Patents by Inventor Walter Tews

Walter Tews 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: 20110101275
    Abstract: This invention relates to luminescent materials for ultraviolet light or visible light excitation containing lead and/or copper doped chemical compounds. The luminescent material is composed of one or more than one compounds of aluminate type, silicate type, antimonate type, germanate/or germanate-silicate type, and/or phosphate type. Accordingly, the present invention is a good possibility to substitute earth alkaline ions by lead and copper for a shifting of the emission bands to longer or shorter wave length, respectively. Luminescent compounds containing copper and/or lead with improved luminescent properties and also with improved stability against water, humidity as well as other polar solvents are provided. The present invention is to provide lead and/or copper doped luminescent compounds, which has high color temperature range about 2,000K to 8,000K or 10,000K and CRI over 90.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicants: SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gundula ROTH, Walter TEWS, Chung Hoon LEE
  • Patent number: 7928466
    Abstract: A light-emitting semi-conductor diode comprising a light emitting chip at least partially surrounded by a transparent electronics protecting body on which a composite layer foil is disposed, the composite layer foil includes at its side facing away from the electronics protection body a carrier layer, which has a refraction index that is greater than the refraction index of the electronics protection body and, at the opposite side, an active layer of the same material of which the electronics protecting body consists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Oppermann, Julius Muschaweck, Jochen Kunze, Thomas Luce, Eike Krochmann, Walter Tews, Gundula Roth
  • Publication number: 20110050090
    Abstract: A light emitting device having oxyorthosilicate luminophores is disclosed. The light emitting device includes a light emitting diode and luminescent substances disposed around the light emitting diode, to adsorb at least a portion of light emitted from the light emitting diode and emitting light having different wavelength from that of the absorbed light. The luminescent substances have Eu2+-doped silicate luminophores in which solid solutions in the form of mixed phases between alkaline earth metal oxyorthosilicates and rare earth metal oxyorthosilicates are used as base lattices for the Eu2+ activation leading to luminescence. The luminescent substances are used as radiation converters to convert a higher-energy primary radiation, for example, ultra violet (UV) radiation or blue light, into a longer-wave visible radiation and are therefore preferably employed in corresponding light-emitting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung Hoon LEE, Walter Tews, Gundula Roth, Detlef Starick
  • Publication number: 20110025187
    Abstract: The invention relates to a low-pressure gas-discharge lamp which, with its light in the red spectral region, influences the biological circadian rhythm by controlling melatonin secretion. The tubular glass discharge vessel, which can also be in the shape of a double helix, is filled with a noble gas or noble-gas mixture and mercury. Electrodes for the supply of energy are arranged at both ends of the discharge vessel. The discharge vessel is multicoated on the inside by phosphor layers applied one after the other. The first phosphor layer located on the glass surface consists of phosphor which is excited both by ultraviolet mercury radiation between 180 nm and 400 nm and also by the blue radiation between 400 nm and 490 nm emitted by the mercury discharge, and by the visible radiation emitted by the second or further phosphor layers between 400 nm and 550 nm, where visible light having emission maxima in the region between 500 nm and 650 nm is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicants: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG, NARVA LICHTQUEQUELLEN GMBH + CO. KG
    Inventors: Walter Tews, Gundula Roth, Juergen Meltke, Hans Juergen Walther
  • Publication number: 20100327229
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose inorganic luminescent substances with Eu2+-doped silicate luminophores, in which solid solutions in the form of mixed phases between alkaline earth metal oxyorthosilicates and rare earth metal oxyorthosilicates are used as base lattices for the Eu2+ activation leading to the luminescence. These luminophores are described by the general formula (1-x) MII3SiO5.xSE2SiO5:Eu, in which MII preferably represents strontium ion or another alkaline earth metal ion, or another divalent metal ion selected from the group consisting of the magnesium, calcium, barium, copper, zinc, and manganese. These ions may be used in addition to strontium and also as mixtures with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicants: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd., LITEC-LP GmbH
    Inventors: Chung Hoon LEE, Walter Tews, Gundula Roth, Detlef Starick
  • Publication number: 20100301371
    Abstract: A light emitting device can be characterized as including a light emitting diode configured to emit light and a phosphor configured to change a wavelength of the light. The phosphor substantially covers at least a portion of the light emitting diode. The phosphor includes a compound having a host material. Divalent copper ions and oxygen are components of the host material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gundula ROTH, Walter Tews, Chung-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 7828993
    Abstract: A phosphor for converting ultraviolet light or blue light emitted from a light emitting element into a visible white radiation having a high level of color rendering properties, containing a light emitting component prepared from a solid system of an alkaline earth metal antimonate and a system derived from the solid system and exhibiting intrinsic photoemission, such as a fluoroantimonate, a light emitting component prepared from a manganese(IV)-activated antimonate, a titanate, silicate-germanate, and an aluminate, a light emitting component prepared from a europium-activated silicate-germanate or from a system containing a sensitizer selected from a group consisting of europium (II) and manganese (II) as a secondary activator and having an orange color or a dark red color in the spectrum range over 600 nm, or a light emitting component composed of a mixture of eight or less light emitting components having different emission bands and brought to a state of continuous emission of about 380 to 780 nm exhibit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignees: Tovoda Gosei Co.. Ltd., Gundula Roth, Walter Tews
    Inventors: Gundula Roth, Walter Tews
  • Publication number: 20100259156
    Abstract: The invention relates to surface-modified phosphor particles based on luminescent particles of (Ca,Sr,Ba)2SiO4 and/or other silicates, in each case individually or mixtures thereof with one or more activator ions, such as Eu, Mn, Ce and/or Mg and/or Zn, where at least one metal, transition-metal or semimetal oxide coating and an organic coating are applied to the luminescent particles, and to a preparation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Holger Winkler, Reinhold Rueger, Ralf Petry, Tim Vosgroene, Walter Tews
  • Publication number: 20100230691
    Abstract: A ferrous-metal-alkaline-earth-metal mixed silicate based phosphor is used in form of a single component or a mixture as a light converter for a primarily visible and/or ultraviolet light emitting device. The phosphor has a rare earth element as an activator. The rare earth element is europium (Eu). Alternatively, the phosphor may have a coactivator formed of a rare earth element and at least one of Mn, Bi, Sn, and Sb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Inoue, Akio Namiki, Makoto Ishida, Takashi Nonogawa, Koichi Ota, Atsuo Hirano, Walter Tews, Gundula Roth, Stefan Tews
  • Publication number: 20100207132
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light emitting device employing non-stoichiometric tetragonal Alkaline Earth Silicate phosphors. The light emitting device comprises a light emitting diode emitting light of ultraviolet or visible light, and non-stoichiometric luminescent material disposed around the light emitting diode. The luminescent material adsorbs at least a portion of the light emitted from the light emitting diode and emits light having a different wavelength from the absorbed light. The non-stoichiometric luminescent material has tetragonal crystal structure, and contains more silicon in the crystal lattice than that in the crystal lattice of silicate phosphors having stoichiometric crystal structure. The luminescent material is represented as the formula (BauSrvCawCux)3?y(Zn,Mg,Mn)zSi1+bO5+2b:Euu. Light emitting devices having improved temperature and humidity stability can be provided by employing the non-stoichiometric tetragonal Alkaline Earth Silicate phosphors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung Hoon Lee, Walter Tews, Gundula Roth, Stefan Tews
  • Publication number: 20100201250
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of phosphors of the formula I BawSrxCaySiO4:zEu2+??(I) where w+x+y+z=2 and 0.005?z?0.5, and to an illumination unit and to the use of the phosphor as LED conversion phosphor for white LEDs or so-called colour-on-demand applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Holger Winkler, Tim Vosgroene, Gundula Roth, Walter Tews, Stefan Tews
  • Publication number: 20100194263
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of phosphors of the formula I BawSrxCaySiO4:zEu2+??(I) where w+x+y+z=2 and 0.005?z?0.3, and to an illumination unit and to the use of the phosphor as LED conversion phosphor for white LEDs or so-called colour-on-demand applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Holger Winkler, Tim Vosgroene, Gundula Roth, Walter Tews, Stefan Tews
  • Publication number: 20100176342
    Abstract: This invention relates to luminescent materials for ultraviolet light or visible light excitation containing lead and/or copper doped chemical compounds. The luminescent material is composed of one or more than one compounds of aluminate type, silicate type, antimonate type, germanate/or germanate-silicate type, and/or phosphate type. Accordingly, the present invention is a good possibility to substitute earth alkaline ions by lead and copper for a shifting of the emission bands to longer or shorter wave length, respectively. Luminescent compounds containing copper and/or lead with improved luminescent properties and also with improved stability against water, humidity as well as other polar solvents are provided. The present invention is to provide lead and/or copper doped luminescent compounds, which has high color temperature range about 2,000K to 8,000K or 10,000K and CRI over 90.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gundula ROTH, Walter Tews, Chung Hoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20100165645
    Abstract: A light emitting device is disclosed. The light emitting device may include a light emitting diode (LED) for emitting light and phosphor adjacent to the LED. The phosphor may be excitable by light emitted by the LED and may include a first compound having a host lattice comprising first ions and oxygen. In one embodiment, the host lattice may include silicon, the copper ions may be divalent copper ions and first compound may have an Olivin crystal structure, a ?-K2SO4 crystal structure, a trigonal Glaserite (K3Na(SO4)2) or monoclinic Merwinite crystal structure, a tetragonal Ackermanite crystal structure, a tetragonal crystal structure or an orthorhombic crystal structure. In another embodiment, the copper ions do not act as luminescent ions upon excitation with the light emitted by the LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung Hoon Lee, Gundula ROTH, Walter Tews
  • Publication number: 20100155761
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element comprising a nitride semiconductor and a phosphor that can absorb a part of light emitted from the light emitting element and can emit light of a wavelength different from that of the absorbed light. The phosphor comprises a silicate phosphor comprising three alkali earth metals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicants: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Tridonic Optoelectronics GMBH, Litec GBR, Leuchstoff Breitungen GMBH
    Inventors: Koichi Ota, Atsuo Hirano, Akihito Ota, Stefan Tasch, Peter Pachler, Gundula Roth, Walter Tews, Wofgang Kempfert, Detlef Starick
  • Patent number: 7679101
    Abstract: The light emitting device has a light emitting diode which is made of a nitride semiconductor and a phosphor which absorbs a part of lights emitted from the light emitting diode and emits different lights with wavelengths other than those of the absorbed lights. The phosphor is made of alkaline earth metal silicate fluorescent material activated with europium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Tridonic Optoelectronics GmbH, Litec GBR, Leuchstoffwerk Breitungen GmbH
    Inventors: Koichi Ota, Atsuo Hirano, Akihito Ota, Stefan Tasch, Peter Pachler, Gundula Roth, Walter Tews, Wolfgang Kempfert, Detlef Starick
  • Publication number: 20100002454
    Abstract: A light emitting device is disclosed. The light emitting device may include a light emitting diode (LED) for emitting light and phosphor adjacent to the LED. The phosphor may be excitable by light emitted by the LED and may include a first compound having a host lattice comprising first ions and oxygen. In one embodiment, the host lattice may include silicon, the copper ions may be divalent copper ions and first compound may have an Olivin crystal structure, a ?-K2SO4 crystal structure, a trigonal Glaserite (K3Na(SO4)2) or monoclinic Merwinite crystal structure, a tetragonal Ackermanite crystal structure, a tetragonal crystal structure or an orthorhombic crystal structure. In another embodiment, the copper ions do not act as luminescent ions upon excitation with the light emitted by the LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung-Hoon Lee, Gundula ROTH, Walter Tews
  • Publication number: 20090303694
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light emitting device comprising a first light emitting portion that emits white light at a color temperature of 6000K or more and a second light emitting portion that emits white light at a color temperature of 3000K or less, which include light emitting diode chips and phosphors and are independently driven. The present invention has an advantage in that a light emitting device can be diversely applied in a desired atmosphere and use by realizing white light with different light spectrums and color temperatures. Particularly, the present invention has the effect on health by adjusting the wavelength of light or the color temperature according to the circadian rhythm of humans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gundula Roth, Walter Tews, Chung-Hoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20090262515
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light emitting device including one or more light emitting diodes to primarily emit light having different wavelengths in the wavelength range of ultraviolet rays and/or blue light, and a wavelength-conversion means to convert the primary light into secondary light in the visible light wavelength range. The light emitting device of the current invention has a high color temperature of 2000 to 8000 K or 10000 K and a high color rendering index of 90 or more, thus easily realizing desired emission on the color coordinate system. Therefore, the lighting emitting device is applicable to mobile phones, notebook computers, and keypads or backlight units for various electronic products, and, in particular, automobiles and exterior and interior lighting fixtures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: SEOUL OPTO-DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-Hoon Lee, Gundula Roth, Walter Tews
  • Patent number: 7554129
    Abstract: A light emitting device can include a substrate, electrodes provided on the substrate, a light emitting diode configured to emit light, the light emitting diode being provided on one of the electrodes, phosphors configured to change a wavelength of the light, and an electrically conductive device configured to connect the light emitting diode with another of the plurality of electrodes. The phosphors can substantially cove at least a portion of the light emitting diode. The phosphor may include aluminate type compounds, lead and/or copper doped silicates, lead and/or copper doped antimonates, lead and/or copper doped germanates, lead and/or copper doped germanate-silicates, lead and/or copper doped phosphates, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gundula Roth, Walter Tews, Chung Hoon Lee