Patents by Inventor Gernot Feiel

Gernot Feiel 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: 9490417
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrical contact is disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes providing a piezoelectric component that includes an electromechanical transducer having two first electrodes and a second electrode arranged between the two first electrodes and spaced from the two first electrodes by a piezoelectric material, the transducer further including a first main side, a second main side opposite from the first main side and a first longitudinal side, and forming a contiguous metallization layer onto a first partial region of the first main side and onto a second partial region along the first longitudinal side, so that the second partial region along the first longitudinal side is at a distance from a side edge facing the second main side and the metallization layer in the second partial region of the first longitudinal side contacts the two first electrodes in an electrically conducting manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Gernot Feiel, Axel Pecina, Rainer Hoermann, Thomas Goebel
  • Publication number: 20130255049
    Abstract: A piezoelectric component includes an electromechanical transducer with two first electrodes and a second electrode. The second electrode is arranged between the two first electrodes. The transducer also includes a first main side, a second main side, opposite from the first main side, and a first longitudinal side. A first contiguous metallization layer is arranged on a first partial region of the first main side and on a partial region of the first longitudinal side adjacent to the first partial region of the first main side. Here, the partial region of the first longitudinal side is kept at a sufficient distance from a side edge facing the second main side and the partial region electrically contacts the at least two first electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Gernot Feiel, Axel Pecina, Rainer Hoermann, Thomas Goebel
  • Patent number: 8471437
    Abstract: A piezoelectric component includes an electromechanical transducer with two first electrodes and a second electrode. The second electrode is arranged between the two first electrodes. The transducer also includes a first main side, a second main side, opposite from the first main side, and a first longitudinal side. A first contiguous metallization layer is arranged on a first partial region of the first main side and on a partial region of the first longitudinal side adjacent to the first partial region of the first main side. Here, the partial region of the first longitudinal side is kept at a sufficient distance from a side edge facing the second main side and the partial region electrically contacts the at least two first electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Gernot Feiel, Axel Pecina, Rainer Hoermann, Thomas Goebel
  • Patent number: 8203824
    Abstract: An electrical multilayer component has a stack of dielectric layers and electrode layers arranged one above another. An electrically insulating stiffening element is arranged at a distance from at least one electrode layer on the same dielectric layer as the electrode layer. The stiffening element preferably has an increased flexural strength with respect to dielectric material surrounding it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Epcos AG
    Inventors: Axel Pecina, Gerald Schlauer, Gernot Feiel
  • Publication number: 20110187239
    Abstract: A piezoelectric component includes an electromechanical transducer with two first electrodes and a second electrode. The second electrode is arranged between the two first electrodes. The transducer also includes a first main side, a second main side, opposite from the first main side, and a first longitudinal side. A first contiguous metallization layer is arranged on a first partial region of the first main side and on a partial region of the first longitudinal side adjacent to the first partial region of the first main side. Here, the partial region of the first longitudinal side is kept at a sufficient distance from a side edge facing the second main side and the partial region electrically contacts the at least two first electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Gernot Feiel, Axel Pecina, Rainer Hoermann, Thomas Goebel
  • Publication number: 20100214720
    Abstract: An electrical multilayer component has a stack of dielectric layers and electrode layers arranged one above another. An electrically insulating stiffening element is arranged at a distance from at least one electrode layer on the same dielectric layer as the electrode layer. The stiffening element preferably has an increased flexural strength with respect to dielectric material surrounding it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Axel Pecina, Gerald Schlauer, Gernot Feiel