Patents Assigned to Osram GmbH
  • Patent number: 10477655
    Abstract: The individual configuration of beacons in lighting systems is to be simplified. Therefore, a lighting system with a lighting device and a beacon arranged in or at the lighting device is provided. The lighting system comprises a sensor device for acquiring an environmental parameter relating to an environment of the lighting system. Moreover, the beacon is formed to automatically configure itself based on the environmental parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Peitz, Henry Feil, Michel Stutz
  • Publication number: 20190336789
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described that enable the simultaneous control of lux, correlated color temperature (CCT), and circadian light (CL) emitted by a lighting system. Aspects also include methods for the adjusting the lux, CCT, and CL with respect to the needs and/or desires of a user, including to provide optimal lighting for light related health. Aspects of the present disclosure also include user interfaces for the simultaneous knowledge and control of lux, CCT, and CL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Richard C. Garner, Christopher P. Scarlata
  • Patent number: 10458629
    Abstract: A lighting module includes a base, at least one electrically powered light radiation source carried by said base, a plurality of lamina electrical contacts connected to said light radiation source, and having respective proximal ends fixed to said base and respective distal ends elastically pressed against one face of said base, wherein the distal ends of said lamina electrical contacts have respective mutually offset contact areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Alberto Zanotto, Simon Bobbo, Lorenzo Baldo, Roberto Didone′, Valerio Michielan, Matteo Caldon
  • Patent number: 10461532
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for supplying an electrical load with electrical energy from a voltage source, in which an electrical charge storage for storing electrical charge is supplied with a preset electrical current by means of a constant current circuit connected to a voltage source, wherein a regulated electrical potential is provided for the load by means of a linear regulator circuit connected to the charge storage, wherein the charge storage is supplied with an electrical bypass current by means of a bypass circuit in parallel with the current of the constant current circuit, wherein the bypass circuit is controlled by means of a control signal of a control unit, wherein an electrical charge storage voltage at the charge storage is captured and the control signal is provided depending on the captured charge storage voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Zitzelsperger
  • Patent number: 10451254
    Abstract: A lighting device may include an elongated body having at least one light emission surface. The body has at least one longitudinal groove extending along the elongated body. The groove has a tapered cross-section with a restricted mouth portion for receiving and retaining in the groove a complementary coupling element having a restricted stem portion and an enlarged head portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Roberto Didone', Alberto Zanotto, Simon Bobbo, Luca Volpato
  • Patent number: 10455662
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a lighting system including a string of light sources connected in series between a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein at least one electrical contact of the string of light sources is accessible. The system further includes a protection circuit that protects the light sources from an electrostatic discharge applied to the electrical contact that is accessible. In particular, the protection circuit includes at least one TVS diode or set of antiparallel diodes connected to the second terminal, and for each electrical contact a respective capacitor connected between the respective electrical contact and a TVS diode or set of antiparallel diodes, in such a way that an electrostatic event applied to an electrical contact is discharged through the respective capacitor and the respective TVS diode or set of antiparallel diodes towards the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Alessio Griffoni, Lorenzo Baldo
  • Patent number: 10447168
    Abstract: An electronic converter comprising a switching stage comprising at least one electronic switch, wherein the switching stage is adapted to provide a current via a terminal; a first capacitor, wherein the first capacitor provides a first voltage. Specifically, converter further comprises: a second capacitor, wherein the second capacitor provides a second voltage, comparison means configured to detect the difference between the first voltage and the second voltage, and determine a comparison signal which indicates whether this difference is greater than a threshold, and switching means configured to transfer selectively current to the first capacitor or the second capacitor as a function of the comparison signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Francesco Angelin
  • Patent number: 10436714
    Abstract: A method for detecting damage to a converter device of a lighting apparatus is provided. The method may include irradiating the converter device with input light, detecting a useful light portion emitted principally by a first section of the converter device by means of a first sensor element. A first detection signal is obtained, detecting a useful light portion emitted principally by a second section of the converter device, said second section being different than the first section, by means of a second sensor element. A second detection signal is obtained. The method further may include automatically obtaining damage information about the converter device from a ratio or a difference of the first detection signal with respect to either the second detection signal or a comparison signal formed therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Hoehmann, Stefan Hadrath
  • Patent number: 10436408
    Abstract: A lighting device, which may be employed e.g. as a retrofit bulb for vehicle lamps, includes a light radiation source, e.g. a LED source, and a beam-narrowing optical system facing the light radiation source, for propagating a narrowed light radiation beam of the same source along a longitudinal axis of the device. Arranged distally of the beam-narrowing optical system along said longitudinal axis, there is moreover provided a cascaded arrangement of: a light-condensing lens, a light-driving lens, a filament-like body including annular reflective surfaces extending around the longitudinal axis and exposed to light radiation from the light radiation source propagated through the light-condensing lens and the light-driving lens, a distal mirror member having a reflective surface facing towards the filament-like body, to reflect light radiation towards annular reflective surfaces in said plurality of annular reflective surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Alessandro Bizzotto, Marco Munarin
  • Patent number: 10440335
    Abstract: An optical device is provided including a light-imaging component configured to focus light fed to the light-imaging component in at least one focusing spot, wherein the light fed includes at least one predefinable wavelength; and a conversion apparatus including at least one phosphor which is designed to convert light having the at least one predefinable wavelength into conversion light, wherein the conversion apparatus is arranged in such a way that the at least one phosphor is arranged in the focusing spot of the light-imaging component. The light-imaging component is configured to generate at least two focusing spots, and the conversion apparatus is arranged in such a way that the at least two focusing spots are positioned on the at least one phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Hadrath
  • Patent number: 10429038
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a transom light arrangement may include a transom, which is arranged between a construction element and a transom light, a light source arrangement, which is mounted at least one of on or in the transom, with the light source arrangement or the transom defining a horizontal plane, and a screen structure. The light source arrangement and the screen structure are arranged relative to one another and are configured such that a spatial region above the horizontal plane is illuminated using the light source arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Ferdinand Walther, Arnulf Rupp, Robert Kraus, Dennis Sprenger
  • Patent number: 10432239
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device, comprising a first lighting means and a transmission module for wireless transmission and for providing a position identification signal comprising position determination data. The lighting device also comprises an electronic operating device for operating the first lighting means, wherein the electronic operating device is coupled on the input side to an electrical supply connection of the lighting device and on the output side to the first lighting means by a first connection device. The electronic operating device comprises an energy converter for supplying the transmission module with electrical energy. The invention further relates to a system for providing a position indication having a plurality of such lighting devices. In addition, the invention relates to a method for operating a lighting device having a first lighting means by providing a position identification signal comprising position determination data by means of a transmission module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Christoph Peitz
  • Patent number: 10422499
    Abstract: A reflective laser activated remote phosphor (LARP) package comprising: a phosphor platelet oriented in a first plane defined by an x-y plane; a laser diode (LD) positioned to be offset along the x-axis from the phosphor platelet and above the first plane along a z-axis perpendicular to the x-y plane, the LD comprising: an output facet configured for emitting a laser beam (LB), the LB comprising: a slow axis oriented in a first direction along which the LB diverges at a first angle; and a fast axis oriented in a second direction along which the LB diverges at a second angle greater than the first angle; wherein the LD is oriented such that: the LB is bisected by the phosphor platelet such that the slow axis of the LB lies in an x-z plane and the fast axis of the LB is perpendicular to an x-z plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignees: OSRAM GmbH., OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: Alan L. Lenef, Joerg Sorg, Jan Oliver Drumm, Sergey Kudaev
  • Patent number: 10416464
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source, a micromirror array including a plurality of micromirror actuators, an illumination optical unit, and an optical sensor unit having a sensitive sensor surface. The illumination light is guided onto the micromirror actuators and is reflected at the latter and with the reflection in the temporal integral. An on beam is reflected by the micromirror actuators in a respective on tilt position via the illumination optical unit to an illumination application. An off beam is reflected by the micromirror actuators in a respective off tilt position alongside the illumination optical unit. The sensor unit is arranged in the off beam, in order to capture a radiation guided in the off beam at least in the case of a fault. The sensor unit is oriented in such a way that the sensor surface lies obliquely with respect to a main incidence direction of the radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Sergey Khrushchev
  • Patent number: 10418529
    Abstract: A conversion element includes a platelet including an inorganic glass, and first converter particles having a shell and a core, wherein the shell includes an inorganic material and the core includes a nitride or oxynitride luminescent material and the first converter particles are arranged on and/or in the platelet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Britta Göötz, Frank Singer, Roland Hüttinger
  • Patent number: 10408411
    Abstract: An illumination device includes multiple semiconductor primary light sources for emitting respective primary light beams, at least one movable mirror, which can be illuminated by means of the primary light beams, and which can assume at least two angle positions, and a luminophore element, which can be illuminated by means of primary light beams deflected by the at least one mirror. Light spots of the individual primary light beams are locally differentiable on the at least one luminophore element, an overall light spot composed of the light spots of the individual primary light beams is locally differentiable on the at least one luminophore element depending on the angle position of the at least one movable mirror, and at least one beam property of at least one primary light beam incident on the at least one luminophore element is variable during operation of the illumination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Schwaiger
  • Patent number: 10408413
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a lighting device including at least one light source for emitting a polarized primary light beam (P), at least one luminescent material volume for at least partially converting primary light of the primary light beam (P) into secondary light (S) having a different wavelength, which luminescent material volume is arranged in a path of at least a primary light beam (P), and at least one light sensor, which is arranged at least in a part of an original path of the primary light beam (P) after the location of the luminescent material volume, wherein the light sensor is sensitive at least to the primary light and is polarization-sensitive. Various embodiments can, in particular, be applied to vehicle lighting devices, in particular vehicle lamps, e.g., headlamps, or modules thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Sergey Khrushchev
  • Patent number: 10400995
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus for providing light and for illuminating an illumination plane with a rectangular light distribution is provided. The illumination apparatus includes at least one light source configured to generate light, a collimation optical unit configured to collimate the light, a condenser optical unit configured to shape a rectangular angular distribution of the light coming from the collimation optical unit, and a freeform optical unit having at least one freeform area for modifying the angular distribution such that a rectangular light distribution is produced in an illumination plane that is optically connected downstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Henning Rehn
  • Patent number: 10393342
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a lighting device for a motor vehicle is provided. The lighting device includes at least one light source, and at least one layer of a lacquer embodied such that light may be coupled into the lacquer for achieving a luminous effect. Scattering particles are provided in the lacquer for output coupling of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH.
    Inventors: Thomas Feil, Daniel Weissenberger, Martin Petzold
  • Patent number: D861921
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: HongWei Zhang, Xinjian Zhang