IP Library Granted Patent US 12,453,218
Granted Patent B2
US 12,453,218 · App. 17/907,354 · Granted Oct 21, 2025

Light-emitting device

Inventors: Makiko Iwasa (Anan, JP); Yuji Sato (Anan, JP)
Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
H10H20/8513H05B33/14H10H20/0361
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Patent No.
US 12,453,218
App. No.
17/907,354
Granted
Oct 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a light-emitting device having a high luminous flux. The light-emitting device comprises a light-emitting element 11 that has a dominant wavelength in a range of 380 nm or more and 485 nm or less, and a fluorescent material layer 31 that includes a fluorescent material emitting light by being excited by light emitted from the light-emitting element 11 , and a neodymium compound, wherein the light-emitting device emits light having a dominant wavelength in a range of 584 nm or more and 780 nm or less.

Claims (14)

1. A light-emitting device, comprising

a light-emitting element that has a dominant wavelength in a range of 380 nm or more and 485 nm or less, and

a fluorescent material layer that comprises a fluorescent material emitting light by being excited by light emitted from the light-emitting element, and a neodymium compound,

the light-emitting device emitting light having a dominant wavelength in a range of 584 nm or more and 780 nm or less, and exhibiting a yellowish-red light emission color to red light emission color,

wherein the light-emitting device has a half value width in a light emission spectrum in a wavelength range of 584 nm or more and 780 nm or less being in a range of 50 nm or more and 100 nm or less,

wherein the fluorescent material comprises at least one nitride fluorescent material selected from the group consisting of a first nitride fluorescent material having a composition represented by the following formula (1), and a second nitride fluorescent material having a composition represented by the following formula (2):

(Ca,Sr)AlSiN 3 :Eu  (1)

(Ca,Sr,Ba) 2 Si 5 N 8 :Eu  (2)

wherein the fluorescent material layer has a content of the neodymium compound in a range of 5 parts by mass or more and 40 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the fluorescent material.

2. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , the light-emitting device emits light having a chromaticity within an area of chromaticity coordinates (x, y) in the x-y chromaticity coordinate system of the CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram,

wherein when the chromaticity coordinates (x=0.520, y=0.450) is defined as a first point, the chromaticity coordinates (x=0.538, y=0.461) is defined as a second point, the chromaticity coordinates (x=0.735, y=0.265) is defined as a third point, and the chromaticity coordinates (x=0.715, y=0.259) is defined as a fourth point, the area is demarcated by a first straight line connecting the first point and the second point, a second straight line connecting the second point and the third point, a third straight line connecting the third point and the fourth point, and a fourth straight line connecting the fourth point and the first point.

3. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the neodymium compound comprises neodymium fluoride.

4. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorescent material layer comprises a resin, and has a content of the fluorescent material in a range of 100 parts by mass or more and 300 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the resin.

5. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting device has a half value width in a light emission spectrum in a wavelength range of 584 nm or more and 780 nm or less being in a range of 60 nm or more and 95 nm or less.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 26, 2022
From: IWASA, MAKIKO; SATO, YUJI
To: NICHIA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061219/0610 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-058695 · Mar 27, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230109952A1 · Apr 13, 2023
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