Patents by Inventor Robert A. Kraus

Robert A. Kraus 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: 8217277
    Abstract: A mounting panel arrangement having a plurality of mounting panels for optoelectronic components. Two adjacent mounting panels (1, 2) are connected to one another, in a mechanically stable manner, a connection body (3). Each of the two mounting panels has a connection area (110, 210), each of which is associated with an attachment section (31, 32) of the connection body. For each connection area, a plug connection is formed between the connection area and the associated attachment section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Robert Kraus, Wolfgang Georg Pabst, Harald Stoyan
  • Publication number: 20120163001
    Abstract: A lamp (1; 16; 20; 24; 30; 37; 39), at least comprising: a heat sink (2; 17; 21; 25), which bears at least one light source; (10) and an at least partially optically transmissive cover (11; 19; 23; 26) for the at least one light source (10), said cover being fastened to the heat sink (2; 17; 21; 25), the cover (11; 19; 23; 26; 31; 38; 40) having a wall thickness (d) which, at least sectionally, tapers as the distance from the heat sink (2; 17; 21; 25) increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Ralph Bertram, Nicole Breidenassel, Guenter Hoetzl, Robert Kraus
  • Patent number: 8157418
    Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination device (1) comprising at least one substrate plate (2), at least two light-emitting diodes (3) (LEDs) arranged on the same side (A) of the substrate plate (2), and at least one electrically conductive cooling device (8) arranged on the opposite side (B) of the substrate plate (2), in particular a metallic heat sink (8), wherein at least two LEDs (3) are thermally operatively connected to the cooling device (8) by means of in each case at least one thermal coupling device (9) formed from an electrically conductive material. According to the invention, the cooling device (8) has at least two regions (8a, 8b, 8c) which are electrically isolated from one another, wherein a first region (8b) is thermally and electrically operatively connected to at least one first LED (3), and a second region (8a, 8c) is thermally and electrically operatively connected to at least one second LED (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventor: Robert Kraus
  • Publication number: 20120044689
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a lighting system may comprise at least one connection element and at least one luminous band having at least one band-shaped unit circuit board, whereby the unit circuit board is equipped with at least two semiconductor light sources, and has at least one contact area arranged between at least two semiconductor light sources, whereby the contact area is configured so it can be severed and the contact area and the connection element are configured such that after severing of the contact area the connection element can be applied onto the contact area and at least one circuit can be closed on the unit circuit board by applying the connection element onto the contact area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Robert Kraus, Thomas Preuschl, Steffen Strauss, Birgit Wels
  • Publication number: 20110291125
    Abstract: A lighting module may include a lighting band with a band-shaped flexible substrate, wherein at least one semiconductor light source is applied to a top side of the substrate, wherein the lighting module is faced with a protective layer such that at least one emission area of the at least one semiconductor light source is exposed thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Thomas Donauer, Robert Kraus, Christine Maier, Giovanni Scilla, Steffen Strauss
  • Publication number: 20110210684
    Abstract: A light-emitting module may include at least one receiver configured to wirelessly tap off energy from an alternating field, and at least one light source, which is connected to the receiver for tapping off electrical power, wherein the at least one light-emitting module is surrounded at least partially by a protective housing, wherein the light-emitting module is self-aligning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Bakuri Lanchava, Robert Kraus, Steven Wetzel
  • Patent number: 7960680
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device for emitting electromagnetic radiation with a controllable emission intensity comprises, at least one optoelectronic component (100) which is adapted for generating, in operation, electromagnetic radiation (90), a first electronic element (200) and a second electronic element (300). The first electronic element (200) is adapted for controlling the emission intensity of the electromagnetic radiation (90), generated by the optoelectronic component (100), within a first intensity range, and the second electronic element (300) is adapted for controlling the emission intensity of the electromagnetic radiation (90), generated by the optoelectronic component (100), within a second intensity range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
    Inventors: Robert Kraus, Thomas Reiners
  • Patent number: 7957146
    Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination device (1) comprising at least one preferably ceramic substrate plate (2), at least one luminous element (3) arranged on a front side (A) of the substrate plate (2) in particular at least one light emitting diode (LED) (3), and at least one preferably metallic heat sink (4) connected, in particular adhesively bonded and/or soldered, to a rear side (B) of the substrate plate (2) over a large area, wherein the coefficients of thermal expansion of substrate plate (2) and heat sink (4) differ at least by the factor 1.5, in particular by a factor greater than 2. The heat sink (4) has at least one preferably linear recess (6) on its side facing the rear side (B) of the substrate plate (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
    Inventors: Robert Kraus, Steffen Straub
  • Publication number: 20110074304
    Abstract: An illuminator may include at least one receiver configured to wirelessly tapping off power from an alternating field; and at least one light source which is connected to the receiver, wherein the illuminator has a flat adhesive surface which is magnetic or can be magnetized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Martin Honsberg-Riedl, Wolfgang Pabst, Robert Kraus
  • Publication number: 20110026041
    Abstract: A position measuring arrangement that includes a retroreflector, a light source generating a lightbeam and a scanning unit that receives the lightbeam and generates a partially-divergent lightbeam. The scanning unit includes a scanning mirror that is mounted so it can be deflected in a reproducible manner around two different rotating axes that cross each other in a center of the scanning mirror so that a grid-like scanning of a two-dimensional spatial area by the partially-divergent lightbeam, in relation to which the retroreflector is arranged, takes place over a plurality of scanning tracks. The position measuring arrangement further including an interferometric distance measuring unit that includes a beam splitter element that splits the lightbeam generated by the light source in such a way that split lightbeams pass through a reference arm and a measuring arm at least once in each direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Florian Schindler, Robert Kraus, Joel Heersink, Michael Stepputat
  • Publication number: 20100301378
    Abstract: A method for producing an illumination device is provided. The method may include providing a carrier, on which illumination means are applied, with filler material; applying an upper exterior layer on the filler material; reducing the arrangement formed by the carrier, filler material and upper exterior layer to a predetermined thickness; wherein the carrier is a flex-board, which is equipped with the illumination means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Bakuri Lanchava, Robert Kraus
  • Publication number: 20100268151
    Abstract: An intracranial implant emitting light having a wavelength between blue and yellow light
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Christoph Mauge, Thomas M. DiMauro, Mohamed Attawia, Hassan Serhan, Jeffrey Sutton, Timothy Beardsley, Alan Dextradeur, Robert Kraus
  • Publication number: 20100220046
    Abstract: An illumination device comprises at least one light module (1) wherein the light module (1) comprises a circuit board (2) to which a plurality of groups (30) of light sources (3a, 3b, 3c) are applied and a carrier (6) on which the light module (1) is fixed, is specified. A display apparatus comprising such an illumination device is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: Ludwig Plötz, Markus Zeiler, Michael Sailer, Kurt-Jürgen Lang, Robert Kraus, Harald Stoyan
  • Publication number: 20100210992
    Abstract: A shunt system includes a first catheter and a second catheter, each having a proximal end and a distal end, and at least one opening adjacent to its distal end. A proximal end of a drainage catheter is in fluid communication with the proximal end of the first catheter and the proximal end of the second catheter. A first one-way valve is disposed in fluid communication with the first catheter between its proximal end and its at least one opening. The first one-way valve effectively blocks fluid flow from the proximal end to the at least one opening. A second one-way valve is disposed in fluid communication with the second catheter between its proximal end and its at least one opening. The second one-way valve effectively blocks fluid flow from the proximal end to the at least one opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: CODMAN & SHURTLEFF
    Inventors: Alan J. Dextradeur, Robert Kraus
  • Publication number: 20100207500
    Abstract: A lamp may include at least one housing; a heat source connected thereto; and a base for connection to a lampholder, wherein the base has at least one heat dissipation surface, and wherein at least one heat source is thermally conductively connected to at least one heat dissipation surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Pabst, Robert Kraus, Thomas Noll, Ulrich Henger
  • Publication number: 20100201284
    Abstract: A light-emitting device may include at least one light source, which is configured for at least one of AC and PWM operation; and at least two optical buffers for absorbing light energy from the light source and for temporally delayed emission of the stored luminous energy, wherein the at least two optical buffers have different relaxation times and are sensitive to different wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventor: Robert Kraus
  • Publication number: 20100194792
    Abstract: An illumination unit may include at least one luminous means; a detector, which is configured to be used to detect at least one brightness of an image; at least one controller connected to the at least one luminous means and to the detector, wherein the at least one luminous means can be driven in a manner dependent on the at least one brightness of the image with the aid of the controller; a plurality of luminous means whose brightnesses can be set in each case at least one of individually and in clusters with the aid of the controller; and at least one switch which is configured to be used to short-circuit at least one luminous means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Bakuri Lanchava, Robert Kraus, David Dussault, Matthias Fiegler, Ralph Bertram
  • Publication number: 20100149497
    Abstract: In a method for projecting an image onto a projection area (10) by at least one first (110) and second (210) beam, in order to create an improved image on the projection area, the deviation of the projection of the first and second beam on the projection area is determined, and the intensity of the first and/or second beam is varied over time according to the previously determined deviations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Oliver Drumm, Henning Rehn, Bakuri Lanchava, Wolfgang Pabst, Robert Kraus
  • Publication number: 20090273930
    Abstract: The invention specifies a light-emitting diode module (20) having at least two light-emitting diode chips (1), a memory unit (2), in which values for the brightness and the color locus of each light-emitting diode chip (1) are stored, and a control unit (3), which is suitable for controlling an operating current through each light-emitting diode chip (1) as a function of the stored values. Such a light-emitting diode module (20) makes particularly precise and reproducible white point representation possible. Furthermore, the invention specifies a method for producing a light-emitting diode module (20) and an optical projection apparatus having such a light-emitting diode module (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventor: Robert Kraus
  • Publication number: 20090129076
    Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination device (1) comprising at least one substrate plate (2), at least two light-emitting diodes (3) (LEDs) arranged on the same side (A) of the substrate plate (2), and at least one electrically conductive cooling device (8) arranged on the opposite side (B) of the substrate plate (2), in particular a metallic heat sink (8), wherein at least two LEDs (3) are thermally operatively connected to the cooling device (8) by means of in each case at least one thermal coupling device (9) formed from an electrically conductive material. According to the invention, the cooling device (8) has at least two regions (8a, 8b, 8c) which are electrically isolated from one another, wherein a first region (8b) is thermally and electrically operatively connected to at least one first LED (3), and a second region (8a, 8c) is thermally and electrically operatively connected to at least one second LED (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventor: Robert Kraus