Patents by Inventor Bert Braune

Bert Braune 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).

  • Publication number: 20090026474
    Abstract: A radiation-emitting component comprises an optical element and a housing body that has a fastening device that engages with or wraps around the optical element, wherein the fastening device is bent or is provided with projections in such a way that the optical element is irreversibly fixed on the housing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Blumel, Bert Braune
  • Publication number: 20090026482
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component having a basic housing or frame and at least one semiconductor chip, specifically a radiation-emitting or-receiving semiconductor chip, in a cavity of the basic housing. In order to increase the efficiency of the optoelectronic component, reflectors are provided in the cavity in the region around the semiconductor chip. These reflectors are formed by virtue of the fact that a filling compound filled at least partly into the cavity is provided, the material and the quantity of the filling compound being chosen in such a way that the filling compound, on account of the adhesion force between the filling compound and the basic housing, assumes a form which widens essentially conically from bottom to top in the cavity, and the conical inner areas of the filling compound serve as reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Marcus RUHNAU, Bert Braune, Patrick Kromotis, Georg Bogner
  • Publication number: 20080265268
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component is described, comprising a semiconductor body that emits electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength when the optoelectronic component is in operation, and a separate optical element disposed spacedly downstream of the semiconductor body in its radiation direction. The optical element comprises at least one first wavelength conversion material that converts radiation of the first wavelength to radiation of a second wavelength different from the first.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Herbert Brunner, Kirstin Petersen, Jorg Strauss
  • Patent number: 7429758
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component having a basic housing or frame (12) and at least one semiconductor chip (20), specifically a radiation-emitting or -receiving semiconductor chip, in a cavity (18) of the basic housing. In order to increase the efficiency of the optoelectronic component (10), reflectors are provided in the cavity in the region around the semiconductor chip. These reflectors are formed by virtue of the fact that a filling compound (28) filled at least partly into the cavity (18) is provided, the material and the quantity of the filling compound (28) being chosen in such a way that the filling compound, on account of the adhesion force between the filling compound and the basic housing, assumes a form which widens essentially conically from bottom to top in the cavity, and the conical inner areas (30) of the filling compound serve as reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductor GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Ruhnau, Bert Braune, Patrick Kromotis, Georg Bogner
  • Patent number: 7427806
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radiation emitting and/or receiving semiconductor component comprising at least one radiation emitting and/or receiving semiconductor chip (1), which is disposed in a recess (2) of a housing base body (3) and is there encapsulated with an encapsulant (4) that is readily transparent to electromagnetic radiation emitted and/or received by the semiconductor chip (1). The recess (2) comprises a chip well (21) in which the semiconductor chip (1) is secured, and a trench (22) that runs at least partway around the chip well (21) inside the recess (2), such that between the chip well (21) and the trench (22) the housing base body (3) comprises a wall (23) whose apex, viewed from a bottom face of the chip well (21), lies below the level of the surface of the housing base body (3) from which the recess (2) leads into the housing base body (3), and the encapsulant (4) extends outward from the chip well (21) over the wall into the trench (22). A corresponding housing base body is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Oram GmbH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Arndt, Georg Bogner, Bert Braune, Günter Waitl
  • Patent number: 7345413
    Abstract: A coated luminescent material having a luminescent material powder formed by grains, the luminescent grains being coated, and the coating being at most 5 nm, preferably at most 2 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignees: Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft für elektrische Glühlampen mbH, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Martin Zachau, Franz Zwaschka
  • Patent number: 7256428
    Abstract: In order to apply an optical element such as a lens, for example, to an optoelectronic component, the surface (3B), averted from the transmitter or receiver (2), of the filling material (3) is designed directly with a lens profile (7). This is done by filling a defined quantity of the transparent filling material (3) into the recess (1A) of the carrier body (1) for the purpose of embedding the transmitter or receiver (2), and by subsequently impressing a lens profile (7) onto the surface (3B), averted from the transmitter or receiver, of the transparent filling material (3) by means of a punch (8), before the transparent filling material with the lens profile (7) thus impressed is completely cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semicondutors GmbH
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Patrick Kromotis
  • Publication number: 20070034885
    Abstract: Phosphor from the class of the oxynitridosilicates, having a cation M which is doped with divalent europium and having the empirical formula M(1-c)Si2O2N2:DC, where M=Sr or M=Sr(1-x-y)BaYCax with x+y<0.5 is used, the oxynitridosilicate completely or predominantly comprising the high-temperature-stable modification HT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Herbert Brunner, Tim Fiedler, Frank Jermann, Martin Zachau
  • Publication number: 20070024173
    Abstract: An LED with inorganic phosphor, an LED chip emitting primary radiation in the range of 300 to 470 nm, this radiation being converted partly or completely into longer-wave radiation by at least one phosphor which is exposed to the primary radiation of the LED, the conversion being achieved at least with the assistance of a phosphor of a mean particle size d50 that lies in the range of 1 to 50 nm, preferably 2 to 25 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Bert Braune
  • Publication number: 20070018102
    Abstract: The invention encompasses a light-emitting component having at least one primary radiation source that in operation emits an electromagnetic primary radiation, and at least one luminescence conversion element by means of which at least a portion of the primary radiation is converted into a radiation of altered wavelength. Disposed after the luminescence conversion element in a radiation direction of the component is a filter element comprising a plurality of nanoparticles, said nanoparticles comprising a filter substance which by absorption selectively reduces the radiation intensity of at least one spectral subregion of an unwanted radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Gunter Waitl
  • Patent number: 7045956
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wavelength-converting reaction resin compound into which a wavelength-converting luminescent material and a thixotroping agent are mixed, wherein the luminescent material contains inorganic luminescent particles. The thixotroping agent is present, at least in part, in the form of nanoparticles. Methods of producing the reaction resin compound and light-emitting diode elements having such reaction resin compounds are indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Marcus Ruhnau
  • Publication number: 20060078734
    Abstract: A coated phosphor, formed by a powder of individual grains of a phosphor as base material, the grains being coated with a coating material. The layer comprises a plurality of individual layers and is particulate in form, the individual primary particles of the layer being at least 5 nm in size. The mean layer thickness is at least 20 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Torsten Fries, Rainer Schirmer, Martin Zachau, Franz Zwaschka
  • Publication number: 20060022215
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radiation emitting and/or receiving semiconductor component comprising at least one radiation emitting and/or receiving semiconductor chip (1), which is disposed in a recess (2) of a housing base body (3) and is there encapsulated with an encapsulant (4) that is readily transparent to electromagnetic radiation emitted and/or received by the semiconductor chip (1). The recess (2) comprises a chip well (21) in which the semiconductor chip (1) is secured, and a trench (22) that runs at least partway around the chip well (21) inside the recess (2), such that between the chip well (21) and the trench (22) the housing base body (3) comprises a wall (23) whose apex, viewed from a bottom face of the chip well (21), lies below the level of the surface of the housing base body (3) from which the recess (2) leads into the housing base body (3), and the encapsulant (4) extends outward from the chip well (21) over the wall into the trench (22). A corresponding housing base body is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Karlheinz Arndt, Georg Bogner, Bert Braune, Gunter Waitl
  • Publication number: 20060003477
    Abstract: The invention describes a method for producing a light-emitting-diode (LED) light source, particularly comprising mixed-color LEDs, wherein at least a portion of primary radiation emitted by a chip is transformed by luminescence conversion. Said chip comprises a front-side (i.e., the side facing in the direction of radiation) electrical contact to whose surface a luminescence conversion material is applied in the form of a thin layer. Prior to coating, the front-side electrical contact is raised by the application of an electrically conductive material to the electrical contact surface. The method enables specific color coordinates to be adjusted selectively by monitoring the color coordinates (IEC chromaticity diagram) and thinning the layer of luminescence conversion material. In addition, the method is suited in particular for simultaneously producing a plurality of LED light sources from a multiplicity of similar chips in a wafer composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Herbert Brunner
  • Publication number: 20050218531
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component having a basic housing or frame (12) and at least one semiconductor chip (20), specifically a radiation-emitting or -receiving semiconductor chip, in a cavity (18) of the basic housing. In order to increase the efficiency of the optoelectronic component (10), reflectors are provided in the cavity in the region around the semiconductor chip. These reflectors are formed by virtue of the fact that a filling compound (28) filled at least partly into the cavity (18) is provided, the material and the quantity of the filling compound (28) being chosen in such a way that the filling compound, on account of the adhesion force between the filling compound and the basic housing, assumes a form which widens essentially conically from bottom to top in the cavity, and the conical inner areas (30) of the filling compound serve as reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Marcus Ruhnau, Bert Braune, Patrick Kromotis, George Bogner
  • Patent number: 6900511
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component having a basic housing or frame (12) and at least one semiconductor chip (20), specifically a radiation-emitting or -receiving semiconductor chip, in a cavity (18) of the basic housing. In order to increase the efficiency of the optoelectronic component (10), reflectors are provided in the cavity in the region around the semiconductor chip. These reflectors are formed by virtue of the fact that a filling compound (28) filled at least partly into the cavity (18) is provided, the material and the quantity of the filling compound (28) being chosen in such a way that the filling compound, on account of the adhesion force between the filling compound and the basic housing, assumes a form which widens essentially conically from bottom to top in the cavity, and the conical inner areas (30) of the filling compound serve as reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Ruhnau, Bert Braune, Patrick Kromotis, Georg Bogner
  • Publication number: 20050093005
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component having a basic housing or frame (12) and at least one semiconductor chip (20), specifically a radiation-emitting or -receiving semiconductor chip, in a cavity (18) of the basic housing. In order to increase the efficiency of the optoelectronic component (10), reflectors are provided in the cavity in the region around the semiconductor chip. These reflectors are formed by virtue of the fact that a filling compound (28) filled at least partly into the cavity (18) is provided, the material and the quantity of the filling compound (28) being chosen in such a way that the filling compound, on account of the adhesion force between the filling compound and the basic housing, assumes a form which widens essentially conically from bottom to top in the cavity, and the conical inner areas (30) of the filling compound serve as reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Marcus Ruhnau, Bert Braune, Patrick Kromotis, Georg Bogner
  • Publication number: 20050001228
    Abstract: In order to apply an optical element such as a lens, for example, to an optoelectronic component, the surface (3B), averted from the transmitter or receiver (2), of the filling material (3) is designed directly with a lens profile (7). This is done by filling a defined quantity of the transparent filling material (3) into the recess (1A) of the carrier body (1) for the purpose of embedding the transmitter or receiver (2), and by subsequently impressing a lens profile (7) onto the surface (3B), averted from the transmitter or receiver, of the transparent filling material (3) by means of a punch (8), before the transparent filling material with the lens profile (7) thus impressed is completely cured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Patrick Kromotis
  • Publication number: 20040166038
    Abstract: A coated luminescent material having a luminescent material powder formed by grains, the luminescent grains being coated, and the coating being at most 5 nm, preferably at most 2 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicants: Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft fur elektrische Gluhlampen mbH, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Martin Zachau, Franz Zwaschka
  • Publication number: 20040094757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wavelength-converting reaction resin compound (5) into which a wavelength-converting luminescent material (6) and a thixotroping agent are mixed, wherein the luminescent material contains inorganic luminescent particles. The thixotroping agent is present, at least in part, in the form of nanoparticles. Methods of producing the reaction resin compound and light-emitting diode elements having such reaction resin compounds are indicated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Bert Braune, Marcus Ruhnau