranged perpendicularly the to the ring shape and which has at least one opening, optionally a scattering disc that can be inserted into the ring-shaped top; and a lid, characterised in that the ring-shaped top has a peripheral projection on its lower outside surface and a peripheral centring ridge is provided on said projection, resting on the upper outside surface, the optional scattering disc has a peripheral side wall and is subdivided into at least two compartments by at least one partitioning wall, which is the same height as the side wall, it being possible to provide openings in the floors of the compartments, which openings may optionally be of different sizes and/or of the same size and in different numbers, and wherein the lid has an inner planar insert which, when the lid is closed with the ring-shaped top,
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventor: Dieter Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20070289978
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container comprising a glass vessel and at least one plastic top on the glass vessel, characterised in that the glass vessel is substantially circular in cross-section and has a floor and a peripheral side wall, the upper circumferential edge of the peripheral side wall being formed as an annular bead extending outwards, and that a plurality of notches extending radially are provided on the upper circumferential edge, at least in the outer portion thereof, and that the plastic top is substantially ring-shaped with a side wall and an inner ring spaced apart from the upper and lower edges of the ring shape and having upper and lower sides, the side wall having a peripheral snap-in projection beneath the inner ring, projecting inwardly, which, when the glass vessel is connected with the plastic top, is snapped in behind the annular bead of the glass vessel, wherein rib-like lands project radially on the lower side of the inner ring in the area of the connection between the inne
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventor: Dieter Fuchs
  • Patent number: 6418475
    Abstract: A medical imaging system has a modality for acquiring images, components for processing the images, a communication linkage for the transmission of the images and memory arrangement for storing the images with a number of separate memory systems. The memory arrangement includes a control system which causes successive image datasets to be stored in separate memory systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Dieter Fuchs
  • Patent number: 6291005
    Abstract: A pumpable baking additive for improving the quality of backed goods with a viscosity of at least approximately 500 mPas−1 and a water activity (aw) of approximately ≦0.94 is physically and microbiologically stable for several weeks without cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Fuchs GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Dieter Fuchs, Baudouin Vicomte van Aefferden
  • Patent number: 5678697
    Abstract: A sorting installation for useful products is proposed, which serves in particular to sort out reusable packaging materials. In order to achieve the sorting-out of individual types of packaging with maximum efficiency, the sorting-out of individual monofractions is undertaken, on one or more manual sorting sections, onto a collector conveyor belt which is connected in parallel, the content of which, after sorting-out is complete, is introduced into an associated bunker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bezner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Fuchs, Wolfgang Stehle
  • Patent number: 5333738
    Abstract: A method is proposed for recovering valuable substances, particularly from construction site wastes and industrial trash as well as a system for implementing the method in which the essential sorters are disposed in a closed container which can be placed onto an elevated foundation. The foundation is formed by intersecting walls which simultaneously serve as partitions for various bunkers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bezner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Fuchs, Peter Strohhacker
  • Patent number: 5257965
    Abstract: A roller for the pressure treatment of webs, especially a roller such as a press or calender roller for the treatment of paper, cardboard and pulp webs in machines of the paper industry, which include a roller shell, roller flange and a roller shaft, one or more elastic, axial or coaxial clamps and elastic or yielding centering structures. The roller shell includes individual rings of sintered ceramic disposed side by side, the rings are clamped positively together by the one or more elastic, axial or coaxial clamps and the rings are aligned concentrically on the roller shaft by means of the elastic or yielding centering structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Cerasiv GmbH Innovatives Keramik-Engineering
    Inventors: Karl-Dieter Fuchs, Wolfram Friesen
  • Patent number: 5075235
    Abstract: A process is described for direct determination of complex corrosive environmental conditions, which comprises exposing a glass surface to the environment and examing the glass surface before and after exposure using a measurement method based on radiation, in particular a IR-spectroscopic method, in order to determine corrosion effects, in particular water absorption and ion exchange. Glass sensors suitable for use in this process are likewise described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Dieter Fuchs, Gelmut Patzelt, Gerhard Tunker
  • Patent number: 4884700
    Abstract: A sorting machine which serves for treatment of mixtures of refuse, especially household rubbish, trade waste, industrial waste, refuse from demolition, waste from building sites, and also waste from wood or the like. To achieve a drum-like motion, a mixture of useful material is supplied to a conveyor belt which is inclined transversely to the direction of transport, the conveyor belt having the shape of part of a cylindrical shell. For the production of a screen effect, the screen conveyor belt is provided with screen pockets on its surface, so that fine material falling into the screen pockets is transported in the longitudinal direction of the screen conveyor belt, and coarse material is transported in the transverse direction of the screen conveyor belt, and thereby they are separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bezner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gunter Allgauer, Peter Strohhacker, Dieter Fuchs
  • Patent number: 4789433
    Abstract: Skimming blades in papermaking machines have a dewatering surface 4 adjoining the supporting surface 3 supporting the wire 1. To sustain the desired microturbulence of the fiber suspension 2 on the wire 1, the dewatering surface 4 is provided with troughs 7. The troughs 7 have a wavy shape, in which the wave crests 5 have a smaller radius r than the wave valleys 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1988
    Assignee: Feldmuehle Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Karl-Dieter Fuchs
  • Patent number: 4763793
    Abstract: A sorting installation for separating a first type of articles from a second type of articles fed mixed to the sorting installation. The articles of the first type are relatively light and substantially two-dimensional, while the articles of the second type are relatively heavy and substantially three-dimensional. There is provided an article-supporting surface which receives the first and second type of articles in a generally mixed state and which has a length dimension and a width dimension perpendicular to the length dimension. The article-supporting surface is inclined to the horizontal in a direction parallel to the width dimension for causing primarily the second type of articles to move by gravity downwardly on the article-supporting surface transversely to the length dimension and laterally off the article-supporting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1988
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bezner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Stehle, Dieter Fuchs
  • Patent number: 4760925
    Abstract: A sorting installation for separating a first type of articles (relatively light and substantially two-dimensional) from a second type of articles (relatively heavy and substantially three-dimensional), includes a travelling conveyor belt having an article-supporting surface receiving the first and second type of articles in a generally mixed state. The article-supporting surface is arranged for travel in its length dimension and is inclined to the horizontal in its width dimension for causing primarily the second type of articles to move by gravity downwardly and laterally off the article-supporting surface. The article-supporting surface slopes upwardly as viewed in a direction of travel. There is further provided a vibrator connected to the belt conveyor for enhancing movement by gravity of the second type of articles on the article-supporting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bezner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Stehle, Dieter Fuchs
  • Patent number: 4742182
    Abstract: A flatpack package for hermetic encapsulation of piezoelectronic components, which flatpack is suitable for use in efficient and automated surface mounting (SMT). The flatpack package consists of a base plate, a cover plate and a mounting unit of two support frames between which are placed lamellar connecting leads leading into the package. The leads serve both for mechanical holding of the quartz resonator disk and as the electrical connection thereof. All the package parts are produced from glass, are connected to one another by using solder glass as a sealing material. The parts are dilathermally matched with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Schott Glaswerke
    Inventor: Dieter Fuchs
  • Patent number: 4645215
    Abstract: A radially-sealing ring has a sealing element of a non-elastomeric plastic, preferably of PTFE, planar, annular disk having plane-parallel surfaces held at its outer circumference in a stiffening ring and cold flexed in the axial direction to form a cuff at its inner circumference which engages the shaft with bias. The disk has a thickness of from 0.3 to 0.8 mm and an inside diameter approximately 1.5 to 7 times its thickness less than the diameter of the shaft. The distance between the shaft and the line about stiffening ring where the disk is held is 2 to 7 times as great as the thickness of the disk. The radially-sealing ring is preferably for sealing the crankshaft of a two-cycle engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Dieter Fuchs, Wolfgang Schmitt
  • Patent number: D561032
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: DF World of Spices GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Fuchs