KR102012744B1 - Automobile lamp - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F21K—NON-ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES USING LUMINESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES USING ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES USING CHARGES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL; LIGHT SOURCES USING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AS LIGHT-GENERATING ELEMENTS; LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F21S43/13—Signalling devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. brake lamps, direction indicator lights or reversing lights characterised by the light source characterised by the type of light source
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F21—LIGHTING
- F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
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- F21S43/239—Light guides characterised by the shape of the light guide plate-shaped
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
- F21S43/00—Signalling devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. brake lamps, direction indicator lights or reversing lights
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F21—LIGHTING
- F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
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- G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
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- G02B6/0011—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems the light guides being planar or of plate-like form
- G02B6/0033—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide
- G02B6/005—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide provided by one optical element, or plurality thereof, placed on the light output side of the light guide
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- G02B6/0011—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems the light guides being planar or of plate-like form
- G02B6/0066—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems the light guides being planar or of plate-like form characterised by the light source being coupled to the light guide
- G02B6/0068—Arrangements of plural sources, e.g. multi-colour light sources
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F21—LIGHTING
- F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F21V2200/00—Use of light guides, e.g. fibre optic devices, in lighting devices or systems
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a surface light source for a vehicle that can increase light efficiency, and particularly includes a light source module including a plurality of light sources and an optical guide member for guiding light emitted from the light source, wherein the light is formed on the surface of the optical guide member. It is characterized by providing a surface light for a vehicle including a reflection pattern.
Description
The present invention relates to a surface light source for a vehicle that can increase the light efficiency.
Lighting units utilizing various light sources used in electronic devices are implemented in such a way as to increase light efficiency by utilizing suitable light sources according to the characteristics of each electronic device.
Recently, the lighting unit used in such an electronic device is a backlight unit applied to a flat panel display, an indoor light used in an indoor environment, or a head light, a fog light, a retracted light, a vehicle width light, a number light, a tail light, a braking light, a direction installed in an exterior of a vehicle It can be variously applied to indicator lights, emergency flashing lights, and interior lightings installed inside a vehicle.
However, most of such lighting is a method of approaching in terms of the brightness of the surface light source by applying a member such as a light guide plate for efficient transmission of light for providing light.
For example, FIG. 1 briefly illustrates a structure of a lighting apparatus used in a conventional vehicle.
As shown in FIG. 1, the conventional vehicle light guide includes a
To overcome this limitation, as shown in (b) of FIG. 1, a
The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention can maximize the light extraction efficiency by implementing a light reflection pattern to improve the light extraction efficiency on the surface of the light guide member used for the surface light for vehicles In addition, the present invention provides a surface lighting for a vehicle capable of improving luminous intensity and light distribution by adjusting an arrangement of a light source array.
As a means for solving the above problems, the present invention provides a light source module including a plurality of light sources; It includes; a light guide member for guiding the light emitted from the light source, to provide a surface light for a vehicle including a light reflection pattern formed on the surface of the light guide member.
According to the present invention, by implementing a light reflection pattern to improve the light extraction efficiency on the surface of the light guide member used for the surface light of the vehicle to maximize the light extraction efficiency, and to adjust the arrangement of the light source array to improve the light intensity and light distribution There is also an effect.
1 is a conceptual diagram showing the structure of a conventional vehicle lighting apparatus.
2 is a conceptual view illustrating main parts of a surface light of a vehicle according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a conceptual view illustrating a sectional view taken along line AA ′ of FIG. 2.
4 and 5 are conceptual views illustrating various application examples of the light reflection pattern described above with reference to FIG. 3.
6 illustrates an embodiment of a surface light for a vehicle according to the present invention described above with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5.
7 and 8 illustrate a result of measuring a light reflection pattern by etching the light guide member according to the present invention, and measuring the surface reflection characteristics (BSDF) of the light guide member thus manufactured.
9 and 10 illustrate a result of measuring the light reflection pattern on the light guide member by applying the above-described sanding method, and measuring the surface reflection characteristics (BSDF) of the light guide member thus manufactured.
Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the configuration and operation according to the present invention. In the description with reference to the accompanying drawings, the same components are given the same reference numerals regardless of the reference numerals, and duplicate description thereof will be omitted. Terms such as first and second may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another.
The present invention implements a surface light source applied to a vehicle lighting, by implementing a light reflection pattern to maximize the light extraction efficiency on the surface of the light guide member, to provide a surface light to achieve curvature, through a variety of shapes It is an object of the present invention to improve the degree of freedom of design by manufacturing a light guide member.
2 is a conceptual view illustrating main parts of a surface light for a vehicle according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a conceptual view illustrating a sectional view taken along line A-A 'of FIG. 2.
2 and 3, the surface light for a vehicle according to the present invention includes a light source module including a plurality of
In particular, in this case, the light source module is preferably disposed on one side or both sides of the
As shown in FIG. 3, the
Furthermore, in the sanding method, the scattering characteristics can be controlled by adjusting the type of propellant (Glass bead, Zirconia bead, White alumina, etc.), sanding conditions (pressure, speed, distance), and The emitted light can be guided into the optical guide member to satisfy the light uniformity and the light distribution standard.
Alternatively, in forming the light reflection pattern, the two methods may be used individually or in combination, and the light distribution standard and the luminous intensity standard may be satisfied by adjusting the Gaussian and Lambertian characteristics through pattern processing. .
In particular, in the case of the surface lighting for vehicles, the lighting is curvature-shaped rather than flat, depending on the installation position and structure, which is subject to the limitation of the shape, in the case of the above-described etching and sanding method of the shape to be processed Less constraints, by processing the pattern on the mold and injecting the light guide member, it is possible to produce a variety of curves, twisted shapes, etc., it is possible to implement a variety of designs.
As shown in FIG. 3, a light source module is disposed on a side surface of the
The printed
The
In particular, the
In addition, as shown in Figure 3, it is preferable that the lower portion of the light guide member according to the present invention further comprises a
The
The
For example, titanium oxide, aluminum oxide, zinc oxide, lead carbonate, barium sulfate, calcium carbonate may be used as the white pigment, and polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, acrylic resin, colicarbonate, polystyrene, polyolefin may be used as the synthetic resin. , Cellulose source acetate, weather resistant vinyl chloride, etc. may be used, but is not limited thereto. A reflective pattern may be formed on the surface of the
As the
In addition to the structure of the light source module having the structure shown in FIG. 3, the surface light source for a vehicle according to the present invention forms a mounting
4 and 5 are conceptual views illustrating various application examples of the light reflection pattern described above with reference to FIG. 3.
As described above, the
6 illustrates an embodiment of a surface light for a vehicle according to the present invention described above with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5.
Basically, in the structure of the
The surface roughness of the
7 and 8 illustrate a result of measuring a light reflection pattern by etching an optical guide member according to the present invention and measuring the surface reflection characteristics (BSDF) of the optical guide member thus manufactured. 7 is a result of measuring the scattering peak for each etching angle, Figure 8 is a result of measuring the ratio of the lemversian and Gaussian by the etching angle, as a result, the amount of Gaussian is increased, Ra is also increased, the transfer of lemversian It can be seen that the increased, the scattering characteristics can be adjusted by adjusting the light reflection pattern according to the present invention.
9 and 10 are results of measuring the light reflection pattern on the light guide member by applying the above-described sanding method, and measuring the surface reflection characteristics (BSDF) of the light guide member thus manufactured, measured in FIGS. 7 and 8. Similar to the result, it can be seen that the amount of Gaussian is increased, Ra is also increased, and the amount of lemversian is increased, and thus the scattering characteristics can be adjusted by adjusting the light reflection pattern according to the present invention.
The surface light source for a vehicle according to the present invention described above may be applied to a tail light & a stop light and a turn signal. That is, the lighting device according to the present invention is applicable to various lamp devices that require lighting, such as a vehicle lamp, a home lighting device, an industrial lighting device. For example, when applied to a vehicle lamp, it is also applicable to headlights, vehicle interior lighting, doorscar, rear lights and the like. In addition, the lighting apparatus of the present invention can be applied to the field of the backlight unit applied to the liquid crystal display device, and can be applied to all the lighting related fields that are currently developed and commercialized or can be implemented according to future technology development.
In the detailed description of the invention as described above, specific embodiments have been described. However, many modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the invention. The technical spirit of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments of the present invention, but should be determined not only by the claims, but also by those equivalent to the claims.
110: printed circuit board
120: light source
130: re-reflective member
140: optical guide member
141: light reflection pattern
142: mounting groove
160: reflective member
210: internal light source group
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An optical guide member disposed on the reflective member;
A plurality of light reflection patterns disposed on an upper surface of the reflective member and buried by the light guide member;
A light source module disposed on the side of the light guide member; And
It is disposed spaced apart from the light source module, and includes a re-reflection member having a curvature,
The light source module includes a printed circuit board and a plurality of light sources disposed on the printed circuit board,
The light source is a top light emitting diode,
Light emitted from the plurality of light sources is reflected inside the re-reflective member to be incident to the side of the light guide member, and light incident from the side of the light guide member is reflected to the light reflection pattern to reflect the light guide member. Light is emitted to the top of the
The re-reflective member is disposed spaced apart from one side of the printed circuit board, the surface light for a vehicle is formed higher than the height of the light guide member.
The light reflection pattern is a concave-convex irregularities are formed in the depth direction of the light guide member, the concave-convex surface comprises a hemispherical or pyramidal or a combination structure of hemispherical and pyramidal.
The density of the light reflection pattern is differently disposed according to the position, the light reflection pattern is a vehicle surface illumination is increased in the pattern density from the light source module toward the center of the light guide member.
The light reflection pattern is a vehicle surface lighting comprising any one material of TiO 2 , CaCO 3 , BaSO 4 , Al 2 O 3 , Silicon, PS.
The reflective member is a vehicle surface lighting of any one of transparent PET, white PET, Ag sheet.
The optical guide member is composed of at least one selected from silicon, silica, glass bubble, PMMA, urethane, Zn, Zr, Al 2 O 3 , and acryl. The vehicle surface lighting further comprising a diffusing material for diffusing light.
The light guide member further comprises a mounting groove for mounting a plurality of light sources in one region, and an internal light source group inserted into the mounting groove.
The internal light source group is a surface light for a vehicle for emitting light toward the center of the inner region formed by the mounting groove.
And a diffusion plate disposed on the light guide member and an external lens disposed on the diffusion plate.
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