Light-emitting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11641009-B2
Application number	US-201916972947-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 12, 2019
Priority date	Jun 12, 2018
Publication date	May 2, 2023
Grant date	May 2, 2023

Abstract

A light-emitting device including a solid-state light source that emits light having a peak wavelength in the range of 480 nm or less and a fluorescent film that covers the solid-state light source and includes at least one kind of phosphor, wherein the fluorescent film includes at least one kind of near-infrared phosphor that is excited by light from the solid-state light source, has a peak wavelength in the range exceeding 700 nm, and has an emission spectrum with a full width at half maximum of 100 nm or more in a range including the peak wavelength.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A light-emitting device comprising at least a solid-state light source that emits light having a peak wavelength in the range of 480 nm or less and a fluorescent film that covers the solid-state light source and includes at least one kind of phosphor, wherein
the fluorescent film includes at least one kind of near-infrared phosphor that is excited by light from the solid-state light source and emits light having a peak wavelength in the range exceeding 700 nm and having an emission spectrum with a full width at half maximum of 100 nm or more in a range including the peak wavelength,
the light emitting device has a continuous emission spectrum at least in the range of 400 nm or more to 1,000 nm or less, and
the continuous emission spectrum means the emission intensity of the emission spectrum is 0.01 or more, as a value relative to an 800 nm reference, across the entire region within this range.

2. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorescent film further includes at least one kind of visible phosphor that is excited by light from the solid-state light source and emits light having a peak wavelength in the range of 350 nm or more to 700 nm or less.

3. The light-emitting device according to claim 2 , wherein the fluorescent film includes, as the visible phosphor, one or more kinds of each of: a visible phosphor A that is excited by light from the solid-state light source and emits light having a peak wavelength in the range of 350 nm or more to less than 430 nm; a visible phosphor B that is excited by light from the solid-state light source and emits light having a peak wavelength in the range of 430 nm or more to less than 500 nm; and a visible phosphor C that is excited by light from the solid-state light source and emits light having a peak wavelength in the range of 500 nm or more to 700 nm or less.

4. The light-emitting device according to claim 3 , wherein the fluorescent film is formed with two or more layers and the visible phosphors A and B are included in different layers.

5. The light-emitting device according to claim 3 , wherein
the fluorescent film is formed with two or more layers each having a different kind of phosphor included therein, and
the two or more layers are laminated, in the traveling direction of light from the solid-state light source, in an order from a layer including a phosphor having a longer peak wavelength to a layer including a phosphor having a shorter peak wavelength.

6. The light-emitting device according to claim 4 , wherein each layer of the fluorescent film includes one or more and three or less kinds of phosphors.

7. The light-emitting device according to claim 3 , wherein the fluorescent film has, on a same surface, two or more regions each having a different kind of phosphor included therein.

8. The light-emitting device according to claim 7 , wherein the two or more regions each having a different kind of phosphor have at least a region including the near-infrared phosphor and a region including the visible phosphor.

9. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , comprising two or more of the solid-state light sources.

10. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the solid-state light source is at least one selected from a light-emitting diode, a laser diode, and an organic electroluminescent light-emitting element.

11. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the near-infrared phosphor includes divalent europium.

12. A fluorescent film including: at least one kind of near-infrared phosphor that, due to light having a peak wavelength in the range of 480 nm or less, emits light having a peak wavelength in the range exceeding 700 nm and having an emission spectrum with a full width at half maximum of 100 nm or more in a range including the peak wavelength; and at least one kind of visible phosphor that, due to the light, emits light having a peak wavelength in the range of 350 nm or more to 700 nm or less,
wherein the near-infrared phosphor has a composition represented by formula (I)
Li a Sr b La c Si d N e Eu f   (I)

wherein a-f are numbers satisfying: a+b+c+d+e+f=100; and 0<a≤8.22, 0.22≤b≤17.33, 1.12≤c≤11.36, 22.41≤d≤38.09, 49.47≤e≤56.09, and 0.88≤f≤1.01.

Assignees

• Aist
• Phoenix Electric Co Ltd
• Nat Inst Materials Science

Inventors

• Fukuda Takashi
• Gouda Tetsuya
• SAKIMOTO Yuta
• Hirosaki Naoto
• Takahashi Kohsei

Classifications

• H10H20/8514

  characterised by their shape, e.g. plate or foil · CPC title

• H10H20/8513 Primary

  having two or more wavelength conversion materials · CPC title

• H10H20/8515

  not being in contact with the bodies · CPC title

• H10H20/8512 Primary

  Wavelength conversion materials · CPC title

• H10K59/38

  comprising colour filters or colour changing media [CCM] · CPC title