Patents by Inventor Manfred Stephan Ruske

Manfred Stephan Ruske 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: 10305067
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate (2) for manufacturing an organic conversion device for converting electrical energy into light energy or light energy into electrical energy, wherein the substrate comprises a) an encapsulation layer (3) on the substrate, wherein the encapsulation layer includes a first inorganic layer (7), a second inorganic layer (9) and an intermediate organic layer (8), and b) a getter reservoir (6) in contact with the organic layer of the encapsulation layer. Water molecules will therefore not only be transported along the intermediate organic layer, but will also be gathered, especially absorbed, by the getter reservoir, if the encapsulation is damaged. This can slow down a transport of water molecules along a leakage path towards an organic conversion layer of the organic conversion device and hence slow down a possible degradation of the performance of the organic conversion device, if the encapsulation layer is damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: OLEDWorks GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Peter Grabowski, Herbert Lifka, Peter Van De Weijer, Rainald Manfred Gierth, Jens Meyer, Manfred Stephan Ruske, Helga Hummel
  • Patent number: 9985239
    Abstract: The invention describes an OLED device (1) comprising an organic layer (3) which emits light (L1) in operation and which is positioned between an essentially transparent anode layer (5) and an essentially opaque cathode layer (7). The cathode layer (7) is deliberately structured along a main extension plane (EP) of the OLED device to comprise at least one cathode region (11, 11a, 11b) in which the cathode layer (7) is 10 present and a plurality of cathode-free regions (13, 13a, 13b) and/or at least one cathode-free region (13, 13a, 13b) of a larger extension, through which cathode-free regions and/or region (13, 13a, 13b) visible light (L2) can pass in the direction of a cross extension (CE) of the OLED device. The invention also describes a production method of such OLED device (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Koninklike Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Manfred Stephan Ruske, Holger Schwab, Herbert Lifka
  • Patent number: 9831467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an encapsulated semiconductor device (20) provided on a flexible substrate (1), a method of providing an at least partially encapsulated semiconductor device (20) on a flexible substrate (1) and a software product for providing an at least partially encapsulated semiconductor device (20) on a flexible substrate (1). In a preferred embodiment, an encapsulation method is presented in which the organic layer (3) of an inorganic/organic/inorganic multilayer barrier (5) on a plastic foil (1) as a substrate is removed at the edges of an OLED (13). The edges are subsequently sealed with a standard TFE process to encapsulate the OLED (13). This enables cuttable OLEDs (20) that are cut out of a larger plastic substrate (1) and gives a method to reduce side leakage in OLEDs (20) that have been manufactured in a roll-to-toll process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: OLEDWORKS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Meyer, Rainald Manfred Gierth, Stefan Peter Grabowski, Herbert Lifka, Peter Van De Weijer, Petrus Cornelis-Paulus Bouten, Volker Lambert Van Elsbergen, Manfred Stephan Ruske, Soren Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20170279082
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate (2) for manufacturing an organic conversion device for converting electrical energy into light energy or light energy into electrical energy, wherein the substrate comprises a) an encapsulation layer (3) on the substrate, wherein the encapsulation layer includes a first inorganic layer (7), a second inorganic layer (9) and an intermediate organic layer (8), and b) a getter reservoir (6) in contact with the organic layer of the encapsulation layer. Water molecules will therefore not only be transported along the intermediate organic layer, but will also be gathered, especially absorbed, by the getter reservoir, if the encapsulation is damaged. This can slow down a transport of water molecules along a leakage path towards an organic conversion layer of the organic conversion device and hence slow down a possible degradation of the performance of the organic conversion device, if the encapsulation layer is damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: OLEDWorks GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Peter Grabowski, Herbert Lifka, Peter Van De Weijer, Rainald Manfred Gierth, Jens Meyer, Manfred Stephan Ruske, Helga Hummel
  • Publication number: 20160343988
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an encapsulated semiconductor device (20) provided on a flexible substrate (1), a method of providing an at least partially encapsulated semiconductor device (20) on a flexible substrate (1) and a software product for providing an at least partially encapsulated semiconductor device (20) on a flexible substrate (1). In a preferred embodiment, an encapsulation method is presented in which the organic layer (3) of an inorganic/organic/inorganic multilayer barrier (5) on a plastic foil (1) as a substrate is removed at the edges of an OLED (13). The edges are subsequently sealed with a standard TFE process to encapsulate the OLED (13). This enables cuttable OLEDs (20) that are cut out of a larger plastic substrate (1) and gives a method to reduce side leakage in OLEDs (20) that have been manufactured in a roll-to-toll process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: OLEDWORKS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Meyer, Rainald Manfred Gierth, Stefan Peter Grabowski, Herbert Lifka, Peter Van De Weijer, Petrus Cornelis-Paulus Bouten, Volker Lambert Van Elsbergen, Manfred Stephan Ruske, Soren Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20140299866
    Abstract: The invention describes an OLED device (1) comprising an organic layer (3) which emits light (L1) in operation and which is positioned between an essentially transparent anode layer (5) and an essentially opaque cathode layer (7). The cathode layer (7) is deliberately structured along a main extension plane (EP) of the OLED device to comprise at least one cathode region (11, 11a, 11b) in which the cathode layer (7) is 10 present and a plurality of cathode-free regions (13, 13a, 13b) and/or at least one cathode-free region (13, 13a, 13b) of a larger extension, through which cathode-free regions and/or region (13, 13a, 13b) visible light (L2) can pass in the direction of a cross extension (CE) oft he OLED device. The invention also describes a production method of such OLED device (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Koninklike Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Manfred Stephan Ruske, Holger Schwab, Herbert Lifka