Light Emitting Device Package With Segmented Cavities

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing light emitting device packages lack effective individual protection and variability detection, which can lead to reliability issues and interference during electrical testing.

Innovation Solution

A light emitting device package design featuring multiple light emitting devices disposed in parallel cavities with protective devices, allowing for independent detection and protection of each device, and reinforced structures for enhanced reliability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple light emitting devices are disposed in parallel cavities with individual protective devices, then reliability and individual variability detection are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovereliabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the light emitting device package into multiple independent cavities (first cavity, second cavity, etc.), each containing a separate light emitting device and protective device. This segmentation allows individual testing and protection of each device, improving reliability through isolated fault detection while maintaining manageable complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces lead frames as intermediary structures that provide both mechanical support for the light emitting devices and electrical connection pathways. The lead frames enable individual electrical testing of each device through dedicated test electrodes, facilitating variability detection without requiring complex external testing infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If protective devices are added to individually protect light emitting devices, then reliability improves, but manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovereliabilityVSAvoidease of manufacture
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple functions into the lead frame structure: mechanical support, electrical connection, and test electrode provision. By merging these functions into a single integrated component, the patent simplifies the manufacturing process while still providing individual protective devices for each light emitting device, thereby improving reliability without proportionally increasing manufacturing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Measurement precision

If light emitting devices are disposed in separate cavities for individual detection, then measurement precision improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemeasurement precisionVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the package into distinct cavities with dedicated test electrodes for each light emitting device. This segmentation enables precise individual measurement of electrical characteristics (forward voltage, light output) without interference from adjacent devices, improving measurement precision while keeping the overall structure organized and manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The lead frame serves multiple functions: structural support, electrical connection, and measurement facilitation. By making the lead frame multi-functional, the patent achieves precise individual device detection without adding separate complex measurement infrastructure, thereby improving measurement precision while controlling device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3309835B1Light emitting device package
Publication Date: 2021.07.14 SUZHOU LEKIN SEMICON CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed are a light emitting device package and a light unit including the same. The light emitting device package includes a body; a first lead frame having a first cavity in a first region of the body; a second lead frame having a second cavity in a second region of the body; a first bonding part protruding into a region between a first lateral side of the body and the first cavity from the first lead frame; a second bonding part protruding into a region between a second lateral side of the body, which is opposite to the first lateral side of the body, and the second cavity from the second lead frame; a first light emitting device in the first cavity; a second light emitting device in the second cavity; a third lead frame separated from the first and second lead frames and disposed between the first lateral side of the body and the first cavity; a fourth lead frame separated from the first and second lead frames and disposed between the second lateral side of the body and the second cavity; a first protective device on one of the third lead frame and the first bonding part; and a second protective device on one of the fourth lead frame and the second bonding part.