Device Being Superluminescent Diode (epo) Patents (Class 257/E33.054)
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Patent number: 7582911Abstract: A modular light emitting diode (LED) mounting configuration is provided including a light source module having a plurality of pre-packaged LEDs arranged in a serial array. The module is connected to a heat dissipating plate configured to mount to an electrical junction box. Thus, heat from the LEDs is conducted to the heat dissipating plate and to the junction box. A sensor is configured to detect environmental parameters and a driver is configured to illuminate the LEDs in response to the environmental parameters, thereby selectively configuring the LEDs to function in a wide variety of useful applications.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Permlight Products, Inc.Inventors: Manuel Lynch, Leonard Fraitag
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Patent number: 7554124Abstract: A nitride-based compound semiconductor light emitting device includes a first conductive substrate, a first ohmic electrode formed on the first conductive substrate, a bonding metal layer formed on the first ohmic electrode, a second ohmic electrode formed on the bonding metal layer, and a nitride-based compound semiconductor layer formed on the second ohmic electrode. The nitride-based compound semiconductor layer includes at least a P-type layer, a light emitting layer and an N-type layer, and has a concave groove portion or a concave-shaped portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2005Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshio Hata
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Patent number: 7518150Abstract: A light emitting device including a blue-system semiconductor light emitting element, a green-system semiconductor light emitting element, a yellow fluorescent member which absorbs a part of blue light from the blue-system semiconductor light emitting element and emits yellow-system light as excitation light, and a red fluorescent member which absorbs a part of green light from the green-system semiconductor light emitting element and emits red-system light as excitation light.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenshi Aihara
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Patent number: 7476913Abstract: A light emitting device has a cup portion with a bottom surface opening, and one electrode of a light emitting element is connected to the cup portion. The other electrode of the light emitting element is connected to a lead set up from an inner space to outside the cup portion using the opening of the cup portion. Each electrode and lead of the light emitting device can be electrically connected without bonding wires. This prevents shadows or light unevenness from reflecting the shape of the bonding wire, thereby enhancing light-emission efficiency. As an alternative to setting up the lead from inside to the outside of the cup portion, the lead existing outside the cup portion and the other electrode are electrically connected via the bonding wire through the cup portion's opening. Thus, light outputted outside of the light emitting device is not intercepted by the bonding wire.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2004Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignees: Renesas Technology Corp., Hitachi Cable Precision Co., Ltd., Hitachi Cable, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Isobe, Gen Murakami, Toshikatsu Hiroe
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Patent number: 7468528Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device is provided. The semiconductor light-emitting device includes a laminated semiconductor structure portion composed of at least a first conductivity type first cladding layer, an active layer and a second conductivity type second cladding layer, wherein an outer peripheral surface of this laminated semiconductor structure portion is formed as a curved surface shape which is protrusively curved or bent with respect to the outside of the laminated direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2006Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Jun Suzuki, Masato Doi, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Goshi Biwa
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Patent number: 7453092Abstract: A light emitting device having: a predetermined optical form that is provided on a surface of an LED element mounted on a base, the predetermined optical form being made to allow an increase in efficiency of taken out light from an inside of the LED element; and a sealing material that seals the predetermined optical form. The sealing material has a refractive index of 1.6 or more, the predetermined optical form is formed in a surface of a substrate of the LED element, and the substrate has a refractive index nearly equal to that of a light emitting layer of the LED element.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2005Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinobu Suehiro, Koji Tasumi
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Patent number: 7402447Abstract: A semiconductor laser device according to the present invention has a semiconductor substrate, an active layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and made of a compound semiconductor containing phosphorus, a guide layer formed on the active layer and made of a compound semiconductor a dopant diffusion preventing layer formed on the guide layer and made of a semiconductor compound containing arsenic, and a clad layer formed on the dopant diffusion preventing layer and made of a compound semiconductor containing a dopant.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2006Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshikazu Onishi
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Patent number: 7402840Abstract: A structure includes a semiconductor light emitting device including a light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region. The light emitting layer emits first light of a first peak wavelength. A wavelength-converting material that absorbs the first light and emits second light of a second peak wavelength is disposed in the path of the first light. A filter material that transmits a portion of the first light and absorbs or reflects a portion of the first light is disposed over the wavelength-converting material.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2006Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, LLCInventors: Michael R. Krames, Gerd O. Mueller, Regina B. Mueller-Mach
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Patent number: 7372076Abstract: By doping an organic compound functioning as an electron donor (hereinafter referred to as donor molecules) into an organic compound layer contacting a cathode, donor levels can be formed between respective LUMO (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) levels between the cathode and the organic compound layer, and therefore electrons can be injected from the cathode, and transmission of the injected electrons can be performed with good efficiency. Further, there are no problems such as excessive energy loss, deterioration of the organic compound layer itself, and the like accompanying electron movement, and therefore an increase in the electron injecting characteristics and a decrease in the driver voltage can both be achieved without depending on the work function of the cathode material.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Nishi, Satoshi Seo
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Patent number: 7282745Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device having a semiconductor multi-layer structure which includes at least an active layer having at least a quantum well, and the active layer further including at least a luminescent layer of InxAlyGa1-x-yN (0<x<1, 0?y?0.2), wherein a threshold mode gain of each of the at least quantum well is not more than 12 cm?1, and wherein a standard deviation of a microscopic fluctuation in a band gap energy of the at least luminescent layer is in the range of 75 meV to 200 meV.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2005Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Atsushi Yamaguchi, Masaru Kuramoto, Masaaki Nido
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Patent number: 7122393Abstract: An optical semiconductor device includes a laminated layer structure, an intermediate film formed on an end surface of the laminated layer structure, and a passivation film formed on the intermediate film. The passivation film has a quantity of ion projection than that of the intermediate film.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2004Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Fujitsu Quantum Devices LimitedInventor: Shigeo Osaka
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Patent number: 6747298Abstract: Bonding of flip-chip mounted light emitting devices having an irregular configuration is provided. Light emitting diodes having a shaped substrate are bonded to a submount by applying forces to the substrate an a manner such that shear forces within the substrate do not exceed a failure threshold of the substrate. Bonding a light emitting diode to a submount may be provided by applying force to a surface of a substrate of the light emitting diode that is oblique to a direction of motion of the light emitting diode to thermosonically bond the light emitting diode to the submount. Collets for use in bonding shaped substrates to a submount and systems for bonding shaped substrates to a submount are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: David B. Slater, Jr., Jayesh Bharathan, John Edmond, Mark Raffetto, Anwar Mohammed, Peter S. Andrews, Gerald H. Negley