Patents by Inventor Zhou Ningning

Zhou Ningning 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: 8916944
    Abstract: The micro-electromechanical device has a substrate. Integrated into the substrate is a micromechanical component that has a bending element which can be bent reversibly and which has a first end connected to the substrate and extends from the first end over a free space. The bending element has at least one web having two side edges, the course of which is defined by depressions introduced into the bending element and adjacent to the side edges. In order to form a homogenization region located within the web, in which mechanical stresses occurring during bending of the bending element are substantially equal, the mutual spacing of the side edges of the web decreases, as viewed from the first end of the bending element. The device further comprises at least one microelectronic component that is sensitive to mechanical stresses and embedded in the web in the homogenization region of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignees: ELMOS Semiconductor AG, Silicon Microstructures, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernd Burchard, Michael Doelle, Zhou Ningning
  • Publication number: 20130193535
    Abstract: The micro-electromechanical device has a substrate. Integrated into the substrate is a micromechanical component that has a bending element which can be bent reversibly and which has a first end connected to the substrate and extends from the first end over a free space. The bending element has at least one web having two side edges, the course of which is defined by depressions introduced into the bending element and adjacent to the side edges. In order to form a homogenization region located within the web, in which mechanical stresses occurring during bending of the bending element are substantially equal, the mutual spacing of the side edges of the web decreases, as viewed from the first end of the bending element. The device further comprises at least one microelectronic component that is sensitive to mechanical stresses and embedded in the web in the homogenization region of the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicants: SILICON MICROSTRUCTURES, INC., ELMOS SEMICONDUCTOR AG
    Inventors: Bernd Burchard, Michael Doelle, Zhou Ningning