FLEXIBLE UNOBSTRUCTED BEAM SHAPING

• US 20170023211A1
• Filed: 11/03/2014
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Philips Lighting BV (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: MICHIELS, Wilhelmus Petrus Adrianus Johannus, SEPKHANOV, Ruslan Akhmedovich, KRIJN, Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael
• Application Number:
  US15/039,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20170023211A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/085 of high-built type, e.g. street light
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/088 with lighting device mounted on top of the standard, e.g. for pedestrian zones
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 13/04 the elements being reflectors and refractors for vehicle rear lights F21S43/40
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/002 with provision for interchangeability, i.e. component parts being especially adapted to be replaced by another part with the same or a different function F21V17/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/004 using microlenses
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/005 using microprisms
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/045 the lens having discontinuous faces, e.g. Fresnel lenses
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/10 Construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/103 of streets or roads
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 25/0753 the devices being arranged next to each other
• 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 33/58 Optical field-shaping elements

Abstract

The invention provides a lighting device (100) comprising a reflector (110) and a light source (120) configured to provide in the absence of an optical plate (130) a beam (2) of lighting device light (101) with an original optical axis (102) and an original opening angle (θ), wherein the lighting device (100) comprises said optical plate (130) configured within the reflector (110), wherein the optical plate comprises a light transmissive layer (131) comprising micro optical structures (132), and wherein the lighting device (100) including the optical plate (130) is configured to provide said beam (2) of lighting device light (101) having one or more of (i) a final opening angle (θf) with θf>θ, and (ii) a final optical axis (102f) having a non-zero angle (β) with the original optical axis (102).

Claims

1. A lighting device comprising a reflector with a reflector wall and a reflector opening and a light source configured to provide in the absence of an optical plate a beam of lighting device light with an original optical axis and an original opening angle (θ

), wherein the lighting device comprises only one optical plate, wherein the optical plate comprises a light transmissive layer comprising micro optical structures, and wherein the lighting device including the optical plate is configured to provide said beam of lighting device light having one or more of (i) a final opening angle (θ

f) with θ

f>

θ

, and (ii) a final optical axis having a non-zero angle (β

) with the original optical axis, the reflector widens from the light source to the reflector opening and has a length L, the optical plate being mounted within the reflector to the reflector wall in between 5% to 95% of the length L.

2. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the optical plate is configured to direct the beam of light away from the reflector wall downstream of the optical plate.

3. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the reflector wall has light reflective properties, and wherein the reflector wall comprises a discontinuity configured to host the optical plate.

4. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the optical plate is releasably attached to the reflector wall.

5. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the light source comprises a solid state light source.

6. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the optical plate comprises a foil comprising a plurality of micro optical structures selected of one or more of a Fresnel lens, a prismatic structure, and a facet.

7. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the optical plate comprises a plurality of micro optical structures at an upstream face or a plurality of micro optical structures at a downstream face.

8. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the optical plate comprises a plurality of micro optical structures at both an upstream face and a downstream face.

9. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the optical plate comprises a plurality of regions, wherein the lighting device including the optical plate with the plurality of regions is configured to provide a plurality of beams.

10. The lighting device according to claim 1, comprising a plurality of Fresnel lenses as micro optical structures.

11. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the micro optical structures have a dimension in the range of 0.001-5 mm.

12. A method of changing the optical properties of an existing lighting device, wherein the existing lighting device comprises a reflector with a reflector wall and a reflector opening and a light source, the reflector having a length L between the reflector opening and the light source and being configured to provide in the absence of an optical plate a beam of lighting device light with an original optical axis and an original opening angle (θ

), the method comprising arranging only one optical plate to the reflector wall in the reflector in between 5% to 95% of length L downstream of the light source wherein the optical plate comprises a light transmissive layer comprising micro optical structures, and wherein the optical plate is configured to provide said beam of lighting device light with one or more of (i) a final opening angle (θ

f) with θ

f>

θ

, and (ii) a final optical axis (102f) having a non-zero angle (β

) with the original optical axis.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the existing lighting device is in a pre-installed state or, wherein the existing lighting device is in an installed state.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the lighting device is comprised by a street lamp.

15. Use of only one optical plate comprising a light transmissive layer comprising micro optical structures in a reflector of an existing lighting device comprising said reflector and a light source for late-stage adaptation of optical properties of a beam of lighting device light generated by said lighting device during use.