Patents Assigned to OSRAM AG
  • Patent number: 9375392
    Abstract: The invention relates to a use of the guanidinium cation and to a light-emitting component. This invention for the first time describes matrix materials and emitters for uses in organic electrochemical light-emitting cells containing a guanidinium cation unit. Guanidinium groups as a cationic system promise a wide electrochemical window and hence stable components. The route to guanidinium systems is described in detail in the literature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Guenter Schmid, David Hartmann, Andreas Kanitz, Wiebke Sarfert
  • Patent number: 9182531
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment of the surface light guide, the surface light guide includes at least one scattering element for scattering light. A decoupling coefficient is caused by the scattering element. The decoupling coefficient is set in a varying fashion along a main light-guiding direction. In a direction perpendicular to the main sides of the surface light guide, the opacity value is no more than 0.10, the transmission coefficient is at least 0.75 and the quotient of the minimum light density and maximum light density seen over a continuous emitting area of at least one of the main sides is at least 0.75.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Peter Brick, Julius Muschaweck
  • Patent number: 9169434
    Abstract: This invention presents, firstly, the principle that simple and known emitter materials which are uncharged per se, as known, for example, from OLED technology, can be converted to a charged species by the introduction of a charged imidazolinium radical. This charged species can then be used in organic light-emitting electrochemical cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Luisa De Cola, Claudia Bizzarri, David Hartmann, Sabine Szyszkowski, Wiebke Sarfert, Guenter Schmid
  • Patent number: 9004701
    Abstract: A light source unit may include a cooling device; a luminescent substance; an excitation radiation source having a laser source; and an optical element arranged between the radiation source and the substance; wherein the cooling device constitutes a heat sink, wherein the substance is linked thermally to the heat sink; and wherein the optical element is designed as an integrating optical element and is coupled between the radiation source and the substance in such a manner that a part of the radiation emitted by the radiation source, entering in an acceptance angle range of the integrating optical element, is subjected to an internal reflection in the optical element before it exits the optical element and strikes the substance, and that a part of the radiation emitted by the substance enters the optical element and exits the optical element as effective radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Dirk Berben, Mathias Bruemmer, Ulrich Hartwig, Nico Morgenbrod, Matthias Morkel
  • Patent number: 8994285
    Abstract: In various embodiments, ballast for a discharge lamp includes input and output connections; inverter with bridge circuit with electronic switches and control device for controlling electronic switches, wherein switches are connected in series between input connections, wherein one electronic switch is coupled to first input connection and second electronic switch to second input connection, wherein a bridge midpoint is between electronic switches; including a current measuring device for measuring second electronic switch current; lamp choke series-connected between bridge midpoint and first output connection; capacitor parallel-connected with one of electronic switches; and coupling capacitor; wherein control device is coupled to current measuring device and renders an electronic switch conducting, if negative threshold value is exceeded when electronic switch is rendered nonconducting; or if negative threshold value of current through electronic switch is not exceeded after another electronic switch is rend
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventor: Arwed Storm
  • Patent number: 8974095
    Abstract: A coupling component has a groove for receiving a rim of a mouth portion of a lighting body protection bulb. The groove includes sculptured formations to keep the mouth portion rim received in the groove spaced from the bottom of the groove to produce a discontinuous contact between the mouth portion rim and the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Daniele Bortolato, Maurizio Campobasso, Daniele Nascimben, Raffaele Piva
  • Patent number: 8950891
    Abstract: The various embodiments relate to a lamp having a tubular lamp body, wherein at least one first line harness and one second line harness, or at least one first line and one second line, are arranged in the tubular lamp body, wherein the lamp furthermore has at least one spacing apparatus, which is arranged in the lamp and is designed to fix at least the first line harness and the second line harness or the first line and the second line at a predeterminable distance (D) from one another, at least in places. The various embodiments further relate to a method for production of a lamp such as this, and to a spacing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Martin Egger, Christian Senft
  • Patent number: 8940229
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a device for irradiating surfaces is provided. The device may include a radiation emitter having a radiation emitter vessel, wherein the radiation emitter vessel has at least one tunnel-like passage; and a structure configured to allow a process gas to flow through the at least one tunnel-like passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Helmut Halfmann, Axel Hombach, Markus Roth
  • Patent number: 8941294
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a luminophore composition for low pressure discharge lamps for generating radiation with a color temperature of greater than 4800 K having a very good general color rendering index of greater than 90, the luminophore composition including at least one halophosphate luminophore, a luminophore emitting in the red wavelength region, a luminophore emitting in the blue-green wavelength region, a europium-doped luminophore emitting in the blue wavelength region and a Tb-doped luminophore emitting in the green wavelength region, wherein the luminophore composition includes a luminophore emitting in an emission range in the visible region with wavelengths of greater than 380 nm and at least one emission band in the near ultraviolet and that the emitted intensity of the luminophore is smaller in the visible region than in the near ultraviolet region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Nina Goebel, Claudia Held, Armin Konrad
  • Patent number: 8941313
    Abstract: A light emitting unit driving circuit may include: an operating voltage supplying unit configured to supply a voltage input for the driving circuit; a driving unit coupled to the operating voltage supplying unit and configured to drive the light emitting unit to make the light emitting unit turn on or turn off; and a feedback control unit coupled between the driving unit and the light emitting unit, and configured to form a feedback loop together with the driving circuit and the light emitting unit to stabilize an operating current of the light emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Haixiang He, Wanchun Jiang, Martin Brueckel, Hu Wang
  • Patent number: 8935846
    Abstract: A method for contacting a lighting device is provided, wherein the lighting device has a circuit board which is covered at least partly by a sealing compound layer; wherein the lighting device can be separated at a separating point into two lighting device sections and each of the lighting device sections has at least one electrical contact. The method may include: removing at least the sealing compound layer on both sides of the separation point so that the contacts remain covered by a thinner, remaining sealing compound layer; separating the lighting device at the separation point; attaching a connection element at least to the remaining sealing compound layer of at least one of the lighting device sections, wherein the connection element has at least one contacting element, which contacts a respective contact covered by the remaining sealing compound layer after a separation or penetration of the remaining sealing compound layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Andreas Kampfrath, Steffen Strauss
  • Patent number: 8933641
    Abstract: An electrical supply device may include a transformer with a secondary winding to feed a current to a load; control circuitry for the device; an auxiliary supply source for said control circuitry. The auxiliary supply source may include an output capacitor across which a supply voltage is provided for said control circuitry; at least one charge accumulation capacitor to be traversed by the current fed to said load; a comparator sensitive to the voltage on said at least one charge accumulation capacitor; and a switch interposed between said at least one charge accumulation capacitor and said output capacitor, said switch coupled to said comparator, whereby when the voltage on said at least one charge accumulation capacitor reaches a reference level, said switch couples said at least one charge accumulation capacitor to said output capacitor by transferring onto said output capacitor the charge on said at least one charge accumulation capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Paolo De Anna, Daniele Luccato
  • Patent number: 8926146
    Abstract: A device for mounting lighting sources on a substrate includes a mounting frame provided with fixing formations for fixing on the substrate, the mounting frame defining a cavity for receiving the lighting source which rests on the substrate. A locking member may be provided which can be positioned in the cavity of the mounting frame to urge said lighting source toward the substrate. At least one of the mounting frame and the locking member may include at least one retaining formation for the lighting source, including one or more pins extending into corresponding openings in the lighting source, and/or one or more elastic fins extending from the mounting frame to elastically contact the lighting source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Simon Bobbo, Marco Lamonato, Alessandro Scordino
  • Patent number: 8919992
    Abstract: An LED lighting device may include an LED support, which is populated with at least one LED on a front side thereof and a rear side of which is fastened to a rest. The front side of the LED support may be overarched by an electrically insulating, light-permeable and diffusely scattering LED cover, and the LED cover may be overarched by a protection cover resting on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Harald Dellian, Thomas Preuschl
  • Patent number: 8901839
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a two-switch flyback power supply may include a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding to feed a load; a pair of electronic switches alternatively switchable on and off to connect the primary winding of said transformer to an input line to feed said primary winding of said transformer, wherein at least one of said electronic switches is an electronic switch having a control electrode floating with respect to ground; a capacitive voltage divider arranged between said input line and the ground of the device, with the dividing point of said capacitive voltage divider connected to an intermediate point of said primary winding of said transformer; and an auxiliary secondary winding in said transformer, said auxiliary secondary winding feeding the control electrode of said at least one of said electronic switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventor: Daniele Luccato
  • Patent number: 8890140
    Abstract: A radiation-emitting component includes a semiconductor chip and a conversion element. The semiconductor chip includes an active layer suitable for generating electromagnetic radiation and a radiation exit face. The conversion element includes a matrix material and a luminescent material. The conversion element is arranged downstream of the radiation exit face of the semiconductor chip. The matrix material comprises at least 40 wt. % tellurium oxide and is free of boron trioxide and/or germanium oxide. A method for producing such a radiation-emitting component is furthermore stated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignees: OSRAM OPTO Semiconductor GmbH, OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Angela Eberhardt, Joachim Wirth-Schoen, Ewald Poesl
  • Patent number: 8884521
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlight element is specified which has at least one light-emitting diode and at least one control apparatus. The control apparatus is suitable for processing a signal which is dependent on a measurement variable and for applying a current, corresponding to the signal, to the light-emitting diode. The control apparatus and the light-emitting diode are arranged on a common mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Behr, Alois Biebl, Moritz Engl, Heinz Haas, Stefan Hackenbuchner, Peter Helbig, Günther Hirschmann, Markus Hofmann, Rainer Huber, Joachim Reill, Thomas Reiners, Ralf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 8870426
    Abstract: An illumination unit for vehicle headlights may include a light-emitting diode device, a housing and an assembly board on which components of an operating circuit for operating the light-emitting diode device are arranged, wherein the housing and the assembly board define an interior space, wherein the assembly board has at least one electrically conductive inner layer that is connected to a ground reference potential of the operating circuit and on its surface the assembly board has at least one electrical contact surface which is contacted with at least one electrically conductive inner layer, and the housing has an electromagnetic shielding structure configured to provide electromagnetic shielding of the interior space, wherein the electromagnetic shielding structure is connected to the at least one electrical contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Alois Biebl, Peter Frey, Ralf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 8860308
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a high-pressure discharge lamp including a starting aid and a longitudinal axis having a ceramic discharge vessel that is housed in an outer bulb, the discharge vessel having two ends having including capillaries with electrodes fastened therein, wherein a frame having a hanger wire holds the discharge vessel in the outer bulb and the hanger wire is configured so that it includes a plate-like starting aid toward the capillary of the opposite-pole electrode, with the plate-like starting aid being configured as a foil or metal sheet and the plate-like starting aid further including a means for purely mechanical fastening to at least the capillary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Thomas Brauner, Martin Fornalski, Juergen Kellerer
  • Patent number: 8853943
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp may include a quartz glass bulb which encloses a discharge volume, and a fill which contains mercury and noble gas as well as metal halides being held in the discharge volume, wherein the fill contains both dysprosium halides and also oxyhalides of at least one of tungsten and mercury based on at least one of the halogens bromine and chlorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Andreas Genz, Niels Gerlitzki