Lighting apparatus

• US 10,539,300 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2016
• Issued: 01/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Suzhou Lekin Semiconductor Company Limited
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Ki Hyun, Kim, Hwa Young, Im, Chang Hyuk
• Primary Examiner(s): Hanley, Britt D
• Application Number:
  US15/580,574
• Publication Number:
  US 20180163947A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,322 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/62 using mixing chambers, e.g. housings with reflective walls
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 13/08 the elements being filters or photoluminescent elements and reflectors
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/01 Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts F21V15/02 takes precedence housings forming signs or letters G09F13/04
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/70 characterised by passive heat-dissipating elements, e.g. heat-sinks
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/0008 providing for indirect lighting
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/0033 with successive reflections from one reflector to the next or following
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/0066 specially adapted to cooperate with point like light sources; specially adapted to cooperate with light sources the shape of which is unspecified F21V7/16 - F21V7/30 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/04 Optical design
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/048 with facets structure
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/06 with parabolic curvature
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

The lighting apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a housing including first and second back covers each having an inside surface in a parabola shape; a recess opened at a lower portion of the first and second back covers; a light-transmissive sheet arranged obliquely in a recess of the first and second back covers; a light emitting module between the recesses of the first and second back covers; a heat dissipation body in which the light emitting module is disposed; and a first reflective sheet for reflecting light on an inside surface of the first and second back covers, wherein the heat dissipation body includes a heat dissipation portion in which the first and second light emitting modules are disposed and a reflecting portion disposed between the heat dissipation portion and a lower end portion of the light-transmissive sheet, and the first reflective sheet has a plurality of reflective surfaces.

Claims

1. A lighting apparatus, comprising:

a housing having a first back cover including a recess at lower portion and a reflective surface of a parabolic shape;

a first light emitting module disposed on a first corner of the recess of the back cover and having a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged in a first direction;

a heat dissipation body in which the first light emitting module is disposed, the heat dissipation body having a heat dissipation portion; and

a light-transmissive sheet disposed in an oblique direction at a recess of the housing and transmitting light emitted from the LEDs,

wherein the reflective surface includes a first reflection region adjacent to the LEDs and a second reflection region disposed between an upper portion of the light-transmissive sheet and the first reflection region,

wherein the first reflection region reflects light incident from the LEDs to a different region of the second reflection region,

wherein the second reflection region reflects irregular light incident from the first reflection region to a center region of the light-transmissive sheet,

wherein the light-transmissive sheet has a first end and a second end, and includes a lower region which is disposed at a lower position than a horizontal straight line with respect to the plurality of LEDs and the upper region which is disposed at a higher position than the horizontal straight line, wherein the first end of the light-transmissive sheet is in the lower region, and the second end of the light-transmissive sheet is in the upper region; and

wherein the heat dissipation body includes a third reflection region disposed between the LEDs and a lower end portion of the light-transmissive sheet, a first end of the third reflection region is to couple to the first end of the light-transmissive sheet, and a second end of the third reflection region is to couple to the heat dissipation portion,

wherein the third reflection region has a concave curved surface between the first end and the second end, and the third reflection region reflects specularly the incident light to the light-transmissive sheet and the second reflection region.

2. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first reflection region and the third reflection region include a metal material and the second reflection region includes a non-metallic material.

3. The lighting apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the heat dissipation body is disposed on the first corner of the recess.

4. A lighting apparatus, comprising:

a housing including first and second back covers disposed on opposite sides of a center and each having an inside surface in a parabola shape;

an recess opened at lower portions of the first and second back covers;

a first light-transmissive sheet disposed in an oblique direction in a recess of the first back cover;

a second light-transmissive sheet disposed in an oblique direction in a recess of the second back cover;

a first light emitting module having a plurality of LEDs arranged in a first direction at a first corner of the recess of the first back cover;

a second light emitting module having a plurality of LEDs arranged in the first direction at a second corner of the recess of the second back cover;

a heat dissipation body in which the first and second light emitting modules are disposed in a region between the recess of the first back cover and the recess of the second back cover; and

a first reflective sheet disposed adjacent to the LEDs in the inside surfaces of the first and second back covers, and reflecting first side light emitted from the plurality of LEDs,

wherein the heat dissipation body includes a first heat dissipation portion in which the first light emitting module is disposed, a second heat dissipation portion in which the second light emitting module is disposed, a first reflecting portion disposed between the first heat dissipation portion and a lower end of the first light-transmissive sheet, and a second reflecting portion disposed between the second heat dissipation portion and a lower end of the second light-transmissive sheet,

wherein the first reflective sheet has a plurality of reflective surfaces,

wherein the first light-transmissive sheet includes a lower region which is disposed at a lower position than a first horizontal straight line with respect to the LEDs of the first light emitting module and an upper region which is disposed at a higher position than the first horizontal straight line, wherein a first end of the first light-transmissive sheet is in the lower region, and a second end of the first light-transmissive sheet is in the upper region, and

wherein the second light-transmissive sheet includes a lower region which is disposed at a lower position than a second horizontal straight line with respect to the LEDs of the second light emitting module and an upper region which is disposed at a higher position than the second horizontal straight line, wherein a first end of the second light-transmissive sheet is in the lower region, and a second end of the second light-transmissive sheet is in the upper region, and

wherein a first end of the first reflecting portion is to couple to the first end of the first light-transmissive sheet and a second end of the first reflecting portion is to couple to the first heat dissipation portion, wherein the first reflecting portion has a concave curved surface between the first end and the second end; and

wherein a first end of the second reflecting portion is to couple to the first end of the second light-transmissive sheet and a second end of the second reflecting portion is to couple to the second heat dissipation portion, wherein the second reflecting portion has a concave curved surface between the first end and the second end.

5. The lighting apparatus of claim 4, wherein the first and second back covers have a shape linearly symmetrical with respect to a centerline, forms the inside surfaces of the first and second back covers into a convex curved surface, and includes a second reflective sheet disposed on the inside surfaces of the first and second back covers, wherein the second reflective sheet is disposed between the first reflective sheet and an upper end portion of the first and second light-transmissive sheets, respectively, and the second reflective sheet reflects the light reflected from the plurality of LEDs and the first reflective sheet to the first and second light-transmissive sheets.

6. The lighting apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first and second reflecting portions of the heat dissipation body include a third reflective sheet having a large number of reflective surfaces having different radii of curvature than the surfaces of the first and second reflecting portions.

7. The lighting apparatus of claim 6, wherein the third reflective sheet reflects specularly the light incident from the plurality of LEDs to an upper region of the second reflective sheet and an upper region of the first and second light-transmissive sheets.

8. The lighting apparatus of claim 4, wherein the first and second light-transmissive sheets include a diffusion sheet.

9. The lighting apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first reflective sheet includes a specular reflection material, and

wherein the first and second light-transmissive sheets includes a diffusion sheet.

10. The lighting apparatus of claim 9, wherein the second reflective sheet includes a scattered reflection material.

11. The lighting apparatus of claim 4, wherein the reflective surfaces of the first reflective sheet have different radii of curvature, and radii of curvature of the reflective surfaces of the first reflective sheet gradually increase as getting far away from a center of a top surface of the LEDs.

12. The lighting apparatus of claim 6, wherein a radius of curvature of the reflective surface of the third reflective sheet gradually increases as getting farther away from a center of a top surface of the LEDs.

13. The lighting apparatus of claim 6, wherein the third reflective sheet is disposed closer to the LEDs than the first reflective sheet.

14. The lighting apparatus of claim 4, wherein the first and second light emitting modules include a circuit board on which the LEDs are disposed, the circuit board of the first and second light emitting modules is disposed on the first and second heat dissipation portions, the first and second heat dissipation portions have a perpendicular surface, and the circuit board of the first and second light emitting modules is disposed in parallel, and

wherein the first and second dissipation portions are disposed on opposite sides of the center of the housing.

15. The lighting apparatus of claim 4, comprising:

a heat dissipation cover disposed below the heat dissipation body,

wherein the heat dissipation cover includes a lower portion plate disposed under lower end portions of the first and second light-transmissive sheets.

16. The lighting apparatus of claim 15, wherein the lower portion plate of the heat dissipation cover is disposed and inclined from a lower portion center of the heat dissipation cover.

17. The lighting apparatus of claim 16, wherein the lower end portions of the first and second light-transmissive sheets are disposed between the first and second reflecting portions of the heat dissipation body and the lower portion plate of the heat dissipation cover.

18. The lighting apparatus of claim 16, wherein an LED of the plurality of LEDs includes a body having a cavity, a light emitting chip disposed in the cavity of the body, and a molding member having a phosphor disposed in the cavity, and an angle formed by the first and second light-transmissive sheets with respect to an optical axis of the LED is 13 degrees or less.