Patents by Inventor Werner Späth

Werner Späth 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: 20120134154
    Abstract: A configuration of multiple LED modules having a plurality of LED modules that each contain a carrier that has a first main area, a second main area and at least one semiconductor layer. The first main area has a planar configuration. The LED modules also include a plurality of LED semiconductor bodies that applied on the first main area of the carrier. In addition, the multiple LED modules include a common heat sink, where the carrier of the LED modules in each case are connected to the common heat sink on the second main area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: Osram AG
    Inventors: Werner MARCHL, Werner SPÄTH, Günter WAITL
  • Publication number: 20110095311
    Abstract: A configuration of multiple LED modules having a plurality of LED modules that each contain a carrier that has a first main area, a second main area and at least one semiconductor layer. The first main area has a planar configuration. The LED modules also include a plurality of LED semiconductor bodies that applied on the first main area of the carrier. In addition, the multiple LED modules include a common heat sink, where the carrier of the LED modules in each case are connected to the common heat sink on the second main area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Marchl, Werner Späth, Günter Waitl
  • Patent number: 7862211
    Abstract: A configuration of multiple LED modules comprising a plurality of LED modules that each contain a carrier that has a first main area, a second main area and at least one semiconductor layer, wherein the first main area has a planar configuration. The LED modules also include a plurality of LED semiconductor bodies that applied on the first main area of the carrier. In addition, the multiple LED modules include a common heat sink, where the carrier of the LED modules in each case are connected to the common heat sink on the second main area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Marchl, Werner Späth, Günter Waitl
  • Patent number: 7439549
    Abstract: An LED module has a carrier, which contains a semiconductor layer and has a planar main area, on which LED semiconductor bodies are applied. Use is preferably made of LED semiconductor bodies which emit light of differing central wavelengths during operation, so that the LED module is suitable for generating mixed-color light, and in particular for generating white light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Marchl, Werner Späth, Günter Waitl
  • Patent number: 7262437
    Abstract: A radiation source has a field of semiconductor chips, which are disposed below a field of micro-lenses (8) disposed in a hexagonal lattice structure. The radiation source is distinguished by high radiation output and radiation density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Bogner, Wolfgang Gramann, Patrick Kromotis, Werner Marchl, Werner Späth, Günter Waitl
  • Patent number: 7177069
    Abstract: A white light source has a light emission device, in particular an IR laser diode, whose emitted radiation beam is converted, in a nonlinear-optical element and a conversion element, into a radiation beam with wavelengths ?1, . . . ?n which can be perceived as white light and can have a higher power rating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Späth, Rüdiger Müller
  • Patent number: 6960033
    Abstract: A light-emitting power semiconductor device is placed on a metillic substrate structure with the formation of a good heat-transfer contact, in which a plastic protective body surrounds the power semiconductor device, leaving exposed a light exit region in the nature of a cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Bruno Acklin, Werner Späth, Stefan Grötsch
  • Patent number: 6947460
    Abstract: In an optically pumpable surface-emitting semiconductor laser device with a vertical emitter with a radiation-generating active layer, at least one modulation radiation source for modulating the output power of the surface-emitting semiconductor device is provided. The modulation radiation source is formed by an edge-emitting semiconductor structure with an active layer, and which is disposed such that during operation it radiates into the radiation-generating active layer of the vertical emitter. This produces an easily modulatable surface-emitting laser source of high power and high beam quality. A pumping radiation source for optically pumping the active layer of the vertical emitter is preferably provided in the semiconductor laser device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Späth, Johann Luft, Stephan Lutgen, Norbert Linder, Tony Albrecht, Ulrich Steegmüller
  • Patent number: 6946864
    Abstract: A measuring arrangement for measuring product parameters of a component in the epitaxial layer (28) of a wafer comprises measuring probe (3) on whose contact side (23) a recess (24) is installed, into which an electrolyte can be poured. The electrolyte produces an electrical connection between a contact body (11), which is charged with a signal from a pulsed-current source, and the surface (22) of the wafer (2). A detector (16) serves for detecting the light which is emitted by the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gramann, Raimund Oberschmid, Werner Späth, Wolfgang Teich
  • Patent number: 6944199
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser has a semiconductor body with first and second main areas, preferably each provided with a contact area, and also first and second mirror areas. An active layer and a current-carrying layer are formed between the main areas. The current-carrying layer has at least one strip-type resistance region, which runs transversely with respect to the resonator axis and whose sheet resistivity is increased at least in partial regions compared with the regions of the current-carrying layer that adjoin the resistance region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Bruno Acklin, Martin Behringer, Karl Ebeling, Christian Hanke, Jörg Heerlein, Lutz Korte, Johann Luft, Karl-Heinz Schlereth, Werner Späth, Zeljko Spika
  • Patent number: 6806956
    Abstract: A polarization detector is described which contains a beam splitter, which disperses an incident light beam into partial beam paths. The partial beams pass though &lgr;/4 wafers and a cholesterol layer and impinge upon detectors. The polarization direction of the incident light beam can be measured by the polarization detector with the aid of the signal level of the detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Späth, Ulrich Steegmüller
  • Patent number: 6580533
    Abstract: A transmission and reception device, in which the transmission device and the reception device and the input/output end of a glass fiber are disposed optically in series with respect to one another. A laser diode is disposed on a central part of a photosensitive surface and the input/output end of the glass fiber is in turn adjusted in front of its end face. As a result of a cylindrical symmetry of the photosensitive surface and of the laser diode with respect to a fiber axis, a maxima of the coupling curves coincide with the fiber axis, so that a lateral fiber offset leads to only a moderate change in coupling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Hans Hurt, Gustav Müller, Klaus Panzer, Axel Schubert, Werner Späth
  • Patent number: 6353202
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a chip-substrate connection, in particular by soldering a semiconductor chip on a substrate. The apparatus has a support, on which the substrate is temporarily supported, and a heating device which is provided for forming the chip-substrate connection. The heating device has a radiation source in the form of a laser in the infrared wavelength range. The support is formed by a heat body, which is assigned to the chip-substrate connection and is heated with thermal radiation by the radiation source. A surface of the heat body is coated with a material, in particular a material containing chromium, exhibiting high absorption with respect to the light radiation emitted by the radiation source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Stefan Grötsch, Hans-Ludwig Althaus, Werner Späth, Georg Bogner