Slide 1: EnabLED Licensing Program for LED Luminaires and Retrofit Bulbs
EnabLED Licensing Program for LED Luminaires and Retrofit Bulbs Signify Intellectual Property (for information purposes only) March 2025
Slide 2: Agenda
Agenda Introduction Program outline Contact info Core Technology Examples This presentation is for information purposes only. It is not intended to be a contract and shall not be legally binding in any respect on any party. There shall be no contract until a final written contract is signed by autho
Slide 3: What are the benefits?
What are the benefits? • The business drivers for the Licensee –Preferred and more economic solutions –More flexibility in component sourcing –More freedom for optimal solution • The business drivers for the Licensee and Signify –Accelerate growth of LED luminaires and retrofit bulb markets –Enable
Slide 4: LED Lighting Systems - What's Involved?
LED Lighting Systems - What’s Involved? 4 Signify Intellectual Property (For information purposes only)
Slide 5: What does the program cover?
What does the program cover? • The product scope: –Finished, branded, LED Luminaires and Retrofits • The field of use –General Illumination (Professional and Residential) –Architectural, Theatrical and Entertainment fields • The scope of the licensed patents: –Basic LED control and system-level tech
Slide 6: What is the licensed Patent Portfolio?
What is the licensed Patent Portfolio? • More than 650 inventions • More than 5000 granted patents • More than 140 pending patent applications • Worldwide –(e.g. US, Europe, Turkey, China, Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Mexico) 6 Signify Intellectual Property (For informa
Slide 7: What are the key steps to an agreement?
What are the key steps to an agreement? 1. You meet with Signify IP Licensing representative Signify licensing specialists operate globally and are ready to respond to your questions. They will work with you on every step, so you can quickly start using our patent-protected technology 2. Portfolio A
Slide 8: What are the Royalties for LED Luminaires?
What are the Royalties for LED Luminaires? • The royalties are based on Net Revenues – 3% for Single Color Luminaires (fixed color temperature white or color) – 4% for Tunable White Luminaires (color temperature controllable) – 5% for Color Changing Luminaires (Charged only for manufacturing or sale
Slide 9: What are the Royalties for LED Retrofit Bulbs?
What are the Royalties for LED Retrofit Bulbs? • The royalties are based on Net Revenues: –5% –Minimum 0.25 Euro per unit* (Charged only for manufacturing or sales in countries where Signify has at least one issued patent covering a feature of the licensed product) • “LED-based Retrofit Bulb” means:
Slide 10: How to use qualified components?
How to use qualified components? No royalties will be due on luminaires only using Qualified Components provided that the following are all from a Qualified Supplier: • all LED light-engine modules (LEDs placed on one or more common circuit board(s)); and • all LED drivers; and • all components, if
Slide 11: What are the Qualified Suppliers?
What are the Qualified Suppliers? • Our Qualified Suppliers are; – Signify – Lumileds (only for light engine modules) – Osram GmbH – Zumtobel AG • You still need to enter into a license agreement with Signify – even if all luminaires only include components from Qualified Suppliers 11 Signify Intell
Slide 12: How to use the EnabLED member logo?
How to use the EnabLED member logo? The personalized EnabLED member logo • An official logo which you can use ‒ to make your customers aware of being a member of the EnabLED Program. ‒ It can be used on your website, catalogue and brochure. • The logo also incorporates a unique QR code linking to ou
Slide 13: Contact
Contact Mail: info.SSLlicensing@signify.com Web: signify.com/enabled 13 Signify Intellectual Property (For information purposes only)
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Slide 15: LED Lighting Systems – Examples of what could be involved
LED Lighting Systems – Examples of what could be involved
Slide 16: Core Technologies for LED Lighting Systems
Core Technologies for LED Lighting Systems 16 Signify Intellectual Property (For information purposes only)
Slide 17: Driving LEDs
Driving LEDs • Application: Efficient and safe LED light source driving and control • Advantage: Allows accurate control and protection of driver circuitry in case of changes in the LEDs at the output, such as overvoltage, short circuits or malfunctioning of an individual LED in a string; inrush cur
Slide 18: Dimming
Dimming • Application: Power control with dimming • Advantage: Re-use existing dimmers (e.g., phase-cut, 1-10V); Deep dimming; Mimic existing incandescent look; Improve dimmer compatibility; High power factor and power efficiency in dimmable drivers • Example Patents: –North America: US7288902, 7511
Slide 19: Emergency Lighting
Emergency Lighting • Application: Emergency lighting with charging and/or reporting functionality; Capacitor backup power • Advantage: Reduces additional wiring of conventional systems; Provides status reporting, including power failure • Example Patents: –North America: US7204622, 8115397, 8183783,
Slide 20: Feedback Control
Feedback Control • Application: Color quality and lifetime improvement using temperature feedback and control • Advantage: Produce and maintain high quality light output with less dependency on temperature of light source(s) and ambient temperature • Example Patents: –North America: US7635957, 78029
Slide 21: Powercore Feed Forward Control
Powercore Feed Forward Control • Application: Power control (for single color or white, tunable white and color-changing) • Advantage: Increase power efficiencies; Easier system installations and lower system costs by eliminating stand-alone power supplies • Example Patents: –North America: US723311
Slide 22: Warm Dimming Incandescent Emulation
Warm Dimming Incandescent Emulation • Application: Using LEDs to emulate warm dimming features of incandescent bulbs • Advantage: Create white light with natural warm dimming effects • Example Patents: –North America: US7288902, 7719209, 7791289, 8120279, 8203284, 8277078, 8587205, 9253849, 9730291,
Slide 23: Filament Based LED Products
Filament Based LED Products • Application: Using LEDs and filament forms to generate light • Advantage: Mimic conventional carbon filaments bulbs; Improve homogeneity and luminous efficacy of filament LED bulbs; Reduce filament shadowing effects • Example Patents: –North America: US7543956, 7810974,
Slide 24: LED-based Lamp for Replacing TL Fluorescent Lamp With Safety Features
LED-based Lamp for Replacing TL Fluorescent Lamp With Safety Features • Application: General illumination and specialty applications • Advantage: Energy-efficient, long-life and mercury-free alternative to fluorescent tubes with safe installation features, including improved safety and compatibility
Slide 25: Driver Configuration
Driver Configuration • Application: Custom configuration of lighting and LED drivers using NFC, RFID, configuration resistors • Advantage: Lighting manufacturers can offer broad luminaire product portfolios with reduced driver diversity; Provides custom LED string light output luminous flux; NFC dri
Slide 26: Multi Spectrum High Quality White Light
Multi Spectrum High Quality White Light • Application: Using two or more different LEDs to generate light (for single color or white, tunable white and color-changing) • Advantage: Achieve desired color of light or color temperature of white light, for both static and dynamic (e.g., color-changing)
Slide 27: Spectral Tuning
Spectral Tuning • Application: White color generation • Advantage: Blue peak manipulation; Produce high quality white light with reduced melatonin production; Provide high CRI; Natural, crisp white light; Circadian rhythm tuned light; Product specific light spectra • Example Patents: –North America:
Slide 28: Efficient Light Control
Efficient Light Control • Application: Efficient light projection in lens and/or reflector-based lighting systems • Advantage: Homogeneous illumination of an area without dazzling the user; Efficient lens based light output in narrow-beam applications; • Example Patents: –North America: US7806558, 8
Slide 29: Light Source Mixing and Distribution
Light Source Mixing and Distribution • Application: Light output control • Advantage: Effective and efficient blending and directing of LED light output • Example Patents: –North America: US7255458, 8556456, 9151469, 9541240; CA2533195 –Europe: EP2414876, 2556294, 2721656 –Asia: CN102378928, 1028122
Slide 30: Uniform Mixed LED Color Output
Uniform Mixed LED Color Output • Application: Multi color or tunable white LED • Advantage: Provides good color/tunable white mixing; Eliminates unequal phosphor effects in phosphor converted LEDs • Example Patents: –North America: US7255458, 7866845, 7988327, 8628220, 9279547, 9689555, 10364959; CA
Slide 31: LED Glare Reduction
LED Glare Reduction • Application: Where comfortable LED light output is required • Advantage: Reduces LED glare effects and provides uniform light output • Example Patents: –North America: US7520636, 8425101, 8579473, 8070328, 8979319, 9810380 –Europe: EP1948995, 2150851, 2326869, 2748517 –Asia: CN
Slide 32: Asymmetric LED Light Output
Asymmetric LED Light Output • Application: Asymmetrical, directed LED light applications • Advantage: Provides LED light output only to directions and areas that need to be illuminated • Example Patents: –North America: US7182480, 7670038, 7566155, 7652300, 7658506, 7866845; CA2452348, 2557447, 2643
Slide 33: Smart Retrofit Lamps
Smart Retrofit Lamps • Application: Smart lamps • Advantage: Antennas to improve communication; Simplified commissioning; Intuitive control • Example Patents: –North America: US7358961, 7417556, 7980726, 8013545, 8421376, 8531137, 8893968, 8896414, 9184497, 9345105, 9881275, 10075558, 10142443, 1084
Slide 34: Wireless Communication
Wireless Communication • Application: Wireless connectivity including point to point, mesh networking and master slave networking • Advantage: Provides, for example, 2-way, bi-directional communication, dual mode Zigbee-Bluetooth • Example Patents: –North America: US7417556, 8359051, 8923324, 925370
Slide 35: Connectivity
Connectivity • Application: Wired and wireless connectivity including point to point and mesh networking • Advantage: Provides, for example, 2-way, bi-directional communication, master and slave communication, DALI improvements, multi-protocol communication • Example Patents: –North America: US72046
Slide 36: Lighting Systems
Lighting Systems • Application: Network control • Advantage: Effective and efficient operation, communication and/or interaction by or between multiple devices • Example Patents: –North America: US7204622, 7417556, 8218547, 8923324, 8981672 –Europe: EP1537764, 1535495, 1938666, 3445021 –Asia: CN1679
Slide 37: Commissioning
Commissioning • Application: Automatically assigning lighting nodes to switching control nodes • Advantage: Reduces commissioning time in lighting installations • Example Patents: –North America: US8665762, 9253040, 9374268, 9578722, 9615434, 10075558, 10117314, 10142443, 10159138 –Europe: EP1665552
Slide 38: Sensoring
Sensoring • Application: Sensing light, sound, color, temperature and/or people in the environment to improve lighting • Advantage: Allows lighting to react to, and learn from, environmental changes, in an intelligent and controlled manner and/or complement ambient light • Example Patents: –North Am
Slide 39: $10M L Prize Winning Technology
$10M L Prize Winning Technology • Application: Efficient LED lamps with omnidirectional high-quality light and award-winning reliability • Advantage: Energy efficient omnidirectional high-quality light output whilst maintaining cooling efficiency • Example Patents: –North America: US8314537, 8624513
Slide 40: Thermal Management
Thermal Management • Application: Provide well managed heat removal from LED lights source and/or driver • Advantage: Enables extended product reliability and lifetime • Example Patents: –North America: US7178941, 7348604, 7911118, 8207821, 8330387, 8729781, 9111822, 9383081, 9791141; CA2606687, 261
Slide 41: User Interface and Atmosphere Creation
User Interface and Atmosphere Creation • Application: Create static and dynamic atmospheres using lighting with simple and intuitive user interfaces • Advantage: Simplification and Enhancement of User Interfaces • Example Patents: –North America: US7358961, 7980726, 8356904, 8427721, 8456100, 880776
Slide 42: Intelligent Color Illumination
Intelligent Color Illumination • Application: Intelligent RGB color control • Advantage: Allows creation of simple to sophisticated illumination effects; Smooth and dynamic color changing; Intuitive user interaction, including “Color Picker” color selection from photographs, images and videos • Exam
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