Patents by Inventor Eric Ochs
Eric Ochs 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).
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Publication number: 20200189132Abstract: Disclosed herein are multi-tool devices for golfing. In one aspect, an multi-tool device includes a plurality of tool elements contained within a housing, the tool elements comprising at least one cutting element and one divot tool element, a plurality of locking mechanisms, each locking mechanism in operable communication with a tool element and configured to retain the tool element within the housing in a locked state, an attachment element connected on an outer surface of the housing and a ball marker releasable secured to the housing. Also disclosed herein are methods for using the disclosed devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Justin W. Barnhart, Eric Ochs
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Patent number: 10614986Abstract: A guide member is for an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus includes a primary cover, a secondary cover structured to move between a closed position and an open position, a first printed circuit board, a second printed circuit board spaced from the first printed circuit board, and a cable member electrically connecting the first and second printed circuit boards. The guide member includes a body having a base coupled to the primary cover, a ramp engaging the cable member when the secondary cover is in the closed position, the ramp having first and second opposing end portions, the first end portion extending from the base, and a number of guide portions each extending from the ramp and engaging the cable member when the secondary cover moves between the closed position and the open position in order to minimize twisting and folding of the cable member.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventors: Jack Edward Devine, Brian Scott Caffro, Kelly J. McCarthy, Jason Eric Ochs, Mark A. Janusek
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Publication number: 20190164713Abstract: A guide member is for an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus includes a primary cover, a secondary cover structured to move between a closed position and an open position, a first printed circuit board, a second printed circuit board spaced from the first printed circuit board, and a cable member electrically connecting the first and second printed circuit boards. The guide member includes a body having a base coupled to the primary cover, a ramp engaging the cable member when the secondary cover is in the closed position, the ramp having first and second opposing end portions, the first end portion extending from the base, and a number of guide portions each extending from the ramp and engaging the cable member when the secondary cover moves between the closed position and the open position in order to minimize twisting and folding of the cable member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: EATON CORPORATIONInventors: JACK EDWARD DEVINE, BRIAN SCOTT CAFFRO, KELLY J. MCCARTHY, JASON ERIC OCHS, MARK A. JANUSEK
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Publication number: 20170113926Abstract: A flip-chip manufactured MEMS device. The device includes a substrate and a MEMS die. The substrate has a plurality of bumps, a plurality of connection points configured to electrically connect the MEMS device to another device, and a plurality of vias electrically connecting the bumps to the connections points. The MEMS die is attached to the substrate using flip-chip manufacturing techniques, but the MEMS die is not subjected to processing normally associated with creating bumps for flip-chip manufacturing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Eric Ochs, Jay S. Salmon, Ricardo Ehrenpfordt
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Publication number: 20160137490Abstract: A semiconductor device. The device including a substrate having electrical traces, at least one of a MEMS die and a semiconductor chip mounted on the substrate, and a spacer. The spacer has a first end connected to the substrate and includes electrical interconnects coupled to the electrical traces. The at least one MEMS die and a semiconductor chip are contained within the spacer. The spacer and substrate form a cavity which contains the at least one MEMS die and a semiconductor chip. The cavity forms an acoustic volume when the semiconductor device is mounted to a circuit board via a second end of the spacer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2016Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Eric Ochs, Jay S. Salmon
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Patent number: 9238579Abstract: A semiconductor device. The device including a substrate having electrical traces, at least one of a MEMS die and a semiconductor chip mounted on the substrate, and a spacer. The spacer has a first end connected to the substrate and includes electrical interconnects coupled to the electrical traces. The at least one MEMS die and a semiconductor chip are contained within the spacer. The spacer and substrate form a cavity which contains the at least one MEMS die and a semiconductor chip. The cavity forms an acoustic volume when the semiconductor device is mounted to a circuit board via a second end of the spacer.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eric Ochs, Jay S. Salmon
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Patent number: 9179555Abstract: An electrical device, particularly a control unit, having at least one joint having a first joining partner, especially a sleeve, and a second joining partner, especially a pin, the joint between the two joining partners having a junction; at least at the junction an at least partially solidified lubricant being present. Furthermore, in a method for lubricating a joint of an electrical device, the joint having a first joining partner, particularly a sleeve, and a second joining partner, particularly a pin; in a step one of the joining partners being wetted with a lubricant, in a following step the joining partner wetted with the lubricant being joined to the other joining partner and the lubricant subsequently solidifying.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Eric Ochs, Ronny Ludwig, Florian Grabmaier, Stephan Henzler, Rainer Straub, Christian Voehringer, Patrick Wellner
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Patent number: 9002038Abstract: A microphone package is described that includes a plastic lid, a substrate base, and two electrical components. The plastic lid includes a first conductive lid trace and the substrate base includes a first conductive substrate trace. The plastic lid is sealably coupled to the substrate base to form a sealed cavity. The substrate trace and the lid trace are arranged such that, when the cavity is sealed, an electrical connection is formed between the substrate trace and the lid trace. The first component is mounted on the substrate base and electrically coupled to the substrate trace. The second component is mounted on the lid and is electrically coupled to the lid trace. The electrical connection between the substrate trace and the lid trace provides electrical coupling between the first component and the second component. At least one of the first component and the second component includes a MEMS microphone die.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eric Ochs, Jay S. Salmon
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Patent number: 8810252Abstract: An integrated circuit includes an electronic circuit in a housing and a first contacting device for soldering the circuit to a corresponding second contacting device of a circuit board. The first and second contacting devices are each divided into a first section and a second section, the sections of one of the contacting devices being fixedly electrically connected to each other, and the sections of the other contacting device being selectively connectable to a device for resistance determination.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eric Ochs, Holger Hoefer, Lutz Rauscher, Eckart Schellkes, Florian Grabmaier
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Patent number: 8794074Abstract: A sensor module is provided having a sensor element, a housing and a substrate, the sensor element being situated on the substrate and the sensor element is provided to be at least partially embedded in the housing; and the sensor module further having a compensation element for compensating for thermal deformations of the housing; the housing being essentially situated between the substrate and the compensation element.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2009Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eric Ochs, Frieder Haag, Eckart Schellkes
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Patent number: 8705776Abstract: A System and method to provide a cost-effective implementation of a microphone package, very good microphone performance being achieved even with a high degree of miniaturization. A microphone package includes a MEMS microphone component having a microphone diaphragm, and a housing having a housing base and a housing cover, the housing enclosing the back-side volume of the microphone component, and an acoustic access channel to the microphone diaphragm being provided in the housing which is closed off with respect to the back-side volume and which connects at least one sound opening in the housing to one side of the microphone diaphragm. An interposer is mounted inside the housing which defines the acoustic access channel to the microphone diaphragm in that the interposer is coupled to the sound opening in the housing, and has at least one exit opening above which the microphone component together with the microphone diaphragm is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Knauss, Scott Naugle, Andy Doller, Eric Ochs
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Publication number: 20140072151Abstract: A microphone package is described that includes a plastic lid, a substrate base, and two electrical components. The plastic lid includes a first conductive lid trace and the substrate base includes a first conductive substrate trace. The plastic lid is sealably coupled to the substrate base to form a sealed cavity. The substrate trace and the lid trace are arranged such that, when the cavity is sealed, an electrical connection is formed between the substrate trace and the lid trace. The first component is mounted on the substrate base and electrically coupled to the substrate trace. The second component is mounted on the lid and is electrically coupled to the lid trace. The electrical connection between the substrate trace and the lid trace provides electrical coupling between the first component and the second component. At least one of the first component and the second component includes a MEMS microphone die.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eric Ochs, Jay S. Salmon
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Publication number: 20130256815Abstract: A semiconductor device. The device including a substrate having electrical traces, at least one of a MEMS die and a semiconductor chip mounted on the substrate, and a spacer. The spacer has a first end connected to the substrate and includes electrical interconnects coupled to the electrical traces. The at least one MEMS die and a semiconductor chip are contained within the spacer. The spacer and substrate form a cavity which contains the at least one MEMS die and a semiconductor chip. The cavity forms an acoustic volume when the semiconductor device is mounted to a circuit board via a second end of the spacer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Eric Ochs, Jay S. Salmon
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Publication number: 20130147040Abstract: A flip-chip manufactured MEMS device. The device includes a substrate and a MEMS die. The substrate has a plurality of bumps, a plurality of connection points configured to electrically connect the MEMS device to another device, and a plurality of vias electrically connecting the bumps to the connections points. The MEMS die is attached to the substrate using flip-chip manufacturing techniques, but the MEMS die is not subjected to processing normally associated with creating bumps for flip-chip manufacturing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eric Ochs, Jay S. Salmon, Ricardo Ehrenpfordt
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Publication number: 20120148083Abstract: A System and method to provide a cost-effective implementation of a microphone package, very good microphone performance being achieved even with a high degree of miniaturization. A microphone package includes a MEMS microphone component having a microphone diaphragm, and a housing having a housing base and a housing cover, the housing enclosing the back-side volume of the microphone component, and an acoustic access channel to the microphone diaphragm being provided in the housing which is closed off with respect to the back-side volume and which connects at least one sound opening in the housing to one side of the microphone diaphragm. An interposer is mounted inside the housing which defines the acoustic access channel to the microphone diaphragm in that the interposer is coupled to the sound opening in the housing, and has at least one exit opening above which the microphone component together with the microphone diaphragm is mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventors: Michael KNAUSS, Scott NAUGLE, Andy DOLLER, Eric OCHS
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Publication number: 20120025863Abstract: An integrated circuit includes an electronic circuit in a housing and a first contacting device for soldering the circuit to a corresponding second contacting device of a circuit board. The first and second contacting devices are each divided into a first section and a second section, the sections of one of the contacting devices being fixedly electrically connected to each other, and the sections of the other contacting device being selectively connectable to a device for resistance determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventors: Eric Ochs, Holger Hoefer, Lutz Rauscher, Eckart Schellkes, Florian Grabmaier
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Patent number: 7976892Abstract: In a method for producing a conductive coating on an insulating substrate, at least one surface of an electrically insulating substrate is equipped, in selected regions, with a coating of an electrically highly conductive first metal; the coated surface is cleaned; the coating made of the first metal on the substrate is seeded with seeds of a second metal; a layer of the second metal is deposited onto the layer thus seeded; the substrate thus coated is fired.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2003Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Walter Beck, Eric Ochs, Walter Roethlingshoefer, Bernhard Bachor, Dietmar Schaible, Albert-Andreas Hoebel, Klaus-Peter Dambock, Juergen Schwaiger, Detlef Nitsche
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Patent number: 7772688Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic circuit unit having at least one semiconductor (15), that is situated on a substrate, and whose electrical connections are in electrical contact with printed circuit traces of the substrate, and having a housing, that accommodates the substrate, which has contact paths which are connected to the printed circuit traces of the substrate using electrical connections. It is provided that the electrical connections (20) each have a contact surface (17) situated on the substrate (12) which, when the substrate (12) and the housing (2) are joined together, comes to lie in an opposing position to the counter-contact surfaces (19) of the contact paths (21). The present invention also relates to a corresponding manufacturing method.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eric Ochs, Christoph Ruf
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Publication number: 20100107769Abstract: A sensor module is provided having a sensor element, a housing and a substrate, the sensor element being situated on the substrate and the sensor element is provided to be at least partially embedded in the housing; and the sensor module further having a compensation element for compensating for thermal deformations of the housing; the housing being essentially situated between the substrate and the compensation element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventors: Eric OCHS, Frieder Haag, Eckart Schellkes
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Publication number: 20090142942Abstract: An electrical device, particularly a control unit, having at least one joint having a first joining partner, especially a sleeve, and a second joining partner, especially a pin, the joint between the two joining partners having a junction ; at least at the junction an at least partially solidified lubricant being present. Furthermore, in a method for lubricating a joint of an electrical device, the joint having a first joining partner, particularly a sleeve, and a second joining partner, particularly a pin; in a step one of the joining partners being wetted with a lubricant, in a following step the joining partner wetted with the lubricant being joined to the other joining partner and the lubricant subsequently solidifying.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2006Publication date: June 4, 2009Inventors: Eric Ochs, Ronny Ludwig, Florian Grabmaier, Stephan Henzler, Rainer Straub, Christian Voehringer, Patrick Wellner