US 12,457,832 B2
Light emitting device and diffusion member used therein
Masami Kumano, Tokushima (JP); Takahiro Kubo, Anan (JP); and Makiko Iwasa, Anan (JP)
Assigned to NICHIA CORPORATION, Anan (JP)
Filed by NICHIA CORPORATION, Anan (JP)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/051,259.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-178946 (JP), filed on Nov. 1, 2021; and application No. 2022-122171 (JP), filed on Jul. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0155084 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. H10H 20/855 (2025.01); G02B 5/02 (2006.01); H10H 20/831 (2025.01); H10H 20/857 (2025.01)
CPC H10H 20/855 (2025.01) [G02B 5/0278 (2013.01); H10H 20/831 (2025.01); H10H 20/857 (2025.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A light-emitting device comprising:
a substrate;
a wiring formed in the substrate;
a light-emitting element including an electrode electrically connected to the wiring, and configured to emit light having a main wavelength in a range from 500 nm to 560 nm; and
a diffusion member disposed on a light-emitting surface side of the light-emitting element on a side opposite to a surface on which the electrode is formed, wherein
a first direction parallel to one side of the diffusion member and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction are defined when the diffusion member is viewed in plan view,
a first measurement plane is defined as a plane passing through a center of an outer shape of the diffusion member when viewed in plan view, parallel to the first direction, and perpendicular to a light emission surface of the diffusion member, and
a second measurement plane is defined as a plane passing through the center of the outer shape, parallel to the second direction, and perpendicular to the light emission surface of the diffusion member,
when chromaticity x and chromaticity y of an emission color of the light-emitting device are measured in each of the first measurement plane and the second measurement plane in a range in which an angle at the center of the outer shape is in a range from −60° to 60° with reference to a perpendicular line passing through the center of the outer shape, being orthogonal to the light emission surface, and extending in a light emission observation direction,
an average value α of a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of a chromaticity difference Δx of the chromaticity x measured in the first measurement plane and a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of a chromaticity difference Δx of the chromaticity x measured in the second measurement plane is less than 0.0024.