LED lighting module for plant factory and LED lighting device for plant factory having same mounted thereon

• US 9,927,075 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2014
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Future Light Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Futuregreen Agricultural Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cho, Sung-Bin
• Primary Examiner(s): Ton, Anabel
• Application Number:
  US14/782,996
• Publication Number:
  US 20160178140A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,401 Days
• Field of Search: 362249
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 7/045 with electric lighting
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/64 using wavelength conversion means distinct or spaced from the light-generating element, e.g. a remote phosphor layer
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/0035 the fastening means being capable of simultaneously attaching of an other part, e.g. a housing portion or an optical component
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2103/10 comprising a linear array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/14 Measures for saving energy, e.g. in green houses

Abstract

The present invention relates to technology to implement a technique of managing light intensity by each wavelength band for a light apparatus at a low price, whereby the light intensity is suitable for plant growth. In the present invention, cheaper LED blue-chips are incorporated instead of more expensive LED red-chips which are conventionally incorporated in plant factories, which let the production cost of lighting apparatus for plant factories reduced. By applying red-series, green-series and yellow-series phosphors onto the LED blue-chips, light intensity by wavelength band of lighting apparatuses may meet target conditions which are favorable to plant growth. Further, work environment may be improved by reducing eyestrain due to red light-source, and growth efficiency of plants may be enhanced by improving wavelength characteristics of lighting apparatuses.

Claims

1. An LED lighting module for being used in an LED lighting apparatus for plant factories, comprising:

a blue-chip light-source for generating blue-series light under external power supply; and

mixing phosphor, which being blending of red-series and yellow-series RY-phosphor, for being applied onto the blue-chip light-source, whereby the light intensity out of the blue-chip light-source shows a first local maximum in a 430 nm-470 nm wavelength band and a second local maximum in a 550 nm-730 nm wavelength band, wherein both of minimum light intensities in the 430 nm-470 nm wavelength band and the 550 nm-730 nm wavelength band maintain higher than maximum light intensity in a 490 nm-530 nm wavelength band.

2. An LED lighting apparatus for plant factories, comprising:

LED lighting modules of claim 1;

a circuit board for loading pluralities of the LED lighting modules and of having circuit pattern so as to provide on/off control for the LED lighting modules and to provide external power supply to the LED lighting modules; and

a frame for fixing the circuit board with letting the bottom surface of the circuit board being landed.

3. The LED lighting apparatus for plant factories of claim 2, further comprising:

a closing cover, being detachably attached to the bottom edges of the frame, for closing the circuit board and the LED lighting modules, wherein the circuit board being landed in the frame and the LED lighting modules being loaded in the circuit board.

4. The LED lighting apparatus for plant factories of claim 3, wherein the pluralities of LED lighting modules are in-line aligned with being equally-spaced in the circuit board.