Light Conversion Patents (Class 313/501)
  • Patent number: 8310143
    Abstract: A lighting device comprising at least one solid state light emitter and at least one lumiphor. If each solid state light emitter is illuminated and each lumiphor is excited, a mixture of light emitted has x, y color coordinates within an area defined by the coordinates 0.32, 0.40; 0.36, 0,48; 0.43, 0.45; 0.42, 0.42; and 0.36, 0.38. The lumiphor(s) comprises phosphor particles, in the range of from 3 to 7 micrometers (or 5-15, 10-20, or 15-25 micrometers), or having a mean particle size of 5, 10, 15, 20 micrometers. Also, a lighting device comprising at least one emitter and at least one lumiphor in which the lumiphor comprises phosphor particles having sizes as mentioned above, where the lighting device has an efficacy of at least 60 (or 70, or 80) lumens per watt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Antony Paul Van De Ven, Gerald H. Negley
  • Patent number: 8304980
    Abstract: A fluorescence material and a white light illumination element are provided. The white light illumination element includes a light emitting diode (LED) chip, a first fluorescence material, and a second fluorescence material. The LED chip is configured on a substrate and emits an exciting light. The first fluorescence material and the second fluorescence material are configured on the LED chip. A composition of the first fluorescence material includes an aluminum nitride oxide doped with at least one of europium (Eu) and manganese (Mn). A first emitted light emitted by the first fluorescence material after the first fluorescence material absorbs the exciting light emitted from the LED chip and a second emitted light emitted by the second fluorescence material after the second fluorescence material absorbs the exciting light emitted from the LED chip are mixed to generate a white light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuang-Hung Chiu, Huai-An Li
  • Patent number: 8304984
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element in which light extraction efficiency is improved without lowering the electrical conductivity or the transporting or blocking performance for electrons or holes in a transparent electrode or an organic layer. The organic electroluminescent element of the invention is characterized in that it comprises a transparent substrate and provided thereon, at least a first electrode section with a light transmission property, an organic light emission layer section and a second electrode section in this order, the first electrode section containing at least metal nanowires, wherein an average refractive index of the first electrode section is lower than that of the organic light emission layer section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Koyama, Yoshiyuki Suzuri
  • Patent number: 8299701
    Abstract: Provided are a lighting device, a backlighting device, and a display device that comprise a radiation source such as LED and wavelength converting members comprising phosphors. In one embodiment, self-absorption within the devices is suppressed or reduced by placing a selective reflector between two wavelength converting members, and the wavelength converting member emitting light with longer peak wavelength is substantially isolated from the irradiation of another wavelength converting member emitting light with shorter peak wavelength. In other embodiments, the wavelength converting members are arranged in strip configuration; or in adjacent hexagons configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: GE Lighting Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Boris Kolodin, Srinath Aanegola, Emil Vergilov Radkov
  • Patent number: 8294357
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion element, including: a substrate; and a ceramic layer formed on the substrate, the ceramic layer being obtained by sintering a ceramic precursor; wherein the ceramic precursor is a compound selected from the group composed of alkoxysilane and a compound having a plurality of siloxane structures; a phosphor and particles of an oxide are mixed with the ceramic precursor; the phosphor has particle diameters within a range of from 1 ?m to 50 ?m and a concentration of the phosphor in the ceramic layer is equal to or more than 40 wt % and less than 95 wt %; and the particles of the oxide have primary particle diameters within a range of from 0.001 ?m to 30 ?m and a concentration within a range of from 0.5 wt % to 20 wt % in the ceramic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Washizu, Takuji Hatano, Yoshihito Taguchi
  • Patent number: 8288784
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate and a plurality of pixels on the substrate. The pixels include a plurality of first electrodes, a second electrode, a white light emitting layer, and a first thin film layer between the first electrodes and the second electrode. White light emitted from the white light emitting layer causes resonance to occur between the first electrodes and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 8283858
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes an organic light-emitting unit, a first electrode, a second electrode and an optical layer. The organic light-emitting unit includes an organic light-emitting layer, a first and a second major surface. The first electrode is provided on the first major surface. The second electrode is provided on the second major surface and includes a conductive layer, a first interconnection and a second interconnection. The first interconnection is electrically connected to the conductive layer and aligned in a first direction parallel to the first major surface. The second interconnection is electrically connected to the conductive layer and aligned apart from the first interconnection and parallel to the first interconnection. The optical layer is provided on a side of the second electrode opposite to the organic light-emitting unit and includes a low refractive index portion and a high refractive index portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshiya Yonehara, Tomio Ono, Shintaro Enomoto, Keiji Sugi, Tomoaki Sawabe, Taeko Urano
  • Patent number: 8278821
    Abstract: A light emitting device according to one embodiment includes a light emitting element that emits light having a wavelength of 250 nm to 500 nm; plural red fluorescent layers that are formed above the light emitting element to include a red fluorescent material, the red fluorescent layers being disposed at predetermined intervals; and plural green fluorescent layers that are formed above the light emitting element to include a green fluorescent material, a distance between the light emitting element and the green fluorescent layers being larger than a distance between the light emitting element and the red fluorescent layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kunio Ishida, Iwao Mitsuishi, Ryosuke Hiramatsu, Yumi Fukuda, Keiko Albessard, Naotoshi Matsuda, Aoi Okada, Shinya Nunoue
  • Publication number: 20120242216
    Abstract: A light-emitting device that suppresses color unevenness can be provided. A transparent member can be disposed on a fluorescence-containing resin layer. Part of excitation light can be emitted upward from an edge surface of the fluorescence-containing resin layer directly and without passing through the transparent member. Thus, fluorescent light emitted in large quantities from a place near an edge surface of the transparent member can be mixed with the excitation light emitted from the edge surface of the fluorescence-containing resin layer directly without passing through the transparent member, thereby suppressing color unevenness at a location near the edge surface of the transparent member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroshi KOTANI, Takaaki SAKAI
  • Patent number: 8274208
    Abstract: A light-emitting device comprising a light source which emits excitation light and a fluorescent substance which absorbs the excitation light to emit light in combination, wherein a fluorescent substance comprising an ? type SiAlON represented by the general formula: (Ca?,Eu?)(Si,Al)12(O,N)16 (1.5<?+?<2.2, 0<?<0.2, O/N?0.04) as a main component and having a specific surface area of 0.1 to 0.35 m2/g is used as the fluorescent substance. This light-emitting device shows little color change due to temperature change and efficiently emits light, even when it is used in a high temperature environment, and it is especially suitable for lighting apparatuses for vehicles such as headlamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignees: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Miyake, Shuichi Taya, Akifumi Ochiai, Hideyuki Emoto, Masahiro Ibukiyama
  • Patent number: 8274209
    Abstract: A light emitting device, includes: a casing; a window; a semiconductor laser provided in an enclosed space formed by the casing and the window; and a fluorescent material in a form of any one of a crystal and glass, the fluorescent material being provided in the enclosed space, the fluorescent material absorbing laser light emitted from the semiconductor laser and emitting secondary light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the laser light, and the secondary light being taken out through the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignees: Harison Toshiba Lighting Corp., Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Naoki Wada
  • Patent number: 8269411
    Abstract: A display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The display device includes an illuminate unit and a color filter. The illuminate unit has a light-emitting chip and a plurality of quantum dot phosphors for generating a color light which has an optical spectrum including the first blue peak wavelength, a first green peak wavelength, and a first red peak wavelength. The color filter is disposed in the light path of the color light, wherein the color filter has a transmittance spectrum having a second blue peak wavelength, a second green peak wavelength, and a second red peak wavelength. The first blue peak wavelength, the first green peak wavelength, and the first red peak wavelength respectively match the second blue peak wavelength, the second green peak wavelength, and the second red peak wavelength in order to enhance the color performance of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Yu, Chih-Lin Wang, Ru-Shi Liu, Chun-Che Lin
  • Patent number: 8269409
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a process of mixing a luminous substance in powder form to a transferable grade molding compound in a pelletized or powder form, such as a clear epoxy, to derive a homogeneous mixture that can be pressed and sintered into solid pellets. The solid pellets are further processed so as to permit their deposition on and around a light emitting semiconductor driver so as to obtain a white light emitting semiconductor device. This white light emitting device can be used in a variety of lighting applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Microsemi Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen G. Kelly
  • Patent number: 8269410
    Abstract: To achieve a light-emitting device emitting light with high brightness, closer to natural light, and less color shift due to a small change in intensity of emitted light, in a light-emitting device including a light source emitting light by driving current and at least one wavelength-converting material absorbing at least part of the light from the light source and emitting light having a different wavelength, the color coordinate x1(17.5) and the color coordinate y1(17.5) of the light emitted at a driving current density of 17.5 A/cm2 and the color coordinate x1(70) and the color coordinate y1(70) of the light emitted at a driving current density of 70 A/cm2 satisfy the following Expressions (D) and (E): ?0.006?x1(17.5)?x1(70)?0.006??(D), ?0.006?y1(17.5)?y1(70)?0.006??(E).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Kijima, Yasuo Shimomura, Hideaki Kaneda, Kimiya Takeshita
  • Patent number: 8269916
    Abstract: A light emitting device assembly includes: a light emitting device; and a light output member provided on the light emitting element and having an upper surface on which a curved part that outputs light from the light emitting device is provided, wherein a value of a x coordinate of a curved part center axis is a positive value, a locus of an edge of a curved part forms a circle or oval around the curved part center axis, light on a Z-axis output from an origin is output from the curved part at an angle ?0 (?0>0) formed with the Z-axis within a XZ-plane, and function F(?,??) expressed by F(?,??)=(??+????)/????(1) monotonously increases, takes the maximum value at ?=?0 (<0), and then, monotonously decreases as a value of ? increases from the minimum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 8264142
    Abstract: There is described an illumination apparatus with an organic light-emitting device with a first light exit face and an organic light-emitting device with a second light exit face larger than the first light exit face. The inorganic light-emitting device and the organic light-emitting device are arranged so that a planar light output in which light of the inorganic light-emitting device and light of the organic light-emitting device superimpose each other results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Joerg Amelung, Joachim Wagner
  • Patent number: 8253326
    Abstract: A light-emitting device of the present invention includes: a light-emitting element; and a phosphor layer containing phosphors that absorb light from the light-emitting element and wavelength-convert the absorbed light to emit light. The phosphor layer has a structure in which the phosphors are disposed on an applied adhesive with a thickness equal to or less than an average particle size of the phosphors. A thickness of the phosphor layer is equal to or less than five times the average particle size of the phosphors, and an occupancy ratio of the phosphors in the phosphor layer is 50% or more. Further, the phosphors disposed on the adhesive has an adjusted particle size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Maruyama, Tetsuya Ikuta
  • Patent number: 8253316
    Abstract: An LED-powered replacement for the conventional incandescent screw-in light bulb comprises a phosphor coated sphere emitting white light into the same spherical pattern as a frosted incandescent bulb. In one embodiment inside the hollow sphere there is a dielectric cone emitting blue light, which causes the phosphor coating to glow. The blue light comes into the cone from a dielectric totally internally reflecting concentrator (DTIRC), which receives light from a conical reflector surrounding an LED array. The array has blue chips for energizing the phosphor and red chips for supplementing the phosphor light, enabling separate electronic control of the color temperature as well as the overall luminosity of the LED Lamp. Both blue and red chips are controlled by a quantum dimmer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC
    Inventors: Yupin Sun, Waqidi Falicoff, Will Shatford
  • Patent number: 8247969
    Abstract: An optical lens having a fluorescent layer is provided. The optical lens is adapted for being employed in an LED packaging structure. The optical lens includes a substrate, at least one lens body, a lens shade, and a packaging member. The substrate is positioned at a bottommost side of the packaging structure, and the lens shade is positioned at a topmost side of the packaging structure. The lens body is positioned over the substrate and beneath the lens shade. A plurality of light emitting units are disposed on the substrate. The packaging member is adapted for packaging the substrate and the lens shade. The lens body is secured by the packing member so as to be positioned over the light emitting units. The lens body includes a fluorescent layer buried inside the lens body, and the lens body is positioned apart from the light emitting units for a certain distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Gem Weltronics TWN Corporation
    Inventors: Jon-Fwu Hwu, Yung-Fu Wu, Kui-Chiang Liu
  • Patent number: 8242683
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to achieve weight saving and downsizing of an electronic apparatus, in particular a portable electronic apparatus while enlarging a display screen thereof. The invention provides an electronic apparatus using a light emitting device which includes a light emitting element, a color filter provided on either side of an anode or a cathode of the light emitting element, and two polarizers sandwiching the light emitting element and the color filter, in which the anode and the cathode transmit light, deflection angles of the two polarizers are different from each other, and light obtained from the light emitting element is white.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroko Abe, Mitsuaki Osame, Aya Anzai, Yu Yamazaki, Yoshifumi Tanada, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8242684
    Abstract: A wavelength-converting plate for a wavelength-converted light emitting diode (LED) assembly. The wavelength-converting plate includes microlenses deposited thereon. The microlenses may have an index of refraction different from the index of refraction of the wavelength-converting plate. The microlenses on the top surface of the plate increase lumen output in a direction normal to the top surface of a wavelength-converting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Osram Sylvania Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Piquette, Madis Raukas
  • Patent number: 8242685
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an organic electroluminescence element having a function layer interposed between a first electrode and a second electrode. The function layer includes at least an organic light emission layer. The electroluminescence device includes: partition walls which define concave portions and each of formation areas of the organic electroluminescence element within each of the concave portions to arrange the function layer within the concave portion; and auxiliary electrodes which are each arranged continuously on the partition wall and within the concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Chino, Suguru Akagawa
  • Patent number: 8237350
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a package having, on a surface thereof, a first portion surrounded by a second portion; a semiconductor blue color light-emitting element mounted on the first portion; a first transparent resin layer covering the semiconductor blue color light-emitting element and contacted with the first and second portions. The first transparent resin layer in cross section has an arch-like outer profile. A laminated body having in cross section an arch-like profile is formed on the first transparent resin layer with end faces of the laminated body being contacted with the second portion, and includes in order a red fluorescent layer, a yellow fluorescent layer, a second transparent resin layer and a green fluorescent layer, the second transparent resin layer having a center portion disposed between end face portions, the center portion having a larger thickness than thicknesses of the end face portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Iwao Mitsuishi, Shinya Nunoue, Yasushi Hattori
  • Patent number: 8237348
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting device including a light-emitting element emitting primary light, and a light converter absorbing a part of the primary light emitted from the light-emitting element and emitting secondary light having a longer wavelength than the primary light. The light converter contains a green light-emitting phosphor and a red light-emitting phosphor. The green light-emitting phosphor is composed of at least one phosphor selected from a divalent europium-activated oxynitride phosphor substantially represented by the following formula: EuaSibAlcOdNe and a divalent europium-activated silicate phosphor substantially represented by the following formula: 2 (Ba1-f-gMIfEug)O.SiO2, while the red light-emitting phosphor is composed of at least one phosphor selected from tetravalent manganese-activated fluoro-tetravalent metalate phosphors substantially represented by the following formulae: MII2(MIII1-hMnh)F6 and/or MIV(MIII1-hMnh)F6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masatsugu Masuda, Kenji Terashima
  • Patent number: 8237349
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an antireflective film having an anti-reflection function with which reflection of external light which is incident on the antireflective film can be further reduced and a high-visibility display device having such an antireflective film. The tops of the plurality of pyramidal projections are evenly spaced and each side of the base of a pyramidal projection is in contact with one side of the base of an adjacent pyramidal projection. That is, one pyramidal projection is surrounded by other pyramidal projections, and the base of the pyramidal projection and the base of the adjacent pyramidal projection have a side in common.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiro Nishida, Yuji Egi, Takeshi Nishi, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8232721
    Abstract: An apparatus such as a light source is disclosed which has an OLED device and an index bridging elastomer disposed on the substrate or transparent electrode of said OLED device and on the exterior of said OLED device. The elastomer bridges the refractive index between the substrate and an intended target for said apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Wencheng Su, Benjamin Krummacher
  • Patent number: 8232717
    Abstract: To achieve a light-emitting device emitting light with high brightness, closer to natural light, and less color shift due to a small change in intensity of emitted light, in a light-emitting device including a light source emitting light by driving current and at least one wavelength-converting material absorbing at least part of the light from the light source and emitting light having a different wavelength, the color coordinate x1(17.5) and the color coordinate y1(17.5) of the light emitted at a driving current density of 17.5 A/cm2 and the color coordinate x1(70) and the color coordinate y1(70) of the light emitted at a driving current density of 70 A/cm2 satisfy the following Expressions (D) and (E): ?0.006?x1(17.5)?x1(70)?0.006??(D), ?0.006?y1(17.5)?y1(70)?0.006??(E).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Kijima, Yasuo Shimomura, Hideaki Kaneda, Kimiya Takeshita
  • Patent number: 8222804
    Abstract: An area-emissive light-emitting diode (LED) device comprises a substrate having an internal substrate surface, an external substrate surface opposite the internal substrate surface, and a substrate edge; an array of area-emissive LED pixels formed on the internal substrate surface with an edge gap between the substrate edge and the LED pixel on the internal substrate surface nearest the substrate edge; and a light-extraction structure formed in the edge gap and at least partially exterior to the LED pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: Michael E. Miller, John W. Hamer, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 8217559
    Abstract: An opto-electronic device package structure for multicolor light is disclosed. The package structure comprises a transparent carrier, a circuit layer on the transparent carrier, an opto-electronic device emitting the light of the first wavelength and is electrically connecting with the circuit layer on the transparent carrier, a first wavelength conversion structure on the lateral side of the opto-electronic device, a reflective layer on the first wavelength conversion structure, and a transparent material for package on the reflective layer and on the opto-electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventor: Chia-Liang Hsu
  • Patent number: 8217568
    Abstract: The light emitting element includes a first electrode and a second electrode opposite each other and electrically connected respectively to a first conductive-type layer and a second conductive type layer constituting a semiconductor structure. The first electrode has a pair of electrode extending portions disposed opposite each other on an electrode forming surface over the first conductive-type layer which is positioned at the light extracting side. In the opposing direction of the pair of electrode extending portions, a half distance I1 between the electrode extending portions is smaller than the distance L2 from the electrode extending portions to an end edge of the electrode forming surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8217567
    Abstract: LED lighting systems operate their LED above a junction temperature of 85° C. and space apart from the LED, components of the LED lighting system that reduce an expected lifetime of the LED lighting system to less than 25,000 hours as a result of operating the LED above the junction temperature of 85° C. Accordingly, the LED itself may be driven hotter than is conventionally the case, without impacting its lifetime. By allowing the LED to operate hotter, reduced heat sinking may be needed for the LED itself, which can decrease the cost, size and/or complexity of the thermal management system for the LED lighting system and/or can allow a thermal budget for the LED lighting system to be used elsewhere. Related structures are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Antony P. van de Ven, Gerald H. Negley
  • Patent number: 8212467
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a cap sealing the light emitting element, and a light conversion structural section covering an upper surface of the cap. The cap includes a base section having a hole for taking out light emitted from the light emitting element, and a glass section overlaid on the hole. The glass section is provided outside the base section, and the light conversion structural section is provided outside the glass section. According to this light emitting device, manufacturing cost can be reduced by suppressing reduction in yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Sawamura, Shigetoshi Ito, Shuichi Hirukawa
  • Patent number: 8212466
    Abstract: A solid state lighting apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). Each of the LEDs includes an LED device configured to emit light having about a first dominant wavelength and a phosphor configured to receive at least some of the light emitted by the LED device and responsively emit light having about a second dominant wavelength. A combined light emitted by the LED device and the phosphor of a first one of the plurality of LEDs has a first color point and a combined light emitted by the LED device and the phosphor of a second one of the plurality of LEDs has a second color point that falls outside a seven step Macadam ellipse around the first color point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald H. Negley, Antony P. van de Ven
  • Patent number: 8210890
    Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence display device includes at least one light emission device, the organic light emission device having a first electrode; at least one thin film transistor for driving the light emission device, a pixel electrode being connected to the at least one thin film transistor; a conductive layer formed of a conductive polymer material to electrically connect the light emission device and the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gee Sung Chae, Jin Wuk Kim
  • Patent number: 8207662
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display (OLED) apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same, the OLED apparatus including: a substrate; an active layer formed on the substrate; a gate electrode insulated from the active layer; source and drain electrodes insulated from the gate electrode and electrically connected to the active layer; a pixel defining layer formed on the source and drain electrodes, having an aperture to expose one of the source and drain electrodes; an intermediate layer formed in the aperture and comprising an organic light emitting layer; and a facing electrode which is formed on the intermediate layer. One of the source and drain electrodes has an extension that operates as a pixel electrode. The aperture exposes the extended portion. The intermediate layer is formed on the extended portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Hyun Kwon, Il-Jeong Lee, Choong-Youl Im, Dae-Hyun No, Cheol-Ho Yu
  • Patent number: 8207664
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) module capable of reducing a processing loss of wiring boards for supplying power to an anode and a cathode is provided. Each wiring board (5) is formed by bending a strip conductor in a manner that parts of the strip in the same surface contacting each other, and is arranged on the outer periphery of the element substrate (2) in a manner of connecting the extended anode (31P) with the same pole and connecting the extended cathode (31M) with the same pole. In this manner, the wiring boards (5) having a width satisfying a shape of the electrodes without cutting a conductive plate into a U shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideharu Kawachi, Hirofumi Konishi, Osamu Tanahashi, Satoshi Fukano, Masanao Okawa
  • Patent number: 8207669
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a first substrate, a plurality of organic light emitting devices on the first substrate, a second substrate arranged opposite and substantially parallel to the first substrate with the organic light emitting devices therebetween, a plurality of spacers between the organic light emitting devices and the second substrate, and a plurality of fillers alternately arranged with the spacers and configured to fill in space between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein at least portions of the spacers overlap with a plurality of light emitting regions corresponding to the organic light emitting devices. The spacers and fillers are composed of transparent materials having refractive indexes similar to each other so that visibility and image quality are not lowered and the distance between the substrates is substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So-Young Lee, Sun-Young Lee, Yoon-Hyeung Cho, Min-Ho Oh, Byoung-Duk Lee, Jong-Hyuk Lee
  • Patent number: 8197096
    Abstract: A light source device includes a light source unit emitting light of a first wavelength and a wavelength converting element converting light of the first wavelength into light of a second wavelength. An external mirror transmits light of the second wavelength toward an emission destination and reflects light of the first wavelength to resonate between the light source unit and the external mirror. A wavelength separating section transmits light converted from the first wavelength to the second wavelength while traveling from the external mirror to the light source unit and reflects light of the first wavelength in order to separate the different wavelength light. A turnback section reflects light of the second wavelength separated by the wavelength separating section toward the emission destination. In addition, the wavelength separating section reflects light of the first wavelength from the light source unit to travel toward the wavelength converting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Kamijima
  • Patent number: 8193699
    Abstract: A display unit capable of preventing breaking of a second electrode and decreasing a leakage current through an organic layer is provided. The display unit includes a plurality of organic light emitting devices over a flat substrate. Each of the plurality of organic light emitting devices has a first electrode, an insulating film having an aperture correspondingly to the first electrode, an organic layer formed at least on the first electrode in the aperture and composed of a plurality of layers including a light emitting layer, and a second electrode sequentially. The insulating film has a low taper section having a tilt angle formed by a side face of the aperture and a flat face of the substrate that is smaller than a tilt angle of the other section of a circumference of the aperture in part of the circumference of the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Fujioka, Yasunobu Hiromasu
  • Patent number: 8193693
    Abstract: An image display device including a light emission section which emits light to an intensity adjusting section and a wavelength conversion section which change the intensity and wavelength of the emitted light. Phosphors and phosphor like materials are employed in wavelength conversion and a liquid crystal is employed for the light adjustment. The light emission device may include plural semiconductor light emitting elements having a different wavelength ranges such as diodes stacked in a compact and predetermined order such that wavelengths of light from each diode are emitted from the light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Satoshi Komoto, Masayuki Ishikawa, Tadashi Umeji, Kuniaki Konno, Koichi Nitta, Haruhiko Okazaki
  • Patent number: 8193696
    Abstract: An oxynitride phosphor including: a compound represented by Formula 1: M1a-xM2x-yCeySib-zAlzOc-xNx,??Formula 1 wherein M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium, zinc, and europium, M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of scandium, yttrium, lutetium, lanthanum, praseodymium, samarium, gadolinium, terbium, ytterbium, and dysprosium, and a is about 1.7 to about 2.3, b is about 0.7 to about 1.3, c is about 3.5 to about 4.5, x is greater than 0 and less than about 2, y is greater than 0 and less than about 0.5, and z is equal to or greater than 0 and less than about 0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-gon Kim, Tae-hyung Kim, Seoung-jae Im
  • Patent number: 8193697
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a substrate and a light-emitting element formed on the substrate. The light-emitting element includes a stacked layer structure portion including a reflective electrode, a light-emitting layer on the reflective electrode and a transparent electrode on the light-emitting layer which are stacked over the substrate with the reflective electrode as a bottom layer, the light-emitting layer having a flat surface provided at least on a portion of the light-emitting layer. A bank is disposed in a peripheral area surrounding the flat surface or on a peripheral portion of the flat surface and has a tilt surface tilted with respect to the flat surface. A conductive film is at least provided on the tilt surface and is electrically connected with the transparent electrode, and forms a reflective surface on the tilt surface, and an optical waveguide layer is provided in an area surrounded by the tilt surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Adachi, Kazutaka Tsuji, Hajime Murakami, Etsuko Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8189641
    Abstract: The semiconductor device includes: a base; a first mount placed on the bottom of the base; a second mount placed on the top of the base; a first light-emitting element placed on the bottom of the first mount; and a second light-emitting element placed on the top of the second mount for emitting light. The first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element are placed so that the emission direction of light from the second light-emitting element is at an angle of depression with respect to the emission direction of light from the first light-emitting element and that the emission direction of light from the first light-emitting element and the emission direction of light from the second light-emitting element substantially coincide with each other as viewed from above the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fukuda, Mitsuhiro Mishima, Isao Hayami
  • Patent number: 8188648
    Abstract: Systems for displaying images and fabrication method thereof are provided. A representative system incorporates an electroluminescent device including light emitting units emitting lights with different luminescent intensities along light emitting paths thereof, formed overlying a substrate. And a compensation layer is disposed along the light emitting paths to adjust the different luminescent intensities for outputting substantially uniform light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Du-Zen Peng, Shih-Chang Chang, Chang-Ho Tseng
  • Patent number: 8187482
    Abstract: A flat panel display and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the manufacturing method includes: i) preparing a substrate, ii) forming a plurality of subpixels on the substrate and iii) forming a light resonating layer including two or more layers on the subpixels, wherein the light resonating layer varies in thickness depending on the subpixels. According to at least one embodiment, it is possible to improve the brightness and the external light coupling efficiency. Further, it is possible to easily manufacture the light resonating layer with the structure in which the low refractive layers alternate with the high refractive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Woo Song, Yoon-Chang Kim, Jong-Seok Oh, Sang-Hwan Cho, Ji-Hoon Ahn, Joon-Gu Lee, So-Young Lee, Jae-Heung Ha
  • Publication number: 20120126686
    Abstract: A fluorescence material and a white light illumination element are provided. The white light illumination element includes a light emitting diode (LED) chip, a first fluorescence material, and a second fluorescence material. The LED chip is configured on a substrate and emits an exciting light. The first fluorescence material and the second fluorescence material are configured on the LED chip. A composition of the first fluorescence material includes an aluminum nitride oxide doped with at least one of europium (Eu) and manganese (Mn). A first emitted light emitted by the first fluorescence material after the first fluorescence material absorbs the exciting light emitted from the LED chip and a second emitted light emitted by the second fluorescence material after the second fluorescence material absorbs the exciting light emitted from the LED chip are mixed to generate a white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: CHUNGHWA PICTURE TUBES, LTD.
    Inventors: Chuang-Hung Chiu, Huai-An Li
  • Patent number: 8183765
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus including a common substrate, a plurality of controlled electronic devices disposed over the common substrate, and a wiring layer having a plurality of conductors formed on the common substrate. A plurality of chiplets are located over the common substrate, each chiplet having an independent substrate separate from the common substrate, each independent substrate having a bottom side opposing a top side with one or more connection pads formed on the bottom side of the chiplet, and each chiplet including circuitry for controlling functions of one or more of the controlled electronic devices. The chiplets are adhered to the common substrate with the bottom side of the chiplet closer to the common substrate than the top side of the chiplet, and each connection pad is electrically connected to one of the plurality of conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, John W. Hamer
  • Publication number: 20120112626
    Abstract: A white light-emitting semiconductor device having improved reproducibility of bright red. The device outputs light having a blue component, a green component, and a red component. Each of the light components (blue, green, and red) consists of a light-emitting semiconductor element and/or a phosphor that absorbs light emitted by a light-emitting semiconductor element and emits light through wavelength conversion. The outputted light has a spectrum which has a maximum wavelength in the range of 615-645 nm, and the intensity at a wavelength of 580 nm of the outputted light, which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux, is 80-100% of the intensity at a wavelength of 580 nm of standard light for color rendering evaluation, which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki SAKUTA, Kazuhiko KAGAWA, Yoshihito Satou, Hiroaki Okagawa, Shin Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 8174179
    Abstract: A top emission type organic light emitting display apparatus that can improve contrast without using a black matrix and can simply the manufacture of a color filter. The top emission type organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, an organic light emitting device arranged on the substrate and including a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer arranged opposite to each other and an organic light emitting layer arranged between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, an encapsulating member arranged to encapsulate the organic light emitting device, a polarizing film arranged on the encapsulating member and a color filter arranged between the encapsulating member and the polarizing film, the color filter being arranged directly on the polarizing film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min-Chul Suh
  • Patent number: 8169135
    Abstract: A semiconductor lighting device includes a semiconductor light emitter packaged on a reflective substrate to emit a first light and a remote wavelength conversion layer on a back-transferred light path to convert the back-transferred first light into a forward second light. A filter is disposed on a light emitting forward path with a space to the semiconductor light emitter to reflect back at least a portion of the first light. A diffusive member may be positioned outside of the filter to diffuse the forward passing light before it exits from the semiconductor lighting device. As a second aspect of this invention, a solid state lighting device includes a short wavelength semiconductor emitter; a long wavelength semiconductor emitter with wavelength in reddish orange range; a filter on a light emitting forward path to reflect back a portion of short wavelength first light; and a wavelength conversion component on a back-transferred light path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Lednovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinhui Zhai, Israel J. Morejon, Thong Bui