FLEXIBLE LED LIGHTING ELEMENT

摘要

A flexible LED lighting module includes a flexible housing and flexible PCB to which LED units are mounted. An encapsulant fills a channel of the flexible housing and has a same or similar optical refractive index value as is used in the LED unit to hold phosphorous particles used for coloring of the LED. Use of the encapsulant changes the color of the light ultimately emitted from the flexible LED lighting module, and this factor is corrected for in calibration processes associated with the flexible LED lighting module.

主权项

1. A flexible LED lighting element, comprising:
a flexible U-shaped housing comprising arms; a flexible printed circuit board (PCB), comprising:
an LED lighting unit, comprising:
a unit U-shaped housing;an LED mounted to a bottom surface of the unit U-shaped housing;an LED unit encapsulent that:
covers the LED; andfills the unit U-shaped housing; andan LED unit connector; anda flexible PCB trace to which the LED unit connector is connected, the trace comprising a single copper layer.