EP2587137B1 - Illumination device and illumination fixture - Google Patents

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EP2587137B1
EP2587137B1 EP12187246.9A EP12187246A EP2587137B1 EP 2587137 B1 EP2587137 B1 EP 2587137B1 EP 12187246 A EP12187246 A EP 12187246A EP 2587137 B1 EP2587137 B1 EP 2587137B1
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Hiroyuki Matsumoto
Atsushi Otsubo
Koji Uenoyama
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V23/00—Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices
    • F21V23/06—Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices the elements being coupling devices, e.g. connectors
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED
    • F21Y2115/00—Light-generating elements of semiconductor light sources
    • F21Y2115/10—Light-emitting diodes [LED]

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  • the present invention relates to an illumination device using an LED light source and an illumination fixture using the illumination device.
  • An illumination device using an LED light source has been conventionally known (refer to, for example, Pages 10, 11 "LED All ROUND IN HOUSE, V01.2" issued in June, 2011, and edited by Fixture Division of Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporati on).
  • An illumination fixture described in Non-Patent Document 1 is a round ceiling light, and includes one power source block that converts commercial power into a DC output and four LED units as illumination devices in which an LED is mounted on a printed circuit substrate.
  • the LED units are fan-shaped and the four LED units are combined with one another to form a circle as a whole.
  • the LED units include two types of LED units.
  • a first type of LED unit is an LED unit provided with a connector for connecting the LED as a light source to the adjacent LED unit.
  • a second type of LED unit is an LED unit provided with a connector for receiving power from the power source block in the first LED unit.
  • Each illumination fixture includes the three first type of LED units and the one second type of LED unit.
  • CA 2 633 054 A1 shows an illumination device comprising:
  • EP 2 209 165 A1 shows an electrical and mechanical connection between two substrates.
  • Each substrate contains a number of electrical pads at adjacent ends.
  • a connector surrounds both adjacent ends of the substrates and contains a number of spring connectors that corresponds to the number of pads.
  • Each spring connector connects one pad of one substrate with an adjacent pad of the other substate.
  • the contour of the end of one substrate can be formed as protrusion or and the contour of the end of the other substrate can be formed as corresponding recess.
  • the above-mentioned conventional illumination fixture adopts the two types of LED units, and the LED units need to be separately manufactured according to the type. Further, plural product numbers are managed, disadvantageously leading to an increase in manufacturing and management costs.
  • the present invention is made to solve the conventional problems, and its object is to reduce manufacturing and management costs of an illumination device including an LED light source to provide inexpensive illumination device and illumination fixture.
  • An illumination device includes at least one LED light source, a first terminal part electrically connected to an anode side of the LED light source, a second terminal part electrically connected to an cathode side of the LED light source, and an LED substrate on which the LED light source, the first terminal part, and the second terminal part are mounted, the first terminal part and the second terminal part adopts the same connector, and a pin number of the connector connected to the anode side of the LED light source is different from a pin number of the connector connected to the cathode side of the LED light source.
  • the first terminal part is different from the second terminal part in external appearance color.
  • the two or more LED light sources are provided.
  • the illumination device of the present invention two or more types of the LED light sources are provided.
  • the illumination fixture of the present invention uses the above-mentioned illumination device.
  • the present invention since the first terminal part electrically connected to the anode side of the LED light source is different from the second terminal part electrically connected to the cathode side of the LED light source, wrong connection at assembling can be prevented. As a result, it is possible to provide the illumination device and the illumination fixture, in which the type of the illumination device can be made uniform, thereby reducing manufacturing and management costs.
  • upper upward, upper side, and the like
  • lower means the side of a floor surface
  • an illumination fixture 10 As shown in Fig. 1 , an illumination fixture 10 according to the first embodiment of the present invention is suited to be attached to a ceiling surface 11 and the like as the attached surface to mainly illuminate downward.
  • the illumination fixture 10 has, for example, a round fixture body 20 to be attached to the ceiling surface 11.
  • a hook ceiling 12 is attached to the ceiling surface 11, and the fixture body 20 has a power feeding part 21 to be attached to the hook ceiling 12 at its center.
  • a power source part 22 connected to the power feeding part 21 is provide on an upper surface (that is, on the side of the ceiling surface 11) of the fixture body 20. Accordingly, the power feeding part 21 receives electric power (AC) from a commercial power source and feeds the power to the power source part 22, and the power source part 22 converts the AC power into a DC output and feeds the DC output to LED units 30.
  • AC electric power
  • the four LED units 30 as fan-like illumination devices are arranged on the underside (that is, on the side of an illuminating direction) of the fixture body 20 to form a circle.
  • a translucent lens 23 for effectively extracting light from LED light sources 31 (refer to Fig. 3 ) mounted on the each LED unit 30 are attached in front of (that is, in Fig. 2 , below) the LED unit 30.
  • a cover 24 for diffusing received light is attached in front of the lens 23.
  • the LED unit 30 has two or more types of the LED light sources 31.
  • white LED light sources 311 and warm white LED light sources 312 are used.
  • the white LED light sources 311 and the warm white LED light sources 312 may be collectively referred to as "LED light sources 31".
  • Fig. 3 is a circuit diagram of each of the LED units 30.
  • four sets of the six serially-connected LED light sources 31 are connected to one another in parallel.
  • An anode side of the LED light sources 31 (left side in Fig. 3 ) is connected to an anode-side connector 321 as a first terminal part.
  • a cathode side (right side in Fig. 3 ) is connected to a cathode-side connector 322 as a second terminal part.
  • the white LED light sources 311 are connected to the warm white LED light sources 312 by means of another circuit.
  • the anode-side connector 321 and the cathode-side connector 322 are different from each other in external appearance.
  • the anode-side connector 321 is a 4-pin connector, and a first pin is connected to the anode side of the warm white LED light sources 312. A fourth pin is connected to the anode side of the white LED light sources 311.
  • the cathode-side connector 322 is a 3-pin connector, and a third pin is connected to the cathode side of the warm white LED light sources 312, and a first pin is connected to the cathode side of the white LED light sources 311.
  • anode-side connector 321 and the cathode-side connector 322 have different external appearance color.
  • each of the LED units 30 includes the white LED light sources 311, the warm white LED light sources 312, the anode-side connector 321, and the cathode-side connector 322, all of which are mounted on a printed circuit substrate 33 as an LED substrate.
  • the printed circuit substrate 33 is made of, for example, resin or metal such as aluminum, is shaped like a fan, and has a thickness of about 1.0 mm.
  • the one LED unit 30 is described as a illumination device herein, the plurality of LED units 30 are combined to constitute one illumination device.
  • the white LED light sources 311 and the warm white LED light sources 312 are arranged in an inner row and an outer row along an arc of the printed circuit substrate 33 such that both the rows are substantially parallel to each other.
  • the 26 LED light sources 31 in the outer row and the 22 LED light sources 31 in the inner row, that is, the 48 LED light sources 31 in total are arranged.
  • the white LED light source 311 and the warm white LED light source 312 are alternately arranged.
  • the anode-side connector 321 and the cathode-side connector 322 are arranged at respective ends of the printed circuit substrate 33.
  • the length of an electric wire used for connection between the adjacent LED units 30 can be decreased.
  • Fig. 5 is a connection view in a case where the four LED units 30 are used in the illumination fixture 10 (refer to Fig. 1 ).
  • LED units 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D are connected to the power source part 22.
  • the power source part 22 has two lines of DC output.
  • One of the lines is an output from a first connector 221, which serves to light the white LED light sources 311 mounted in the LED unit 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D.
  • the other line is an output from a second connector 222, which serves to light the warm white LED light sources 312 mounted in the LED unit 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D.
  • a fourth pin of an anode-side connector 321A of the LED unit 30A is connected to an anode terminal 221A of the first connector 221 of the power source part 22.
  • a first pin of a cathode-side connector 322A of the LED unit 30A is connected to a fourth pin of a anode-side connector 321B of the LED unit 30B.
  • LED units 30B, 30C, 30D are connected.
  • the LED units 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D are connected with one another with use of a harness 34.
  • a first pin of a cathode-side connector 322D of the LED unit 30D is connected to a cathode terminal 221K of the first connector 221 of the power source part 22.
  • first anode terminal 222A of the second connector 222 of the power source part 22 is connected to a first pin of the anode-side connector 321A of the LED unit 30A.
  • a third pin of the cathode-side connector 322A of the LED unit 30A is connected to a first pin of the anode-side connector 321B of the LED unit 30B.
  • the LED unit 30B is connected to the LED unit 30C, and the LED unit 30C is connected to the LED unit 30D.
  • the LED units 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D are connected to one another with use of the harness 34.
  • a third pin of the cathode-side connector 322D of the LED unit 30D is connected to a cathode terminal 222K of the second connector 222 of the power source part 22.
  • the connectors 32 are not limited to these and may be other connectors that are different from each other in the number of pins.
  • Connectors that are same as each other in the number of pins but are different from each other in manufacturer or type can be adopted as the connectors 32.
  • the anode-side connector 321 and the cathode-side connector 322 that have different colors can be adopted as the connectors 32.
  • the anode-side connector 321 electrically connected to the anode side of the LED light sources 31 is different from the cathode-side connector 322 electrically connected to the cathode side of the LED light sources 31.
  • the color of the anode-side connector 321 electrically connected to the anode side of the LED light sources 31 is different from that of the cathode-side connector 322 as the second terminal part electrically connected to the cathode side of the LED light sources 31.
  • the type of the LED units 30 can be made uniform, thereby manufacturing and management costs can be reduced.
  • the illumination fixture 10B according to the second embodiment has the same configuration as the illumination fixture 10 described with reference to Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 .
  • an LED unit 40 is similar to the LED unit shown in the component arrangement view of Fig. 4 , connectors 41 are different from the connectors 32 in the first embodiment and thus, the connectors 41 will be mainly described.
  • the other configuration is the same as the configuration of the LED unit 30.
  • the same connectors 41 are used as an anode-side connector 411 and a cathode-side connector 412.
  • the anode-side connector 411 has four pins, and a first pin is connected to the anode side of the warm white LED light sources 312. A fourth pin is connected to the anode side of the white LED light sources 311.
  • the cathode-side connector 412 also has four pins, and a third pin is connected to the cathode side of the warm white LED light sources 312. A second pin is connected to the cathode side of the white LED light sources 311.
  • Fig. 7 is a connection view in a state where the four LED units 40 are used in the illumination fixture 10B (refer to Fig. 1 ).
  • the LED units 40A, 40B, 40C, 40D are connected to the power source part 22.
  • the power source part 22 has two lines of DC output.
  • One of the lines is an output from the first connector 221, which serves to light the white LED light sources 311 mounted in the LED units 40A, 40B, 40C, 40D.
  • the other line is an output from the second connector 222, which serves to light the warm white LED light sources 312 mounted in the LED units 40A, 40B, 40C, 40D.
  • a fourth pin of a anode-side connector 411A of the LED unit 40A is connected to the anode terminal 221A of the first connector 221 of the power source part 22.
  • a second pin of a cathode-side connector 412A of the LED unit 40A is connected to a fourth pin of a anode-side connector 411B of the LED unit 40B.
  • the anode-side connector 411 and the cathode-side connector 412 adopt the same connector 41, but use the pins of different numbers (positions).
  • LED units 40B, 40C, 40D are connected.
  • the LED units 40A, 40B, 40C, 40D are connected to one another with use of the harness 34.
  • a second pin of a cathode-side connector 412D of the LED unit 40D is connected to the cathode terminal 221K of the first connector 221 of the power source part 22.
  • a first pin of the anode-side connector 411A of the LED unit 40A is connected to the anode terminal 222A of the second connector 222 of the power source part 22.
  • a third pin of the cathode-side connector 412A of the LED unit 40A is connected to a first pin of the anode-side connector 411B of the LED unit 40B.
  • LED units 40B, 40C, 40D are connected.
  • the LED units 40A, 40B, 40C, 40D are connected to one another with use of the harness 34.
  • a third pin of the cathode-side connector 412D of the LED unit 40D is connected to the cathode terminal 222K of the second connector 222 of the power source part 22.
  • the same connectors are used as the anode-side connector 411 and the cathode-side connector 412. Since the anode-side connector 411 and the cathode-side connector 412 use the pins of different numbers, wrong connection at assembling can be prevented.
  • the type of the LED units 40 can be made uniform, thereby reducing manufacturing and management costs.
  • the LED units 30, 40 and the illumination fixtures 10, 10B of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and may be appropriately modified and improved.

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