Patents by Inventor Oliver Hering

Oliver Hering 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: 11035536
    Abstract: An illumination device for emitting illumination light, comprising: a light-emitting diode (LED) for emitting LED radiation, a laser for emitting laser radiation, and a luminescent element for at least partial conversion of the LED radiation and the laser radiation into conversion light, which forms at least part of the illumination light. The LED, the laser and the luminescent element are arranged relative to one another in such a way that during operation of the illumination device, on an incidence face of the luminescent element, respectively in a time integral, the LED irradiates an LED irradiation area with the LED radiation and the laser irradiates a laser irradiation area with the laser radiation. The laser irradiation area has at least one intersection with the LED irradiation area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM BETEILIGUNGSVERWALTUNG GMBH
    Inventors: Jasmin Muster, Ricarda Schoemer, Jenny Trommer, Oliver Hering, Jürgen Hager
  • Patent number: 10317523
    Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle is provided. The lighting device includes a light source with which at least one of useful light or assist light can be emitted into the surroundings, a sensor with which at least one of useful light or assist light reflected by the surroundings can be at least partially detected, and an electronic unit for evaluating at least one of the useful light or assist light sensed by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering
  • Patent number: 10247380
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting fixture comprising at least three light functions, said lighting fixture being a trifunctional projector. In particular, a vehicle headlight is disclosed, which has in addition to a dipped beam and a main beam a daytime running light and/or a position light as a further light function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen Hager, Oliver Hering
  • Patent number: 10247382
    Abstract: A lighting device is disclosed with an electromagnetic radiation source for irradiating a conversion element arranged in the lighting device with an excitation radiation. The conversion element has a first element side and a second element side. The first element side delimits a first radiation space and the second element side delimits a second radiation space. At least one optical unit at least for part of the radiation emanating from the first element side is arranged in the first radiation space and at least one optical unit at least for part of the radiation emanating from the second element side is arranged in the second radiation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen Hager, Stephan Schwaiger, Jasmin Muster, Oliver Hering
  • Patent number: 10228106
    Abstract: Various embodiment may relate to a luminaire, including at least one light source, in particular a semiconductor light source, for emitting a primary light beam onto at least one spaced-apart luminescent body, wherein the luminescent body includes at least one hole and a direct light component of the respective primary light beam can be radiated through the at least one hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Hager, Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering
  • Patent number: 10203508
    Abstract: A lighting device may include at least one light source arrangement for generating primary light; at least one light wavelength conversion element for converting primary light into secondary light; and a filter apparatus disposed optically downstream of the at least one light wavelength conversion element and serving for filtering out primary light. The at least one light source arrangement and the at least one light wavelength conversion element are embodied or correspondingly embodied light directing means are provided in such a way that part of the primary light generated by the at least one light source arrangement impinges on the at least one light wavelength conversion element and part of the primary light generated by the at least one light source arrangement is directed past the at least one light wavelength conversion element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Hering, Juergen Hager, Stephan Schwaiger
  • Publication number: 20190032878
    Abstract: An illumination device for emitting illumination light, comprising: a light-emitting diode (LED) for emitting LED radiation, a laser for emitting laser radiation, and a luminescent element for at least partial conversion of the LED radiation and the laser radiation into conversion light, which forms at least part of the illumination light. The LED, the laser and the luminescent element are arranged relative to one another in such a way that during operation of the illumination device, on an incidence face of the luminescent element, respectively in a time integral, the LED irradiates an LED irradiation area with the LED radiation and the laser irradiates a laser irradiation area with the laser radiation. The laser irradiation area has at least one intersection with the LED irradiation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jasmin Muster, Ricarda Schoemer, Jenny Trommer, Oliver Hering, Jürgen Hager
  • Patent number: 10183613
    Abstract: A projection lamp for illumination includes a pump radiation unit configured to emit pump radiation, a phosphor element for the at least partial conversion of the pump radiation into a conversion light, and a micromirror array having a multiplicity of micromirror actuators which are arranged in the form of a matrix. The projection lamp is set up such that, during operation, the phosphor element is irradiated by the pump radiation from the pump radiation unit. The conversion light which is thereupon emitted by the phosphor element at least partially makes up an illumination light, which illumination light is guided for adjusting a light distribution over the micromirror actuators. The micromirror actuators are illuminated inhomogeneously with the illumination light at respective times to support the light distribution that is adjusted using the micromirror array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Ricarda Schoemer, Juergen Hager, Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering, Norbert Haas
  • Patent number: 9933134
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a light generating unit configured to generate at least two light beams; at least one phosphor surface which is illuminatable by the light beams; and at least one movable deflection mirror for the scanning deflection of the light beams onto the phosphor surface, such that the light beams impinge on the at least one phosphor surface in a spaced-apart fashion, and such that at least one region of the phosphor surface is illuminatable by at least two light beams in a manner spaced apart temporally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering, Juergen Hager
  • Patent number: 9897283
    Abstract: A method for generating a light emission pattern by illuminating at least one phosphor surface by at least one primary light beam is provided. The method includes: directing the primary light beam only onto a partial surface of the entire illuminatable phosphor surface; and illuminating at least one partial region of said partial surface more intensely than in the case of uniform illumination of the illuminatable phosphor surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering, Juergen Hager
  • Publication number: 20180010759
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a light-emitting arrangement is provided. The light-emitting arrangement includes a radiation source, into the beam path of which a micromirror device is arranged via which radiation emitted by the radiation source may be directed at least into a first and a second direction, at least one further radiation source configured to emit radiation toward the micromirror device. The radiation from the further radiation source may be directed, via the micromirror device at least into a first and a second direction. The micromirror device is movable about at least one axis into at least two positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Ricarda Schoemer, Oliver Hering, Norbert Haas, Stephan Schwaiger
  • Publication number: 20180003356
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a lighting apparatus is provided. The lighting apparatus includes at least one laser light source, and at least one light wavelength conversion element for the wavelength conversion of laser light from the at least one laser light source. The lighting apparatus has a structure configured to homogenize the light color of the light emitted by the lighting apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Jasmin Muster, Stephan Schwaiger, Ricarda Schoemer, Oliver Woisetschlaeger, Oliver Hering
  • Patent number: 9855885
    Abstract: A method for operating a lighting device comprising n>1 light generating units configured to generate a respective primary light beam and comprising a phosphor surface spaced apart from the light generating units is provided. The method may include illuminating an i-th partial surface of the phosphor surface by i light generating units if a desired positive brightness value on this illuminated partial surface falls below or reaches a next higher i-th brightness threshold value from a group of n?1 positive, progressively increasing brightness threshold values; otherwise illuminating by n light generating units; wherein i and n are whole natural numbers and i=[1, . . . , n] holds true.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering, Juergen Hager
  • Publication number: 20170350568
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting fixture comprising at least three light functions, said lighting fixture being a trifunctional projector. In particular, a vehicle headlight is disclosed, which has in addition to a dipped beam and a main beam a daytime running light and/or a position light as a further light function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen Hager, Oliver Hering
  • Publication number: 20170350570
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus is provided. The illumination apparatus includes a light-emitting device including one or more light sources, a mirror device including at least one pivotable mirror for directing light from the one or more light sources in a defined first pivot state into a first solid angle region in which the light is utilized in accordance with operation, and a defined second pivot state into a second solid angle range that differs from the first one and in which the light is directed onto an absorber device of the illumination apparatus. The absorber device includes a sensor with which a function of the illumination apparatus may be checked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Stephan Schwaiger, Ricarda Schoemer, Juergen Hager, Oliver Hering
  • Publication number: 20170350569
    Abstract: A lighting device is disclosed with an electromagnetic radiation source for irradiating a conversion element arranged in the lighting device with an excitation radiation. The conversion element has a first element side and a second element side. The first element side delimits a first radiation space and the second element side delimits a second radiation space. At least one optical unit at least for part of the radiation emanating from the first element side is arranged in the first radiation space and at least one optical unit at least for part of the radiation emanating from the second element side is arranged in the second radiation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen Hager, Stephan Schwaiger, Jasmin Muster, Oliver Hering
  • Publication number: 20170334338
    Abstract: A projection lamp for illumination includes a pump radiation unit configured to emit pump radiation, a phosphor element for the at least partial conversion of the pump radiation into a conversion light, and a micromirror array having a multiplicity of micromirror actuators which are arranged in the form of a matrix. The projection lamp is set up such that, during operation, the phosphor element is irradiated by the pump radiation from the pump radiation unit. The conversion light which is thereupon emitted by the phosphor element at least partially makes up an illumination light, which illumination light is guided for adjusting a light distribution over the micromirror actuators. The micromirror actuators are illuminated inhomogeneously with the illumination light at respective times to support the light distribution that is adjusted using the micromirror array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Ricarda Schoemer, Juergen Hager, Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering, Norbert Haas
  • Publication number: 20170285162
    Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle is provided. The lighting device includes a light source with which at least one of useful light or assist light can be emitted into the surroundings, a sensor with which at least one of useful light or assist light reflected by the surroundings can be at least partially detected, and an electronic unit for evaluating at least one of the useful light or assist light sensed by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering
  • Publication number: 20170122516
    Abstract: Various embodiment may relate to a luminaire, including at least one light source, in particular a semiconductor light source, for emitting a primary light beam onto at least one spaced-apart luminescent body, wherein the luminescent body includes at least one hole and a direct light component of the respective primary light beam can be radiated through the at least one hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Hager, Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering
  • Patent number: 9482412
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a laser light source arrangement; an optical unit; at least one pivotable mirror; and at least one light wavelength conversion element. The optical unit and the at least one pivotable mirror are embodied in such a way that laser light generated by the laser light source arrangement is directed via the optical unit and the at least one pivotable mirror to the light wavelength conversion element. The lighting device may further include a unit configured to compensate for a lengthening or shortening—caused by the pivoting movement of the at least one pivotable mirror—of the optical path of the laser light generated by the laser light source arrangement and directed onto the at least one light wavelength conversion element via the optical unit and the at least one pivotable mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Schwaiger, Oliver Hering