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Granted Patent B2
US 10,415,793 · App. 14/110,796 · Granted Sep 17, 2019

Illumination apparatus

Inventors: Yasushi Ito (Tochigi, JP); Yoshifumi Ueno (Tochigi, JP); Hirofumi Tani (Tochigi, JP); Tomomitsu Hori (Tochigi, JP)
Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 10,415,793
App. No.
14/110,796
Granted
Sep 17, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is an illumination device that can be made thin and increases the efficiency of extracting light to the outside. The present invention is provided with: light-emitting structures wherein a blue light-emitting element is embedded in a transparent resin having a convex surface shape; a substrate wherein the light-emitting structures are disposed two-dimensionally; a diffuser plate that diffuses the blue light of the blue light-emitting elements; and a fluorescent sheet that is disposed spaced from the substrate and that contains a particulate fluorescent body that obtains a white light from the blue light of the blue light-emitting elements.

Claims (16)

1. An illumination apparatus, comprising:

light-emitting structures in which a blue light-emitting element is embedded in a transparent resin;

a substrate on which the light-emitting structures are disposed two-dimensionally; and

a phosphor sheet disposed at a position spaced from the substrate and containing phosphor particles that obtain white light from blue light of the blue light-emitting element, wherein

in each light-emitting structure, the blue light-emitting element is mounted on a base material,

a height b of an inner wall formed at peripheral edges of the base material is equal to or greater than the thickness of the blue light-emitting element,

a height d of the transparent resin is greater than the height b of the inner wall,

the transparent resin is formed in a convex surface shape, and

the convex surface shape is expressed by a ratio r/a that is between 1.46 and 1.7, “r” being a radius of curvature of the convex surface shape, and “a” being half of the width of the transparent resin in contact with the base material.

2. The illumination apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor sheet comprises at least one type of phosphor selected from the group consisting of sulfide-based phosphor, oxide-based phosphor and mixture thereof, and a resin component selected from the group consisting of a polyolefin copolymer component and a light curing (meth) acrylic resin component.

3. The illumination apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein a polyolefin copolymer component is selected as a resin component, and further comprising a phosphor layer formed by depositing a resin composition containing a maleic anhydride.

4. The illumination apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the phosphor sheet is formed by sandwiching the phosphor layer between a pair of transparent base materials and laminating both side with sealing films.

5. The illumination apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a diffuser plate disposed between the substrate and the phosphor sheet.

6. A display apparatus comprising the illumination apparatus according to claim 1 disposed at an image display panel.

7. The illumination apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a difference between the height b and the height d is equal to or greater than 0.3 mm.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 9, 2013
From: ITO, YASUSHI; UENO, YOSHIFUMI; TANI, HIROFUMI; HORI, TOMOMITSU
To: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-149291 · Jul 5, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20140029238A1 · Jan 30, 2014