Patents Assigned to Osram GmbH
  • Patent number: 9659915
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a lighting module which is equipped with several semiconductor light sources, in particular LED-chips and includes a metallic carrier plate. Several metallic carrier substrates are arranged on the carrier plate and are electrically insulated therefrom. At least one semiconductor light source is arranged on the carrier substrates and the carrier substrates are electrically connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Farhang Ghasemi Afshar, Axel Kaltenbacher
  • Patent number: 9653436
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to an LED module, including a number of first inherently unpackaged LED chips, which are in each case designed to emit light of a first color at a respective light emission area, and a number of second inherently unpackaged LED chips, which are in each case designed to emit light of a second color, different than the first color, at a respective light emission area. The LED chips are provided jointly in a housing, and the respective light emission area of a second LED chip is at least 25% smaller than the respective light emission area of a first LED chip. The sum of the light emission areas of the first LED chips is at least 50% greater than the sum of the light emission areas of the second LED chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Reiner Windisch, Krister Bergenek, Andreas Biebersdorf, Ralph Wirth
  • Patent number: 9651220
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a light module having an excitation radiation source, a rotatable color wheel having a plurality of sectors which can be irradiated sequentially by the excitation radiation source upon a rotation of the color wheel. In this case, a wavelength conversion element is arranged in a first region at least in one of the sectors. Furthermore, at least one subregion of a second region of the color wheel is embodied as at least partly light-transmissive, and at least one part of the light emitted by the at least one wavelength conversion element can be guided through said subregion to an output of the light module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Hoehmann
  • Patent number: 9648709
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a fault detection device for streetlamp lighting system. The streetlamp lighting system includes multiple load groups which are powered by a power cable. The fault detection device includes a master detection control unit and load detection control units configured for respective load groups, wherein the master detection control unit determines, according to a first fault feedback signal provided by respective load detection control unit, whether the load group corresponding to the load detection control unit is failed, while the streetlamp lighting system is in a first state, and the master detection control unit determines, according to a physical quantity detected on the power cable, whether the power cable is failed, while the streetlamp lighting system is in a second state. In addition, various embodiments further relate to a method of controlling the fault detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Zhongyi He, Norbert Linder
  • Publication number: 20170122516
    Abstract: Various embodiment may relate to a luminaire, including at least one light source, in particular a semiconductor light source, for emitting a primary light beam onto at least one spaced-apart luminescent body, wherein the luminescent body includes at least one hole and a direct light component of the respective primary light beam can be radiated through the at least one hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Hager, Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering
  • Patent number: 9640739
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an optoelectronic component, including a carrier element, on which at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip is arranged, and a cover, which is mounted on the carrier element in a region extending circumferentially around the semiconductor chip and together with the carrier element forms a sealed cavity in which the at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip is arranged in an inert gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Krister Bergenek, Ralph Wirth, Axel Kaltenbacher, Andreas Biebersdorf, Joerg Sorg, Christine Maier, Harald Jaeger, Gertrud Kraeuter, Frank Jermann, Stefan Lange
  • Patent number: 9635735
    Abstract: A master illuminating device may include an illuminating module, and a signal acquisition and processing unit for detecting the surrounding and outputting a control signal. The illuminating module is designed to receive the control signal and is driven according to the control signal. The illuminating device further include a signal transmission unit which is designed to receive the control signal and is designed to transmit the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: XiHe Zhuang, Middel Tjaco, Daxin Lin, Xuewei Dai, Zesheng Ye
  • Patent number: 9631796
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to an illumination unit for medical use and an illumination device for medical use, wherein the illumination unit includes a light source and a first reflecting structure, the light source has a connecting structure, and the light source is detachably installed on the first reflecting structure by means of the connecting structure. The illumination unit for medical use and the illumination device for medical use according to various embodiments provide a convenient and simple detachable installation structure between the light source and a reflecting structure, such that the installation and maintenance are simple, and the effect of adjusting the color temperature also can be achieved according to different selection of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Ai Ma, Xuguang Cao, Jun Liu
  • Patent number: 9629224
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a tube and end caps located at two ends of the tube, a lighting assembly arranged in the tube, a driver for the lighting assembly, an antenna, and a wireless communication circuit for conducting wireless communication, the antenna being provided in the end cap and the wireless communication circuit being provided in the tube or at least partially provided in the end cap, and one side of the wire communication circuit being connected to the driver and the other side thereof being connected to the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Xuewei Dai, Aimin Lin, Middel Tjaco, Zesheng Ye
  • Patent number: 9625140
    Abstract: A light-emitting element may include at least one coding element. The coding element may have at least two switching states and an operating mode of the light-emitting element may be set on the basis of a switching state of the coding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20170102118
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Andre Nauen, Georg Forster, David Dussault
  • Patent number: 9620486
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode module for emitting white light includes a first light emitting diode chip for generating radiation in the blue spectral range having a first peak wavelength, a second light emitting diode chip for generating radiation in the blue spectral range having a second peak wavelength, a third light emitting diode chip for generating radiation in the red spectral range having a third peak wavelength, a first and a second phosphors disposed downstream of the first and the second light emitting diode chips, respectively. The first light emitting diode chip with the first phosphor generates a first mixed radiation and the second light emitting diode chip with the second phosphor generates a second mixed radiation. The first phosphor exhibits a first absorption maximum at a wavelength greater than the first peak wavelength. The second phosphor exhibits a second absorption maximum at a wavelength less than the second peak wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Reiner Windisch, Krister Bergenek
  • Patent number: 9611983
    Abstract: An LED module includes a first and a second partial chain of LEDs, wherein the LED module has a first input terminal and a second input terminal, via which said LED module is connectable to a light emitting diode module connected upstream or to a voltage source, and wherein the LED module has a first output terminal and a second output terminal, via which the LED module is connectable to a LED module connected downstream, a parallel-connecting terminal, which is connectable to the first input terminal for the purpose of connecting the two partial chains in parallel, wherein a first intermediate terminal connected to an output of the first partial chain and a second intermediate terminal connected to an input of the second partial chain are provided, which are connectable to one another for the purpose of connecting the two partial chains in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Lorenz, Antje Graichen
  • Patent number: 9611995
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a lighting apparatus is provided. The lighting apparatus includes at least one light generating device configured to generate at least one polarized primary light beam; and at least one luminescent body, separated from the at least one light generating device, which can be illuminated by the polarized primary light beam. The at least one polarized primary light beam strikes a surface of the luminescent body at a Brewster angle, and is p-polarized in relation to this surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Daniels
  • Patent number: 9613936
    Abstract: An LED module includes a carrier plate having an arrangement face and a wall on the upper side of the plate, the wall running peripherally around the arrangement face and being raised upwards with respect to said arrangement face; an LED arranged on the face; a contact element, to which the LED is connected; and an at least partially transparent potted body covering the arrangement face and the LED towards the top and laterally adjoins an inner face of the wall. The wall is formed monolithically with the remaining carrier plate and is interrupted over its periphery, and the potted body does not adjoin the inner wall face of the wall. The contact element extends away from the arrangement face along the upper side of the carrier plate in the interruption region so that electrical contact can be made with the LED via the contact element from outside the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventor: Farhang Ghasemi Afshar
  • Patent number: 9614348
    Abstract: A light source arrangement is provided. The light source arrangement may include a plurality of semiconductor laser light sources, each having an optical axis. The semiconductor laser light sources are arranged in such a way that their optical axes are oriented parallel to one another so that respective laser light emission sides of the semiconductor laser light sources point in the same spatial direction. The light source arrangement may further include a deflection unit configured to collect and influence beam paths of the laser light emitted by the semiconductor laser light sources in order to form a beam bundle. The semiconductor laser light sources are arranged on a surface of a carrier, distributed at least two-dimensionally over the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Daniels, Ulrich Hartwig, Joerg Sorg
  • Publication number: 20170089558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a connector device for an illumination apparatus and an illumination apparatus comprising this connector device. The connector device comprises a stationary element for connecting to the illumination apparatus, a first movable element for connecting to a power supply, a second movable element rotatably connected to the stationary element, and a locking element arranged between the stationary element and the second movable element, wherein rotation of the second movable element in a first direction drives the locking element to release locking of the second movable element, and when the second movable element continues to be rotated in the first direction and drives the first movable element to rotate together, rotation of the first movable element enables the locking element to release locking of the first movable element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Jun LIU, Shijun NIE
  • Publication number: 20170093274
    Abstract: A boost power factor correction circuit, a driving circuit for light-emitting diodes and a lighting device are provided. The boost power factor correction circuit includes: a PFC controller; a PFC switch controlled by an output of the PFC controller; and an equivalent variable resistor connected between the PFC switch and the ground. A feedback current input of the PFC controller is connected to a node between the PFC switch and the equivalent variable resistor. The resistance of the equivalent variable resistor is controlled by the output voltage of the PFC circuit. In case that the PFC circuit operates under an mains AC or CCG input, the resistance keeps constantly minimum, and in case that the PFC circuit operates under an ECG input, the resistance increases as the output voltage of the PFC circuit decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Junnan HE, Shaoping CHEN
  • Patent number: 9609700
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a Light Engine Module including a plurality of series connected LEDs, a positive power supply line, a common ground line, a communication line, a current set resistor) coupled to the communication line, with its value of conductance being indicative for the current demand of the Light Engine Module, and a variable current generator connected to the communication line. The variable current generator is responsive to at least one measurement signal provided by at least one sensor. Various embodiments may further relate to a Power Supply Unit, and a lighting system including the Power Supply Unit with at least one Light Engine Module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Francesco Angelin, Paolo De Anna, Bernd Rudolph
  • Patent number: D784574
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Hua Wang, HongWei Zhang