Lighting Device Optical Member for Line-Shaped Beams

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional LED lighting devices are mechanically complex, limiting design freedom and making them difficult to install and maintain, as they require intricate configurations to achieve desired shapes and colors for expressing atmospheres or optical images.

Innovation Solution

A lighting device comprising an optical member with a base substrate and three-dimensional effect forming portions on both surfaces, utilizing multiple main patterns and optical patterns to refract and reflect light, creating line-shaped beams with three-dimensional effects through controlled refraction and reflection, allowing for simpler design and easier installation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional LED lighting devices use color filters or filters with light permeable holes to express desired shapes and colors, then the atmosphere expression capability is improved, but the device complexity increases and design freedom is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveatmosphere expression capabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces mechanical filter systems with an optical member that uses refraction and reflection to achieve the same atmosphere expression effect. The optical member with specific refractive index and patterned surface replaces the need for physical color filters and light permeable hole filters, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the optical parameters of the base substrate by controlling its refractive index within a specific range (1.3 to 1.8) and designing specific surface patterns. This parameter optimization allows the optical member to directly generate desired light shapes and colors without additional mechanical filters, resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If conventional LED lighting devices use intricate configurations to achieve desired shapes and colors, then the optical image quality is improved, but the ease of manufacture and installation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoptical image qualityVSAvoidease of manufacture
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the functions of light shaping, color filtering, and atmosphere expression into a single integrated optical member. This consolidation eliminates the need for multiple separate components and intricate configurations, thereby improving ease of manufacture while maintaining high optical image quality through the optimized refractive index and surface patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The optical member is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it shapes light into desired patterns, filters colors through its material properties, and creates atmospheric effects through refraction and reflection. This multi-functionality in a single component simplifies manufacturing while achieving superior optical image quality.

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

3Measurement precision

If conventional LED lighting devices use multiple components to achieve desired light shapes, then the light control precision is improved, but the ease of operation and maintenance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelight control precisionVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and eliminates unnecessary intermediate components from the lighting system, retaining only the essential optical member that directly achieves light control. This extraction maintains precise light control capability while significantly improving ease of operation and maintenance by reducing the number of components that require handling and servicing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

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 enables the generation of multiple line-shaped beams with three-dimensional effects, enhancing design flexibility and ease of installation and maintenance by using a simpler structure that effectively controls light paths and brightness, creating desired optical images.

Implementation Method 1

utilizing multiple main patterns and optical patterns to refract and reflect light, creating line-shaped beams with three-dimensional effects through controlled refraction and reflection

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectRefraction: Refraction

Implementation Method 2

utilizing multiple main patterns and optical patterns to refract and reflect light, creating line-shaped beams with three-dimensional effects through controlled refraction and reflection

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectReflection: Reflection

Data Source

PatentEP2889532B1A lighting device for generating multiple line-shaped beams
Publication Date: 2019.06.26 LG INNOTEK CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided are an optical member (100) capable of implementing optical images having desired shapes through a pattern design, and a lighting device using the same, the optical member (100) including: a three-dimensional effect forming portion (11) provided on a first surface of a base substrate (10); and a multiple effect forming portion (12) disposed in a lamination form with the three-dimensional effect forming portion, wherein the three-dimensional effect forming portion (11) has multiple main patterns (111) sequentially arranged in a first direction on the first surface and having respective inclined surfaces with an inclination angle with respect to the first surface, wherein the multiple main patterns implement a line shaped beam of a first path by guiding a first incident beam into a first surface direction through refraction or reflection from the inclined surfaces, wherein optical patterns (121) of the multiple effect forming portion (12) are sequentially arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction and has multiple optical patterns.