Light-emitting module having array of light sources, some aligned and others offset with array of lense structures
AssigneeNichia Corporation
InventorDaisuke Kasai
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Abstract
A light-emitting module includes a light-transmitting plate member having a first main surface and an opposite second main surface light-transmitting plate member including a plurality of light sources provided on the first surface; and a plurality of lens structures provided in the second surface and corresponding to each of the light sources, such that an optical axis of some of the lens structures coincident with the optical axis of a corresponding one of the light sources, and, an optical axis of some of the lens structures is offset from an optical axis of a corresponding one of the light sources.
Claims20
A light-emitting module comprising:
- a light-transmitting plate member having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, the light-transmitting plate member including a plurality of unit regions arrayed one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally, the plurality of unit regions including at least one first unit region and a plurality of second unit regions;
- a plurality of lens structures provided in the second main surface of the light-transmitting plate member, each of the plurality of lens structures corresponding to respective one of the plurality of unit regions each of the plurality of lens structures including a first recess proximate the first main surface of the light-transmitting plate member and a second recess proximate the second main surface of the light-transmitting plate member;
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- a plurality of light sources provided at the first main surface of the light-transmitting plate member, each of the light sources corresponding to respective one of the plurality of unit regions and respective one of the first recesses,
- wherein in the plurality of second unit regions, an optical axis of the lens structure and an optical axis of the light source are coincident with each other in a plan view, and
- in the at least one first unit region, an optical axis of the lens structure is offset from an optical axis of the light source in the plan view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.