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).
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Patent number: 7425467Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2007Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: Alien Technology CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig, John Stephen Smith
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Patent number: 7288432Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 14, 2004Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Alien Technology CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig, John Stephen Smith
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Patent number: 7070851Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2002Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Alien Technology CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig, John Stephen Smith
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Publication number: 20040018347Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2002Publication date: January 29, 2004Inventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig, John Stephen Smith
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Patent number: 6566744Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2002Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: Alien Technology CorporationInventor: Glenn Wilhelm Gengel
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Publication number: 20020153606Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2002Publication date: October 24, 2002Applicant: ALIEN TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Glenn Wilhelm Gengel
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Patent number: 6468638Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 1999Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: Alien Technology CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig, John Stephen Smith
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Patent number: 6417025Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 2, 2001Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Alien Technology CorporationInventor: Glenn Wilhelm Gengel
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Publication number: 20020061392Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 1999Publication date: May 23, 2002Inventors: JEFFREY JAY JACOBSEN, GLENN WILHELM GENGEL, MARK A. HADLEY, GORDON S.W. CRAIG, JOHN STEPHEN SMITH
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Patent number: 6316278Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 1999Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: Alien Technology CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, Gordon S. W. Craig
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Patent number: 6274508Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 1999Date of Patent: August 14, 2001Assignee: Alien Technology CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Glenn Wilhelm Gengel, John Stephen Smith