271 patents
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Optical Particle Sensor
4 Aug 22
A particle detector.
Alex Lollio, Boon Chong Cheah, Filip Frederix, Remco Verdoold, Markus Dantler, Erik Jan Lous
Filed: 5 Jun 20
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Pixel structure, image sensor device and system with pixel structure, and method of operating the pixel structure
2 Aug 22
A photodetector in semiconductor material is provided with a first transfer gate between the photodetector and a first diffusion region in the semiconductor material, a second transfer gate between the photodetector and a second diffusion region in the semiconductor material, a capacitor connected between the first diffusion region and the second diffusion region, a first switch connected between the first diffusion region and a first reference voltage, and a second switch connected between the second diffusion region and a second reference voltage.
Guy Meynants
Filed: 10 Dec 18
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Semiconductor device with through-substrate via and its method of manufacture
2 Aug 22
A dielectric layer is arranged on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a metal layer providing a contact area is embedded in the dielectric layer, a top metal is arranged on an opposite main surface of the substrate, and an electrically conductive interconnection through the substrate, which comprises a plurality of metallizations arranged in a plurality of via holes, connects the contact area with the top metal.
Victor Sidorov, Stefan Jessenig, Georg Parteder
Filed: 15 Feb 19
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Semiconductor Body, Avalanche Photodiode and Method for Fabricating a Semiconductor Body
28 Jul 22
A semiconductor body comprises a buried layer of a first type of conductivity, a first region of the first type of conductivity, a shallow region of a second type of conductivity at a first surface of the semiconductor body, a sinker of the first type of conductivity located at the first surface of the semiconductor body, and a separating region of the first type of conductivity encircling at least one of the sinker and the buried layer.
Georg RÖHRER
Filed: 29 May 20
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Test Strip, Monitoring Device and Method for Fabricating a Test Strip
21 Jul 22
A test strip comprises a porous material, a photodetector and a substrate with a first and a second side.
Giuliano MANZI
Filed: 21 Jul 20
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Audio System and Signal Processing Method for an Ear Mountable Playback Device
14 Jul 22
An audio system for an ear mountable playback device includes a speaker, an error microphone, which senses sound being output from the speaker, and a sound control processor.
Peter MCCUTCHEON, Horst GETHER
Filed: 18 Mar 20
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Semiconductor Device and Method for Manufacturing a Semiconductor Device
14 Jul 22
A semiconductor device comprises a substrate body with a surface, a conductor comprising a conductor material covering at least part of the surface, and a dielectric that is arranged on a part of the surface that is not covered by the conductor.
Jens Hofrichter, Manuel Kaschowitz, Bernhard Poelzl, Karl Rohracher, Amandine Jouve, Viorel Balan, Romain Crochemore, Frank Fournel, Sylvain Maitrejean
Filed: 30 Mar 20
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Semiconductor device with through-substrate via
21 Jun 22
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body, an electrically conductive via which extends through at least a part of the semiconductor body, and where the via has a top side and a bottom side that faces away from the top side, an electrically conductive etch-stop layer arranged at the bottom side of the via in a plane which is parallel to a lateral direction, where the lateral direction is perpendicular to a vertical direction given by the main axis of extension of the via, and at least one electrically conductive contact layer at the bottom side of the via in a plane which is parallel to the lateral direction.
Jochen Kraft, Georg Parteder, Anderson Pires Singulani, Raffaele Coppeta, Franz Schrank
Filed: 20 Mar 19
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Directional photodetector and optical sensor arrangement
21 Jun 22
A directional photodetector comprises a photosensitive element and a light selector.
Robert Kappel
Filed: 16 Jun 17
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Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and semiconductor device
7 Jun 22
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided.
Georg Parteder, Jochen Kraft, Raffaele Coppeta
Filed: 23 Aug 18
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SPAD device for excess bias monitoring
7 Jun 22
The SPAD device comprises a single-photon avalanche diode and a further single-photon avalanche diode having breakdown voltages, the single-photon avalanche diodes being integrated in the same device.
Georg Röhrer, Robert Kappel, Nenad Lilic
Filed: 18 Jul 18
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Voltage Regulator, Integrated Circuit and Method for Voltage Regulation
2 Jun 22
A voltage regulator comprises an output transistor with a controlled section connected between a first supply terminal and an output terminal.
Carlo FIOCCHI
Filed: 5 Mar 20
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Mobile Communications Device without Physical Screen-opening for Audio
2 Jun 22
A mobile communications device that does not have a physical opening on the screen for audio is operable to transmit a signal to which a photoacoustic effect can be employed by interaction with water vapor in an ear of a user so as to generate audio in the ear or the immediate vicinity of the user's ear.
Martin Muenzer, Peter TRATTLER
Filed: 22 Apr 20
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Circuit arrangement for an optical monitoring system and method for optical monitoring
31 May 22
A circuit arrangement for an optical monitoring system comprises a driver circuit which is configured to generate at least one driving signal for driving the light source.
Peter Trattler, Karl Georg Waser, Herbert Lenhard
Filed: 15 May 18
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Optical Sensor Having Directional Sensitivity
26 May 22
An apparatus includes a light senor having directional sensitivity.
Werner RAUCH
Filed: 26 Mar 20
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Audio System and Signal Processing Method of Voice Activity Detection for an Ear Mountable Playback Device
26 May 22
An audio system for an ear mountable playback device comprises a speaker, an error microphone predominantly sensing sound being output from the speaker and a feed-forward microphone predominantly sensing ambient sound.
Peter MCCUTCHEON, Dylan MORGAN
Filed: 17 Mar 20
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Sensor arrangement and method for sensor measurement
17 May 22
A sensor arrangement comprises an integrator with an integrator input, a sensor coupled to the integrator input, a balancing current generator coupled to the integrator input and a compensation current generator coupled to the integrator input.
Helmut Theiler, Bernhard Greimel-Längauer
Filed: 22 Oct 18
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Near-infrared photodetector semiconductor device
17 May 22
The near-infrared photodetector semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor layer (1) of a first type of conductivity with a main surface (10), a trench or a plurality of trenches (2) in the semiconductor layer at the main surface, a SiGe alloy layer (3) in the trench or the plurality of trenches, and an electrically conductive filling material of a second type of conductivity in the trench or the plurality of trenches, the second type of conductivity being opposite to the first type of conductivity.
Ingrid Jonak-Auer, Gerald Meinhardt, Bernhard Löffler
Filed: 13 Nov 18
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Charge pump circuit arrangement
10 May 22
A charge pump circuit arrangement includes a multitude of capacitors of a first and a second group controlled by non-overlapping clock pulses.
Nenad Lilic, Robert Kappel, Georg Röhrer
Filed: 5 Apr 19
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Sensor arrangement and method for dark count cancellation
10 May 22
A sensor arrangement for light sensing for light-to-frequency conversion.
Ravi Kumar Adusumalli, Sudhakar Singamala
Filed: 25 Nov 19