IP Library Granted Patent US 9,634,216
Granted Patent B2
US 9,634,216 · App. 14/911,162 · Granted Apr 25, 2017

Light emitting device

Inventors: Daisuke Inomata (Tokyo, JP); Hiroaki Sano (Tokyo, JP); Seitaro Yoshida (Tokyo, JP); Kazuo Aoki (Tokyo, JP); Kiyoshi Shimamura (Ibaraki, JP); Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora (Ibaraki, JP)
Assignees: Koha Co., Ltd.; Tamura Corporation; National Institute for Materials Science
H01L33/644H01L33/502H01L33/505H01L33/507H01L33/60H01L33/62H01L33/641H01L33/647H01L2224/32225H01L2224/32245H01L2224/48091H01L2224/48227H01L2224/48247H01L2224/73265H01L2924/16195
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Patent No.
US 9,634,216
App. No.
14/911,162
Granted
Apr 25, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the light emitting device includes an LED element, a side wall which surrounds the LED element, a phosphor layer which is fixed to the side wall with an adhesive layer therebetween, and is positioned above the LED element, and a metal pad as a heat dissipating member. The side wall includes an insulating base which surrounds the LED element and a metal layer which is formed on a side surface at the LED element side of the base, and is in contact with the metal pad and the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer includes a resin layer that includes a resin containing particles which have higher thermal conductivity than the resin or a layer that includes solder.

Claims (42)

1. A light-emitting device, comprising:

a light-emitting element that emits a light with a peak wavelength of not more than 480 nm;

a phosphor layer that is operable to convert a wavelength of the light emitted from the light-emitting element; and

a heat dissipating member that dissipates heat generated in the phosphor layer,

wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer comprising a single crystal phosphor, a ceramic phosphor, a glass including a phosphor particle, a layer comprising a transparent substrate and a phosphor particle-including resin layer formed thereon,

wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer covering upper and lateral sides of the light-emitting element and being directly connected to the heat dissipating member, or a layer covering the upper side of the light-emitting element and being connected via an adhesive layer to a sidewall surrounding the light-emitting element,

wherein the sidewall comprises a first sidewall or a second sidewall,

wherein the first sidewall comprises an insulating base surrounding the LED element and a metal layer that is formed on a side surface at the LED side of the base and is in contact with the heat dissipating member and the adhesive layer,

wherein the second sidewall comprises a ceramic or a metal in contact with the heat dissipating member and the adhesive layer, and

wherein the adhesive layer comprises a resin layer comprising a resin and a particle having a higher thermal conductivity than the resin, or a layer comprising a solder.

2. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer connected to the sidewall via the adhesive layer,

wherein the heat dissipating member comprises a metal pad to be electrically connected to the light-emitting element, and

wherein the sidewall comprises the first sidewall, or the second sidewall comprising the ceramic.

3. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer connected to the sidewall via the adhesive layer,

wherein the sidewall comprises the second sidewall comprising the metal, and

wherein the light-emitting element is insulated from the heat dissipating member.

4. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer connected to the sidewall via the adhesive layer, and

wherein the heat dissipating member comprises a member comprising a same material as the base of the first sidewall comprising a ceramic and formed integrally with the base of the first sidewall, or a member comprising a same material as the second sidewall and formed integrally with the second sidewall.

5. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer connected to the sidewall via the adhesive layer, and

the heat dissipating member comprises a reflector that is in contact with the base of the first sidewall comprising a ceramic or with the second sidewall and has an opening above the light-emitting element.

6. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat dissipating member comprises a heat sink located under the light-emitting element.

7. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , further comprising a light-emitting element-heat dissipating member to dissipate heat of the light-emitting element,

wherein the heat dissipating member is thermally separated from the light-emitting element-heat dissipating member.

8. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein a base material of the transparent substrate comprises glass, gallium oxide, zinc oxide, sapphire, silicon carbide or diamond.

9. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the transparent substrate has a thermal conductivity of not less than 1 W/(m·K) and a transmittance of not less than 80% with respect to an emission wavelength of the light-emitting element and a fluorescence wavelength.

10. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor particles comprise a particle of a single crystal phosphor.

11. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer connected to the sidewall via the adhesive layer, wherein the phosphor layer comprises a metal film on a surface at a portion in contact with the adhesive layer, and

wherein the adhesive layer comprises a solder.

12. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer connected to the sidewall via the adhesive layer, and

wherein the phosphor layer comprises a concavo-convex pattern that has a depth of not less than 10% of a thickness of the phosphor layer and is formed on a surface on the light-emitting element side at a portion in contact with the adhesive layer.

13. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer connected to the sidewall via the adhesive layer, and

wherein the sidewall is fixed to the heat dissipating member by a screw.

14. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer connected to the sidewall via the adhesive layer, and

wherein the adhesive layer has a thermal conductivity of not less than 3 W/(m·K).

15. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor layer comprises a layer directly connected to the heat dissipating member, and

wherein the light-emitting device further comprises a structure that the lower portion of the phosphor layer is fitted to a groove formed on an upper surface of the heat dissipating member, a structure that a threaded groove formed on a side surface of the groove on the upper surface of the heat dissipating member is screw-fixed to a threaded groove formed on a side surface of the lower portion of the phosphor layer, or a structure that a threaded groove formed on the side surface of the upper portion of the heat dissipating member is screw-fixed to a threaded groove formed on an inner side surface of the lower portion of the phosphor layer.

16. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein a radiation flux density of light emitted from the light-emitting element and incident on the phosphor layer is not less than 1.8 W/cm 2 .

17. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein a rate of an area of the lower surface of the phosphor layer at a portion in contact with the adhesive layer with respect to an area of a region contributing to wavelength conversion is not less than 35%.

18. The light-emitting device according to claim 17 , wherein the rate is not less than 70%.

19. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor layer is a layer comprising a transparent substrate and a phosphor particle-including resin layer formed thereon, and

wherein a mass concentration of the phosphor particles in the resin layer is not less than 50 mass %.

20. The light-emitting device according to claim 19 , wherein the mass concentration is not less than 57 mass %.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 29, 2023
From: TAMURA CORPORATION
To: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
Reel/Frame 065694/0700 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 5, 2022
From: KOHA CO., LTD.
To: TAMURA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058547/0853 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 16, 2016
From: INOMATA, DAISUKE; SANO, HIROAKI; YOSHIDA, SEITARO; AOKI, KAZUO
To: TAMURA CORPORATION; KOHA CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 037739/0166 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 16, 2016
From: SHIMAMURA, KIYOSHI; GARCIA VILLORA, ENCARNACION ANTONIA
To: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
Reel/Frame 037739/0255 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-166920 · Aug 9, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160190418A1 · Jun 30, 2016