Patents by Inventor Franco Zanon
Franco Zanon 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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Patent number: 10371357Abstract: An electronic component may include e.g. a solid-state light radiation source, preferably a LED light radiation source, is provided with electrical contact pads for soldering onto a mounting board. The electrical contact pads are arranged over a soldering area having a central portion and a peripheral portion surrounding said central portion. The electrical contact pads include at least one first electrical contact pad arranged at central portion of the soldering area, and at least one second electrical contact pad arranged at peripheral portion of the soldering area.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Franco Zanon, Alessio Griffoni
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Publication number: 20190059163Abstract: In order to counter heat propagation between adjacent sections of a ribbon-like printed circuit board, the sections being individually exposed to heat between opposed border lines, with printed circuit board including an electrically insulating substrate with electrically conductive pads for mounting components thereon, the adjacent sections are terminated at the opposed border lines with at least one electrically conductive borderline pad, which has a separation gap to the border line, and/or is coupled to an electrically conductive line extending on substrate between a first end at borderline pad and a second end away from borderline pad. The first end and the second end may be located at a first and at a second distances to border line, the second distance being longer than the first distance, and/or the electrically conductive line may have a narrower cross section than the first and the second ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2016Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Thomas Rieger, Davide Grosso, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 10094540Abstract: A lighting assembly, comprising: a casing having a bowl-like structure with a bottom wall defining a window opening; a radiation source board with a light radiation source situated opposite said opening so as direct said light radiation outside of the casing; and a driving circuit board for said radiation source, said boards being stacked together without air gaps in between, with said circuit board directed towards said casing.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Alessandro Scordino, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 10098227Abstract: A support structure for lighting devices, the support structure includes a ribbon-like support member with electrically conductive lines with mounting locations for electrically powered light radiation sources. The structure includes a sequence of adjacent units having opposed end regions and is severable between mutually facing end regions of adjacent units in the sequence. The units include, at the end regions, at least one electrical connection formation. The electrical connection formation includes a proximal portion electrically coupled to the electrically conductive lines of the respective unit, and a distal portion electrically insulated from the proximal portion. The distal portion is electrically coupled to the distal portion of an electrical connection formation provided in an adjacent unit to the respective unit in the sequence of adjacent units and is separable therefrom by severing the support structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Alessio Griffoni, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 9976736Abstract: A lighting assembly includes: a heat sink having a mounting surface for a light source; a light source board having said light source thereon, said light source board being arranged against said mounting surface and having an outer perimeter edge, and a drive board carrying drive circuitry for said light source, said drive board being fixed onto said heat sink with said light source board sandwiched therebetween, said drive board having an aperture with an inner edge complementary to said outer edge of said light source board, whereby said light source is left uncovered by said drive board, and wherein: said inner edge of said drive board has an inwardly protruding frame formation with said outer perimeter edge of said light source board abutting against said frame formation, and said light source board has a thickness whereby said drive board and said mounting surface have a clearance therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Alberto Alfier, Lorenzo Roberto Trevisanello, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 9765952Abstract: A device for mounting lighting sources on a substrate includes a channel-like mounting frame provided with fixing formations for fixing on said substrate, said mounting frame defining a cavity for receiving said lighting source with said lighting source resting on said substrate, a slider member which can be positioned in said cavity of said mounting frame to urge said lighting source toward said substrate; said slider member being slidable with respect to said mounting frame between an insertion position and a locking position, wherein said mounting frame and said slider member bear complementary engagement formations cooperating in a ramp-like manner to force said slider member and the lighting source urged thereby toward said substrate when said slider member is advanced from said insertion position toward said locking position.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Osram GmbHInventors: Alberto Zanotto, Simon Bobbo, Alberto Alfier, Franco Zanon, Matteo Toscan, Lorenzo Roberto Trevisanello
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Patent number: 9541239Abstract: A lighting device includes a lighting source, e.g. a LED lighting source, arranged between a first and a second component with a coupling structure interposed between the first and the second component to sealingly couple them together. The coupling structure includes at least one layer resiliently deformable to permit relative displacement of the first and second components.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Alessandro Scordino, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 9541265Abstract: A mounting device for mounting on a substrate a plate or board-like lighting source may include a frame member for surrounding the plate or board-like lighting source, anchoring formations for anchoring the frame member onto the substrate while permitting movement of the frame member towards and away from the substrate, elastic means for elastically urging the frame member towards the substrate, and one or more locking members mounted on the frame member and radially displaceable with respect to the frame member between: a radially outward position, in which the plate or board-like lighting source can be inserted into the frame member and positioned between the frame member and the substrate, and a radially inward position, in which the locking member(s) abuts/abut against the plate or board-like lighting source located between the frame member and the substrate, elastically urging the plate or board-like lighting source towards the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: OSRAM GMBHInventors: Simon Bobbo, Alberto Zanotto, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 9506607Abstract: A lighting device includes a lighting source, e.g. a LED lighting source, arranged between a first and a second component with a coupling structure interposed between the first and the second component to sealingly couple them together. The coupling structure includes at least one layer resiliently deformable to permit relative displacement of the first and second components.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Alessandro Scordino, Franco Zanon
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Publication number: 20160302309Abstract: In various aspects of this disclosure, a support structure for lighting devices is provided. The support structure includes a ribbon-like support member with electrically conductive lines with mounting locations for electrically powered light radiation sources. The structure includes a sequence of adjacent units having opposed end regions and is severable between mutually facing end regions of adjacent units in the sequence. The units include, at the end regions, at least one electrical connection formation. The electrical connection formation includes a proximal portion electrically coupled to the electrically conductive lines of the respective unit, and a distal portion electrically insulated from the proximal portion. The distal portion is electrically coupled to the distal portion of an electrical connection formation provided in an adjacent unit to the respective unit in the sequence of adjacent units and is separable therefrom by severing the support structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Alessio Griffoni, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 9423112Abstract: A light fixture may include a plurality of elongate members, each extending between opposed ends and carrying one or more light radiation sources, such as LEDs, and at least one hinge member which mechanically couples one end of one of the elongate members to one end of another of the elongate members. Thus the hinge member allows the orientation of the elongate members between: an open position, wherein the elongate members extend in sequence with each other in a common direction, and a closed position, wherein the elongate members extend side by side.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Alberto Zanotto, Simon Bobbo, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 9407030Abstract: A method of producing cut-to-length flexible electrical cords includes providing a flexible strip having a plurality of electrically conductive lines extending along the strip, arranging along said strip a plurality of electrical connectors including a plurality of tubular electrical conductors extending in a bridge-like manner between two subsequent portions of one of the conductive lines of said plurality, separating a portion of a given length from said flexible strip by cutting at least one said connector in a transverse plane, thus cutting the plurality of tubular electrical conductors in the cut connector, whereby said portion separated from said flexible strip forms a flexible electrical cord having, at one end at least, a plurality of electrical connection holes or sockets exposed as a result of the cutting of said tubular conductors.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: OSRAM GMBHInventors: Alberto Zanotto, Simon Bobbo, Lorenzo Roberto Trevisanello, Franco Zanon, Matteo Caldon
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Patent number: 9341347Abstract: A method for mounting planar lighting modules on a mounting surface may include: providing on opposite sides of the lighting module fixing indentations opening toward the aforesaid sides, superimposing on said opposite sides of the lighting module stiffening bars having lateral lobes extending into said indentations, and fixing to the mounting surface the stiffening bars superimposed on the opposite sides of the lighting module with the opposite sides of the lighting module sandwiched between the stiffening bars and the mounting surface, whereby the stiffening bars urge the lighting module toward the mounting surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Franco Zanon, Alessio Griffoni, Simon Bobbo, Alessandro Scordino
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Publication number: 20160131340Abstract: An electronic component may include e.g. a solid-state light radiation source, preferably a LED light radiation source, is provided with electrical contact pads for soldering onto a mounting board. The electrical contact pads are arranged over a soldering area having a central portion and a peripheral portion surrounding said central portion. The electrical contact pads include at least one first electrical contact pad arranged at central portion of the soldering area, and at least one second electrical contact pad arranged at peripheral portion of the soldering area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventors: Franco Zanon, Alessio Griffoni
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Publication number: 20150292724Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a lens couplable to a light radiation source, e.g. a LED source, so as to be traversed by the light radiation produced by the latter. The lens includes, embedded in the lens itself, at least one electrically conductive line adapted to enable the electrical supply of the light radiation source.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Alessio Griffoni, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 9101017Abstract: A lighting module includes a power line for receiving a power supply current and a ground line, a segmentation point for cutting the lighting module into two parts, a first set of light sources upstream of the segmentation point, a second set of light sources downstream of the segmentation point, wherein the first and second sets of light sources are connected in series, and a resistive element connected to the intermediate point between the first and the second set of light sources, and the ground line, which is configured in such a way that: when the lighting module has not been cut, the resistive element has a resistance which is greater than the resistance of the portion of the lighting module downstream of the segmentation point, and when the lighting module has been cut, the resistive element has a resistance which is less than the resistance thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: OSRAM GmbHInventors: Alberto Zanotto, Lorenzo Roberto Trevisanello, Alberto Alfier, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 9086193Abstract: A lighting device includes a tray-like housing with a base wall, at least one light radiation source on the base wall of the housing, having electrical contact pads in an opposite position from the base wall of the housing, and a circuit board on the base wall of the housing with electrically conductive lines extending on the face of the board opposite from the base wall of the housing, with respective electrical contact pads placed in positions facing the electrical contact pads of the light radiation source. At least one optical element is provided, with a light input to collect light radiation at the light radiation source and one or more light outputs to project light radiation from the lighting device. The optical element has an electrically non-conductive base wall which urges the light radiation source or sources and the circuit board toward the base wall of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2014Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Osram GmbHInventors: Alberto Alfier, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 9078311Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a lighting module. The lighting module includes at least one light source, regulating means for regulating the brightness of the light emitted by the at least one light source, and a control unit configured for receiving a brightness control signal, and driving the regulation means as a function of the brightness control signal, wherein the control unit is configured for: verifying whether the brightness control signal contains a digital communication signal, and if the brightness control signal includes a digital communication signal, detecting the data transmitted via the digital communication signal and driving the regulating means as a function of the transmitted data, or if the brightness control signal does not includes a digital communication signal, driving the regulating means as a function of the brightness control signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Osram GmbHInventors: Michael Hast, Lorenzo-Roberto Trevisanello, Franco Zanon
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Patent number: 9052074Abstract: Provide a plurality of lighting modules. Connect together a plurality of the lighting modules for forming a series of lighting modules. Cut the series of lighting modules into lighting devices having a lighting module. Interconnection elements of the last lighting module of each lighting device are cut along their transverse axes. Each lighting module includes a first set of contacts placed at a first end of said lighting module and a second set of contacts placed in corresponding positions at a second end of said lighting module. Each lighting module is connected to the next lighting module by means of interconnection elements which connect the first set of contacts of each lighting module to the second set of contacts of the next lighting module. Interconnection elements include a base plate and a hollow portion in order to form female connectors when said interconnection elements are cut along their transverse axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Osram GmbHInventors: Gerald Katzler, Alessandro Scordino, Franco Zanon
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Publication number: 20150124463Abstract: A mounting device for mounting on a substrate a plate or board-like lighting source may include a frame member for surrounding the plate or board-like lighting source, anchoring formations for anchoring the frame member onto the substrate while permitting movement of the frame member towards and away from the substrate, elastic means for elastically urging the frame member towards the substrate, and one or more locking members mounted on the frame member and radially displaceable with respect to the frame member between: a radially outward position, in which the plate or board-like lighting source can be inserted into the frame member and positioned between the frame member and the substrate, and a radially inward position, in which the locking member(s) abuts/abut against the plate or board-like lighting source located between the frame member and the substrate, elastically urging the plate or board-like lighting source towards the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Simon Bobbo, Alberto Zanotto, Franco Zanon