LED Package Chromaticity Subregion Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current LED packaging technologies face challenges in achieving uniform color and luminance, as existing binning methods often result in wasted LEDs and inefficient packaging due to strict chromaticity requirements, leading to limited color consistency and increased waste.

Innovation Solution

The method involves subdividing chromaticity regions into smaller subregions, selecting LEDs from these subregions to create a target chromaticity region that is a subset or touches the edge of a standard bin, allowing for the use of LEDs with chromaticity points outside the standard bin, thereby improving color consistency and reducing waste by enabling the use of a broader range of LEDs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If strict chromaticity binning is used to ensure color uniformity, then color consistency is improved, but LED waste increases and packaging efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor consistencyVSAvoidLED waste
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The chromaticity space is segmented into multiple subregions within a standard bin, allowing LEDs from different subregions to be combined. This segmentation enables more flexible grouping of LEDs that would traditionally be discarded, thereby reducing waste while maintaining color consistency through controlled combination of multiple subregion LEDs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of manufacture

If standard binning methods are used, then packaging simplicity is maintained, but color uniformity and packaging efficiency are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepackaging simplicityVSAvoidcolor uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The invention changes the chromaticity parameters of individual LEDs by combining LEDs from different subregions with varying chromaticity coordinates. Through mathematical combination of multiple LEDs' chromaticity parameters, the overall package achieves superior color uniformity that exceeds what can be obtained from single-bin selection alone.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If LEDs from a broader chromaticity range are used, then packaging efficiency and waste reduction are improved, but color consistency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepackaging efficiencyVSAvoidcolor consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The invention creates a composite light source by combining multiple LEDs with different chromaticity characteristics within a single package. This composite approach allows the use of LEDs from a broader chromaticity range while maintaining color consistency, as the combined output of multiple LEDs with varying parameters produces a unified, consistent color profile.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Data Source

PatentEP2399062B1Methods for combining light emitting devices in a package and packages including combined light emitting devices
Publication Date: 2016.04.20 WOLFSPEED INC
  • EP2399062B1 patent drawingFigure 1A~1B
  • EP2399062B1 patent drawingFigure 1C~2
  • EP2399062B1 patent drawingFigure 3A~3B

AI summary

Methods of forming a light emitting device package assembly include defining a chromaticity region in a two dimensional chromaticity space, and subdividing the defined chromaticity region into at least three chromaticity subregions, providing a plurality of light emitting devices that emit light having a chromaticity that falls within at least one of the defined chromaticity subregions, selecting at least three of the plurality of light emitting devices, each of the three light emitting devices emits light from a different one of the chromaticity subregions, and mounting the selected light emitting devices on a light emitting device package body.