Patents by Inventor Florian GERLICH

Florian GERLICH 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: 20220349541
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (100) for light exposure regulation of agricultural goods and energy production, in particular electrical energy production, by converting or transmitting a highly-directional component (81) of incident light (80) and by transmitting a diffuse component (82) of incident light (80), comprising: #an optical arrangement (40) comprising a first optical layer (41), wherein the first optical layer (41) comprises a plurality of primary optical elements (47); #a light energy conversion layer (50) at least partially transparent to light and comprising a plurality of distant light energy conversion elements (51) capable of converting light energy in an output energy; #a shifting mechanism (60) for moving the optical arrangement (40) relative to the light energy conversion layer (50) or vice versa; and #a frame element (10) to which either the optical arrangement (40) or the light energy conversion layer (50) is attached, wherein the shifting mechanism (60) is arranged to displa
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Gerlich, Laurent Coulot, Mathieu Ackermann, Noé Bory, Gaël Nardin, David Schuppisser
  • Publication number: 20220231180
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optomechanical system (1) for converting light energy, comprising an optical arrangement (40) comprising one or more optical layers (41, 42), wherein at least one of the optical layers (41,42) comprises a plurality of primary optical elements (47) to concentrate incident light (80) into transmit ted light (90), wherein the primary optical elements (47) are arranged in a two-dimensional rectangular or hexagonal array; a support layer (50); a shifting mechanism (60) for moving at least one of the optical layers (41, 42) of the optical arrangement (40) relative to the support layer (50) or vice versa; and a frame element (10) to which either the optical arrangement (40) or the support layer (50) is attached, wherein the support layer (50) comprises a plurality of primary light energy conversion elements (51) arranged in a two-dimensional array corresponding to the arrangement of the primary optical elements (47) and a plurality of secondary light energy conversion elements (52
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Gerlich, Laurent Coulot, Mathieu Ackermann, Álvaro Fernando Aguilar Jiménez, Laetitia Anglade, Noé Bory, Gaël Nardin
  • Patent number: 11371677
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optomechanical system (1), for dynamically controlling the photometric distribution of a luminaire, comprising a static frame (10), a light emitting substrate (50) with one or more light emitting elements (51) capable of emitting incident light (80), an optical layer (40) comprising one or more optical elements (41) capable of capturing incident light (80) and transmitting transmitted light (90), and a shifting mechanism (60) for translationally moving along at least one direction a movable element, which is chosen from either the optical layer (40) or the light emitting substrate (50). The shifting mechanism (60) comprises further one or more guiding elements (61), capable of maintaining the inclination angle between the light emitting substrate (50) and the optical layer (40) while moving the movable element (40,50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: INSOLIGHT SA
    Inventors: Noé Bory, Florian Gerlich, Laurent Coulot, Mathieu Ackermann
  • Patent number: 11322633
    Abstract: An optomechanical system for absorbing light or emitting light, comprising as static frame element, an optical arrangement, a light absorbing/emitting substrate and a shifting mechanism. The shifting mechanism moves at least one layer of the optical arrangement relative to the light absorbing/emitting substrate or vice versa, wherein the movement is through one or more translation element relative to the static frame element in such a way that the transmitted light can be optimally absorbed by the light absorbing/emitting substrate, or that the incident light emitted by the light absorbing/emitting substrate can be optimally transmitted by the optical arrangement. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to a corresponding method for absorbing light or emitting light with the aforementioned optomechanical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Noé Bory, Florian Gerlich, Laurent Coulot, Mathieu Ackermann
  • Publication number: 20210348740
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optomechanical system (1), for dynamically controlling the photometric distribution of a luminaire, comprising a static frame (10), a light emitting substrate (50) with one or more light emitting elements (51) capable of emitting incident light (80), an optical layer (40) comprising one or more optical elements (41) capable of capturing incident light (80) and transmitting transmitted light (90), and a shifting mechanism (60) for translationally moving along at least one direction a movable element, which is chosen from either the optical layer (40) or the light emitting substrate (50). The shifting mechanism (60) comprises further one or more guiding elements (61), capable of maintaining the inclination angle between the light emitting substrate (50) and the optical layer (40) while moving the movable element (40,50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Noé BORY, Florian GERLICH, Laurent COULOT, Mathieu ACKERMANN
  • Patent number: 11158752
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optomechanical system (10) for capturing and transmitting incident light (40) with a variable direction of incidence to at least one collecting element (31, 31?, 31?, 31??, 31A, 31B), with an optical arrangement (20) able to capture a beam of the incident light (40), concentrate the captured beam of the incident light, and transmit one or more concentrated beams (50) of the incident light to the at least one collecting element (31, 31?, 31?, 31??, 31A, 31B), and a shifting mechanism for moving the optical arrangement (20) with respect to the at least one collecting element (31, 31?, 31?, 31??, 31A, 31B), wherein the moving of the shifting mechanism is controllable in such a way that, for any direction of incidence of the incident light (40), the one or more concentrated beams (50) of the incident light can be optimally collected by the at least one collecting element (31, 31?, 31?, 31??, 31A, 31B), In this optomechanical system (10), the optical arrangement (20) comprises a first optical la
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventors: Laurent Coulot, Mathieu Ackermann, Florian Gerlich
  • Patent number: 10641929
    Abstract: Planar optical module (100, 100?) for capturing, converging and collimating incident light (3, 3?) with a variable incident direction comprising: —a first optical arrangement (10) with an optical layer able to converge the incident light-beam (3, 3?), forming thereby a converging light-beam (4, 4?) and —a second optical arrangement (20) placed downstream said first optical arrangement (10), said second optical arrangement (20) having an optical layer collimating said converging light-beam(s) (4, 4?), forming thereby a collimated and concentrated beam (5, 5?), wherein the first and second optical arrangements (10, 20) are movable one relative to the other such that the relative position of first and second optical arrangements (10, 20) allows said collimated and concentrated beam (5, 5?) to have an orientation which is, in a plane perpendicular to the main plane (P) of the planar optical module (100, 100?), predetermined, fixed and independent from the direction of the incident light (3, 3?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: INSOLIGHT SA
    Inventors: Mathieu Ackermann, Laurent Coulot, Florian Gerlich
  • Publication number: 20200098944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optomechanical system (1) for absorbing light or emitting light, comprising a static frame element (10), an optical arrangement (40) comprising one or more optical layers (41, 42) capable of capturing incident light (80) and transmitting transmitted light (90), wherein the optical arrangement is arranged to be able to accept the incident light (80) from an internal side and an external side of the static frame element (10), a light absorbing/emitting substrate (50) capable of absorbing the transmitted light (90) or emitting the incident light (80), a shifting mechanism (60) for moving at least one of the layers (41, 42) of the optical arrangement (40) relative to the light absorbing/emitting substrate (50) or vice versa, wherein the shifting mechanism (60) is arranged to move at least one of the layers (41, 42) of the optical arrangement (40) or the light absorbing/emitting substrate (50) translationally through one or more translation element (65) relative to the static fr
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Noé Bory, Florian Gerlich, Laurent Coulot, Mathieu Ackermann
  • Publication number: 20190288144
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optomechanical system (10) for capturing and transmitting incident light (40) with a variable direction of incidence to at least one collecting element (31, 31?, 31?, 31??, 31A, 31B), with an optical arrangement (20) able to capture a beam of the incident light (40), concentrate the captured beam of the incident light, and transmit one or more concentrated beams (50) of the incident light to the at least one collecting element (31, 31?, 31?, 31??, 31A, 31B), and a shifting mechanism for moving the optical arrangement (20) with respect to the at least one collecting element (31, 31?, 31?, 31??, 31A, 31B), wherein the moving of the shifting mechanism is controllable in such a way that, for any direction of incidence of the incident light (40), the one or more concentrated beams (50) of the incident light can be optimally collected by the at least one collecting element (31, 31?, 31?, 31??, 31A, 31B), In this optomechanical system (10), the optical arrangement (20) comprises a first optica
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Insolight SA
    Inventors: Laurent Coulot, Mathieu Ackermann, Florian Gerlich
  • Publication number: 20180306950
    Abstract: Planar optical module (100, 100?) for capturing, converging and collimating incident light (3, 3?) with a variable incident direction comprising: —a first optical arrangement (10) with an optical layer able to converge the incident light-beam (3, 3?), forming thereby a converging light-beam (4, 4?) and —a second optical arrangement (20) placed downstream said first optical arrangement (10), said second optical arrangement (20) having an optical layer collimating said converging light-beam(s) (4, 4?), forming thereby a collimated and concentrated beam (5, 5?), wherein the first and second optical arrangements (10, 20) are movable one relative to the other such that the relative position of first and second optical arrangements (10, 20) allows said collimated and concentrated beam (5, 5?) to have an orientation which is, in a plane perpendicular to the main plane (P) of the planar optical module (100, 100?), predetermined, fixed and independent from the direction of the incident light (3, 3?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Mathieu ACKERMANN, Laurent COULOT, Florian GERLICH