Patents by Inventor Armin Konrad
Armin Konrad 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).
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Publication number: 20240102639Abstract: Provided is a light engine of a lamp. The light engine includes a number of light engine modules, and a support frame for movably mounting the light engine modules, where each light engine module comprises one or more light sources. The support frame includes a number of movable components, the movable components of the support frame are mechanically engaged to the light engine modules, such that mechanical motion of the movable components of the support frame relative to each other can cause the motion of the light engine modules relative to each other. In addition, a lamp with a light engine is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Zhian LI, Armin KONRAD, Shijun NIE, Tianci Zeng
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Publication number: 20240093859Abstract: Provided is a lamp assembly including a lamp main body. The lamp assembly includes at least one light engine, and at least one first connector for electrically connecting the at least one light engine to a power supply and mechanically fixing the last light engine to the lamp main body. The at least one first connector is configured to separably mount the at least one light engine to the lamp main body. In addition, a method for assembling a lamp is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Zhian LI, Armin KONRAD, Shijun NIE, Tianci Zeng
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Publication number: 20230184531Abstract: The invention relates to a coordinate measuring machine with a ram and a probe head or a sensor or an articulating head/unit or with an articulating head/unit with a probe head or sensor positioned on the articulating head/unit and/or with an interface in which the probe head or the sensor or an adapter for the articulating head/unit and/or the interface is/are positioned at least partially in the ram.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Armin Konrad, Claude Rouge, Léonard Wunderlin
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Patent number: 11024500Abstract: A low-pressure discharge lamp having a discharge vessel and a coating structure. The coating structure is formed on an inner side of the discharge vessel. The coating structure has nanoscale phosphate particles and/or nanoscale functional oxide. Alternatively or in addition, the phosphate particles are free or at least approximately free of rare earth metals. The nanoscale phosphate particles range in size from 5 nm to 800 nm.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: LED VANCE GMBHInventor: Armin Konrad
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Patent number: 10465878Abstract: A lighting device for room lighting in photolithography applications (in particular a retrofit lamp in sizes T5 and T8) comprises a light engine having a first light source which is configured to emit light in the wavelength range above approximately 500 nm and a second light source which is configured to emit light in a different wavelength range from the first light source. The first light source produces light in a spectral range within which photoresists used in photolithography are not sensitive. The second light source produces white light (either alone or in combination with the first light source).Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBHInventors: Melanie Koehler, Armin Konrad
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Publication number: 20190172699Abstract: A low-pressure discharge lamp (1) is provided in various exemplary embodiments. The low-pressure discharge lamp has a discharge vessel (2) and a coating structure (7). The coating structure (7) is formed on an inner side (24) of the discharge vessel (2). The coating structure (7) comprises nanoscale phosphate particles (42) and/or nanoscale functional oxide. Alternatively or in addition, the phosphate particles (42) are free or at least approximately free of rare earth metals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventor: Armin KONRAD
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Publication number: 20180051864Abstract: A lighting device for room lighting in photolithography applications (in particular a retrofit lamp in sizes T5 and T8) comprises a light engine having a first light source which is configured to emit light in the wavelength range above approximately 500 nm and a second light source which is configured to emit light in a different wavelength range from the first light source. The first light source produces light in a spectral range within which photoresists used in photolithography are not sensitive. The second light source produces white light (either alone or in combination with the first light source).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Melanie Koehler, Armin Konrad
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Patent number: 9865450Abstract: In different embodiments, a low-pressure discharge lamp (1) is provided. The low-pressure discharge lamp has a discharge vessel (2) and a coating structure (7). The coating structure is formed on an inner face of the discharge vessel (2). The coating structure (7) has first fluorescent particles (34) which have at least one fluorescent substance that emits red light and the average particle size of which ranges from 0.5 ?m to 1.9 ?m, second fluorescent particles (36) which have at least one fluorescent substance that emits green light and the average particle size of which ranges from 0.6 ?m to 2.8 ?m or from 1 ?m to 4 ?m, and third fluorescent particles (38) which have at least one fluorescent substance that emits blue light and the average particle size of which ranges from 1 ?m to 4 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: LEDVANCE GmbHInventors: Armin Konrad, Renate Hirrle, Markus Schönheits, Alexander Bothe, Frauke Philipp, Thomas Huckenbeck
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Patent number: 9865449Abstract: A phosphor for low-pressure discharge lamps is disclosed, wherein the phosphor is present in the form of phosphor grains coated with a protective layer, wherein the protective layer consists of a metal oxide, a metal borate, a metal phosphate or mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: LEDVANCE GmbHInventors: Renate Hirrle, Armin Konrad, Robert Otto, Joerg Strauss
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Publication number: 20170076933Abstract: In different embodiments, a low-pressure discharge lamp (1) is provided. The low-pressure discharge lamp has a discharge vessel (2) and a coating structure (7). The coating structure is formed on an inner face of the discharge vessel (2). The coating structure (7) has first fluorescent particles (34) which have at least one fluorescent substance that emits red light and the average particle size of which ranges from 0.5 ?m to 1.9 ?m, second fluorescent particles (36) which have at least one fluorescent substance that emits green light and the average particle size of which ranges from 0.6 ?m to 2.8 ?m or from 1 ?m to 4 ?m, and third fluorescent particles (38) which have at least one fluorescent substance that emits blue light and the average particle size of which ranges from 1 ?m to 4 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Armin KONRAD, Renate HIRRLE, Markus SCHÖNHEITS, Alexander BOTHE, Frauke PHILIPP, Thomas HUCKENBECK
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Patent number: 8941294Abstract: In various embodiments, a luminophore composition for low pressure discharge lamps for generating radiation with a color temperature of greater than 4800 K having a very good general color rendering index of greater than 90, the luminophore composition including at least one halophosphate luminophore, a luminophore emitting in the red wavelength region, a luminophore emitting in the blue-green wavelength region, a europium-doped luminophore emitting in the blue wavelength region and a Tb-doped luminophore emitting in the green wavelength region, wherein the luminophore composition includes a luminophore emitting in an emission range in the visible region with wavelengths of greater than 380 nm and at least one emission band in the near ultraviolet and that the emitted intensity of the luminophore is smaller in the visible region than in the near ultraviolet region.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Osram AGInventors: Nina Goebel, Claudia Held, Armin Konrad
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Publication number: 20140191652Abstract: A phosphor for low-pressure discharge lamps is disclosed, wherein the phosphor is present in the form of phosphor grains coated with a protective layer, wherein the protective layer consists of a metal oxide, a metal borate, a metal phosphate or mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2012Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: OSRAM GMBHInventors: Renate Hirrle, Armin Konrad, Robert Otto, Joerg Strauss
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Publication number: 20140175974Abstract: A gas discharge lamp may include: a discharge vessel; getter material in the discharge vessel, wherein the getter material has been introduced into the discharge vessel in anhydrous form. A method for producing the gas discharge lamp may include: introducing getter material into the discharge vessel of the gas discharge lamp, wherein the getter material is introduced into the discharge vessel in anhydrous form.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: OSRAM GMBHInventors: Stephan Appel, Renate Hirrle, Armin Konrad, Matthias Schiplage, Markus Schoenheits, Christina Wille
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Patent number: 8729786Abstract: The invention relates to an illuminant mixture for a discharge lamp (1) with a first and at least one second illuminant composition, said first illuminant composition having an emission spectrum in the green to yellow spectral range and having a first illuminant compound, devoid of Tb and designed to absorb the UV radiation emitted by an Hg source. The invention also relates to a discharge lamp (1) with a discharge vessel (2) and an illuminant layer (12) applied thereto, said layer containing the illuminant mixture according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter HaftungInventors: Frank Jermann, Armin Konrad, Martin Zachau
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Patent number: 8704437Abstract: A phosphor mixture for a discharge lamp, which includes a first phosphor compound and a second phosphor compound, wherein the first phosphor compound has an emission spectrum in the green and/or yellow spectral range and absorbs the UV radiation emitted by an Hg source and the radiation in the blue spectral range emitted by the Hg source, characterized in that the first phosphor compound of the phosphor mixture comprises (Ba,Sr,Ca)2SiO4:Eu and/or (Srl-x-yBaxCay)Si2O2N2:Eu(SrSiON), as a constituent, and the second phosphor compound of the phosphor mixture comprises Y2O3:Eu, as a constituent; and the phosphor mixture has a color temperature of less than 2500 K.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Osram Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter HaftungInventors: Frank Jermann, Armin Konrad, Martin Zachau
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Publication number: 20130293101Abstract: A discharge lamp having a mercury-filled discharge vessel, a shatterproofing layer on the outside of the discharge vessel, and a contamination protection material applied to the inner face of the shatterproofing layer is disclosed. In case of breakage, discharge vessel shards are held together by the shatterproofing layer, and the mercury is bonded to the contamination protection material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: OSRAM GMBHInventors: Stephan Appel, Armin Konrad
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Patent number: 8541948Abstract: An operating device for operating at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp which has a first and a second electrode coil may include a unit for providing a variable that is correlated with the Hg vapor pressure in the at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp comprises at least one unit for capturing emission spectra of at least specifiable spectral ranges, wherein the unit for capturing emission spectra may include at least one light receiving unit which is arranged in the beam path of the at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Osram Gesellschaft mit Beschraenkter HaftungInventors: Armin Konrad, Roger Hunt, Martin Zachau, Ralph Hoeck
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Patent number: 8450919Abstract: The invention relates to an illuminant compound for a discharge lamp (1), said compound having an emission spectrum in the green spectral range and being designed to absorb the radiation emitted in the visible spectral range by an Hg source and to convert said visible radiation of the Hg source into the emission spectrum of the illuminant compound. The invention also relates to a discharge lamp comprising an illuminant compound of this type.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschränkter HaftungInventors: Frank Jermann, Armin Konrad, Martin Zachau
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Patent number: 8350460Abstract: The invention relates to a fluorescent coating for Hg low-pressure discharge lamps, comprising a fluorescent composition from at least one green fluorescent material emitting in the green spectral range, especially a Tb-and/or Eu-doped green fluorescent material, and a red fluorescent material emitting in the red spectral range, especially a Eu and/or Mn red fluorescent material. The invention is characterized in that a further fluorescent material is present which is adapted to absorb UV Hg and Hg-Vis radiation.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: OSRAM AGInventors: Claudia Castiglioni, Wolfgang Gruber, Armin Konrad
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Publication number: 20120320582Abstract: A lamp in accordance with various embodiments may include at least one light source; and an electronic operating device; wherein at least some electronic components of the operating device are arranged laterally with respect to the light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: OSRAM AGInventors: Achim Hilscher, Andreas Hollstein, Armin Konrad, Thomas Noll, Juergen Reichardt, Ulrich Roll, Josef Schlecht