Patent ID: 9482854
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G02B

Claim Text:
1. A side-emitting LED lens which causes light that is emitted from an LED to exit a lens through a side surface of the lens, the side-emitting LED lens comprising: a top surface which reflects light that has entered the side-emitting LED lens through an incident surface and is directly incident on the top surface; a bottom surface having a recess and having the incident surface formed as an inner surface of the recess through which light emitted from the LED enters the side-emitting LED lens, the incident surface comprising: a side surface which connects the bottom surface to the top surface, and through which light that is directly incident on the side surface and is reflected from the top surface from among light that has entered the side-emitting LED lens through the incident surface exits the side-emitting LED lens, wherein, when a point of intersection between the LED and the optical axis of the LED is set as a first reference point (P where α