Patents by Inventor Joerg Zapf

Joerg Zapf 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: 10714228
    Abstract: A method for producing a microstructure component, a microstructure component and an x-ray device are disclosed. In the method, a plurality of punctiform injection structures are inserted in a grid in a first substrate direction and a second substrate direction, standing at right angles thereto, into a first surface of a wafer-like silicon substrate. The injection structures are lengthened into drilled holes in the depth direction of the silicon substrate in a first etching step. A second surface of the silicon substrate is then at least partly removed for rear-side opening of the drilled holes in a second etching step and in a third etching step, an etching medium acting anisotropically is poured alternately through the drilled holes from both surfaces of the silicon substrate, so that drilled holes arranged next to one another in the first substrate direction connect to form a column running in the first substrate direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Andrea Deutinger, Joerg Zapf
  • Publication number: 20190267149
    Abstract: A method for producing a microstructure component, a microstructure component and an x-ray device are disclosed. In the method, a plurality of punctiform injection structures are inserted in a grid in a first substrate direction and a second substrate direction, standing at right angles thereto, into a first surface of a wafer-like silicon substrate. The injection structures are lengthened into drilled holes in the depth direction of the silicon substrate in a first etching step. A second surface of the silicon substrate is then at least partly removed for rear-side opening of the drilled holes in a second etching step and in a third etching step, an etching medium acting anisotropically is poured alternately through the drilled holes from both surfaces of the silicon substrate, so that drilled holes arranged next to one another in the first substrate direction connect to form a column running in the first substrate direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Andrea DEUTINGER, Joerg ZAPF
  • Patent number: 9887339
    Abstract: An infrared sensor with a microstructure has a multiplicity of sensor rods protruding from a sensor base and arranged axially parallel to one another. Each of the sensor rods is designed as a thermocouple, in that a first rod end, arranged on the sensor base, is electrically connected to an opposite free second rod end by both a first and a second electrically conductive rod element. The two rod elements have a different Seebeck coefficient, and the first rod element is formed as a hollow profile and the second rod element is arranged in the first rod element such that each thermocouple is formed as a single rod with a small standing area on the sensor base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Harry Hedler, Ingo Kuehne, Markus Schieber, Joerg Zapf
  • Publication number: 20150048249
    Abstract: An infrared sensor with a microstructure has a multiplicity of sensor rods protruding from a sensor base and arranged axially parallel to one another. Each of the sensor rods is designed as a thermocouple, in that a first rod end, arranged on the sensor base, is electrically connected to an opposite free second rod end by both a first and a second electrically conductive rod element. The two rod elements have a different Seebeck coefficient, and the first rod element is formed as a hollow profile and the second rod element is arranged in the first rod element such that each thermocouple is formed as a single rod with a small standing area on the sensor base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Harry Hedler, Ingo Kuehne, Markus Schieber, Joerg Zapf
  • Publication number: 20060162157
    Abstract: A component is connected to a circuit carrier via contacts which place the component at a distance from the circuit carrier. A foil is applied to the component and the circuit carrier so that it lies close to the surface of the circuit carrier on which the component is located and to the sides of the component not facing the circuit carrier. After being applied to the component and the circuit carrier the film is provided with a metal coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Gernot Schimetta, Karl Weidner, Joerg Zapf
  • Publication number: 20050184246
    Abstract: A detector module for an X-ray computer tomograph, includes a number of sensor arrays provided next to one another on a printed circuit board. Each of the sensor arrays includes a plurality of first contact elements on a top side, averted from the printed circuit board. In order to make contact with the sensor array, the first contact elements are electrically connected to second contact elements with the aid of conductor tracks that are accommodated in or on an electrically insulating flexible carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventors: Ludwig Danzer, Bjoern Heismann, Richard Matz, Heinz Pilz, Stefan Wirth, Joerg Zapf