Illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature and method for adjusting the color temperature

• US 20060164005A1
• Filed: 01/25/2005
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chuan-Sheng Sun
• Original Assignee: Chuan-Sheng Sun
• Inventors: Sun, Chuan-Sheng
• Application Number:
  US11/041,735
• Publication Number:
  US 20060164005A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 313/503
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 11/7774 Aluminates
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/002 with provision for interchangeability, i.e. component parts being especially adapted to be replaced by another part with the same or a different function F21V17/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/04 of lens shape
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/10 comprising photoluminescent material
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/507 the elements being in intimate contact with parts other than the semiconductor body or integrated with parts other than the semiconductor body

Abstract

An illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature and a method for adjusting the color temperature. The apparatus and the method can adjust the color temperature for different purposes. The illumination apparatus comprises: a blue-light source; a transparent filter lens set on the top of the blue-light source; a fluorescence layer of cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) phosphor is spread onto the transparent filter lens. Replacing the yttrium and the aluminum in the cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet phosphor with gadolinium (Gd) and gallium (Ga) respectively can produce yellow lights of different wavelengths. Different yellow lights can then be mixed with the blue light to produce white lights of different color temperature.

Claims

1. An illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature, comprising:

a blue-light source;

a transparent filter lens set on the top of the blue-light having a fluorescence layer of cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) phosphor spread onto the transparent filter lens.

2. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the blue-light source is a blue light emitting diode.

3. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the blue-light source is a blue light emitting diode with power greater than 1 watt.

4. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the yttrium in the cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet phosphor is replaced with gadolinium (Gd) for emitting yellow light deviated to red light.

5. The illumination apparatus having adjustable -color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the aluminum in the cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet phosphor is replaced with gallium (Ga) for emitting yellow light deviated to blue light.

6. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the curvature at the bottom of the transparent filter lens corresponds to the curvature at the top of the blue-light source.

7. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the fluorescence layer is set at the bottom of the transparent filter lens.

8. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the fluorescence layer set at the bottom of the transparent filter lens is made using a double shot injection technique.

9. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein a plurality of protruding parts is set on the top part of the transparent filter lens.

10. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the transparent filter lens further includes a pillared concave groove, and a plurality of protruding parts is formed at the bottom of the pillared concave groove. The protruding parts are also above the fluorescence layer.

11. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein a reflection element is set around a transparent filter lens.

12. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the transparent filter lens is a flat lens.

13. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the transparent filter lens is a pillared lens.

14. The illumination apparatus having adjustable color temperature as in claim 1, wherein the transparent filter lens is a rotatable round plate lens with a plurality of sections. The sections include different components in the fluorescence layer of the yttrium aluminum garnet phosphor.

15. A method for adjusting the color temperature, including the following steps:

providing a blue-light source;

providing a transparent filter lens;

forming a fluorescence layer inside the transparent filter lens;

wherein the fluorescence layer is composed of cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet, and the transparent filter lens is set above the blue-light source.

16. The method for adjusting the color temperature as in claim 15, further adjusting the curvature at the bottom of the transparent filter lens to correspond to the curvature at the top of the blue-light source.

17. The method for adjusting the color temperature as in claim 15, further setting a fluorescence layer at the bottom of the transparent filter lens using the double shot injection method.

18. The method for adjusting the color temperature as in claim 15, further setting a reflection element around the transparent filter lens.

19. The method for adjusting the color temperature as in claim 15, further replacing the yttrium in the cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet phosphor with gadolinium (Gd).

20. The method for adjusting the color temperature as in claim 15, wherein further replacing the aluminum in the cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet phosphor with gallium (Ga).