Patents by Inventor Thomas Schwarz

Thomas Schwarz 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: 20210249838
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laser chip located between a first and a second electrically and thermally conductive component, wherein: a first lateral surface of the laser chip is connected in a planar manner to a first lateral surface of the first component; the second lateral surface of the laser chip is connected in a planar manner to a first lateral surface of the second component; the laser chip has a radiation side which is located between the components; the radiation side is arranged set back inwardly at a predefined distance from the first end faces of the components; and a radiation space, which extends from the radiation side of the laser chip to the first end faces of the components is formed between the first lateral surfaces of the two components and adjacent to the radiation side of the laser chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas SCHWARZ, Jörg SORG
  • Patent number: 11069663
    Abstract: A method of producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component includes A) providing at least three source substrates, wherein each of the source substrates is equipped with a specific type of radiation-emitting semiconductor chips, B) providing a target substrate having a mounting plane configured to mount the semiconductor chips thereto, C) forming platforms on the target substrate, and D) transferring at least some of the semiconductor chips with a wafer-to-wafer process from the source substrates onto the target substrate so that the semiconductor chips transferred to the target substrate maintain their relative position with respect to one another, within the types of semiconductor chips, wherein on the target substrate the semiconductor chips of each type of semiconductor chips have a specific height above the mounting plane due to the platforms so that the semiconductor chips of different types of semiconductor chips have different heights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Plößl, Siegfried Herrmann, Martin Rudolf Behringer, Frank Singer, Thomas Schwarz, Alexander F. Pfeuffer
  • Publication number: 20210206219
    Abstract: A component part for a motor vehicle having a hollow profile portion of a fiber-reinforced plastic and a load introduction element of a metal material. The hollow profile portion and the load introduction element are connected in a common connection portion via a nondetachable, glued plug-in connection in which an end portion of the load introduction element and an end portion of the hollow profile portion engage in one another by positive engagement. The end portion of the load introduction element has a spline with teeth extending in longitudinal direction of the common connection portion so that the stiffness of the end portion of the load introduction element reduced in longitudinal direction of the common connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Andre STIEGLITZ, Thomas SCHWARZ, Ingolf MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20210194590
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with at least one radiation emitting optical semiconductor chip, an integrated circuit, and exactly two connecting contacts. The semiconductor device has a variable radiation characteristic which is controlled as a function of a voltage signal both for data transmission and for supplying the semiconductor device which can be applied to the connecting contacts and varied over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas SCHWARZ
  • Publication number: 20210183834
    Abstract: A component assembly includes an intermediate carrier, a plurality of components and a plurality of anchoring elements. The components have at least two electrical devices and an insulating layer. At least one of the electrical devices is an optoelectronic semiconductor chip. The insulating layer is between the electrical devices of a same component. The at least two electrical devices of the same component are arranged next to one another and enclosed laterally by the insulating layer. The at least two electrical devices and the insulating layer of the same component are integral parts of a self-supporting and mechanically stable unit. The self-supporting and mechanically stable unit and the anchoring elements fix the positions of the components on the intermediate carrier. The components that are self-supporting and mechanically stable units are detachable from the intermediate carrier, and the anchoring elements release the components under mechanical load when the latter are removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Tilman RÜGHEIMER, Thomas SCHWARZ, Lutz HÖPPEL, Andreas PLÖßL, Alexander F. PFEUFFER
  • Publication number: 20210175397
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a plurality of optoelectronic semiconductor components, including the following steps: preparing a plurality of semiconductor chips spaced in a lateral direction to one another; forming a housing body assembly, at least one region of which is arranged between the semiconductor chips; forming a plurality of fillets, each adjoining a semiconductor chip and being bordered in a lateral direction by a side surface of each semiconductor chip and the housing body assembly; and separating the housing body assembly into a plurality of optoelectronic components, each component having at least one semiconductor chip and a portion of the housing body assembly as a housing body, and each semiconductor chip not being covered by material of the housing body on a radiation emission surface of the semiconductor component, which surface is located opposite a mounting surface. The invention also relates to a semiconductor component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Markus PINDL, Thomas SCHWARZ, Frank SINGER, Sandra SOBCZYK
  • Publication number: 20210166618
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Thorsten BAUMHEINRICH, Peter BRICK, Jean-Jacques DROLET, Hubert HALBRITTER, Laura KREINER, Jens RICHTER, Thomas SCHWARZ, Paul TA, Kilian REGAU, Christopher SOELL, Hoa VU, Christopher WIESMANN, Patrick HOERNER, Jong PARK, Kanishk CHAND
  • Patent number: 11024610
    Abstract: A module for a video wall includes a plurality of light-emitting components; and a carrier including conduction regions, wherein the light-emitting components each include a top side including a top-side contact and an underside including an underside contact, the light-emitting components are configured to emit electromagnetic radiation via the top side, the underside contacts of the light-emitting components electrically conductively connect to the conduction regions, the top-side contacts electrically contact a conductive layer, the light-emitting components each include at least four light-emitting semiconductor chips, the light-emitting semiconductor chips within a light-emitting component interconnect in parallel with one another, the light-emitting semiconductor chips within a light-emitting component each electrically conductively connect to the top-side contacts and the underside contacts of the light-emitting component, a plurality of adjacent light-emitting components constitute a cluster, and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schwarz, Alexander Martin, Jürgen Moosburger, Karl Engl
  • Patent number: 11023194
    Abstract: An arrangement includes at least two modules for a video wall including light-emitting components arranged on a carrier, wherein a drive circuit that selectively drives the component at the carrier is provided for each component, row lines and column lines are provided, each drive circuit connects to a row line and a column line, each drive circuit connects to power supply lines, the carrier includes plated-through holes that guide the row lines and the column lines onto an underside of the carrier, the two modules are arranged on a further carrier, the further carrier includes at least one recess, an electrical connector is arranged in the recess, and the electrical connector connects column lines and/or row lines of the two modules to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schwarz, Frank Singer, Jürgen Moosburger, Karl Engl, Alexander Martin
  • Patent number: 11014071
    Abstract: A method for producing porous particles of a cross-linked polymer, and porous particles that can be produced according to the method are disclosed. The porous particles of a crosslinked hydroxy- or amino-group-containing polymer have a relatively low swelling factor. A composite material contains the porous particles dispersed in a continuous aqueous phase. The porous particles, or the composite material, are used for purifying organic molecules and for bonding metals from solutions. A filter cartridge contains the porous particles of a cross-linked polymer or the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: instrAction GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Welter, Christian Meyer, Kristian Lungfiel, Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 10991845
    Abstract: A method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component and an optoelectronic semiconductor component are disclosed. In an embodiment the method include A) providing at least two source substrates, wherein each of the source substrates is equipped with a specific type of radiation-emitting semiconductor chip; B) providing a target substrate having a mounting plane, the mounting plane being configured for mounting the semiconductor chip; and C) transferring at least part of the semiconductor chips with a wafer-to-wafer process from the source substrates onto the target substrate so that the semiconductor chips, within one type, maintain their relative position with respect to one another, so that each type of semiconductor chips arranged on the target substrate has a different height above the mounting plane, wherein the semiconductor chips are at least one of at least partially stacked one above the other or at least partially applied to at least one casting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Plößl, Siegfried Herrmann, Martin Rudolf Behringer, Frank Singer, Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 10964861
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a plurality of optoelectronic semiconductor components, comprising the following steps: preparing a plurality of semiconductor chips spaced in a lateral direction to one another; forming a housing body assembly, at least one region of which is arranged between the semiconductor chips; forming a plurality of fillets, each adjoining a semiconductor chip and being bordered in a lateral direction by a side surface of each semiconductor chip and the housing body assembly; and separating the housing body assembly into a plurality of optoelectronic components, each component having at least one semiconductor chip and a portion of the housing body assembly as a housing body, and each semiconductor chip not being covered by material of the housing body on a radiation emission surface of the semiconductor component, which surface is located opposite a mounting surface. The invention also relates to a semiconductor component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Pindl, Thomas Schwarz, Frank Singer, Sandra Sobczyk
  • Publication number: 20210082884
    Abstract: A display element for a video wall having a plurality of light-emitting components on a carrier, which has a front side, a rear side and an edge side running between the front and rear sides. The circuit structures are arranged on the front side and the rear side and are electrically conductively connected to one another via a contact structure arranged on the edge side. The edge side is embodied in a scored, broken, ground, polished, melted, sawn, chamfered, rounded or notched way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas SCHWARZ
  • Publication number: 20210082886
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Peter BRICK, Jean-Jacques DROLET, Hubert HALBRITTER, Laura KREINER, Thomas SCHWARZ, Julia STOLZ
  • Publication number: 20210083152
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas BIEBERSDORF, Michael BRANDL, Peter BRICK, Jean-Jacques DROLET, Hubert HALBRITTER, Laura KREINER, Erwin LANG, Andreas LEBER, Marc PHILIPPENS, Thomas SCHWARZ, Julia STOLZ, Xue WANG, Karsten DIEKMANN, Karl ENGL, Siegfried HERRMANN, Stefan ILLEK, Ines PIETZONKA, Andreas RAUSCH, Simon SCHWALENBERG, Petrus SUNDGREN, Georg BOGNER, Christoph KLEMP, Christine RAFAEL, Felix FEIX, Eva-Maria RUMMEL, Nicole HEITZER, Marie ASSMANN, Christian BERGER, Ana KANEVCE
  • Publication number: 20210080637
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Peter BRICK, Jean-Jacques DROLET, Hubert HALBRITTER, Laura KREINER, Thomas SCHWARZ, Tilman RUEGHEMIER, Frank SINGER
  • Patent number: 10923640
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a carrier, and a housing material arranged above a top side of a carrier, wherein a cavity is configured in the housing material, a top side of a first optoelectronic semiconductor chip is arranged in the cavity, the first optoelectronic semiconductor chip has a first electrical connection pad arranged at the top side of the first optoelectronic semiconductor chip, and electrically conductively connects by a bond wire to a first contact pad arranged at the top side of the carrier, a first section of the bond wire is arranged in the cavity and a second section of the bond wire is embedded the housing material, a covering material is arranged in the cavity and covers at least one part of the top side of the first optoelectronic semiconductor chip, and the first section of the bond wire is embedded in the covering material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schwarz, Stefan Listl, Björn Hoxhold, Frank Singer
  • Patent number: 10916686
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip having a radiation-emitting face; and an optical element arranged over the radiation-emitting face, wherein the optical element includes a material in which light-scattering particles are embedded, and a concentration of the embedded light-scattering particles has a gradient forming an angle not equal to 90° with the radiation emission face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schwarz, Frank Singer, Alexander Linkov, Stefan Illek, Wolfgang Moench
  • Patent number: 10861837
    Abstract: A video-wall module is disclosed. In an embodiment a video-wall module includes a printed-circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting diode chips arranged at the printed-circuit board, a circuit chip fixed to the printed-circuit board, wherein the circuit chip is connected with electrical connections of the light-emitting diode chips in order to electrically actuate the light-emitting diode chips and a housing for the circuit chip at least partially formed by the printed circuit board, wherein the light-emitting diode chips are divided into a first area and a first edge area surrounding the first area, and wherein the light-emitting diode chips in the first area comprise a smaller radiation wavelength than the light-emitting diode chips in the first edge area on average at the same temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 10854804
    Abstract: A light-emitting component includes a light-emitting chip and a housing including a plastic body and a reflector, the reflector includes an electrically conductive layer, the light-emitting chip includes a top side and an underside, the underside of the light-emitting chip is arranged on the plastic body, an electrical terminal on the top side of the light-emitting chip electrically conductively connects to the reflector by a bond wire, the underside of the light-emitting chip and the reflector are electrically insulated from one another, a conduction region is provided within the plastic body, thermal conductivity of the conduction region is greater than thermal conductivity of the plastic body, the conduction region adjoins the underside of the light-emitting chip, and the conduction region extends from the side of the plastic body facing the light-emitting chip as far as the side of the plastic body facing away from the light-emitting chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Haushalter, Frank Singer, Thomas Schwarz, Andreas Ploessl