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).

  • Patent number: 6943380
    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: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    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: 20050162069
    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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Applicants: 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: 20050082574
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light source comprising a light-emitting element, which emits light in a first spectral region, and comprising a luminophore, which comes from the group of alkaline-earth orthosilicates and which absorbs a portion of the light emitted by the light source and emits light in another spectral region. According to the invention, the luminophore is an alkaline-earth orthosilicate, which is activated with bivalent europium and whose composition consists of: (2-x-y)SrOx(Ba, Ca)O (1-a-b-c-d)SiO2 aP2O5 bAl2O3 cB2O3 dGeO2: y Eu2+ and/or (2-x-y)BaO x((Sr, Ca)O (1-a-b-c-d)SiO2 aP2O5 bAl2O3 cB2O3 dGeO2: y Eu2+. The desired color (color temperature) can be easily adjusted by using a luminophore of the aforementioned type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Stefan Tasch, Peter Pachler, Gundula Roth, Walter Tews, Wolfgang Kempfert, Detlef Starick
  • Publication number: 20050077532
    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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicants: 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
  • Patent number: 6809347
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light source comprising a light-emitting element, which emits light in a first spectral region, and comprising a luminophore, which comes from the group of alkaline-earth orthosilicates and which absorbs a portion of the light emitted by the light source and emits light in another spectral region. According to the invention, the luminophore is an alkaline-earth orthosilicate, which is activated with bivalent europium and whose composition consists of: (2-x-y)SrOx(Ba, Ca)O(1-a-b-c-d)SiO2aP2O5bAl2O3cB2O3dGeO2:yEu2+ and/or (2-x-y)BaOx((Sr, Ca)O(1-a-b-c-d)SiO2aP2O5bAl2O3cB2O3dGeO2:yEu2+. The desired color (color temperature) can be easily adjusted by using a luminophore of the aforementioned type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignees: Leuchtstoffwerk Breitungen GmbH, Tridonic Optoelectronics GmbH, Bitec GbR, Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Stefan Tasch, Peter Pachler, Gundula Roth, Walter Tews, Wolfgang Kempfert, Detlef Starick
  • Publication number: 20040090174
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light source comprising a light-emitting element, which emits light in a first spectral region, and comprising a luminophore, which comes from the group of alkaline-earth orthosilicates and which absorbs a portion of the light emitted by the light source and emits light in another spectral region. According to the invention, the luminophore is an alkaline-earth orthosilicate, which is activated with bivalent europium and whose composition consists of: (2-x-y)SrOx(Ba, Ca)O(1-a-b-c-d)SiO2aP2O5bAl2O3cB2O3dGeO2:yEu2+ and/or (2-x-y)BaOx((Sr, Ca)O(1-a-b-c-d)SiO2aP2O5bAl2O3cB2O3dGeO2:yEu2+. The desired color (color temperature) can be easily adjusted by using a luminophore of the aforementioned type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Stefan Tasch, Peter Pachler, Gundula Roth, Walter Tews, Wolfgang Kempfert, Detlef Starick
  • Publication number: 20040051111
    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: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Koichi Ota, Atsuo Hirano, Akihito Ota, Stefan Tasch, Peter Pachler, Gundula Roth, Walter Tews, Wolfgang Kempfert, Detlef Starick
  • Patent number: 6489716
    Abstract: A compact energy lamp having high luminous flux, long life and a very similar color temperature of between 2300° K and 6500° K which includes a vacuum-type discharge vessel filled with mercury and a noble gas. The inside of the discharge vessel is provided with a luminescent layer and is provided with means for maintaining discharge. The luminescent layer includes two phosphors. The first phosphor is a green-emitting gadolinium magnesium borate silicate, activated with cerium and terbium, and the second phosphor is yttrium oxide: Eu3+, which emits in the red spectral region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Inventors: Walter Tews, Gundula Roth, Ina Fethke, Jens Klimke
  • Patent number: 6085971
    Abstract: The present invention relates to variously activated luminescent metaborates having luminescence properties improved in comparison with conventional luminescent substances. Moreover, the activated luminescent metaborates have outstanding stability under the influence of short-wave UV radiation so that they are preferably suitable for use in luminescent screens, in particular, low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamps of all types and designs. The luminescent substances of the present invention are based on rare earth metal borates of the formula:(Y,La).sub.1-x-y-z Ce.sub.x Gd.sub.y Tb.sub.2 (Mg,Zn,Cd).sub.1-p Mn.sub.p B.sub.5-q-s (Al,Ga).sub.q (X).sub.s O.sub.10wherein X is Si, Ge, P, Zr, V, Nb, Ta, W or the sum of a plurality of the stated elements and p, q, s, x, y and z are alternatively .ltoreq.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignees: Walter Tews, Gundula Roth
    Inventors: Walter Tews, Gundula Roth, Ina Fethke
  • Patent number: 4793944
    Abstract: The invention concerns a crystalline lanthanum-oxy-halide phosphor activated with rare earths which emits light in the ultraviolet and blue spectral range by high-energy excitation, particularly X-ray excitation. Such phosphors are used, for instance, in X-ray image converters, particularly in X-ray amplifying screens. It is the object and purpose of the invention to state a new oxy-halide phosphor with changed composition which ensures a high image quality of corresponding amplifying screens and at sufficiently little phosphorescence renders an optimal conversion of the X-rays to the photographically effectual luminescence possible. This is achieved by simultaneous use of thulium and gadolinium as activators where the phosphor represents the general formula La.sub.1-y-z OX:Tm.sub.y.sup.3+, in which X=Cl and/or Br and y represents values from 0.0001 to 0.1 preferably from 0.0005 to 0.005 as well as z represents values from 0.001 to 0.3 preferably from 0.002 to 0.05.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: VEB Mikroelektronik, Leuchtstoffwerk Bad Liebenstein
    Inventors: Gerhard Herzog, Detlef Starick, Walter Tews, Franz Braunholz, Aleksander M. Gurvic, Svetlana I. Golovkova, Karl Dietzel