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Patent US7235189 - Method of producing a wavelength-converting casting composition - Google Patents
The wavelength-converting casting composition is based on a transparent epoxy casting resin with a luminous substance admixed. The composition is used in an electroluminescent component having a body that emits ultraviolet, blue or green light. An inorganic luminous substance pigment powder with luminous...http://www.google.com/patents/US7235189?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7235189 - Method of producing a wavelength-converting casting composition
Publication number US7235189 B2
Application number US 09/731,406
Also published as CN1156029C, CN1207206A, CN1273537C, CN1515623A, CN1558454A, CN1558455A, CN1560931A, CN1567608A, CN100367521C, CN100492681C, CN100492682C, CN100492683C, CN101081909A, CN101081909B, CN101081910A, DE19638667A1, DE19638667C2, DE29724284U1, DE29724382U1, DE29724849U1, DE29724849U9, DE59708820D1, DE59713056D1, EP0862794A1, EP0862794B1, EP1221724A2, EP1221724A3, EP1221724B1, US6066861, US6245259, US6277301, US6592780, US7276736, US7709852, US8071996, US20010028053, US20010045647, US20040016908, US20040084687, US20070216281, US20100176344, WO1998012757A1
Publication number 09731406, 731406, US 7235189 B2, US 7235189B2, US-B2-7235189, US7235189 B2, US7235189B2
Patent Citations (106), Non-Patent Citations (100), Referenced by (50), Classifications (61), Legal Events (8)
US 7235189 B2
17. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises, prior to the mixing step, tempering the luminous substance pigments at a temperature of ≧200° C.
providing a luminous substance pigment powder of luminous substance pigments from a phosphorus group having the general formula A3B5X12:M; tempering the luminous substance pigment powder at a temperature of ≦200° C. and subsequently mixing the tempered pigment powder with the epoxy casting resin.
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U.S. Classification 252/301.36, 257/E33.074, 252/301.40R
International Classification F21V5/04, F21V9/16, C09K11/08, C09K11/80, B29K63/00, C08K9/00, C09K11/00, H01L33/56, H05B33/12, C09K11/64, C08K3/30, C08K7/00, C08K3/22, H01L23/31, H05B33/04, B29C39/02, C09K11/62, C08L63/00, C09K11/79, B29K105/16, F21Y101/02, H01L23/29, H01S5/32, C09K11/77, C09K11/02, H01L33/48, H01L33/50
Cooperative Classification H01L2924/181, H01L24/73, H01L2224/8592, H01L2224/48472, H01L2224/48257, H01L2224/48247, H01L2224/32245, H01L2224/48091, H01L2224/49107, H01L2224/73265, H01L33/502, H01L33/486, C09K11/7769, C09K11/7718, H01L2933/0091, C09K11/7721, Y02B20/181, C09K11/7774, H01L33/56, C09K11/7767, C09K11/7746, C09K11/7749
European Classification H01L33/50B2, C09K11/77M6, C09K11/77S2, C09K11/77M2D, C09K11/77S6, C09K11/77P6, C09K11/77P2D, C09K11/77S2H, H01L33/48C2
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