Patents by Inventor Herbert Friedrich Börner

Herbert Friedrich Börner 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: 7768191
    Abstract: An iridium complex Ir(III)L 1L2L3 for emitting light with a central iridium ion Ir(III), with a ligand L3 as dionate from the group comprising pentane-2,4-dionate (acac), 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptandionate (thd), 7,7-dimethyl-1,1,1,2,2,3,3-heptyfluoro-4,6-octandionate (fod), 4,4,4-trifluorol-(2-thienyl)butane-1,3-dionate (ttfa), 1,3-diphenylpropane-1,3-dionate (dbm), 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(2-naphthyl)butane-1,3-dionate (tfnb) or 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(1-naphthyl)butane-1,3-dionate and with two rigid aromatic ligands L1 and L2 with one nitrogen and one carbon atom, sharing in the ligand bond, preferably dibenzo[f,h]chinoline, benzo[h]chinoline or 5,6-dihydro-benzo[h]chinoline, characterized in that the iridium complex Ir(III)L1L2L3 is a first isomer (71), in which the nitrogen atom of the ligand L1 sharing in the ligand bonding and the nitrogen atom of the ligand L2 sharing in the ligand bonding are juxtaposed relative to the central iridium ion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Elena Popova, Josef Salbeck
  • Publication number: 20100164344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a light emitting device (30) having at least a first (10) and a second light emitting element (20), with the first light emitting element (10) emitting a first light (1) and the second light emitting element (20) emitting a second light (2), each light emitting element (10,20) being an OLED (10,20), the OLED (10,20) comprising a sandwich structure with a substrate (14,24), a first (11,21) and a second electrode (12,22) and an organic layer (13,23) being provided between the first (11,21) and the second electrode (12,22), a light (3) leaving the light emitting device (30), wherein at least a part of said light (3) is provided by a superposition of the first (1) and the second light (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Stefan Peter Grabowski, Hans Helmut Bechtel
  • Publication number: 20100127215
    Abstract: Organometallic complexes which bear at least one ligand which has a unit having a triplet energy of at least 22 000 cm?1, a process for preparing the organometallic complexes, a mixture comprising at least one inventive organometallic complex, the use of the organometallic complexes or of the mixture in organic light-emitting diodes, the organometallic complexes preferably being used as emitter materials, and specific nitrogen- or phosphorus-substituted triphenylene derivatives and a process for their preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Hans-Peter Loebl, Josef Salbeck, Elena Popova
  • Publication number: 20100109515
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the field of organic light emitting diode (OLED) electroluminescent devices comprising a light-emitting layer containing an organic metal coordination compound with tailored ligands of the general structure (1) where (2) is a N-containing heterocycle comprising one or more cycle and where (3) is a unit with a triplet energy of at least 22,220 cm?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Hans-Peter Loebl, Josef Salbeck, Elena Popova
  • Publication number: 20100044738
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an organic light emitting diode (OLED) is disclosed, which reduces the formation of physical defects in the GLED, comprising the removal of dust particles from a first and a second substrates (40, 90), separately coating the first and the second substrate using a vapour deposition method (50, 80) and laminating the first and the second substrate together in vacuum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Georg Friedrich Gaertner, Herbert Friedrich Boerner
  • Patent number: 7659665
    Abstract: An OLED device includes a substrate, electrode layers and organic layers arranged on the substrate and at least one metal foil on top thereof. The first metal foil is electrically connected to one of the electrode layers. An enclosure of at least the organic layers is provided by the metal foil in conjunction with a sealant 113. Thus, the metal foil plays a major role in forming an OLED package. In addition, the metal foil provides a low ohmic external connection, which for example can be used for applying a driving current to the OLED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.
    Inventors: Edward Willem Albert Young, Adrianus Sempel, Piet Snijder, Herbert Friedrich Boerner
  • Patent number: 7642714
    Abstract: An electroluminescent device includes a transparent cathode and a substrate. A laminated body is provided Adjacent to the substrate. The laminated body includes a first electrode, an electroluminescent layer and a second metallic electrode. The second electrode is covered with transparent dielectric layers which increase the transmission of light through the second metallic electrode and serve as filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.
    Inventors: Helmut Bechtel, Wolfgang Busselt, Herbert Friedrich Börner, Dietrich Bertram
  • Publication number: 20090242876
    Abstract: The present invention relates to carbazole compounds of formula (I) and a semiconducting material comprising such carbazole compounds. It also relates to a process for the preparation of such carbazole compounds, as well as to the use thereof as a semiconducting material, in particular as a host matrix for phosphorescent emitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Klemens Brunner, Addy Van Dijken, Johannes Willem Hofstraat, Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Bea Maria Wilhelmina Langeveld-Voss, Nicole Maria Matthias Kiggen, Jolanda Johanna Anna Maria Bastiaansen, Hermannus Franciscus Maria Schoo
  • Publication number: 20090230841
    Abstract: An electroluminescent light source having a substrate (1), a layer structure applied on the substrate (1) for emitting light (10) at least on the other side from the substrate, having at least one electrode as an anode (3), at least one electrode as a cathode (4) and at least one organic electroluminescent layer (2) lying between them, the electrode (4) on the other side from the substrate being at least partially transparent, and an at least partially transparent encapsulation device (5) for forming a closed volume (6) around the layer structure, which is filled with a dielectric liquid (11) that is substantially chemically inert with respect to the layer structure and which contains particles (12), in particular of a non-absorbent material, for scattering light, the density of which is selected so that the particles (12) are in the suspended state in the dielectric liquid (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventor: Herbert Friedrich Boerner
  • Publication number: 20090224654
    Abstract: An electroluminescent light source comprising a substrate (1) and a layer structure applied to the substrate (1) for emitting light (10) at least on the side facing away from the substrate, said layer structure comprising at least one electrode as anode (3), at least one electrode as cathode (4) and at least one organic electroluminescent layer (2) located therebetween, wherein the electrode (4) is at least partially transparent on the side facing away from the substrate, and an at least partially transparent encapsulation device (5) for forming a closed volume (6) around the layer structure, which device is filled with a dielectric fluid (11) which is substantially chemically inert with respect to the layer structure, said fluid containing particles (12) for absorbing parts of the light emitted by the layer structure and for re-emitting light of a different wavelength, the density of said particles being selected such that the particles (12) in the dielectric fluid (11) are in the suspended state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventor: Herbert Friedrich Boerner
  • Publication number: 20090212685
    Abstract: An electroluminescent arrangement comprising a substrate (1), at least one layered structure applied to the substrate that comprises at least one organic electroluminescent layer (2) for emitting light (10) that is arranged between a first electrode (3) arranged on the side on which the substrate is situated and a second electrode (4) arranged on the side of the electroluminescent layer (2) remote from the substrate, and an electrically insulating layer (5) of a material that is chemically reactive with the organic electroluminescent layer (2), suitable for detaching the second electrode (4) from the organic electroluminescent layer (2) in a confined region around a hole defect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventor: Herbert Friedrich Boerner
  • Publication number: 20090189151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for separating at least one non-emission region (16) from at least one emission region (15) within an organic light emitting diode (OLED) (1), which comprises a substrate material (10) as a carrier, whereas the substrate material (10) is coated and/or superimposed by at least one anode layer (11) and at least one cathode layer (13), whereas at least one functional layer (12) is sandwiched in between the layers (11, 13) for emitting light, whereas impressing a voltage in between the anode layer (11) and the cathode layer (13) causes an emission of light within the emission region (15), and whereas the separating of the one non-emission region (16) is caused by scribing a groove (14) into at least the anode and/or the cathode layer (11, 13), in order to insulate the electrical current within at least one layer (11, 13) from the emission region (15) into the non-emission region (16), whereas the groove (14) is performed by mechanical scribing, applying a scribing tool (1
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Herbert Friedrich Börner, Hans-Peter Loebl
  • Publication number: 20090185383
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light emitting plate system (1), in which the plate (10) is equipped with at least one particle layer (40), the particle (50) of which have been designed to achieve an improved transparency and light extraction efficiency of the plate (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Jüstel, Augustinus Gregorius Henricus Meijers, Dietrich Bertram, Helmut Bechtel, Wolfgang Busselt, Herbert Friedrich Boerner
  • Publication number: 20080265759
    Abstract: Organic electroluminescent device with a layer stack (1, 2, 3) for emitting light (4) through an at least partly transparent top electrode (3) comprising a conductive foil (1) comprising a carrier material (11) with an upper and a lower side as a substrate and a first metal layer (12) with a thickness resulting in a sheet resistance of less than 0.05 ?/square on the upper side of the carrier material (11), the latter comprising at least a first metal layer (121) as a bottom electrode, an organic layer stack (2) deposited on top of the bottom-electrode (11) and designed to emit light (4), the transparent top electrode (3) on top of the organic layer stack (2), and at least partly transparent protection element (5) covering at least the top electrode and the organic layer stack (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Edward Willem Albert Young, Herbert Friedrich Boerner
  • Publication number: 20080265754
    Abstract: This invention relates to an OLED device having a substrate (103), electrode layers (105, 109) and organic layers 107 arranged on the substrate and at least one metal foil (111) on top thereof. The first metal foil is electrically connected to one of the electrode layers. An enclosure of at least the organic layers is provided by the metal foil in conjunction with a sealant (113). Thus, the metal foil plays a major role in forming an OLED package. In addition thereto the metal foil provides a low ohmic external connection, which for example can be used for applying a driving current to the OLED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Edward Willem Albert Young, Adrianus Sempel, Piet Snijder, Herbert Friedrich Boerner
  • Publication number: 20080203028
    Abstract: An iridium complex Ir(III)L 1L2L3 for emitting light with a central iridium ion Ir(III), with a ligand L3 as dionate from the group comprising pentane-2,4-dionate (acac), 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptandionate (thd), 7,7-dimethyl-1,1,1,2,2,3,3-heptyfluoro-4,6-octandionate (fod), 4,4,4-trifluorol-(2-thienyl)butane-1,3-dionate (ttfa), 1,3-diphenylpropane-1,3-dionate (dbm), 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(2-naphthyl)butane-1,3-dionate (tfnb) or 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(1-naphthyl)butane-1,3-dionate and with two rigid aromatic ligands L1 and L2 with one nitrogen and one carbon atom, sharing in the ligand bond, preferably dibenzo[f,h]chinoline, benzo[h]chinoline or 5,6-dihydro-benzo[h]chinoline, characterized in that the iridium complex Ir(III)L1L2L3 is a first isomer (71), in which the nitrogen atom of the ligand L1 sharing in the ligand bonding and the nitrogen atom of the ligand L2 sharing in the ligand bonding are juxtaposed relative to the central iridium ion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Elena Popova, Josef Salbeck
  • Publication number: 20080191615
    Abstract: The invention relates to an organic electroluminescent light source having at least one substrate (5) and a plurality of layers arranged on the substrate (5), said layers comprising at least two electrodes of which at least one electrode is transparent and one acts as an anode and one as a cathode, at least one organic electroluminescent layer that is arranged between the electrodes, the organic electroluminescent layer having a plurality of regions (6, 7) that emit either blue light or green light, and at least one phosphor layer (8) that is arranged in the beam path of the light leaving the organic electroluminescent light source and that partly covers the electroluminescent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Wolfgang Busselt, Peter Schmidt, Joerg Meyer, Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Stefan Peter Grabowski
  • Publication number: 20080030125
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light-emitting device comprising at least a substrate, an anode, a light-emitting layer and a cathode whereby the light-emitting layer contains an irndium complex IrL3 and whereby at least two ligands L are a dibenzoquinoline. The invention relates in particular to the complexes Ir(dibenzo[f,h]quinoline)2(pentane-2,4-dionate) and Ir(dibenzo[f,h]quinoline)3 which emit light with a wavelength of ?max=545 nm and ?max=595 nm respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Helga Hummel
  • Patent number: 6476395
    Abstract: This disclosure defined by this invention sets forth an X-ray detector including a scintillator. The scintillator is formed with a doped alkali halogenide and is constructed with an array of photodiodes including at least one photodiode containing a semiconductor material with a color transformer. The color transformer contains a photoluminescent phosphor and may be arranged between the scintillator and the array of photodiodes. One benefit of the scintillator, and an x-ray detect which includes the scintillator, is that it enables a larger part of the X-radiation to be used for image analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Hans Nikol, Herfried Karl Wieczorek
  • Publication number: 20010006214
    Abstract: An X-ray detector comprising a scintillator including a doped alkali halogenide, and comprising an array of photodiodes including at least one photodiode containing a semiconductor material, with a color transformer containing a photoluminescent phosphor being arranged between the scintillator and the array of photodiodes, enables a larger part of the X-radiation to be used for image analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Publication date: July 5, 2001
    Inventors: Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Hans Nikol, Herfried Karl Wieczorek