LED unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9434151-B2
Application number	US-201013521783-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2010
Priority date	Jan 18, 2010
Publication date	Sep 6, 2016
Grant date	Sep 6, 2016

Abstract

An LED unit includes: a plurality of LED modules each having an LED chip for generating ultraviolet ray provided in a package which has an opening formed on one surface and a lens formed to cover the opening of the package; a substrate-shaped base block where the LED modules are mounted in a first direction; and a heat radiation member where a plurality of the base blocks is provided in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The heat radiation member has a plurality of inclined surfaces where each of the base blocks is disposed. Further, one inclined surface and the other inclined surface of the heat radiation member are inclined to face each other in the second direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An LED unit comprising:
a plurality of LED modules each having an LED chip for generating ultraviolet ray provided in a package which has an opening formed on one surface and a lens provided to cover the opening of the package;
substrate-shaped base blocks on which the LED modules are arranged in a first direction; and
a heat radiation member where the base blocks are provided in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction,
wherein the heat radiation member has a plurality of inclined surfaces on which the base blocks are disposed, and the inclined surfaces include first inclined surfaces on a first side of the heat radiation member and second inclined surfaces on a second side of the heat radiation member disposed opposite to each other in the second direction and wherein the first inclined surfaces are inclined toward the second inclined surfaces in the second direction, wherein a surface between the first inclined surfaces and second inclined surfaces is a plane area, and
wherein there is formed a step between every two neighboring first inclined surfaces and every two neighboring second inclined surfaces, the step providing a height difference between every two neighboring first inclined surfaces and every two neighboring second inclined surfaces.

2. The LED unit of claim 1 , wherein the heat radiation member is divided into a plurality of portions in the second direction, each divided portion having an inclined surface, and the base blocks are provided at the inclined surfaces of the divided portions, wherein the plurality of portions are attached along lateral sides of the respective plurality of portions.

3. The LED unit of claim 1 , wherein the lens is directly coupled to the package.

4. The LED unit of claim 1 , wherein the LED unit further includes a lens provided on an irradiation path of ultraviolet rays from the LED modules.

5. The LED unit of claim 4 , wherein the lens disposed on the irradiation path of the ultraviolet rays is formed of a cylindrical lens, and a single cylindrical lens is disposed so as to correspond to at least two of the LED modules adjacent to each other in the first direction.

6. The LED unit of claim 1 , wherein the LED modules mounted on one of the base blocks and the LED modules mounted on another of the base blocks adjacent thereto in the second direction are staggered zigzag in the first direction.

7. The LED unit of claim 1 , wherein the LED modules arranged in the first direction are different in wavelengths of ultraviolet rays emitted therefrom on a row basis in the first direction.

8. The LED unit of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the LED modules arranged in the first direction irradiates an ultraviolet ray having a different wavelength from that of other LED modules.

9. The LED unit of claim 6 , wherein at least one of the LED modules arranged in the first direction irradiates an ultraviolet ray having a different wavelength from that of other LED modules.

10. The LED unit of claim 1 , wherein the number of the base blocks is greater than two and centers of the base blocks are positioned on a straight line.

11. The LED unit of claim 2 , wherein each divided portion of the heat radiation member has therein a flow path through which a coolant flows in the first direction, and wherein the flow paths are formed in parallel to each other in the second direction.

12. The LED unit of claim 1 , wherein the first inclined surfaces located at the first side are inclined in a clockwise rotational direction and the second inclined surfaces located at the second side are inclined in a counterclockwise rotational direction.

13. The LED unit of claim 1 , wherein a LED module is not installed at the plane area between the first inclined surfaces and the second inclined surfaces.

Assignees

• Tanaka Takashi
• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tanaka Takashi

Classifications

• H10W90/753

  between laterally-adjacent chips · CPC title

• H10W90/00

  Package configurations · CPC title

• B41J11/002

  Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating · CPC title

• H01L2224/48137

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L25/0753

  Electricity · mapped topic