LIGHT GUIDING APPARATUS AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME

• US 20140218972A1
• Filed: 01/28/2014
• Published: 08/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wintek Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wintek Corporation
• Inventors: Lin, Ming-Chuan, Huang, Kuo-Jui, Yu, Chang-Wei, Lee, Hsiu-Ping, Chen, Ping-Yeng
• Application Number:
  US14/166,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20140218972A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/616
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/61 using light guides
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 2200/00 Use of light guides, e.g. fibre optic devices, in lighting devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0008 the light being emitted at the end of the fibre

Abstract

A light guiding apparatus includes a light guiding apparatus and a second light guide. The first light guide includes a first end-surface, a second end-surface and a side-surface, in which the first end-surface includes a first light incident surface thereon, the second end-surface includes a first light emitting surface thereon, and the side-surface is located between the first end-surface and the second end-surface of the first light guide. The second light guide has a second incident surface and a second light emitting surface connecting the second incident surface, in which at least a partial region of the second light emitting surface is a roughened surface, the second incident surface or the first light emitting surface is a roughened surface, and the second incident surface is corresponding to the first light emitting surface.

Claims

1. A light guiding apparatus, comprising:

a first light guide comprising a first end-surface, a second end-surface and a side-surface, wherein the first end-surface comprises a first light incident surface thereon, the second end-surface comprises a first light emitting surface thereon, and the side-surface is located between the first end-surface and the second end-surface of the first light guide; and

a second light guide having a second incident surface and a second light emitting surface connecting the second incident surface, wherein at least a partial region of the second light emitting surface is a roughened surface, the second incident surface or the first light emitting surface is a roughened surface, the second incident surface is corresponding to the first light emitting surface, and a medium with a refractive index less than the refractive indexes of the first light guide and the second light guide is located between the second incident surface and the first light emitting surface.

2. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the side-surface has a first region and a second region, the first region adjoins the first light incident surface, the second region adjoins the first light emitting surface, a normal at an arbitrary point of the second region of the side-surface is set as a first axis direction, a connection line between the an arbitrary point and a center of the first light incident surface is set as a second axis direction, then, sine of an included angle between the first axis direction and the second axis direction is greater than a reciprocal of the refractive index of the first light guide.

3. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein area of the second region is at least five times of area of the first region.

4. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a roughness (Ra) of the first light emitting surface and the roughened surface of the at least partial region of the second light emitting surface is at least 0.4 μ

m.

5. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second incident surface is a roughened surface, and a roughness (Ra) of the first light emitting surface, the second incident surface and the roughened surface of the at least partial region of the second light emitting surface is at least 0.4 μ

m.

6. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the side-surface further comprises a plurality of optical planes, and an included angle between any two adjacent optical planes is unequal to 180°

.

7. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first light guide has a first locking portion, the second light guide has a second locking portion, a part of the first locking portion is the first light emitting surface, and a part of the second locking portion is the second incident surface.

8. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first light emitting surface has a recessed portion, at least a part of the second incident surface forms an embedding portion, and shapes of the recessed portion and the embedding portion are complementary to each other.

9. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the embedding portion is a pyramid or a cone.

10. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the embedding portion is adhered with the recessed portion.

11. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first light guide has a first refractive index, the second light guide has a second refractive index, the medium between the second incident surface and the first light emitting surface has a third refractive index, and difference between the third refractive index and the first refractive index or the second refractive index is at least 0.5.

12. The light guiding apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the side-surface is a smooth surface.

13. A light source device, comprising:

a light guiding apparatus, including;

a first light guide comprising a first end-surface, a second end-surface and a side-surface, wherein the first end-surface comprises a first light incident surface thereon, the second end-surface comprises a first light emitting surface thereon, and the side-surface is located between the first end-surface and the second end-surface of the first light guide; and

a second light guide having a second incident surface and a second light emitting surface connecting the second incident surface, wherein at least a partial region of the second light emitting surface is a roughened surface, the second incident surface or the first light emitting surface is a roughened surface, the second incident surface is corresponding to the first light emitting surface, and a medium with a refractive index less than the refractive indexes of the first light guide and the second light guide is located between the second incident surface and the first light emitting surface; and

a light emitting element, wherein the light emitting device is disposed adjacently to the first light incident surface.

14. The light source device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the light emitting device comprises a light emitting diode.

15. The light source device as claimed in claim 13, further comprising a lampshade to cover the light guiding apparatus.

16. The light source device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the side-surface of the light guiding apparatus has a first region and a second region, the first region adjoins the first light incident surface, the second region adjoins the first light emitting surface, a normal at an arbitrary point of the second region of the side-surface is set as a first axis direction, a connection line between the an arbitrary point and a center of the first light incident surface is set as a second axis direction, then, sine of an included angle between the first axis direction and the second axis direction is greater than a reciprocal of the refractive index of the first light guide.

17. The light source device as claimed in claim 16, wherein area of the second region is at least five times of area of the first region.

18. The light source device as claimed in claim 13, wherein a roughness (Ra) of the first light emitting surface and the roughened surface of the at least partial region of the second light emitting surface is at least 0.4 μ

m.

19. The light source device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the first light guide has a first locking portion, the second light guide has a second locking portion, a part of the first locking portion is the first light emitting surface, and a part of the second locking portion is the second incident surface.

20. The light source device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the first light guide has a first refractive index, the second light guide has a second refractive index, the medium between the second incident surface and the first light emitting surface has a third refractive index, and difference between the third refractive index and the first refractive index or the second refractive index is at least 0.5.

21. The light source device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the medium is air or adhesive.