LIGHT-EMITTING-DEVICE-INTEGRATED BUILDING MATERIAL

• US 20180259141A1
• Filed: 05/19/2017
• Published: 09/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kaneka Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kaneka Corporation
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Youichi, Okuyama, Yuzuru
• Application Number:
  US15/761,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20180259141A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/00 Lighting devices intended for fixed installation F21S9/00, F21S10/00 take precedence; using a string or strip of light sources F21S4/00
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/033 the surface being a wall or like vertical structure, e.g. building facade
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/01 Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts F21V15/02 takes precedence housings forming signs or letters G09F13/04
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/12 by screwing
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/001 the elements being electrical wires or cables
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/00 Structural combinations of lighting devices with other articles, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/006 General building constructions or finishing work for buildings, e.g. roofs, gutters, stairs or floors; Garden equipment; Sunshades or parasols
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/10 Construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 9/08 for producing coloured light, e.g. monochromatic; for reducing intensity of light with provision for controlling the colour F21V9/40
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/00 Use or application of lighting devices or systems for decorative purposes, not provided for in codes F21W2102/00 – F21W2107/00
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/10 comprising a two-dimensional array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/15 Organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/20 Electroluminescent [EL] light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 25/10 the devices having separate containers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/00 Organic light-emitting devices integrated devices or assemblies of multiple devices H10K59/00, H10K65/00; organic semiconductor lasers H01S5/36
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/84 Passivation; Containers; Encapsulations
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/854 comprising scattering means
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/856 comprising reflective means
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/87 Passivation; Containers; Encapsulations
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/877 comprising scattering means
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/878 : comprising reflective means

Abstract

There is provided a light-emitting-device-integrated building material having a simple structure that can be manufactured at a relatively low cost, and having high design flexibility. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material includes a decorative member having an outer surface and two or more surface emitting panels, and an inter-panel non-light emitting region is formed between a light emitting surface of one surface emitting panel and a light emitting surface of another surface emitting panel. In addition, when an average value of luminance per unit area of the inter-panel non-light emitting region in a front view is indicated as A1, and an average value of luminance per unit area of the projection plane overlapping region is indicated as A2, a value of X1 in the following expression is 55 or more and 3000 or less.

X1=(A2/A1)*100−100.

Claims

1. A light-emitting-device-integrated building material that constitutes at least part of an external surface of a structure, comprising:

a decorative member, part of its outer surface constituting the external surface; and

two or more of surface emitting panels disposed in parallel such that each of their light emitting surfaces faces outward, the two or more of surface emitting panels constituting an inner light emitting section,

wherein the two or more of surface emitting panels comprises a first surface emitting panel and a second surface emitting panel, the first surface emitting panel and the second surface emitting panel being disposed adjacent to each other in a parallel direction, the first surface emitting panel and the second surface emitting panel being disposed in contact with each other or at an interval,

wherein an inter-panel non-light emitting region is constituted between a light emitting surface of the first surface emitting panel and a light emitting surface of the second surface emitting panel, the inter-panel non-light emitting region including at least a boundary portion between the first surface emitting panel and the second surface emitting panel, or at least the interval,

wherein the decorative member is disposed outside the inner light emitting section and across the light emitting surface of the first surface emitting panel, the inter-panel non-light emitting region, and the light emitting surface of the second surface emitting panel,

an outer surface of the decorative member including a projection plane overlapping region disposed outside the inter-panel non-light emitting region, and

wherein the decorative member and the inner light emitting section satisfy a following condition (1);

(1) when an average value of luminance per unit area of the inter-panel non-light emitting region in a front view is indicated as A1, and an average value of luminance per unit area of the projection plane overlapping region is indicated as A2, a value of X1 in the following expression (A) is 55 or more and 3000 or less,

X1=(A2/A1)*100−

100 

 

(A).

2. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of second portions each having a refractive index different from that of an adjacent portion are provided inside the decorative member, and

wherein at least one of the second portions has a planar portion extending in a direction that is different from a direction orthogonal to the outer surface of the decorative member, and that intersects with the outer surface of the decorative member.

3. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1, wherein the two light emitting surfaces of the first surface emitting panel and the second surface emitting panel are defined each as a reference light emitting surface, the two light emitting surfaces being adjacent to the inter-panel non-light emitting region, and

wherein the decorative member and the inner light emitting section satisfy a relation of the following condition (2):

(2) when an average value of luminance per unit area of the reference light emitting surface is indicated as A3, a value of X2 in the following expression (B) is 1.5 or more and 100 or less,

X2=((A2−

A1)/A3)*100 

 

(B).

4. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1,

wherein the surface emitting panel comprises a panel body and a frame member,

wherein at least part of the frame member is disposed adjacent to the boundary portion or the interval, and

wherein at least part of an outer surface of the frame member is a reflecting surface that reflects light, the part of the outer surface being disposed adjacent to the boundary portion or the interval.

5. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1, wherein a distance between the light emitting surface of the surface emitting panel and an inner surface of the decorative member is 2 mm or more and 10 mm or less.

6. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1, wherein the decorative member has a thickness direction orthogonal to the outer surface of the decorative member, a thickness of the decorative member being 3 mm or more and 50 mm or less.

7. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1,

wherein the decorative member is disposed with its inner surface in contact with the light emitting surfaces of the first and the second surface emitting panels or with its inner surface away outward from the light emitting surfaces;

and

wherein there is not another member between the inner surface of the decorative member and the light emitting surface of the first surface emitting panel, between the inner surface of the decorative member and the inter-panel non-light emitting region, and between the inner surface of the decorative member and the light emitting surface of the second surface emitting panel.

8. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1,

wherein the inner light emitting section comprises three or more of the surface emitting panels in parallel, the decorative member being disposed outside a portion across the three or more of the surface emitting panels so as to overlap with at least a part of each of the surface emitting panels in an inside-outside direction,

wherein the surface emitting panels provided in the inner light emitting section are electrically connected to each other in series, and

wherein each of the surface emitting panels has substantially identical average value of luminance per unit area on its light emitting surface.

9. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1, wherein the surface emitting panel is an organic EL panel that emits scattered light.

10. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of second portions provided inside the decorative member each have a refractive index different from that of an adjacent portion, the second portions each being a translucent granular section,

wherein the decorative member includes a translucent colored layer having a plurality of the granular sections scattered inside the colored layer, the colored layer and the granular sections with different refractive indices being disposed adjacent to each other inside the decorative member, and

wherein the plurality of the granular sections includes a first of the granular section and a second of the granular section each having at least a different outline or a grain size.

11. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1,

wherein a second portion provided inside the decorative member has a refractive index different from that of an adjacent portion, the second portion being a second translucent colored layer, and

wherein the decorative member includes a first translucent colored layer having the second colored layer therein, the first and the second colored layers with a different refractive index being disposed adjacent to each other.

12. The light-emitting-device-integrated building material according to claim 1,

wherein the light-emitting-device-integrated building material comprises a panel mounting member fixing a plurality of the surface emitting panels to constitute the inner light emitting section,

wherein the panel mounting member comprises recessed sections that allows the plurality of the surface emitting panels therein, and

wherein each of the plurality of the surface emitting panels is fitted into the different recessed section to be disposed in parallel.