Patents by Inventor Glenn Wilhelm Gengel

Glenn Wilhelm Gengel 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: 7425467
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for forming displays are claimed. One embodiment of the invention relates to depositing a plurality of blocks onto a substrate and is coupled to a flexible layer having interconnect deposited thereon. Another embodiment of the invention relates to forming a display along a length of a flexible layer wherein a slurry containing a plurality of elements with circuit elements thereon washes over the flexible layer and slides into recessed regions or holes found in the flexible layer. Interconnect is then deposited thereon. In another embodiment, interconnect is placed on the flexible layer followed by a slurry containing a plurality of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig, John Stephen Smith
  • Patent number: 7288432
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for forming displays are claimed. One embodiment of the invention relates to depositing a plurality of blocks onto a substrate and is coupled to a flexible layer having interconnect deposited thereon. Another embodiment of the invention relates to forming a display along a length of a flexible layer wherein a slurry containing a plurality of elements with circuit elements thereon washes over the flexible layer and slides into recessed regions or holes found in the flexible layer. Interconnect is then deposited thereon. In another embodiment, interconnect is placed on the flexible layer followed by a slurry containing a plurality of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig, John Stephen Smith
  • Patent number: 7070851
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for forming displays are claimed. One embodiment of the invention relates to depositing a plurality of blocks onto a substrate and is coupled to a flexible layer having interconnect deposited thereon. Another embodiment of the invention relates to forming a display along a length of a flexible layer wherein a slurry containing a plurality of elements with circuit elements thereon washes over the flexible layer and slides into recessed regions or holes found in the flexible layer. Interconnect is then deposited thereon. In another embodiment, interconnect is placed on the flexible layer followed by a slurry containing a plurality of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig, John Stephen Smith
  • Publication number: 20040018347
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for forming displays are claimed. One embodiment of the invention relates to depositing a plurality of blocks onto a substrate and is coupled to a flexible layer having interconnect deposited thereon. Another embodiment of the invention relates to forming a display along a length of a flexible layer wherein a slurry containing a plurality of elements with circuit elements thereon washes over the flexible layer and slides into recessed regions or holes found in the flexible layer. Interconnect is then deposited thereon. In another embodiment, interconnect is placed on the flexible layer followed by a slurry containing a plurality of elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig, John Stephen Smith
  • Patent number: 6566744
    Abstract: Assembly of integrated circuit packages, such as BGA packaged devices, using fluidic self-assembly. Functional components, such as integrated circuits, having a wired side are suspended in a fluid and flowed over a substrate. The substrate has a top first dielectric layer and recessed receptor regions for receiving the functional components. The functional components are deposited in the receptor regions using fluidic self-assembly such that the wired side is facing outward from the receptor region. A conductive layer is then formed on the first dielectric layer to form conductive interconnects to the functional components. A second dielectric layer is then formed on the conductive layer. The second dielectric layer has openings for receiving conductive elements. Conductive elements, such as solder balls, are deposited into the openings in the second dielectric layer and contact the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Glenn Wilhelm Gengel
  • Publication number: 20020153606
    Abstract: Assembly of integrated circuit packages, such as BGA packaged devices, using fluidic self-assembly. Functional components, such as integrated circuits, having a wired side are suspended in a fluid and flowed over a substrate. The substrate has a top first dielectric layer and recessed receptor regions for receiving the functional components. The functional components are deposited in the receptor regions using fluidic self-assembly such that the wired side is facing outward from the receptor region. A conductive layer is then formed on the first dielectric layer to form conductive interconnects to the functional components. A second dielectric layer is then formed on the conductive layer. The second dielectric layer has openings for receiving conductive elements. Conductive elements, such as solder balls, are deposited into the openings in the second dielectric layer and contact the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: ALIEN TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Glenn Wilhelm Gengel
  • Patent number: 6468638
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for forming displays are claimed. One embodiment of the invention relates to depositing a plurality of blocks onto a substrate and is coupled to a flexible layer having interconnect deposited thereon. Another embodiment of the invention relates to forming a display along a length of a flexible layer wherein a slurry containing a plurality of elements with circuit elements thereon washes over the flexible layer and slides into recessed regions or holes found in the flexible layer. Interconnect is then deposited thereon. In another embodiment, interconnect is placed on the flexible layer followed by a slurry containing a plurality of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig, John Stephen Smith
  • Patent number: 6417025
    Abstract: Assembly of integrated circuit packages, such as BGA packaged devices, using fluidic self-assembly. Functional components, such as integrated circuits, having a wired side are suspended in a fluid and flowed over a substrate. The substrate has a top first dielectric layer and recessed receptor regions for receiving the functional components. The functional components are deposited in the receptor regions using fluidic self-assembly such that the wired side is facing outward from the receptor region. A conductive layer is then formed on the first dielectric layer to form conductive interconnects to the functional components. A second dielectric layer is then formed on the conductive layer. The second dielectric layer has openings for receiving conductive elements. Conductive elements, such as solder balls, are deposited into the openings in the second dielectric layer and contact the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Glenn Wilhelm Gengel
  • Publication number: 20020061392
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for forming displays are claimed. One embodiment of the invention relates to depositing a plurality of blocks onto a substrate and is coupled to a flexible layer having interconnect deposited thereon. Another embodiment of the invention relates to forming a display along a length of a flexible layer wherein a slurry containing a plurality of elements with circuit elements thereon washes over the flexible layer and slides into recessed regions or holes found in the flexible layer. Interconnect is then deposited thereon. In another embodiment, interconnect is placed on the flexible layer followed by a slurry containing a plurality of elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: JEFFREY JAY JACOBSEN, GLENN WILHELM GENGEL, MARK A. HADLEY, GORDON S.W. CRAIG, JOHN STEPHEN SMITH
  • Patent number: 6316278
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for fabricating a multiple display modular assembly. In one example of a method, a first flexible layer is coupled to a substrate, a second flexible layer is coupled to the first flexible layer, and a third flexible layer is coupled to the second flexible layer. Each of the flexible layers may be generated from a separate web-line process. In one example, one flexible layer may have a display plane with a driver backplane, a second flexible layer may have a fine interconnect, and a third flexible layer may have gross interconnect. The multiple flexible layer modular assembly may apply to either flexible or rigid displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Gordon S. W. Craig
  • Patent number: 6274508
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for forming holes or recessed regions in a substrate or a web material used in displays is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention relates to a roller or template that creates recessed regions or holes by pressing protruding structures from a template or roller in the substrate while the substrate is moving through a web process. These recessed regions or holes in the substrate receive, in one embodiment, elements that have integrated circuits thereon. Another embodiment shows recessed regions or holes being created in a web material by a template or a roller while the web material is moving through a web process. Another embodiment of the invention includes using a web wheel to create recessed regions or holes in the substrate. Another embodiment includes using chemical etching to create recessed regions or holes in the web material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, John Stephen Smith