Surface-textured encapsulations for use with light emitting diodes
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1. A light emitting diode (LED) array apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of LEDs mounted to a substrate; and
an encapsulation comprising a plurality of regions, the encapsulation covering the plurality of LEDs and each region of the encapsulation having a different surface texture texturing configured to extract light, wherein the each surface texture texturing comprises a plurality of light extracting features;
wherein the light extracting features have varying dimensions.
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Abstract
Surface-textured encapsulations for use with light emitting diodes. In an aspect, a light emitting diode (LED) array apparatus includes a plurality of LEDs mounted to a substrate and an encapsulation covering the LEDs and having a surface texturing configured to extract light, wherein the surface texturing is includes at least one light extracting feature having a diameter larger than two or more of the LEDs.
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20 Claims
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1. A light emitting diode (LED) array apparatus comprising:
a plurality of LEDs mounted to a substrate; and an encapsulation comprising a plurality of regions, the encapsulation covering the plurality of LEDs and each region of the encapsulation having a different surface texture texturing configured to extract light, wherein the each surface texture texturing comprises a plurality of light extracting features; wherein the light extracting features have varying dimensions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for forming a light emitting diode (LED) array apparatus comprising:
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mounting a plurality of LEDs to a substrate; and encapsulating the plurality of LEDs with an encapsulation comprising a plurality of regions, each region of the encapsulation having a different surface texture texturing configured to extract light, wherein each the surface texture texturing comprises a plurality of light extracting features; wherein the light extracting features have varying dimensions. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A lamp having a light emitting diode (LED) array apparatus comprising:
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a package; a plurality of LEDs mounted to a substrate; and an encapsulation comprising a plurality of regions, the encapsulation covering the plurality of LEDs and with each region of the encapsulation having a different surface texture texturing configured to extract light, wherein the each surface texture texturing comprises a plurality of light extracting features; wherein the light extracting features have varying dimensions.
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