Patents Assigned to OSRAM
  • Publication number: 20250125589
    Abstract: A component including a carrier and exactly two semiconductor chips arranged next to one another on the carrier is specified, the exactly two semiconductor chips are each embodied as a double-emitter having exactly two emitter regions or each being embodied as a triple-emitter having exactly three emitter regions and are thus different from a single-emitter. The emitter regions of the component are assigned to the exactly two semiconductor chips, the exactly two semiconductor chips being laser diodes which each have ridges defining the emitter region. The exactly two semiconductor chips are electrically contacted via the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: ams-OSRAM International GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian SCHLEGL, André SOMERS, Jörg Erich SORG
  • Patent number: 12279466
    Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor device may include a first and second semiconductor layer having a first and second conductivity type, respectively, a first contact structure, a contact layer, and a separating layer. Contact holes are arranged in the separating layer. The optoelectronic semiconductor device may include portions of a conductive layer arranged over a side of the separating layer facing away from the contact layer. The portions of the conductive layer are each connected to a conducting material in the contact holes. The first contact structure is connected to the contact layer via the portions of the conductive layer and the conducting material. A length of each of the portions is greater than a greatest width of the portions. The length denotes a shortest distance between an associated contact hole and a conductive material between adjacent portions, and the width is measured perpendicular to the length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Eberhard
  • Patent number: 12278319
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component with a support and a plurality of semiconductor chips, in which the support has a single-ply, electrically conducting support layer, wherein the support layer is structured and has a plurality of sublayers. The support layer has a mounting surface, on which the semiconductor chips are arranged, wherein the semiconductor chips are mechanically supported by the support layer and electrically conductively connected to the sublayers. The support has a common electrode for semiconductor chips of a group of a plurality of semiconductor chips, wherein the common electrode is formed by one of the sublayers or by a plurality of electrically connected sublayers of the support layer. The invention further relates to a method for producing a component of this kind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 12278194
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip and an electronic first storage medium. The first storage medium electrically stores first component information. The component can be uniquely identified via the first component information. The optoelectronic component also includes a second storage medium which can be read out wirelessly at least in an unmounted state of the component. The second storage medium stores second component information that is representative of the first component information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Brandl
  • Patent number: 12276545
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor component for measuring light may include a first signal channel, a second signal channel, a first light-sensitive detection assembly, a second light-sensitive detection assembly, a further light-sensitive detection assembly, and an assigned further signal channel. The first signal channel may provide a first electrical signal, which represents the intensity of light incident on the sensor component. The second signal channel may provide a second electrical signal representing the intensity of the light incident on the sensor component. The first and second light-sensitive detection assemblies may generate the first and second electrical signals, respectively, and be assigned to the first and second signal channels, respectively. Both detection assemblies may have an identical spectral sensitivity and are thus redundant with respect to one another. The spectral sensitivity of both detection assemblies may have a photopic profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Andrey Lysov, Tim Boescke
  • Patent number: 12278318
    Abstract: A component comprising a structural element, a leadframe and a shaped body, in which component the structural element and the leadframe are enclosed at least in regions by the shaped body in lateral directions and the leadframe does not project beyond side faces of the shaped body. The leadframe has at least one first subregion and at least one second subregion which is laterally spaced apart from the first subregion, wherein the structural element is electrically conductively connected to the second subregion by a planar contact structure. Furthermore, the structural element is arranged, in plan view, on the first subregion and projects laterally beyond the first subregion at least in regions, so that the structural element and the first subregion form an anchoring structure at which the structural element and the first subregion are anchored to the shaped body. Further specified is a method for producing such a component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 12269979
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a phosphor having the general molecular formula (MA)a(MB)b(MC)c(MD)d(TA)e(TB)f(TC)g(TD)h(TE)i(TF)j(XA)k(XB)l(XC)m(X D)n:E. MA is selected from a group of monovalent metals, MB is selected from a group of divalent metals, MC is selected from a group of trivalent metals, MD is selected from a group of tetravalent metals, TA is selected from a group of monovalent metals, TB is selected from a group of divalent metals, TC is selected from a group of trivalent metals, TD is selected from a group of tetravalent metals, TE is selected from a group of pentavalent elements, TF is selected from a group of hexavalent elements, XA is selected from a group of elements which comprises halogens, XB is selected from a group of elements which comprises O, S and combinations thereof, XC=N and XD=C and E=Eu, Ce, Yb and/or Mn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Seibald, Simon Peschke, Gregor Hoerder, Gina Maya Achrainer, Klaus Wurst, Dominik Baumann, Tim Fiedler, Stefan Lange, Hubert Huppertz, Daniel Dutzler, Thorsten Schroeder, Daniel Bichler, Gudrun Plundrich
  • Patent number: 12266744
    Abstract: In an embodiment a method includes providing a light-emitting diode chip and a phosphor body, applying a sacrificial layer to a top side of the phosphor body only, placing the phosphor body onto the light-emitting diode chip, molding an encapsulation body directly around the light-emitting diode chip and the phosphor body by a film assisted molding, wherein at least in places a top face of the sacrificial layer facing away from the phosphor body remains unsealed with a molding film, and removing the sacrificial layer so that the top side of the phosphor body is free of the sacrificial layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Mei See Boon, Hui Chiang Teoh, Tomin Liu, Hui Ying Pee, Asliza Alias, Lay Teng Tan, Yuan Liang, Alex Kheng Hooi Lim, Wing Yew Wong
  • Patent number: 12263267
    Abstract: A lamellar arrangement for shielding radiation acting on a fluid which flows through an interior of a device, comprises two or more lamellae aligned substantially parallel to one another and respectively defining an intermediate space between them, wherein at least one subset of the lamellae is respectively subdivided into at least three lamella sections comprising a first lamella section, a second lamella section next to the first lamella section and a third lamella section next to the second lamella section. The first lamella section and the second lamella section in this case enclose a first angle between them, and the second lamella section and the third lamella section enclose a second angle between them. The first angle has a magnitude in a range of from 20° to 45° and the second angle has a magnitude in a range of from 20° to 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Hartwig, Markus Stange, Thorsten Klebba, Tobias Gleitsmann, Mathias Bruemmer, Rainer Quandt, Werner Stolzenberg
  • Patent number: 12266641
    Abstract: A support structure for receiving planar microchips, comprising a planar support substrate and at least two receiving elements. The receiving elements are connected to the carrier substrate and configured in such a way that they detachably hold a flat microchip between the at least two receiving elements in such a way that the microchip can be moved out with a defined minimum force transversely to a support structure plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Pfeuffer, Korbinian Perzlmaier, Kerstin Neveling
  • Patent number: 12267015
    Abstract: A driver circuit may include a first inductor with a first terminal coupled to a first voltage terminal and a first switch with a first and a second terminal. The first terminal of the first switch may be coupled to a second terminal of the first inductor via a first node and the second terminal of the first switch may be coupled to a second voltage terminal. Moreover, the driver circuit may include a diode with a first terminal coupled to the first node, an output terminal, and a first capacitor with a first electrode coupled to a second terminal of the diode and a second electrode coupled to the output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: ams-OSRAM International GmbH
    Inventors: Ann Russell, Joseph Gasiewicz, Syedhossein Mousavian, Somayeh Abnavi
  • Patent number: 12261242
    Abstract: In an embodiment a semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor body having a first region, a second region, and an active region between the first region and the second region, indentations in the first region, a TCO material in the indentations and a carrier, wherein the indentations of the first region are arranged on a side of the first region facing away from the carrier, and wherein the TCO material is flush with a surface of the first region facing away from the active region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Brendan Holland
  • Patent number: 12261258
    Abstract: In an embodiment an optoelectronic component includes a semiconductor chip having an electrical contact, the semiconductor chip configured to emit primary electromagnetic radiation, a carrier having an electrically conductive coating on which the semiconductor chip with the electrical contact is arranged, a contact agent connecting the electrically conductive coating of the carrier and the electrical contact of the semiconductor chip with one another and a passivation layer arranged in places on the electrically conductive coating, wherein an outer surface of the electrically conductive coating is completely encapsulated by the passivation layer and the contact agent, wherein the passivation layer has a penetration, wherein the contact agent protrudes beyond the penetration in a lateral direction, and wherein the semiconductor chip is a flip chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Ivar Tångring, Markus Richter
  • Patent number: 12261409
    Abstract: The invention relates to an edge-emitting semiconductor laser diode, having: —a semiconductor layer sequence, which comprises a bottom surface, a ridge waveguide on a top surface facing away from the bottom surface, and a side surface which is arranged transverse to the top surface, and —a first recess, which extends from the bottom surface to the top surface, wherein —a first region of the semiconductor layer sequence is removed from the side surface in the region of the first recess. The invention further relates to a method for producing a plurality of edge-emitting semiconductor laser diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMB
    Inventors: Sven Gerhard, Bernhard Stojetz
  • Patent number: 12261153
    Abstract: In an embodiment an apparatus includes a delimiting device and a holding device configured to hold the delimiting device at a distance above an optoelectronic light-emitting device and form a layer of a material provided in a flowable state between the delimiting device and the light-emitting device, wherein a bottom side of the delimiting device, which faces the light-emitting device, has a structuring so that a structure complementary to the structuring is producible on an upper side of the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Simon D. Jerebic, Daniel Leisen
  • Patent number: 12261256
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of an optoelectronic component or an arrangement comprising such a component for various applications, in particular in the automotive sector and for visual displays. The arrangements are characterized by simple manufacture and fast switching times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Halbritter, Erwin Lang, Julia Stolz, Andreas Rausch, Simon Schwalenberg
  • Publication number: 20250096518
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, the semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor layer sequence for generating laser radiation and a transparent substrate. The semiconductor layer sequence has a first facet which is designed for emitting the laser radiation, and a second facet opposite the first facet. The substrate has a first lateral surface on the first facet and a second lateral surface on the second facet. The first lateral surface is orientated at least in part obliquely to the first facet and/or the second lateral surface is orientated at least in part obliquely to the second facet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: ams-OSRAM International GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph EICHLER, Alfred LELL, Sven GERHARD
  • Patent number: 12256629
    Abstract: A method for preparing a wavelength converting film is disclosed. The method comprising mixing at least one phosphor, a polysiloxane and optionally an organic solvent, thereby preparing a mixture, placing the mixture on a substrate, pre-curing the mixture on the substrate, thereby preparing a wavelength converting film. Furthermore, a wavelength converting film is disclosed, a method for preparing a light-emitting device and a light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventor: Maxim Tchoul
  • Patent number: 12254816
    Abstract: A picture element for a display device includes a first and a second supply connection, a light-emitting semiconductor device arranged between the first and the second supply terminal, and a comparison unit having a first and a second input and an output. The comparison unit is configured to adjust a voltage at the output in dependence on a comparison of a voltage applied to the first input and a voltage applied to the second input. The picture element also includes a supply switch-configured to control a current flow between the first and the second supply terminal via the light-emitting semiconductor device depending on the voltage applied at the output of the comparison unit. The picture element further includes a selection input, a data input, a memory element and a control switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Hubert Halbritter, Jens Richter, Kilian Regau, Patrick Hörner
  • Patent number: 12255268
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor layer sequence with an active zone for generating a radiation. The semiconductor layer sequence is based on AlInGaP and/or on AlInGaAs. A metal mirror for the radiation is located on a rear side of the semiconductor layer sequence opposite a light extraction side. A protective metallization is applied directly to a side of the metal mirror facing away from the semiconductor layer sequence. An adhesion promoting layer is located directly on a side of the metal mirror facing the semiconductor layer sequence. The adhesion promoting layer is an encapsulation layer for the metal mirror, so that the metal mirror is encapsulated at least at one outer edge by the adhesion promoting layer together with the protective metallization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Pickel, Johannes Saric, Wolfgang Schmid, Anna Strozecka-Assig, Johannes Baur