LED LIGHT SOURCE AND ASSOCIATED STRUCTURAL UNIT

• US 20130235557A1
• Filed: 10/22/2010
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: OSRAM GmbH (Ams-Osram AG)
• Original Assignee: OSRAM GmbH (Ams-Osram AG)
• Inventors: Muschaweck, Julius, Baumann, Frank, Streppel, Henrike, Hadrath, Stefan
• Application Number:
  US13/880,745
• Publication Number:
  US 20130235557A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/84
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/232 specially adapted for generating an essentially omnidirectional light distribution, e.g. with a glass bulb
• 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 3/04 characterised by materials, surface treatments or coatings
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

An LED light source includes a primary light source, in particular at least one blue- or UV-emitting semiconductor chip, the radiation of which is converted partly or completely into longer-wave radiation by a conversion element fitted at a distance, said conversion element being disposed as a dome ahead of the primary light source, wherein the dome is a section of an oblate body having an equator and a pole, wherein the pole points in the direction of the optical axis, wherein the oblate body is flattened in the direction toward the pole relative to the direction toward the equator, and wherein the oblate body is equipped with a converting phosphor layer.

Claims

1. An LED light source comprising a primary light source, in particular at least one blue- or UV-emitting semiconductor chip, the radiation of which is converted partly or completely into longer-wave radiation by a conversion element fitted at a distance, said conversion element being disposed as a dome ahead of the primary light source, wherein the dome is a section of an oblate body having an equator and a pole, wherein the pole points in the direction of the optical axis, wherein the oblate body is flattened in the direction toward the pole relative to the direction toward the equator, and wherein the oblate body is equipped with a converting phosphor layer.

2. The LED light source as claimed in claim 1, wherein the oblate body is a section of an ellipsoid, having a minor demi-axis a pointing in the direction toward the pole.

3. The LED light source as claimed in claim 1, wherein the oblate body spans a solid angle of greater than 2π

.

4. The LED light source as claimed in claim 1, wherein the oblate body is subdivided into at least two regions, wherein a frontal region, which encloses the pole, has a higher optical thickness than a dorsal region adjacent thereto in the direction of higher emission angles.

5. The LED light source as claimed in claim 1, wherein the frontal region has a maximum emission angle, calculated from the pole, of 70°

to 110°

.

6. The LED light source as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dorsal region has a maximum emission angle, calculated from the pole, of 130°

to 160°

.

7. The LED light source as claimed in claim 1, wherein the LED light source has a connection element having a pedestal and a reflective baseplate and thus forms an assembly whose base area is larger than the base area of the dome.

8. The LED light source as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical thickness of the phosphor is varied either by virtue of the fact that the layer thickness of a phosphor layer applied on the wall of the dome is chosen to be different, or by virtue of the fact that the phosphor is dispersed in the dome, wherein either the concentration of the phosphor in the wall of the dome is constant and in this case the wall thickness is different in at least two regions of the dome, or that the phosphor is dispersed in the dome, wherein the concentration of the phosphor in the wall of the dome is different in at least two regions of the dome and in this case the wall thickness of the dome is constant.

9. The LED light source as claimed in claim 8, wherein one or a plurality of phosphors are used, with an identical change in the optical thickness.

11. The LED light source as claimed in claim 1, wherein the oblate body spans a solid angle of greater than 2.5 π

to 3.5π

.

10. A structural unit comprising an LED light source, said LED light source comprising a primary light source, in particular at least one blue- or UV-emitting semiconductor chip, the radiation of which is converted partly or completely into longer-wave radiation by a conversion element fitted at a distance, said conversion element being disposed as a dome ahead of the primary light source, wherein the dome is a section of an oblate body having an equator and a pole, wherein the pole points in the direction of the optical axis, wherein the oblate body is flattened in the direction toward the pole relative to the direction toward the equator, and wherein the oblate body is equipped with a converting phosphor layer, wherein the structural unit is a luminaire or an LED module.