Patents by Inventor Wouter Soer
Wouter Soer 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).
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Patent number: 11289630Abstract: Light emitting devices having a first LED with a first phosphor, a second LED with a second phosphor and a third LED with a third phosphor to emit a composite white light are described. The first LED and first phosphor emit the red spectral component, the second LED and the second phosphor emit the blue spectral component and the third LED and third phosphor emit the green spectral component of the composite white light. The green spectral component has at least 30% radiant flux in a deep red spectral wavelength region.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventor: Wouter Soer
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Patent number: 11246203Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are described herein. An integrated light emitting diode (LED) lighting system includes an electronics board. An alternating current (AC) input is disposed on the electronics board. Multiple strings of LED devices are disposed on the electronics board, each having an individual voltage threshold. A buck converter is disposed on the electronics board and is electrically coupled to provide a direct current (DC) current based on an AC current at the AC input. A switching circuit is disposed on the electronics board and is electrically coupled to the strings of LED devices to apply the DC current to each of the strings in a sequence beginning at a time when an instantaneous voltage level at the AC input reaches the individual threshold voltage of a first one of the strings of LED devices in the sequence.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Zhi Hua Song, Wouter Soer
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Publication number: 20220029070Abstract: This specification discloses lighting device the includes a combination of a royal-blue and blue pump LEDs with a mixture of phosphors to provide light with a high melanopic content and maximize an m/p ratio while maintaining high color fidelity, and a tunable lighting system including the lighting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: Lumileds LLCInventors: Wouter Soer, Gregory Tashjian
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Patent number: 11233449Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed, comprising: a first light source having a first threshold voltage; a second light source having a second threshold voltage; a rectifier configured to receive an AC voltage as input and generate a DC voltage based on the AC voltage; a single-stage Buck converter section coupled to the rectifier, the first light source, and the second light source, the Buck converter section being configured to output a current generated based on the DC voltage towards the first light source and the second light source; and a switching circuit configured to reduce a load on the Buck converter section by periodically diverting the current away from the second light source when a magnitude of the AC voltage is less than or equal to a sum of the first threshold voltage and the second threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Zhi Hua Song, Wouter Soer
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Patent number: 11233178Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a first group of one or more LEDs each configured to emit light having a blue color point in the 1931 CIE x,y Chromaticity Diagram, a second group of one or more LEDs each configured to emit light having a cyan or yellow color point in the 1931 CIE x,y Chromaticity Diagram, and a third group of one or more LEDs each configured to emit light having a red color point in the 1931 CIE x,y Chromaticity Diagram.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Marcus Jozef Henricus Kessels, Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Johannes Willem Herman Sillevis Smitt, Wouter Soer
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Patent number: 11231148Abstract: A light emitting device is disclosed and includes an emission source configured to emit a primary blue light and a wavelength-converting element configured to convert the primary blue light to a secondary light having a correlated color temperature (CCT) in the range of 1600K-2500K and color rendering index (CRI) in the range of 40-60, the wavelength-converting element including a red phosphor material having a peak emission wavelength that is less than 620 nm and a green phosphor material having a peak emission wavelength that is greater than 530 nm. The device may exhibit a melanopic/photopic ratio of less than 0.25 and/or may exhibit a radiometric power fraction of light having a wavelength below 530 nm below .1.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Wouter Soer, Hans-Helmut Bechtel
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Patent number: 11230665Abstract: A disclosed light-emitting device may provide white light with a cyan gap coinciding with a melanopic sensitivity range and thus having reduced melanopic content. The disclosed light-emitting device may include a light source providing violet or blue light with a peak wavelength under 450 nanometers (nm). The disclosed light-emitting device may include at least one down-converter coupled to and located downstream of the light source and configured with a long-wavelength onset to convert the spectrum of the violet or blue light to generate white light with a spectral power content in a 447-531 nm wavelength range that is less than or equal to 10% of a total spectral power content in a 380-780 nm wavelength range. The disclosed light-emitting device may be incorporated in a light engine system that further includes a control system that controls a drive current to the light-emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Wouter A. Soer, Oleg B. Shchekin, Hans-Helmut Bechtel
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Patent number: 11145793Abstract: This specification discloses lighting device the includes a combination of a royal-blue and blue pump LEDs with a mixture of phosphors to provide light with a high melanopic content and maximize an m/p ratio while maintaining high color fidelity, and a tunable lighting system including the lighting device.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Wouter Soer, Gregory Tashjian
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Publication number: 20210193882Abstract: Light emitting devices having a first LED with a first phosphor, a second LED with a second phosphor and a third LED with a third phosphor to emit a composite white light are described. The first LED and first phosphor emit the red spectral component, the second LED and the second phosphor emit the blue spectral component and the third LED and third phosphor emit the green spectral component of the composite white light. The green spectral component has at least 30% radiant flux in a deep red spectral wavelength region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Lumileds Holding B.V.Inventor: Wouter Soer
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Publication number: 20210183824Abstract: A lighting device includes a first LED configured to emit a first light, a second LED configured to emit a third light, a first phosphor disposed over the first LED and second LED, and arranged to absorb a portion of the first light and in response emit a second light of a longer wavelength than the first light, and a second phosphor disposed over the second LED, the second phosphor arranged to absorb a portion of the third light and in response emit a fourth light of a longer wavelength than the third light, and the fourth light exits the second phosphor into the first phosphor, and both the second light and fourth light exit the lighting device though the first phosphor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: Lumileds LLCInventors: Wouter Soer, Gregory TASHJIAN
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Publication number: 20210136890Abstract: Techniques and devices are provided for sensing image data from a scene and activating primary light sources based on information sensed from the scene. Subsets of a plurality of primary light sources may be activated to emit sensing spectrum of light onto a scene. Combined image data may be sensed from the scene while the subsets of the plurality of primary light sources are activated. Reflectance information for the scene may be determined based on the combined image data and combined sensing spectra. Spectrum optimization criteria for the primary light sources may be determined based on the reference information and a desired output parameter provided by a user or determined by a controller. The plurality of primary light sources may be activated to emit a lighting spectrum based on the spectrum optimization criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2021Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Wouter SOER, Willem Sillevis-Smitt
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Patent number: 10959306Abstract: Embodiments include systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a dimming function in a single stage AC input light emitting diode (LED) driver with a controller that contains an on-chip error amplifier and an on-chip fixed reference voltage source coupled to a first input of the error amplifier. The controller controls a duty cycle of a switching transistor to cause a feedback voltage, applied to a first package input terminal, to match the reference voltage. To achieve a dimming function, a voltage across a current sense resistor in series with the LEDs is applied to a first input of a high gain differential amplifier, and a variable dimming control voltage is applied to a second input of the differential amplifier. The output of the differential amplifier is coupled to the first package input terminal. The differential amplifier input signals will be matched at the target LED current level.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Zhihua Song, Wouter Soer, Ron Bonne, Yifeng Qiu
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Publication number: 20210018152Abstract: A light emitting device is disclosed and includes an emission source configured to emit a primary blue light and a wavelength-converting element configured to convert the primary blue light to a secondary light having a correlated color temperature (CCT) in the range of 1600K-2500K and color rendering index (CRI) in the range of 40-60, the wavelength-converting element including a red phosphor material having a peak emission wavelength that is less than 620 nm and a green phosphor material having a peak emission wavelength that is greater than 530 nm. The device may exhibit a melanopic/photopic ratio of less than 0.25 and/or may exhibit a radiometric power fraction of light having a wavelength below 530 nm below.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Wouter SOER, Hans-Helmut BECHTEL
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Patent number: 10893590Abstract: Techniques and devices are provided for sensing image data from a scene and activating primary light sources based on information sensed from the scene. Subsets of a plurality of primary light sources may be activated to emit sensing spectrum of light onto a scene. Combined image data may be sensed from the scene while the subsets of the plurality of primary light sources are activated. Reflectance information for the scene may be determined based on the combined image data and combined sensing spectra. Spectrum optimization criteria for the primary light sources may be determined based on the reference information and a desired output parameter provided by a user or determined by a controller. The plurality of primary light sources may be activated to emit a lighting spectrum based on the spectrum optimization criteria.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Wouter Soer, Willem Sillevis-Smitt
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Patent number: 10856376Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) module may include a direct current (DC) voltage node formed on a first layer. The DC voltage node may be configured to sink a first current. One or more devices may be formed on the first layer configured to provide a second current to one or more LEDs. A device of the one or more devices may carry a steep slope voltage waveform. A local shielding area may be formed in a second layer directly below the DC voltage node and the one or more devices. The local shielding area may include a substantially continuous area of conductive material. A conductive via may extend through one or more layers. The conductive via may electrically connect the DC voltage node and the local shielding area.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Zhihua Song, Wouter Soer, Ron Bonne, Yifeng Qiu
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Patent number: 10837607Abstract: A light emitting device is disclosed and includes an emission source configured to emit a primary blue light and a wavelength-converting element configured to convert the primary blue light to a secondary light having a correlated color temperature (CCT) in the range of 1600K-2500K and color rendering index (CRI) in the range of 40-60, the wavelength-converting element including a red phosphor material having a peak emission wavelength that is less than 620 nm and a green phosphor material having a peak emission wavelength that is greater than 530 nm. The device may exhibit a melanopic/photopic ratio of less than 0.25 and/or may exhibit a radiometric power fraction of light having a wavelength below 530 nm below 0.1.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Wouter Soer, Hans-Helmut Bechtel
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Publication number: 20200357958Abstract: This specification discloses lighting device the includes a combination of a royal-blue and blue pump LEDs with a mixture of phosphors to provide light with a high melanopic content and maximize an m/p ratio while maintaining high color fidelity, and a tunable lighting system including the lighting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: Lumileds LLCInventors: Wouter SOER, Gregory TASHJIAN
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Patent number: 10813182Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) module may include a direct current (DC) voltage node formed on a first layer. The DC voltage node may be configured to sink a first current. One or more devices may be formed on the first layer configured to provide a second current to one or more LEDs. A device of the one or more devices may carry a steep slope voltage waveform. A local shielding area may be formed in a second layer directly below the DC voltage node and the one or more devices. The local shielding area may include a substantially continuous area of conductive material. A conductive via may extend through one or more layers. The conductive via may electrically connect the DC voltage node and the local shielding area.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Zhihua Song, Wouter Soer, Ron Bonne, Yifeng Qiu
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Publication number: 20200196410Abstract: Techniques and devices are provided for sensing image data from a scene and activating primary light sources based on information sensed from the scene. Subsets of a plurality of primary light sources may be activated to emit sensing spectrum of light onto a scene. Combined image data may be sensed from the scene while the subsets of the plurality of primary light sources are activated. Reflectance information for the scene may be determined based on the combined image data and combined sensing spectra. Spectrum optimization criteria for the primary light sources may be determined based on the reference information and a desired output parameter provided by a user or determined by a controller. The plurality of primary light sources may be activated to emit a lighting spectrum based on the spectrum optimization criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Wouter SOER, Willem Sillevis-Smitt
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Patent number: 10582589Abstract: Techniques and devices are provided for sensing image data from a scene and activating primary light sources based on information sensed from the scene. Subsets of a plurality of primary light sources may be activated to emit sensing spectrum of light onto a scene. Combined image data may be sensed from the scene while the subsets of the plurality of primary light sources are activated. Reflectance information for the scene may be determined based on the combined image data and combined sensing spectra. Spectrum optimization criteria for the primary light sources may be determined based on the reference information and a desired output parameter provided by a user or determined by a controller. The plurality of primary light sources may be activated to emit a lighting spectrum based on the spectrum optimization criteria.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Wouter Soer, Willem Sillevis-Smitt