EP3376096A1 - Leuchtvorrichtung, insbesondere zur beleuchtung und/oder signalisierung für kraftfahrzeug - Google Patents

Leuchtvorrichtung, insbesondere zur beleuchtung und/oder signalisierung für kraftfahrzeug Download PDF

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EP3376096A1
EP3376096A1 EP18161327.4A EP18161327A EP3376096A1 EP 3376096 A1 EP3376096 A1 EP 3376096A1 EP 18161327 A EP18161327 A EP 18161327A EP 3376096 A1 EP3376096 A1 EP 3376096A1
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  • the invention relates to the field of lighting and / or signaling, especially for motor vehicles. It relates more particularly to a light device comprising a light source, a reflector and a radiation shaping optics thus emitted and deflected, arranged with respect to each other for the formation of a light beam in accordance with the regulations.
  • divergent lens is thus associated with light modules in which one dispenses with an element commonly used elsewhere, namely a cache, or folder, which can allow the creation of a cut-off beam whose edge corresponds to the shape of an edge of said cache.
  • a cache or folder
  • the lens is associated with existing sources of the filament, Xenon or Led type, the shape and size of the source, generally square or rectangular, are affected so that only a flat-cut beam can be obtained.
  • the present invention is in this context of seeking a particularly compact light device and can generate a cut-off beam. It aims to provide a light device of simple design, limiting the number of components inside the device.
  • the invention proposes in this context a light device, in particular lighting and / or signaling for a motor vehicle, comprising a light source controlled to achieve the emission of light rays, and a collecting optics, disposed opposite the light source to deflect the emitted light rays, and a Optical ray shaping for the emission of a light beam outside the device.
  • a reflector or a lens By collecting optics, is meant in particular a reflector or a lens, the reflector having the advantage of being able to reduce the axial size.
  • the collecting optics may consist of a reflector of elliptical or pseudo-elliptical shape, the inner face of which forms a reflection face of the light rays emitted turned towards the first face of the substrate of the light source.
  • the light device as just described may in particular be used for lighting a motor vehicle by a beam likely to take the form of a cut-off beam, the collecting optics and the diverging lens being configured to form the beam, whether or not after refraction by the lens of the rays emitted by the source and deflected by the collecting optics.
  • the light device thus makes it possible to perform lighting and / or signaling functions such as dipped beam, fog lamp, and / or "turn-around".
  • the cut-off edge of the cut-off beam can be generated by light rays emitted from an edge of the light-emitting element light source; and this cut-off edge of the cut-off beam can be generated by light rays emitted from an edge of the light-emitting light source configured to emit high-luminance rays.
  • high luminance means rays whose luminance is stronger than the luminance of the rays of a neighboring zone.
  • a light device 1 especially for the lighting and / or signaling of a motor vehicle, comprises a light source 2, in particular housed in a housing closed by an ice and which defines an internal receiving volume 3, schematized on the figure 1 , from this source of light.
  • the light device further comprises a collecting optic 4 forming a deflecting element of the light rays emitted by the light source 2 and a shaping optics 6.
  • the device is configured so that the shaping optics 6 is adapted to infinitely image the light source by deflecting at least a portion of the light rays emitted by this light source.
  • the light source 2 is disposed on a frame 7, forming heat exchange means emitted by the light source.
  • the collecting optic 4 here taking the form of an elliptical reflector, is also arranged on the frame 7, covering the light source.
  • the frame 7 also supports power supply means of the source, not shown here, for the supply and activation of the electroluminescent elements of the light source.
  • the shaping optics 6 is centered on an optical axis 60 of the light device according to the invention, on which the light source is furthermore arranged.
  • the light source 2 is centered transversely on the optical axis 60 (as visible on the figure 2 and it is arranged vertically so that the optical axis passes height of the emissive elements making up this source of light. It is understood that in an alternative embodiment, the source can be entirely disposed on one side of this optical axis.
  • the light source 2 is oriented so that the rays it emits are directed mainly towards the deflection element 4 of the rays, a hideaway not shown here being able to be arranged in the vicinity of the light source to block rays that would leave to the formatting optics without first contacting the element deviation.
  • a cache would in practice be substantially vertical and disposed near the source, between the source and the shaping optics.
  • the light source 2 comprises according to the invention a plurality of electroluminescent elements 8 of submillimetric dimensions, which are arranged projecting from a substrate 10 so as to form here hexagonal rods.
  • the electroluminescent elements extend perpendicularly to the substrate and perpendicular to the optical axis of the device, towards the deflection element 4 of the spokes.
  • the optical axis is located at mid-height of the average height of the electroluminescent elements equipping this light source 2.
  • the source under the axis which would then pass in the vicinity of the upper emitting surface formed in the vicinity of the free end of the electroluminescent elements, where appropriate in the vicinity of an upper surface of a light-emitting material. wavelength conversion.
  • electroluminescent elements 8 may be grouped, in particular by electrical connections specific to each set, into a plurality of zones.
  • an electrical connection rods as are formed three sets of sticks, among which at least a first set 81, a second set 82 and a third set 83 which will be described in more detail below.
  • the frame 7 acts as a support element for the light source 2 and that of a cooling device associated with the light source, the light source with electroluminescent elements being bonded here. on this cooling device.
  • the light source can be soldered to a printed circuit board, itself assembled to the radiator frame, optionally by a good heat conducting adhesive.
  • the radiating deflection element 4 has, in the illustrated example, the shape of an elliptical reflector, or at least an elliptically-shaped reflector, that is to say having two optical focal points such as the rays passing through the first focus before their deflection by the reflector pass through the second focus after their deviation.
  • first focus F1 it is possible to mean a plurality of first foci, and in an optimized solution a line of first foci corresponding to an edge of the source, and that by second foci F2, if appropriate, means a curved flat line as depicted on the figure 2 .
  • the light source 2 is disposed on the first focus F1 of the reflector, while the shaping optics 6 is arranged according to the position of the second focus F2 of the reflector as will be described hereinafter in more detail. It is understood that the inner face of the reflector forms a reflection face of the light rays emitted facing the first face of the substrate of the projecting light source of which are arranged the electroluminescent rods.
  • the shaping optics 6 takes the form of a divergent lens, as schematically illustrated on the figure 1 .
  • the divergent lens is arranged on the optical axis 60 of the light device so that its object focus F is common to the second focus F2 of the reflector.
  • the interest of such arrangements will be described below, in particular by referring to the paths of the light rays illustrated in FIGS. Figures 1 and 2 .
  • the components of the light device that are the source, the reflector and the diverging lens are arranged relative to this optical axis 60 of the light device, so that the light source is arranged at least partly on this axis, that the reflector has foci positioned on this axis and that the diverging lens is centered on this axis.
  • a semiconductor light source 2 comprising submillimetric electroluminescent elements, in the form of rods, will first be described, in particular with reference to FIG. figure 3 .
  • the light source 1 comprises a plurality of electroluminescent rods 8 which originate on a first face of a substrate 10.
  • Each electroluminescent rod here formed by the use of gallium nitride (GaN), extends perpendicularly, or substantially perpendicularly, protruding from the substrate, here made of silicon, other materials such as silicon carbide can be used without departing from the context of the invention.
  • the electroluminescent rods could be made from an alloy of aluminum nitride and gallium nitride (AlGaN), or from an alloy of aluminum phosphides, indium and gallium (AllnGaP).
  • the substrate 10 has a lower face 12, on which is reported a first electrode 14, and an upper face 16, projecting from which extend the electroluminescent rods 8, acting as the first face of the previously mentioned substrate, and on which is reported a second electrode 18.
  • Different layers of materials are superimposed on the upper face 16, especially after the growth of electroluminescent rods from the substrate here obtained by a upward approach.
  • This layer is etched so as to connect a particular rod between them, the ignition of these electroluminescent rods can then be controlled simultaneously by a control module not shown here. It can be provided that at least two electroluminescent rods or at least two groups of electroluminescent rods are arranged to be lit separately by means of an ignition control system.
  • the electroluminescent rods stretch from the substrate and, as visible on the figure 3 they each comprise a gallium nitride core 19, around which are disposed quantum wells 20 formed by a radial superposition of layers of different materials, here gallium nitride and gallium-indium nitride, and a shell 21 surrounding the quantum wells also made of gallium nitride.
  • Each electroluminescent rod extends along an axis of elongation 22 defining its height, the base of each rod being disposed in a plane 24 of the upper face 16 of the substrate 10.
  • the electroluminescent rods 8 of the same light source advantageously have the same shape. They are each delimited by an end face 26 and a circumferential wall 28 which extends along the axis of elongation of the stick.
  • the electroluminescent rods are doped and polarized, the resultant light output from the semiconductor source is emitted essentially from the circumferential wall 28, it being understood that light rays may also emerge from the 26.
  • each electroluminescent rod acts as a single light-emitting diode and the luminance of this source is improved on the one hand by the density of the electroluminescent rods 8 present and on the other by the size of the illuminating surface. defined by the circumferential wall and which extends therefore all around the perimeter, and the whole height, of the stick.
  • This circumferential wall 28 extends along the axis of elongation 22 from the substrate 10 to the end face 26, the distance from the end face 26 to the upper face 16 of the substrate, from which the rods originate electroluminescent 8, defining the height of each stick.
  • the height of a light-emitting rod 8 is between 1 and 10 micrometers, while it is expected that the largest transverse dimension of the end face, perpendicular to the axis of elongation 22 of the rod concerned, less than 2 micrometers. It will also be possible to define the surface of a rod, in a sectional plane perpendicular to this axis of elongation 22, in a range of determined values, and in particular between 1.96 and 4 microns square.
  • a group of electroluminescent rods may have a height, or heights, different from another group of electroluminescent rods, these two groups constituting the same semiconductor light source comprising electroluminescent rods of submillimeter dimensions.
  • the electroluminescent rods 8 of two rows have an average height greater than the average height of the other rods. It will be described hereinafter how these rods, here two rows, form a first set advantageously disposed in the vicinity of an edge of the light source arranged at the first focus F1 of the reflector.
  • the shape of the electroluminescent rods 8 may also vary from one device to another, in particular on the section of the rods and on the shape of the end face 26.
  • the rods have a generally cylindrical shape, and they may in particular, such as illustrated on the figure 3 , have a shape of polygonal section, and more particularly hexagonal. It is understood that it is important that light can be emitted through the circumferential wall, that it has a polygonal or circular shape.
  • end face 26 may have a substantially planar shape and perpendicular to the circumferential wall, so that it extends substantially parallel to the upper face 16 of the substrate 10, as illustrated in FIG. figure 3 or it may have a domed or pointed shape at its center, so as to multiply the directions of emission of light exiting this end face.
  • the semiconductor light source 2 may further comprise a layer of a polymer material in which the electroluminescent rods are at least partially embedded.
  • the polymeric material which may in particular be based on silicone, creates a protective layer that protects the electroluminescent rods without impeding the scattering of light rays.
  • wavelength converting means capable of absorbing at least a portion of the rays emitted by one of the rods and to be converted at least a portion of said excitation light absorbed into an emission light having a wavelength different from that of the excitation light. It can be provided without distinction whether the wavelength conversion means are embedded in the mass of the polymer material, or that they are arranged on the surface of the layer of this polymeric material.
  • the light source may further comprise a light reflective material coating which is disposed between the electroluminescent rods 8 to deflect the rays, initially oriented towards the substrate, towards the end face 26 of the electroluminescent rods 8.
  • the upper face 16 of the substrate 10 may comprise a reflecting means which reflects the light rays, initially oriented towards the upper face 16, towards the output face of the light source. This recovers rays that otherwise would be lost.
  • This coating is disposed between the electroluminescent rods 8 on the transparent conductive oxide layer 29.
  • the electroluminescent rods 8 are arranged in two-dimensional matrix. This arrangement could be such that the rods are arranged in staggered rows. In general, the rods are arranged at regular intervals on the substrate 10 and the separation distance of two immediately adjacent electroluminescent rods, in each of the dimensions of the matrix, must be at least equal to 2 micrometers, so that the light emitted by the circumferential wall 28 of each stick 8 can exit the matrix of electroluminescent rods. Moreover, it is expected that these distances separation, measured between two axes of elongation 22 of adjacent rods, are not greater than 100 micrometers.
  • Electroluminescent rods of submillimetric dimensions define in a plane, substantially parallel to the substrate, a given emission surface, which has a substantially rectangular shape with a specified length and width.
  • the terms length and width are used to define the main dimensions of the emission surface formed by the rods in the plane parallel to the substrate.
  • the light source is arranged so that on the one hand the width, or small side, of the rectangular emission surface is parallel to the optical axis and that on the other hand a length, or large side, is centered on this optical axis, it being understood that one could have an eccentric arrangement.
  • the light source in the transverse direction perpendicular to the optical axis in the plane of the substrate, the light source, or at least the emission surface defined by the electroluminescent elements, is arranged symmetrically on the axis. optical.
  • the arrangement of the light source longitudinally, i.e., along the optical axis, will be described below. It is understood from the foregoing, and as illustrated in the figure 2 that the main dimension of the light source, or at least the emission surface defined by the electroluminescent elements, extends transversely, i.e. perpendicularly, to the optical axis.
  • the light source 2 has electroluminescent rods arranged in three selectively activatable assemblies which each have a strip shape, these strips being stacked along the 60.
  • These bands respectively forming the first set 81, the second set 82 and the third set 83, are separated from their immediate neighbor by a demarcation line, as is visible in particular on the figure 2 .
  • This line of demarcation between two successive sets here follows the shape of a right-hand portion, and it will be understood that it could be obtained indifferently by the physical realization of a wall projecting from the substrate, or only achieved by the separate electrical connection of the rod sets.
  • rods respectively associated with one or the other of the two sets on either side of the demarcation line, are electrically connected so that the sets are selectively activatable.
  • the first set 81 has rods whose average height is greater than the average height of the rods of the second set 82 and greater than that of the rods of the third set 83.
  • the light source 1 is arranged so that is the first set 81 which is disposed on the first focus of the deflection element 4 of the rays.
  • the sets of rods arranged further away from this first focus have an average stick height substantially equal to each other, but less than that of the first set 81, which thus generates a greater luminance than the other sets of sticks. This results in a light source that has variable luminance along the direction of the optical axis.
  • each of the electroluminescent elements so that the first set 81 of rods has a higher luminance of 3 to 4 times the average luminance of the other sets of rods.
  • pilot elements associated with the light source 2 are configured to control the activation of the first set 81 distinctly from that of the second 82 and / or third 83 together.
  • the elliptical reflector has a first focus on which is positioned the light source, and more particularly the longitudinal end edge corresponding to the first set of rods, and a second focus coincides with the object focus of the diverging lens.
  • This matching point of the second focus of the reflector and the focus of the diverging lens is located on the other side of the diverging lens with respect to the light source and the reflector.
  • the diverging lens is positioned between the first and second focus of the reflector.
  • First rays (represented on the figure 1 by single-arrow lines) are emitted from the first set 81 of rods 8, that is to say from the zone of the light source substantially located on the first focus of the reflector. This results in a deviation of the rays emitted towards the second focus of the reflector, the latter being elliptical or at least configured so as to respect this principle of elliptical reflection with a double focus. These rays, before reaching the second focus of the reflector, arrive on the diverging lens.
  • Second rays (represented on the figure 1 by double-headed lines) are emitted from the second or third set of rods 8, corresponding to an area of the light source located downstream of the first focus of the reflector, ie located between the first focus and the second focus of the reflector. This results in deviated rays which would be caused to cut the optical axis upstream of the second focal point of the reflector, in the absence of a lens, as also illustrated on FIG. figure 2 . These rays, before reaching this theoretical point of focus, arrive on the divergent lens.
  • the reflector is adapted to project the image of the very bright part of the source opposite the divergent lens, in the vicinity of the object focus of the diverging lens, so that the corresponding rays emerge parallel to the optical axis by forming the cutoff of the beam emitted at the output of the diverging lens.
  • the highest luminance is obtained by a greater mean height of the rods 8 of this first set 81, but it will be understood that that this high luminance could be obtained differently, by a greater density of rods for example.
  • an area of high luminance is arranged on the rear longitudinal end edge 80 of the light source 2, that is to say the edge of the light source opposite to the diverging lens. As has been previously stated, this edge having an area of high luminance is disposed on the first focus of the elliptical or pseudo-elliptical reflector.
  • the first set 81 of rods of high luminance and disposed in the direct vicinity of the rear longitudinal end edge 80, generates a first part 101 of the projected beam, more intense, and successively, each set of rods, the luminance decreases in s away from the first set 81 of rods, generates a portion of less and less intense beam, and intersecting the optical axis upstream of the second focus theoretical F2, so that they are caused to be projected under the horizon, closer and closer to the vehicle, when corrected by the shaping optics 6 and in particular the diverging lens.
  • driving elements associated with the light source control the selective activation of the electroluminescent rods present in each of the rod sets.
  • the driving of these assemblies can be selective in that the power intensity of each of the sets of rods varies according to their distance from the longitudinal end edge 80 of the light source 2.
  • a fire-type beam is formed here. crossing, with a cutting edge, it being understood that other types of beam could be made, in particular by modifying the position of the light source with respect to the first focus of the reflector.
  • the present invention is particularly applicable to a front projector of a motor vehicle, and it integrates in particular in a vehicle front face.
  • the embodiments apply to light sources comprising both electroluminescent rods respectively projecting from the same substrate, as described above, with emitting blocks obtained by cutting electroluminescent layers. superimposed on the same substrate, these blocks replacing the rods.
  • the structure of the light device which has just been described by way of non-limiting example, since it uses at least one light source comprising a plurality of light sources.
  • electroluminescent elements for example an elliptical or pseudo-elliptical reflector, and a diverging lens.
  • the invention can not be limited to the embodiment specifically described in this document, and extends in particular to all equivalent means and any technically operating combination of these means.

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