IP Library Granted Patent US 11,889,803
Granted Patent B2
US 11,889,803 · App. 17/324,196 · Granted Feb 6, 2024

Plant growth lighting fixture

Inventors: Satoshi Kuniyasu (Minamiashigara, JP); Ryosuke Shimizu (Minamiashigara, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
A01G9/249A01G7/045F21V9/14F21V9/40G02B5/3016F21Y2115/10
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Patent No.
US 11,889,803
App. No.
17/324,196
Granted
Feb 6, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A plant growth lighting fixture has two or more of a blue light source, a green light source, and a red light source and a reflective-type circularly polarizing plate having two or more of a blue-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in blue light, a green-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in green light, and a red-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in red light. The wavelength ranges of the emission center wavelengths as the light sources and the wavelength ranges of the center wavelength of the effective wavelength range as the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate are wavelength ranges of the same colors, and the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate has a polarization correction layer having a phase difference in a thickness direction.

Claims (19)

1. A plant growth lighting fixture comprising:

light sources; and

a reflective-type circularly polarizing plate having cholesteric liquid crystal layers formed by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase,

wherein when a wavelength range of 380 nm or more and 500 nm or less is a blue wavelength range, a wavelength range of more than 500 nm and less than 600 nm is a green wavelength range, and a wavelength range of 600 nm or more and 780 nm or less is a red wavelength range,

the light sources have two or more of a blue light source having an emission center wavelength in the blue wavelength range, a green light source having an emission center wavelength in the green wavelength range, and a red light source having an emission center wavelength in the red wavelength range,

the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate has two or more of a blue-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in the blue wavelength range, a green-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in the green wavelength range, and a red-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in the red wavelength range,

the wavelength ranges of the emission center wavelengths as the light sources and the wavelength ranges of the center wavelength of the effective wavelength range as the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate are wavelength ranges of the same colors, and

the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate has a polarization correction layer having a phase difference in a thickness direction.

2. The plant growth lighting fixture according to claim 1 , wherein the polarization correction layer is a C-plate.

3. The plant growth lighting fixture according to claim 1 , wherein the light sources have the blue light source and the red light source, and

the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate has the blue-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer and the red-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer.

4. The plant growth lighting fixture according to claim 1 , further comprising an auxiliary light source for emitting white light.

5. The plant growth lighting fixture according to claim 1 , wherein the cholesteric liquid crystal layers of the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate selectively reflect circularly polarized light having the same rotational direction.

6. The plant growth lighting fixture according to claim 1 , wherein the cholesteric liquid crystal layers of the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate selectively reflect circularly polarized light having different rotational directions.

7. The plant growth lighting fixture according to claim 1 , wherein the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate has a haze of 1% or less.

8. The plant growth lighting fixture according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the cholesteric liquid crystal layers of the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate has scattering properties.

9. The plant growth lighting fixture according to claim 1 , wherein the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate further has a support for supporting the cholesteric liquid crystal layers.

10. The plant growth lighting fixture according to claim 1 , wherein the light sources each include a plurality of light sources arranged in a single direction.

11. The plant growth lighting fixture according to claim 1 , wherein the light sources are LEDs.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 19, 2021
From: KUNIYASU, SATOSHI; SHIMIZU, RYOSUKE
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 056284/0124 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-234354 · Dec 14, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2019043780 · Nov 8, 2019
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