Patents by Inventor Fabian Reingruber

Fabian Reingruber 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).

  • Patent number: 9863628
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a semiconductor retrofit bulb, in particular a retrofit festoon bulb, having connecting elements that are arranged on two sides. The semiconductor retrofit bulb may include at least a tubular cooling body having at least one outer face support surface, wherein there is arranged on the support surface at least one semiconductor light source, in particular a light diode, a driver housing that is introduced into a hollow space of the tubular cooling body. At least one flow channel is provided between the driver housing and the cooling body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Reingruber, Carolin Muehlbauer, Markus Hofmann
  • Patent number: 9316386
    Abstract: A semiconductor lamp includes a reflector having a lower side and an upper side, wherein the lower side widens laterally and wherein the lower side and the upper side are separated from one another by an upper rim, and having a first light source group having at least one semiconductor light source and a second light source group having at least one semiconductor light source, wherein the reflector is provided as a cooling body for the first light source group and for the second light source group; wherein at least a part of a light that can be emitted by the first light source group can be reflected by means of the lower side of the reflector at least into a spatial angle range that cannot be directly illuminated by the first light source group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Johannes Hoechtl, Fabian Reingruber, Henrike Streppel
  • Patent number: 9303847
    Abstract: A method for producing an LED lamp includes a lamp housing wherein at least one carrier circuit board equipped with LEDs is inserted into the lamp housing in such a way that at least a subregion of the lamp housing protrudes beyond the carrier circuit board with a projection, and the projection is at least partially deformed after insertion in such a way that the lamp housing is pressed with the carrier circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Dellian, Stefan Otzen, Fabian Reingruber, Thomas Schmacht
  • Patent number: 9273847
    Abstract: An illumination device comprising at least one reflector and at least one light generating unit, wherein the at least one reflector is designed and arranged to reflect at least a portion of a light emitted by the at least one light generating unit into a spatial region that cannot be directly irradiated thereby, and the at least one light generating unit comprises at least one illuminating region having a substantially uniform emission characteristic in a circumferential direction of the illumination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Fabian Reingruber
  • Patent number: 9182100
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a plurality of semiconductor light sources arranged on a substrate which is brought into contact thermally with a heat sink, wherein the substrate is formed from a multiplicity of substrate modules which are held by a carrier and which each carry at least one semiconductor light source and are brought into contact electrically with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventor: Fabian Reingruber
  • Patent number: 9175841
    Abstract: A lighting device (1; 21; 41) having at least one heat sink (5; 44) for cooling at least one light source, wherein the at least one heat sink (5; 44) comprises one or more at least bent sheet metal parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Hoetzl, Fabian Reingruber
  • Publication number: 20150124443
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a semiconductor retrofit bulb, in particular a retrofit festoon bulb, having connecting elements that are arranged on two sides. The semiconductor retrofit bulb may include at least a tubular cooling body having at least one outer face support surface, wherein there is arranged on the support surface at least one semiconductor light source, in particular a light diode, a driver housing that is introduced into a hollow space of the tubular cooling body. At least one flow channel is provided between the driver housing and the cooling body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Fabian Reingruber, Carolin Muehlbauer, Markus Hofmann
  • Patent number: 8814397
    Abstract: A cooling element for a lighting device having a plurality of cooling fins, wherein adjacent cooling fins delimit a cooling fin intermediate space with at least one air duct for connecting at least two cooling fin intermediate spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Guenter Hoetzl, Fabian Reingruber
  • Publication number: 20130335967
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a plurality of semiconductor light sources arranged on a substrate which is brought into contact thermally with a heat sink, wherein the substrate is formed from a multiplicity of substrate modules which are held by a carrier and which each carry at least one semiconductor light source and are brought into contact electrically with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Fabian Reingruber
  • Publication number: 20130258668
    Abstract: A method for producing an LED lamp includes a lamp housing wherein at least one carrier circuit board equipped with LEDs is inserted into the lamp housing in such a way that at least a subregion of the lamp housing protrudes beyond the carrier circuit board with a projection, and the projection is at least partially deformed after insertion in such a way that the lamp housing is pressed with the carrier circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Dellian, Stefan Otzen, Fabian Reingruber, Thomas Schmacht
  • Publication number: 20130235582
    Abstract: An illumination device comprising at least one reflector and at least one light generating unit, wherein the at least one reflector is designed and arranged to reflect at least a portion of a light emitted by the at least one light generating unit into a spatial region that cannot be directly irradiated thereby, and the at least one light generating unit comprises at least one illuminating region having a substantially uniform emission characteristic in a circumferential direction of the illumination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Fabian Reingruber
  • Publication number: 20130229801
    Abstract: A semiconductor lamp includes a reflector having a lower side and an upper side, wherein the lower side widens laterally and wherein the lower side and the upper side are separated from one another by an upper rim, and having a first light source group having at least one semiconductor light source and a second light source group having at least one semiconductor light source, wherein the reflector is provided as a cooling body for the first light source group and for the second light source group; wherein at least a part of a light that can be emitted by the first light source group can be reflected by means of the lower side of the reflector at least into a spatial angle range that cannot be directly illuminated by the first light source group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Johannes Hoechtl, Fabian Reingruber, Henrike Streppel
  • Publication number: 20130107531
    Abstract: A heat sink may be constructed from at least one sheet-metal part and may include at least one flow structure, wherein the flow structure is configured to guide cooling air along an inner side of the heat sink, and wherein the flow structure is configured to direct the cooling air at least partially along a longitudinal axis of the heat sink on the inner side of the heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Klaus Eckert, Guenter Hoetzl, Markus Hofmann, Fabian Reingruber
  • Publication number: 20130044500
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an electronics housing for a lamp is provided, wherein an electronics printed circuit board is accommodated in an accommodating area surrounded by the electronics housing, and the electronics housing has an elongate channel, the channel connecting an outer side of the electronics housing to the accommodating area and extending substantially parallel to and offset with respect to the electronics printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventor: Fabian Reingruber
  • Publication number: 20120300455
    Abstract: An illumination device may include a first heat sink; a carrier substrate, which is populated on its front side by at least one light source, and is attached by its rear side to the first heat sink; and a second heat sink, which is arranged essentially in front of the carrier substrate; wherein the at least one light source is arranged outside of the second heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Guenter Hoetzl, Fabian Reingruber, Simon Schwalenberg
  • Publication number: 20120287652
    Abstract: A lighting device may include at least one partially light-transmissive cover which covers at least one light source, so that a hollow chamber is provided between the at least one light source and the cover, and at least one heat sink structure, which is at least one of at least partially arranged in the hollow chamber and is set at least partially into the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Guenter Hoetzl, Fabian Reingruber, Simon Schwalenberg
  • Publication number: 20120241778
    Abstract: A light-emitting device, including a heatsink arranged at a tip of the light-emitting device, at least one light source, in particular a light-emitting diode, arranged on an underside of the heatsink, and a reflector arranged below the heatsink for reflecting at least some of the light emitted by the at least one light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Felix Franck, Fabian Reingruber
  • Publication number: 20120223658
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a lamp is provided. The lamp may include at least one light emitting diode; a housing, which comprises at least a first housing part and a second housing part, wherein the first housing part is arranged movably relative to the second housing part; a motion detection sensor for detecting a magnitude of a movement of the first housing part relative to the second housing part; and a radiation modification apparatus for modifying at least one parameter of the radiation emitted by the at least one light emitting diode, the radiation modification apparatus being coupled to the motion detection sensor, the radiation modification apparatus being designed to modify the radiation to be emitted by the at least one light emitting diode depending on the detected magnitude of the movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Stefan Otzen, Fabian Reingruber
  • Publication number: 20120170262
    Abstract: A lighting device (1; 21; 41) having at least one heat sink (5; 44) for cooling at least one light source, wherein the at least one heat sink (5; 44) comprises one or more at least bent sheet metal parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Guenter Hoetzl, Fabian Reingruber
  • Patent number: 8207660
    Abstract: A luminaire is specified with a printed circuit board having at least one light emitting diode, the printed circuit board having a cutout for engaging with a holding element, the cutout positioning the printed circuit board in a fashion locked against rotation with the holding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventor: Fabian Reingruber