Patents by Inventor Timm Hoehr

Timm Hoehr 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: 11667520
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a micromechanical component. The method includes: providing an ASIC component including first front and rear sides, a strip conductor unit being provided at the first front side; providing a MEMS component including second front and rear sides, a micromechanical functional element situated in a cavity at the second front side; bonding the first front side onto the second front side; back-thinning the first rear side; forming vias starting from the back-thinned first rear side and from a redistribution unit on the first rear side, the vias electrically connecting the strip conductor unit to the redistribution unit; forming electrical contact elements on the redistribution unit; and back-thinning the second rear side. The back-thinning of the first and second rear side taking place so that a thickness of the stack made up of ASIC component and MEMS component is less than 300 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Classen, Frank Reuss, Manuel Dietrich, Timm Hoehr
  • Publication number: 20220041432
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a micromechanical component. The method includes: providing an ASIC component including first front and rear sides, a strip conductor unit being provided at the first front side; providing a MEMS component including second front and rear sides, a micromechanical functional element situated in a cavity at the second front side; bonding the first front side onto the second front side; back-thinning the first rear side; forming vias starting from the back-thinned first rear side and from a redistribution unit on the first rear side, the vias electrically connecting the strip conductor unit to the redistribution unit; forming electrical contact elements on the redistribution unit; and back-thinning the second rear side. The back-thinning of the first and second rear side taking place so that a thickness of the stack made up of ASIC component and MEMS component is less than 300 micrometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Johannes Classen, Frank Reuss, Manuel Dietrich, Timm Hoehr
  • Patent number: 10656173
    Abstract: A micromechanical structure for an acceleration sensor includes a movable seismic mass including electrodes, the seismic mass being attached to a substrate with the aid of an attachment element; first fixed counter electrodes attached to a first carrier plate; and second fixed counter electrodes attached to a second carrier plate, where the counter electrodes, together with the electrodes, are situated nested in one another in a sensing plane of the micromechanical structure, and where the carrier plates are situated nested in one another in a plane below the sensing plane, each being attached to a central area of the substrate with the aid of an attachment element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Classen, Antoine Puygranier, Denis Gugel, Guenther-Nino-Carlo Ullrich, Markus Linck-Lescanne, Sebastian Guenther, Timm Hoehr
  • Patent number: 10598686
    Abstract: A micromechanical z-acceleration sensor, including a seismic mass element including a torsion spring; the torsion spring including an anchor element, with the aid of which the torsion spring is connected to a substrate; the torsion spring being connected at both ends to the seismic mass element with the aid of a bar-shaped connecting element designed as normal with respect to the torsion spring in the plane of the seismic mass element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Antoine Puygranier, Denis Gugel, Guenther-Nino-Carlo Ullrich, Markus Linck-Lescanne, Sebastian Guenther, Timm Hoehr
  • Publication number: 20180328959
    Abstract: A micromechanical structure for an acceleration sensor includes a movable seismic mass including electrodes, the seismic mass being attached to a substrate with the aid of an attachment element; first fixed counter electrodes attached to a first carrier plate; and second fixed counter electrodes attached to a second carrier plate, where the counter electrodes, together with the electrodes, are situated nested in one another in a sensing plane of the micromechanical structure, and where the carrier plates are situated nested in one another in a plane below the sensing plane, each being attached to a central area of the substrate with the aid of an attachment element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Johannes Classen, Antoine Puygranier, Denis Gugel, Guenther-Nino-Carlo Ullrich, Markus Linck-Lescanne, Sebastian Guenther, Timm Hoehr
  • Patent number: 10074723
    Abstract: A field plate trench FET includes a substrate, a gate buried at least partly within the substrate, and a field plate disposed below the gate, both the gate and the field plate being disposed within a trench in the substrate and being surrounded by an insulator. A p-doped domain is disposed within the substrate below the trench. Also described is a semiconductor component having a substrate and a plurality of field plate trench FETs disposed within the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Carolin Tolksdorf, Ingo Martini, Frank Lipski, Timm Hoehr
  • Publication number: 20180240879
    Abstract: A field plate trench FET includes a substrate, a gate buried at least partly within the substrate, and a field plate disposed below the gate, both the gate and the field plate being disposed within a trench in the substrate and being surrounded by an insulator. A p-doped domain is disposed within the substrate below the trench. Also described is a semiconductor component having a substrate and a plurality of field plate trench FETs disposed within the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Carolin Tolksdorf, Ingo Martini, Frank Lipski, Timm HOEHR
  • Publication number: 20180106828
    Abstract: A micromechanical z-acceleration sensor, including a seismic mass element including a torsion spring; the torsion spring including an anchor element, with the aid of which the torsion spring is connected to a substrate; the torsion spring being connected at both ends to the seismic mass element with the aid of a bar-shaped connecting element designed as normal with respect to the torsion spring in the plane of the seismic mass element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Antoine Puygranier, Denis Gugel, Guenther-Nino-Carlo Ullrich, Markus Linck-Lescanne, Sebastian Guenther, Timm Hoehr
  • Publication number: 20180045515
    Abstract: A micromechanical sensor core for an inertial sensor, having a movable seismic mass, a defined number of anchor elements, by which the seismic mass is fastened on a substrate, a defined number of stop devices fastened on the substrate for stopping the seismic mass, a first springy stop element, a second springy stop element and a solid stop element being developed on the stop device. The stop elements are designed in such a way that the seismic mass is able to strike in succession against the first springy stop element, the second springy stop element and the solid stop element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Barbara Simoni, Christian Hoeppner, Denis Gugel, Guenther-Nino-Carlo Ullrich, Sebastian Guenther, Timm Hoehr, Johannes Seelhorst
  • Patent number: 9478613
    Abstract: A semiconductor system for a current sensor in a power semiconductor includes: on a substrate, a multiple arrangement of transistor cells having an insulated gate electrode, whose emitter terminals are connected in a first region via a first conductive layer to at least one output terminal and whose emitter terminals are connected in a second region via a second conductive layer to at least one sensor terminal, which is situated outside of a first cell region boundary, which encloses the transistor cells of the first region and the second region, a trench structure belonging to the first cell region boundary being developed between the transistor cells of the second region and the sensor terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Pluntke, Timm Hoehr, Thomas Jacke, Frank Wolter, Holger Ruething, Guenther Koffler
  • Publication number: 20140374795
    Abstract: A semiconductor system for a current sensor in a power semiconductor includes: on a substrate, a multiple arrangement of transistor cells having an insulated gate electrode, whose emitter terminals are connected in a first region via a first conductive layer to at least one output terminal and whose emitter terminals are connected in a second region via a second conductive layer to at least one sensor terminal, which is situated outside of a first cell region boundary, which encloses the transistor cells of the first region and the second region, a trench structure belonging to the first cell region boundary being developed between the transistor cells of the second region and the sensor terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Pluntke, Timm Hoehr, Thomas Jacke
  • Patent number: 8450860
    Abstract: A power switch component having a semiconductor switch and a contacting applied to a contact zone of the semiconductor switch is introduced. The contact zone has a semiconductor layer and a metal plating applied to the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer has at least one conducting region and at least one non-conducting region situated directly under the metal plating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Jacke, Christian Foerster, Timm Hoehr, Holger Heinisch, Christian Pluntke, Joachim Joos
  • Publication number: 20110260341
    Abstract: A power switch component having a semiconductor switch and a contacting applied to a contact zone of the semiconductor switch is introduced. The contact zone has a semiconductor layer and a metal plating applied to the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer has at least one conducting region and at least one non-conducting region situated directly under the metal plating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas Jacke, Christian Foerster, Timm Hoehr, Holger Heinisch, Christian Pluntke, Joachim Joos