Patents by Inventor Josef Bock

Josef Bock 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: 20060038258
    Abstract: A high-frequency bipolar transistor includes an emitter contact adjoining an emitter connection region, a base contact adjoining a base connection region, and a collector contact adjoining a collector connection region. A first insulation layer is disposed on the base connection region. The collector connection region contains a buried layer, which connects the collector contact to a collector zone. A silicide or salicide region is provided on the buried layer and connects the collector contact to the collector zone in a low-impedance manner. A second insulation layer is disposed on the collector connection region but not on the silicide region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Josef Bock, Thomas Meister, Reinhard Stengl, Hertbert Schafer
  • Publication number: 20060040453
    Abstract: A bipolar transistor comprising a collector region of a first conduction type, and a subcollector region of the first conduction type at a first side of the collector region. The transistor further includes a base region of the second conduction type provided at a second side of the collector region, and an emitter region of the first conduction type which is provided above the base region on the side remote from the collection region. A carbon-doped semiconductor region is provided on the first side alongside the collector region. The bipolar transistor is characterized in that the carbon-doped semiconductor region has a carbon concentration of 1019-1021 cm?3 and the base region has a smaller cross section than the collector region and the collector region has, in the overlap region with the base region, a region having an increased doping compared with the remaining region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Josef Bock, Thomas Meister, Reinhard Stengl, Herbert Schafer
  • Publication number: 20060040456
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a bipolar semiconductor element, especially a bipolar transistor, and a corresponding bipolar semiconductor component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Josef Bock, Thomas Meister, Reinhard Stengl, Herbert Schafer
  • Publication number: 20060009002
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a transistor structure with a first and a second bipolar transistor having different collector widths is presented. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate, introducing a first buried layer of the first bipolar transistor and a second buried layer of the second bipolar transistor into the semiconductor substrate, and producing at least a first collector region having a first collector width on the first buried layer and a second collector region having a second collector width on the second buried layer. A first collector zone having a first thickness is produced on the second buried layer for production of the second collector width. A second collector zone having a second thickness is produced on the first collector zone. At least one insulation region is produced that isolates at least the collector regions from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Josef Bock, Rudolf Lachner, Thomas Meister, Reinhard Stengl, Herbert Schafer, Martin Seck
  • Publication number: 20050233536
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a bipolar transistor. A semiconductor substrate is provided that encompasses a collector area of a first conductivity type, which is embedded therein and is bare towards the top. A monocrystalline base area is provided and a base-connecting area of the second conductivity type is provided above the base area. An insulating area is provided above the base-connecting area and a window is formed in the insulating area and the base-connecting area so as to at least partly expose the base area. An insulating sidewall spacer is provided in the window in order to insulate the base-connecting area. An emitter layer which forms a monocrystalline emitter area above the base area and a polycrystalline emitter area above the insulating area and the sidewall spacer is differentially deposited and structured, and a tempering step is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Josef Bock, Thomas Meister, Reinhard Stengl, Herbert Schafer
  • Patent number: 6926784
    Abstract: An automotive vehicle sound absorption system. An expandable material, such as an polymer-based foam, is disposed on a surface of a wall. Upon activation, the foam transforms, preferably during an automobile assembly operation, and remains bonded to surface for sound absorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: L & L Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Lothar Josef Bock
  • Patent number: 6890021
    Abstract: A modular segmented structural reinforcement system for use with closed forms or cavities defined with automotive vehicles having a plurality of modular segments designed to be secured within a defined portion of an automotive vehicle applications. An expandable or bonding material, such as an epoxy-based reinforcing foam or other sound absorption, damping, vibration reduction, or sealing material is disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface of each of the plurality of segments. Once the system is flexible fitted within the closed form or placed within a selected cavity of an automotive vehicle, the material expands and cures during an automobile assembly operation, bonding the reinforcement system to the segments. As a result, the reinforcement system provides enhanced load distribution over the vehicle frame without adding excessive weight and further serves to reduce noise and vibrational characteristics of the automotive vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: L & L Products
    Inventors: Lothar Josef Bock, Bendan Keenan, Ken Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6820923
    Abstract: An automotive vehicle sound absorption system. An expandable material, such as an polymer-based foam, is disposed on a surface of a wall. Upon activation, the foam transforms, preferably during an automobile assembly operation, and remains bonded to surface for sound absorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: L&L Products
    Inventor: Lothar Josef Bock
  • Publication number: 20040207233
    Abstract: A modular segmented structural reinforcement system for use with closed forms or cavities defined with automotive vehicles having a plurality of modular segments designed to be secured within a defined portion of an automotive vehicle applications. An expandable or bonding material, such as an epoxy-based reinforcing foam or other sound absorption, damping, vibration reduction, or sealing material is disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface of each of the plurality of segments. Once the system is flexible fitted within the closed form or placed within a selected cavity of an automotive vehicle, the material expands and cures during an automobile assembly operation, bonding the reinforcement system to the segments. As a result, the reinforcement system provides enhanced load distribution over the vehicle frame without adding excessive weight and further serves to reduce noise and vibrational characteristics of the automotive vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: L&L Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Lothar Josef Bock, Brendan Keenan, Ken Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20040185611
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for parallel production of an MOS transistor in an MOS area of a substrate and a bipolar transistor in a bipolar area of the substrate. The method comprises generating an MOS preparation structure in the MOS area, wherein the MOS preparation structure comprises an area provided for a channel, a gate dielectric, a gate electrode layer and a mask layer on the gate electrode layer. Further, a bipolar preparation structure is generated in the bipolar area, which comprises a conductive layer and a mask layer on the conductive layer. The mask layer is thinned in the area of the gate electrode. For determining a gate electrode and a base terminal area, common structuring of the gate electrode layer and the conductive layer is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Adrian Berthold, Josef Bock, Jurgen Holz, Wolfgang Klein
  • Patent number: 6786533
    Abstract: A modular segmented structural reinforcement system for use with closed forms or cavities defined with automotive vehicles having a plurality of modular segments designed to be secured within a defined portion of an automotive vehicle applications. An expandable or bonding material, such as an epoxy-based reinforcing foam or other sound absorption, damping, vibration reduction, or sealing material is disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface of each of the plurality of segments. Once the system is flexible fitted within the closed form or placed within a selected cavity of an automotive vehicle, the material expands and cures during an automobile assembly operation, bonding the reinforcement system to the segments. As a result, the reinforcement system provides enhanced load distribution over the vehicle frame without adding excessive weight and further serves to reduce noise and vibrational characteristics of the automotive vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: L&L Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Lothar Josef Bock, Bendan Keenan, Ken Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6716712
    Abstract: During the production of integrated semiconductor structures, it is often necessary to differently dope immediately adjacent regions. A method is provided for producing two adjacent regions of a predetermined area in an integrated semiconductor, whereby a first region of the two adjacent regions includes a doping with a lower target concentration than a second region. The predetermined area of a semiconductor blank is doped with a dopant until a concentration of the dopant is obtained that is at least as high as the target concentration of the second region. A protective layer is applied to the second region, and the dopant is out-diffused from the first region until a concentration of dopant is obtained that corresponds to the target concentration of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Josef Böck
  • Patent number: 6668469
    Abstract: Device and process for removing a fibrous material web from a drying section of a machine for producing and/or refining the fibrous material web and into a catch device. The drying section includes heated drying cylinders, guidance rolls, and at least one drying wire arranged such that the fibrous material web is guided through the drying section over the heated drying cylinders and the guidance rolls at least predominately by the at least one drying wire. The device includes at least one controllable separating device arranged to at least reduce an adhesion force between the fibrous material web and the at least one drying wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kahl, Markus Oechsle, Karl Josef Böck, Thomas Augscheller, Stefan Dette
  • Patent number: 6635545
    Abstract: The bipolar transistor is produced such that a connection region of its base is provided with a silicide layer, so that a base resistance of the bipolar transistor is small. No silicide layer is produced between an emitter and an emitter contact and between a connection region of a collector and a collector contact. The base is produced by in situ-doped epitaxy in a region in which a first insulating layer is removed by isotropic etching such that the connection region of the base which is arranged on the first insulating layer is undercut. In order to avoid defects of a substrate in which the bipolar transistor is partly produced, isotropic etching is used for the patterning of auxiliary layers, whereby etching is selective with respect to auxiliary layers lying above, which are patterned by anisotropic etching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Josef Böck, Wolfgang Klein, Herbert Schäfer, Martin Franosch, Thomas Meister, Reinhard Stengl
  • Publication number: 20030075637
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for winding a material web onto a reel spool to produce a wound reel. The process is performed in the apparatus and includes producing the material web, online smoothing of the produced material web, guiding the smoothed material web over a reel drum and through a nip formed between the reel drum and one of the reel spool and the wound reel, maintaining contact between the reel drum and the one of the reel spool and the wound reel, and reeling the smoothed material web while transversely moving at least one of the reel drum and the one of the reel spool and the wound reel relative to a web travel direction. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Applicant: VOITH SULZER PAPIERTECHNIK PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Karl Josef Bock
  • Publication number: 20030062739
    Abstract: An automotive vehicle sound absorption system. An expandable material, such as an polymer-based foam, is disposed on a surface of a wall. Upon activation, the foam transforms, preferably during an automobile assembly operation, and remains bonded to surface for sound absorption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: L&L Products
    Inventor: Lothar Josef Bock
  • Publication number: 20030057737
    Abstract: A modular segmented structural reinforcement system for use with closed forms or cavities defined with automotive vehicles having a plurality of modular segments designed to be secured within a defined portion of an automotive vehicle applications. An expandable or bonding material, such as an epoxy-based reinforcing foam or other sound absorption, damping, vibration reduction, or sealing material is disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface of each of the plurality of segments. Once the system is flexible fitted within the closed form or placed within a selected cavity of an automotive vehicle, the material expands and cures during an automobile assembly operation, bonding the reinforcement system to the segments. As a result, the reinforcement system provides enhanced load distribution over the vehicle frame without adding excessive weight and further serves to reduce noise and vibrational characteristics of the automotive vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: L&L Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Lothar Josef Bock, Brendan Keenan, Ken Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6536705
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for winding a material web onto a reel spool to produce a wound reel. The process includes producing the material web, online smoothing of the produced material web, guiding the smoothed material web over a reel drum and through a nip formed between the reel drum and one of the reel spool and the wound reel, maintaining contact between the reel drum and the one of the reel spool and the wound reel, and reeling file smoothed material web while transversely moving at least one of the reel drum and the one of the reel spool and the wound reel relative to a web travel direction. The apparatus includes a web production facility, an online smoothing device, a reel drum, and a reel spool. A nip is formed between the reel drum and one of the reel spool and the wound reel, and the reel drum and the one of the reel spool and the wound roll are arranged to maintain contact during a winding procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Josef Böck
  • Publication number: 20020168829
    Abstract: The bipolar transistor is produced such that a connection region of its base is provided with a silicide layer, so that a base resistance of the bipolar transistor is small. No silicide layer is produced between an emitter and an emitter contact and between a connection region of a collector and a collector contact. The base is produced by in situ-doped epitaxy in a region in which a first insulating layer is removed by isotropic etching such that the connection region of the base which is arranged on the first insulating layer is undercut. In order to avoid defects of a substrate in which the bipolar transistor is partly produced, isotropic etching is used for the patterning of auxiliary layers, whereby etching is selective with respect to auxiliary layers lying above, which are patterned by anisotropic etching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventors: Josef Bock, Wolfgang Klein, Herbert Schafer, Martin Franosch, Thomas Meister, Reinhard Stengl
  • Patent number: 6475343
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for dewatering a fibrous material web. The process includes guiding the fibrous material web through a dewatering zone, and directing a plurality of gas pressure pulses of a pressurized displacement gas one after the other onto a surface of the fibrous material web within the dewatering zone. The apparatus includes a device for forming a plurality of gas pressure pulses which are arranged one after the other within the dewatering zone. The plurality of gas pressure pulses are directed onto a surface of the fibrous material web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Karl Josef Böck, Ulrich Begemann, Thomas Elenz, Peter Mirsberger, Hans Dahl, Hannes Vomhoff, David Beck