Lighting member, lighting device, and method for installing lighting member

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9885453-B2
Application number	US-201415027878-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 16, 2014
Priority date	Oct 17, 2013
Publication date	Feb 6, 2018
Grant date	Feb 6, 2018

Abstract

A lighting film ( 1 ) includes a first base material ( 2 ), a plurality of lighting portions ( 3 ), and a void portion ( 9 ), and if a virtual straight line (F) that passes through a point (C), at which any one light ray of light entering the lighting portion ( 3 ) is incident on a reflective surface, and is orthogonal to a first surface ( 2 a ) of the first base material ( 2 ) marks a boundary between two spaces, a space with the light ray incident on the point (C) of the two spaces is labeled as a first space (S 1 ), and a space without the light ray incident on the point (C) is labeled as a second space (S 2 ), the lighting film ( 1 ) has a function of decreasing intensity of light traveling toward the second space (S 2 ) of light emitted from the first base material ( 2 ) or the lighting portion ( 3 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lighting member comprising:
a first base material having optical transparency;
a plurality of lighting portions having optical transparency which are provided on a first surface of the first base material; and
a void portion which is provided between the plurality of lighting portions,
wherein part of a side surface of the lighting portion in contact with the void portion functions as a reflective surface which reflects light entering the lighting portion,
if a virtual straight line F that passes through a point C, at which any one light beam of the light entering the lighting portion is incident on the reflective surface, and is orthogonal to the first surface of the first base material marks a boundary between two spaces, a space with the light beam incident on the point C of the two spaces is labeled as a first space, and a space without the light beam incident on the point C is labeled as a second space,
the lighting member has a function of decreasing the intensity of the light emitted from the first base material or the lighting portion and traveling toward the second space of light,
the function of decreasing the intensity of light further comprises scattering the light to travel toward the second space,
the function of scattering includes:
a first scattering function in a first plane along a main extending direction of the side surface of the lighting portion functioning as the reflective surface, and
a second scattering function in a second plane that is orthogonal to the first plane, and

the first scattering function is an anisotropic scattering function causing more scattering than scattering in another plane different from the first plane.

2. The lighting member according to claim 1 , wherein the function is a function of selectively scattering the light.

3. The lighting member according to claim 1 , wherein the first base material or the lighting portion has light scattering ability.

4. The lighting member according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second base material which is provided on an opposite side of the lighting portions from the first base material; and
a bonding layer which bonds the lighting portions and the second base material together, wherein
the second base material or the bonding layer has light scattering ability.

5. The lighting member according to claim 1 , wherein the first base material or a light emitting side of the lighting portion includes a light attenuating member, the light attenuating member decreases intensity of the light traveling from the first base material or a light emitting side of the lighting portion toward the second space.

6. The lighting member according to claim 5 , wherein the light attenuating member is a light reflecting member which reflects the light traveling toward the second space.

7. The lighting member according to claim 5 , wherein the light attenuating member is a light absorbing member which absorbs the light traveling toward the second space.

8. The lighting member according to claim 1 , wherein
a first width of a first end face and a second width of a second end face of the lighting portion are 10 μm to 50 μm, and a height of the lighting portion is 10 μm to 100 μm.

9. A lighting device comprising:
a lighting member; and
a light attenuating member,
wherein the lighting member includes a first base material having optical transparency, a plurality of lighting portions having optical transparency which are provided on a first surface of the first base material, and a void portion which is provided between the plurality of lighting portions, and part of a side surface of the lighting portion in contact with the void portion functions as a reflective surface which reflects light entering the lighting portion,
if a virtual straight line F that passes through a point C, at which any one light beam of the light entering the lighting portion is incident on the reflective surface, and is orthogonal to the first surface of the first base material marks a boundary between two spaces, a space with the light beam incident on the point C of the two spaces is labeled as a first space, and a space without the light beam incident on the point C is labeled as a second space,
the light attenuating member has a function of decreasing the intensity of the light emitted from the first base material or the lighting portion and traveling toward the second space of light,
the function of decreasing the intensity of light further comprises scattering the light to travel toward the second space,
the function of scattering includes:
a first scattering function in a first plane along a main extending direction of the side surface of the lighting portion functioning as the reflective surface, and
a second scattering function in a second plane that is orthogonal to the first plane, and

the first scattering function is an anisotropic scattering function causing more scattering than scattering in another plane different from the first plane.

10. A method for installing a lighting member,
the lighting member including
a first base material having optical transparency,
a plurality of lighting portions having optical transparency which are provided on a first surface of the first base material, and
a void portion which is provided between the plurality of lighting portions,

part of a side surface of the lighting portion in contact with the void portion functioning as a reflective surface which reflects light entering the lighting portion,
the lighting member having a function of, if a virtual straight line F that passes through a point C, at which any one light beam of the light entering the lighting portion is incident on the reflective surface, and is orthogonal to the first surface of the first base material marks a boundary between two spaces, a space with the light beam incident on the point C of the two spaces is labeled as a first space, and a space without the light beam incident on the point C is labeled as a second space, decreasing intensity of the light emitted from the first base material or the lighting portion and traveling toward the second space of light,
wherein decreasing the intensity of light further comprises scattering the light to travel toward the second space,
scattering the light including:
a first scattering function in a first plane along a main extending direction of the side surface of the lighting portion functioning as the reflective surface, and
a second scattering function in a second plane that is orthogonal to the first plane, and

the first scattering function being an anisotropic scattering function causing more scattering than scattering in another plane different from the first plane,
wherein the method includes arranging the lighting member such that the side surface of the lighting portion functioning as the reflective surface faces downward in a vertical direction and installing the lighting member at an upper portion of a window.

Assignees

• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Tsujimoto Masahiro
• Kamada Tsuyoshi
• Ueki Shun
• Nango Tomoko
• Sakuragi Kazuyoshi

Classifications

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