Patents by Inventor Andreas Genz

Andreas Genz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • High-pressure discharge lamp
    Patent number: 9384958
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp may include a bulb, which surrounds a discharge volume, wherein a fill which contains mercury and a noble gas from the group consisting of neon, argon, krypton, xenon on its own or in a mixture is accommodated in the discharge volume, wherein the fill contains Gd in halide form in order to produce a color temperature of at least 7500 K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Genz
  • Dysprosium-halide-containing high-pressure discharge lamp
    Patent number: 8853943
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp may include a quartz glass bulb which encloses a discharge volume, and a fill which contains mercury and noble gas as well as metal halides being held in the discharge volume, wherein the fill contains both dysprosium halides and also oxyhalides of at least one of tungsten and mercury based on at least one of the halogens bromine and chlorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Andreas Genz, Niels Gerlitzki
  • Discharge lamp with an outer bulb surrounded by a wire gauze as explosion protection
    Patent number: 8786187
    Abstract: A bushing for a high-pressure discharge lamp, which is suitable for connecting an electrode in the interior of a ceramic discharge vessel to a supply lead in a gastight manner on the exterior of the discharge vessel, wherein the bushing is an electrically conductive ceramic composite consisting of a mixture of LaB6 and at least one second material from the group Al2O3, Dy2Al5O12, AlN, AlON and Dy2O3 is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Buttstaedt, Stefan Dunkel, Andreas Genz, Maik Hegewald
  • HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP
    Publication number: 20140103799
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp may include a bulb, which surrounds a discharge volume, wherein a fill which contains mercury and a noble gas from the group consisting of neon, argon, krypton, xenon on its own or in a mixture is accommodated in the discharge volume, wherein the fill contains Gd in halide form in order to produce a color temperature of at least 7500 K.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Genz
  • DISCHARGE LAMP WITH AN OUTER BULB SURROUNDED BY A WIRE MESH AS EXPLOSION PROTECTION
    Publication number: 20130285543
    Abstract: A bushing for a high-pressure discharge lamp, which is suitable for connecting an electrode in the interior of a ceramic discharge vessel to a supply lead in a gastight manner on the exterior of the discharge vessel, wherein the bushing is an electrically conductive ceramic composite consisting of a mixture of LaB6 and at least one second material from the group Al2O3, Dy2Al5O12, AlN, AlON and Dy2O3 is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Buttstaedt, Stefan Dunkel, Andreas Genz, Maik Hegewald
  • Ceramic metal halide lamp having a high color temperature
    Patent number: 8569952
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a high-pressure discharge lamp is provided. The high-pressure discharge lamp may include a ceramic discharge vessel which encloses a discharge volume, wherein a filling containing sodium halides, rare earth halides, mercury and inert gas is accommodated in the discharge volume, wherein the filling at the same time includes the rare earths Tm and Gd, the relative proportions between Gd and Tm, considered as a molar ratio, lying in the range 0.1 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventor: Andreas Genz
  • DYSPROSIUM-HALIDE-CONTAINING HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP
    Publication number: 20130113372
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp may include a quartz glass bulb which encloses a discharge volume, and a fill which contains mercury and noble gas as well as metal halides being held in the discharge volume, wherein the fill contains both dysprosium halides and also oxyhalides of at least one of tungsten and mercury based on at least one of the halogens bromine and chlorine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Andreas Genz, Niels Gerlitzki
  • HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP
    Publication number: 20130106281
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a high pressure discharge lamp is provided having a bulb, which surrounds a discharge volume, wherein a filler, which contains indium halide, quicksilver and inert gas from the group neon, argon, krypton, xenon, is accommodated in the discharge volume, wherein the filler simultaneously contains the halide of iodine and bromine, wherein the portion of InI amounts at most to 90 mol %, in respect of the total of all halides of In.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventor: Andreas Genz
  • Ceramic metal halide lamp having a high color temperature
    Publication number: 20110204776
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a high-pressure discharge lamp is provided. The high-pressure discharge lamp may include a ceramic discharge vessel which encloses a discharge volume, wherein a filling containing sodium halides, rare earth halides, mercury and inert gas is accommodated in the discharge volume, wherein the filling at the same time includes the rare earths Tm and Gd, the relative proportions between Gd and Tm, considered as a molar ratio, lying in the range 0.1 to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventor: Andreas Genz
  • HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP
    Publication number: 20100079068
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a high-pressure discharge lamp has a metal halide fill, iodine and bromine being used as the halogen. In addition, noble gas and Hg are used. Thallium is used as the metal, with the proportion of TlI being in the range from 25 to 75 wt. % of the mixture of TlI and TlBr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventor: Andreas Genz
  • Metal halide lamp with an ionizable fill with vanadium and rare earths, excluding manganese
    Patent number: 7595593
    Abstract: A metal halide fill for forming an ionizable fill comprises at least one inert gas, mercury and metal halides, the fill comprising the constituents V halide, Cs halide, Tl halide and halides of the rare earths. This fill may in particular be contained in the discharge vessel of a metal halide lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Andreas Genz, Martin Tüshaus
  • Metal halide lamp
    Patent number: 7545100
    Abstract: A metal halide fill for forming an ionizable fill comprises at least one inert gas, mercury and metal halides, the fill comprising the constituents In halide, Na halide, Tl halide and halides of the rare earths. This fill may in particular be contained in the discharge vessel of a metal halide lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Osram Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventor: Andreas Genz
  • Electric lamp having an outer bulb
    Patent number: 7514873
    Abstract: The elongate bulb (1) of the lamp, which defines a longitudinal axis (A), is sealed at mutually opposing ends by sealing parts (6; 32), to which an outer bulb is fixed, the ratio between the total length of the outer bulb LAKO and the inner length of the inner volume LEG being between 1.3 and 4, preferably 1.5 and 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Osram Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Andreas Genz, Leon Grabinski, Jürgen Gräf
  • Metal halide lamp
    Patent number: 7511430
    Abstract: A metal halide fill for forming an ionizable fill comprises at least one inert gas, mercury and metal halides, the fill comprising the constituents Hg halide, Na halide, Tl halide and halides of the rare earths. This fill may be contained in particular in the discharge vessel of a metal halide lamp which has an outer bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Osram Gesellschaft mit Beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventor: Andreas Genz
  • Electric lamp having an outer bulb
    Publication number: 20060244384
    Abstract: The elongate bulb (1) of the lamp, which defines a longitudinal axis (A), is sealed at mutually opposing ends by sealing parts (6; 32), to which an outer bulb is fixed, the ratio between the total length of the outer bulb LAKO and the inner length of the inner volume LEG being between 1.3 and 4, preferably 1.5 and 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: PATENT-TREUHAND-GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCHE GLUHLAMPEN MBH
    Inventors: Andreas Genz, Leon Grabinski, Jurgen Graf
  • Metal halide lamp
    Publication number: 20060226784
    Abstract: A metal halide fill for forming an ionizable fill comprises at least one inert gas, mercury and metal halides, the fill comprising the constituents Hg halide, Na halide, Tl halide and halides of the rare earths. This fill may be contained in particular in the discharge vessel of a metal halide lamp which has an outer bulb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: PATENT-TREUHAND-GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCH GLUHLAMPEN MBH
    Inventor: Andreas Genz
  • Metal halide lamp
    Publication number: 20060220564
    Abstract: A metal halide fill for forming an ionizable fill comprises at least one inert gas, mercury and metal halides, the fill comprising the constituents In halide, Na halide, Tl halide and halides of the rare earths. This fill may in particular be contained in the discharge vessel of a metal halide lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: PATENT-TREUHAND-GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCHE GLUHLAMPEN MBH
    Inventor: Andreas Genz
  • Metal halide lamp
    Publication number: 20060220563
    Abstract: A metal halide fill for forming an ionizable fill comprises at least one inert gas, mercury and metal halides, the fill comprising the constituents V halide, Cs halide, Tl halide and halides of the rare earths. This fill may in particular be contained in the discharge vessel of a metal halide lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: PATENT-TREUHAND-GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCHE GLUHLAMPEN MBH
    Inventors: Andreas Genz, Martin Tushaus
  • Discharge lamp
    Patent number: D600371
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Andreas Genz, Leon Grabinski, Jurgen Graf
  • Lamp
    Patent number: D690446
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Johannes Buttstaedt, Stefan Dunkel, Andreas Genz, Maik Hegewald