Light-emitting unit and manufacturing method of light-emitting unit
AssigneeNichia Corporation
InventorKeiichi Maki
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Abstract
A light transmissive first insulating film having light transmissive property to visible light, a second insulating film arranged opposite to the first insulating film, a plurality of conductor patterns formed of, for example, mesh patterns having the light transmissive property to the visible light and formed on a surface of at least one of the first insulating film and the second insulating film, a plurality of first light-emitting devices connected to any two conductor patterns of the plurality of conductor patterns, and a resin layer arranged between the first insulating film and the second insulating film to hold the first light-emitting devices are included.
Claims8
A flexible light emitting unit emitting light from an upper side and a lower side of the flexible light emitting unit comprising:
- a first light transmissive substrate that comprises a first light transmissive insulator and a conductive pattern on the first light transmissive insulator, the conductive pattern comprising a first mesh pattern and a second mesh pattern, the first mesh pattern and the second mesh pattern are separated, the first mesh pattern has a first pad and the second mesh pattern has a second pad;
- a second light transmissive substrate that comprises a second light transmissive insulator, the second light transmissive substrate arranged opposite to the first light transmissive substrate;
- a light emitting diode, having a first electrode connected to the first pad of the first mesh pattern and a second electrode connected to the second pad of the second mesh pattern, the light emitting diode between the first light transmissive substrate and the second light transmissive substrate;
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- a third light transmissive insulator in a space between the first light transmissive substrate and the second light transmissive substrate,
- wherein:
- the first mesh pattern includes a plurality of first lines extending in a first direction, and the second mesh pattern includes a plurality of second lines,
- a first line of the plurality of first lines has a first portion which forms the first pad and a second line of the plurality of second lines has a second portion which forms the second pad,
- the first pad is located between a pair of first lines of the plurality of first lines in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction,
- each first line of the plurality of first lines has a first line width and each second line of the plurality of second lines has a second line width,
- a width of the first bond pad is larger than the first line width and a width of the second bond pad is larger than the second line width, and
- the first electrode and the second electrode are arranged side by side in the first direction.
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