LED MODULE

• US 20100327302A1
• Filed: 09/25/2009
• Published: 12/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd., Fuzhun Precision Industry Company Limited (Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd., Fuzhun Precision Industry Company Limited (Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: ZHANG, HAI-WEI, WANG, ZHONG-QING
• Granted Patent: US 8,058,665 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/98
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/69 Details of refractors forming part of the light source
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 13/04 the elements being reflectors and refractors for vehicle rear lights F21S43/40
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/008 Combination of two or more successive refractors along an optical axis
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/04 of lens shape
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/0091 using total internal reflection
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 19/0028 refractive and reflective surfaces, e.g. non-imaging catadioptric systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 19/0061 the light source comprising a LED semiconductor devices with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier specially adapted for light emission H01L33/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/58 Optical field-shaping elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/60 Reflective elements

Abstract

An LED module includes an LED and a lens located over and enclosing the LED. The lens includes a surface of incidence facing the LED for an incidence of light emitted from the LED and a surface of emission for an emission of the light out of the LED module. The surface of incidence has a convex spherical surface, and the surface of emission has a concave spherical surface corresponding to the convex spherical surface. The convex spherical surface refracts the light incident thereon to redirect the light to the concave spherical surface. The concave spherical surface spreads the light into a wide and uniform beam. The surface of emission further has a first cylinder extending downwardly from an outer edge of the concave spherical surface. A totally reflective coincoid extends downwards from the first cylinder to a bottom of the LED module.

Claims

1. An LED module comprising:

an LED having an optical axis; and

a lens located over and enclosing the LED, the lens comprising a surface of incidence facing the LED for an incidence of light emitted from the LED and a surface of emission located over the surface of incidence for an emission of the light emitted from the LED therethrough, the surface of incidence comprising a convex spherical surface, and the surface of emission comprising a concave spherical surface corresponding to the convex spherical surface;

wherein the convex spherical surface refracts the light incident thereon to redirect the light to radiate on the concave spherical surface, through the concave spherical surface the light leaving the LED module as a wide and uniform beam.

2. The LED module as claimed in claim 1, wherein a radius of curvature of the concave spherical surface is 1.5 to 2.5 times of that of the convex spherical surface.

3. The LED module as claimed in claim 1, wherein a height of the lens is controlled within a range of 8 mm to 11.5 mm.

4. The LED module as claimed in claim 1, wherein the LED comprises an encapsulant facing the convex spherical surface of the surface of incidence, a vertical distance between an intersecting point of the convex spherical surface with the optical axis of the LED and a peak of the encapsulant being kept within a range of 0.1 mm to 0.4 mm.

5. The LED module as claimed in claim 1, wherein the concave spherical surface is symmetric to the optical axis of the LED, the convex spherical surface being symmetric to the optical axis of the LED.

6. The LED module as claimed in claim 1, wherein a vertical distance between two intersecting points of the convex spherical surface and the concave spherical surface respectively intersecting with the optical axis of the LED is controlled within a range of 3 mm to 4 mm.

7. The LED module as claimed in claim 1, wherein the surface of emission further comprises a first cylinder extending from a periphery edge of the concave spherical surface, a center axis of the first cylinder coinciding with the optical axis of the LED.

8. The LED module as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first cylinder of the surface of emission has a diameter of 18-22 mm.

9. The LED module as claimed in claim 7, wherein the lens further comprises a bottom surface, a second cylinder extending upwardly from the bottom surface and a conicoid connecting the second cylinder with the first cylinder of the surface of emission, the conicoid being a totally reflective surface and being progressively wider from the second cylinder towards the first cylinder.

10. The LED module as claimed in claim 9, wherein a conic constant of the conicoid is no less than −

1.

11. The LED module as claimed in claim 10, wherein the conic constant of the conicoid is equal to −

1.

12. The LED module as claimed in claim 9, wherein a groove is recessed upwardly from a center of the bottom surface for receiving the LED therein, a top surface of the groove forming the convex spherical surface and a side surface of the groove forming a circumferential surface of a conical frustum.

13. The LED module as claimed in claim 12, wherein the circumferential surface of the conical frustum is progressively wider from the convex spherical surface towards the bottom surface.

14. The LED module as claimed in claim 13, wherein the circumferential surface of the conical frustum has a taper of 12°

to 20°

.