Illuminating member for reducing unified glare rating and lighting device using the same

• US 9,759,408 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2012
• Issued: 09/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Eom, Jun Phill, Seong, Dong Mug, Lee, Dong Hyun, Hong, Beom Sun, Lee, Yong In
• Primary Examiner(s): Neils, Peggy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Harris, William N
• Application Number:
  US14/239,496
• Publication Number:
  US 20140192540A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,874 Days
• Field of Search: 362 974, 36231101, 362355, 362367, 362632, 362633, 362634
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/02 of recess-mounted type, e.g. downlighters specially adapted for vehicle exteriors F21S41/00-F21S45/00
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/01 Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts F21V15/02 takes precedence housings forming signs or letters G09F13/04
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/101 permanently, e.g. welding, gluing or riveting
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/004 using microlenses
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 5/008 Combination of two or more successive refractors along an optical axis
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/10 comprising a two-dimensional array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 3/0056 arranged along two different directions in a plane, e.g. honeycomb arrangement of lenses G02B3/0043 takes precedence; miniaturised objectives for electronic devices employing wafer level optics G02B13/0085

Abstract

Disclosed is a lighting device capable of reducing UGR (Unified Glare Rating). in a illuminating member, reflection efficiency of light significantly scattering to the left and right among light applied to the air gap through the diffusion plate is increased using the adhesion material pattern layer of periphery surrounding an air gap, and simultaneously, the UGR may be reduced by removing the process disposing the pattern with a specific structure and increasing the process efficiency.

Claims

1. A lighting device, comprising:

a printed circuit board with a light source;

a frame portion formed around a region at which the light source is disposed; and

an illuminating member, wherein the illumination member comprises a diffusion plate, an optical plate over the diffusion plate, an adhesion layer, and an air gap between the diffusion plate and the optical plate;

wherein the adhesion layer is disposed on an edge of the diffusion plate;

wherein the frame portion includes a first frame accommodating the printed circuit board, and a second frame connected with the first frame and accommodating an insertion portion;

wherein a part of the illuminating member having the adhesion layer is inserted into the insertion portion,

wherein the adhesion layer is in direct contact with the diffusion plate and the optical plate,

wherein the optical plate includes a plurality of micro lens patterns, and a sag of each of the micro lens patterns is in a range of 0.1˜

0.25, the sag being defined as a ratio between a height of the corresponding micro lens pattern and a diameter of the same micro lens pattern, and a fill factor of each of the micro lens pattern is in a range of 0.5˜

0.82, wherein the fill factor is defined as a proportion of an area occupied by the corresponding micro lens pattern to a total area of one surface of the optical plate; and

wherein the adhesion layer has a width greater than the diameter of each of the micro lens patterns.

2. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the first frame includes:

a base accommodating the printed circuit board; and

an edge partition wall disposed at an outside of the base,

wherein the insertion portion is disposed between the edge partition wall and the second frame.

3. The lighting device of claim 2, wherein the edge partition wall includes an opening portion inside the edge partition wall, and

wherein the base is disposed in the opening portion of the edge partition wall.

4. The lighting device of claim 2, further comprising a reflection layer disposed on a surface of the print circuit board and an inside of first frame,

wherein the printed circuit board is disposed on an inner surface of the base.

5. The lighting device of claim 2, further comprising a partition wall supporting portion protruded in a horizontal direction from an outside of the edge partition wall.

6. The lighting device of claim 4, wherein the second frame includes:

an outside frame corresponding to the edge partition wall, wherein a center portion of the outside frame is open, and

a guide frame bended at the center portion of the outside frame and connected with the first frame and a space portion.

7. The lighting device of claim 6, wherein the guide frame includes:

a first guide portion connected with a top portion of the edge partition wall and one end of the guide frame; and

a second guide portion formed with a step protruding from the first guide portion and accommodating the space portion to be spaced apart from the top portion of the edge partition wall,

wherein an end of each of the diffusion plate and the optical plate is inserted into the space portion.

8. The lighting device of claim 7, wherein the end of each of the diffusion plate and the optical plate is disposed between the second guide portion and the partition wall supporting portion.

9. The lighting device of claim 7, wherein the first guide portion is in direct contact with a lower surface of the partition wall supporting portion.

10. The lighting device of claim 7, wherein the partition wall supporting portion is disposed on the guide frame, the end of the diffusion plate, and the end of the optical plate.

11. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the adhesion layer is evenly or unevenly disposed with at least one separate pattern.

12. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the adhesion layer is disposed at a periphery of a spacer optical member bonded to one side of the diffusion plate or the optical plate.

13. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the adhesion layer comprises an adhesive resin layer or a double-sided adhesive tape.

14. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the adhesion layer includes a double-sided adhesive tape and a spacer optical member, and the spacer optical member is disposed in middle of the double-sided adhesive tape.

15. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the air gap has a width greater than the diameter of each of the micro lens patterns.