Patents Assigned to Lumileds LLC
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Patent number: 10991856Abstract: A device comprising a light emitting diode (LED) substrate, and a meta-molecule wavelength converting layer positioned within an emitted light path from the LED substrate, the a meta-molecule wavelength converting layer including a plurality of nanoparticles, the plurality of nanoparticles configured to increase a light path length in the wavelength converting layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Venkata Ananth Tamma, Antonio Lopez-Julia
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Publication number: 20210120645Abstract: Tunable LED lighting systems, devices and methods are described herein. A light emitting device includes at least a first phosphor-converted LED configured to emit light having a desaturated orange color point characterized by CIE 1976 color coordinates 0.3<u?<0.35 and v?>0.52 and at least a second phosphor-converted LED configured to emit light having a cyan color point characterized by CIE 1976 color coordinates 0.15<u?<0.20 and 0.47<v?<0.52. The first phosphor-converted LED and the second phosphor-converted LED are arranged to combine the light emitted by the first phosphor-converted LED with the light emitted by the second phosphor-converted LED to provide a white light output from the light emitting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Wouter Anthon SOER, Werner GOETZ
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Publication number: 20210119085Abstract: An inorganic coating may be applied to bond optically scattering particles or components. Optically scattering particles bonded via the inorganic coating may form a three dimensional film which can receive a light emission, convert, and emit the light emission with one or more changed properties. The inorganic coating may be deposited using a low-pressure deposition technique such as an atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique. Two or more components, such as an LED and a ceramic phosphor layer may be bonded together by depositing an inorganic coating using the ALD technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Michael CAMRAS, Jyoti BHARDWAJ, Peter Josef SCHMIDT, Niels Jeroen VAN DER VEEN
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Patent number: 10985299Abstract: Light emitting devices (LEDs) are described herein. An LED includes a light emitting semiconductor structure, a wavelength converting material and an off state white material. The light emitting semiconductor structure includes a light-emitting active layer disposed between an n-layer and a p-layer. The wavelength converting material has a first surface adjacent the light emitting semiconductor structure and a second surface opposite the first surface. The off state white material is in direct contact with the second surface of the wavelength converting material and includes multiple core-shell particles disposed in an optically functional material. Each of the core-shell particles includes a core material encased in a polymer or inorganic shell. The core material includes a phase change material.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Daniel Estrada, Kentaro Shimizu, Daniel Roitman, Marcel Rene Bohmer, Edward Kang
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Patent number: 10982143Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a light source and a nitridoberyllate phosphor disposed in a path of light emitted by the light source. The nitridoberyllate phosphor includes a trigonal planar BeN3 structure and/or a tetrahedral Be(N,O)4 structure.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Peter Josef Schmidt, Philipp-Jean Strobel, Wolfgang Schnick
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Patent number: 10985303Abstract: A thermally efficient, cost efficient and compact LED device having an LED module and a circuit board. The LED module having an LED substrate and an LED chip mounted on a mounting surface of the LED substrate. The circuit board is composed of a circuit board substrate and has a plurality of conductive tracks on a surface of the circuit board substrate. The LED substrate is embedded in the circuit board substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventor: Robert Derix
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Publication number: 20210111320Abstract: An optical coupling structures are disposed on light output surfaces of semiconductor LEDs of a miniLED or microLED array to facilitate coupling of light emitted by the semiconductor LEDs through the light output surfaces. The optical coupling structures comprise light scattering particles and/or air voids embedded in or coated with a thin layer of a material that has an index of refraction close to or matching the index of refraction of the material forming the light output surface of the semiconductor LEDs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Antonio Lopez-Julia, Jens Meyer, Marcel van Gerwen, Ronja Missong, Joerg Feldmann, Hans-Helmut Bechtel
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Publication number: 20210111316Abstract: An optical coupling structure is disposed on a light output surface of a semiconductor LED to facilitate coupling of light emitted by the semiconductor LED through the light output surface. The optical coupling structures comprise light scattering particles and/or air voids embedded in or coated with a thin layer of a material that has an index of refraction close to or matching the index of refraction of the material forming the light output surface of the semiconductor LED.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2019Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: Lumileds LLCInventors: Antonio LOPEZ-JULIA, Jens MEYER
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Publication number: 20210111321Abstract: In embodiments of the invention, a passivation layer is disposed over a side of a semiconductor structure including a light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region. A material configured to adhere to an underfill is disposed over an etched surface of the semiconductor structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Frederic Stephane Diana, Kwong-Hin Henry Choy, Qingwei Mo, Serge L. Rudaz, Frank L. Wei, Daniel A. Steigerwald
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Publication number: 20210111315Abstract: A phosphor carrier assembly includes a substrate, a thermal or UV activated release adhesive, a layer containing a pixelated phosphor array, and a partially cured or highly viscous adhesive. The phosphor pixels on the carrier are typically all of the same color. In formation of a phosphor converted LED array the phosphor pixels on the carrier assembly are aligned with and placed in contact with corresponding LED pixels in an array of pixelated LED dice. Selected phosphor pixels on the carrier assembly may then be attached to corresponding LED pixels, and released from the substrate, by powering (activating) the corresponding LED pixels to heat the selected phosphor pixel to a temperature that releases the thermal release adhesive and that cures or partially cures the adhesive on the selected phosphor pixels in contact with the corresponding LED pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: Lumileds LLCInventors: Emma DOHNER, Kentaro SHIMIZU, Hisashi MASUI
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Patent number: 10976041Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device comprising at least two light-emitting elements and a method of producing a lighting device. The light-emitting elements are connected with each other into a module via a connection element. The connection element has at least one region spaced apart from the at least two light-emitting elements. At least two modules are connected with each other in parallel. The at least one region of the connection element has a specific electrical resistance that compensate differences between electrical characteristics of at least two light-emitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Manuel Grave, Udo Karbowski
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Patent number: 10976481Abstract: An illumination system is disclosed that is arranged to compensate for variations in brightness between different LEDs in the system. The system may include an array of LEDs coupled to a light guide that is provided with a plurality of light extraction patterns. Each light extraction pattern may include a plurality of light extraction features. The light extraction patterns may differ from one another in the density of the features. Light extraction patterns having a greater density may be combined with LEDs in the array that are less bright, whereas light extraction patterns having a lower feature density may be combined with LEDs in the array that are brighter.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Jeroen Den Breejen, Yifeng Qiu
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Patent number: 10980132Abstract: LEDs for an illumination system may be mounted on a PCB. The PCB may be provided with alignment features such as oversized holes for connection to a support surface. Using optical sensing of the position of the mounted LEDs, the space made available by the alignment features may be reduced and aligned to create modified alignment features. The modified alignment features may be created by adding a modifying component and aligned based on the sensed positions of the mounted LEDs. The positioning of the modifying component may offset misalignment of the LEDs with the PCB. An opening in the modified alignment feature may receive a bolt or alignment pin for connection to the support surface. The support surface may be aligned with the secondary optics, resulting in the LEDs being aligned with the secondary optics irrespective of misalignment of the LEDs with respect to the PCB.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventor: Axel Mehnert
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Patent number: 10971661Abstract: A system and methods for light-emitting diode (LED) devices with a dimming feature that can tailor a color point shift in the light color temperature of a scattering/transparent layer to enlarge a dim to warm range are disclosed herein. A light-emitting device may include a wavelength converting structure configured to receive light from a light emitting semiconductor structure and an adjacent light scattering structure. The light scattering structure may comprise a plurality of scattering particles with a lower refractive index (RI) than the RI of the matrix material in which the scattering particles are disposed. The wavelength converting structure may include a red phosphor and a green phosphor such that to adjust overlap between green emission and absorption by the red phosphor to correspondingly adjust scattering and magnitude of color shift. In an embodiment, the light scattering structure may be integrated in the wavelength converting structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Daniel Estrada, Marcel Rene Bohmer, Jacobus Johannes Francisus Gerardus Heuts, Kentaro Shimizu, Michael David Camras
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Patent number: 10969077Abstract: The invention relates to an optical arrangement including LED lighting elements arranged on a support surface. An optical axis X extends from the support surface. A first collimator unit includes at least one support element and first collimator elements. The support element is supported on the support surface between at least two of the LED lighting elements. The first collimator elements are arranged in front of the LED lighting elements in the direction of the optical axis X to collimate light emitted from the LED lighting elements. A second collimator unit is arranged in front of the first collimator unit in the direction of the optical axis X. The second collimator unit includes second collimator elements arranged in front of the first collimator elements to collimate light emitted therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Florent Monestier, Benno Spinger
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Patent number: 10971658Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a light source and a wavelength converting structure disposed in a path of light emitted by the light source. The wavelength converting structure includes a first phosphor that emits infrared light and a second phosphor that emits visible light. In some embodiments, the light source emits first light, the second phosphor absorbs the first light and emits second light, and the first phosphor absorbs the first light and emits third light and absorbs the second light and emits fourth light.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Peter Josef Schmidt, Detlef Wiechert
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Patent number: 10969076Abstract: The invention describes a light converting device comprising: a bonded layer stack comprising a light converter and a diamond layer, wherein the diamond layer is bonded to a bonding surface of the light converter, wherein the light converter is adapted to convert laser light to converted light, wherein a peak emission wavelength of the converted light is in a longer wavelength range than a laser peak emission wavelength of the laser light, wherein a refractive index of the diamond layer is bigger than a refractive index of the light converter, and a light outcoupling structure attached to a first surface of the bonded layer stack, wherein a second surface of the bonded layer stack is a light-entrance surface arranged to receive the laser light, wherein the bonding surface is arranged between the first surface and the second surface of the bonded layer stack, wherein a refractive index of the light outcoupling structure is at least 90% of the refractive index of the light converter, and wherein the light ouType: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Ulrich Hechtfischer, Steffen Zozgornik
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Patent number: 10964845Abstract: Techniques, devices, and systems are disclosed and include LEDs with a first flat region, at a first height from an LED base and including a plurality of epitaxial layers including a first n-layer, a first active layer, and a first p-layer. A second flat region is provided, at a second height from the LED base and parallel to the first flat region, and includes at least a second n-layer. A sloped sidewall connecting the first flat region and the second flat region is provided and includes at least a third n-layer, the first n-layer being thicker than at least a portion of third n-layer. A p-contact is formed on the first p-layer and an n-contact formed on the second n-layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Costas Dimitropoulos, Sungsoo Yi, John Edward Epler, Byung-Kwon Han
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Patent number: 10965213Abstract: A device includes a switch, a controller electrically coupled to the switch, an RC circuit, a diode and a zero current detection circuit. The controller is configured to provide a control signal to control the switch to charge and discharge an inductor between a zero current state and a peak current state to provide a light emitting diode (LED) drive current. The RC circuit includes at least a first resistive element, a second resistive element, and a capacitive element. The diode is electrically coupled in parallel with the RC circuit. The zero current detection circuit has a first input electrically coupled to the RC circuit, a second input electrically coupled to a threshold voltage, and an output electrically coupled to the controller.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventor: Zhihua Song
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Patent number: 10964850Abstract: A lighting device is provided comprising at least one light-emitting element comprising a light-emitting surface configured to emit light; and a light-guiding sheet at least partially covering the light-emitting surface and comprising at least one cavity forming a passage for light emitted from the light-emitting surface. Thereby, at least one lateral surface limiting the at least one cavity is configured to reflect light emitted from the light-emitting surface. Further, a size of an opening of the at least one cavity facing the light-emitting surface is smaller than an area of the light-emitting surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Michael Deckers, Benno Spinger