Lighting Science Group Corporation

Shane Harrah

Greg E Blonder

Edward Ernest Bailey

The present invention provides a multicolor LED assembly packaged with improved and controlled color mixing to create a more uniform color mixture. The assembly includes at least one lens overlying an encapsulant which encapsulates a plurality of LED dies. The lens includes a top surface and a bottom surface with the contour of the bottom surface designed to redirect light from each of the LED dies in different directions towards the top surface of the lens. The contoured shaped of the bottom surface of the lens redirects light from each of the plurality of LED dies such that illuminance and luminous intensity distributions of the plurality of LED dies substantially overlap, wherein the deviation from complete overlap is less than a predetermined amount which is substantially imperceptible to the average human eye.

Optical devices for controlled color mixing

A method for making an efficient light emitting diode (LED) assembly by providing a thermally conductive base having a surface cavity, disposing a reflective paste in the surface cavity, and shaping the reflective paste to form a reflective cavity. The reflective cavity is shaped such that there is a mounting region and at least one reflective side wall at least partially surrounding the mounting region. Once shaped, the reflective paste is fired to set the reflective cavity in its shaped form. Next, one or more LED die may be mounted on the mounting region of the reflective cavity such that the emitted light is reflected by the side walls, thus increasing the light output of the LED assembly.

Light efficient LED assembly including a shaped reflective cavity and method for making same

An optical light engine is fabricated by providing a thermally conductive base having one or more mounting pedestals for elevating one or more LED die above the base's surface. The LED die are mounted on the pedestals, electrically connected, and a mold having a molding surface for molding a dome centered around the LED die is disposed on the base over the pedestal-mounted LED die. The encapsulating material is then injected through an input port disposed in the base to mold the dome around the LED die. The encapsulant material is cured and the mold is removed. In an advantageous embodiment, the light engine comprises a ceramic-coated metal base made by the low temperature co-fired ceramic-on-metal process (LTCC-M).

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Moorestown, NJ, United States of America

Shane Harrah