Insect trap using UV LED lamp

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9717228-B2
Application number	US-201414478937-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 5, 2014
Priority date	Jul 24, 2014
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an insect trap using an ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV LED) lamp, and more particularly, to an insect trap using, in place of a conventional UV light source lamp, a UV LED lamp that significantly increases the insect trapping efficiency. The insect trap according to the present disclosure includes: a duct including a suction fan therein; a UV LED lamp disposed in the air inlet portion of the duct and comprising a printed circuit board (PCB) that has a UV LED chip mounted thereon; and a trapping portion provided in the air outlet portion of the duct.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An insect trap comprising:
a duct including a suction fan therein;
a UV LED lamp disposed in an air inlet portion of the duct, and including a printed circuit board (PCB) that has a UV LED chip mounted thereon; and
a trapping portion provided in an air outlet portion of the duct,
wherein the UV LED chip includes:
an n-type contact layer;
a p-type contact layer; and
an active region located between the n-type contact layer and the p-type contact layer and including barrier layers including a first barrier layer located closest to the n-type contact layer,

wherein the barrier layers include AlInGaN or AlGaN and the first barrier layer has an Al content higher than those of other barrier layers.

2. The insect trap of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of UV LED chips are mounted on the PCB, and are configured to emit UV light having a peak value of substantially the same wavelength.

3. The insect trap of claim 1 , wherein the UV LED lamp is disposed in the air inlet portion of the duct such that UV light emitted from the UV LED chip is directed toward an inside of the duct.

4. The insect trap of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of UV LED chips of the UV LED lamp are disposed to be spaced apart from one another.

5. The insect trap of claim 1 , wherein a peak wavelength of UV light emitted from the UV LED chip is 335 nm to 395 nm.

6. The insect trap of claim 1 , wherein a peak wavelength of UV light emitted from the UV LED chip is 360 nm to 370 nm.

7. The insect trap of claim 1 , wherein a diffusion angle of UV light emitted from the UV LED chip is 120° or less.

8. The insect trap of claim 1 ,
wherein the duct is formed through a first housing,
wherein a second housing is disposed in a direction perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the duct, and
wherein the first housing and the second housing are spaced apart from each other.

9. The insect trap of claim 8 , wherein the UV LED lamp is disposed closer to the second housing than to the first housing.

10. The insect trap of claim 1 , wherein a φe/φv value of the UV LED lamp is 98 or more, in which φe represents a radiant flux having a unit of mW, and φv has a unit of lm.

11. The insect trap of claim 1 , wherein spectrum half-width of UV light emitted from the UV LED lamp is 14.5 nm or less.

12. The insect trap of claim 1 , wherein the UV LED chip further includes at least one electron control layer located between the n-type contact layer and the active layer.

13. The insect trap of claim 12 , wherein the at least one electron control layer includes AlInGaN or AlGaN, and has an Al content higher than those of layers adjacent thereto so as to interfere with a flow of electrons moving into the active region.

14. The insect trap of claim 1 , wherein the n-type contact layer and the p-type contact layer include AlGaN layer or an AlInGaN layer.

15. An insect trap comprising:
a duct including a suction fan therein;
a UV LED lamp disposed in an air inlet portion of the duct, and including a printed circuit board (PCB) that has a UV LED chip mounted thereon; and
a trapping portion provided in an air outlet portion of the duct, wherein the UV LED chip comprises:
an n-type contact layer including an AlGaN layer or an AlInGaN layer;
a p-type contact layer including an AlGaN layer or an AlInGaN layer;
an active region having a multiple quantum well structure, located between the n-type contact layer and the p-type contact layer; and
at least one electron control layer located between the n-type contact layer and the active region,
in which the active region having the multiple quantum well structure includes barrier layers and well layers,
the barrier layers are formed of AlInGaN or AlGaN,
a first barrier layer located closest to the n-type contact layer has an Al content higher than those of other barrier layers,
and the electron control layer is formed of AlInGaN or AlGaN, and has an Al content higher than those of layers adjacent thereto so as to interfere with a flow of electrons moving into the active region.

16. The insect trap of claim 15 , wherein the UV LED chip further comprises:
a superlattice layer located between the n-type contact layer and the active region; and
an electron injection layer located between the superlattice layer and the active region,
in which the electron injection layer has an n-type impurity doping concentration higher than that of the superlattice layer, and
the first barrier layer comes into contact with the electron injection layer.

17. The insect trap of claim 16 , wherein the UV LED chip further comprises:
an electrostatic discharge preventing layer located between the n-type contact layer and the superlattice layer,
in which a first electron control layer is disposed between the electrostatic discharge preventing layer and the superlattice layer.

18. The insect trap of claim 17 , wherein the electrostatic discharge preventing layer comprises:
an undoped AlGaN layer;
a low-concentration AlGaN layer doped with an n-type impurity at a concentration lower than that of the n-type contact layer; and
a high-concentration AlGaN layer doped with an n-type impurity at a concentration higher than that of the low-concentration AlGaN layer,
in which the low-concentration AlGaN layer is located between the undoped AlGaN layer and the high-concentration AlGaN layer, and
the first electron control layer comes into contact with the high-concentration AlGaN layer.

19. The insect trap of claim 17 , wherein a second electron contact layer is located between the n-type contact layer and the electrostatic discharge preventing layer.

20. The insect trap of claim 19 , wherein the n-type contact layer comprises a lower aluminum gallium nitride layer, an upper aluminum gallium nitride layer, and a multilayered intermediate layer located between the lower aluminum gallium nitride layer and the upper aluminum gallium nitride layer.

21. The insect trap of claim 20 , wherein the multilayered intermediate layer has a structure formed by alternately depositing AlInN and GaN.

22. The insect trap of claim 15 , wherein the UV LED chip further comprises:
an n-electrode electrically connected to the n-type contact layer,
in which the electron control layer is located closer to the active region than to the n-type contact layer with which the n-electrode comes into contact.

23. The insect trap of claim 15 , wherein the well layers are formed of InGaN.

Assignees

• Seoul Viosys Co Ltd

Inventors

• Koo Jong Hyun
• Song Hyun Su
• Lee Dong-Kyu

Classifications

• H01L33/32

  Electricity · mapped topic

• A01M1/08 Primary

  {Attracting and catching insects by} using combined illumination {or colours} and suction effects · CPC title

• H01L33/06

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H10H20/825

  containing nitrogen, e.g. GaN · CPC title

• H10H20/812

  within the light-emitting regions, e.g. having quantum confinement structures · CPC title