IP Library Granted Patent US 9,958,391
Granted Patent B2
US 9,958,391 · App. 15/496,011 · Granted May 1, 2018

Lighting device

Inventors: Jan Oliver Drumm (Regensburg, DE); Jens Richter (Deuerling, DE)
Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
G01N21/6445B60Q11/005F21S48/1145F21V9/16F21Y2115/30
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Patent No.
US 9,958,391
App. No.
15/496,011
Granted
May 1, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

In various embodiments, a lighting device is provided. The lighting device includes a phosphor volume for at least partial wavelength conversion of primary light into secondary light, a primary light semiconductor light source for irradiating the phosphor volume with primary light, a measurement light generating arrangement for generating measurement light having a spectral composition outside the primary light and the secondary light, a measurement light detector sensitive to the measurement light, and a measurement light filter, which is fixedly connected to the phosphor volume and is optically arranged between the measurement light generating arrangement and the measurement light detector.

Claims (41)

1. A lighting device, comprising:

a phosphor volume for at least partial wavelength conversion of primary light into secondary light;

a primary light semiconductor light source for irradiating the phosphor volume with primary light;

a measurement light generating arrangement for generating measurement light having a spectral composition outside the primary light and the secondary light;

a measurement light detector sensitive to the measurement light; and

a measurement light filter, which is fixedly connected to the phosphor volume and is optically arranged between the measurement light generating arrangement and the measurement light detector.

2. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the measurement light filter is a filter layer applied to the phosphor volume.

3. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein a thickness of the measurement light filter is at least five times smaller than a thickness of the phosphor volume.

4. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the measurement light filter has been produced on the phosphor volume.

5. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the phosphor volume is a laminar ceramic phosphor body.

6. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the measurement light filter is a filter that reflects the measurement light.

7. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the measurement light filter is a filter that absorbs the measurement light.

8. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the measurement light generating arrangement comprises at least one measurement light semiconductor light source.

9. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the measurement light generating arrangement comprises

the phosphor volume, which is additionally designed for converting at least one of the primary light or the secondary light into the measurement light, or

a phosphor layer present between the phosphor volume and the measurement light filter.

10. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the measurement light is at least one of pulsed or modulated measurement light.

11. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the measurement light generating arrangement and the measurement light detector are situated in a transmissive arrangement with respect to the measurement light filter.

12. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein an additional reference measurement light detector is irradiatable directly by means of the measurement light semiconductor light source.

13. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the measurement light generating arrangement and the measurement light detector are situated in a reflective arrangement with respect to the measurement light filter.

14. The lighting device of claim 1 ,

wherein the lighting device is designed as a vehicle illumination device.

15. A headlight, comprising:

at least one lighting device, comprising:

a phosphor volume for at least partial wavelength conversion of primary light into secondary light;

a primary light semiconductor light source for irradiating the phosphor volume with primary light;

a measurement light generating arrangement for generating measurement light having a spectral composition outside the primary light and the secondary light;

a measurement light detector sensitive to the measurement light; and

a measurement light filter, which is fixedly connected to the phosphor volume and is optically arranged between the measurement light generating arrangement and the measurement light detector.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 19, 2019
From: OSRAM GMBH
To: OSRAM BETEILIGUNGSVERWALTUNG GMBH
Reel/Frame 051381/0677 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 1, 2017
From: DRUMM, JAN OLIVER; RICHTER, JENS
To: OSRAM GMBH
Reel/Frame 044001/0980 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2016 207 757 · May 4, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
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