Patents Assigned to OSRAM
  • Patent number: 11626531
    Abstract: A semiconductor body and a method for producing a semiconductor body are disclosed. In an embodiment a semiconductor body includes a p-conducting region, wherein the p-conducting region has at least one barrier zone and a contact zone, wherein the barrier zone has a first magnesium concentration and a first aluminum concentration, wherein the contact zone has a second magnesium concentration and a second aluminum concentration, wherein the first aluminum concentration is greater than the second aluminum concentration, wherein the first magnesium concentration is at least ten times less than the second magnesium concentration, wherein the contact zone forms an outwardly exposed surface of the semiconductor body, and wherein the barrier zone adjoins the contact zone, and wherein the semiconductor body is based on a nitride compound semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Massimo Drago, Alexander Frey, Joachim Hertkorn, Ingrid Koslow
  • Patent number: 11626707
    Abstract: In an embodiment a semiconductor laser diode includes a semiconductor layer sequence comprising an active layer having a main extension plane, the semiconductor layer sequence configured to generate light in an active region and radiate the light via a light-outcoupling surface, wherein the active region extends from a rear surface opposite the light-outcoupling surface to the light-outcoupling surface along a longitudinal direction in the main extension plane and a continuous contact structure directly disposed on a surface of the semiconductor layer sequence, wherein the contact structure comprises in at least a first contact region a first electrical contact material in direct contact with the surface region and in at least a second contact region a second electrical contact material in direct contact with the surface region, wherein the first and second contact regions adjoin one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Gerhard, Christoph Eichler, Alfred Lell, Bernhard Stojetz
  • Patent number: 11621373
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optoelectronic device (100) comprising a semiconductor layer sequence (1) on a carrier (7), the semiconductor layer sequence (1) comprising at least one n-doped semiconductor layer (11), at least one p-doped semiconductor layer (12) and an active layer (13) sandwiched between the p- and n-doped semiconductor layers (11, 12), an reconnecting contact (2), which is configured for electrically contacting the n-doped semiconductor layer (11), a p-connecting contact (3), which is configured for electrically contacting the p-doped semiconductor layer (12), the n-connecting contact (2) being arranged on the side of the semiconductor layer sequence (1) facing away from the carrier (7), the n-connecting contact (2) having a first side (4) which is arranged facing the semiconductor layer sequence (1), wherein the first side (4) has two outer regions (43) and an inner region (44), viewed in lateral cross-section, which is delimited by the outer regions (43), wherein the outer regions (43) of t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventor: Guido Weiss
  • Patent number: 11621255
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component and an assembly with an optoectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic component includes an optical element with an outer surface and an inner surface that faces away from the outer surface, wherein the inner surface includes a first region of the optical element, in which the inner surface is flat, wherein the inner surface includes a second region of the optical element, wherein the second region adjoins the first region, and wherein the inner surface includes a third region of the optical element, in which the inner surface extends from the second region in the direction of a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Claus Jaeger, Stephan Haslbeck
  • Patent number: 11622434
    Abstract: A lighting fixture includes an optoelectronic light source, for example, designed to illuminate a room, and a modulatable supply circuit that is connected to the optoelectronic light source, wherein a current through or a voltage applied to the light source may be modulated by the modulatable supply circuit. A data stream generator is connected to a modulation input of the supply circuit. A trigger element that is connected to the data stream generator and configured to deliver a first signal to the data stream generator in response to a comparison of a counter value with a threshold value and an event signal. The data stream generator may be configured to deliver a modulation signal to the modulation input in response to an event signal and to the first signal, and the modulation signal encodes position information relative to a reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Siessegger, Christoph Peitz, Markus Jung
  • Patent number: 11621378
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip that, during intended operation, generates primary radiation coupled out of the semiconductor chip via an emission side of the semiconductor chip; and a first conversion element on the emission side, wherein the first conversion element includes a first matrix material and first phosphor particles in the form of quantum dots, the first phosphor particles are distributed and embedded in the first matrix material, and the first matrix material is formed by a polysiloxane in which an atomic percentage of carbon is smaller than an atomic percentage of oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Dajana Durach, Kathy Schmidtke
  • Patent number: 11613697
    Abstract: A phosphor may have the empirical formula: (AB)1+x+2yAl11?x?y(AC)xLiyO17:E, where 0<x+y<11; AC=Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and/or Zn; AB=Na, K, Rb, and/or Cs; and E=Eu, Ce, Yb, and/or Mn. The phosphor may be used in conversion LED components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Alexey Marchuk, Dominik Baumann
  • Patent number: 11616176
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component is disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic component includes a housing body, an optical element and a rabbet comprising a shoulder and a cheek, wherein the rabbet is located on an upper side of the housing body, wherein the optical element is located in the rabbet such that a brim of the optical element rests on the shoulder of the rabbet, wherein the upper side of the housing body comprises a rectangular shape, and wherein the shoulder of the rabbet is located only at corners of the rabbet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Mohd Fauzi Zainordin, Khairul Mohd Arshad, Sok Gek Beh, Jun Jun Lim
  • Patent number: 11616175
    Abstract: The invention relates to a luminophore mixture which comprises at least one quantum dot luminophore and at least one functional material, the functional material is formed such that it scatters electromagnetic radiation and/or has a high density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Osram OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Ralph Bertram, Ivar Tangring, Philipp Pust
  • Patent number: 11616164
    Abstract: A method for producing a nitride compound semiconductor component is disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes providing a growth substrate, growing a nucleation layer of an aluminum-containing nitride compound semiconductor onto the growth substrate, growing a tension layer structure for generating a compressive stress, wherein the tension layer structure comprises at least a first GaN semiconductor layer and a second GaN semiconductor layer, and wherein an Al(Ga)N interlayer for generating the compressive stress is disposed between the first GaN semiconductor layer and the second GaN semiconductor layer and growing a functional semiconductor layer sequence of the nitride compound semiconductor component onto the tension layer structure, wherein a growth of the second GaN semiconductor layer is preceded by a growth of a first 3D AlGaN layer on the Al(Ga)N interlayer in such a way that it has nonplanar structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Drechsel, Werner Bergbauer, Thomas Lehnhardt, Jürgen Off, Joachim Hertkorn
  • Patent number: 11616178
    Abstract: A method for producing a plurality of radiation emitting semiconductor devices and a radiation emitting semiconductor device are disclosed. In an embodiment a method include providing an auxiliary carrier, applying a plurality of radiation-emitting semiconductor chips to the auxiliary carrier with front sides so that rear sides of the semiconductor chips are freely accessible, wherein each rear side of the respective semiconductor chip has at least one electrical contact, applying spacers to the auxiliary carrier so that the spacers directly adjoin side surfaces of the semiconductor chips and applying a casting compound between the semiconductor chips by a screen printing process such that a semiconductor chip assembly is formed, wherein a screen for the screen printing process has a plurality of cover elements, and wherein each cover element covers at least one electrical contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Ivar Tangring, Thomas Schlereth
  • Patent number: 11614215
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a pixel array of light-emitting pixels arranged next to one another. The pixel array includes light-emitting pixels with different pixel shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Regensburger, Stefan Groetsch, Ulrich Frei, Peter Brick
  • Patent number: 11611019
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component may include a semiconductor chip configured to emit radiation and a reflection element disposed in the beam path of the semiconductor chip where the reflection element is configured to reflect radiation. The reflection element may include a matrix material having diffuser particles and filler particles embedded therein. The diffuser particles are different from the filler particles. The filler particles may include a matrix having scatter particles embedded therein and/or a ceramic comprising the scatter particles in sintered form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Osram OLED GmbH
    Inventor: Ivar Tångring
  • Patent number: 11607158
    Abstract: A sensor may include a light source, a light detector, and a housing. The housing may have a first upper side and extend from the first upper side, a first cavity and a second cavity. The light detector is arranged in the first cavity. The light source is arranged in the second cavity. A strut may be arranged between the first cavity and the second cavity and is made from a material that absorbs or reflects light. A first cover may be mounted above the first cavity and comprises a deflection region and a plane of incidence. The deflection region is designed such that 80% of the light which is incident in the deflection region on the plane of incidence of the first cover from a predetermined direction and which is incident on the light detector, is directed away from the light detector based on an optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventor: Simon Schwalenberg
  • Patent number: 11610868
    Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Brick, Jean-Jacques Drolet, Hubert Halbritter, Laura Kreiner, Thomas Schwarz, Julia Stolz
  • Patent number: 11611022
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component may include a radiation-emitting semiconductor chip configured to emit electromagnetic radiation and a phosphor mixture. The excitation spectrum may have a peak wavelength ranging from 435 nm to 460 nm. The phosphor mixture may have three phosphors configured to emit electromagnetic radiation in different spectral ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Osram OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Ralph Peter Bertram, David O'Brien, Rainer Butendeich
  • Patent number: 11605667
    Abstract: A component may include a semiconductor body and a converter layer. The converter layer may have phosphor particles and an electrically conductive matrix material where the phosphor particles are embedded in the matrix material. The converter layer may be arranged on the semiconductor body and may have a plurality of sublayers that are spatially set apart from one another and can be electrically contacted individually. The semiconductor body may have an active zone for producing electromagnetic radiation where the sublayers of the converter layer are designed for local electrical contacting of the active zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Vesna Mueller, David O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11603031
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a light source. The apparatus also includes a measuring laser, such as a semiconductor laser. The measuring laser is configured to generate pulses with a maximum pulse duration of 10 ns. A wavelength of maximum intensity of the measuring laser radiation generated by the measuring laser ranges from 400 nm to 485 nm inclusive. The measuring laser radiation is used for distance measurement by means of LIDAR, for example in a car headlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Joerg Erich Sorg, Hubert Halbritter, Georg Bogner
  • Patent number: 11596333
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor module and a method for producing an optoelectronic sensor module are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic sensor module includes a first semiconductor transmitter chip configured to emit radiation of a first wavelength, a second semiconductor transmitter chip configured to emit radiation of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, a semiconductor detector chip configured to detect the radiation of the first and second wavelengths, and a first potting body being opaque to the radiation of the first and the second wavelength, wherein the first potting body directly covers side surfaces of the chips and mechanically connects the chips located in a common plane to one another, wherein a distance between the chips is less than or equal to twice an average diagonal length of the chips, and wherein the sensor module is adapted to rest against a body part to be examined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventor: Luca Haiberger
  • Patent number: 11598667
    Abstract: In an embodiment a measuring unit includes a light emitting LED component including a housing occupying a housing surface G and an LED chip located within the housing, the LED chip including a light emitting light surface L and being configured to emit light; a photodetector configured to detect reflected light reflected from a measured object originating from the LED component and output a measurement signal dependent on a detection of the reflected light; and an integrated circuit configured to evaluate the measurement signal, wherein the LED component, the photodetector, and the integrated circuit are combined into an integrated unit; and a conversion layer disposed in the housing and located above the LED chip, the conversion layer configured to convert the light into multiband light, wherein a ratio L/G of is greater than or equal to 0.8, and wherein the measuring unit is configured to optically measure at least one property of the measured object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Leirer, Christian Mueller, Ulrich Steegmüller