Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Hume

Jeffrey Hume 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: 7608485
    Abstract: In a circuit, an integrated circuit package and methods for attaching integrated circuit dies or discrete power components to flanges of integrated circuit packages, each of the integrated circuit dies is sawed from a wafer. The thickness of the wafer is reduced by mechanical grinding, applying an isotropic wet chemical etching to the wafer to eliminate crystal defects, evaporating adhesion and diffusion barrier metals on the backside of the wafer, evaporating Au and Sn on the backside of the wafer, wherein the weight proportion of Au is equal to or larger than 85%, sawing the wafer into the circuit dies, and soldering each of the circuit dies to a respective flange of an integrated circuit package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Sam-Hyo Hong, Henrik Hoyer, Jeffrey Hume
  • Publication number: 20070181987
    Abstract: In a circuit, an integrated circuit package and methods for attaching integrated circuit dies or discrete power components to flanges of integrated circuit packages, each of the integrated circuit dies is sawed from a wafer. The thickness of the wafer is reduced by mechanical grinding, applying an isotropic wet chemical etching to the wafer to eliminate crystal defects, evaporating adhesion and diffusion barrier metals on the backside of the wafer, evaporating Au and Sn on the backside of the wafer, wherein the weight proportion of Au is equal to or larger than 85%, sawing the wafer into the circuit dies, and soldering each of the circuit dies to a respective flange of an integrated circuit package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Sam-Hyo Hong, Henrik Hoyer, Jeffrey Hume