Patents by Inventor Gottfried Beer

Gottfried Beer 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).

  • Publication number: 20100019370
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and manufacturing method. One embodiment provides a semiconductor chip. An encapsulating material covers the semiconductor chip. A metal layer is over the semiconductor chip and the encapsulating material. At least one of a voltage generating unit and a display unit are rigidly attached to at least one of the encapsulating material and the metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Klaus Pressel, Gottfried Beer
  • Patent number: 7625781
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a plastic housing and external connections, and to a method for producing the same is disclosed. In one embodiment, the plastic housing has a housing external contour made of plastic external areas with a top side, an underside opposite to the top side, and edge sides. Lower external contact areas are arranged on the underside and upper external contact areas are arranged on the top side. Furthermore, the plastic housing has external conductor tracks along the housing external contour, by means of which the lower and upper external contact areas are electrically connected. For this purpose, the external conductor tracks have at least one jet-printed first conductor track layer made of electrically conductive material. Such jet-printed conductor track layers may also be applied to active top sides of semiconductor chips in order to bridge underlying conductor track layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Gottfried Beer
  • Publication number: 20090286357
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure. One embodiment produces a substrate having at least two semiconductor chips embedded in a molded body. A layer is applied over at least one main surface of the substrate by using a jet printing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Gottfried Beer
  • Patent number: 7585701
    Abstract: A carrier sheet with an adhesive film includes a heat-resistant base film with an upper side and an underside, and a thermoactive adhesive layer arranged on the underside of the base film and oriented toward the carrier sheet. The upper side of the base film includes an adhesive layer with semiconductor chips fixed on it, the semiconductor chips being surrounded by deactivated regions of the adhesive layer of the film upper side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Markus Brunnbauer, Irmgard Escher-Poeppel, Edward Fuergut
  • Publication number: 20090191665
    Abstract: This application relates to a method of manufacturing an electronic device comprising placing a first chip on a carrier; applying an insulating layer over the first chip and the carrier; applying a metal ions containing solution to the insulating layer for producing a first metal layer of a first thickness; and producing a second metal layer of a second thickness on the insulating layer wherein at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer comprises at least a portion that is laterally spaced apart from the respective other metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Ivan Nikitin, Manfred Mengel, Gottfried Beer, Henrik Ewe
  • Publication number: 20090079090
    Abstract: Stacked semiconductor chips are disclosed. One embodiment provides an array of first semiconductor chips, covering the array of the first semiconductor chips with a mold material, and placing an array of second semiconductor chips over the array of the first semiconductor chips. The thicknesses of the second semiconductor chips is reduced. The array of the first semiconductor chips are singulated by dividing the mold material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Klaus Pressel, Gottfried Beer
  • Publication number: 20090079089
    Abstract: Stacked semiconductor chips are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method including a first substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface. The first substrate includes an array of first connection elements on the first surface of the first substrate. A second substrate has a first surface and an opposing second surface. The second substrate includes an array of second connection elements on the first surface of the second substrate. The first connection elements is attached to the second connection elements; and is thinning at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate after the attachment of the first connection elements to the second connection elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Markus Brunnbauer, Recai Sezi, Thorsten Meyer, Gottfried Beer
  • Patent number: 7504711
    Abstract: A substrate including strip conductors with a wiring pattern that connects contact areas to one another. The strip conductors have a small strip conductor width. The contact areas and/or the strip conductors form a narrow connection pitch and include electrically conductive carbon nanotubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Jochen Dangelmaier, Alfred Haimerl, Manfred Mengel, Klaus Mueller, Klaus Pressel
  • Publication number: 20090039496
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor chip module and a semiconductor chip package is disclosed. One embodiment provides a first layer, a second layer, and a base layer. The first layer is disposed on the base layer, and the second layer is disposed on the first layer. A plurality of semiconductor chips is applied above the second layer, and the second layer with the applied semiconductor chips is separated from the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Irmgard Escher-Poeppel
  • Publication number: 20080308917
    Abstract: An electronic assembly is disclosed. One embodiment includes at least one semiconductor chip and a package structure embedding the semiconductor chip. The package structure includes at least one conducting line extending into an area of the package structure outside of the outline of the chip. The electronic assembly further includes a substrate embedding the package structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Klaus Pressel, Gottfried Beer
  • Patent number: 7413353
    Abstract: A device for transmitting data between two structural units connected to one another by an articulated joint has a long service life which permits a high transmission rate in conjunction with particularly small dimensions. The first structural unit includes a first optoelectronic component and the second structural unit includes a second optoelectronic component, the first optoelectronic component being connected to the second optoelectronic component via at least one optical fiber. One end of the optical fiber is brought into contact with the first optoelectronic component via a molded interconnect device (MID) plug connection and the other end is brought into contact with the second optoelectronic component via another MID plug connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Jochen Dangelmaier, Cyrus Ghahremani, Jean Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20080148861
    Abstract: A semiconductor sensor component including protected feeders and a method for the production thereof are disclosed. The semiconductor component encompasses a sensor chip with a sensor area. The sensor chip is disposed in a two-part housing that accommodates the sensor chip in a bottom housing part. A seal that surrounds the sensor area is arranged between the bottom housing part and a top housing part. The seal, in at least one embodiment, also extends across the feeders, wherefore the feeders are configured as flat printed metal-containing strip conductors which adhere to the bottom housing part, the sensor chip, and a transition zone that is made of different materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventor: Gottfried Beer
  • Publication number: 20080142932
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with a plastic housing composition includes a semiconductor chip and an internal wiring. The plastic housing composition is electrically conductive and electrically connected to a first contact pad of the internal wiring. A first side of the semiconductor chip is electrically insulated from the plastic housing composition by an insulation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Edward Fuergut
  • Publication number: 20080136009
    Abstract: A device comprising a chip, which is held in casting compound and on which a hollow structure is arranged is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Horst Theuss, Gottfried Beer
  • Publication number: 20080121724
    Abstract: A TAG chip includes a magnetic coating or an electrostatically chargeable structure. A device for packing semiconductor chips includes an electromagnetic or electrostatic lifter, which picks up singulated semiconductor chips of a semiconductor wafer with a magnetic coating or including an electrostatically chargeable structure from a wafer position and deposits them in a collecting position. A mounting device includes a conveying roller with conveying receptacles for semiconductor chips, which pick up the semiconductor chips in a pick-up position with electromagnetically or electrostatically activatable conveying receptacles and, in a discharge position will discharge, via deactivation of the conveying receptacles, the semiconductor chips onto a corresponding liner or an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Werner Weber
  • Publication number: 20080105966
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes components in a plastic casing. The semiconductor module includes a plastic package molding compound and a semiconductor chip. Also provided in the module are a first principal surface including an upper side of the plastic package molding compound and at least one active upper side of the semiconductor chip, a second principle surface including a back side of the plastic package molding compound, and a multilayered conductor track structure disposed on the first principal surface and a second metal layer disposed on the second principle surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Christoph Kienmayer, Klaus Pressel, Werner Simbuerger
  • Publication number: 20080101750
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical transmitter and/or receiver assembly comprising at least one transmitter component (2) and/or at least one receiver component (3, 4), in addition to a planar optical circuit (5) with at least one integrated waveguide (51). According to the invention, light from the transmitter element (1) is coupled into a waveguide (51) of the planar optical circuit (5) and/or light from the waveguide (51) of the planar optical circuit (5) is uncoupled and guided onto the receiver component (3, 4). The assembly is provided with a lens (14, 15) for optically coupling the waveguide(s) (51) of the planar optical circuit (5) to a fibre-optic that can he fixed to the transmitter and/or receiver assembly (1), said lens (14, 15) being positioned on the planar optical circuit (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Hans-Ludwig Althaus
  • Publication number: 20070230876
    Abstract: A device for transmitting data between two structural units connected to one another by an articulated joint has a long service life which permits a high transmission rate in conjunction with particularly small dimensions. The first structural unit includes a first optoelectronic component and the second structural unit includes a second optoelectronic component, the first optoelectronic component being connected to the second optoelectronic component via at least one optical fiber. One end of the optical fiber is brought into contact with the first optoelectronic component via a molded interconnect device (MID) plug connection and the other end is brought into contact with the second optoelectronic component via another MID plug connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Jochen Dangelmaier, Cyrus Ghahremani, Jean Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20070210883
    Abstract: A substrate including strip conductors with a wiring pattern that connects contact areas to one another. The strip conductors have a small strip conductor width. The contact areas and/or the strip conductors form a narrow connection pitch and include electrically conductive carbon nanotubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Jochen Dangelmaier, Alfred Haimerl, Manfred Mengel, Klaus Mueller, Klaus Pressel
  • Patent number: 7268423
    Abstract: The present invention describes a rewiring plate for components with connection grids of between approx. 100 nm and 10 ?m, which rewiring plate includes a base body and passages with carbon nanotubes, the lower end of the passages opening out into contact connection surfaces, and the carbon nanotubes forming an electrically conductive connection from the contact connection surfaces to the front surface of the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Beer, Jochen Dangelmaier, Alfred Haimerl, Manfred Mengel, Klaus Mueller, Klaus Pressel