Patents by Inventor Peter Strobel

Peter Strobel 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: 7919857
    Abstract: A plastic housing includes plastic external faces and the underside of the plastic housing comprises external contact areas on which external contacts are arranged. The plastic external faces are covered by a closed metal layer apart from the underside, wherein the boundary layer between plastic external faces and the closed metal layer includes exposed electrically conductive inclusions of the plastic of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Peter Strobel, Jens Pohl, Christian Stuempfl, Ludwig Heitzer
  • Patent number: 7893532
    Abstract: An external contact material for external contacts of a semiconductor device and a method for producing the same are described. The external contact material includes a lead-free solder material. Provided in the solder material is a filler which forms a plurality of gas pores and/or has plastic particles which are arranged in the volume of the solder material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Irmgard Escher-Poeppel, Edward Fuergut, Simon Jerebic, Bernd Rakow, Peter Strobel, Holger Woerner
  • Publication number: 20100233831
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing semiconductor device comprises placing multiple chips onto a carrier. An encapsulation material is applied to the multiple chips and the carrier for forming an encapsulation workpiece. The encapsulation workpiece having a first main face facing the carrier and a second main face opposite to the first main face. Further, marking elements are applied to the encapsulation workpiece relative to the multiple chips, the marking elements being detectable on the first main face and on the second main face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Jens Pohl, Edward Fuergut, Markus Brunnbauer, Thorsten Meyer, Peter Strobel, Daniel Porwol, Ulrich Wachter
  • Patent number: 7772105
    Abstract: A semiconductor component includes a plastic housing including: plastic outer surfaces; lower outer contact surfaces arranged on an underside of the housing; upper outer contact surfaces arranged on a top side of the housing that is opposite the underside; and outer interconnects electrically connecting the lower outer contact surfaces to the upper outer contact surfaces, the outer interconnects including a layer of solder arranged on conduction paths along an outer contour of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Bachmaier, Michael Bauer, Robert Christian Hagen, Jens Pohl, Rainer Steiner, Peter Strobel, Hermann Vilsmeier, Holger Woerner, Bernhard Zuhr
  • Patent number: 7749864
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with a thinned semiconductor chip and a method for producing the latter is disclosed. In one embodiment, the thinned semiconductor chip has a top side with contact areas and a rear side with a rear side electrode. In this case, the rear side electrode is cohesively connected to a chip pad of a circuit carrier via an electrically conductive layer. In another embodiment, the thinned semiconductor chips of this semiconductor device according to the invention have low-microdefect edge side regions with semiconductor element structures and edge sides patterned by etching technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Ludwig Heitzer, Jens Pohl, Peter Strobel, Christian Stuempfl
  • Patent number: 7700956
    Abstract: A sensor component and a panel used for the production thereof is disclosed. The sensor component has, in addition to a sensor chip with a sensor region, a rear side and passive components. These are embedded jointly in a plastics composition, in such a way that their respective electrodes can be wired from an overall top side of a plastic plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Edward Fuergut, Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Simon Jerebic, Jens Pohl, Peter Strobel, Holger Woerner
  • Publication number: 20100051190
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for applying an adhesive layer to ground-thin or thinned semiconductor chips of a semiconductor wafer. In this case, the adhesive layer, with the aid of an adhesive film which is entirely composed of precurable adhesive, is introduced relatively early into a method for the thinning by grinding, separation and singulation of a semiconductor wafer to form thinned semiconductor chips, and is finally used further in the semiconductor device into which the thinned semiconductor chip is to be incorporated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: QIMONDA AG
    Inventors: Simon Jerebic, Peter Strobel
  • Patent number: 7662664
    Abstract: An electronic circuit in a package-on-package configuration includes: a lower subassembly with a first electronic element, a first wiring carrier, a first housing with a first redistribution layer and an arrangement of solder balls disposed on the first redistribution layer and an upper subassembly with a second electronic element mounted on the lower subassembly. A method for producing the electronic circuit in a package-on-package configuration includes: adhering an upper side of the first electronic element to an underside of the first redistribution layer via a radiation-crosslinking thermoplastic adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Ludwig Heitzer, Jens Pohl, Peter Strobel, Christian Stuempfl
  • Publication number: 20090268281
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stereo microscope (20) with a first and a second main beam path (21, 22), the spacing of which defines a stereo base (23), wherein an axis of the microscope (24) extends through the middle of the stereo base (23) parallel to the main beam paths (21, 22), and with an optical beam splitter device (30) for producing an assistant beam path (31) and a documentation beam path (32), wherein the direction of the assistant beam path (31) in a first position is rotated by 180° to the direction of the assistant beam path (31) in a second position of the beam splitter device (30), and the decoupled documentation beam path (32) in both positions of the beam splitter device (30) is in each case perpendicular to the decoupled assistant beam path (31), and wherein in both the first and second positions of the beam splitter device (30) the assistant beam path (31) can in each case be decoupled at least from the first main beam path (21) and the documentation beam path (32) can in each case b
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Harald SCHNITZLER, Peter Strobel, James NG, Manfred Kuster
  • Patent number: 7602614
    Abstract: An electronic module and a method for the production thereof is disclosed. In one embodiment, the electronic module has a plurality of components arranged on a wiring block. The wiring block has a plurality of outer sides and has in its volume lines interconnecting contact pads on the outer sides. The contact pads are electrically connected to component connections of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Wolfram Eurskens, Rudolf Kerler, Heinz Pape, Peter Strobel, Stephan Stoeckl
  • Patent number: 7592236
    Abstract: A structure of joining material is applied to the back surfaces of semiconductor chips in manufacturing semiconductor devices. The joining material is applied, in finely metered and structured form via a joining material jet appliance, to the back surfaces of the semiconductor chips of a divided semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Ludwig Heitzer, Jens Pohl, Peter Strobel, Christian Stuempfl
  • Patent number: 7587235
    Abstract: A method for assigning digital image information to the navigational data of a medical navigation system is provided. The method includes: producing digital image information from a digital image recording device for a patient being monitored by means of the navigation system; transmitting a signal from the image recording device to the navigation system when an image is produced, the signal including assignment information for assigning the image information to the navigational data which apply to the image information; and transmitting the image information from the image recording device to the navigation system, wherein the image information and the corresponding navigational data are assigned to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: BrainLAB AG
    Inventors: Henrik Wist, Alf Ritter, Mario Zeiss, Hanna Rotermund-Buwen, Helmar Werner Lang, Jörg Peter Strobel, Klaus-Peter Kreuzer
  • Patent number: 7575173
    Abstract: A smart card for contact data transmission includes a card body and a smart card module which is fitted in the card body. The smart card module includes a semiconductor chip with an active upper surface, a plastic housing compound that surrounds the semiconductor chip and includes at least one surface that is coplanar with the active upper surface of the semiconductor chip, a first dielectric layer that is arranged on the plastic housing compound surface and on the active upper surface of the semiconductor chip, one or more interposer metallization levels, which are isolated via further dielectric layers and are connected to the active upper surface of the semiconductor chip, and external contact surfaces. The external contact surfaces are formed on the outermost interposer level and facilitate contact data transmission. The smart card module uses no bonding wires and has a very small physical volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies, AG
    Inventors: Edward Fuergut, Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Simon Jerebic, Jens Pohl, Peter Strobel, Holger Woerner
  • Patent number: 7547645
    Abstract: A method for coating a structure that includes at least one semiconductor chip involves electrostatically depositing coating particles on the areas of the structure to be coated. The coating particles are first applied to a carrier and the latter is electrostatically charged with the coating particles. The structure including at least one semiconductor chip is charged electrostatically to a polarity opposite to the carrier. The carrier and/or the structure are then moved towards one another in the direction of an area of the structure to be coated until the coating particles jump to the areas of the structure to be coated and adhere there. The coating particles are liquefied by heating the area with coating particles to form a coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Ludwig Heitzer, Jens Pohl, Peter Strobel, Christian Stuempfl
  • Patent number: 7524699
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention relates to an electronic component having stacked semiconductor chips, and to a panel for production of the component. In one case, the stack has a flat conductor structure with a chip island on which a stacked semiconductor chip is arranged, while a first semiconductor chip is located underneath it. The chip island is surrounded by flat conductors which have contact pillars. These contact pillars have pillar contact pads which, together with the active upper face of the first semiconductor chip and the upper face areas of a plastic encapsulation compound form a coplanar overall upper face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Edward Fuergut, Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Simon Jerebic, Jens Pohl, Peter Strobel, Holger Woerner
  • Patent number: 7470601
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip and an adhesive film between the back side of the semiconductor chip and a chip pad of a leadframe. The adhesive film includes a film core and adhesive layers that cover both sides of the film core. The film core includes a brittle, fragile hard material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Ludwig Heitzer, Eric Kuerzel, Peter Strobel
  • Patent number: 7443580
    Abstract: An apparatus for pupil distance adjustment for a binocular tube (22) has two eyepiece carriers (1, 2), at least one of which is mounted rotatably about a rotation axis (3, 4), a threaded spindle (7) being provided which is actuatable for pupil distance adjustment and by way of whose threads (12) the spacing of the two eyepiece carriers (1, 2) is adjustable. The apparatus can be implemented in mechanically simple and compact fashion, and permits accurate adjustment of the pupil distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Leica Microsystems (Schweiz) AG
    Inventor: Peter Strobel
  • Publication number: 20080242057
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with a thinned semiconductor chip and a method for producing the latter is disclosed. In one embodiment, the thinned semiconductor chip has a top side with contact areas and a rear side with a rear side electrode. In this case, the rear side electrode is cohesively connected to a chip pad of a circuit carrier via an electrically conductive layer. In another embodiment, the thinned semiconductor chips of this semiconductor device according to the invention have low-microdefect edge side regions with semiconductor element structures and edge sides patterned by etching technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Ludwig Heitzer, Jens Pohl, Peter Strobel, Christian Stuempfl
  • Patent number: 7420262
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic component and a semiconductor wafer, and a method for producing them. The semiconductor wafer has strip-type separating regions. The separating regions are provided with through contacts in the direction of the rear side of the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor chip separated from such a semiconductor wafer constitutes an electronic component with external contacts in the form of edge contacts. Such an electronic component of semiconductor chip size can be used in diverse ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Bauer, Peter Strobel, Gerald Ofner, Edward Fürgut, Simon Jerebic, Thomas Bemmerl, Markus Fink, Hermann Vilsmeier
  • Patent number: 7391103
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic module having plug contacts, which has a semiconductor chip embedded in a plastics composition with its rear side and its edge sides. An active top side of the semiconductor chip forms, together with the plastics composition, an overall top side, there being arranged on the latter a rewiring layer with plug contact areas and rewiring lines that connect the plug contact areas to contact areas of the top side of the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Edward Fuergut, Bernd Goller, Robert-Christian Hagen, Simon Jerebic, Jens Pohl, Holger Woerner, Peter Strobel