Patents by Inventor Tobias Frost

Tobias Frost 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: 10605446
    Abstract: A light fixture includes a light-emitting diode chip, a driver electronic, a first circuit board and a second circuit board, wherein the light-emitting diode chip is mounted on one of the two circuit boards and the driver electronic is mounted on the other one of the two circuit boards and a first conductive track of the first circuit board and a second conductive track of the second circuit board are connected electrically to one another with a spring contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Eckert, Tobias Frost, Lambert Frye, Bernd Pilhoefer, Georg Scheipl
  • Publication number: 20190003694
    Abstract: A light fixture includes a light-emitting diode chip, a driver electronic, a first circuit board and a second circuit board, wherein the light-emitting diode chip is mounted on one of the two circuit boards and the driver electronic is mounted on the other one of the two circuit boards and a first conductive track of the first circuit board and a second conductive track of the second circuit board are connected electrically to one another with a spring contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Klaus Eckert, Tobias Frost, Lambert Frye, Bernd Pilhoefer, Georg Scheipl
  • Patent number: 9562548
    Abstract: A fastening element for fastening a light source substrate to a support. The fastening element is configured to be seated on the light source substrate, and includes at least one fastening portion for fastening to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Tobias Frost, Guenter Hoetzl, Thomas Preuschl, Peter Sachsenweger
  • Patent number: 9546778
    Abstract: An LED module may include at least one passage opening from a first side of the LED module to a mounting side of the LED module, located opposite the first side. The passage opening is formed in such a way that a screw for fixing the LED module to a mounting element can be inserted into the passage opening from the first side to the mounting side of the LED module, and with a film which, at least in part, is arranged in an adhesive manner on the first side of the LED module. The film has at least one structure which includes at least one piercing of the film in the area of the at least one passage opening of the LED module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Frost, Peter Sachsenweger, Ralph Bertram, Gerhard Holzapfel
  • Patent number: 9541274
    Abstract: An illumination module may include at least one flexible carrier for a plurality of heat sources, including light sources, wherein the carrier is provided for being bent over at least part of its width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Ralph Bertram, Tobias Frost, Christian Herbold, Steffen Strauss
  • Patent number: 9429308
    Abstract: An illumination module may include at least one flexible carrier for a plurality of heat sources, including light sources, wherein the carrier is provided for being bent over at least part of its width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Ralph Bertram, Tobias Frost, Christian Herbold, Steffen Strauss
  • Patent number: 9392664
    Abstract: A method for operating an LED lighting device (L), wherein the LED lighting device comprises: at least two color channels (Ch1, Ch2, Ch3), wherein each color channel (Ch1, Ch2, Ch3) comprises at least one LED (LD1, LD2, LD3), wherein the LEDs (LD1, LD2, LD3) of a color channel (Ch1, Ch2, Ch3) each have the same color, and wherein each color channel (Ch1, Ch2, Ch3) is able to be activated separately, and at least one photodetector (D), which is configured and arranged to detect a portion of the light radiated by the LEDs (LD1, LD2, LD3), wherein the method comprises the steps of: switching over the LED lighting device (L) from an operating phase (BP 1) into a measurement phase (MP); and temporally consecutive activation of the color channels (Ch1, Ch2, Ch3) so that a light radiated during the measurement phase (MP) by the LEDs (LD1, LD2, LD3) has an integral mixture which substantially corresponds to a color mixture of the operating phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Frost, Bakuri Lanchava
  • Patent number: 9383073
    Abstract: A power supply module may include an at least partially flexible support; a supply unit arranged on the support; and at least one outlet connection for a lighting module which can be fed by the supply unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Frost, Steffen Strauss
  • Patent number: 9137875
    Abstract: In a method for operating at least one light emitting diode the at least one light emitting diode is operated at least in some ranges by means of a pulse number modulation, in which a number of uniform current pulses is set within a predetermined interval duration depending on a light energy desired value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Frost, Stefan Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20150078017
    Abstract: An LED module may include at least one passage opening from a first side of the LED module to a mounting side of the LED module, located opposite the first side. The passage opening is formed in such a way that a screw for fixing the LED module to a mounting element can be inserted into the passage opening from the first side to the mounting side of the LED module, and with a film which, at least in part, is arranged in an adhesive manner on the first side of the LED module. The film has at least one structure which includes at least one piercing of the film in the area of the at least one passage opening of the LED module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Tobias Frost, Peter Sachsenweger, Ralph Bertram, Gerhard Holzapfel
  • Patent number: 8833995
    Abstract: A lighting module, comprising a printed circuit board, which on the front side thereof, is populated by at least one light source as well as at least one light sensor; a hollow optical waveguide element, which laterally surrounds the at least one light source circumferentially; and a cover at least for the light sensor, arranged on the printed circuit board externally to the optical waveguide element, it being possible for a window to be located in the optical waveguide element to which window is connected a hollow light channel formed in and/or on the cover which leads to the light sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Frost, Stefan Lorenz, Peter Sachsenweger, Simon Schwalenberg
  • Patent number: 8816603
    Abstract: A method for controlling the operation of an electronic converter (10), comprising a power output (120) for providing a power supply signal (120) for a light source (L), wherein said light source (L) is coupled to an identification element (300, 400) which identifies at least one control parameter of said light source (L), and a data line (200b) for connection to said identification element (300, 400), wherein said method comprises: detecting (1002) the value of the voltage on said data line; (200b), comparing (1004, 1010) the detected value of said voltage with at least a first and a second range of values; (802, 804, 806), and a) determining said at least one control parameter as a function of the detected voltage (1002, 1044) on said data line (200b), if the detected voltage is within the first range (802), or b) communicating (1032) with said identification element (300) by means of a digital communication protocol in order to receive said at least one control parameter from said identification element (3
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Filippo Branchetti, Alessandro Brieda, Paolo De Anna, Tobias Frost, Uwe Liess
  • Patent number: 8702274
    Abstract: A lighting device, having at least one light outlet opening and at least two different fixing interfaces for the optional fixing of a respective attachment element optically upstream of the at least one light outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Tobias Frost, Guenter Hoetzl, Thomas Preuschl, Peter Sachsenweger
  • Publication number: 20130147388
    Abstract: In a method for operating at least one light emitting diode the at least one light emitting diode is operated at least in some ranges by means of a pulse number modulation, in which a number of uniform current pulses is set within a predetermined interval duration depending on a light energy desired value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Tobias Frost, Stefan Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20130121759
    Abstract: A fastening element for fastening a light source substrate to a support, wherein the fastening element is configured to be seated on the light source substrate, and includes at least one fastening means for fastening to the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Tobias Frost, Guenter Hoetzl, Thomas Preuschl, Peter Sachsenweger
  • Publication number: 20130093361
    Abstract: A method for operating a semiconductor lighting device, wherein the semiconductor lighting device comprises semiconductor light sources having at least two different colors and wherein, in order to adjust a color coordinate of the semiconductor lighting device, at least one brightness of the semiconductor light sources is set by means of a control and wherein the at least one brightness of the semiconductor light sources is adjusted by at least two controls, and wherein, upon reaching or exceeding at least one predetermined switchover point, a switchover is made between two of the controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Ralph Bertram, Tobias Frost, Stefan Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20130057155
    Abstract: A method for supplying power to a plurality of light generators (CH1, CH2, CH3) which emit respective chromatically different light radiations that can be mixed with one another to produce a mixed light radiation by selectively activating said generators with respective supply powers (P1, P2, P3) over respective activation intervals (T1, T2, T3) included in an activation period (T), provides for: identifying (102) at least one pair of generators (CH1, CH2; CH2, CH3) for which the sum of the respective activation intervals (T1, T2; T2, T3) is less than said activation period (T), and temporally offsetting the activation (106) of the generators (CH1, CH2; CH2, CH3) in the one pair, avoiding simultaneous activation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventors: Filippo Branchetti, Paolo De Anna, Tobias Frost
  • Publication number: 20120306379
    Abstract: A method for operating an LED lighting device (L), wherein the LED lighting device comprises: at least two color channels (Ch1, Ch2, Ch3), wherein each color channel (Ch1, Ch2, Ch3) comprises at least one LED (LD1, LD2, LD3), wherein the LEDs (LD1, LD2, LD3) of a color channel (Ch1, Ch2, Ch3) each have the same color, and wherein each color channel (Ch1, Ch2, Ch3) is able to be activated separately, and at least one photodetector (D), which is configured and arranged to detect a portion of the light radiated by the LEDs (LD1, LD2, LD3), wherein the method comprises the steps of: switching over the LED lighting device (L) from an operating phase (BP 1) into a measurement phase (MP); and temporally consecutive activation of the color channels (Ch1, Ch2, Ch3) so that a light radiated during the measurement phase (MP) by the LEDs (LD1, LD2, LD3) has an integral mixture which substantially corresponds to a color mixture of the operating phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Tobias Frost, Bakuri Lanchava
  • Publication number: 20120268953
    Abstract: A lighting device, comprising a cooling body with at least one receiving area for a printed circuit board in each case, and at least one printed circuit board inserted into the at least one receiving area, with the at least one printed circuit board having a light source on its front face and with at least one part of a rear face making at least thermal contact with the cooling body. The at least one printed circuit board has a rotational locking means in each case which engages with at least one rotational locking mating means of its receiving area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Nicole Breidenassel, Tobias Frost, Guenter Hoetzl, Thomas Preuschl, Peter Sachsenweger
  • Publication number: 20120243254
    Abstract: A lighting module, comprising a printed circuit board, which on the front side thereof, is populated by at least one light source as well as at least one light sensor; a hollow optical waveguide element, which laterally surrounds the at least one light source circumferentially; and a cover at least for the light sensor, arranged on the printed circuit board externally to the optical waveguide element, it being possible for a window to be located in the optical waveguide element to which window is connected a hollow light channel formed in and/or on the cover which leads to the light sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Tobias Frost, Stefan Lorenz, Peter Sachsenweger, Simon Schwalenberg