LED lighting device

• US 8,092,046 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2009
• Issued: 01/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lextar Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Lextar Electronics Corporation
• Inventors: Wu, Meng-Chai, Yang, He-Shun
• Primary Examiner(s): Neils, Peggy A.
• Application Number:
  US12/554,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20100327301A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 362/249.02, 362/231, 362/244, 362/267, 362/555, 362/237, 362/800, 362/268, 362/331, 362/310, 257/100
• US Class Current: 362/249.02
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48247 connecting the wire to a bond pad of the item
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 33/52 Encapsulations

Abstract

An LED lighting device includes a circuit board, a plurality of LED units, a waterproof layer and a middle layer. The LED units are disposed on the circuit board by surface mounted way. The light beam emitted from the LED units emits from the light-emitting surface. The waterproof layer wraps the circuit board and the LED units. The middle layer is located between the light-emitting surface and the water-proof layer. The middle layer extends from a direction of the LED units being disposed on the circuit board so that the middle layer fully covers the light-emitting surface. The light beams passing through the light-emitting surface enters into the waterproof layer via the middle layer. Thereby, the middle layer is located between the LED units and the waterproof layer to make the color of the light beam be more uniform.

Claims

1. An LED lighting device, comprising:

a circuit board;

at least one LED unit disposed on the circuit board along a predetermined direction, wherein each LED unit has a light-emitting surface configured to permit light emission toward a predetermined direction;

a spacing layer formed above the LED unit fully covering the light-emitting surface in the path of light emission; and

a waterproof layer wrapping the circuit board, the LED units, and the spacing layer, and in immediate contact with the lateral surface of the LED unit;

wherein the spacing layer is arranged between the light-emitting surface and the water-proof layer, and wherein the light emitted from each LED unit passes through the light-emitting surface, the spacing layer and the waterproof layer.

2. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the LED lighting device has at least two LED units, and wherein the spacing layer is arranged substantially along the direction of the LED units.

3. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the spacing layer is divided into at least two cover layers, the quantity of the cover layers correspond to the quantity of the LED units, and each cover layer respectively covers the light-emitting surface of each LED unit.

4. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the cover layer is a rectangular thin layer.

5. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each LED unit has a package layer, wherein the light-emitting surface is located at the top of the package, wherein the package layer contains phosphor powder, whereby the light passing through the package layer is excited to form different colors.

6. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the spacing layer contains air, inert gas, or tiny solid particles of dimension smaller than 0.1 mm.

7. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the material of the tiny solid particle is metal, metal oxide, oxide silicon, talcum, silica gel, or plastic.

8. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the spacing layer is filled with a light-transparent and non-conductive liquid.

9. The LED lighting device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the liquid is alcohol or silica gel oil.