IP Library Granted Patent US 8,643,051
Granted Patent B2
US 8,643,051 · App. 13/517,418 · Granted Feb 4, 2014

Light emission device

Inventor: Takashi Washizu (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 8,643,051
App. No.
13/517,418
Granted
Feb 4, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are a light emission device comprising an LED element and a wavelength conversion section, the LED element emitting light of a specific wavelength and the wavelength conversion section converting the light emitted from the LED element to light of a specific wavelength, featured in that the wavelength conversion section is composed of a ceramic layer which has been formed employing, as a raw material, polysilazane containing a phosphor and inorganic fine particles with a particle size smaller than the phosphor.

Claims (7)

1. A light emission device comprising an LED element and a wavelength conversion section, the LED element emitting a first light of a first specific wavelength and the wavelength conversion section converting the first light emitted from the LED element to a second light of a second specific wavelength, wherein the wavelength conversion section is composed of a ceramic layer which has been formed from polysilazane, phosphor particles and inorganic fine particles with a particle size smaller than the phosphor particles.

2. The light emission device as described in claim 1 , wherein the ceramic layer contains the phosphor particles with a central particle size of from 5 to 50 μm in an amount of from 40 to 95% by weight and the inorganic fine particles with a primary particle size of from 0.001 to 0.5 μm in an amount of from 0.1 to 25% by weight.

3. The light emission device as described in claim 1 , wherein the maximum thickness of the ceramic layer is from 5 to 500 μm.

4. The light emission device as described in claim 1 , wherein the polysilazane is dissolved in a solvent in an amount of from 5 to 50% by weight.

5. The light emission device as described in claim 1 , wherein a carbon content of the inorganic fine particles is not more than 10% by weight.

6. The light emission device as described in claim 1 , wherein the first and second specific wavelengths are in the visible wavelength range, respectively.

7. The light emission device as described in claim 1 , wherein the first light is a blue light, and the second light is a yellow light.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 27, 2018
From: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
To: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
Reel/Frame 047855/0744 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 22, 2018
From: KONICA MINOLTA ADVANCED LAYERS, INC.; KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
To: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Reel/Frame 047002/0676 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 20, 2012
From: WASHIZU, TAKASHI
To: KONICA MINOLTA ADVANCED LAYERS, INC.
Reel/Frame 028411/0355 →
Continuity (1)
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