Abstract: An illumination apparatus for a motor vehicle is provided. The illumination device may include at least one semiconductor light source arrangement, and means for regulating or controlling the supply current for the at least one semiconductor light source arrangement, the means having at least one resistance element with a temperature-dependent resistance value.

Abstract: A lighting assembly includes: a heat sink having a mounting surface for a light source; a light source board having said light source thereon, said light source board being arranged against said mounting surface and having an outer perimeter edge, and a drive board carrying drive circuitry for said light source, said drive board being fixed onto said heat sink with said light source board sandwiched therebetween, said drive board having an aperture with an inner edge complementary to said outer edge of said light source board, whereby said light source is left uncovered by said drive board, and wherein: said inner edge of said drive board has an inwardly protruding frame formation with said outer perimeter edge of said light source board abutting against said frame formation, and said light source board has a thickness whereby said drive board and said mounting surface have a clearance therebetween.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device (11; 31; 41; 51) which is equipped with a plurality of semiconductor light sources (14, 15) of different colors, downstream of which a common diffusor (17) is arranged, wherein the lighting device (11; 31; 41; 51) has at least one light sensor (21) optically coupled to the diffusor (17).

Abstract: A lighting device may include a semiconductor light source arrangement, a heat sink for cooling the semiconductor light source arrangement, electrical connections for supplying power to the semiconductor light source arrangement, and a holding means. The holding means is in the form of a plastic part, at least the electrical connections and the heat sink each being embedded in the plastic material of said plastic part at least in sections.

Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to an optoelectronic assembly, including a printed circuit board, which has a first and a second sides, a central cutout, at least one contact cutout and, at least one connection location, a carrier element coupled to the printed circuit board, has a first side and at least one contact location, at least one optoelectronic component arranged on the first side of the carrier element in such a way that it is exposed in the central cutout of the printed circuit board, a housing body, which has a central cutout and which is formed and physically coupled to the printed circuit board such that the optoelectronic component is exposed in the central cutout, and at least one contact element arranged on an inner side of the housing body is formed such that the contact element electrically couples the contact location of the carrier element to the connection location.

Abstract: A clocked electronic energy converter may include an electronic switching element, at least two electrical energy storage devices, connections for connecting an electrical energy source and for connecting an electrical energy sink, a clock generator for controlling the electronic switching element and a switch-on time unit for generating a first signal for the clock generator, which switch-on time unit sets the power of the energy converter to be transmitted in a first power range by the first signal. The switch-on time unit generates a first signal representing a switch-on time for the clock generator in a second power range in which the power lower can be set than in the first power range, and the clocked electronic energy converter has a switch-off time unit generating in the second power range a second signal for the clock generator, which signal represents a switch-off time depending upon the power to be transmitted.

Abstract: Lighting devices, and methods of manufacturing the same, are provided. A lighting device includes a cover through which emitted light passes and a formed flexible light engine. The formed flexible light engine is placed within a housing, or serves as the housing itself. An interface couples to cover to the housing or the formed flexible light engine. The formed flexible light engine includes a flexible substrate and a plurality of solid state light sources located thereon. The plurality of solid state light sources are configured to emit light through the cover. The formed light engine has a defined shape created during the forming process. This enables placement on the housing within the lighting device, or contributes to the overall shape of the lighting device.

Abstract: An optoelectronic assembly may include a substrate, which has a first contact region at a first side thereof, an optoelectronic component arranged on the first side of the substrate, which has a first contact coupled to the first contact region, a printed circuit board with conductor tracks, which is coupled to the first side of the substrate at a first side of the printed circuit board and which has a central cutout, in which the optoelectronic component is exposed, and which has a first contact cutout, which overlaps the first contact region, at least one electronic component arranged on a second side of the printed circuit board, which is coupled to the conductor tracks, and a connection element, which is arranged in the first contact cutout and electrically couples the first contact region to the conductor tracks, wherein the connection element fixes the substrate to the printed circuit board.

Abstract: In various embodiments, a lighting device is provided. The lighting device includes a phosphor volume for at least partial wavelength conversion of primary light into secondary light, a primary light semiconductor light source for irradiating the phosphor volume with primary light, a measurement light generating arrangement for generating measurement light having a spectral composition outside the primary light and the secondary light, a measurement light detector sensitive to the measurement light, and a measurement light filter, which is fixedly connected to the phosphor volume and is optically arranged between the measurement light generating arrangement and the measurement light detector.

Abstract: An electronic converter may include transformer with a primary winding and a secondary winding, wherein the primary winding is coupled to an input for receiving a power signal, and wherein the secondary winding is coupled to an output including a positive terminal and a negative terminal for providing a power signal. The converter moreover may include an electronic switch arranged between the input and the primary winding, wherein the electronic switch is configured to control the current flow through the primary winding. Specifically, the converter may include a snubber circuit arranged between the secondary winding and the output.

Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a method for operating an illuminating device with a pump radiation source for emitting pump radiation, and a phosphor wheel, on which a first phosphor for emitting first conversion light and a second phosphor for emitting second conversion light are provided, in which method the phosphor wheel rotates about a rotation axis and in the process is irradiated with the pump radiation in an irradiation region eccentrically with respect to the rotation axis in such a way that a circular track is irradiated owing to the rotation of the phosphor wheel, wherein during a 360° revolution of the phosphor wheel the first phosphor is irradiated with a first pump radiation power and the second phosphor is irradiated with a second pump radiation power, which is different than the first pump radiation power.

Abstract: A conversion element for the wavelength conversion of electromagnetic radiation from a first wavelength range to electromagnetic radiation from a second wavelength range, which includes longer wavelengths than the first wavelength range, the conversion element includes: a matrix material, the optical refractive index of which is temperature-dependent, and at least two different types of luminophore particles wherein a multiplicity of luminophore particles of each of the types are distributed in the matrix material, luminophore particles of different types differ from one another in terms of average particle size and/or material, the conversion element, upon excitation by electromagnetic radiation from the first wavelength range emits mixed radiation including electromagnetic radiation from the first and the second wavelength range, and the correlated color temperature and/or the color locus of the mixed radiation remain(s) substantially the same when the matrix material is at a temperature of between 25° C.

Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a lighting apparatus for a headlight for generating a light emission pattern in a far field, including at least one light source for emitting primary light onto an illumination surface, at least two different phosphor surfaces which are introducible into the illumination surface, at least partly alternately by at least one translational movement, and a control device for positioning the phosphor surfaces in relation to the illumination surface. A respectively associated light emission pattern is generatable in a predetermined position of the phosphor surfaces. The control device is configured, for the purpose of setting a specific light emission pattern, to move at least one phosphor surface provided for this purpose into the illumination surface by at least one translational movement.

Abstract: A lighting device may include a light generating unit configured to generate at least two light beams; at least one phosphor surface which is illuminatable by the light beams; and at least one movable deflection mirror for the scanning deflection of the light beams onto the phosphor surface, such that the light beams impinge on the at least one phosphor surface in a spaced-apart fashion, and such that at least one region of the phosphor surface is illuminatable by at least two light beams in a manner spaced apart temporally.

Abstract: A tracking system provides light source(s), a mobile communication unit and light sensor(s) with cameras, and a central control unit at least coupled to the sensor(s). The communication unit receives with its camera an identification information item broadcast by the light source(s) and broadcasts an activation signal, including data correlated with the received item, to the control unit. The control unit determines, based on the signal, at which position the communication unit is arranged and which sensor(s) is arranged relative to the position of the communication unit so that the communication unit can be detected by the camera of the sensor; activates the camera of the detected sensor(s) for providing image information by its camera to the control unit, to determine and identify a carrier of the communication unit at the determined position; and activates sensor(s) coupled to the control unit for tracking the identified carrier of the communication unit.

Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a method for producing an LED module, including providing a housing implemented as a hollow body, having an opening on a light exit side of the LED module, wherein the housing has a base side, arranged opposite to the light exit side, arranging a circuit board having one LED on the base side of the housing, pouring in one first base layer made of a curable material in a non-cured state through the opening into the housing, and pouring in a scattering layer made of a curable material in a non-cured state through the opening into the housing. The scattering layer is poured in onto the first base layer. The first base layer is not cured during the pouring in of the scattering layer, and after the pouring in of the scattering layer, the one first base layer and the scattering layer are cured.

Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling, filtering, and monitoring mobile device access to the internet are disclosed. According to an embodiment a server is responsible for controlling, filtering and monitoring internet activity. For every request, the server interacts with back-end databases that categorize requests, and based on user/carrier/corporate settings, allow or disallow access to particular content.

Abstract: In various embodiments, a connector for a lighting device is provided. The lighting device has a planar support with at least one electrical contact formation at an edge of the planar support. The connector includes a fork-shaped shell with a notch coupleable with said planar support edge with said planar support edge inserted in said notch, and an electrical contact structure on at least one side of said notch configured to provide electrical contact with an electrical contact formation on said edge inserted in said notch.

Abstract: Various embodiment may relate to a lighting device, including a light mixing element having a light entry surface and a light exit surface, multiple light sources, the primary light of which can be is radiated onto the light entry surface, a wavelength conversion unit having a carrier, on which a luminescent volume is arranged, which luminescent volume can be is illuminated by means of the primary light emitted by the light exit surface, and at least one decoupling optical unit for forming useful light emitted by the wavelength conversion unit, which has at least one non-imaging safety region. The multiple light sources radiate the primary light thereof at an angle onto the light entry surface. The at least one safety region occupies a position on the decoupling optical unit which corresponds to a region of high intensity of the primary light in the case of remote luminescent volume.

Abstract: An illuminating device includes: at least one lighting module, and at least one lighting module support, wherein the lighting module support is provided in order to dissipate heat from the lighting module and at least one first fastening element for fastening the lighting module on the lighting module support is provided, wherein the first fastening element is designed in such a way that the lighting module is pressed with a defined pressing force onto the lighting module support in such a way that a defined transfer of heat between the lighting module and lighting module support is enabled, and, in the region of the first fastening element, a movement of the lighting module, in particular a thermal expansion, parallel to the main plane of the lighting module is enabled.