Patents by Inventor Norbert Munzel

Norbert Munzel 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: 6638690
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing sequentially built-up printed circuit boards having a disparate number of conduction planes on both sides of the laminate core, which method comprises the following method steps: (A) coating both sides of a printed circuit board having conductor structures on only one side with a dielectric comprising a photopolymer or a thermally curable polymer; (B) structuring the plating holes (vias) on the side having the conductor structures by exposing the dielectric comprising a photopolymer to light and then developing with a solvent or by laser-drilling the plating holes (vias) into the dielectric comprising a thermally cured polymer; (C) depositing a copper layer on both sides of the board so obtained; (D) forming conductor structures on the front and completely etching away on the rear, if further asymmetric build-up is to be carried out, or on both sides of the printed circuit board if there is to be no further build-up or if further build-up is to be carried ou
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Vantico, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt Meier, Norbert Münzel
  • Patent number: 5759740
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of oxime sulfonates of formula 1 ##STR1## wherein R is naphthyl, ##STR2## Ar is an unsubstituted aryl group or an aryl group which carries one or more than one substituent selected from the group consisting of nitro, chloro, bromo, hydroxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 perfluoroalkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy and acid degradable substituent;R.sub.0 is either a R.sub.1 -X group or R.sub.2 ;X is an oxygen or a sulfur atom;R.sub.1 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or unsubstituted phenyl or phenyl which is substituted by a member selected from the group consisting of chloro, bromo, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl and C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, andR.sub.2 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Norbert Munzel, Reinhard Schulz, Heinz Holzwarth, Stephan Ilg
  • Patent number: 5650262
    Abstract: The invention relates to a chemically amplified negative photoresist which can be developed in aqueous alkaline media, which contains a radiation-sensitive acid generator and a compound which reduces the solubility of the resist in aqueous alkaline solutions in the presence of acid, and a polyhydroxyl compound of the formula I ##STR1## in which n is an integer between 2 and 6,R is hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, andZ is an n-valent radical which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more substituents from the group consisting of hydroxyl, halogen and C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, and is selected from the group consisting of:a) aliphatic radicals having 1 to 12 carbon atoms,b) cycloaliphatic radicals having 5 to 20 carbon atoms,c) aromatic radicals having 6 to 20 carbon atoms andd) radicals having 7 to 30 carbon atoms which comprise at least two different structural units selected from aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Inventors: Norbert Munzel, Reinhard Schulz, Heinz Holzwarth
  • Patent number: 5627011
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of oxime sulfonates of formula 1 ##STR1## wherein R is naphthyl, ##STR2## Ar is an unsubstituted aryl group or an aryl group which carries one or more than one substituent selected from the group consisting of nitro, chloro, bromo, hydroxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 perfluoroalkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy and acid degradable substituents;R.sub.0 is either a R.sub.1 --X group or R.sub.2 ;X is an oxygen or a sulfur atom;R.sub.1 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or unsubstituted phenyl or phenyl which is substituted by a member selected from the group consisting of chloro, bromo, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl and C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, andR.sub.2 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Norbert Munzel, Reinhard Schulz, Heinz Holzwarth, Stephan Ilg
  • Patent number: 5436098
    Abstract: Positive photoresist compositions comprising, in an organic solvent, at leasta) one alkali-soluble resin,b) one photosensitive quinone diazide,c) one aromatic hydroxy compound of formula I ##STR1## wherein each R is --H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, --OCH.sub.2 C.sub.6 H.sub.5, --OC.sub.6 H.sub.5 or --COOC.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently of the other H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, --C.sub.6 H.sub.5 or a cycloaliphatic 5- or 6-membered ring, a is an integer from 0 to 4, and m and n are each independently of the other 0, 1 or 2, which compound enhances the photosensitivity and/or the rate of development, and optionallyd) additional customary modifiers, are eminently suitable for making relief structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Reinhard Schulz, Norbert Munzel, Martin Roth, Wilhelm Knobloch
  • Patent number: 5397680
    Abstract: Polymers having a molecular weight (weight average) M.sub.w from 10.sup.3 to 10.sup.6, comprising recurring structural units of the formulae (I), (IIa) and (IIb) ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is hydrogen or methyl, Y is a direct bond or a divalent radical of the formula (III) ##STR2## in which Z is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkylene group bound to the phenyl nucleus,OR.sub.2 is an acid-cleavable radical,in which R.sub.2 is C.sub.4 -C.sub.10 tert-alkyl, allyl, cyclohex-2-enyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.14 aryl or C.sub.7 -C.sub.16 aralkyl which are unsubstituted or mono- or poly-substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl groups, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy groups or halogen atoms, trialkylsilyl or a group of the formulae (IV)-(VII) ##STR3## in which R.sub.8 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, or C.sub.6 -C.sub.14 aryl or C.sub.7 -C.sub.16 aralkyl which are unsubstituted or mono- or poly-substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl groups, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy groups or halogen atoms,R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently of one another are hydrogen, C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignees: Ciba-Geigy AG, QCG Microelectronics
    Inventors: Ulrich Schadeli, Norbert Munzel
  • Patent number: 5369200
    Abstract: Polymers having a molecular weight (weight average) M.sub.w from 10.sup.3 to 10.sup.6, comprising recurring structural units of the formulae (I), (IIa) and (IIb) ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is hydrogen or methyl, Y is a direct bond or a divalent radical of the formula (III) ##STR2## in which Z is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkylene group bound to the phenyl nucleus,OR.sub.2 is an acid-cleavable radical,in which R.sub.2 is C.sub.4 -C.sub.10 tert-alkyl, allyl, cyclohex-2-enyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.14 aryl or C.sub.7 -C.sub.16 aralkyl which are unsubstituted or mono- or poly-substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl groups, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy groups or halogen atoms, trialkylsilyl or a group of the formulae (IV)-(VII) ##STR3## in which R.sub.8 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, or C.sub.6 -C.sub.14 aryl or C.sub.7 -C.sub.16 aralkyl which are unsubstituted or mono- or poly-substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl groups, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy groups or halogen atoms,R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently of one another are hydrogen, C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignees: Ciba-Geigy AG, OCG Microelectronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulrich Schadeli, Norbert Munzel
  • Patent number: 5296330
    Abstract: Positive photoresist compositions comprising, in an organic solvent, at leasta) one alkali-soluble resin,b) one photosensitive quinone diazide,c) one aromatic hydroxy compound of formula I ##STR1## wherein each R is --H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, --OCH.sub.2 C.sub.6 H.sub.5, --OC.sub.6 H.sub.5 or --COOC.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently of the other H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, --C.sub.6 H.sub.5 or a cycloaliphatic 5- or 6-membered ring, a is an integer from 0 to 4, and m and n are each independently of the other 0, 1 or 2, which compound enhances the photosensitivity and/or the rate of development, and optionallyd) additional customary modifiers,are eminently suitable for making relief structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignees: Ciba-Geigy Corp., OCG Microelectronics Inc.
    Inventors: Reinhard Schulz, Norbert Munzel, Martin Roth, Wilhelm Knobloch