LED ILLUMINATING DEVICE WITH PRISM SHEET

• US 20120075869A1
• Filed: 03/14/2011
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: CHANG, SHAO-HAN
• Application Number:
  US13/046,782
• Publication Number:
  US 20120075869A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/311.02
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/02 of prismatic shape F21V5/04 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/10 comprising a two-dimensional array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2113/10 of different colours
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

An LED illuminating device contains a housing with a base plate, a prism sheet and a circuit board. The prism sheet is mounted in the housing and includes a number of V-shaped micro-grooves along at least two directions intersecting with each other. The circuit board arranged multiple of LED illuminating arrays is fixed on the base plate. Each LED illuminating array is made of two LED units spaced apart a third preset distance. At least four virtual light sources are formed by the reflection of prism sheet to the circuit board after the light emitted by a particular LED unit on the circuit board. The rows and the columns of the matrix are respectively spaced apart a first preset distance and a second preset distance.

Claims

1. An LED illuminating device comprising:

a housing comprising a base plate;

a prism sheet mounted in the housing and comprising a plurality of V-shaped micro-grooves formed thereon along at least two directions intersecting with each other; and

a circuit board fixed on the base plate, wherein a plurality of LED illuminating arrays are arranged on the circuit board to form a matrix, each LED illuminating array comprises two LED units, at least four virtual light sources are formed by reflection of the prism sheet to the circuit board after the light is emitted by a particular LED unit on circuit board;

the rows of the matrix are spaced apart a first preset distance, and the columns of the matrix are spaced apart a second preset distance, and each two LED units in one LED illuminating array are spaced apart a third preset distance.

2. The LED illuminating device of claim 1, wherein the colors of each LED units are the same as other LED units, the virtual light sources are distributed on a circle whose center coincides with a particular one of the LED units in each LED illuminating array.

3. The LED illuminating device of claim 1, wherein the prism sheet comprises a light incident surface and a light exit surface opposite to the light incident surface;

the light incident surface is planar and faces the circuit board;

the plurality of V-shaped micro-grooves are formed on the light exit surface.

4. The LED illuminating device of claim 1, wherein the V-shaped micro-grooves comprise a plurality of a V-shaped first micro-grooves extending along a first direction, and a plurality of a V-shaped second micro-grooves extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

5. The LED illuminating device of claim 1, wherein the prism sheet is made of transparent plastic.

6. The LED illuminating device of claim 1, wherein the housing comprises a sidewall extending around the base plate, the circuit board is fixed on the base plate, the prism sheet is arranged above the circuit board.

7. The LED illuminating device of claim 1, wherein the prism sheet is substantially parallel to the circuit board.

8. The LED illuminating device of claim 1, further comprising a protection cover, wherein the protection cover is fixed on the sidewall above the prism sheet for protecting the prism sheet and the circuit board from being contaminated and damaged.

9. The LED illuminating device of claim 5, wherein the base plate and the sidewall are made of metal or plastic having high reflectivity.

10. The LED illuminating device of claim 2, wherein the first preset distance is twice the radius of the circle, the second preset distance is quadruple radius of the circle, and the third preset distance equals the radius of the circle.