# US 9,519,051 B2 · Optoelectronic device and apparatus having such a device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,519,051 B2 - Document ID: US9519051B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/405,750 - Filed: 2013-04-25 - Published: 2015-06-25 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2012-06-06 - Assignees: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH - Applicants: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH - Inventors: Hubert Halbritter - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9519051B2 ## CPC - G01S 7/4813: {Housing arrangements} - G01S 17/04: Systems determining the presence of a target - G01S 17/08: for measuring distance only (indirect measurement G01S17/46; active triangulation systems G01S17/48) - H03K 17/941: {using an optical detector (H03K17/968 takes precedence)} - H03K 17/9631: {using a light source as part of the switch} - H10F 55/255: formed in, or on, a common substrate - H03K 2217/94108: making use of reflection - G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES - H03K: PULSE TECHNIQUE (measuring pulse characteristics G01R; modulating sinusoidal oscillations with pulses H03C; transmission of digital information H04L; discriminator circuits detecting phase difference between two signals by counting or integrating cycles of oscillation H03D3/04; automatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses where the type of generator is irrelevant or unspecified H03L; coding, decoding or code conversion, in general H03M) - H10F: INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION ## Abstract An optoelectronic device has a first component provided to generate radiation, a second component provided to receive radiation, a connection board and a frame. The first component and the second component are arranged on the connection board. The frame is arranged on the connection board. The first component is arranged in a first opening in the frame. The second component is arranged in a second opening in the frame. The first opening and the second opening extend from a main face of the frame opposite the connection board in the direction of the connection board. The main face between the first opening and the second opening has an intermediate region, in which a reflection of radiation incident on the main face is reduced. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An optoelectronic device comprising: a connection carrier; a frame arranged on the connection carrier; a first component arranged on the connection carrier in a first opening of the frame, the first component provided for generating radiation arranged on the connection carrier; and a second component arranged on the connection carrier in a second opening of the frame, the second component provided for receiving radiation; wherein the first opening and the second opening extend from a main surface of the frame located opposite the connection carrier in a direction of the connection carrier; and wherein the main surface has an intermediate region between the first opening and the second opening, wherein a reflection of radiation impinging on the main surface is reduced in the intermediate region, and wherein the intermediate region includes a structuring having a depression. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the structuring has a plurality of depressions and wherein a web-shaped elevation of the frame is formed between two adjacent depressions. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The device according to claim 2, wherein the web-shaped elevation is inclined toward the first component as viewed from the connection carrier in the direction of the main surface. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The device according to claim 2, wherein the web-shaped elevation tapers from the connection carrier in the direction of the main surface. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The device according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of web-shaped elevations are formed between the depressions and, in a plan view of the main surface, a radius of curvature of a web-shaped elevation is smaller than a radius of curvature of a web-shaped elevation that is further away from the first component. ### Claim 6 An optoelectronic device comprising: a connection carrier; a frame arranged on the connection carrier; a first component arranged on the connection carrier in a first opening of the frame, the first component provided for generating radiation arranged on the connection carrier; and a second component arranged on the connection carrier in a second opening of the frame, the second component provided for receiving radiation; wherein the first opening and the second opening extend from a main surface of the frame located opposite the connection carrier in a direction of the connection carrier; and wherein the main surface has an intermediate region between the first opening and the second opening, wherein a reflection of radiation impinging on the main surface is reduced in the intermediate region, and wherein the intermediate region has a surface region of the main surface that runs obliquely with respect to the connection carrier. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The device according to claim 6, wherein the intermediate region has a ridge line running parallel or substantially parallel to a connecting line between the first component and the second component, wherein the surface region runs obliquely with respect to the connection carrier in a transverse direction running perpendicular to the ridge line. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The device according to claim 7, wherein, on both sides of the ridge line, a distance between the intermediate region and the connection carrier decreases with increasing distance from the ridge line. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the optoelectronic device is embodied as a proximity sensor. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the optoelectronic device is embodied as a surface mounted device. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the device is provided for operation in an apparatus having a radiation window and the second component is provided for receiving a radiation that is emitted by the first component through the radiation window and is reflected at a target object. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The device according to claim 11, wherein the intermediate region has a structuring formed in such a way that radiation that is emitted by the first component and reflected at the radiation window, upon first impinging on the intermediate region, is deflected predominantly toward the first component. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The device according to claim 11, wherein the intermediate region has a structuring formed in such a way that radiation that is emitted by the first component and reflected at the radiation window, upon first impinging on the intermediate region, is directed predominantly away from a plane running through a connecting line between the first component and the second component and perpendicular to the connection carrier. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) An apparatus comprising a radiation window and a device according to claim 1, wherein the second component is provided for receiving a radiation that is emitted by the first component through the radiation window and is reflected at a target object. ### Claim 15 An optoelectronic device comprising: a connection carrier; a frame arranged on the connection carrier; a first component arranged on the connection carrier in a first opening of the frame, the first component provided for generating radiation arranged on the connection carrier; a second component arranged on the connection carrier in a second opening of the frame, the second component provided for receiving radiation; and wherein the first opening and the second opening extend from a main surface of the frame located opposite the connection carrier in a direction of the connection carrier; wherein the main surface has an intermediate region between the first opening and the second opening; and wherein the intermediate region has a structuring having a depression or a surface region of the main surface that runs obliquely with respect to the connection carrier. ### Claim 16 (depends on 6) The device according to claim 6, wherein the optoelectronic device is embodied as a surface mounted device. ### Claim 17 (depends on 6) The device according to claim 6, wherein the device is provided for operation in an apparatus having a radiation window and the second component is provided for receiving a radiation that is emitted by the first component through the radiation window and is reflected at a target object. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The device according to claim 17, wherein the intermediate region has a structuring formed in such a way that radiation that is emitted by the first component and reflected at the radiation window, upon first impinging on the intermediate region, is deflected predominantly toward the first component. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The device according to claim 17, wherein the intermediate region has a structuring formed in such a way that radiation that is emitted by the first component and reflected at the radiation window, upon first impinging on the intermediate region, is directed predominantly away from a plane running through a connecting line between the first component and the second component and perpendicular to the connection carrier. ### Claim 20 (depends on 6) An apparatus comprising a radiation window and a device according to claim 6, wherein the second component is provided for receiving a radiation that is emitted by the first component through the radiation window and is reflected at a target object.