Patents by Inventor Peter Bley

Peter Bley 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: 5795519
    Abstract: In a process of making a microstructured plastic mold from which structures can be formed galvanically a compound layer including an electrically conductive and an insulating layer portion is provided and is heated, and impressed into the insulating layer portion is a tool which has microstructured bodies disposed thereon of a height corresponding at least to the thickness of the insulating layer portion and with rough front surfaces having points and ridges adapted to penetrate the electrically insulating layer thereby to expose the electrically insulating layer at the bottom of the cavities formed by microstructured bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Bacher, Peter Bley, Michael Harmening
  • Patent number: 5759616
    Abstract: In a process for producing microstructure components on a substrate which carries electronic microcircuits cooperating functionally with the microstructure components, a first layer of a plastic material which connects with the substrate is applied to the substrate and a second layer of a plastic material which includes a separating agent but which firmly connects with the first layer is applied to the first layer and a molding tool is then impressed into the second layer to form the desired microstructures or to form cavities into the plastic material, which, upon removal of the molding tool, are filled with a metal to form the desired microstructures on the substrate upon removal of the plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Michel, Michael Harmening, Walter Bacher, Peter Bley, Robert Ruprecht, Alexander Both
  • Patent number: 5676983
    Abstract: For a process of making a microstructured plastic mold from which structures can be formed galvanically, a compound layer, including an electrically conductive and an insulating layer portion, is provided and is heated and impressed into the insulating layer portion, a tool is provided which has microstructured bodies disposed thereon of a height corresponding at least to the thickness of the insulating layer portion and with rough from surfaces having points and ridges adapted to penetrate the electrically insulating layer thereby to expose the electrically insulating layer at the bottom of the cavities formed by microstructured bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Bacher, Peter Bley, Michael Harmening
  • Patent number: 5260175
    Abstract: A method of producing microstructures having regions of different structural height includes providing a layer of positive resist material that is sensitive to X-ray radiation with microstructures on a side facing a source of X-rays. Using a mask, the layer of a positive resist material is partially irradiated with the X-rays. The irradiated regions are removed with the aid of a developer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignees: Kernforschungzentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Burkert GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Bernd Kowanz, Peter Bley, Walter Bacher, Michael Harmening, Jurgen Mohr
  • Patent number: 5162078
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing microstructured metallic bodies in which plastic negative molds of the microstructures are produced on an electrically conductive base plate by means of electron beam lithography, X-ray lithography or a micromolding technique. Cavities of the negative molds are filled with metal by electroplating while employing the electrically conductive base plate as an electrode. In the course of producing the negative molds, a residual plastic layer is left at the bottom of the cavities of the negative molds on the electrically conductive base plate. Also, before the cavities of the negative molds are filled with metal by electroplating, the residual plastic layer at the bottom of the cavities is removed by means of reactive ion etching with ions that are accelerated perpendicularly toward the surface of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Bley, Herbert Hein, Jurgen Mohr, Werner Schomburg
  • Patent number: 4551157
    Abstract: A process for the separation of light additive gas at the end of and/or at the location of the change in stage sizes in a separating nozzle cascade which is operated with a mixture of gaseous or vaporous substances to be separated. The separation of the light additive gas is effected by using a separating nozzle stage. A double deflection separating nozzle is employed as the separating nozzle stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Becker, Wolfgang Ehrfeld, Wolfgang Fritz, Harald Steinhaus, Peter Bley
  • Patent number: 4246007
    Abstract: In order to separate gaseous or vaporous substances having different molecular weights and/or different gas kinetically effective cross sections, by conducting the mixture to be separated together with a lighter additive gas into a separating chamber through two slit-shaped nozzles to form, in the chamber, two jets which are directed toward, and deflect, one another, the flow lines of each jet converging in the flow direction, dividing the thus deflected jets by means of separating baffles into partial streams of respectively different compositions, and discharging the partial streams separately from the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin-Willy Becker, Peter Bley, Ursula Ehrfeld, Wolfgang Ehrfeld, Ulrich Knapp
  • Patent number: 4235606
    Abstract: In a method for separating a gaseous or vaporous mixture into components having different molecular weights and/or different gas kinetically effective cross sections by conducting the mixture through a nozzle into a separating chamber and deflecting the mixture in the chamber by mutual jet deflection, dividing the deflected mixture into partial streams having respectively different compositions by means of at least one separating baffle which protrudes into the mixture flow path, and separately removing the partial streams, the mixture is conducted through the nozzle by being distributed substantially uniformly around the axis of the separating chamber by being fed into the chamber from all sides thereof in radial directions along a plane, and the partial streams are removed by causing at least the lightest partial stream to flow radially out of the separating chamber substantially uniformly around the axis of the separating chamber and in a plane approximately parallel with the plane along which the mixture
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1980
    Assignee: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin-Willy Becker, Peter Bley, Wolfgang Ehrfeld, Ursula Ehrfeld, Gunther Krieg