Dual characteristic color conversion enclosure and associated methods
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1. A light converting device comprising:
- an enclosure comprised of a bulk material;
a wide production conversion material located adjacent to at least part of the enclosure to convert a source light within a source wavelength range to a first interim light within a first interim wavelength range; and
a narrow production conversion material located adjacent to at least part of the enclosure to convert the source light within the source wavelength range to a second interim light within a second interim wavelength range;
wherein the first interim light and the second interim light are substantially included in a converted light;
wherein the first interim wavelength range and the second interim wavelength range are included in a converted wavelength range.
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Abstract
A light converting device includes a wide production conversion material and a narrow production conversion material to convert the source light into a first and second interim light, respectively. The conversion materials may be included in, or applied to, an enclosure. The first and second interim light may be included in a converted light. The converted light may be included with the source light to create a white light. The wide production conversion material may have wide absorption and scatter characteristics. The narrow production conversion material may have narrow absorption and scatter characteristics to substantially reduce inefficiencies caused by double conversion of light.
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63 Claims
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1. A light converting device comprising:
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an enclosure comprised of a bulk material; a wide production conversion material located adjacent to at least part of the enclosure to convert a source light within a source wavelength range to a first interim light within a first interim wavelength range; and a narrow production conversion material located adjacent to at least part of the enclosure to convert the source light within the source wavelength range to a second interim light within a second interim wavelength range; wherein the first interim light and the second interim light are substantially included in a converted light; wherein the first interim wavelength range and the second interim wavelength range are included in a converted wavelength range. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 40)
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23. A light converting device comprising:
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an enclosure comprised of a bulk material; a wide production conversion material located adjacent to at least part of the enclosure to convert a source light within a source wavelength range to a first interim light within a first interim wavelength range; and a narrow production conversion material located adjacent to at least part of the enclosure to convert the source light within the source wavelength range to a second interim light within a second interim wavelength range; wherein the first interim light and the second interim light are substantially included in a converted light; wherein the first interim wavelength range and the second interim wavelength range are substantially included in a converted wavelength range; wherein the wide production conversion material is defined by wide absorption characteristics and the narrow production conversion material is defined by narrow absorption characteristics; wherein the wide production conversion material absorbs at least some of the source light and the narrow production conversion material absorbs at least some of the source light that differs from the source light absorbed by the wide production conversion material; wherein the wide production conversion material absorbs a substantially negligible quantity of the second interim light; wherein the narrow production conversion material absorbs a substantially negligible quantity of the first interim light; wherein the wide production conversion material is defined by wide scatter characteristics to scatter at least some of the source light by converting the source light that has been absorbed in the source wavelength range and emitting the first interim light in the first interim wavelength range; wherein the narrow production conversion material is defined by narrow scatter characteristics to scatter at least some of the source light by converting the source light that has been absorbed in the source wavelength range and emitting the second interim light in the second interim wavelength range; wherein the scattering performed by the wide production conversion material differs from the scattering performed by the narrow production conversion material. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42)
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43. A method of converting a source light into a converted light using a light converting device that includes an enclosure comprised of a bulk material, a wide production conversion material located adjacent to at least part of the enclosure, and a narrow production conversion material located adjacent to at least part of the enclosure, the method comprising:
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receiving the source light by the wide production conversion material and the narrow production conversion material; converting the source light within a source wavelength range to a first interim light within a first interim wavelength range using the wide production conversion material; and converting the source light within the source wavelength range to a second interim light within a second interim wavelength range using the narrow production conversion material; wherein the first interim light and the second interim light are substantially included in a converted light; wherein the first interim wavelength range and the second interim wavelength range are substantially included in the converted wavelength range of the converted light; wherein the wide production conversion material is defined by wide absorption characteristics; wherein the narrow production conversion material is defined by narrow absorption characteristics; wherein the wide production conversion material absorbs at least some of the source light; wherein the narrow production conversion material absorbs at least some of the source light that differs from the source light absorbed by the wide production conversion material; wherein the wide production conversion material absorbs a substantially negligible quantity of the second interim light; and wherein the narrow production conversion material absorbs a substantially negligible quantity of the first interim light. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63)
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