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US 11,145,793 B2Granted
Light emitting diode with high melanopic spectral content
AssigneeLumileds LLC
InventorsWouter Soer, Gregory Tashjian
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Abstract
This specification discloses lighting device the includes a combination of a royal-blue and blue pump LEDs with a mixture of phosphors to provide light with a high melanopic content and maximize an m/p ratio while maintaining high color fidelity, and a tunable lighting system including the lighting device.
Claims19
A lighting device comprising:
- a light source, the light source including a royal-blue light source configured to emit a royal-blue light with a peak wavelength between 435-460 nm and a blue light source configured to emit light with a peak wavelength between 470-496 nm;
- a wavelength converting structure disposed in a path of the royal-blue light and the blue light, the wavelength converting structure including:
- a green phosphor, the green phosphor configured to absorb a first portion of at least one of the royal-blue light and the blue light, and to down-covert the first portion to green light;
- and
- a red phosphor configured to absorb at least one of a second portion of at least one of the royal-blue light and the blue light and a portion of the green light, and to down-convert the at least one of the second portion and the portion of the green light to red light;
- the wavelength converting structure configured to emit a second light, the second light including the green light, the red light, an unconverted portion of the royal-blue light, and an unconverted portion of the blue light the second light having a spectrum with a maximum spectral power density between 465 and 515 nm.
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A tunable lighting system comprising:
- a first lighting device configured to emit a first light, the first light having a first m/p ratio;
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- a second lighting device configured to emit a second light, the second light having a second m/p ratio that is smaller than the first m/p ratio, the tunable lighting system being configured to emit a third light, the third light including at least one of the first light, the second light, or a combination of the first light and the second light,
- the first lighting device comprising:
- a light source, the light source including a royal-blue light source configured to emit a royal-blue light with a peak wavelength between 435-460 nm and a blue light source configured to emit light with a peak wavelength between 470-496 nm;
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- a wavelength converting structure disposed in a path of the royal-blue light and the blue light, the wavelength converting structure including a mixture of a green phosphor and a red phosphor,
- the green phosphor configured to absorb a first portion of at least one of the royal-blue light and the blue light, and to down-covert the first portion to green light;
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- the red phosphor configured to absorb at least one of a second portion of at least one of the royal-blue light and the blue light and a portion of the green light, and to down-convert at least one of the second portion and the portion of green light to red light;
- the wavelength converting structure being configured to emit the first light, the first light including the green light, the red light, an unconverted portion of the royal-blue light, and an unconverted portion of the blue light.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.