IP Library Granted Patent US 9,466,773
Granted Patent B2
US 9,466,773 · App. 14/351,884 · Granted Oct 11, 2016

Semiconductor light device including a lens having a light deflection structure

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Patent No.
US 9,466,773
App. No.
14/351,884
Granted
Oct 11, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor lighting device may include at least one semiconductor light source and a lens, wherein the lens has a light entrance surface at the underside, said light entrance surface facing the at least one semiconductor light source, and a light exit surface at the top side, the light entrance surface has a light deflection structure in the form of a TIR structure, at which entering light can be deflected in the direction of the light exit surface by means of total internal reflection, and the lens is fitted to the semiconductor lighting device in a detachable fashion.

Claims (25)

1. A semiconductor lighting device comprising at least one semiconductor light source and a lens, wherein

the lens has a light entrance surface at the underside, said light entrance surface facing the at least one semiconductor light source, and a light exit surface at the top side,

the light entrance surface has a light deflection structure in the form of a TIR structure, at which entering light can be deflected in the direction of the light exit surface by means of total internal reflection, and

the lens is fitted to the semiconductor lighting device in a detachable fashion.

2. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the TIR structure at least substantially completely covers the light entrance surface.

3. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the TIR structure covers an outer, ring-shaped region of the light entrance surface.

4. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein an inner region of the light entrance surface, said inner region being surrounded by the TIR structure, is a refractively light-deflecting region.

5. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein an inner region of the light entrance surface, said inner region being surrounded by the TIR structure, is an optically inactive region.

6. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the TIR structure is formed in cross section by at least one series of tooth-like projections.

7. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein at least some of the projections are height-offset with respect to one another and/or have a different height.

8. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the at least some of the projections are fashioned more deeply and/or project more deeply from the inside toward the outside.

9. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the at least some of the projections are fashioned more deeply and/or project more deeply from the outside toward the inside.

10. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor lighting device is a lamp.

11. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the light exit surface has one or a plurality of optically active regions.

12. A set comprising a semiconductor lighting device and at least one changeable lens,

the semiconductor lighting device comprising:

at least one semiconductor light source and a lens, wherein

the lens has a light entrance surface at the underside, said light entrance surface

facing the at least one semiconductor light source, and a light exit surface at the top side,

the light entrance surface has a light deflection structure in the form of a TIR structure, at which entering light can be deflected in the direction of the light exit surface by means of total internal reflection, and

the lens is fitted to the semiconductor lighting device in a detachable fashion,

wherein the lenses differ functionally substantially in producing a different emission angle.

13. The set as claimed in claim 12 , wherein one of the lenses has an emission angle of approximately 30° and another of the lenses has an emission angle of approximately 60°.

14. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the at least some of the projections are fashioned more deeply and/or project more deeply from the outside toward the inside.

15. The semiconductor lighting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor lighting device is a retrofit lamp.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 18, 2023
From: OSRAM GMBH
To: OPTOTRONIC GMBH
Reel/Frame 064308/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 15, 2014
From: STREPPEL, HENRIKE; RUPP, TIMON
To: OSRAM GMBH
Reel/Frame 032671/0101 →