Light-emitting diode arrangement comprising a reflector

• US 20050190559A1
• Filed: 04/28/2005
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hans Kragl
• Original Assignee: Hans Kragl
• Inventors: Kragl, Hans
• Application Number:
  US11/116,833
• Publication Number:
  US 20050190559A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/296.08
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0001 specially adapted for lighting devices or systems lighting or signalling on vehicles using light guides B60Q1/00; lighting devices for vehicle dashboards B60Q3/10; lighting devices for vehicle interior using light guides B60Q3/62; lighting devices mounted on the vehicle rear part using light guides F21S43/235; measuring arrangements having light conducting pointers G01D13/265; illumination of liquid crystal displays G02F1/1336; illuminated signs G09F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4249 comprising arrays of active devices and fibres
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4298 coupling with non-coherent light sources and/or radiation detectors, e.g. lamps, incandescent bulbs, scintillation chambers
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/0002 Not covered by any one of groups H01L24/00, H01L24/00 and H01L2224/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/58 Optical field-shaping elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/60 Reflective elements

Abstract

A light-emitting diode arrangement comprises a sub-mount on which a light-emitting diode chip is mounted, and a reflector which is adjusted at the sub-mount and has a reflector surface located in the beam path of the light-emitting diode chip. The reflector is formed from the lateral wall of a solid body consisting of a transparent material and having a small irradiation surface located opposite the light-emitting diode chip (3) and a large radiation surface which is located opposite the same, at a distance, a lateral wall forming a reflector surface extending therebetween, and the sub-mount comprises an opening into which the reflector body is inserted, with the irradiation surface first.

Claims

1. A light diode arrangement with a reflector, comprising a sub-mount on which a light-emitting diode chip is mounted, and a reflector aligned at the sub-mount, said sub-mount comprising a reflector surface located in a beam path of the light-emitting diode chip, wherein the sub-mount comprises a blind hole into which the light-emitting diode chip is inserted and which comprises a paraboloidal reflector surface disposed above the blind hole, said reflector surface having one of a focal point and focal line a center of a surface of the light-emitting diode chip is located, the reflector is formed by a solid body formed of a transparent material and comprising a small irradiation surface opposing the light-emitting diode chip and a large radiation surface opposing same at a distance, between which a lateral surface forming the reflector surface extends, and the sub-mount comprises an opening above the blind hole into which the reflector body is inserted with the irradiation surface first so that its reflector surface forms a continuation of the reflector surface of the sub-mount.

2. A light-emitting diode arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reflector body is a rotational-symmetric body having an axis in which the LED chip is arranged.

3. A light-emitting diode arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein the reflector surfaces of the sub-mount and of the reflector body are each formed paraboloidal.

4. A light-emitting diode arrangement as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the reflector body is held by a ferrule centered on the sub-mount.

5. A light-emitting diode arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reflector surface of the reflector body is formed by four lateral surfaces adjoining one another, of which at least two opposing lateral surfaces generate a paraboloidal intersecting line on a plane vertically intersecting the lateral surfaces and the LED chip, wherein the four lateral surfaces and planes vertically intersecting said plane form lines of intersection which perpendicularly intersect one another.

6. A light-emitting diode arrangement as claimed in claim 5, wherein said two paraboloidally formed lateral surfaces of the reflector body have an extension transversely to a paraboloidal extension that is much larger than respective dimensions of the other lateral surfaces of the reflector body and that the irradiation surface of the reflector body is opposed by a plurality of adjoining LED chips that are held on the reflector body by means of their sub-mounts.

7. A light-emitting diode arrangement as claimed in claim 4, wherein the reflector body is one of a circular disc and a sector of a disc that has a circular opening in a center, said opening being delimited by an irradiation surface, and the disc and the disc sector, respectively, has an outer periphery that is delimited by a radiation surface, wherein the irradiation surface and the radiation surface each have cylinder surfaces being axially parallel, and lateral surfaces connecting same form paraboloidal lines of intersection with an axial intersecting plane, that approach one another in a direction towards the center of the disc or disc sector, and that the irradiation surface is opposed by a plurality of adjoining, star-like aligned LED chips that are held on the reflector body by means of their sub-mounts.

8. A light-emitting diode arrangement as claimed in one of claims 1 and 2, wherein the reflector surfaces of the reflector body are polished.

9. A light-emitting diode arrangement as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the space between the LED chip and the irradiation surface of the reflector body is filled with a transparent, cured liquid plastic.