IP Library › Granted Patent US 9,837,577
Granted Patent B2
US 9,837,577 · App. 14/140,765 · Granted Dec 5, 2017

Light emitting device

Inventors: Sung Kyoon Kim (Seoul, KR); Young Bong Yoo (Seoul, KR); Sung Ho Choo (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
H01L33/08H01L27/156H01L25/0753H01L33/38H01L33/62H01L2924/0002
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Patent No.
US 9,837,577
App. No.
14/140,765
Granted
Dec 5, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A light emitting device includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting cells disposed on the substrate to be spaced apart from each other, and a connection wire electrically connecting adjacent ones of the light emitting cells. A first separation distance between first adjacent light emitting cells that are not connected by the connection wire among the light emitting cells is smaller than a second separation distance between second adjacent light emitting cells connected by the connection wire among the light emitting cells.

Claims (38)

1. A light emitting device, comprising:

a substrate;

a plurality of light emitting cells arranged on the substrate to be spaced apart from each other; and

connection wires configured to electrically connect adjacent light emitting cells, wherein the plurality of light emitting cells includes at least first, second, third, and fourth light emitting cells, wherein the first and second light emitting cells are connected by a first connection wire among the connection wires, the first and fourth light emitting cells are connected by a second connection wire among the connection wires, the third and fourth light emitting cells are connected by a third connection wire among the connection wires, and the second and third light emitting cells are not connected by any connection wire among the connection wires, wherein each lighting emitting cell includes a first conductive type semiconductor layer having a rectangular shape on a first plane, wherein a first length in a first direction of each first conductive type semiconductor layer of the first and fourth light emitting cells adjacent to each other in the first direction is shorter than a second length in the first direction of each first conductive type semiconductor layer of the second and third light emitting cells adjacent to each other in the first direction, and wherein each lighting emitting cell includes a first electrode having a bar shape and a second electrode having an L shape, and the first and second electrodes are separately arranged in a diagonal direction.

2. The light emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the first light emitting cell is adjacent to a first side of the second light emitting cell,

wherein the third light emitting cell is adjacent to a second side of the second light emitting cell,

wherein a first side of the first light emitting cell is adjacent to a first side of the second light emitting cell,

wherein a second side of the first light emitting cell is adjacent to the first side of the fourth light emitting cell,

wherein the second side of the second light emitting cell is adjacent to a first side of the third light emitting cell,

wherein a second side of the third light emitting cell is adjacent to a second side of the fourth light emitting cell; and

wherein a first distance between the second side of the first light emitting cell and the first side of the fourth light emitting cell is greater than a second distance between the second side of the second light emitting cell and the first side of the third light emitting cell.

3. The light emitting device according to claim 2 , wherein a third distance between the first side of the first light emitting cell and the first side of the second light emitting cell is greater than the second distance.

4. The light emitting device according to claim 2 , wherein the second distance is more than 0.2 times of a third distance between the first side of the first light emitting cell and the first side of the second light emitting cell and less than the third distance.

5. The light emitting device according to claim 1 , further comprising an insulating layer provided under the connection wires.

6. The light emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the light emitting cells includes:

a light emitting structure including:

a first conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive type semiconductor layer that are sequentially arranged on the substrate;

the first electrode provided on the first conductive type semiconductor layer; and

the second electrode provided on the second conductive type semiconductor layer.

7. The light emitting device according to claim 6 , wherein a side surface of the light emitting structure is inclined with respect to the substrate.

8. The light emitting device according to claim 6 , wherein the first separation distance corresponds to a separation distance between the first conductive type semiconductor layers of the first adjacent light emitting cells, and the second separation distance corresponds to a separation distance between the first conductive type semiconductor layers of the second adjacent light emitting cells.

9. The light emitting device according to claim 8 , wherein the first separation distance is between 4 μm and 20 μm, and the second separation distance is greater than 20 μm.

10. The light emitting device according to claim 6 , wherein the first separation distance corresponds to a separation distance between the second conductive type semiconductor layers of the first adjacent light emitting cells, and the second separation distance corresponds to a separation distance between the second conductive type semiconductor layers of the second adjacent light emitting cells.

11. The light emitting device according to claim 6 , wherein each of the light emitting cells including the first, second, third, and fourth light emitting cells further comprises a conductive layer disposed between the second conductive type semiconductor layer and the second electrode, a first distance corresponds to a separation distance between the conductive layers of the first and fourth light emitting cells, and a second distance corresponds to a separation distance between the conductive layers of the second and third light emitting cells.

12. The light emitting device according to claim 6 , wherein at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode of the adjacent light emitting cells connected by the connection wires, among the first, second, third and fourth light emitting cells is integrated with the connection wires.

13. The light emitting device according to claim 6 , wherein a first side surface of the first conductive type semiconductor layer is inclined at a first angle with respect to the substrate, wherein a second side surface of the first conductive type semiconductor layer adjacent to an exposed upper portion thereof is inclined at a second angle, and wherein the first angle and the second angle are between 30 degrees and 80 degrees.

14. The light emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein widths in a second direction of the first, second, third, and fourth light emitting cells are identical, the second direction being different from the first direction, and

wherein a planar area of each of the second and third light emitting cells is wider than a planar area of each of the first and fourth light emitting cells.

15. A light emitting device, comprising:

a substrate;

a plurality of light emitting cells arranged on the substrate to be spaced apart from each other, the plurality of light emitting cells including at least first, second, third and fourth light emitting cells, the first light emitting cell provided adjacent to a first side of the second light emitting cell, and the third light emitting cell provided adjacent to a second side of the second light emitting cell, and a first side of the first light emitting cell provided adjacent to the first side of the second light emitting cell, and a second side of the first light emitting cell provided adjacent to a first side of the fourth light emitting cell, and the second side of the second light emitting cell provided adjacent to a first side of the third light emitting cell, and a second side of the third light emitting cell provided adjacent to a second side of the fourth light emitting cell; and

connection wires configured to electrically connect adjacent light emitting cells, wherein the first and second light emitting cells are connected by a first connection wire among the connection wires, the first and fourth light emitting cells are connected by a second connection wire among the connection wires, the third and fourth light emitting cells are connected by a third connection wire among the connection wires, and the second and third light emitting cells are not directly connected by any connection wire among the connection wires, wherein a first distance between the second side of the first light emitting cell and the first side of the fourth light emitting cell is greater than a second distance between the second side of the second light emitting cell and the first side of the third light emitting cell, wherein a third distance between the first side of the first light emitting cell and the first side of the second light emitting cell is greater than the second distance, and

wherein a first length in a first direction of each of the first and fourth light emitting cells adjacent to each other in the first direction is shorter than a second length in the first direction of each of the second and third light emitting cells adjacent to each other in the first direction.

16. The light emitting device according to claim 15 , wherein a 2-1 separation distance and a 2-2 separation distance are identical.

17. The light emitting device according to claim 15 , wherein the first distance and the third distance differ from each other.

18. The light emitting device according to claim 17 , wherein the first separation distance is the same as a 2-1 separation distance.

19. The light emitting device according to claim 18 , wherein the first separation distance is the same as a 2-2 separation distance.

20. The light emitting device according to claim 15 , wherein the first direction from the first light emitting cell to the fourth light emitting cell is a vertical direction and a second direction from the first light emitting cell to the second light emitting cell is a horizontal direction.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 25, 2021
From: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
To: SUZHOU LEKIN SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 056366/0335 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 26, 2013
From: KIM, SUNG KYOON; YOO, YOUNG BONG; CHOO, SUNG HO
To: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 031848/0602 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2012-0154193 · Dec 27, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
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