Patents by Inventor Michael Zitzlsperger

Michael Zitzlsperger 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: 9978916
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a carrier, and a light source arranged on a surface of the carrier, said light source including at least one luminous surface formed by at least one light-emitting diode, wherein a transparent converter-free spacer is arranged on the luminous surface such that a distance is formed between the luminous surface and a spacer surface of the spacer facing away from the luminous surface, and wherein the light source is potted by a potting compound such that the spacer surface is formed extending flush with a potting compound surface facing away from the surface of the carrier and a surface formed by a spacer surface and the potting compound surface is plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: David Racz, Michael Zitzlsperger, Günter Spath
  • Patent number: 9978918
    Abstract: A method can be used for producing an optoelectronic device. A first leadframe section with a component is provided. The component is designed to emit electromagnetic radiation on an emission side. The emission side faces away from the carrier. A second leadframe section is provided. In a first method step the component and the two leadframe sections are encapsulated with a first potting material in such a way that the component and the leadframe sections are embedded into a potting body, but wherein at least part of the emission area of the component remains free of the first potting material and a cutout is formed in the potting body at least above the emission area of the component. In a second method step a second potting material is molded into the cutout of the potting body, such that the emission side of the component is covered with the second potting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Zitzlsperger, Tobias Gebuhr, Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 9922907
    Abstract: An electronic component, a leadframe, and a method for producing an electronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment, the electronic component includes a housing and a leadframe section partly embedded in the housing, wherein the leadframe section includes a first quadrant, a second quadrant, a third quadrant and a fourth quadrant, wherein each of the quadrants has a first leadframe part and a second leadframe part, wherein each first leadframe part includes a chip landing area, wherein the chip landing areas of all four quadrants are arranged adjacently to a common central region of the leadframe section, and wherein the four quadrants are configured symmetrically with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Richter, MIchael Zitzlsperger, Christian Ziereis, Stefan Gruber
  • Patent number: 9882097
    Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor body that emits primary light, and a luminescence conversion element that emits secondary light by wavelength conversion of at least part of the primary light, wherein the luminescence conversion element has a first lamina fixed to a first partial region of an outer surface of the semiconductor body, the outer surface emitting primary light, and leaving free a second partial region of the outer surface, the luminescence conversion element has a second lamina fixed to a surface of the first lamina facing away from the semiconductor body and spaced apart from the semiconductor body, the first lamina is at least partly transmissive to the primary radiation, a section of the second lamina covers at least the second partial region, and at least the section of the second lamina is absorbent and/or reflective and/or scattering for the primary radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Eisert, Torsten Baade, Michael Zitzlsperger
  • Patent number: 9876154
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a housing that includes a rectangular basic shape with four sides. The sides each merge into one another at a corner point. At least two carrier arms of two contact elements of a lead frame are guided to an edge of the housing. The two carrier arms are arranged on different sides of the housing. The two carrier arms are each at different spacings from the two corner points of the side on which the carrier arms are arranged. The spacings differ at least in the width of a carrier arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Zitzlsperger
  • Patent number: 9853198
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a housing including a plastic material and a first lead frame section at least partly embedded in the plastic material, a first recess and a second recess, wherein a first upper section of an upper side of the first lead frame section is not covered by the plastic material in the first recess, a second upper section of the upper side of the first lead frame section is not covered by the plastic material in the second recess, the first recess and the second recess are separated from one another by a section of the plastic material, an optoelectronic semiconductor chip is arranged in the first recess, and no optoelectronic semiconductor chips is arranged in the second recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Zitzlsperger, Christian Ziereis, Tobias Gebuhr
  • Publication number: 20170365752
    Abstract: Disclosed is a conversion element (100). The conversion element (100) comprises: a conversion coating (16), which contains a wavelength-converting conversion material; a first encapsulation coating (30) on a first main surface (20) of the conversion coating, said first encapsulation coating having a thickness of between 10 ?m and 500 ?m; and a second encapsulation coating (32) on a second main surface (22) of the conversion coating, said second encapsulation coating having a thickness of between 0.1 ?m and 20 ?m. Also disclosed are an optoelectronic semiconductor component (200) and a method for producing conversion elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas SCHWARZ, Frank SINGER, Stefan ILLEK, Michael ZITZLSPERGER, Britta GOEOETZ, Dominik SCHULTEN
  • Patent number: 9780273
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a carrier substrate; at least one light emitting semiconductor chip arranged on a surface of the carrier substrate; and a frame part at least laterally partly surrounding the light emitting semiconductor chip; and comprising an injection-molded body, and wherein the frame part includes an injection-molded body and a diaphragm part, the diaphragm part including a protuberance enclosed by the injection-molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Boris Eichenberg, Michael Zitzlsperger
  • Patent number: 9780271
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment of the method, the method is used to produce optoelectronic semiconductor components. A lead frame assemblage includes a plurality of lead frames. The lead frames each includes at least two lead frame parts and the lead frames in the lead frame assemblage are electrically connected to one another by connecting webs. The lead frame assemblage is fitted on an intermediate carrier. At least a portion of the connecting webs is removed and/or interrupted. Additional electrical connecting elements are fitted between adjacent lead frames and/or lead frame parts. A potting body mechanically connects the lead frame parts of the individual lead frames to one another. The resulting structure is singulated to form the semiconductor components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Gebuhr, Michael Zitzlsperger
  • Publication number: 20170263830
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a carrier, and a light source arranged on a surface of the carrier, said light source including at least one luminous surface formed by at least one light-emitting diode, wherein a transparent converter-free spacer is arranged on the luminous surface such that a distance is formed between the luminous surface and a spacer surface of the spacer facing away from the luminous surface, and wherein the light source is potted by a potting compound such that the spacer surface is formed extending flush with a potting compound surface facing away from the surface of the carrier and a surface formed by a spacer surface and the potting compound surface is plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: David Racz, Michael Zitzlsperger, Günter Spath
  • Publication number: 20170263829
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a carrier, a light source formed on the carrier, the light source having at least one luminous face formed by one or more light emitting diodes, wherein an at least partly transparent lamina is arranged on the luminous face, the lamina having a surface facing the luminous face and a surface facing away from the luminous face, wherein at least one conversion layer and a color scattering layer for generating a color by light scattering are arranged on at least one of the facing and facing-away surfaces, wherein the conversion layer is arranged upstream of the color scattering layer relative to an emission direction of light from the luminous face, such that light emitted by the luminous face can first be converted and then be scattered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: David Racz, Michael Zitzlsperger, Georg Bogner
  • Patent number: 9761512
    Abstract: A leadframe assembly is formed from an electrically conductive material. The leadframe assembly includes a first longitudinal element, at least one second longitudinal element, a plurality of first leadframe sections and a plurality of second leadframe sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Preuss, Michael Zitzlsperger
  • Publication number: 20170222092
    Abstract: A housing for an optical component is provided in various embodiments. The housing has a leadframe section and a mold compound. The leadframe section is formed from an electrically conductive material and has a first side and a second side facing away from the first side. On the first side, the leadframe section has at least one first receiving region for receiving the optical component and/or at least one contact region for electrically contacting the optical component. The leadframe section has at least one trench which is formed in the leadframe section on the first side thereof alongside the receiving region and/or the contact region. The leadframe section is embedded in the mold compound. The mold compound has at least one receiving recess in which the first receiving region and/or the contact region and the trench are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Tobias Gebuhr, Matthias Knoerr, Klaus Mueller, Thomas Schwarz, Frank Singer, Michael Zitzlsperger
  • Patent number: 9698282
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component including a connection carrier comprising a structured carrier strip in which interspaces are filled with an electrically insulating material and an optoelectronic semiconductor chip attached and electrically connected to a top portion of the connection carrier, wherein the electrically insulating material terminates substantially flush with the carrier strip in places or the carrier strip projects beyond the electrically insulating material, and the carrier strip is not covered by the electrically insulating material on the top portion and/or on a bottom portion of the connection carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Jaeger, Michael Zitzlsperger
  • Publication number: 20170179353
    Abstract: An electronic component, a leadframe, and a method for producing an electronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment, the electronic component includes a housing and a leadframe section partly embedded in the housing, wherein the leadframe section includes a first quadrant, a second quadrant, a third quadrant and a fourth quadrant, wherein each of the quadrants has a first leadframe part and a second leadframe part, wherein each first leadframe part includes a chip landing area, wherein the chip landing areas of all four quadrants are arranged adjacently to a common central region of the leadframe section, and wherein the four quadrants are configured symmetrically with respect to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Richter, Michael Zitzlsperger, Christian Ziereis, Stefan Gruber
  • Patent number: 9620694
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a leadframe, a molded body connected to the leadframe, and an optoelectronic semiconductor chip arranged on the leadframe, wherein the leadframe includes an alignment opening, and wherein the molded body includes a recess via which the leadframe is exposed in the area of the alignment opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Zitzlsperger, Matthias Goldbach
  • Publication number: 20170095955
    Abstract: A method of producing a housing for an electronic device including: in a three-dimensional molding process, a housing part assembly consisting of a plurality of contiguous plastics housing parts is produced using a plastics material; and the housing part assembly is split up into a plurality of individual plastics housing parts by a separation procedure, each one of the parts forming at least a part of a housing, wherein the molding process is transfer molding or compression molding, a mold is used for the molding process including mold pins by which first side faces molded on during the molding process are produced on each of the plastics housing parts, the separation procedure results in second side faces being produced on each of the plastics housing parts, and the first and second side faces form outer faces of the plastics housing parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Michael Zitzlsperger
  • Patent number: 9614134
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a carrier including a mounting surface, at least one light-emitting element arranged on the mounting surface and electrically conductively connected to the carrier, at least one reinforcing body integrated in the optoelectronic component, a housing consisting of a housing encapsulation compound or a housing molding compound, wherein the light emitting component is arranged in an emitter cavity of the housing, and a reinforcing body cavity in which the reinforcing body is arranged fully or partially encapsulated or encased with a reinforcing body encapsulation compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Gebuhr, Christian Ziereis, Michael Zitzlsperger
  • Publication number: 20160380172
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a component arrangement with at least two electrical components arranged next to one another in a product configuration. Each of the electrical components have at least two electrical terminal contacts and the components arranged next to one another are mechanically connected to one another by an adhesive arranged between the components, and the component arrangement is designed for the individual components of the component arrangement to be applied together to a circuit carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Brandl, Stefan Groetsch, Tobias Gebuhr, Michael Zitzlsperger, Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 9520539
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a plastics housing, wherein a first leadframe section is embedded into the plastics housing, a chip landing face and a soldering contact face of the first leadframe section are at least partly not covered by the plastics housing, the soldering contact face has a groove, and the groove is not covered by the material of the plastics housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductor GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Brandl, Michael Zitzlsperger