Light emitting device package and back light unit for liquid crystral display using the same

• US 20060082271A1
• Filed: 10/14/2005
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jang, Jun Ho, Lee, Tae Hee, Lee, Seung Min
• Application Number:
  US11/249,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20060082271A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 313/35
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/67 characterised by the arrangement of fans
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/74 with fins or blades
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/763 the planes containing the fins or blades having the direction of the light emitting axis
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133603 with LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133628 with cooling means

Abstract

A light emitting device package and a back light unit for liquid crystal display using the same wherein a fan is used to forcibly cool an LED package and a back light unit for LCD to increase the heat radiation efficiency and to prevent the degradation of the device.

Claims

1. An LED package comprising:

a metal substrate;

an insulation sheet formed at an upper surface of the metal substrate;

a plurality of electrode lines formed on the insulation sheet;

LEDs electrically bonded to an upper surface of the plurality of electrode lines and arrayed in rows and lines;

a plurality of striped protruders fixed at one surface thereof to a lower surface of the metal substrate, each spaced a predetermined distance apart;

a guide member fixed to the other surface of the protruders; and

a fan case encased therein with a fan for sucking air through a suction inlet and disposed at a lateral surface of the metal substrate and the guide member for circulating the sucked air through spaces of the protruders.

2. The LED package as defined in claim 1 further comprising a cooling unit for cooling air and for supplying the cooled air to the suction inlet of the fan case.

3. The LED package as defined in claim 1 further comprising a circulation pipe for supplying the air discharged from spaces among the plurality of protruders to the cooling unit.

4. The LED package as defined in claim 1, wherein the fan is a cross flow fan.

5. The LED package as defined in claim 1, wherein the metal substrate and the protruders are integrally formed.

6. The LED package as defined in claim 1, wherein the guide member and the protruders are integrally formed.

7. An LED package comprising:

a body arrayed thereon with LEDs and formed thereunder with a plurality of striped protruders, each spaced a predetermined distance apart; and

a suction fan infusing air through spaces of the plurality of protruders for cooling a lower section of the body and the plurality of protruders by sucking the air.

8. The LED package as defined in claim 7, wherein the suction fan is formed at a lateral surface of the body and a discharging fan is further mounted at the other lateral surface of the body for sucking the air introduced among the plurality of protruders and discharging the air.

9. The LED package as defined in claim 8, wherein the suction fan, the plurality of protruders and the discharge fan are hermetically sealed from the outside so that the air sucked from the suction fan is discharged via the plurality of protruders by the discharge fan and again sucked by the suction fan.

10. The LED package as defined in claim 9, wherein, between the suction fan and the discharge fan, there is further mounted a cooling unit for cooling the air discharged by the discharge fan and for supplying the cooled air to the suction fan.

11. The LED package as defined in claim 9, wherein the fan is a cross flow fan.

12. A back light unit for liquid crystal display (LCD) using LEDs comprising:

a dissipation sheet disposed at a rear surface of LCD having a front surface and a rear surface;

a substrate disposed at a rear surface of the dissipation sheet and arrayed at a front thereof with a plurality of LEDs; and

a cooling apparatus cooling the substrate by discharging the air sucked by a fan to a rear surface of the substrate.

13. The back light unit as defined in claim 12, wherein The cooling unit comprises:

a back surface sheet attached at one side thereof to a rear surface of the substrate where the plurality of LEDs are frontally arranged and protruded at the rear surface thereof with a plurality of fins each spaced at a predetermined distance apart;

a guide member attached to a distal end of the plurality of pins and forming spaces among the pins;

the fan disposed underneath the substrate for discharging the air sucked through the back surface sheet and the guide member; and

a fan case fixed underneath the LEDs and the guide member and having a suction inlet for sucking the air and mounted therein with the fan.

14. The back light unit as defined in claim 13, wherein the suction inlet a suction inlet of the cooling unit is formed underneath the fan case, or is formed at a front surface of the fan case which is in parallel with a front surface of the LED.

15. The back light unit as defined in claim 12, wherein the fan is a cross flow fan.

16. The back light unit as defined in claim 12, wherein the substrate is made of metal.

17. The back light unit as defined in claim 13, wherein the plurality of fins and the rear surface, and the guide member are made of metal.