WHITE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE

• US 20080232084A1
• Filed: 02/29/2008
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Lighting Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Lighting Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Kon, Shusaku
• Application Number:
  US12/040,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20080232084A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/84
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/64 using wavelength conversion means distinct or spaced from the light-generating element, e.g. a remote phosphor layer
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 13/14 the elements being filters or photoluminescent elements, reflectors and refractors
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 9/38 Combination of two or more photoluminescent elements of different materials
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0003 the light guides being doped with fluorescent agents
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4298 coupling with non-coherent light sources and/or radiation detectors, e.g. lamps, incandescent bulbs, scintillation chambers

Abstract

Light beams emitted from a blue LED light source of a light source unit are condensed by a condenser lens to enter an entrance end face of a rod lens, and the light beams progress through while being repeatedly reflected several times inside the rod lens. Accordingly, the unevenness of brightness is reduced, and the light enters an fluorescent material sheet bonded to an exit end of the rod lens from the exit end as blue light which is uniformed in illuminance, and white light whose color is seen as the same color viewed in any direction of the fluorescent material sheet is emitted from the fluorescent material sheet.

Claims

1. A white light source device, comprising:

an LED light source,

a rod lens for emitting a uniform light beam from an exit end face after making an incoming light beam that entered an entrance end face from the LED light source uniform, and

a fluorescent material sheet provided close to the exit end face of the rod lens.

2. The white light source device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a condenser lens for condensing beams of light exiting from the LED light source on the entrance end face of the rod lens.

3. The white light source device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reflector for condensing beams of light exiting from the LED light source on the entrance end face of the rod lens.

4. The white light source device according to claim 1, wherein

the LED light source is provided directly close to the entrance end face of the rod lens.

5. The white light source device according to claim 1, wherein

the LED light source is a blue LED light source, and

the fluorescent material sheet is a translucent sheet on which yellow fluorescent material is arranged, with light emitted from the fluorescent material excited by blue light incoming from the LED light source is mixed with the blue light incoming from the LED light source to emit white light.

6. The white light source device according to claim 1, wherein

the LED light source is a blue LED light source, and

the fluorescent material sheet is a translucent sheet on which red fluorescent material and green fluorescent material are arranged, with light emitted from the fluorescent materials excited by blue light incoming from the LED light source is mixed with the blue light incoming from the LED light source to emit white light.

7. The white light source device according to claim 1, wherein

the LED light source is a near-ultraviolet emitting LED light source, and

the fluorescent material sheet is a translucent sheet on which red fluorescent material, green fluorescent material, and blue fluorescent material are arranged, with white light is emitted from the fluorescent materials excited by a near-ultraviolet ray incoming from the LED light source.