Bulb-shaped lamp and lighting device

• US 8,038,329 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2010
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tomiyoshi, Yasushige, Uemoto, Takaari, Nagai, Hideo, Takahasi, Kenzi, Takeda, Mamoru, Manabe, Yoshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Payne; Sharon
• Application Number:
  US12/994,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20110068687A1
• Time in Patent Office: 622 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.46, 361/679.52, 361/688, 362/264
• US Class Current: 362/373
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/23 Retrofit light sources for lighting devices with a single fitting for each light source, e.g. for substitution of incandescent lamps with bayonet or threaded fittings
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/233 specially adapted for generating a spot light distribution, e.g. for substitution of reflector lamps
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/026 intended to be recessed in a ceiling or like overhead structure, e.g. suspended ceiling
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/002 Arrangements of cables or conductors inside a lighting device, e.g. means for guiding along parts of the housing or in a pivoting arm
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/009 the casing being inside the housing of the lighting device
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/15 Thermal insulation
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/83 the elements having apertures, ducts or channels, e.g. heat radiation holes
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/89 Metals
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 3/00 Globes; Bowls; Cover glasses with refracting properties F21V5/00; with reflecting properties F21V7/00; characterised by cooling arrangements F21V29/506
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

A bulb-type lamp having both heat dissipation and size/weight reduction properties with a lower thermal load on a lighting circuit. An LED module is mounted in a case with a base member to allow dissipation of heat. An LED mount member closes another end of the case and allows conduction of heat to the case. A lighting circuit receives power via the base member. The lighting circuit is disposed inside a circuit holder. An air space exists between the circuit holder and both the case and the mount member. The lighting circuit is isolated from the air space by the circuit holder. A relationship 0.5≦S1/S2, is satisfied where S1 denotes an area of a portion of the mount member in contact with the case and S2 denotes an area of the portion of the mount member in contact with a substrate of the LED module.

Claims

1. A bulb-type lamp comprising:

a light emitting module including a substrate on which at least one light emitting element is mounted;

a cylindrically-shaped heat sink that allows dissipation of heat therefrom, the heat being generated by the at least one light emitting element emitting light;

a base member attached to one end portion of the heat sink;

a plate-shaped heat conduction member on a front surface of which the light emitting module is mounted, the heat conduction member closing an opening of the other end portion of the heat sink and allowing conduction of the heat therefrom to the heat sink;

a circuit that, upon receiving power via the base member, causes the at least one light emitting element to emit the light; and

a circuit holder member positioned inside the heat sink, with the circuit disposed inside the circuit holder member, wherein

an air space exists (i) between the circuit holder member and the heat sink, and/or (ii) between the circuit holder member and the heat conduction member, and the circuit is isolated from the air space by the circuit holder member,

a side surface of the heat conduction member and an inner circumferential surface of the heat sink are in contact with each other, and

a fraction S1/S2 satisfies a relationship 0.5≦

S1/S2, where S1 denotes an area of a portion of the heat conduction member that is in contact with the heat sink, and S2 denotes an area of a portion of the heat conduction member that is in contact with the substrate of the light emitting module.

2. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

the fraction S1/S2 satisfies a relationship 1.0≦

S1/S2≦

2.5.

3. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

the heat conduction member has a recess at the front surface thereof, and the substrate of the light emitting module is mounted in the recess.

4. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

the heat conduction member has a shape of a circular plate,

an outer circumferential surface of the heat conduction member and an inner circumferential surface of the heat sink are in contact with each other, and

an entirety of the outer circumferential surface of the heat conduction member is in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the heat sink.

5. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

the heat sink has a wall thickness of 1 mm or less.

6. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

a thickness of the portion of the heat conduction member that is in contact with the substrate is greater than or equal to a thickness of the substrate, and is smaller than or equal to a thickness that is three times the thickness of the substrate.

7. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

a thickness of a portion of the heat conduction member on which the light emitting module is mounted is greater than a wall thickness of the heat sink.

8. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

at least one through hole is provided in the heat sink.

9. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

a surface of the substrate on which the at least one light emitting element is mounted is positioned farther from the base than a virtual edge surface of the heat sink is, the virtual edge surface of the heat sink being a virtual surface that is flush with a tip of the other end portion of the heat sink.

10. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

of all portions of the heat conduction member, at least the front surface thereof on which the light emitting module is mounted is positioned farther from the base than a virtual edge surface of the heat sink is, the virtual edge surface of the heat sink being a virtual surface that is flush with a tip of the other end portion of the heat sink.

11. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

a surface of the substrate on which the at least one light emitting element is mounted is positioned closer to the base than a virtual edge surface of the heat sink is, the virtual edge surface of the heat sink being a virtual surface that is flush with a tip of the other end portion of the heat sink.

12. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

the heat conduction member has a recess, and the light emitting module is mounted in the recess, and

the front surface of the heat conduction member in the recess, on which the light emitting module is mounted, is positioned closer to the base than a virtual edge surface of the heat sink is, the virtual edge surface of the heat sink being a virtual surface that is flush with a tip of the other end portion of the heat sink.

13. The bulb-type lamp of claim 12, wherein

an inner circumferential surface of the recess is reflective.

14. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

the circuit holder member is attached to the heat sink, and

the heat conduction member is connected to the circuit holder member.

15. The bulb-type lamp of claim 14, wherein

the circuit holder member includes:

a holder body that has an opening in at least one end thereof and is attached to the heat sink; and

a cap that closes the opening of the holder body and is connected to the heat conduction member,

the heat conduction member is inserted into the heat sink through the other end portion of the heat sink, and

the cap is attached to the holder body in such a manner that the cap is movable in a direction along which the heat conduction member is inserted into the heat sink.

16. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

the heat sink has a multilayer structure composed of at least the following two layers:

(i) an outermost layer forming an outer circumferential surface of the heat sink; and

(ii) an innermost layer forming the inner circumferential surface of the heat sink, and

an outer surface of the outermost layer has higher emissivity than an inner surface of the innermost layer.

17. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

the heat sink and the base are thermally connected to each other via a filler in the base.

18. The bulb-type lamp is the bulb type lamp of claim 1, wherein

outer and inner diameters of the heat sink decrease from a tip of the other end portion toward a tip of the one end portion of the heat sink.

19. The bulb-type lamp of claim 1, wherein

the circuit holder member includes a holder body and a cap,

the holder body includes:

a protruding cylindrical portion that penetrates through an opening of the one end portion of the heat sink, the one end portion forming a bottom wall of the heat sink, and therefore protrudes from an inside to an outside of the heat sink;

a bottom portion that is in contact with an inner surface of the bottom wall of the heat sink; and

a large diameter cylindrical portion that extends from an outer circumferential rim of the bottom portion toward a direction opposite from a direction toward which the protruding cylindrical portion protrudes,

the cap closes an opening of the large diameter cylindrical portion, and

the base member is fit around the protruding cylindrical portion.

20. The bulb-type lamp of claim 19, wherein

an outer circumferential surface of the protruding cylindrical portion has a thread, and

the thread is screwed and fit into the base member.

21. A lighting device comprising:

a bulb-type lamp; and

a lighting fixture to/from which the bulb-type lamp is attachable/detachable, wherein

the bulb-type lamp is the bulb-type lamp of claim 1.