LED lamp with light emitting surface having first region, second region and third region

• US 10,677,440 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2019
• Issued: 06/09/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jiaxing Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Jiaxing Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Jiang, Tao, Wang, Mingbin, Xiong, Aiming, Zhou, Lin
• Primary Examiner(s): Alavi, Ali
• Application Number:
  US16/568,281
• Publication Number:
  US 20200003406A1
• Time in Patent Office: 271 Days
• Field of Search: 362294
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/233 specially adapted for generating a spot light distribution, e.g. for substitution of reflector lamps
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/235 Details of bases or caps, i.e. the parts that connect the light source to a fitting; Arrangement of components within bases or caps F21K9/238 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/237 Details of housings or cases, i.e. the parts between the light-generating element and the bases; Arrangement of components within housings or cases F21K9/238 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/238 Arrangement or mounting of circuit elements integrated in the light source
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/66 Details of globes or covers forming part of the light source
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/68 Details of reflectors forming part of the light source
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/009 the casing being inside the housing of the lighting device
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/503 of light sources cooling arrangements structurally associated with gas-discharge or vapour-discharge lamps H01J61/52; cooling arrangements structurally associated with electric incandescent lamps H01K1/58; cooling arrangements structurally associated with light-emitting diodes H01L33/64
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/508 of electrical circuits
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/773 the planes containing the fins or blades having the direction of the light emitting axis
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/83 the elements having apertures, ducts or channels, e.g. heat radiation holes
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/0025 Combination of two or more reflectors for a single light source array of reflectors for a cluster of light sources F21V7/0083
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2103/33 annular
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/18 annular; polygonal other than square or rectangular, e.g. for spotlights or for generating an axially symmetrical light beam
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 11/04 Frequency selective two-port networks
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/0115 comprising only inductors and capacitors H03H7/075, H03H7/09, H03H7/12, H03H7/13 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/00 Circuit arrangements for operating light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/37 Converter circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/395 Linear regulators
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/56 : involving measures to prevent abnormal temperature of the LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/00 : Energy efficient lighting technologies, e.g. halogen lamps or gas discharge lamps
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/30 : Semiconductor lamps, e.g. solid state lamps [SSL] light emitting diodes [LED] or organic LED [OLED]

Abstract

An LED lamp includes: a lamp shell including a lamp head, a lamp neck and a sleeve; a passive heat dissipating element having a heat sink connected to the lamp shell; a power source having a first portion and a second portion; a light emitting surface connected to the heat sink of the passive heat dissipating element and comprising LED chips electrically connected to the power source; a first heat dissipating channel formed in a first chamber of the lamp shell for dissipating heat generated from the power source while the LED lamp is working, and the first chamber is located between bottom of the LED lamp and an upper portion of the lamp neck; and a second heat dissipating channel formed in the heat sink and between the fins and the base of the heat sink for dissipating the heat generated from the LED chips and transferred to the heat sink; wherein the light emitting surface includes a first region, a second region located inside the first region in a radial direction of the LED lamp and a third region located outside the first region in the radial direction of the LED lamp, at least one LED chip set is located in the third region which inclines to the first region to form an angle, at least one LED chip set is located in the second region which inclines to the first region to form an angle.

Claims

1. An LED (light emitting diode) lamp comprising:

a lamp shell including a lamp head, a lamp neck and a sleeve, the lamp head connects to the lamp neck which connects to the sleeve;

a passive heat dissipating element having a heat sink connected to the lamp shell, wherein the heat sink comprises fins and a base, the sleeve of the lamp shell is located in the heat sink, the lamp neck projects from the heat sink, height of the lamp neck is at least 80% of height of the heat sink;

a power source having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion of the power source is disposed in both the lamp neck and the lamp head of the lamp shell, and the second portion of the power source is disposed in the heat sink of the passive heat dissipating element;

a light emitting surface connected to the heat sink of the passive heat dissipating element and includes LED chip sets having LED chips, the LED chips electrically connected to the power source, wherein the light emitting surface and the heat sink are connected to form a heat transferring path from the LED chips to the passive heat dissipating element;

a first heat dissipating channel formed in a chamber of the lamp shell for dissipating heat generated from the power source while the LED lamp is working, and the chamber is located between bottom of the LED lamp and an upper portion of the lamp neck; and

a second heat dissipating channel formed in the heat sink and between the fins and the base of the heat sink for dissipating the heat generated from the LED chips and transferred to the heat sink;

wherein the first heat dissipating channel comprises a first end on the light emitting surface to allow air flowing from outside of the LED lamp into the chamber, and a second end on the upper portion of the lamp neck of the lamp shell to allow air flowing from inside of the chamber out to the LED lamp;

wherein the second heat dissipating channel comprises a third end on the light emitting surface to allow air flowing from outside of the LED lamp into the second heat dissipating channel, and flowing out from spaces between every adjacent two of the fins;

wherein an aperture is located in a central region of the light emitting surface, and the aperture forms an air intake of both the first heat dissipating channel and the second heat dissipating channel;

wherein the light emitting surface includes a first region, a second region located inside the first region in a radial direction of the LED lamp and a third region located outside the first region in the radial direction of the LED lamp, at least one LED chip set is located in the third region which inclines to the first region to form an angle, at least one LED chip set is located in the second region which inclines to the first region to form an angle.

2. The LED lamp of claim 1, wherein the LED chip sets are three in number, one of the LED chip sets disposed in a outermost position among the three LED chip sets is located in the third region, one of the LED chip sets in a middle position among the three LED ship sets is located in the first region, and one of the LED chip sets in an innermost position among the three LED ship sets is located in the second region.

3. The LED lamp of claim 2, wherein at least one fin of the heat sink is projected onto a plane on which the LED chip set is located along an axial direction of the LED lamp, a projection of the at least one fin at least touches at least one LED chip of the LED chip set.

4. The LED lamp of claim 3, wherein any of the fins is projected onto a plane on which the LED chip set is located along the axial direction of the LED lamp, a projection of any of the fins at least touches at least one LED chip of the LED chip set.

5. The LED lamp of claim 4, wherein the light emitting surface has an inner border and an outer border, both the inner border and the outer border separately upward extend along the axial direction of the LED lamp to form a region, an area of part of the fins inside the region is greater than an area of part of the fins outside the region.

6. The LED lamp of claim 5, wherein each LED chip of one of the LED chip sets on the light emitting surface is radially and interlacedly arranged with any one LED chip of adjacent one of the LED chip sets on the light emitting surface.

7. The LED lamp of claim 6, wherein the fins include first fins and second fins, each of the first fins is divided into two portions in a radial direction of the LED lamp, the two portions are divided with a gap portion.

8. The LED lamp of claim 7, wherein the projecting area of the gap portion directly and exactly corresponds to an area that the LED chips are positioned on the light emitting surface.

9. The LED lamp of claim 8, wherein each of the second fins has a third portion and a fourth portion extending therefrom, the fourth portions are located radially outside the third portions.

10. The LED lamp of claim 9, wherein the third portion is connected to the fourth portion through a transition portion, the transition portion has a buffer section and a guide section, a direction of any tangent of the guide section is separate from the gap portion.

11. The LED lamp of claim 10 further comprising a lamp cover connected with the heat sink and having a light output surface, an end surface, an inner reflecting surface disposed inside the light output surface of the lamp cover and an outer reflecting surface disposed in the outer circle of the array of the LED chips, the inner reflecting surface is disposed in a position of an inner circle of the array of the LED chips, the outer reflecting surface is set to correspond to the LED chips on the light emitting surface.

12. The LED lamp of claim 11, wherein the inner reflecting surface of the lamp cover is configured to reflect part of light emitted from the innermost of the array of LED chips, the outer reflecting surface of the lamp cover is configured to reflect part of light emitted from the outermost of the array of LED chips, and the outermost of the array of LED chips are greater than the innermost of array of LED chips in number, and the outer reflecting surface is greater than the inner reflecting surface in area.

13. The LED lamp of claim 12, wherein a relationship as follows is satisfied between the LED chips and the inner and outer reflecting surface:

(A1/N1);

(A2/N2)=0.4˜

1

where A1 and A2 respectively represent area of the inner and outer reflecting surface;

where N1 and N2 respectively represent number of the innermost and outermost of the array of LED chips of the light board.