LED Lamp White Colored Ratio Mixing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing LED lamps with both white and colored LEDs face complexity in control and design due to the need for precise intensity matching and mixing of colored light, leading to a large and complex structure.

Innovation Solution

An LED lamp design with more white LEDs than colored LEDs, where both types have the same power requirements, and an optical element for effective light mixing, allowing for simple electronic control and a compact structure.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If more colored LEDs are added to improve color rendering index, then color rendering improves, but control complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor rendering indexVSAvoidcontrol complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the key parameter from LED intensity control to LED quantity ratio. By setting the colored LEDs to 10-30% of total LED count, the system achieves good color rendering (Ra≥80) without complex control, as the physical quantity ratio naturally provides the needed color mix rather than requiring active intensity modulation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If colored LED intensity is increased to improve color rendering, then color rendering improves, but light mixing uniformity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor rendering indexVSAvoidlight mixing uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the approach from intensity modulation to quantity proportioning. By keeping colored LEDs at 10-30% of total count with uniform spatial distribution, the system achieves homogeneous light mixing without the need for complex intensity control, as the lower intensity contribution from the minority colored LEDs naturally mixes more uniformly with white light.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If LED quantity is increased to improve light mixing, then light mixing improves, but structural height increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelight mixing uniformityVSAvoidstructural height
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLength of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the mixing strategy from increasing total LED quantity to optimizing the colored LED proportion. By setting colored LEDs to 10-30% of total count and distributing them uniformly, adequate light mixing is achieved with fewer total LEDs, thereby reducing the required structural height while maintaining mixing uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

4Length of stationary object

If more white LEDs are used to reduce structural height, then structural height reduces, but color rendering index deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural heightVSAvoidcolor rendering index
Core Design Contradiction:
Length of stationary objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the composition parameter from white LED dominance to a specific white-to-colored LED ratio. By ensuring colored LEDs constitute 10-30% of the total, the system achieves Ra≥80 color rendering while keeping the overall LED array compact, as this proportion provides sufficient colored light contribution without requiring excessive total LED quantity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This design achieves a high color rendering index with simplified control and a reduced overall height by ensuring effective mixing of white and colored light within a small space.

Implementation Method 1

an optical element which is arranged so as to encompass the second LEDs in such a way that it optically influences a light emitted by the second LEDs

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight mixing:

Data Source

PatentEP2428723B1LED light for creating white light
Publication Date: 2015.01.28 ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING GMBH
  • EP2428723B1 patent drawingFigure 1~3

AI summary

An LED light for generating white light has first LEDs (2) that can emit white light and second LEDs (4) that can emit colored light, wherein the first LEDs (2) and the second LEDs (4) form a light source of the LED light and the number of first LEDs (2) is greater than the number of second LEDs (4).