Patents Assigned to OSRAM OLED GmbH
  • Patent number: 9692005
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device is provided which comprises an organic active layer (5) provided for generating electromagnetic radiation and a first electrode (1) provided for electrical contacting of the active layer, wherein the first electrode comprises a first electrode layer (11) and a first connection layer (12) spaced at least in places from the first electrode layer, the active layer is arranged at least in places between the first electrode layer and the first connection layer, and the first electrode comprises at least one through via (13) which extends through the active layer and, in so doing, forms an electrical contact between the first electrode layer and the first connection layer. A method for producing such a device is furthermore provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Wehlus
  • Patent number: 9692016
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to an optoelectronic component and a method for producing an optoelectronic component. In various embodiments, an optoelectronic component is provided, the optoelectronic component, including an optically active structure, which is designed for receiving and/or providing electromagnetic radiation, and at least one scattering structure, which is formed in the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation on or above the optically active structure. The scattering structure is designed such that the directional characteristic of the electromagnetic radiation can be electrically modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Wehlus
  • Patent number: 9685624
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to an optoelectronic component, including a first organic functional layer structure, a second organic functional layer structure and a charge generating layer structure between the first organic functional layer structure and the second organic functional layer structure. The charge generating layer structure includes a hole-conducting charge generating layer and a first electron-conducting charge generating layer. The hole-conducting charge generating layer includes or is formed from an inorganic substance or an inorganic substance mixture. The first electron-conducting charge generating layer includes or is formed from an organic substance or an organic substance mixture. The first electron-conducting charge generating layer includes or is formed from an organic, intrinsically electron-conducting substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Thilo Reusch, Carola Diez
  • Patent number: 9685633
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting component includes a substrate on which a functional layer stack is applied, the stack including a first electrode, an organic functional layer stack thereover including an organic light-emitting layer and a translucent second electrode thereover, and a translucent halogen-containing thin-film encapsulation arrangement over the translucent second electrode, wherein a translucent protective layer having a refractive index of more than 1.6 is arranged directly on a translucent second electrode between the translucent second electrode and the thin-film encapsulation arrangement, and the thin-film encapsulation arrangement is arranged directly on the translucent protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Lang, Marc Philippens, Tilman Schlenker, Richard Baisl
  • Patent number: 9674921
    Abstract: A method can be used for operating an organic light-emitting component. The organic light-emitting component has a first electrode and a second electrode, between which an organic functional layer stack with at least one organic light-emitting layer is arranged. The first and second electrodes and the organic functional layer stack have a large area. Electrical contact is made with the first electrode via at least two electrical connection elements in the peripheral regions, in which different electric voltages are applied to the at least two electrical connection elements and the different electric voltages vary over time. A lighting device for implementing the method is also specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten Diekmann, Kilian Regau, Jörg Farrnbacher, Thorsten Vehoff
  • Patent number: 9671556
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to an optoelectronic component device, including a first optically active structure, which is configured to provide an electromagnetic radiation, a measuring structure, which is configured to determine the luminance distribution of the electromagnetic radiation, wherein the measuring structure is configured to determine the luminance distribution in the first optically active structure, and wherein the measurement structure has a plurality of second optically active structures, wherein the plurality of second optically active structures are configured as optoelectric components and/or optoelectronic components, which receive the provided electromagnetic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Arndt Jaeger, Michael Popp
  • Publication number: 20170155096
    Abstract: In various exemplary embodiments, a method for producing an optoelectronic component is provided. In this case, a high temperature solid is provided which is stable at least up to a predefined first temperature. A liquid glass solder having a second temperature, which is lower than the first temperature, is applied to the high temperature solid in a structured fashion. The glass solder is solidified, as a result of which a glass solid is formed. An optoelectronic layer structure is formed above the glass solid. The glass solid and the optoelectronic layer structure form the optoelectronic component. The optoelectronic component is removed from the high temperature solid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Osram OLED GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Wehlus
  • Patent number: 9651203
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a light panel system includes a system carrier with a carrier front face. Multiple organic light emitting diodes are arranged in a uniform grid on the carrier front face. An electronics driver is fitted to or in the system carrier. The light panel system can be handled and mounted as a single unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten Diekmann, Christoph Gärditz, Christian Kristukat, Stefan Gschlöβl, Benjamin Claus Krummacher, Jörg Farrnbacher, Kilian Regau
  • Patent number: 9655198
    Abstract: A method of operating an organic light-emitting component having first and second electrodes that have arranged between them an organic functional layer stack having at least one organic light-emitting layer that, during operation, produces light emitted via a luminous area, the first and second electrodes and the organic functional layer stack are in an extensive form, in contact with the first electrode, at each of two opposite edges of the first electrode a respective conductor track is arranged that extends in a longitudinal direction along the respective edge, the two conductor tracks have contact made with them on a same side of the first electrode by a connection element so that during operation there is a voltage drop in each conductor track in the longitudinal direction, which voltage drop brings about a luminous density gradient on the luminous area in a direction following the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM Oled GmbH
    Inventors: Benjamin C. Krummacher, Erwin Lang, Ulrich Niedermeier, Thorsten Vehoff
  • Patent number: 9647186
    Abstract: A method for producing an electronic component comprising barrier layers for the encapsulation of the component comprises, in particular, the following steps: providing a substrate with at least one functional layer, applying at least one first barrier layer on the functional layer via plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD), and applying at least one second barrier layer on the functional layer by means of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), where the at least one first barrier layer is applied at a temperature of less than 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Schmid, Tilman Schlenker, Heribert Zull, Ralph Paetzold, Markus Klein, Karsten Heuser
  • Publication number: 20170125722
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a substrate having a carrier, a first electrical busbar, a second electrical busbar, and an optically functional structure on or above the carrier, wherein the optically functional structure is formed laterally between the first and the second electrical busbar, and a first electrode electrically coupled to the first electrical busbar and/or the second electrical busbar, on or above the carrier, and an organic functional layer structure on or above the first electrode, wherein the organic functional layer structure is formed for converting an electric current into an electromagnetic radiation, and a second electrode on or above the organic functional layer structure. The optically functional structure is formed in such a way that the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation which passes through the substrate and/or the spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation passing through the substrate are/is variable by means of the optically functional structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Wehlus, Daniel Riedel, Nina Riegel, Silke Scharner, Johannes Rosenberger, Arne Fleissner
  • Publication number: 20170110520
    Abstract: An organic radiation-emitting component and a method for manufacturing an organic radiation-emitting component are disclosed. In an embodiment, the component includes a base substrate and a plurality of light-emitting units disposed on the base substrate, wherein the light-emitting units are arranged laterally offset with respect to one another, wherein the plurality of light-emitting units is divided into light-emitting units of a first type and light-emitting units of a second type, wherein a current flow through the light-emitting units of the first type is directed in an opposite direction to a current flow through the light-emitting units of the second type during operation, and wherein the light-emitting units are grouped in neighboring pairs, each neighboring pair consists of a light-emitting unit of a first type and a light-emitting unit of a second type, both first electrodes or both second electrodes of which are electrically connected to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicants: OSRAM OLED GmbH, OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Wehlus, Arne Fleißner, Thilo Reusch, Daniel Riedel
  • Patent number: 9627643
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to an optoelectronic component, including a substrate, a first electrically conductive electrode layer, a second electrically conductive electrode layer, an organic layer structure, and a conductor track layer. The first electrically conductive electrode layer, the second electrically conductive electrode layer and the conductor track layer are formed in each case from an optically transparent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Wehlus
  • Publication number: 20170098787
    Abstract: A metal complex of a metal from groups 13 to 16 uses a ligand of the structure (I), where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can independently be oxygen, sulfur, selenium, NH or NR.sup.4, where R.sup.4 an alkyl or aryl and can be connected to R.sup.3. R.sup.3 is an alkyl, long-chain alkyl, alkoxy, long-chain alkoxy, cycloalkyl, halogenalkyl, aryl, arylene, halogenaryl, heteroaryl, heteroarylene, heterocycloalkylene, heterocycloalkyl, halogenheteroaryl, alkenyl, halogenalkenyl, alkynyl, halogenalkynyl, ketoaryl, halogenketoaryl, ketoheteroaryl, ketoalkyl, halogenketoalkyl, ketoalkenyl, halogenketoalkenyl, where in suitable radicals, one or more non-adjacent CH.sup.2-groups can be substituted independently of one another by —O—, —S—, —NH—, —NR.sup.o-, —SiR.sup.oR.sup.oo-, —CO—, —COO—, —OCO—, —OCO—O—, —SO.sub.2-, —S—CO—, —CO—S—, —CY1?CY2 or —C.dbd.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicants: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Anna Maltenberger, Marina A. Petrukhina, Guenter Schmid, Jan Hauke Wemken
  • Patent number: 9599324
    Abstract: A holder element for holding at least one flat surface-light lamp includes: an elongate, flat plate body having an upper plate side and a lower plate side arranged opposite the upper plate side, and one or more lampholders, which can be fitted on the plate body, for mechanically holding and making electrical contact with a flat surface-light lamp, wherein an engagement portion is formed on each of the two longitudinal ends of the plate body and is formed by a cutout, which extends, in plan view, from the respective longitudinal end of the plate body over the entire width of the plate body in the direction toward the longitudinal center, such that the plate body can be connected at each of its two longitudinal ends to another, identically formed plate body so as to form a form-fitting connection formed by the engagement portions of the adjacent plate bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Karsten Diekmann, Stefan Gschloessl
  • Patent number: 9601721
    Abstract: An organic electronic device and a method of making an organic electronic device are provided. An embodiment of an electronic device includes a substrate, an active layer disposed on the substrate and a thin-layer encapsulation disposed on the active layer. The device further includes a first adhesive layer disposed on the thin-layer encapsulation, wherein the first adhesive layer comprises a getter material and a covering layer disposed on the first adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Lang, Richard Baisl, Tilman Schlenker, Doreen Heppner, Michael Popp, Evelyn Trummer-Sailer
  • Patent number: 9583729
    Abstract: A method for producing an electronic component with at least one first electrode zone (21) and one second electrode zone (23), which are separated from one another by an insulator (9) and each comprise at least one sublayer of a first electrically conductive material. Also disclosed is an electronic component, which may be produced using the disclosed method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Andrew Ingle, Tilman Schlenker, Karsten Heuser
  • Patent number: 9583740
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component include a carrier body, an optoelectronic layer structure formed above the carrier body and having at least one contact region for contacting the optoelectronic layer structure, a covering body arranged above the optoelectronic layer structure, at least one contact cutout extending through the covering body and/or the carrier body. The contact cutout has a first and a second cutout regions, which lead into one another and which extend from an outer surface of the covering body and/or of the carrier body in a layer plane direction where the contact region is formed. A first clear width of the contact cutout near the corresponding outer surface in the first cutout region is greater than a second clear width in the second cutout region near the corresponding outer surface. The second clear width is less than a third clear width of the second cutout region near the contact region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Farrnbacher, Simon Schicktanz
  • Patent number: 9570686
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) having an improved service life and improved transport of negative charge carriers. The organic light emitting diode based on an organic semiconductor material in which the transport of negative charge carriers and the stability with respect to reduction are determined by azahetarylene/Lewis acid complex units. This leads to an improved service life of the emission layer, which firstly increases the service life of the component and avoids readjustment of the brightness during operation. Organic light emitting diodes are disclosed in which the position of the emission zone in the emitter layer and the color of the emission can be specifically influenced by azahetarylene/Lewis acid complex units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten Heuser, Arvid Hunze, Andreas Kanitz
  • Patent number: 9553133
    Abstract: A method for producing an optoelectronic assembly having a first and at least a second optoelectronic components may include forming a first electrically conductive layer on a substrate, forming a second electrically conductive layer on the first electrically conductive layer, applying an insulator material on the second electrically conductive layer and the substrate, such that at least a first insulator region, which insulates a first component region from a second component region, a second insulator region, which insulates the second component region from a first contact region, a third insulator region arranged on a side of the first component region, and a fourth insulator region arranged between the first and second insulator regions on a side of the second component region are formed by the insulator material, forming a first and second optically functional layers in the first and second component regions, respectively, and applying an electrically conductive electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventor: Andrew Ingle