LED-based Modular Assembly

• US 20130301264A1
• Filed: 01/18/2012
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Philips Lighting Holding BV (Signify N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Van Gompel, Waltherus Emericus Johannes
• Granted Patent: US 9,103,532 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/236
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 2/005 of modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/005 with keying means, i.e. for enabling the assembling of component parts in distinctive positions, e.g. for preventing wrong mounting
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/003 Fastening of light source holders, e.g. of circuit boards or substrates holding light sources
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/007 Array of lenses or refractors for a cluster of light sources, e.g. for arrangement of multiple light sources in one plane combination of two or more refractors F21V5/008
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/10 comprising photoluminescent material
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 3/0056 arranged along two different directions in a plane, e.g. honeycomb arrangement of lenses G02B3/0043 takes precedence; miniaturised objectives for electronic devices employing wafer level optics G02B13/0085
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/0002 Not covered by any one of groups H01L24/00, H01L24/00 and H01L2224/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/486 adapted for surface mounting

Abstract

The invention refers to a Lighting system comprising: a LED board bearing LEDs; and an optical board on the LED board; wherein the optical board is made of optical modules positioned side-by-side according to pre-determined orientations one to the other, each optical module comprising at least one optical element adapted to face at least one of said LEDs and modify feature of the light emitted by this at least one LED, wherein the lighting system is provided with mechanical fool proofing elements adapted to prevent a positioning of the optical modules according to orientations one to the other different from said predetermined orientations.

Claims

1. A lighting system comprising:

a LED board comprising a plurality of LEDs; and

an optical board disposed on the LED board;

wherein the optical board comprises a plurality of optical modules positioned side-by-side according to predetermined orientations one to the other, each optical module comprising at least one optical element adapted to face at least one of said LEDs and modify a feature of the light emitted by this at least one LED, wherein the optical modules further comprising a base part having sides provided with mechanical fool proofing elements adapted to prevent a positioning of the optical modules according to orientations one to the other different from said predetermined orientations and wherein the base part has at least a first, second, third and fourth side provided respectively with a first, second, third and fourth mechanical fool-proofing elements, wherein the first and the second mechanical fool-proofing elements are adapted to cooperate with each other, and the third and the fourth mechanical fool-proofing elements are adapted to cooperate with each other, and wherein the first and second fool-proofing elements cannot cooperate with either of the third and fourth fool-proofing elements.

2. The lighting system of claim 1, wherein the fool proofing elements are provided at least partly at the opt cal modules and are adapted to prevent a positioning side-by-side of the optical modules if they are not in said predetermined orientations.

3. The lighting system of claim 1, wherein at least a part of said optical elements is designed to exhibit asymmetrical optical distributions, and said predetermined orientations are defined so as to design a predetermined light effect taking into account these asymmetrical optical distributions.

4. The lighting system according to claim 3, wherein the LED board is made of LED modules positioned side-by-side, each LED module bearing at least one LED and being fixed to a corresponding optical module.

5. The lighting system according to claim 4, wherein at least a part of the optical modules have identical size and geometry.

6. The lighting system according to claim 5, further comprising a chassis to which the LED board and the optical board are fixed.

7. A lighting module to be positioned side-by-side with other lighting modules to form at least a part of the lighting system of claim 1, the lighting module comprising one optical module comprising at least one optical element adapted to face at least one LED and to modify feature of the light emitted by this at least one LED, wherein the Optical module further comprises a base part provided with mechanical fool proofing elements adapted to allow only one side-by-side positioning of the optical module to another (identical) optical module and wherein the base part has at least a first, second, third and fourth side provided respectively with a first, second, third and fourth mechanical fool-proofing elements, wherein the first and the second mechanical fool-proofing elements are adapted to cooperate with each other, and the third and the fourth mechanical fool-proofing elements are adapted to cooperate with each other, and wherein the first and second fool-proofing elements cannot cooperate with either of the third and fourth fool-proofing elements.

12. The lighting module according to claim 7, wherein said mechanical fool-proofing elements provided on a side of the base comprise a protruding element protruding from the side and a slot provided into the side, and wherein the protruding element is not located at the center point of the side.

13. The lighting module according to claim 12, wherein the optical module comprises several optical elements:

equidistant from; and

having the same angle between them with respect to;

a point of the base part.

14. The lighting module according to claim 13, wherein the base part of the optical module has a square shape, and wherein said point of the base part is the center of the square.

15. The lighting module according to claim 14, wherein said at least one optical element is designed to exhibit asymmetrical optical distribution around a main axis obliquely oriented to the base part, and the base part comprising at least one mark indicating the orientation of this main axis with respect to the base part.

16. The lighting system according to claim 6, wherein the optical module comprises a through hole at its center.

17. The lighting system according to claim 6, wherein the optical module comprises through holes at each side of the optical module.

18. The lighting system according to claim 6, wherein the optical module comprises through holes at its center and at each side of the optical module.

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