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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2020
Applicant:

Hoya Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kunihiko Onobori, Friedberg, DE;

Assignee:

HOYA CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/0653 (2013.01); A61B 1/041 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/0655 (2022.02); A61B 1/0676 (2013.01); A61B 1/0684 (2013.01); A61B 1/07 (2013.01);
Abstract

An illumination apparatus includes an exit layer including a phosphor; a plurality of first light sources and a plurality of second light sources; wherein, the first light sources and the second light sources are arranged in plural unit cells; the plurality of the first light sources is controllable separately from the plurality of the second light sources; the first and second light sources are arranged spaced apart from the exit layer; the phosphor converts at least a portion of the first lights into first converted lights; if the first and second light sources emit the first and second lights, respectively, on a line connecting corresponding positions of two adjacent unit cells of the plurality of unit cells projected on the exit layer, a variation of a total intensity of the respective lights is less than 20%.


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