Irradiance-redistribution lens and its applications to LED downlights
DCFirst Claim
1. An irradiance-redistribution illumination lens comprising a transparent dielectric solid of revolution with external surface area predominantly comprised of an entry surface that receives light of nonuniform irradiance from a nearby compact light source and of an opposing exit surface that forms from said received light a pre-specified diverging output beam;
- said entry surface given a specific profile that refractively deflects said received light into a different solid angle, said entry surface spatially distributed such that said exit surface receives said deflected light with predominantly uniform irradiance, said exit surface given a specific shape that refractively deflects said uniform irradiance into said output beam;
said light source being sufficiently compact for said specific shapes to be calculated by mathematical integration of the slope distributions required by said refractive deflections, said entry surface having first concavity facing toward said light source, and second concavity facing toward the entry surface, said second concavity being substantially greater than said first concavity.
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Abstract
An illumination-redistribution lens comprising a thick aspheric lens collecting a high proportion of the luminous output of a compact LED with a quasi-hemispheric pattern. After receiving the highly nonuniform illuminance from the nearby LED, the lower surface refractively deflects these rays into a less diverging angular pattern that results in uniform illuminance on the upper surface of the lens, which itself is shaped so its distribution of slope angles refractively deflects the uniform illuminance distribution into an exiting beam that will produce uniform illuminance on a distant target, such as a table below a ceiling-mounted unit. When square-cut sections of such lenses are laterally arrayed to form a downlight, a uniform rectangular spot will be produced on the target.
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1. An irradiance-redistribution illumination lens comprising a transparent dielectric solid of revolution with external surface area predominantly comprised of an entry surface that receives light of nonuniform irradiance from a nearby compact light source and of an opposing exit surface that forms from said received light a pre-specified diverging output beam;
- said entry surface given a specific profile that refractively deflects said received light into a different solid angle, said entry surface spatially distributed such that said exit surface receives said deflected light with predominantly uniform irradiance, said exit surface given a specific shape that refractively deflects said uniform irradiance into said output beam;
said light source being sufficiently compact for said specific shapes to be calculated by mathematical integration of the slope distributions required by said refractive deflections, said entry surface having first concavity facing toward said light source, and second concavity facing toward the entry surface, said second concavity being substantially greater than said first concavity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
- said entry surface given a specific profile that refractively deflects said received light into a different solid angle, said entry surface spatially distributed such that said exit surface receives said deflected light with predominantly uniform irradiance, said exit surface given a specific shape that refractively deflects said uniform irradiance into said output beam;
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39. An irradiance-redistribution lens comprising a transparent dielectric formed as a solid of revolution with an axis about which a planar curved profile-line is swept, with external surface area comprised of an optically active entry surface, an optically active exit surface, and an optically inactive mounting surface;
- said entry surface receiving light of nonuniform irradiance from a compact light source situated on said axis in a nearby focal zone;
said entry surface having a specific profile that produces refractive deflection of said received light into interiorly propagating light of a different solid angle;
said exit surface opposing said entry surface and receiving said internally propagating light therefrom;
said exit surface forming a pre-specified diverging output beam from said internally propagating light;
said entry-surface deflection spatially distributed such that said exit surface receives said deflected light with predominantly uniform irradiance, said exit surface given a specific shape that refractively deflects said uniform irradiance into said output beam;
said light source being sufficiently compact for said specific shapes to be calculated by mathematical integration of the slope distributions required by said refractive deflections, said entry surface having first concavity facing toward said light source, and second concavity facing toward the entry surface, said second concavity being substantially greater than said first concavity. - View Dependent Claims (40)
- said entry surface receiving light of nonuniform irradiance from a compact light source situated on said axis in a nearby focal zone;
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