Patents by Inventor Tim Kunze

Tim Kunze 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).

  • Publication number: 20260006942
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optoelectronic device comprising a substrate, in particular a cover layer, an optoelectronically active layer and a contacting layer, the outer and/or inner surface of which has a patterned region with a dot structure of cones or inverse cones. With such a dot structure, the optical properties and wetting properties of the optoelectronic device can be advantageously adjusted in a targeted manner. In particular, it is possible to improve light coupling into or light extraction from optoelectronic devices and thus efficiency. The invention also relates to an optoelectronic module, a method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device and the use of a patterned substrate for an optoelectronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Tim KUNZE, Sabri ALAMRI
  • Publication number: 20260001809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of patterning substrates with periodic dot structures in the micro- and/or sub-micrometer range, in particular a patterned substrate and a method for patterning surfaces of a transparent substrate by means of laser interference patterning. The patterning produced in this way with periodic dot structures in the micro- and/or sub-micrometer range is characterized by pronounced anti-fogging properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Tim KUNZE, Sabri ALAMRI
  • Publication number: 20240337950
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of patterning substrates with periodic dot structures in the micro- or sub-micrometer range, in particular to an apparatus and a method for structuring surfaces and the interior of a transparent substrate by means of laser interference structuring. The pattern produced in this way with periodic dot structures in the micro- or sub-micrometer range is characterized by a pronounced anti-reflective property. In addition, the present invention relates to a patterned substrate with anti-reflective properties comprising a periodic dot structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Tim KUNZE, Sabri ALAMRI
  • Patent number: 11370061
    Abstract: An optical arrangement for direct laser interference structuring. A laser beam is directed to a reflecting mirror with inclined surface and strikes a first beam splitter, it is divided into two partial beams and one partial beam is deflected to a focusing element. The second partial laser beam is directed to a first pentamirror and after multiple reflection and/or refraction, the focusing element, or it is directed to a second beam splitter and is divided into a first partial beam and a third partial beam. The partial beams are directed to the focusing element by the first pentamirror and are directed by the focusing element to the surface to be structured interfering with each other. The reflecting mirror is moved in a translational manner, maintaining a 45° angle parallel to the optical axes of the emitted laser beam influencing the interference period ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Mikhael El-Khoury, Andres Fabian Lasagni, Sabri Alamri, Tim Kunze, Bogdan Voisiat
  • Publication number: 20200306879
    Abstract: An optical arrangement for direct laser interference structuring, a laser beam is directed to a reflecting element with inclined surface and strikes a first beam splitter, is divided into two partial beams and one partial beam is deflected to a focusing optical element. The second partial beam is directed to a first pentamirror and, after multiple reflection and/or refraction, the focusing optical element, or it is directed to a second beam splitter, and it is divided into a first partial beam of the second partial beam and a third partial beam. Said partial beams are directed to the focusing element by the first pentamirror and partial beams are directed by the focusing optical element to the surface to be structured interfering with each other. The reflecting element is moved in a translational manner, maintaining a 45° angle, parallel to the optical axis of the laser beam emitted by the laser beam source, influencing the interference period A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Mikhael EL-KHOURY, Andres Fabian LASAGNI, Sabri ALAMRI, Tim KUNZE, Bogdan VOISIAT
  • Patent number: 10438515
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a labeling element for items, which on a surface thereof is formed with a plurality of pixels with periodic lattice structures, in particular linear lattice structures. Lattice structures with in each case one structural period ? and an alignment of the structural elements, which are aligned to one another in particular in a linear parallel manner, at an angle ? with respect to an axis of reference are formed in individual pixels such that when the pixels constituting the labeling element are irradiated with electromagnetic radiation, preferably monochromatic electromagnetic radiation, an image of the labeling element is created on an detector array or a surface, by means of images of at least one order of diffraction of the electromagnetic radiation diffracted by pixels which can be used for identification of the respective labeling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
    Inventors: Andres Fabian Lasagni, Tim Kunze, Florian Roessler
  • Publication number: 20170358249
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a labeling element for items, which on a surface thereof is formed with a plurality of pixels with periodic lattice structures, in particular linear lattice structures. Lattice structures with in each case one structural period A and an alignment of the structural elements, which are aligned to one another in particular in a linear parallel manner, at an angle ? with respect to an axis of reference are formed in individual pixels such that when the pixels constituting the labeling element are irradiated with electromagnetic radiation, preferably monochromatic electromagnetic radiation, an image of the labeling element is created on an detector array or a surface, by means of images of at least one order of diffraction of the electromagnetic radiation diffracted by pixels which can be used for identification of the respective labeling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicants: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOEDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
    Inventors: Andres Fabian LASAGNI, Tim Kunze, Florian Roessler