Lighting device

• US 8,482,186 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2010
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Young Lighting Technology Inc. (Coretronic Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Young Lighting Technology Inc. (Coretronic Corporation)
• Inventors: Wang, Wei-Chih, Custodis, Udo, Hwang, Jung-Min
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nimeshkumar
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hollweg, Thomas A
• Application Number:
  US12/772,233
• Publication Number:
  US 20110266939A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,163 Days
• Field of Search: 313484-487, 313/489, 313/498, 313/512, 313/467, 313/468, 313/499, 313501-503, 257/98, 257/99, 257/100, 257/80, 257/79, 362/235, 362/227, 362/231, 362/293, 362/545, 362/555, 362/800, 345/44, 345/46, 345/80
• US Class Current: 313/116
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/232 specially adapted for generating an essentially omnidirectional light distribution, e.g. with a glass bulb
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/61 using light guides
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 3/02 characterised by the shape
• 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 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0016 Grooves, prisms, gratings, scattering particles or rough surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0096 the lights guides being of the hollow type

Abstract

A lighting device includes a light guide body and at least one light-emitting unit. The light guide body has a light guide channel and a local roughened surface on the light guide channel as a scattering region. The at least one light-emitting unit is capable of emitting a light into the light guide channel, wherein at least one portion of the light is guided to the scattering region, and the scattering region scatters the light as a local light source region.

Claims

1. A lighting device, comprising:

a light guide body, having a first end, a second end opposite to the first end, and a side surface to join the first end and the second end, wherein the first end is larger than the second end, and a local scattering region by a roughen surface is disposed on and protrudes outside the second end, and wherein the local scattering region in all of its transverse cross sections is smaller or equal to the second end, wherein the light guide body has cutting surfaces at a region other than the local scattering region to produce sparkling effect; and

at least one light-emitting unit, capable of emitting a light into the light guide body, disposed adjacent to the first end, wherein at least one portion of the light is guided within the light guide body to reach the local scattering region, and the local scattering region with an effect to destroy total internal reflection scatters and refracts the light through the local scattering region to a space external to the light guide body as a local light source region.

2. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the at least one light-emitting unit comprises a light emitting diode.

3. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the roughened surface is a frosted-like surface.

4. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the side surface of the light guide body is cone-like surface.

5. A lighting device, comprising:

a solid light guide block, having an outer surface and a concave channel portion along a center line from one end surface of the solid light guide block, wherein the outer surface is not conformal to a contour of the concave channel portion and a local roughened surface on the solid light guide block is at a concave end surface of the concave channel portion to serve as a scattering region, wherein the solid light guide block has cutting surfaces at a region other than the scattering region to produce sparkling effect;

at least one light-emitting unit capable of emitting a light into the concave channel portion, wherein at least one portion of the light is guided within the concave channel portion and reaches to the scattering region, and the scattering region scatters and refracts the light through the scattering region to outside the concave channel portion as a local light source region,

wherein the solid light guide block with the concave channel portion covers over the at least one light-emitting unit.

6. The lighting device of claim 5, wherein the concave channel portion is a uniform columnar space, a round cone-like space, a polygon cone-like space, or a curving surface space.

7. The lighting device of claim 5, wherein the concave channel portion has a first end region and a second end region, the scattering region is at the first end region, and the at least one light-emitting unit is at the second end region.

8. The lighting device of claim 7, wherein a transverse cross-sectional area of the first end region is smaller than a transverse cross-sectional area of the second end region.

9. The lighting device of claim 5, wherein the at least one light-emitting unit comprises a light emitting diode.

10. The lighting device of claim 5, wherein the local roughened surface of the scattering region is a frosted-like surface.

11. The lighting device of claim 5, wherein an opening end of the concave channel portion is wider than the concave end surface.

12. The lighting device of claim 5, wherein the concave channel is a round cone-like space, a polygon cone-like space, or a curving surface space.