IP Library Granted Patent US 8,371,724
Granted Patent B2
US 8,371,724 · App. 12/392,875 · Granted Feb 12, 2013

Light emitting device

Inventors: Yuji Tamaki (Tokyo, JP); Tatsuya Hioki (Tokyo, JP); Eiichi Sugimoto (Tokyo, JP); Tatsuya Goto (Tokyo, JP); Nobuhiro Kobayashi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignees: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.; Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,371,724
App. No.
12/392,875
Granted
Feb 12, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention is directed to a small-sized stroboscopic light emitting device that controls disorder in light distribution (orientation) characteristic caused by a shape of the reflector, and achieves a homogeneous light quantity distribution. The stroboscopic light emitting device includes an illuminator 1 , a reflector 2 for reflecting light from the reflector, and a lens 3 for allowing the light reflected by the reflector 2 to pass through and illuminate outwardly, and the lens 3 contains a filler 4 in the base material. A refractive index and a mean particle size of the filler are between or equal to 1.3 to 2.8 and between or equal to 0.1 μm to 20 μm, respectively, and the filler is contained in the base material at the rate between or equal to 0.1 parts by weight to 3.0 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the base material. Since the filler diffuses the passing light adequately, even though the reflector is provided with a bend, local disorder in light distribution (orientation) characteristic caused by the bend can be suppressed.

Claims (8)

1. A stroboscopic light emitting device comprising,

an illuminator,

a reflector located such that it reflects light from the illuminator, and

a lens located adjacent the reflector so_as to allow the light reflected by the reflector to pass through and illuminate outwardly, wherein,

the lens contains a methacrylic resin base material and a filler comprising crosslinked organic particles in the methacrylic resin base material, and a refractive index and a mean particle size of the filler are between or equal to 1.3 to 2.8 and between or equal to 0.1 μm to 20μm, respectively, and a content of the filler is between or equal to 0.1 parts by weight to 3.0 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the methacrylic resin base material.

2. The stroboscopic light emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein,

the reflector has a shape formed by bending a planar member.

3. The stroboscopic light emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the illuminator includes a light emitting diode.

Assignments (3)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Mar 25, 2022
From: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059397/0542 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 21, 2016
From: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION; ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA; STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 038976/0742 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 20, 2009
From: TAMAKI, YUJI; HIOKI, TATSUYA; SUGIMOTO, EIICHI; GOTO, TATSUYA; KOBAYASHI, NOBUHIRO
To: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022425/0265 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-048260 · Feb 28, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
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