KR100981752B1 - Led light source having lens for expand of light emission angle - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a dark area generated between each of a plurality of LED light sources arranged by combining an aspherical lens to extend the emission angle of the light at an angle of at least 180 ° to the tip of the LED device emitting light of various colors. This eliminates the need to reduce heat generation and manufacturing costs due to the reduced number of installations when applied to products such as backlight units using LED as a light source, and to extend the angle of light emission to make the product slimmer. It relates to an LED light source unit having.

To this end, the present invention is implemented in the form of SMD mounted on the substrate, and the LED device for emitting a variety of colors of light from the tip; An aspheric lens coupled to the distal end of the LED element, the light emitted from the LED element being reflected, diffracted, and refracted through a diffusion inclination recessed inwardly from the distal end so as to be extended and discharged at an angle of at least 180 ° to a maximum of 250 °; It is configured to include.

LED element, aspherical lens

Description

LED light source unit with lens configuration to extend light emission angle {LED LIGHT SOURCE HAVING LENS FOR EXPAND OF LIGHT EMISSION ANGLE}

The present invention relates to an LED light source unit having a lens configuration for extending the light emission angle.

In detail, the present invention is generated between a plurality of LED light sources arranged in combination by aspheric lens to extend the emission angle of the light at an angle of at least 180 ° to the front end of the LED device emitting light of various colors By eliminating dark areas, lens is applied to products such as backlight units using LED as a light source to minimize heat generation and manufacturing cost due to the reduced number of installations, and to extend the light emission angle to make products slimmer. It relates to an LED light source unit having a configuration.

LED is a typical device for emitting light. The light emitted from the LED is applied to the light source of the backlight unit (BLU), indoor, external lighting, etc. according to the purpose of use.

1 illustrates a backlight unit applying the LED as a light source.

Referring to the drawings, the backlight unit has a light source of a direct type, and a plurality of LED elements 1 emitting light to the light guide plate P are disposed below the light guide plate P, which becomes a surface light source.

The LED device 1 includes a lens assembly 2 formed by combining a plurality of prism lenses, diffusion lenses, etc. in order to diffuse the emitted light so that light incident on the light guide plate P can be incident over a wider area. It is configured along with it. In this configuration, the LED element 1 and the lens assembly 2 become an LED light source unit.

As described above, the light emitted from the LED element 1 passes through the lens assembly 2 and is extended and discharged. The extended area is approximately 60 ° on both sides of the center line on which light is emitted, that is, 110 ° in total. It is difficult to exceed the angle of ˜120 °.

Accordingly, a dark zone D, which is a section in which light is not irradiated, is generated in the intervals disposed between the LED elements 1. Due to such dark region D, the light guide plate P is a reason to maintain a constant distance from the lens assembly 2 of the LED element 1 from which light is emitted. This is due to the phenomenon that when the light guide plate P ignores the dark region D and approaches the lens assembly 2, the brightness of the surrounding light emitting region is reduced by the dark region D, so that the luminance is greatly reduced. .

In the drawing, reference numeral S denotes a sheet array such as a prism sheet, a diffusion sheet, and the like for emitting light generated from the surface light source more brightly and uniformly when the surface light source is implemented by the light guide plate P.

The backlight unit configured by the conventional LED light source unit as described above is to install a considerable number of LED light source unit in order to minimize the dark area by the angle of less than 120 ° emitted from the LED light source. At this time, since the LED element is an electronic component having a high heat generation property, a significant number of LED light source units generate a considerable heat in the entire backlight unit, which adversely affects the applied product.

In addition, when the light guide plate is disposed while maintaining a considerable distance by the dark region, the width of the backlight unit itself is made thick, causing a problem that the size of the product employing the large size.

The present invention has been invented to solve the above problems.

Therefore, by assembling the aspherical lens to extend the light emission angle at least 180 ° to the tip of the LED element, by implementing the configuration of the light source, it is possible to reduce the number of installation when applying it to products such as backlight unit Its purpose is to provide a LED light source unit that minimizes heat generation and manufacturing cost, and at the same time can produce a more slim product.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has the following configuration.

The present invention is implemented in the form of SMD mounted on the substrate, the LED device for emitting light of various colors at the front end; An aspheric lens coupled to the distal end of the LED element, the light emitted from the LED element being reflected, diffracted, and refracted through a diffusion inclination recessed inwardly from the distal end so as to be extended and discharged at an angle of at least 180 ° to a maximum of 250 °; It is configured to include.

The aspherical lens has a recessed inclination portion formed to be narrowed to an inner side of the center line through which light is emitted from the outer circumference of the front end of the lens body through which light is transmitted. In this case, the aspherical lens has a straight protrusion formed protruding toward the tip side in order to emit light having a straightness in the inner central portion of the diffusion inclination portion.

At this time, the diffusion inclined portion is formed as a curved surface portion of the inclined surface recessed inward from the front end to the center side where the light is emitted. In addition, the straight protrusion is formed in a round shape of a semi-circular protruding end.

In particular, the aspherical lens has an inclined cut portion formed at the outer peripheral edge of the tip to increase the light emitting area. Here, the inclined cut portion is formed in a round shape so that light emitted through the point is diffused and emitted.

On the other hand, the aspherical lens 20 is produced by mixing a light diffusing agent of 0.01 parts by weight or more and 5 parts by weight or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of the lens raw material resin. At this time, the lens raw material resin is configured by selectively using at least one or more of silicone, epoxy, PMMA, PC, PVC, ABS, PS resin having a transparency.

This invention is applied to the line light source of the backlight unit of the direct method.

As described above, according to the present invention, light is extended and emitted at an angle of at least 180 ° by an aspherical lens coupled to the front end of the LED element, and heat generation and manufacturing cost according to a reduction in the number of installations in a product such as a backlight unit to which it is applied The back is minimized and the product can be made slimmer, which contributes to the production of a better product.

In addition, the present invention proposes a configuration in which the aspherical lens is extended to at least 180 °, up to 250 ° angle emitted light from the LED element, and proposes a configuration in which the emitted light has a higher luminance characteristics applied to this quality The effect is to contribute to the improvement.

<Examples>

2 is a perspective view of an LED light source unit according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the LED light source unit according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of an aspherical lens among the LED light source units according to the present invention.

Referring to the drawings, the LED light source unit according to the present invention is a surface mount device (SMD) type LED element 10 mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) or the like, and the front end of the light emitted from the LED element () It has a basic configuration consisting of an aspherical lens 20 coupled to.

The LED element 10 is a chip-like configuration for emitting light to the tip. In the drawing, the LED 10 is formed in a rectangular shape, but the external shape may be formed in various shapes such as a dome shape and a cylindrical shape.

The aspherical lens 20 is coupled to the tip of the LED element 10. At this time, the surface for the LED element 10 is coupled to form a coupling groove or the like for fitting the end of the LED element 10, or may be configured by an adhesive method.

The aspherical lens 20 is recessed to form a diffused inclined portion 23 so as to narrow inward on the center line where light is emitted from the outer circumference of the front end of the lens body 22 through which light is transmitted. In particular, the diffusion inclined portion 23 is formed of a curved portion 24 in which the inclined surface recessed inward from the tip is raised to the emission center side of the light.

At this time, the inclination angle of the diffusion inclined portion 23 narrows inwardly is 38 ° to 42 ° in one reference plane with respect to the size of the total diameter 11 (mm) and height 5.5 (mm) of the aspherical lens 20. It is preferable to form at an angle and to maintain an angle of 40 degrees. In addition, the curved portion 24 is formed with a curvature of R6 ~ R9 (mm), it is preferable to maintain the curvature of R8.

Such aspherical lens 20 has a straight protrusion 25 protruding toward the tip side in order to emit light having a straightness at the inner center of the diffusion inclined portion 23 is formed. Such a straight protrusion 25 is formed in the shape of a semi-circular round protruding end.

At this time, the round shape of the straight protrusion 25 is formed in the range of R0.2 ~ R0.4 (mm) corresponding to the size of the above-described diffusion inclination portion 23, preferably formed of a curvature of R0.3. .

In addition, the aspherical lens 20 has an inclined cut portion 26 formed at the outer peripheral edge of the tip to increase the emission area of the light. In particular, the inclined cut portion 26 is recessed in a round shape so that light emitted through the point is diffused and emitted.

At this time, the round shape of the inclined cut portion 26 is formed with a curvature of R2.5 ~ R3.5 (mm) for the size of the total diameter 11 (mm), height 5.5 (mm) of the aspherical lens 20. , Preferably formed with a curvature of R3.

5 is a graph showing a region in which light is emitted from the LED light source unit according to the present invention.

In the graph as shown in the figure, the aspherical lens 20 is configured to combine with the LED element 10 to form an LED light source unit, the light of a predetermined color emitted from the LED element 10 passes through the aspherical lens 20. The discharge area is obtained with the ship line vertically outward.

According to the graph, it can be seen that the light emitted through the LED light source unit according to the present invention is diffused by more than 90 ° to both sides on the basis of the vertical line is emitted straight red. It can be seen that the light emitting area is diffused at a maximum angle of 250 ° while being diffused and emitted at an angle of 180 ° or more.

<Example of Use State>

6 is an exemplary view showing a state in which the LED light source unit according to the present invention is applied to the backlight unit, Figure 7 is an enlarged view showing the LED light source unit of FIG.

Referring to the drawings, the LED light source unit of the embodiment illustrates a configuration applied as a line light source in the backlight unit of the direct method. In such a configuration, the LED light source unit is composed of an LED element 10 emitting light of a desired color and an aspherical lens 20 disposed in front of the light emitted from the LED element 10. Same as in the example.

As described above, the aspherical lens 20 has the light emitted from the LED element 10 reflected, diffracted, and refracted by the diffused inclined portion 23 as shown in FIG. 6, thereby extending the angle of the emission region. In particular, the curved portion 24 of the diffusion inclination portion 23 further induces the degree of reflection, diffraction, and refraction of the light to be diffused and emitted up to 250 ° as shown in the emission area graph of FIG. 5.

In addition, although the emission angle 25 of the aspherical projection portion 25 of the aspherical lens 20 is narrower than that of the diffusion inclination portion 23, the linearity of the light can be incident to the light guide plate (P) side of the higher brightness. .

<Composition Example>

In the embodiment of the present invention, the composition of the present invention is prepared by adding a light diffusing agent to the aspheric lens 20.

In this embodiment, the aspherical lens 20 is manufactured by mixing 0.01 parts by weight or more and 5 parts by weight or less of a light diffusing agent based on 100 parts by weight of the lens raw material resin. At this time, the raw material resin for manufacturing the lens is applied or selected by mixing one or more of resins, such as silicone, epoxy, PMMA, PC, PVC, ABS, PS that can produce a synthetic resin having a transparency can do.

Aspheric lens 20 is configured as described above was able to know the brightness characteristics through the following experimental example.

Experimental Example

FIG. 8 is a graph illustrating a result of measuring a state in which luminance is changed with respect to a changed content of a light diffusing agent in the composition example. At this time, the aspherical lens 20 for performing the experiment was prepared in each of the specimens to which 0.01 parts by weight, 1 part by weight-up to 5 parts by weight of the light diffusing agent in the original embodiment configuration. In addition, in order to perform the experiment, the luminance meter was placed at a distance of 6 m from the transmission port of the remote control in the dark room and the luminance of the light emitted through the aspherical lens 20 was measured.

Referring to the drawings, when the content of the light diffusing agent is added less than 0.01 parts by weight, the light diffusing agent component is so small that the brightness characteristics of the light passing through the aspherical lens 20 of the original embodiment did not change.

On the contrary, when the content of the light diffusing agent is added in excess of 5 parts by weight, the light diffusing agent component is excessively added so that the amount of light passing through the aspherical lens 20 is reduced, resulting in unstable brightness characteristics of the light. The lowering phenomenon occurred.

In other words, it can be seen from the above results that the luminance of the aspherical lens 20 manufactured in the composition content of the composition example has the highest characteristic.

<Other Embodiments>

9 is an exemplary view showing another embodiment of the present invention.

The LED light source unit according to another embodiment is configured by being applied to the light guide plate P applied as the surface light source of the backlight unit BLU or the front light unit FLU, wherein the state applied to the light guide plate P is the original implementation. Unlike the example, a configuration in which the side light source method of combining the line light source on the side is applied.

That is, the LED light source unit is coupled to the aspherical lens 20, the LED element 10 capable of emitting light of various colors, the aspherical lens 20 is coupled to one side of the light guide plate (P) light guide plate (P). It is applied as a line light source that emits light with).

In the configuration of the backlight unit or the front light unit of the light source type as described above, even when the light guide plate P uses the LED element 10 as a line light source, light is generated in a dark zone generated between the intervals of the respective LED elements 10. Can be solved by the LED light source unit, the emission area of which is more than 180 °. In addition, the LED light source unit can be combined with less than the number of LED elements 10 coupled to the general light guide plate (P) to reduce the manufacturing cost when configuring the backlight unit or the front light unit.

1 is an exemplary diagram in which the conventional LED module is applied to a backlight unit.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the LED light source unit according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is an exploded perspective view of the LED light source unit according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view of the aspherical lens of the LED light source unit according to the present invention.

Figure 5 is a graph of the emission area of light in the LED light source unit according to the present invention.

6 is an exemplary view in which an LED light source unit according to the present invention is applied to a backlight unit.

7 is an exemplary view showing an enlarged view of the LED light source unit of FIG.

8 is a luminance characteristic graph of the LED light source unit according to the present invention.

9 illustrates another embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: LED element 20: aspherical lens

22: lens body 23: diffused inclined portion

24: curved portion 25: straight protrusion

26: inclined cutting part R: remote control

P: light guide plate

Claims (10)

It is implemented in the form of SMD mounted on the substrate, the LED device 10 for emitting light of various colors from the tip; Coupled to the tip of the LED element 10, the light emitted from the LED element 10 is reflected, diffracted, refracted through the diffusion inclined portion 23 recessed inward from the tip to at least 180 ° angle or more up to 250 It includes an aspherical lens 20 formed to be extended to an angle °, The aspherical lens 20, LED light source unit having a light emission angle expansion function, characterized in that the inclined cutting portion 26 is formed on the outer peripheral edge of the tip to increase the light emission area. The method of claim 1, wherein the aspherical lens 20 LED light source unit having a light emission angle expansion function, characterized in that the inclined diffusion portion 23 is formed to be narrowed to the inner side on the center line of the light emitted from the outer peripheral end of the lens body 22 through which light is transmitted. The method of claim 2, wherein the aspherical lens 20 LED light source unit having a light emission angle expansion function, characterized in that the straight projection portion 25 is formed to protrude to the front end in order to emit light having a straightness in the inner center of the diffusion inclined portion (23). The method of claim 2, wherein the diffusion inclined portion 23 LED light source unit having a light emission angle expansion function, characterized in that the inclined surface recessed inward from the tip formed of a curved surface portion 24 raised to the center side where the light is emitted. The method of claim 3, wherein the straight projections 25 LED light source unit having a light emission angle expansion function, characterized in that the protruding end is formed in a semi-circular round shape. delete The method of claim 1, wherein the inclined cut portion 26 LED light source unit having a light emission angle expansion function, characterized in that formed in a round shape so that the light emitted through the point diffused emission. The method of claim 1, wherein the aspherical lens 20, An LED light source unit having a light emission angle expansion function, which is manufactured by mixing a light diffusing agent of 0.01 part by weight or more and 5 parts by weight or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of the lens raw material resin. The method of claim 8, wherein the lens raw material resin LED light source unit having a light emission angle expansion function characterized in that the selective use of at least one of silicone, epoxy, PMMA, PC, PVC, ABS, PS resin having a transparency. The method of claim 1, LED light source unit having a light emission angle expansion function, characterized in that applied to the linear light source of the direct-back type backlight unit.

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