Patents by Inventor Thomas Spöttl

Thomas Spöttl 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: 20240078406
    Abstract: A chip arrangement including a chip module which includes a chip, a contact-based interface in accordance with ISO 7816 which is electrically conductively connected to the chip, and an antenna structure which is electrically conductively connected to the chip and provides a contactless interface, and a carrier which comprises a chip module receptacle and a booster antenna structure which, when the chip module is arranged in the chip module receptacle of the carrier, inductively couples to the antenna structure of the chip module, wherein the chip module is arranged releasably in the chip module receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Jens Pohl, Michael Huber, Frank Püschner, Thomas Spöttl
  • Publication number: 20230298989
    Abstract: A chip-interconnect arrangement including a substrate having a cavity, a chip having at least one chip contact and one chip contact surface, the chip being arranged in the cavity, an interconnect having an interconnect surface, the interconnect being applied on a surface of the substrate, and an electrically conductive adhesion medium, which electrically connects the at least one chip contact to the interconnect, wherein the interconnect surface is planar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jens Pohl, Frank Püschner, Thomas Spöttl, Uwe Wagner
  • Publication number: 20230289554
    Abstract: A smart card module including a contact region with at least one electrical smart card module contact, and a verification code display unit configured to display a verification code, the verification code display unit being arranged in the smart card module, wherein the verification code display unit is configured as a dynamic permanent display unit, the controlled display of which continues to be displayed after deenergization of the verification code display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Jens Pohl, Frank Püschner, Thomas Spöttl, Peter Stampka
  • Patent number: 11681888
    Abstract: A sensor device is provided that includes a fingerprint sensor and an antenna coupled with the fingerprint sensor for inductive coupling of the fingerprint sensor with a booster antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Walther Pachler, Josef Gruber, Jens Pohl, Stephan Rampetzreiter, Thomas Spoettl, Peter Stampka
  • Publication number: 20230021853
    Abstract: A method for producing a document structure, wherein the method includes producing a chip structure by forming a cavity in a carrier having a top side and an under side, picking up a chip having at least one chip contact and a redistribution layer (RDL) connected to the at least one chip contact by means of a picking-up device detaching the chip from an auxiliary carrier, wherein the chip bears on the auxiliary carrier by way of the RDL, wherein the chip is lifted up from the auxiliary carrier by means of pressure being exerted on the RDL, wherein the lifted-up chip is picked up and inserted into the cavity, and wherein the RDL is oriented on the top side of the carrier, fixing the chip in the cavity by means of an adhesive, electrically conductively connecting the at least one chip contact of the RDL to an electrically conductive region of the carrier by means of an electrically conductive material, and embedding the carrier between a first paper layer and a second paper layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Peter Stampka, Jens Pohl, Uwe Wagner, Thomas Spoettl
  • Publication number: 20230029248
    Abstract: A chip module having a chip coupled to at least one electrically conductive region including a metal, and a coating of the at least one electrically conductive region with a layer of at least one organic silicon compound and/or a form of carbon in a thickness having an electrical surface contact resistance of not more than 500 m? according to ISO 7810 in a measurement in accordance with ISO 10373-1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Thomas Spoettl
  • Publication number: 20220240593
    Abstract: A device for an electronic cigarette. The device includes an enveloping element defining an interior, and an authentication device arranged in or on the enveloping element. The authentication device includes a planar loop antenna, and an authentication logic coupled to the planar loop antenna and configured to provide an authentication of the device vis-à-vis a control element of the electronic cigarette. The planar loop antenna is arranged in rolled form in the interior of the enveloping element or on the exterior of the enveloping element. The loop antenna comprises conduction sections in two opposite regions of the planar loop antenna, which extend in the longitudinal direction of the rolled loop antenna. The conduction sections of the opposite regions are arranged such that they are adjacent or overlap one another, with a result that their respective fields mutually compensate for one another at least partly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Josef Gruber, Bala Nagendra Raja Munjuluri, Walther Pachler, Jens Pohl, Thomas Spoettl
  • Publication number: 20220225684
    Abstract: A set of devices is provided for an electronic cigarette. The set of devices has a first device and a second device, wherein the first device has an authentication device which is configured to authenticate the first device and the second device in relation to a control element of the electronic cigarette. The set of devices further has an identifier which indicates that the first device has the authentication device for authenticating the first device and the second device, wherein the second device is without an identifier which indicates that the second device has the authentication device for authenticating the first device and the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Thomas Lehmann, Jens Pohl, Thomas Spoettl, Peter Stampka
  • Publication number: 20210345683
    Abstract: An electronic inhalation apparatus including a body having a chip module accommodating region which is at least partially surrounded by a folding structure which, when a chip module is accommodated in the chip module accommodating region, is bent around the chip module in order to fasten the chip module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Jens Pohl, Thea Goetz, Frank Pueschner, Thomas Spoettl
  • Publication number: 20210303962
    Abstract: A chip card having a chip card body with a first recess, and a chip module arranged in the recess, wherein the chip module is arranged with a distance of at most 20 ?m between the chip module surface facing the bottom of the recess and the bottom of the recess, wherein the chip card body has a layer thickness from the bottom of the recess up to a surface of the chip card body facing away from the bottom of the recess of at least 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Michael Huber, Thomas Spoettl, Peter Stampka
  • Publication number: 20210117743
    Abstract: A sensor device is provided that includes a fingerprint sensor and an antenna coupled with the fingerprint sensor for inductive coupling of the fingerprint sensor with a booster antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Walther Pachler, Josef Gruber, Jens Pohl, Stephan Rampetzreiter, Thomas Spoettl, Peter Stampka
  • Patent number: 10585034
    Abstract: In various exemplary embodiments, a smart card module is provided. The smart card module includes a carrier and a layer stack at least partly covering the carrier. The layer stack includes a reflection layer, a light-transmissive layer arranged above the reflection layer, and a partly light-transmissive silver layer arranged above the light-transmissive layer. The partly light-transmissive silver layer is configured for reflecting part of light impinging on the partly light-transmissive silver layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Spoettl, Mathias Belzner, Ralph Domnick, Jens Pohl, Frank Pueschner, Peter Stampka, Daniel Weiss
  • Patent number: 10395157
    Abstract: A method for producing a smart card module arrangement includes: arranging a smart card module on a first carrier layer, wherein the first carrier layer is free of a prefabricated smart card module receptacle cutout for receiving the smart card module. The smart card module includes: a substrate; a chip on the substrate; a first mechanical reinforcement structure between the chip and the substrate. The first mechanical reinforcement structure covers at least one part of a surface of the chip. The method further includes applying a second carrier layer to the smart card module, wherein the second carrier layer is free of a prefabricated smart card module receptacle cutout for receiving the smart card module; and at least one of laminating or pressing the first carrier layer with the second carrier layer, such that the smart card module is enclosed by the first carrier layer and the second carrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Thomas Spoettl, Jens Pohl, Peter Stampka
  • Patent number: 10223629
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a smart card module is provided. The smart card module may include an electronic circuit in or on a carrier, a smart card module contact layer, which is coupled to the electronic circuit and provides a plurality of smart card module contacts, a mirror layer on the smart card module contact layer, said mirror layer at least partly covering the smart card module contacts, and an optically translucent, electrically conductive oxide layer, which covers the mirror layer. The optically translucent, electrically conductive oxide layer includes a plurality of regions of different layer thicknesses for providing different color components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Spoettl, Frank Pueschner, Peter Stampka, Mathias Belzner, Ralph Domnick, Daniel Weiss
  • Publication number: 20190033206
    Abstract: In various exemplary embodiments, a smart card module is provided. The smart card module includes a carrier and a layer stack at least partly covering the carrier. The layer stack includes a reflection layer, a light-transmissive layer arranged above the reflection layer, and a partly light-transmissive silver layer arranged above the light-transmissive layer. The partly light-transmissive silver layer is configured for reflecting part of light impinging on the partly light-transmissive silver layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Spoettl, Mathias Belzner, Ralph Domnick, Jens Pohl, Frank Pueschner, Peter Stampka, Daniel Weiss
  • Patent number: 10157848
    Abstract: A chip card module arrangement may include a first surface and a second surface, which are opposite from one another, and a chip receptacle for one or more semiconductor chips on the surfaces. The chip card module arrangement may further include a connecting material receiving area on one of the two surfaces, the connecting material receiving area only taking up a portion of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Jens Pohl, Thomas Spoettl, Peter Stampka
  • Patent number: 10114992
    Abstract: An electronic identification document is provided. The electronic identification document may include a carrier, an identification element, a microwave interaction structure configured to interact with microwave radiation, and an alteration element, wherein the alteration element may be part of or in contact with the microwave interaction structure and may be configured to alter, upon interaction of the interaction structure with microwaves, its state from an initial state to a permanent altered state, wherein the permanent altered state may differ from the initial state by a change of the alteration element in color, brightness, saturation, and/or transparency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Jens Pohl, Thomas Spoettl, Peter Stampka
  • Patent number: 10097918
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a method for manufacturing a chip arrangement, the method including bonding a microphone chip to a first carrier, the microphone chip including a microphone structure, depositing adhesive material laterally disposed from the microphone structure, and arranging the microphone structure into a cavity of a second carrier such that the adhesive material fixes the microphone chip to the cavity of the second carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Spoettl, Horst Theuss
  • Publication number: 20180101758
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a smart card module is provided. The smart card module may include an electronic circuit in or on a carrier, a smart card module contact layer, which is coupled to the electronic circuit and provides a plurality of smart card module contacts, a mirror layer on the smart card module contact layer, said mirror layer at least partly covering the smart card module contacts, and an optically translucent, electrically conductive oxide layer, which covers the mirror layer. The optically translucent, electrically conductive oxide layer includes a plurality of regions of different layer thicknesses for providing different color components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Spoettl, Frank Pueschner, Peter Stampka, Mathias Belzner, Ralph Domnick, Daniel Weiss
  • Patent number: D967036
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Roman Hollweck, Thomas Lehmann, Jens Pohl, Frank Pueschner, Thomas Spoettl