LED LAMP

• US 20090323333A1
• Filed: 04/27/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: CHANG, CHIA-SHOU
• Application Number:
  US12/430,845
• Publication Number:
  US 20090323333A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/240
• 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: F21V 5/002 using microoptical elements for redirecting or diffusing light
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

An LED lamp includes a lamp holder, a lens, and at least one LED. The lamp holder includes a substrate and a reflector expanding from an outer periphery of the substrate. The lens couples to the reflector of the lamp holder to seal a receiving space of the lamp holder. The at least one LED is received in the receiving space and arranged on the substrate. The lens includes an incident surface facing the receiving space and an opposite emitting surface. At least one micro-structure is formed on the incident surface of the lens corresponding to the at least one LED. The at least one micro-structure is located on a central axis of the at least one LED, for diffusing the light generated by the at least one LED.

Claims

1. An LED lamp, comprising:

a lamp holder comprising a substrate and a reflector expanding upwardly from an outer periphery of the substrate, a receiving space being defined in the lamp holder, the receiving space being surrounded by the reflector and located above the substrate;

a lens coupling to a top of the reflector and sealing the receiving space of the lamp holder; and

a plurality of LEDs received in the receiving space an arranged on the substrate, the lens defining a plurality of micro-structures corresponding to the plurality of LEDs, respectively, in number and position.

2. The LED lamp of claim 1, wherein the micro-structures are formed on an incident surface of the lens facing the receiving space, and each micro-structure is located over a center of a corresponding LED.

3. The LED lamp of claim 2, wherein the micro-structures are cavities concaved upwardly from the incident surface of the lens.

4. The LED lamp of claim 2, wherein the micro-structures are protrusions extending downwardly from the incident surface of the lens into the receiving space.

5. The LED lamp of claim 1, wherein the micro-structures are integrally formed with the lens.

6. The LED lamp of claim 1, wherein each micro-structure has a shape of one of a cone and a pyramid.

7. The LED lamp of claim 1, wherein a plurality of nubs are integrally formed on an emitting surface of the lens facing upwardly toward an exterior of the LED lamp.

8. The LED lamp of claim 7, wherein the plurality of LEDs are evenly arranged around a center of the substrate, each LED is surround by some of the nubs as viewed from a top of the LED lamp.

9. The LED lamp of claim 8, wherein the plurality of LEDs are four in number, and the plurality of nubs are nine in number, the nine nubs being arranged in a 3×

3 array, each LED being surround by four neighboring nubs and located at a center of the four surrounding nubs, as viewed from the top of the LED lamp.

10. An LED lamp, comprising:

at least one LED for generating light; and

a lens having an incident surface for the light of the at least one LED traveling into the lens and an opposite emitting surface for the light traveling through the lens to emit to an exterior, at least one micro-structure being formed on the incident surface of the lens corresponding to the at least one LED, the at least one micro-structure being located on a central axis of the at least one LED for diffusing the light generated by the at least one LED.

11. The LED lamp of claim 10, wherein the at least one micro-structure is a cavity concaved inwardly from the incident surface of the lens.

12. The LED lamp of claim 10, wherein the at least one micro-structure is a protrusion extending outwardly from the incident surface of the lens towards the at least one LED.

13. The LED lamp of claim 10, wherein a plurality of nubs are integrally formed on the emitting surface of the lens.

14. The LED lamp of claim 13, wherein the at least one LED is four in number, and the plurality of nubs are nine in number, the nine nubs being arranged in a 3×

3 array, each LED being surround by four neighboring nubs and located at a center of the four surrounding nubs, as viewed from a top of the LED lamp.

15. The LED lamp of claim 10, wherein each of the at least one micro-structure has a shape of one of a cone and a pyramid.