Lighting system with appearance affecting optical system

    公开(公告)号:US10711976B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-14

    申请号:US16348627

    申请日:2016-11-19

    申请人: COELUX S.R.L.

    摘要: In an aspect, a lighting system (1) comprises a lighting unit (11) with a light source (31) and a dichroic light exiting surface (15), wherein the lighting unit (11) is configured for emitting dichroic light from the dichroic light exiting surface (15). The emitted dichroic light includes a directional light portion (37) of direct light (17) and a diffused light portion (39) of diffused light (19) with a another larger correlated color temperature. The lighting system further comprises an appearance affecting optical system (13) with a plurality of structural elements (40, 91, 93, 101, 105) that comprise surfaces that delimit a plurality of diffused light passages (14, 103, 107), and comprise direct light illuminated surface regions (25), which are subject to the illumination with direct light (17) from respectively associated affected direct light providing areas (81) of the dichroic light exiting surface (15). Moreover, the affected direct light providing areas (81) cover at least 70% of the dichroic light exiting surface (15), and the direct light (17) from at least one affected direct light providing area (81) and diffused light (19) propagate within at least one of the diffused light passages (14, 103, 107).

    Seat illuminating system
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10427599B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-01

    申请号:US15551195

    申请日:2015-02-23

    申请人: COELUX S.R.L.

    摘要: A seat illuminating system (101D) for, in particular sunlight-like, illuminating a target region (144) comprises a seat arrangement (140) having a seat surface (142A). The target region (144) is defined for a person sitting on the seat surface (142A). The seat illuminating system (101D) comprises further a mounting structure (150A) being spatially fixed with respect to the seat arrangement (140); a reflector unit (106) mounted at the mounting structure (150A) and comprising a reflective surface and a luminous layer for homogenously emitting diffuse light at a first color, the luminous layer extending in front of the reflective surface and comprising a visible front area section (110A) of the reflector unit (106). The seat illuminating system (101D) comprises further a light projector (102) mounted at the mounting structure (150A) and configured to generate a light beam (103) adapted in size for comprehensively illuminating the visible front area section (110A) such that at least a portion of the light beam (103) passes through the luminous layer before and after being reflected by the reflective surface, thereby forming an illuminating light beam (103A) at a second color directed onto the target region (144).

    Sunlight-based sun imitating illumination

    公开(公告)号:US10883685B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-05

    申请号:US16487676

    申请日:2017-02-28

    申请人: CoeLux S.r.l.

    摘要: A sunlight-based projector system (3) is disclosed for providing a direct light beam (5). The projector system (3) comprises a sunlight receiving unit (9) with a collector system (13), a plurality of optical fibers (15), and a plurality of fiber output channels (44). The collector system (13) collects natural outdoor light, and couples the collected light into the plurality of optical fibers (15). The projector system (3) comprises further a sunlight forming unit (11) with a plurality of optical collimator units (47) arranged in a two-dimensional array, wherein each optical collimator unit (47) receives the respective fiber output light (45) and comprises at least one optical collimator (49) for reducing the angular distribution width of the received divergent fiber output light (45). Output areas of the plurality of optical collimator units (47) form essentially a continuously extending large light-emitting face (53) of the sunlight forming unit (11) for emitting an essentially collimated light beam (5). The generated direct light beam (5) may be used together with diffused light generating areal units to provide a sun-sky imitating lighting system with a sun-like appearance.

    Artificial illumination device
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10775022B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-15

    申请号:US15623224

    申请日:2017-06-14

    申请人: CoeLux S.r.l.

    摘要: An artificial illumination device for generating natural light similar to that from the sun and the sky includes a direct-light source; and a diffused-light generator, wherein the direct-light source includes a first light-emitting device configured to emit a primary light, and a first emitting surface positioned downstream the first light-emitting device, wherein the diffused-light generator is at least partially light-transparent and is positioned downstream of the first light-emitting device and includes a second emitting surface and is configured to cause diffused light at the second emitting surface. Both co-operate to form outer light at an outer emitting surface which includes a first light component which propagates along directions contained within the narrow peak and a second light component which propagates along directions spaced apart from the narrow peak, and wherein the first light component has a CCT which is lower than a CCT of the second light component.

    SUN-SKY IMITATING LIGHTING SYSTEM WITH ENLARGED PERCEIVED WINDOW AREA

    公开(公告)号:US20190101263A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-04

    申请号:US16081689

    申请日:2016-03-07

    申请人: COELUX S.R.L.

    IPC分类号: F21V9/02 F21S8/02 F21V13/02

    摘要: A lighting system (1) for in particular forming a room edge (12) of a room comprises an enlarged sky-perception providing unit (2) with a light transparent panel (3) and a mirror unit (13) with a reflective face (13A) forming an inner edge (14), the lighting system further comprises a light source (41) configured to emit a direct light beam (43) through the light transparent panel (3) onto the mirror unit (13) such that the transmitted portion (9) of the light beam is reflected completely by the reflective face (13A), thereby creating a reflected direct light beam (17) in particular for imitating a sun beam.

    ARTIFICIAL ILLUMINATION DEVICE
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170350574A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-07

    申请号:US15623224

    申请日:2017-06-14

    申请人: CoeLux S.r.l.

    摘要: An artificial illumination device for generating natural light similar to that from the sun and the sky includes a direct-light source; and a diffused-light generator, wherein the direct-light source includes a first light-emitting device configured to emit a primary light, and a first emitting surface positioned downstream the first light-emitting device, wherein the diffused-light generator is at least partially light-transparent and is positioned downstream of the first light-emitting device and includes a second emitting surface and is configured to cause diffused light at the second emitting surface. Both co-operate to form outer light at an outer emitting surface which includes a first light component which propagates along directions contained within the narrow peak and a second light component which propagates along directions spaced apart from the narrow peak, and wherein the first light component has a CCT which is lower than a CCT of the second light component.

    SUN-SKY-IMITATING ILLUMINATION DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20220357017A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-10

    申请号:US17442249

    申请日:2020-03-26

    申请人: CoeLux S.r.l.

    摘要: The present disclosure is directed to a sun-sky-imitating illumination device (100) for generating natural light similar to that from the sun and the sky, comprising a direct-light generator (10) that comprises a first emitting surface (11) from which a direct light (13) is emitted and a collimated light source (20) configured to generate from a primary light a collimated light (23) which exits an output surface (22) positioned upstream from the first emitting surface (11) with respect to a direct light direction (15), wherein the direct light (13) has a luminance profile (Ldirect(x, y, θ, φ)) which has a first peak in the angular distribution around the direct-light direction (15) and the collimated light (23) exiting the output surface (22) has a luminance profile (Lcoll(x, y, θ, φ)) which has a second peak (14) in the angular distribution around the direct-light direction (15), the second peak being a narrow peak, and a diffused-light generator (50) that is at least partially light-transparent and is positioned downstream of the direct-light generator (10) and comprises a second emitting surface (51) and is configured to cause diffused light (53) at the second emitting surface (51), wherein the sun-sky-imitating illumination device is configured such that the direct-light generator (10) and the diffused-light generator (50) co-operate to form outer light (53,54) at the second emitting surface (51) which comprises a first light component (54) which propagates along directions contained within the narrow peak (14) and a second light component (53) which propagates along directions spaced apart from the narrow peak (14), wherein the first light component (54) has a CCT which is lower than a CCT of the second light component (53), wherein the direct-light generator (10) comprises an optical unit (30) positioned downstream of the output surface (22) of the collimated light source (20) and upstream from the first emitting surface (11) with respect to the direct light direction (15), wherein the optical unit (30) is configured to interact with the collimated light (23) exiting the output surface (22) to generate the direct light (13) emitted from the first emitting surface (11) so that the first peak of the luminance profile (Ldirect(x, y, θ, φ)) of the direct light (13) is larger than the second peak of the luminance profile (Lcoll(x, y, θ, φ)) of the collimated light (23), the optical unit (30) comprising a first planar light mixing element (33,33′) characterized by a first response function having a first angular profile with a peak having a first divergence angle (α1, α1′) measured as full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the peak, the first planar light mixing element (33,33′) being positioned so as to at least partially intercept the collimated light (23) exiting the output surface (22) of the collimated light source (20) and to define a unit input surface (31), and a second planar light mixing element (34) characterized by a second response function having a second angular profile with a peak having a second divergence angle (α2) measured as full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the peak, the second planar light mixing element (34) being positioned downstream of the unit input surface (31) so as to at least partially intercept the light crossing the unit input surface (31) and to define a unit emitting surface (32), wherein the first and second divergence angles (α1, α1′, α2) are equal to or smaller than 40° preferably smaller than 30°, more preferably smaller than 20°; and wherein the first (33,33′) and second (34) planar light mixing elements are spaced apart from each other at least of a minimum unit depth (z1) measured along the direct light direction (15), configured to obtain uniform luminance of the direct light (13) which exits the first emitting surface (11) of the direct light generator (10).

    Sun-sky imitating lighting system with enlarged perceived window area

    公开(公告)号:US10670228B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-02

    申请号:US16081689

    申请日:2016-03-07

    申请人: COELUX S.R.L.

    摘要: A lighting system (1) for in particular forming a room edge (12) of a room comprises an enlarged sky-perception providing unit (2) with a light transparent panel (3) and a mirror unit (13) with a reflective face (13A) forming an inner edge (14), the lighting system further comprises a light source (41) configured to emit a direct light beam (43) through the light transparent panel (3) onto the mirror unit (13) such that the transmitted portion (9) of the light beam is reflected completely by the reflective face (13A), thereby creating a reflected direct light beam (17) in particular for imitating a sun beam.