Light bundle control member, light emitting device, and illuminating device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10520163-B2
Application number	US-201716339393-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2017
Priority date	Oct 4, 2016
Publication date	Dec 31, 2019
Grant date	Dec 31, 2019

Abstract

A light bundle control member of the present invention comprises: an entry plane on which light emitted from a light emitting element becomes incident; two reflecting planes which are arranged across the entry plane in positions opposing the light emitting element, and which respectively reflect some of the light entering via the entry plane in two directions that are substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of the light emitting element and opposed to each other; and two output planes which are arranged opposing each other across the two reflecting planes, and which respectively cause the light reflected by the two reflecting planes to be externally output. Each of the two output planes has a plurality of first ridges arranged thereon, wherein, as viewed from the output plane side, a ridge line of the plurality of first ridges is substantially parallel with the optical axis of the light emitting element.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A light flux controlling member configured to control a distribution of light emitted from a light-emitting element, the light flux controlling member comprising:
an incidence surface configured to receive the light emitted from the light-emitting element;
two reflection surfaces disposed opposite to the light-emitting element with the incidence surface interposed between the light-emitting element and the two reflection surfaces, the two reflection surfaces being configured to reflect a part of light that is entered from the incidence surface such that the part of light travels in two opposite directions substantially perpendicular to a light axis of the light-emitting element; and
two emission surfaces disposed opposite to each other with the two reflection surfaces interposed between the two emission surfaces, the two emission surfaces being configured to emit, to outside, light reflected by the two reflection surfaces,
wherein a plurality of first ridges are disposed in each of the two emission surfaces, and
wherein ridgelines of the plurality of first ridges are substantially parallel with the light axis of the light-emitting element as viewed from an emission surface side.

2. The light flux controlling member according to claim 1 , wherein a center-to-center distance between each of the plurality of first ridges is constant in a cross-section perpendicular to the light axis of the light-emitting element.

3. The light flux controlling member according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a center-to-center distance between each of the plurality of first ridges to a height of each of the plurality of first ridges in the cross-section perpendicular to the light axis of the light-emitting element is 2:1 to 13:1.

4. The light flux controlling member according to claim 3 , wherein the ratio of the center-to-center distance between each of the plurality of first ridges to the height of each of the plurality of first ridges in the cross-section perpendicular to the light axis of the light-emitting element is 5:1 to 11:1.

5. The light flux controlling member according to claim 4 , wherein the center-to-center distance between each of the plurality of first ridges is greater than 0.125 mm and smaller than 2.000 mm in the cross-section perpendicular to the light axis of the light-emitting element.

6. The light flux controlling member according to claim 1 ,
wherein a plurality of second ridges are disposed in at least a part of the two reflection surfaces; and
wherein ridgelines of the plurality of second ridges and the ridgelines of the plurality of first ridges have a positional relationship of skew lines.

7. A light-emitting device, comprising:
a light-emitting element; and
the light flux controlling member according to claim 1 , wherein the incidence surface is disposed such that the incidence surface intersects the light axis of the light-emitting element.

8. An illumination apparatus, comprising:
a plurality of the light-emitting devices according to claim 7 ; and
a light diffusion plate configured to allow light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting devices to pass through the light diffusion plate while diffusing the light.

Assignees

• Enplas Corp

Inventors

• Shinohara Hiroyuki
• Seki Akinobu

Classifications

• F21V7/00

  Reflectors for light sources (characterised by cooling arrangements F21V29/505) · CPC title

• F21V7/22

  characterised by materials, surface treatments or coatings, e.g. dichroic reflectors · CPC title

• G02B5/02

  Diffusing elements; Afocal elements · CPC title

• G02B3/00

  Simple or compound lenses · CPC title

• F21V7/04

  Optical design · CPC title