ARTIFICIAL SOLAR LIGHT SYSTEM USING A LIGHT EMITTING DIODE

• US 20090251057A1
• Filed: 06/27/2007
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Son, Won Kuk, Kang, Seok Jin, Cho, Won
• Application Number:
  US12/306,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20090251057A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/154
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 7/045 with electric lighting
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/249 Lighting means with special arrangements for promoting growth A01G7/045
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 63/06 Arrangements for heating or lighting in, or attached to, receptacles for live fish
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0642 Irradiating part of the body at a certain distance
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0652 Arrays of diodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0661 ultraviolet
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/0616 Skin treatment other than tanning
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/00 Light sources using semiconductor devices as light-generating elements, e.g. using light-emitting diodes [LED] or lasers
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/006 Solar simulators, e.g. for testing photovoltaic panels
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 31/50 specially adapted for ac
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/20 Controlling the colour of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/24 using electrical feedback from LEDs or from LED modules

Abstract

The present invention relates to an artificial solar light system, and more particularly, to an artificial solar light system using light emitting diodes. The present invention can provide an artificial solar light system using light emitting diodes, which can represent the same light emission effects as the sun with time. Further, the present invention can provide an artificial solar light system using light emitting diodes, which is inexpensive and is not affected by positions or climate.

Claims

1. An artificial solar light system using light emitting diodes, comprising:

a plurality of light emitting diode modules having different color temperatures; and

a control unit to control the plurality of light emitting diode modules.

2. The artificial solar light system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a diffusion globe arranged in front of the plurality of light emitting diode modules so as to mix light emitted from the plurality of light emitting diode modules and to irradiate the mixed light.

3. The artificial solar light system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the plurality of light emitting diode modules are alternately arranged.

4. The artificial solar light system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of light emitting diode modules have a color temperature of 3000 K to 7000 K.

5. The artificial solar light system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

a memory unit to store data on changes in a color temperature and optical properties of the sun with time; and

a microprocessor to control currents applied to the respective light emitting diode modules having different color temperatures by using the data on changes in the color temperature and optical properties of the sun with time, which have been stored in the memory unit.

6. The artificial solar light system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the memory unit further comprises solar coordinate system information according to periods of earth'"'"'s rotation and revolution, and the microprocessor controls the light emitting diode modules by using the data on changes in the color temperature and optical properties of the sun with time and the solar coordinate system information, which have been stored in the memory unit.

7. The artificial solar light system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the microprocessor receives information on a position and controls the light emitting diode modules by using the data on changes in the color temperature and optical properties of the sun with time and the solar coordinate system information, which have been stored in the memory unit, depending on the position information.

8. The artificial solar light system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the control unit further comprises a global positioning system to identify a position of the artificial solar light system, and the microprocessor controls the light emitting diode modules by using the data on changes in the color temperature and optical properties of the sun with time and the solar coordinate system information, which have been stored in the memory unit, depending on the position identified by the global positioning system.