Patents by Inventor Michael Kuehnelt

Michael Kuehnelt 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: 10615323
    Abstract: A component includes a semiconductor chip, an envelope and a reflector, wherein the semiconductor chip has a front side, a rear side facing away from the front side and side faces, and the semiconductor chip is electrically contactable at least partially via its rear side, the reflector completely encloses the semiconductor chip in lateral directions, has a first subregion and a second subregion directly adjoining the first subregion, and the first subregion is spatially spaced from the semiconductor chip and the second subregion directly adjoins the semiconductor chip, the envelope covers the front side of the semiconductor chip completely and the side surfaces of the semiconductor chip at least partially so that the envelope has an interface facing the semiconductor chip and reproducing a contour of the semiconductor chip in regions, and in the component is free of a lead frame enclosed by a molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kühnelt, Alexander Linkov
  • Publication number: 20190165225
    Abstract: A component includes a semiconductor chip, an envelope and a reflector, wherein the semiconductor chip has a front side, a rear side facing away from the front side and side faces, and the semiconductor chip is electrically contactable at least partially via its rear side, the reflector completely encloses the semiconductor chip in lateral directions, has a first subregion and a second subregion directly adjoining the first subregion, and the first subregion is spatially spaced from the semiconductor chip and the second subregion directly adjoins the semiconductor chip, the envelope covers the front side of the semiconductor chip completely and the side surfaces of the semiconductor chip at least partially so that the envelope has an interface facing the semiconductor chip and reproducing a contour of the semiconductor chip in regions, and in the component is free of a lead frame enclosed by a molded body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Kühnelt, Alexander Linkov
  • Publication number: 20140354313
    Abstract: A method for temporary electrical contacting of a component arrangement with a plurality of contact surfaces is described. A connection support includes a plurality of connection surfaces, on which contact protrusions are disposed. The connection support and component arrangement are brought together in such a way that the connection surfaces and the associated contact surfaces overlap in a top view and the contact protrusions form an electrical contact with respect to the contact surfaces in order to achieve electrical contacting of the component arrangement. Subsequently the connection support and the component arrangement are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kuehnelt, Roland Enzmann
  • Patent number: 8585257
    Abstract: A compact housing comprises a one-piece mounting plate made from a metallic material, which is designed to be joined thermally conductively by a main side to an external support not belonging to the compact housing. Furthermore, the compact housing comprises a one-piece housing cover, which is joined permanently to the mounting plate and therewith encloses a volume. In addition, the compact housing contains at least one electrical feedthrough, such that at least one electrically conductive connection may be produced therewith from inside the volume to outside the volume, this connection being insulated electrically from the mounting plate. Within the volume a module is located which is designed to emit electromagnetic radiation. This module is applied directly to the mounting plate, such that the joint face between mounting plate and module is substantially parallel to the main side of the mounting plate joined to the external support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schwarz, Ulrich Steegmüller, Michael Kühnelt, Roland Schulz
  • Patent number: 8477814
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser module is disclosed, comprising a module carrier (20) having a mounting area (21), a pump device (1) arranged on the mounting area (21), a surface emitting semiconductor laser (40) arranged on the mounting area (21), and a frequency conversion device (6) arranged on the mounting area (21), wherein the mounting area (21) of the module carrier (20) has an area content of at most 100 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schwarz, Michael Kuehnelt, Roland Schulz, Juergen Dachs, Ulrich Steegmueller, Heiko Unold
  • Patent number: 8396092
    Abstract: An optically pumped semiconductor apparatus having a surface-emitting semiconductor body (1) which has a radiation passage area (1a) which faces away from a mounting plane of the semiconductor body (1), and an optical element (7) which is suitable for directing pump radiation (17) onto the radiation passage area (1a) of the semiconductor body (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Steegmüller, Frank Singer, Thomas Schwarz, Michael Kühnelt
  • Publication number: 20110122899
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor laser element that emits electromagnetic radiation with at least one fundamental wavelength when in operation, an end mirror, a deflecting mirror reflective as a function of polarization located between the semiconductor laser element and the end mirror, and at least one optically nonlinear crystal configured for type II frequency conversion of the fundamental wavelength and which satisfies a ?/2 condition for the fundamental wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Kühnelt, Peter Brick, Stephan Lutgen
  • Patent number: 7903716
    Abstract: A surface emitting semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor chip (1), which emits radiation (12) and contains a first resonator mirror (3). A second resonator mirror (6) is arranged outside the semiconductor chip (1). The first resonator mirror (3) and the second resonator mirror (6) form a laser resonator for the radiation (12) emitted by the semiconductor chip (1). The laser resonator contains an interference filter (9, 17), which is formed from an interference layer system comprising a plurality of dielectric layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schwarz, Ulrich Steegmüller, Michael Kühnelt
  • Patent number: 7860144
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser component comprising a semiconductor laser chip (1) provided for generating radiation and an optical device comprising a carrier (7), a radiation deflecting element (8) arranged on the carrier and a mirror arranged on the carrier is proposed, wherein the mirror is formed as an external mirror (9) of an external optical resonator for the semiconductor laser chip (1), the radiation deflecting element is arranged within the resonator, the radiation deflecting element is formed for deflecting at least a portion of a radiation (13, 160) that is generated by the semiconductor laser chip (1) and reflected by the external mirror, the carrier has a lateral main extension direction, and the semiconductor laser chip (1) is disposed downstream of the carrier in a vertical direction with respect to the lateral main extension direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kühnelt, Thomas Schwarz, Frank Singer, Ulrich Steegmüller
  • Patent number: 7778289
    Abstract: An optically pumped, surface-emitting semiconductor laser having a mode-selective apparatus (7) which is intended for suppression of predeterminable, higher resonator modes of the semiconductor laser. The mode-selective apparatus is arranged in the beam path of a pump beam source (2) of the surface-emitting semiconductor laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kühnelt, Ulrich Steegmüller, Wolfgang Reill, Thomas Schwarz, Frank Singer
  • Patent number: 7729046
    Abstract: In a laser device, a crystal array includes a laser gain crystal and an optically non-linear frequency conversion crystal. A pump source couples at least two mutually spatially separated pump beams into the crystal array. Between two pump beams, a saw kerf of the crystal array extends parallel to the pump beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kühnelt, Thomas Schwarz, Ulrich Steegmüller, Frank Singer
  • Publication number: 20090232170
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser module is disclosed, comprising a module carrier (20) having a mounting area (21), a pump device (1) arranged on the mounting area (21), a surface emitting semiconductor laser (40) arranged on the mounting area (21), and a frequency conversion device (6) arranged on the mounting area (21), wherein the mounting area (21) of the module carrier (20) has an area content of at most 100 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: OSRAM Opto Semiconductor GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schwarz, Michael Kuehnelt, Roland Schulz, Juergen Dachs, Ulrich Steegmueller, Heiko Unold
  • Publication number: 20090219957
    Abstract: In a surface emitting semiconductor laser comprising a semiconductor chip (1), a first resonator mirror (4) and at least one further resonator mirror (8) which is arranged outside the semiconductor chip (1) and forms with the first resonator mirror (4) a laser resonator having a resonator length L and a pump laser (10) which, for optically pumping the semiconductor laser (1), radiates pump radiation (14) having a pump power into the semiconductor chip (1), the pump power is modulated with a modulation frequency fp and the resonator length L is adapted to the modulation frequency fp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Ulrich Steegmüller, Thomas Schwarz, Michael Kühnelt, Josip Maric
  • Publication number: 20090213881
    Abstract: An optically pumped semiconductor apparatus having a surface-emitting semiconductor body (1) which has a radiation passage area (1a) which faces away from a mounting plane of the semiconductor body (1), and an optical element (7) which is suitable for directing pump radiation (17) onto the radiation passage area (1a) of the semiconductor body (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Ulrich Steegmüller, Frank Singer, Thomas Schwarz, Michael Kühnelt
  • Patent number: 7558453
    Abstract: An arrangement of a microoptical component on a substrate, containing an adjustment connection which is provided between the component and the substrate and containing a first and a second connection element, which, matching one another, have first and second surfaces which are in contact and allow adjustment in different relative positions. This arrangement allows particularly simple adjustment of a microoptical component, for example, in the beam path of an optical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Steegmüller, Michael Kühnelt, Thomas Schwarz