Light Source Module Optimizing Skin Tone via Spectral Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current illuminating devices fail to effectively improve the impression of skin color in various lighting environments, which affects personal appearance and social attraction.

Innovation Solution

A light source module that adjusts the peak wavelength, peak intensity, and chromaticity coordinates of blue, red, and yellow-green light to optimize skin color perception, using a combination of light-emitting units and phosphors to emit irradiation light within specific ranges, ensuring improved skin color impression.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If conventional illuminating devices are used, then general lighting function is provided, but the impression of skin color cannot be improved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveskin color impressionVSAvoidlight source structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The light source module is segmented into three independent light-emitting units, each responsible for a specific wavelength range (blue light 440-460nm, red light 610-650nm, yellow-green light 515-540nm). This segmentation allows precise control over the spectral composition to optimize skin color impression while maintaining manageable device complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Each light-emitting unit is designed with specific local quality characteristics - different peak wavelengths and chromaticity coordinates tailored to their respective color ranges. The blue light unit uses specific phosphors (first phosphor with 470-490nm peak, second phosphor with 520-540nm peak) to achieve precise spectral distribution, while red and yellow-green units have their own optimized phosphor combinations, allowing each region of the spectrum to contribute optimally to skin color enhancement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Manufacturing precision

If the spectral distribution is precisely controlled to improve skin color impression, then lighting complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepeak wavelength controlVSAvoidlight source module structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent precisely controls key spectral parameters including peak wavelengths (blue: 440-460nm, red: 610-650nm, yellow-green: 515-540nm), chromaticity coordinates (x and y values within specific ranges), and intensity ratios (red light intensity 30-70% of blue, yellow-green light intensity 30-70% of blue). By defining specific parameter ranges rather than exact values, the design achieves manufacturing precision while allowing flexibility in implementation, balancing precision requirements with practical device complexity.

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

The solution significantly enhances the whiteness, ruddiness, health, and naturalness of skin appearance by adjusting the spectral distribution of light, providing a more realistic and aesthetically pleasing skin tone.

Implementation Method 1

a blue light generating portion, a red light generating portion and a yellow-green light generating portion

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhosphorescence: Phosphorescence

Implementation Method 2

each comprising a light-emitting unit and a phosphor

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight emission: Luminescence

Data Source

PatentEP3412961B1Light source module and illumination device
Publication Date: 2023.08.30 OPPLE LIGHTING CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention discloses a light source module and an illuminating device using the same, including adjusting the peak wavelength, the peak intensity and the chromaticity coordinate of the blue light, the red light and the yellow-green light in the irradiation light emitted by the light source module to be within the preset ranges, respectively, so as to achieve improving the impression of skin color of a person's skin by the irradiation light emitted by the light source module.