Patent 7435997 was granted and assigned to Osram on October, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A device (1) with a number of light emitting diode chips (5) in a reflector (3) is formed in such a way that the direct line of sight between the light emitting diode chips (5) is interrupted by a partition (11). This improves the efficiency of the device (1) substantially.