Light irradiating device and phototherapy machine

• US 10,709,898 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2016
• Issued: 07/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Mori, Jun, Sato, Hiroya, Masuda, Masatsugu, Iguchi, Katsuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Morales, Jon Eric C
• Application Number:
  US16/065,038
• Publication Number:
  US 20190009102A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,384 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0643 Applicators, probes irradiating specific body areas in close proximity
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0652 Arrays of diodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0663 Coloured light
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0666 for redirecting light to the treatment area
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/0616 Skin treatment other than tanning
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/062 Photodynamic therapy, i.e. excitation of an agent

Abstract

Light irradiation that is suitable for treatment for a relatively small diseased part and is performed almost uniformly and efficiently for the entirety of an affected part even when the affected part is not flat is realized. Light output from a plurality of LED chips includes first wavelength region light whose light-emission intensity peak is in a wavelength range of 380 nm or more and 430 nm or less and second wavelength region light whose light-emission intensity peak is in a wavelength range of more than 430 nm and 635 nm or less, and a group of LED light sources has uniform in-plane intensity of light irradiation.

Claims

1. A light irradiating device comprising

a group of LED light sources that has at least one LED light source two-dimensionally arranged on a flexible substrate, wherein

light output by the group of LED light sources includes

first wavelength region light whose light-emission intensity peak is in a wavelength range of 380 nm or more and 430 nm or less, and

second wavelength region light whose light-emission intensity peak is in a wavelength range of more than 430 nm and 635 nm or less,

the at least one LED light source includes

a first LED element that outputs the first wavelength region light, and

a wavelength conversion member that absorbs the first wavelength region light output from the first LED element and outputs the second wavelength region light,

at least one layer of a spacer is provided on a light-output-side surface of the flexible substrate in which the first LED element is two-dimensionally arranged,

of the at least one layer of the spacer, at least one layer of a spacer is a spacer that contains the wavelength conversion member, and

a total value of thicknesses of constituents provided from the first LED element to an affected part is 0.5 times or more an average value of pitches between first LED elements.

2. The light irradiating device according to claim 1, wherein a total value of thicknesses of constituents provided from the first LED element to an affected part is 0.8 times or more an average value of pitches between first LED elements.

3. The light irradiating device according to claim 1, wherein the wavelength conversion member is a phosphor.

4. The light irradiating device according to claim 1, wherein the first LED element is covered with resin having transparency with respect to the first wavelength region light, and the spacer is attachable to and detachable from the resin.

5. The light irradiating device according to claim 1, wherein treatment is able to be performed by appropriately selecting a spectrum of the second wavelength region light according to skin disease of a patient.

6. The light irradiating device according to claim 1, wherein a ratio of the first wavelength region light and the second wavelength region light is able to be changed by using a spacer that contains the wavelength conversion member in combination.

7. A phototherapy machine comprising the light irradiating device according to claim 1.

8. A light irradiating device comprising

a group of LED light sources that has at least one LED light source two-dimensionally arranged on a flexible substrate, wherein

light output by the group of LED light sources includes

first wavelength region light whose light-emission intensity peak is in a wavelength range of 380 nm or more and 430 nm or less, and

second wavelength region light whose light-emission intensity peak is in a wavelength range of more than 430 nm and 635 nm or less,

the group of LED light sources includes

a first LED element that is one of the LED light sources and outputs the first wavelength region light, and

a second LED element that is one of the LED light sources and is different from the first LED element, and outputs the second wavelength region light,

at least one layer of a spacer is provided on a light-output-side surface of the group of LED light sources,

the group of LED light sources includes at least two second LED elements,

one first LED element and the two second LED elements are in rectangular shapes in top view,

the one first LED element is arranged between the two second LED elements,

the one first LED element and the two second LED elements are arranged so that each side of the rectangular shape of each of the two second LED elements and each side of the rectangular shape of the one first LED element do not face each other, and

a total value of thicknesses of constituents provided from the first LED element and the second LED element to an affected part is 0.5 times or more an average value of pitches between the LED light sources.

9. The light irradiating device according to claim 8, wherein a total value of thicknesses of constituents provided from the first LED element and the second LED element to an affected part is 0.8 times or more an average value of pitches between the LED light sources.

10. The light irradiating device according to claim 8, wherein a total value of thicknesses of constituents provided from the first LED element and the second LED element to an affected part is two times or less an average value of pitches between the LED light sources.

11. The light irradiating device according to claim 8, wherein a peak wavelength of the second LED element is 470 nm or more.

12. The light irradiating device according to claim 8, wherein center of gravity of each of the two second LED elements matches a position of the one first LED element.

13. The light irradiating device according to claim 8, wherein the first LED element and the second LED element are covered with resin having transparency with respect to the first wavelength region light and the second wavelength region light, and the spacer is attachable to and detachable from the resin.

14. A phototherapy machine comprising the light irradiating device according to claim 8.

15. A light irradiating device comprising

a group of LED light sources that has at least one LED light source two-dimensionally arranged on a flexible substrate, wherein

light output by the group of LED light sources includes

first wavelength region light whose light-emission intensity peak is in a wavelength range of 380 nm or more and 430 nm or less, and

second wavelength region light whose light-emission intensity peak is in a wavelength range of more than 430 nm and 635 nm or less,

the at least one LED light source includes

a first LED element that outputs the first wavelength region light, and

a wavelength conversion member that absorbs the first wavelength region light output from the first LED element and outputs the second wavelength region light,

at least one layer of a spacer is provided on a light-output-side surface of the flexible substrate in which the first LED element is two-dimensionally arranged, and

a total value of thicknesses of constituents provided from the first LED element to an affected part is two times or less an average value of pitches between first LED elements.