Patents by Inventor Holger Woerner

Holger Woerner 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: 20060175419
    Abstract: A smart card for contact data transmission includes a card body and a smart card module which is fitted in the card body. The smart card module includes a semiconductor chip with an active upper surface, a plastic housing compound that surrounds the semiconductor chip and includes at least one surface that is coplanar with the active upper surface of the semiconductor chip, a first dielectric layer that is arranged on the plastic housing compound surface and on the active upper surface of the semiconductor chip, one or more interposer metallization levels, which are isolated via further dielectric layers and are connected to the active upper surface of the semiconductor chip, and external contact surfaces. The external contact surfaces are formed on the outermost interposer level and facilitate contact data transmission. The smart card module uses no bonding wires and has a very small physical volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Edward Fuergut, Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Simon Jerebic, Jens Pohl, Peter Strobel, Holger Woerner
  • Patent number: 7064429
    Abstract: An electronic component includes at least one semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip is attached on a first side of a wiring board or a leadframe. The wiring board is provided with interconnect structures at least on a second side. The first side of the wiring board, with the semiconductor chip located on it, is completely enclosed by a package. The package is provided with a cooling element, which is an integral part of the package. The invention also relates to a method for producing the electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Bemmerl, Holger Wörner, Bernd Waidhas
  • Publication number: 20060125042
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention relates to an electronic component having stacked semiconductor chips, and to a panel for production of the component. In one case, the stack has a flat conductor structure with a chip island on which a stacked semiconductor chip is arranged, while a first semiconductor chip is located underneath it. The chip island is surrounded by flat conductors which have contact pillars. These contact pillars have pillar contact pads which, together with the active upper face of the first semiconductor chip and the upper face areas of a plastic encapsulation compound form a coplanar overall upper face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Edward Fuergut, Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Simon Jerebic, Jens Pohl, Peter Strobel, Holger Woerner
  • Publication number: 20060076667
    Abstract: A semiconductor component includes a plastic housing including: plastic outer surfaces; lower outer contact surfaces arranged on an underside of the housing; upper outer contact surfaces arranged on a top side of the housing that is opposite the underside; and outer interconnects electrically connecting the lower outer contact surfaces to the upper outer contact surfaces, the outer interconnects including a layer of solder arranged on conduction paths along an outer contour of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Ulrich Bachmaier, Michael Bauer, Robert-Christian Hagen, Jens Pohl, Rainer Steiner, Peter Strobel, Hermann Vilsmeier, Holger Woerner, Bernhard Zuhr
  • Patent number: 7009288
    Abstract: A semiconductor component with an electromagnetic shielding device against alpha radiation, beta radiation and high-frequency electromagnetic radiation is presented. The semiconductor component includes a semiconductor chip with a circuit integrated therein with a number of electrical terminal areas and at least one ground terminal area. The semiconductor also includes a package that contains the semiconductor chip and also a chip carrier. The chip carrier has a number of external electrical terminals and an external ground terminal. The electrical terminal areas and the ground terminal areas of the semiconductor chip are electrically connected to the external electrical terminals and the external ground terminals of the chip carrier by connecting means. The semiconductor chip and the connecting means are in this case encapsulated by an electrically insulating passivation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Christian Birzer, Georg Ernst, Rainer Steiner, Hermann Vilsmeier, Holger Woerner
  • Publication number: 20060027905
    Abstract: A biosensor that has a smart card configuration includes a semiconductor chip including a bioactive structure and contact areas disposed on a first side of the semiconductor chip, and a rewiring substrate including contact pads, external contact areas and rewiring lines that electrically connect the contact pads to the external contact areas. The rewiring substrate covers a portion of the first side of the semiconductor chip without covering the bioactive structure, such that the rewiring substrate overlaps the contact areas of the semiconductor chip and the contact pads and the contact areas are aligned with and electrically connect to each other. In addition, a measuring apparatus is configured to receive the biosensor and conduct measurements of a fluid medium that is delivered into the measuring apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Gerald Ofner, Christian Stuempfl, Holger Woerner
  • Patent number: 6953992
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic component having at least one semiconductor chip and a flat chip carrier assigned to the semiconductor chip. Electrical connections between contact areas on an active chip surface of the semiconductor chip and contact terminal areas on an upper side of the chip carrier are formed by strips of material that can undergo microstructuring and that are provided with an electrically conductive coating. The invention also relates to a method for producing the electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Gerald Ofner, Christian Stümpfl, Josef Thumbs, Stefan Wein, Holger Wörner
  • Publication number: 20050184375
    Abstract: An electronic device has, as a multichip module, two or more semiconductor chips that are integrated into a leadframe such that a placement side of the leadframe and the active top sides of the circuit chips are flush and have a common fine wiring plane. The leadframe is arranged as an expanded semiconductor chip on a rewiring substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventors: Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Christian Stuempfl, Stefan Wein, Holger Woerner
  • Publication number: 20050133932
    Abstract: An electronic semiconductor module component with a semiconductor stack includes semiconductor components arranged in a vertically stacked relationship. A basic semiconductor component includes a lower interposing unit, on which lower external contact pads are arranged. The basic semiconductor component further includes an upper interposing unit, on which upper external contact pads are arranged. The two interposing units are electrically connected to one another via bonding connections disposed at their edge areas. The basic semiconductor component is a compact component on which different, customer-specific semiconductor components can be stacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Jens Pohl, Bernd Roemer, Bernhard Schaetzler, Christian Stuempfl, Herman Vilsmeier, Holger Woerner, Bernhard Zuhr
  • Patent number: 6902951
    Abstract: An electronic device has, as a multichip module, two or more semiconductor chips that are integrated into a leadframe such that a placement side of the leadframe and the active top sides of the circuit chips are flush and have a common fine wiring plane. The leadframe is arranged as an expanded semiconductor chip on a rewiring substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Christian Stuempfl, Stefan Wein, Holger Woerner
  • Publication number: 20050098871
    Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductor device with a semiconductor chip and a rewiring layer, the semiconductor chip being embedded in a housing plastics composition by its rear side contact. The active top side of the semiconductor chip forms a coplanar overall top side with the top side of the housing plastics composition. The rear side contact is led to the overall top side via a flat conductor sheet tape, so that the rear side contact of the semiconductor chip can be accessed from the overall top side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Edward Fuergut, Hermann Vilsmeier, Holger Woerner
  • Publication number: 20050087851
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic module having plug contacts, which has a semiconductor chip embedded in a plastics composition with its rear side and its edge sides. An active top side of the semiconductor chip forms, together with the plastics composition, an overall top side, there being arranged on the latter a rewiring layer with plug contact areas and rewiring lines that connect the plug contact areas to contact areas of the top side of the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Edward Fuergut, Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Simon Jerebic, Jens Pohl, Holger Woerner, Peter Strobel
  • Publication number: 20050077596
    Abstract: A semiconductor component with an electromagnetic shielding device against alpha radiation, beta radiation and high-frequency electromagnetic radiation is presented. The semiconductor component includes a semiconductor chip with a circuit integrated therein with a number of electrical terminal areas and at least one ground terminal area. The semiconductor also includes a package that contains the semiconductor chip and also a chip carrier. The chip carrier has a number of external electrical terminals and an external ground terminal. The electrical terminal areas and the ground terminal areas of the semiconductor chip are electrically connected to the external electrical terminals and the external ground terminals of the chip carrier by connecting means. The semiconductor chip and the connecting means are in this case encapsulated by an electrically insulating passivation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Christian Birzer, Georg Ernst, Rainer Steiner, Hermann Vilsmeier, Holger Woerner
  • Patent number: 6867471
    Abstract: An electronic component has a semiconductor chip with chip contacts. The chip contacts are mechanically fixed on a wiring structure and electrically connected to the wiring structure. The wiring structure is formed as a region of a structured metal plate or as a region of a structured metal layer of a metal-clad base plate. Ideally, a panel having a number of component positions is provided for receiving a number of such an electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Gerald Ofner, Christian Stuempfl, Stefan Wein, Holger Wörner
  • Publication number: 20040232543
    Abstract: An electronic component with a plastic package and to a method for its production, includes a semiconductor chip. An underside of the plastic package has external contacts. The external contacts are connected to contact areas on an active upper side of the semiconductor chip by contact pillars of the semiconductor chip and wiring lines arranged on the plastic package molding compound. In this case, the contact pillars represent an electrically conducting elevation of the contact areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Bernd Goller, Robert Christian Hagen, Gerald Ofner, Christian Stuempfl, Josef Thumbs, Stefan Wein, Holger Woerner
  • Publication number: 20040140559
    Abstract: An electronic device has, as a multichip module, two or more semiconductor chips that are integrated into a leadframe such that a placement side of the leadframe and the active top sides of the circuit chips are flush and have a common fine wiring plane. The leadframe is arranged as an expanded semiconductor chip on a rewiring substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Christian Stuempfl, Stefan Wein, Holger Woerner
  • Publication number: 20040063304
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an electronic component, a stack of semiconductor chips, and an electronic component including a stack of semiconductor chips. The stack has at least a lower electronic module connected via flipchip connections to a central area of a rewiring substrate. The stack also has at least an upper electronic module with external contact surfaces connected via bonding connections to outer areas of the rewiring substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Robert-Christian Hagen, Holger Woerner
  • Patent number: 6710455
    Abstract: An electronic component is formed with at least two semiconductor chips that are disposed on a carrier substrate. Active chip surfaces of the semiconductor chips include central contact surfaces on which opposing solder contact surfaces are formed. These are conductively connected to an intermediate carrier which is disposed between the semiconductor chips and which produces rewirings from them to the carrier substrate. A method for fabricating the component is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Bernd Goller, Gerald Ofner, Josef Thumbs, Holger Wörner, Robert-Christian Hagen, Christian Stümpfl, Stefan Wein
  • Patent number: 6683374
    Abstract: An electronic component has at least a first semiconductor chip module, a second semiconductor chip module, and a substrate to accommodate the semiconductor chip modules. In this case, active chip surfaces of the two semiconductor chip modules each have a central contact area, which are disposed to face each other. The individual solder contact areas formed on the central contact areas and corresponding with one another are opposite and aligned with one another and are electrically conductively connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Gerald Ofner, Christian Stümpfl, Josef Thumbs, Stefan Wein, Holger Wörner