Patents by Inventor Martin Zachau

Martin Zachau 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: 8987708
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component comprises an organic layer sequence (1), which emits an electromagnetic radiation (15) having a first wavelength spectrum during operation, and also a dielectric layer sequence (2) and a wavelength conversion region (3) in the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation (15) emitted by the organic layer sequence (1). The wavelength conversion region (3) is configured to convert at least partially electromagnetic radiation having the first wavelength spectrum into an electromagnetic radiation (16) having a second wavelength spectrum. The dielectric layer sequence (2) is arranged in the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation (15) emitted by the organic layer sequence between the organic layer sequence (1) and the wavelength conversion region (3) and is at least partially opaque to an electromagnetic radiation having a third wavelength spectrum, which corresponds to at least one part of the second wavelength spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Schindler, Benjamin Claus Krummacher, Norwin Von Malm, Dirk Berben, Frank Jermann, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8729786
    Abstract: The invention relates to an illuminant mixture for a discharge lamp (1) with a first and at least one second illuminant composition, said first illuminant composition having an emission spectrum in the green to yellow spectral range and having a first illuminant compound, devoid of Tb and designed to absorb the UV radiation emitted by an Hg source. The invention also relates to a discharge lamp (1) with a discharge vessel (2) and an illuminant layer (12) applied thereto, said layer containing the illuminant mixture according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Frank Jermann, Armin Konrad, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8708543
    Abstract: There is herein described a light engine that emits a light. The light engine includes a light source, a light guide, a plurality of extraction optical elements, and a plurality of phosphors. The light guide receives the light. The extraction optical elements are on the surface of the light guide. The extraction optical elements extract at least a portion of the light out of the light guide. The phosphors are disposed on top of at least some of the extraction optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Osram Sylvania Inc.
    Inventors: Dongxue Wang, Matthew A Stough, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8704437
    Abstract: A phosphor mixture for a discharge lamp, which includes a first phosphor compound and a second phosphor compound, wherein the first phosphor compound has an emission spectrum in the green and/or yellow spectral range and absorbs the UV radiation emitted by an Hg source and the radiation in the blue spectral range emitted by the Hg source, characterized in that the first phosphor compound of the phosphor mixture comprises (Ba,Sr,Ca)2SiO4:Eu and/or (Srl-x-yBaxCay)Si2O2N2:Eu(SrSiON), as a constituent, and the second phosphor compound of the phosphor mixture comprises Y2O3:Eu, as a constituent; and the phosphor mixture has a color temperature of less than 2500 K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Osram Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Frank Jermann, Armin Konrad, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8690629
    Abstract: A luminescence conversion LED having a radiation emitting chip that is connected to electrical connections and is surrounded by a housing that comprises at least a basic body and a cap, the chip being seated on the basic body, in particular in a cutout of the basic body, and the primary radiation of the chip being converted at least partially into longer wave radiation by a conversion element, wherein the cap is formed by a vitreous body, the conversion means being contained in the vitreous body, the refractive index of the vitreous body being higher than 1.6, preferably at least n=1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Daniel Becker, Herbert Brunner, Tim Fiedler, Jörg Strauβ, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8598604
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component with a semiconductor body that comprises an active semiconductor layer sequence is disclosed, which is suitable for generating electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength that is emitted from a front face of the semiconductor body. The component also comprises a first wavelength conversion substance following the semiconductor body in its direction of emission, which converts radiation of the first wavelength into radiation of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and a first selectively reflecting layer between the active semiconductor layer sequence and the first wavelength conversion substance that selectively reflects radiation of the second wavelength and is transparent to radiation of the first wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Eisert, Norbert Linder, Raimund Oberschmid, Dirk Berben, Frank Jermann, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8541948
    Abstract: An operating device for operating at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp which has a first and a second electrode coil may include a unit for providing a variable that is correlated with the Hg vapor pressure in the at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp comprises at least one unit for capturing emission spectra of at least specifiable spectral ranges, wherein the unit for capturing emission spectra may include at least one light receiving unit which is arranged in the beam path of the at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Osram Gesellschaft mit Beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Armin Konrad, Roger Hunt, Martin Zachau, Ralph Hoeck
  • Patent number: 8460579
    Abstract: A red-emitting phosphor composed of an M-Al—Si—N system, comprising a cation M, wherein M is represented by at least one of the elements Ca or Ba or Sr and, if appropriate, can additionally be combined with at least one further element from the group Mg, Zn, Cd, wherein the phosphor is activated with Eu, which partly replaces M, and wherein the phosphor additionally contains LiF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
    Inventors: Daniel Becker, Tim Fiedler, Frank Jermann, Bianca Pohl, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8450919
    Abstract: The invention relates to an illuminant compound for a discharge lamp (1), said compound having an emission spectrum in the green spectral range and being designed to absorb the radiation emitted in the visible spectral range by an Hg source and to convert said visible radiation of the Hg source into the emission spectrum of the illuminant compound. The invention also relates to a discharge lamp comprising an illuminant compound of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
    Inventors: Frank Jermann, Armin Konrad, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8450922
    Abstract: A luminophore consisting of the BAM system as a host lattice, having the stoichiometry MxEu1?xMg1?y+dMnyAl10+2fO17+d+3f, is provided, wherein 0.2?x?0.48; 0?y?0.3; 0?d?0.1; ?0.1?f?1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Renate Hirrle, Guenter Huber, Frank Jermann, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8398891
    Abstract: A red-emitting phosphor composed of an M-Al—Si—N system, comprising a cation M, wherein M is represented by at least one of the elements Ca or Ba or Sr and, if appropriate, can additionally be combined with at least one further element from the group Mg, Zn, Cd, wherein the phosphor is activated with Eu, which partly replaces M, and wherein the phosphor additionally contains LiF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Daniel Becker, Tim Fiedler, Frank Jermann, Bianca Pohl, Martin Zachau
  • Publication number: 20130056765
    Abstract: A light source including at least two phosphor converted (pc) light emitting diodes (LEDs), each of the pc LEDs including an associated blue-emitting LED as an excitation source for a phosphor containing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.
    Inventors: Maria Thompson, John Selverian, David W. Hamby, Martin Zachau
  • Publication number: 20130039029
    Abstract: There is herein described a light engine that emits a light. The light engine includes a light source, a light guide, a plurality of extraction optical elements, and a plurality of phosphors. The light guide receives the light. The extraction optical elements are on the surface of the light guide. The extraction optical elements extract at least a portion of the light out of the light guide. The phosphors are disposed on top of at least some of the extraction optical elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.
    Inventors: Dongxue Wang, Matthew A. Stough, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8358058
    Abstract: A luminophore consisting of the BAM system as a host lattice, having the stoichiometry MxEu1?xMg1?y+dMnyAl10+2fO17+d+3f, is provided, wherein 0.2?x?0.48; 0?y?0.3; 0?d?0.1; ?0.1?f?1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Renate Hirrle, Guenter Huber, Frank Jermann, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8330348
    Abstract: An apparatus device such as a light source is disclosed which has an OLED device and a structured luminescence conversion layer deposited on the substrate or transparent electrode of said OLED device and on the exterior of said OLED device. The structured luminescence conversion layer contains regions such as color-changing and non-color-changing regions with particular shapes arranged in a particular pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Berben, Homer Antoniadis, Frank Jermann, Benjamin Claus Krummacher, Norwin Von Malm, Martin Zachau
  • Patent number: 8242528
    Abstract: A conversion LED is provided. The conversion LED may include a primary light source which emits in the short-wave radiation range below 420 nm, and a luminophore placed in front of it consisting of the BAM system as a host lattice for at least partial conversion of the light source's radiation into longer-wave radiation, wherein the BAM luminophore is applied as a thin layer having a thickness of at most 50 ?m directly on the surface of the light source, the BAM luminophore having the general stoichiometry (M1?r Mgr)O*k(Al2O3), where r=0.4 to 0.6 and M=EAeEu1?e, with EA=Ba, Sr, Ca, and e=0.52 to 0.8, and k=1.5 to 4.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Dirk Berben, Tim Fiedler, Renate Hirrle, Guenter Huber, Frank Jermann, Martin Zachau
  • Publication number: 20120032211
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component comprises an organic layer sequence (1), which emits an electromagnetic radiation (15) having a first wavelength spectrum during operation, and also a dielectric layer sequence (2) and a wavelength conversion region (3) in the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation (15) emitted by the organic layer sequence (1). The wavelength conversion region (3) is configured to convert at least partially electromagnetic radiation having the first wavelength spectrum into an electromagnetic radiation (16) having a second wavelength spectrum. The dielectric layer sequence (2) is arranged in the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation (15) emitted by the organic layer sequence between the organic layer sequence (1) and the wavelength conversion region (3) and is at least partially opaque to an electromagnetic radiation having a third wavelength spectrum, which corresponds to at least one part of the second wavelength spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Schindler, Benjamin Claus Krummacher, Norwin Von Malm, Dirk Berben, Frank Jermann, Martin Zachau
  • Publication number: 20110234103
    Abstract: An operating device for operating at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp which has a first and a second electrode coil may include a unit for providing a variable that is correlated with the Hg vapor pressure in the at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp comprises at least one unit for capturing emission spectra of at least specifiable spectral ranges, wherein the unit for capturing emission spectra may include at least one light receiving unit which is arranged in the beam path of the at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Armin Konrad, Roger Hunt, Martin Zachau, Ralph Hoeck
  • Patent number: 7965031
    Abstract: LED with a low color temperature up to 3500 K, comprising a blue-emitting LED with two phosphors in front of it, a first phosphor from the class of the oxynitridosilicates, having a cation M, which is doped with divalent Europium, and has the empirical formula M(1-c)Si2O2N2:Dc, with M=Sr, or M=Sr(1-x-y)BayCax with x+y<0.5 being used, the oxynitridosilicate completely or predominantly comprising the high-temperature-stable modification HT, and a second phosphor from the class of the nitridosilicates of formula (Ca,Sr)2Si5N8:Eu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignees: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Brunner, Tim Fiedler, Frank Jermann, Jörg Strauβ, Martin Zachau
  • Publication number: 20110143627
    Abstract: A luminescence conversion LED having a radiation emitting chip that is connected to electrical connections and is surrounded by a housing that comprises at least a basic body and a cap, the chip being seated on the basic body, in particular in a cutout of the basic body, and the primary radiation of the chip being converted at least partially into longer wave radiation by a conversion element, wherein the cap is formed by a vitreous body, the conversion means being contained in the vitreous body, the refractive index of the vitreous body being higher than 1.6, preferably at least n=1.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Daniel BECKER, Herbert Brunner, Tim Fiedler, Jörg Strauß, Martin Zachau