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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
  • F21V3/00—Globes; Bowls; Cover glasses
  • F21V3/02—Globes; Bowls; Cover glasses characterised by the shape
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G02—OPTICS
  • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
  • G02B5/00—Optical elements other than lenses
  • G02B5/003—Light absorbing elements
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
  • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
  • B29C64/00—Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3D] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3D printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering
  • B29C64/10—Processes of additive manufacturing
  • B29C64/106—Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material
  • B29C64/118—Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using filamentary material being melted, e.g. fused deposition modelling [FDM]
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B33—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
  • B33Y—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING
  • B33Y80/00—Products made by additive manufacturing
• • 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
  • F21V3/00—Globes; Bowls; Cover glasses
  • F21V3/04—Globes; Bowls; Cover glasses characterised by materials, surface treatments or coatings
  • F21V3/06—Globes; Bowls; Cover glasses characterised by materials, surface treatments or coatings characterised by the material
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G02—OPTICS
  • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
  • G02B2207/00—Coding scheme for general features or characteristics of optical elements and systems of subclass G02B, but not including elements and systems which would be classified in G02B6/00 and subgroups
  • G02B2207/123—Optical louvre elements, e.g. for directional light blocking

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• each of the first regions is located in between a second region and a third region in a direction perpendicular to the stacking direction, wherein each first region has a transmissivity that is lower than that of each of the adjacent second and third regions.
• FIG. 5 schematically depicts a perspective view of an optical component
• FIG. 7 schematically depicts two views of the same cross section of an optical component, and a top view of a layer of the optical component
• FIG. 8 schematically depicts a typical setup of a 3-D printing process
• FIG. 9 schematically depicts a method of manufacturing an optical component according to embodiments of the present invention using such a 3-D printing process.
• the middle view of FIG. IB also shows, for each layer 130a-d of the plurality of layers 130, a first region 13 la-d, located between a second region 132a-d and a third region 133a-d in the first direction 121 (i.e. perpendicular to the stacking direction).
• Each of the first regions 13 la-d has a first edge surface 134a-d and a second edge surface 135a-d, both of which extend through the layer 130a-d in the second direction 122.
• the second edge surfaces 135a-d are opposite to the first edge surfaces 134a-d in the first direction 121.
• the first edge surfaces 134a-d are facing the first wall surface 111, and each of them is an interface with a second region 132a-d.
• the second edge surface 135a-d are facing the second wall surface 112, and each of them is an interface with a third region 133a- d.
• the layers are provided such that the a region of higher transmissivty (in these case the second regions) are proximal to the inner volume of the optical component.
• the regions of higher transmissivity are distal to the inner volume of the optical component, i.e. that the first regions are proximal to the inner volume.
• the first edge surface 734a is shifted with respect to the second edge surface 735b of the next layer 730b in the stacking direction, thereby creating a passage through which a light ray can pass through the wall 710 without having to travel through the first region 731 a.
• different layers may have differently dimensioned regions of higher transmissivity and/or first regions.
• the dimensions of T, Wl, W2 and D may be individually chosen for each layer and pair of layers in order to tune the optical properties of the optical component.
• the printer is controlled using a print command file generated by computer aided design (CAD) software specifying the 3-D shape of the optical component, and this controls how the filament is processed.
• CAD computer aided design

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