The present subject matter relates to general illumination lighting, and more particularly, to an optic used to collimate light rays generated by light emitting diodes.
Large areas of open space, such as a farm stead, a parking lot or deck of a parking garage, or a roadway, require sufficient lighting to allow for safe travel of vehicles and persons through the space at all times including periods of reduced natural lighting, such as nighttime, rainy, or foggy weather conditions. A luminaire for rural areas, an outdoor parking lot or covered parking deck, a roadway, etc. must illuminate a large area of space in the vicinity of the luminaire while controlling glare so as not to distract drivers. In some applications such as roadway, street, or parking lot lighting, it may be desirable to illuminate certain regions surrounding a light fixture while maintaining relatively low illumination of neighboring regions thereof. For example, along a roadway, it may be preferred to direct light in a lateral direction parallel with the roadway while minimizing illumination in a longitudinal direction toward roadside houses or other buildings. Still further, such a luminaire should be universal in the sense that the luminaire can be mounted in various enclosed and non-enclosed locations, on poles or on a surface (such as a garage ceiling), and preferably present a uniform appearance.
Advances in light emitting diode (LED) technology have resulted in wide adoption of luminaires that incorporate such devices. While LEDs can be used alone to produce light without the need for supplementary optical devices, it has been found that optical modifiers, such as lenses, reflectors, optical waveguides, and combinations thereof, can significantly improve illumination distribution for particular applications. Improved consistency in the manufacture of LEDs along with improvements in the utilization of mounting structures to act as heat sinks have resulted in luminaires that are economically competitive and operationally superior to the conventional incandescent and fluorescent lighting that has been the staple of the industry for decades. As the use of LEDs has matured from their use in warning and other signals to general lighting fixtures, it has become necessary to develop optics that allow for the dispersion of the harsh, intensely concentrated beam of light emitted by the LED into a softer, more comfortable illumination that presents a uniform and even appearance.
One way of attaining a more uniform appearance is to control the light rays generated by the LEDs so as to redirect the light rays through and/or out of an optic so that the light presents a uniform appearance when it exits the optic. Redirecting light through the optic can be accomplished through the use of refractive surfaces at a refractive index interface.
According to one embodiment, an optical member includes an enclosure comprising an optically transmissive material. The enclosure has an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface. At least one light redirection feature protrudes from the inner surface. At least one indentation defined on the outer surface is configured to refract light.
According to another aspect, an optical member includes a base, a curved surface extending from the base and including an outer surface, an inner surface opposite the outer surface, and a plurality of light redirection features disposed on the inner surface. An LED package comprising a plurality of dies enclosed in a single encapsulant.
According to a further aspect, a lighting device includes a housing and a light source. The housing comprises a base, a plurality of fins extending between a central wall and an outer wall on a first surface of the base, and a cavity extending between an outer edge of the first surface and the outer wall. The light source is mounted to the second surface of the base.
According to another aspect, a lighting device includes a housing and a cover adapted to be disposed on the housing comprising a prong at a first end and a tab at a second end opposite the first end. The housing includes an opening configured to receive the prong of the cover and a ledge configured to receive the tab such that the cover is secured to the housing.
Other aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent upon consideration of the following detailed description and the attached drawings wherein like numerals designate like structures throughout the specification.
Disclosed herein is luminaire 50 for general lighting, such as illumination of an open or large enclosed space, for example, in a rural setting, a roadway, a parking lot or structure, or the like. Referring to
Each LED element or module 52 may be a single white or other color LED chip or other bare component, or each may comprise multiple LEDs either mounted separately or together on a single substrate or package to form a module including, for example, at least one phosphor-coated LED either alone or in combination with at least one color LED, such as a green LED, a yellow LED, a red LED, etc. In those cases where a soft white illumination with improved color rendering is to be produced, each LED element or module 52 or a plurality of such elements or modules 52 may include one or more blue shifted yellow LEDs and one or more red LEDs. The LEDs may be disposed in different configurations and/or layouts as desired. Different color temperatures and appearances could be produced using other LED combinations, as is known in the art. In one embodiment, each element or module comprises any LED, for example, an MT-G LED incorporating TrueWhite® LED technology or as disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/649,067, filed Oct. 10, 2012, entitled “LED Package with Multiple Element Light Source and Encapsulant Having Planar Surfaces” by Lowes et al., the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein, as developed and manufactured by Cree, Inc., the assignee of the present application. If desirable, a side emitting LED disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 8,541,795, filed Oct. 10, 2005, entitled “Side-Emitting Optical Coupling Device” by Keller et al., the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein, as developed and manufactured by Cree, Inc., the assignee of the present application, may be utilized. In some embodiments, each LED element or module 52 may comprise one or more LEDs disposed within a coupling cavity with an air gap being disposed between the LED element or module 52 and a light input surface. In any of the embodiments disclosed herein each of the LED element(s) or module(s) 52 preferably have a lambertian or near-lambertian light distribution, although each may have a directional emission distribution (e.g., a side emitting distribution), as necessary or desirable. More generally, any lambertian, symmetric, wide angle, preferential-sided, or asymmetric beam pattern LED element(s) or module(s) may be used as the light source.
In one embodiment, the LED package or element 52 may comprise a multi-die LED package, as shown in
Referring to
While ten fins 190 are shown as curved and extending from a substantially linear central wall 200 and the outer wall 194 is shown as being substantially circular in shape, this need not be the case. Thus, for example, fewer or more than ten fins might be used, two or more central walls might be included, or the central wall 200 may be partially or entirely omitted. Alternatively or additionally, some or all of the fins 190 may be linear or be of another shape, the central wall 200 may be curved or some other shape, the outer wall 194 may be square or rectangular or some other shape, and/or the sizes and/or shapes of the cavities and/or the spaces 201 may be varied, as desired. One or more of the fins 190, the outer wall 194, and/or the base 198 may be continuous or discontinuous. Preferably, the fins 190, the outer wall 194, the base 198, and the other elements of the housing 154 are made of uncoated aluminum or another suitable material and are integrally formed.
In the embodiment illustrated in
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The optical member 56 substantially redirects the primarily Lambertian distribution of light developed by the LED package 52. Each light redirection feature 84 of the embodiment illustrated in
During assembly of the luminaire 20, the circuit board 67 of the LED package 52 is mounted by any suitable means, such as a bracket with fasteners and/or an adhesive material, for example, a UV curable silicone adhesive, on the second surface 204 of the housing 54, and the optical member 56 is secured to the housing 54 about the LED package 52 by any suitable means, such as a UV curable silicone adhesive or other adhesive. As seen in
The material(s) of the optical member 56 preferably comprises optical grade materials that exhibit refractive characteristics such as glass and/or polycarbonate, although other materials such as acrylic, air, molded silicone, and/or cyclic olefin copolymers, and combinations thereof, may be used. Further, the materials may be provided in a layered arrangement to achieve a desired effect and/or appearance. Preferably, although not necessarily, the optical member 56 is solid, although the optical member 56 may have one or more voids or discrete bodies of differing materials therein. The optical member 56 may be fabricated using procedures such as molding, including glass and/or injection/compression molding, or hot embossing, although other manufacturing methods such may be used as desired. In one embodiment, the optical member 56 comprises glass and is manufactured using glass molding techniques.
The light developed by the LED package 52 is incident on the light redirection features 84 and is collimated to some degree and redirected outwardly and away from the central axis 72. As shown by the rays 100 of
The optical member 56 has a thickness defined by the inner and outer surfaces 86, 74 that varies. The thickness may range from about 3 mm to about 6 mm, preferably from 3.25 mm to about 5.5 mm, and most preferably from about 3.25 mm to about 5 mm. In some embodiments, the thickness of the curved portion 68 may vary from about 3.7 mm at the indentation 76 to about 4.5 mm at the base 70. Further, the thickness of the optical member 56 at the light redirection features 84 may range from about 0.26 in. (6.604 mm) to about 0.37 in. (9.398 mm). The curved portion 68 may have a first thickness adjacent to the indentation 76 and a second thickness greater than the first thickness adjacent to the light redirection feature 84. The optical member 56 illustrated in
The overall result, when the LED package 52 is energized, is to produce a desired illumination distribution 102, for example, as illustrated by the simulation illumination diagrams of
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Similar to the optical member 56 described above, the optical member 120 as seen in
The light developed by the LED package 52 is incident on the light redirection features 142 and is collimated to some degree and redirected outwardly and away from the plane of symmetry 134. The degree of redirection is determined by a number of factors, including the curvature and shape of the light redirection feature(s) 142 and the surfaces that define the indentation 138. In the illustrated embodiment shown in
The curved portion 124 of the optical member 120 has a thickness defined by the inner and outer surfaces 144, 136 that varies. The thickness may range from about 3 mm to about 6 mm, preferably from about 3.5 mm to about 5.5 mm, and most preferably from about 4 mm to about 5 mm. Further, the thickness of the optical member 120 at the light redirection features 142 may range from about 0.29 in. (7.366 mm) to about 0.40 in. (10.16 mm). The curved portion 124 may have a first thickness adjacent to the indentation 138 and a second thickness greater than the first thickness adjacent to the light redirection feature 142. The optical member 120 illustrated in
The overall result, when the LED package 52 is energized, is to produce a desired illumination distribution 172, for example, as illustrated by the simulation illumination diagrams of
Any of the embodiments disclosed herein may include a power circuit having a buck regulator, a boost regulator, a buck-boost regulator, a SEPIC power supply, or the like, and may comprise a driver circuit as disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/291,829, filed May 30, 2014, entitled “High Efficiency Driver Circuit with Fast Response” by Hu et al. or U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/292,001, filed May 30, 2014, entitled “SEPIC Driver Circuit with Low Input Current Ripple” by Hu et al. incorporated by reference herein. The circuit may further be used with light control circuitry that controls color temperature of any of the embodiments disclosed herein in accordance with viewer input such as disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/292,286, filed May 30, 2014, entitled “Lighting Fixture Providing Variable CCT” by Pope et al. incorporated by reference herein.
Further, any of the embodiments disclosed herein may be used in a luminaire having one or more communication components forming a part of the light control circuitry, such as an RF antenna that senses RF energy. The communication components may be included, for example, to allow the luminaire to communicate with other luminaires and/or with an external wireless controller, such as disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/782,040, filed Mar. 1, 2013, entitled “Lighting Fixture for Distributed Control” or U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/932,058, filed Jan. 27, 2014, entitled “Enhanced Network Lighting” both owned by the assignee of the present application and the disclosures of which are incorporated by reference herein. More generally, the control circuitry includes at least one of a network component, an RF component, a control component, and a sensor. The sensor, such as a knob-shaped sensor, may provide an indication of ambient lighting levels thereto and/or occupancy within the room or illuminated area. Such sensor may be integrated into the light control circuitry.
In summary, the disclosed luminaire provides an aesthetically pleasing, sturdy, cost effective lighting assembly for use in lighting a large area such as a parking lot or deck of a parking garage and/or along a roadway. The lighting is accomplished with reduced glare as compared to conventional lighting systems.
The light redirection features and indentation disclosed herein efficiently redirect light out of the optic. At least some of the luminaires disclosed herein are particularly adapted for use in outdoor or indoor general illumination products (e.g., streetlights, high-bay lights, canopy lights, parking lot or parking structure lighting, yard or other property lighting, rural lighting, walkway lighting, warehouse, store, arena or other public building lighting, or the like). According to one aspect the luminaires disclosed herein are adapted for use in products requiring a total lumen output of between about 1,000 and about 12000 lumens or higher, and, more preferably, between about 4,000 and about 10,000 lumens and possibly higher, and, most preferably, between about 4,000 and about 8,000 lumens. According to another aspect, the luminaires develop at least about 2000 lumens. Further, efficacies between about 75 and about 140 lumens per watt, and more preferably between about 80 and about 125 lumens per watt, and most preferably between about 90 and about 120 lumens per watt can be achieved. Still further, the luminaires disclosed herein preferably have a color temperature of between about 2500 degrees Kelvin and about 6200 degrees Kelvin, and more preferably between about 2500 degrees Kelvin and about 5000 degrees Kelvin, and most preferably between about 3500 degrees Kelvin and about 4500 degrees Kelvin. Further, the optical efficiency may range from about 70% to about 95%, most preferably from about 80% to about 90%. A color rendition index (CRI) of between about 70 and about 80 is preferably attained by at least some of the luminaires disclosed herein, with a CRI of at least about 70 being more preferable. Any desired particular output light distribution, such as a butterfly light distribution, could be achieved, including up and down light distributions or up only or down only distributions, etc.
When one uses a relatively small light source which emits into a broad (e.g., Lambertian) angular distribution (common for LED-based light sources), the conservation of etendue, as generally understood in the art, requires an optical system having a large emission area to achieve a narrow (collimated) angular light distribution. In the case of parabolic reflectors, a large optic is thus generally required to achieve high levels of collimation. In order to achieve a large emission area in a more compact design, the prior art has relied on the use of Fresnel lenses, which utilize refractive optical surfaces to direct and collimate the light. Fresnel lenses, however, are generally planar in nature, and are therefore not well suited to re-directing high-angle light emitted by the source, leading to a loss in optical efficiency. In contrast, in the present invention, light is coupled into the optic, where primarily TIR is used for re-direction and collimation. This coupling allows the full range of angular emission from the source, including high-angle light, to be re-directed and collimated, resulting in higher optical efficiency in a more compact form factor.
In at least some of the present embodiments, the distribution and direction of light within the optical member is better known, and hence, light is controlled and extracted in a more controlled fashion.
All references, including publications, patent applications, and patents, cited herein are hereby incorporated by reference to the same extent as if each reference were individually and specifically indicated to be incorporated by reference and were set forth in its entirety herein.
The use of the terms “a” and “an” and “the” and similar references in the context of describing the invention (especially in the context of the following claims) are to be construed to cover both the singular and the plural, unless otherwise indicated herein or clearly contradicted by context. Recitation of ranges of values herein are merely intended to serve as a shorthand method of referring individually to each separate value falling within the range, unless otherwise indicated herein, and each separate value is incorporated into the specification as if it were individually recited herein. All methods described herein can be performed in any suitable order unless otherwise indicated herein or otherwise clearly contradicted by context. The use of any and all examples, or exemplary language (e.g., “such as”) provided herein, is intended merely to better illuminate the disclosure and does not pose a limitation on the scope of the disclosure unless otherwise claimed. No language in the specification should be construed as indicating any non-claimed element as essential to the practice of the disclosure.
Numerous modifications to the present disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art in view of the foregoing description. Preferred embodiments of this disclosure are described herein, including the best mode known to the inventors for carrying out the disclosure. It should be understood that the illustrated embodiments are exemplary only, and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the disclosure.
The present application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/005,955, filed May 30, 2014, entitled “Parking Structure LED Light” and U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/009,039, filed Jun. 6, 2014, entitled “Parking Structure LED Light”. This patent application comprises a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/462,426, entitled “Outdoor and/or Enclosed Structure LED Luminaire for General Illumination Applications, Such as Parking Lots and Structures”, filed Aug. 18, 2014, and further comprises a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/462,391, entitled “Optic Components for Luminaire”, filed Aug. 18, 2014, and further comprises a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/462,322, entitled “Flood Optic”, filed Aug. 18, 2014, and further comprises a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/583,415, entitled “Outdoor and/or Enclosed Structure LED Luminaire”, filed Dec. 26, 2014, all owned by the assignee of the present application, and the disclosures of which are incorporated by reference herein.
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