Illumination device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016018081-A1
Application number	US-201414773378-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 24, 2014
Priority date	Oct 31, 2013
Publication date	Jan 21, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An illumination device has plural LED light sources, a reflection plate that has plural openings facing the respective LED light sources, and plural lenses that faces the respective openings and that guides light emitted from the plural openings in a direction vertical to the openings. The reflection plate is placed between the plural LED light sources and the plural lenses, and converges the light emitted from the plural LED light sources.

First claim

1 - 7 . (canceled)

8 . An illumination device, comprising:
plural light-emitting elements; a reflection plate that has plural openings facing the plural light-emitting elements, respectively; and plural lenses that face the plural openings, respectively, each of the plural lenses guides light emitted from the respective opening in a direction vertical to the respective opening, wherein the reflection plate is placed between the plural light-emitting elements and the plural lenses, and converges the light emitted from the plural light-emitting elements.

9 . The illumination device according to claim 8 , wherein
the plural light-emitting elements are located on a substrate, the plural lenses form a lens unit, and the substrate, the reflection plate and the lens unit are layered so as to be movable.

10 . The illumination device according to claim 8 , wherein the plural openings in the reflection plate have the same shape, and displacement amounts between center positions of the respective openings and central axes of the respective lenses facing to them differ from each other depending on positions.

11 . The illumination device according to claim 8 , wherein the plural openings in the reflection plate have different shapes.

12 . The illumination device according to claim 8 , wherein the plural openings in the reflection plate have a shape of one of a rectangle, an ellipse, a semicircle, and a semi-ellipse, the shape including a cut part.

13 . The illumination device according to claim 8 , wherein a shape of each of the plural openings in the reflection plate is a rectangle including a cut part on an edge of the rectangle.

14 . The illumination device according to claim 10 , wherein a maximum value for the displacement amounts between the center positions of the respective openings in the reflection plate and the central axes of the respective lenses facing to them is equal to or less than 50% of a width of the openings.

15 . The illumination device according to claim 8 , wherein displacement amounts between center positions of the respective openings in the reflection plate and central axes of the respective lenses facing to them become larger toward edges of the illumination device.

16 . The illumination device according to claim 8 , wherein outer shapes of the lenses are formed of a spherical outer peripheral surface having plural radii.

17 . The illumination device according to claim 8 , further comprising a driving device that drives a lens unit having the plural lenses in a direction horizontal to central axes of the lenses.

18 . The illumination device according to claim 8 , wherein
shapes on the lens side and shapes on the light-emitting-element side of the plural openings in the reflection plate are shapes of a rectangle, a length of the long side of the rectangle on the lens side is identical to that of the long side of the rectangle on the light-emitting-element side, a length of the short side of the rectangle on the lens side is smaller than that of the short side of the rectangle on the light-emitting-element side, and the lenses are hemispherical.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kadoriku Shinji
• Murase Ryoma
• Fujita Masaru

Classifications

• F21V5/007

  Array of lenses or refractors for a cluster of light sources, e.g. for arrangement of multiple light sources in one plane (combination of two or more refractors F21V5/008) · CPC title

• F21V7/04

  Optical design · CPC title

• F21S41/151

  arranged in one or more lines · CPC title

• F21S41/265

  Composite lenses; Lenses with a patch-like shape · CPC title

• F21Y2105/10

  comprising a two-dimensional [2D] array of point-like light-generating elements · CPC title