Multiple energization elements in stacked integrated component devices

• US 9,535,268 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2015
• Issued: 01/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Flitsch, Frederick A., Otts, Daniel B., Pugh, Randall B., Riall, James Daniel, Toner, Adam
• Primary Examiner(s): Sinclair, David M
• Assistant Examiner(s): BROWN, ROBERT D
• Application Number:
  US14/796,110
• Publication Number:
  US 20150309337A1
• Time in Patent Office: 543 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 11/00038 Production of contact lenses
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 11/00826 with energy receptors for wireless energy transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/10 Electronic devices other than hearing aids
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 2202/16 Laminated or compound lenses
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/02 Lenses; Lens systems ; Methods of designing lenses
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/04 Contact lenses for the eyes disinfection or sterilisation of contact lenses A61L12/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/083 Electrooptic lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/32145 the bodies being stacked
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/45099 Material
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/45139 Silver (Ag) as principal constituent
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/45147 Copper (Cu) as principal constituent
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48145 the bodies being stacked
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/73265 Layer and wire connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2225/06506 Wire or wire-like electrical connections between devices
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2225/06513 Bump or bump-like direct electrical connections between devices, e.g. flip-chip connection, solder bumps
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2225/06541 Conductive via connections through the device, e.g. vertical interconnects, through silicon via [TSV] manufacturing via connections per se H01L21/76898
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2225/06562 at least one device in the stack being rotated or offset
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2225/06572 Auxiliary carrier between devices, the carrier having an electrical connection structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/58 Structural electrical arrangements for semiconductor devices not otherwise provided for , e.g. in combination with batteries H01L23/49593, H01L23/49596 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 25/0657 Stacked arrangements of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 : Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00011 : Not relevant to the scope of the group, the symbol of which is combined with the symbol of this group
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00012 : Relevant to the scope of the group, the symbol of which is combined with the symbol of this group
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00014 : the subject-matter covered by the group, the symbol of which is combined with the symbol of this group, being disclosed without further technical details
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01015 : Phosphorus [P]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01033 : Arsenic [As]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01047 : Silver [Ag]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01049 : Indium [In]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/10253 : Silicon [Si]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/13091 : Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor [MOSFET]
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0525 : Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/00 : Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts of electrochemical cells other than fuel cells, e.g. hybrid cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/107 : having curved cross-section, e.g. round or elliptic H01M50/103, H01M50/109, H01M50/11 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 : Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

This invention discloses a device comprising multiple functional layers with multiple energization elements formed on substrates, wherein at least one functional layer comprises an electrical energy source. In some embodiments, the present invention includes a component for incorporation into ophthalmic lenses that has been formed by the stacking of multiple functionalized layers.

Claims

1. A method of operating an ophthalmic lens, the method comprising:

obtaining an ophthalmic lens including powered components comprising a stacked integrated component device with multiple energization elements comprising;

a first layer comprising a first surface, and

a second layer comprising a second surface,

wherein at least a portion of the first layer lays above at least a portion of the second layer such that they partially overlap and form a three dimensional structure configured to match a profile of the ophthalmic lens;

at least one electrical connection between a first electrical contact on the first surface and a second electrical contact on the second surface;

at least one electrical transistor, wherein the at least one electrical transistor is located within the stacked integrated component device;

at least a first and a second discrete energization element located within at least one of the first layer and the second layer,

wherein the first discrete energization element generates a first raw battery power and the second discrete energization element generates a second raw battery power; and

a power management unit electrically connected to the first and the second discrete energization elements, wherein the power management unit receives the first raw battery power from the first discrete energization element and the second raw battery power from the second discrete energization element;

performing a first measurement with the power management unit upon the first raw battery power from the first discrete energization element; and

performing a second measurement with the power management unit upon the second raw battery power from the second discrete energization element.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising utilizing the first measurement to

determine a defectiveness of the first discrete energization element.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising controlling a switch controller to

change a state of a first switch connecting the first discrete energization element to a first power output.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

utilizing the second measurement to determine a defectiveness of the second discrete energization element;

wherein if the determination is that the second discrete energization element is not defective the switch controller controls a change of state of a second switch connecting to the second discrete energization element; and

wherein the change of state of the second switch connects the second discrete energization element to the first power output.