Light Emitting Module and Lighting System

• US 20130249411A1
• Filed: 03/07/2013
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawashima, Seiko, Oyaizu, Tsuyoshi, Kashiwagi, Takahito, Takahashi, Yoshiko
• Application Number:
  US13/788,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20130249411A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/158
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/232 specially adapted for generating an essentially omnidirectional light distribution, e.g. with a glass bulb
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/10 comprising a two-dimensional array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/12 characterised by the geometrical disposition of the light-generating elements, e.g. arranging light-generating elements in differing patterns or densities
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/18 annular; polygonal other than square or rectangular, e.g. for spotlights or for generating an axially symmetrical light beam
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2113/17 forming a single encapsulated light source
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48137 the bodies being arranged next to each other, e.g. on a common substrate
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 25/0753 the devices being arranged next to each other
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/54 having a particular shape
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/56 Materials, e.g. epoxy or silicone resin
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/62 Arrangements for conducting electric current to or from the semiconductor body, e.g. lead-frames, wire-bonds or solder balls
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/04 Sealing arrangements , e.g. against humidity

Abstract

A light emitting module includes a toric sealing unit which seals blue LEDs arranged in a toric shape on a substrate from above, and a sealing unit which seals red LEDs arranged in the vicinity of a center of the toric shape of the blue LEDs. The sealing unit is formed to fill the inside of the toric shape of the toric sealing unit. The sealing unit has a refractive index of light higher than that of the toric sealing unit. The light which are emitted from the blue LEDs and the red LEDs, are refracted on the interface between the sealing unit and sealed gas, and proceed to the direction of the sealed gas, thereby being composed appropriately.

Claims

1. A light emitting module comprising:

a first light emitting element which emits first luminous color when being supplied with a current;

a second light emitting element which emits second luminous color when being supplied with a current;

a substrate on which the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element are surface mounted on the same plane;

a first sealing unit which seals the first light emitting element which is surface mounted on the substrate; and

a second sealing unit which seals the second light emitting element which is surface mounted on the substrate using a sealing member having a higher refractive index than that in the first sealing unit, and is arranged so as to form an interface between the first sealing unit and the second sealing unit.

2. The light emitting module according to claim 1,

wherein a part of light beams of light emitted from the second light emitting element which is reflected on an interface between the second sealing unit and gas at the upper part of the second sealing unit penetrates into the first sealing unit through the interface between the second sealing unit and the first sealing unit, and is output to an outside from the first sealing unit along with light which is emitted from the first light emitting element.

3. The light emitting module according to claim 1,

wherein the first light emitting element is arranged in a toric shape on the substrate,

wherein the second light emitting element is arranged in the vicinity of a center of the toric shape on the substrate,

wherein the first sealing unit is formed in a toric shape so as to cover and seal the first light emitting element from above on the substrate, and

wherein the second sealing unit is formed so as to fill the inside of the toric shape of the first sealing unit by covering and sealing the second light emitting element from above on the substrate.

4. The light emitting module according to claim 1,

wherein two first light emitting element groups including the first light emitting element, and two second light emitting element groups including the second light emitting element are diagonally arranged at a position which is symmetric about a point with respect to a center of the substrate, respectively, on the substrate.

5. The light emitting module according to claim 1,

wherein one first light emitting element group including the first light emitting element, and one second light emitting element group including the second light emitting element are arranged at a position which is line symmetry with respect to a center line of the substrate on the substrate.

6. The light emitting module according to claim 1,

wherein a height of the first sealing unit is higher than a height of the second sealing unit on a surface of the substrate.

7. The light emitting module according to claim 1,

wherein a refractive index of a sealing member of the first sealing unit, and a refractive index of a sealing member of the second sealing unit are higher than a refractive index of gas which shares interfaces with the first sealing unit and the second sealing unit.

8. The light emitting module according to claim 1, further comprising:

a detection sensor which detects heat or brightness due to light emission of the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element which are provided on the substrate;

a first control circuit which controls power which is supplied to the first light emitting element according to a detection result of the heat, or brightness using the detection sensor; and

a second control circuit which controls power which is supplied to the second light emitting element according to a detection result of the heat, or brightness using the detection sensor.

9. The light emitting module according to claim 8,

wherein the first control circuit controls a driving current, or a driving pulse which is supplied to the first light emitting element, and

wherein the second control circuit controls a driving current, or a driving pulse which is supplied to the second light emitting element.

10. A lighting system comprising:

a light emitting module which comprises,

a first light emitting element which emits first luminous color when being supplied with a current;

a second light emitting element which emits second luminous color when being supplied with a current;

a substrate on which the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element are surface mounted on the same plane;

a first sealing unit which seals the first light emitting element which is surface mounted on the substrate; and

a second sealing unit which seals the second light emitting element which is surface mounted on the substrate using a sealing member having a higher refractive index than that in the first sealing unit, and is arranged so as to form an interface between the first sealing unit and the second sealing unit.

11. The lighting system according to claim 10,

wherein, in the light emitting module, a part of light beams of light emitted from the second light emitting element which is reflected on an interface between the second sealing unit and gas at the upper part of the second sealing unit penetrates into the first sealing unit through the interface between the second sealing unit and the first sealing unit, and is output to an outside from the first sealing unit along with light which is emitted from the first light emitting element.

12. The lighting system according to claim 10,

wherein in the light emitting module, the first light emitting element is arranged in a toric shape on the substrate,

wherein the second light emitting element is arranged in the vicinity of a center of the toric shape on the substrate,

wherein the first sealing unit is formed in a toric shape so as to cover and seal the first light emitting element from above on the substrate, and

wherein the second sealing unit is formed so as to fill the inside of the toric shape of the first sealing unit by covering and sealing the second light emitting element from above on the substrate.

13. The lighting system according to claim 10,

wherein a height of the first sealing unit is higher than a height of the second sealing unit on a surface of the substrate.