HOT SPOT REDUCTION IN SEGMENTED FLEXIBLE LIGHT GUIDES

• Main Authors: Harkema, Stephan, de Kok, Margaretha Maria, van der Waal, Adri, van den Brand, Jeroen, Schram, Jeroen Franciscus Marinus
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 25.03.2020
• Subjects: BLASTING; FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMSTHEREOF; HEATING; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHERARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; WEAPONS

Illuminating sections of a light guide with LEDs leads to unwanted light bleeding to other parts of the light guide. Furthermore typically LEDs are placed at a large distance from the area that couples out light from this LED due to a spike in intensity close to the LED. In order to avoid this spike...