This application is based upon and claims the priority of PCT patent application No. PCT/CN2018/107376 filed on Sep. 25, 2018 which claims the priority of Chinese Patent Application No. 201710897781.2 filed on Sep. 28, 2017, Chinese Patent Application No. 201710900652.4 filed on Sep. 28, 2017, Chinese Patent Application No. 201721258961.8 filed on Sep. 28, 2017, and Chinese Patent Application No. 201721265861.8 filed on Sep. 28, 2017, the entire content of all of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein for all purposes.
The present disclosure relates to a lighting field, and more particularly, to a lighting device.
A lighting device generally includes several basic components, such as a light body, a light source module and a front cover.
The present disclosure provides a lighting device and a method of manufacturing a lighting device.
According to one aspect, the present disclosure provides a lighting device. The light device may include a light body, a light source module mounted in the light body, and a light transmissive portion covering the light source module, in which, the light source module may include a plurality of lenses and a light emitting unit accommodated in each of the plurality of lenses, light emitted by the light emitting unit may be emitted from the light transmissive portion after being distributed by the lens, the light transmissive portion may be arc-shaped, and an incident angle corresponding to incident light at any point of the light transmissive portion may be smaller than 45°.
According to another aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a lighting device. The method may include providing a light body; mounting a light source module on the light body; covering the light source module using a light transmissive portion; providing the light source module with a plurality of lenses and a light emitting unit accommodated in each of the plurality of lenses; and emitting light by the light emitting unit from the light transmissive portion after being distributed by the lens, where the light transmissive portion may be arc-shaped, and an incident angle corresponding to incident light at any point of the light transmissive portion may be smaller than 45°.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the present disclosure.
The drawings illustrated here are provided for further understanding the examples of the present disclosure and constitute a part of the present disclosure, and are used for explaining the present disclosure together with the examples of the present disclosure and description thereof, rather than improperly limiting the present disclosure. In the drawings:
In order to make objects, technical details and advantages of the present disclosure apparent, the technical solutions of the present disclosure will be described in connection with the examples of the present disclosure and the corresponding drawings. It is obvious that the described examples are just a part but not all of the examples of the present disclosure. Based on the examples described herein, those ordinarily skilled in the art can obtain other example(s), without any inventive work, which should be within the scope of the present disclosure.
The terminology used in the present disclosure is for the purpose of describing exemplary examples only and is not intended to limit the present disclosure. As used in the present disclosure and the appended claims, the singular forms “a,” “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It shall also be understood that the terms “or” and “and/or” used herein are intended to signify and include any or all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
It shall be understood that, although the terms “first,” “second,” “third,” and the like may be used herein to describe various information, the information should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one category of information from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present disclosure, first information may be termed as second information; and similarly, second information may also be termed as first information. As used herein, the term “if” may be understood to mean “when” or “upon” or “in response to” depending on the context.
The front cover included in a lighting device may be transparent. When an incident angle of light incident on the front cover of the lighting device is larger than a certain value, a certain proportion of the light is reflected by the front cover. As shown in Table 1 below, when taking parallel light incident on a flat glass front cover of a lighting device as an example, statistics of reflectance at different incident angles are provided.
It can be known from Table 1 above that, the larger the incident angle of the light incident on the front cover is, the more of the light is reflected. Because the front cover has relatively high reflectance for light with a large incident angle, light emitted at a large angle has intensity loss when passing through the front cover, which causes great change in light distribution during the light is emitted through the front cover, and also reduces light distribution efficiency of the lighting device.
In conjunction with
Hereinafter, respective elements in the lighting device 100 provided by Example 1 of the present disclosure and configuration relationships between the elements will be described in detail.
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The front cover 4 includes a light transmissive portion 41 corresponding to the light source module and a coated portion 42 not corresponding to the light source module. The light transmissive portion 41 is made of transparent glass, which allows light emitted by the light source module to pass through. The coated portion 42 has a layer of opaque material coated on the transparent glass to shield a portion inside the light body 1 where no light source module is provided, so that the lighting device is more beautiful. The opaque material coated to the coated portion 42 is preferably a high temperature resistant material, which prevents the coated opaque material from falling off or aging during the lighting device works at a high temperature.
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The first profile includes a first light incident surface 311 and a first light emission surface 321; the first light incident surface 311 belongs to the inner surface 31; and the first light emission surface 321 belongs to the outer surface 32. The first profile is an axisymmetric pattern. The first light incident surface 311 and the first light emission surface 321 are both regular curved surfaces; and a curvature of the first light incident surface 311 is greater than a curvature of the first light emission surface 321. In this example, the first light incident surface 311 is a semi-ellipsoid; and the first light emission surface 321 is an axisymmetric curved surface.
The second profile includes a second light incident surface 312 and a second light emission surface 322; the second light incident surface 312 belongs to the inner surface 31; and the second light emission surface 322 belongs to the outer surface 32. Both the second light incident surface 312 and the second light emission surface 322 are regular curved surfaces and are axisymmetric patterns, but the second profile is a non-axisymmetric pattern, that is, a symmetry axis of the second light incident surface 312 is parallel to but not coincident with a symmetry axis of the of the second light emission surface 322. In this example, the second light incident surface 312 and the second light emission surface 322 are both semi-ellipsoids.
In this example, in the longitudinal direction, a position corresponding to maximum intensity after light distribution by the lens 3 is at an angle of 75°.
In order to reduce reflectance of the light transmissive portion 41 to light emitted at a large angle, it is necessary to reduce an incident angle, incident to the light transmissive portion 41, of the light emitted at the large angle; that is, it is necessary to reduce an included angle between the light emitted at a large angle and a corresponding normal line at an incident point thereof on the light transmissive portion 41, and thus, the light transmissive portion 41 is designed to have an arc shape. The light transmissive portion 41 may be made of glass or plastic.
A height h of the light transmissive portion 41 is a distance between a highest point and a lowest point of an inner surface of the light transmissive portion 41, and a length of the light transmissive portion 41 is a distance between two end points of the inner surface of the light transmissive portion 41 in the longitudinal direction. In this example, a cross-section of the light transmissive portion 41 is semicircular, that is, the height h of the light transmissive portion 41 is ½ of the length b of the light transmissive portion 41. A lens located at the center is defined as a center lens 3a; and light emitted from the center lens 3a at an angle of 75° has an incident angle α1 of 8° when incident on the light transmissive portion 41, which, thus, greatly reduces change in light intensity when the light emitted at an angle corresponding to maximum intensity is emitted through the front cover 4, so that a smaller light distribution change occurs during the light is emitted through the light transmissive portion 41. It is concluded that, in a case where the cross-section of the light transmissive portion 41 is semicircular, even if a profile of the center lens 3a is any other profile, regardless of whichever angle the light corresponding to the maximum intensity after distribution is located at, the incident angle of the light on the light transmissive portion 41 is not larger than 8°.
A lens farthest from the center is defined as an edge lens 3b; among all the incident angles of the light incident on the light transmissive portion 41, an incident angle of a certain beam of light emitted from the edge lens 3b is a maximum incident angle, which is a critical value. Referring to
The incident angle is controlled within 45°, that is, light transmittance of the light transmissive portion 41 is controlled above 90%, which greatly reduces change in light intensity of all light incident on the light transmissive portion 41 so that a smaller light distribution change occurs during the light is emitted through the light transmissive portion 41, and improves the light distribution efficiency of the lighting device 100.
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In the lighting device 100′, except for that a structure of the light transmissive portion 41′ is different from the structure of the light transmissive portion 41 in the lighting device 100 according to Example 1, other structures such as the light body 1′, the light-emitting component 2′ and the lens 3′ as well as modes they combine with each other are the same as those according to Example 1.
The light transmissive portion 41′ is arc-shaped; and in this example, a height h′ of the light transmissive portion 41′ is ¼ of a length b′ of the light transmissive portion 41′. Light emitted from a center lens 3a′ at an angle of 75° has an incident angle α1′ of 28° when incident on the light transmissive portion 41′, which, thus, greatly reduces change in light intensity when the light emitted at an angle corresponding to maximum intensity is emitted through the front cover 4′, so that a smaller light distribution change occurs during the light is emitted through the light transmissive portion 41′. It is concluded that, in this example, even if a profile of the center lens 3a′ is any other profile, regardless of whichever angle light corresponding to the maximum intensity after distribution is located at, the incident angle of the light on the light transmissive portion 41′ is not larger than 28°.
A lens farthest from the center is defined as an edge lens 3b; among all the incident angles of the light incident on the light transmissive portion 41′, an incident angle of a certain beam of light emitted from the edge lens 3b′ is a maximum incident angle, which is a critical value. Referring to
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In the lighting device 100″, except for that a structure of the light transmissive portion 41″ is different from the structure of the light transmissive portion 41 of the front cover 4 in the lighting device 100 according to Example 1, other structures such as the light body 1″, the light-emitting component 2″ and the lens 3″ as well as modes they combine with each other are the same as those according to Example 1.
The light transmissive portion 41″ is arc-shaped; and in this example, a height h″ of the light transmissive portion 41″ is 1/6.3 of a length b″ of the light transmissive portion 41″. Light emitted from a center lens 3a″ at an angle of 75° has an incident angle α1′ of 45° when incident on the light transmissive portion 41″, which, thus, greatly reduces change in light intensity when the light emitted at an angle corresponding to maximum intensity is emitted through the light transmissive portion 41″, so that a smaller light distribution change occurs during the light is emitted through the light transmissive portion 41″. It is concluded that, in this example, even if a profile of the center lens 3a″ is any other profile, regardless of whichever angle light corresponding to the maximum intensity after distribution is located at, the incident angle of the light on the light transmissive portion 41″ is smaller than 45°.
A lens farthest from the center is defined as an edge lens 3b″; among all the incident angles of the light incident on the light transmissive portion 41″, an incident angle of a certain beam of light emitted from the edge lens 3b″ is a maximum incident angle, which is a critical value. Referring to
The present disclosure provides a lighting device, comprising a light body, a light source module mounted in the light body, and a light transmissive portion covering the light source module, in which, the light source module includes a plurality of lenses and a light emitting unit accommodated in the lens, light emitted by the light emitting unit is emitted from the light transmissive portion after being distributed by the lens, the light transmissive portion is arc-shaped, and an incident angle corresponding to incident light at any point of the light transmissive portion is smaller than 45°.
Further, a length direction of the lens is a longitudinal direction, a width direction of the lens is a lateral direction, and a central cross-sectional profile of the lens in the longitudinal direction and a central cross-sectional profile of the lens in the lateral direction are different from each other.
Further, the central cross-sectional profile of the lens in the longitudinal direction is a first profile, the first profile is an axisymmetric pattern, and the first profile includes a first light incident surface and a first light emission surface.
Further, a curvature of the first light incident surface is greater than a curvature of the first light emission surface.
Further, the first light incident surface is a semi-ellipsoid, and the first light emission surface is an axisymmetric curved surface.
Further, the central cross-sectional profile of the lens in the lateral direction is a second profile, an outer surface and an inner surface of the second profile are both axisymmetric patterns, and a symmetry axis of the outer surface of the second profile and a symmetry axis of the inner surface of the second profile are parallel to each other.
Further, an angle corresponding to maximum intensity of light distributed by the lens is between 70° and 80°, and an incident angle of light corresponding to the maximum intensity in all light that is incident on the light transmissive portion is between 8° and 45°.
Further, a height of the light transmissive portion is 1/6.3 to ½ of a length of the light transmissive portion.
Further, the light transmissive portion is made of glass or plastic.
Further, the lighting device further comprises a light-emitting component, the light-emitting component includes a light source board and a plurality of the light emitting units provided on the light source board, and one of the lenses corresponds to one of the light emitting units, or corresponds to several ones of the light emitting units.
Further, light transmittance of the light transmissive portion is greater than 90%.
Further, the lighting device is a street lamp.
Further, the street lamp further includes a driving power supply component accommodated in the light body, and the driving power supply component is electrically connected with the light source module.
Further, the street lamp further includes a front cover connected with the light body, and the front cover includes a coated portion and the light transmissive portion.
Further, the street lamp further includes a lamp pole, and the light body is mounted on the lamp pole.
Further, the light emitting units and the lenses are all arranged in an array.
Further, the lighting device further comprises a reflector provided in the light body, and the reflector is provided on a periphery of the light source module.
As compared with other implementations, in the lighting device according to the present disclosure, by designing the light transmissive portion to be arc-shaped, the incident angle corresponding to the incident light on the light transmissive portion is limited within 45°, which, thus, reduces the reflectance of the light transmissive portion to the incident light, so that a smaller light distribution change occurs during the light is emitted through the light transmissive portion, and improves light distribution efficiency of the lighting device.
The present disclosure also provides a method of manufacturing a lighting device. The method may include providing a light body; mounting a light source module on the light body; covering the light source module using a light transmissive portion; providing the light source module with a plurality of lenses and a light emitting unit accommodated in each of the plurality of lenses; and emitting light by the light emitting unit from the light transmissive portion after being distributed by the lens, where the light transmissive portion may be arc-shaped, and an incident angle corresponding to incident light at any point of the light transmissive portion may be smaller than 45°.
The method may also include providing a longitudinal direction for a length direction of the lens; providing a lateral direction for a width direction of the lens; and where a central cross-sectional profile of the lens in the longitudinal direction and a central cross-sectional profile of the lens in the lateral direction may be different.
In the method, the central cross-sectional profile of the lens in the longitudinal direction is a first profile wherein the first profile is an axisymmetric pattern, and the first profile comprises a first light incident surface and a first light emission surface.
The present disclosure may include dedicated hardware implementations such as application specific integrated circuits, programmable logic arrays and other hardware devices. The hardware implementations can be constructed to implement one or more of the methods described herein. Applications that may include the apparatus and systems of various examples can broadly include a variety of electronic and computing systems. One or more examples described herein may implement functions using two or more specific interconnected hardware modules or devices with related control and data signals that can be communicated between and through the modules, or as portions of an application-specific integrated circuit. Accordingly, the system disclosed may encompass software, firmware, and hardware implementations. The terms “module,” “sub-module,” “circuit,” “sub-circuit,” “circuitry,” “sub-circuitry,” “unit,” or “sub-unit” may include memory (shared, dedicated, or group) that stores code or instructions that can be executed by one or more processors. The module refers herein may include one or more circuit with or without stored code or instructions. The module or circuit may include one or more components that are connected.
It should be understood that the foregoing examples merely are some examples of the present disclosure, and not intended to limit the present disclosure. Any modification, equivalent substitution, improvement, and the like, made within the spirit and principles of the present disclosure should be covered within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
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