Patents by Inventor Alan Wellford Dillon

Alan Wellford Dillon 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: 20230411562
    Abstract: Solid-state lighting devices including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and more particularly light-extraction features for LED chips and related methods are disclosed. Light-extraction features include structures formed in or on light-emitting surfaces of substrates. Light-extraction features may include repeating patterns of features with dimensions that, along with reduced substrate thicknesses, provide targeted emission profiles for flip-chip structures, such as Lambertian emission profiles. Dimensions include certain height to width ratios for various substrate thicknesses. Additional light-extraction features with smaller dimensions may be formed along portions or side surfaces of larger light-extraction features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Check, Michael John Bergmann, Alan Wellford Dillon, Kevin Haberern
  • Publication number: 20210367112
    Abstract: An LED wafer includes LED dies on an LED substrate. The LED wafer and a carrier wafer are joined. The LED wafer that is joined to the carrier wafer is shaped. Wavelength conversion material is applied to the LED wafer that is shaped. Singulation is performed to provide multiple LED dies that are joined to a single carrier die. The multiple LED dies on the single carrier die are connected in series and/or in parallel by interconnection in the LED dies and/or in the single carrier die. The singulated devices may be mounted in an LED fixture to provide high light output per unit area. Related devices and fabrication methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Michael John Bergmann, Kevin Haberern, Alan Wellford Dillon
  • Patent number: 10453827
    Abstract: Light emitting diode (LED) devices and systems include a superstrate (e.g., a light-transmissive layer), LEDs attached to the superstrate at a die-attach layer formed thereon, and an encapsulant layer formed over and/or around the LEDs with a non-reflective or clear material. A method for producing LED devices and systems includes providing a superstrate with a die-attach layer formed thereon, attaching LEDs to the superstrate at the die-attach layer, forming conductive surfaces on a side of the LED opposite the die-attach layer, dispensing an encapsulant layer to at least partially encapsulate the LEDs, and forming one or more metal traces to electrically interconnect the conductive surfaces of at least some of the LEDs with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Hussell, Alan Wellford Dillon, Peter Scott Andrews
  • Publication number: 20170271561
    Abstract: An LED wafer includes LED dies on an LED substrate. The LED wafer and a carrier wafer are joined. The LED wafer that is joined to the carrier wafer is shaped. Wavelength conversion material is applied to the LED wafer that is shaped. Singulation is performed to provide multiple LED dies that are joined to a single carrier die. The multiple LED dies on the single carrier die are connected in series and/or in parallel by interconnection in the LED dies and/or in the single carrier die. The singulated devices may be mounted in an LED fixture to provide high light output per unit area. Related devices and fabrication methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Michael John Bergmann, Kevin Haberern, Alan Wellford Dillon
  • Patent number: 9666764
    Abstract: An LED wafer includes LED dies on an LED substrate. The LED wafer and a carrier wafer are joined. The LED wafer that is joined to the carrier wafer is shaped. Wavelength conversion material is applied to the LED wafer that is shaped. Singulation is performed to provide multiple LED dies that are joined to a single carrier die. The multiple LED dies on the single carrier die are connected in series and/or in parallel by interconnection in the LED dies and/or in the single carrier die. The singulated devices may be mounted in an LED fixture to provide high light output per unit area. Related devices and fabrication methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Bergmann, Kevin Haberern, Alan Wellford Dillon
  • Patent number: 9634197
    Abstract: An LED wafer includes LED dies on an LED substrate. The LED wafer and a carrier wafer are joined. The LED wafer that is joined to the carrier wafer is shaped. Wavelength conversion material is applied to the LED wafer that is shaped. Singulation is performed to provide multiple LED dies that are joined to a single carrier die. The multiple LED dies on the single carrier die are connected in series and/or in parallel by interconnection in the LED dies and/or in the single carrier die. The singulated devices may be mounted in an LED fixture to provide high light output per unit area. Related devices and fabrication methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Bergmann, Kevin Haberern, Alan Wellford Dillon
  • Patent number: 8957438
    Abstract: An LED includes a first pedestal and may be fabricated by coating a first phosphor layer on the LED, thinning the first phosphor layer to expose the first pedestal, forming a second pedestal on the first pedestal, coating a second phosphor layer and thinning the second phosphor layer to expose the second pedestal. Alternatively, an LED having a pedestal is coated with a first phosphor layer, coated with a second phosphor layer and then planarized to expose the pedestal. Related structures are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Jasper Cabalu, Alan Wellford Dillon
  • Publication number: 20130264592
    Abstract: An LED wafer includes LED dies on an LED substrate. The LED wafer and a carrier wafer are joined. The LED wafer that is joined to the carrier wafer is shaped. Wavelength conversion material is applied to the LED wafer that is shaped. Singulation is performed to provide multiple LED dies that are joined to a single carrier die. The multiple LED dies on the single carrier die are connected in series and/or in parallel by interconnection in the LED dies and/or in the single carrier die. The singulated devices may be mounted in an LED fixture to provide high light output per unit area. Related devices and fabrication methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Bergmann, Kevin HABERERN, Alan Wellford DILLON
  • Publication number: 20120256211
    Abstract: An LED includes a first pedestal and may be fabricated by coating a first phosphor layer on the LED, thinning the first phosphor layer to expose the first pedestal, forming a second pedestal on the first pedestal, coating a second phosphor layer and thinning the second phosphor layer to expose the second pedestal. Alternatively, an LED having a pedestal is coated with a first phosphor layer, coated with a second phosphor layer and then planarized to expose the pedestal. Related structures are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Jasper Cabalu, Alan Wellford Dillon