SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE

• US 20180149338A1
• Filed: 04/21/2016
• Published: 05/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Enplas Corporation
• Original Assignee: Enplas Corporation
• Inventors: YAMADA, Kyouhei
• Application Number:
  US15/572,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20180149338A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 2/005 of modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 13/04 the elements being reflectors and refractors for vehicle rear lights F21S43/40
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 3/02 characterised by the shape
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/16 square or rectangular, e.g. for light panels
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2113/13 comprising an assembly of point-like light sources
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 19/00 Condensers, e.g. light collectors or similar non-imaging opticsfor microscopes G02B21/08
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0011 the light guides being planar or of plate-like form
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0081 Mechanical or electrical aspects of the light guide and light source in the lighting device peculiar to the adaptation to planar light guides, e.g. concerning packaging
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133603 with LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133606 including a specially adapted diffusing, scattering or light controlling members

Abstract

This surface light source is provided with a light diffusing plate and a plurality of light emitting devices. The plurality of light emitting devices each include a plurality of light emitting elements that are aligned in the second direction and have mutually different colors of emitted light, and a luminous flux control member that controls the distribution of the light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements. The luminous flux control member includes an incident surface, total reflection surfaces, and two light guiding sections. The arrangement order of the plurality of light emitting elements in a given light emitting device differs from the arrangement order of the plurality of light emitting elements in another light emitting device adjacent thereto in the first direction or the second direction.

Claims

1. A surface light source device comprising:

a plurality of light emitting devices; and

a light diffusion plate configured to allow light emitted from the plurality of light emitting devices to pass therethrough while diffusing the light, wherein;

the plurality of light emitting devices are disposed such that a plurality of light emitting device arrays each of which is composed of the plurality of light emitting devices arranged in a first direction are disposed in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction,

each of the plurality of light emitting devices includes

a plurality of light emitting elements whose emission light colors are different from one another, the plurality of light emitting elements being arranged in the second direction, and

a light flux controlling member configured to control a distribution of light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements,

the light flux controlling member includes

an incidence surface configured to allow incidence of light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements,

a total reflection surface configured to reflect, in the first direction and a third direction opposite to the first direction, a part of light incident on the incidence surface, and

two light guiding parts disposed at opposite positions with respect to the incidence surface and the total reflection surface, the two light guiding parts being configured to guide, in the first direction or the third direction, a part of light incident on the incidence surface, and

the plurality of light emitting elements are disposed such that an arrangement order of the plurality of light emitting elements in one light emitting device is different from an arrangement order of the plurality of light emitting elements in another light emitting device adjacent to the one light emitting device in the first direction or the second direction.

2. The surface light source device according to claim 1, wherein the light flux controlling member further includes a cover disposed on a side opposite to the light emitting element with respect to the incidence surface, the cover being configured to allow transmitted light which is not reflected by the total reflection surface to pass therethrough while diffusing the light.

3. The surface light source device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of light emitting elements are disposed such that, as viewed along the second direction, one light emitting element array composed of the plurality of light emitting elements included in the light emitting device of one light emitting device array is disposed between other two light emitting element arrays adjacent to each other in the first direction which are included in another light emitting device array adjacent to the one light emitting device array in the second direction.

4. The surface light source device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of light emitting elements are disposed such that, as viewed along the second direction, one light emitting element array composed of the plurality of light emitting elements included in the light emitting device of one light emitting device array overlaps another light emitting element array which is included in another light emitting device array adjacent to the one light emitting device array in the second direction.

5. The surface light source device according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of light emitting elements are disposed such that, as viewed along the second direction, one light emitting element array composed of the plurality of light emitting elements included in the light emitting device of one light emitting device array is disposed between other two light emitting element arrays adjacent to each other in the first direction which are included in another light emitting device array adjacent to the one light emitting device array in the second direction.

6. The surface light source device according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of light emitting elements are disposed such that, as viewed along the second direction, one light emitting element array composed of the plurality of light emitting elements included in the light emitting device of one light emitting device array overlaps another light emitting element array which is included in another light emitting device array adjacent to the one light emitting device array in the second direction.