Patent ID: 9297511
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: F21V,F21Y,G02B,H01L

Claim Text:
1. A light flux controlling member that controls distribution of light emitted from a light emitting element, the member comprising: an incidence surface on which the light emitted from the light emitting element is incident; and an emission surface from which the light incident thereon from the incidence surface is emitted toward a surface to be irradiated creating an illumination pattern oriented in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of the light emitting element, wherein a shape of the illumination pattern is that of an n-sided regular polygon, wherein the incidence surface is a pyramidal surface formed in a concave shape with respect to a bottom located on an opposite side to the emission surface, at a position of the bottom which corresponds to the light emitting element, the pyramidal surface being configured such that a boundary between surfaces thereof is an R surface, wherein a shape of a cross-section of the incidence surface, the cross-section of the incidence surface being perpendicular to the optical axis of the light emitting element, is substantially similar to the shape of the illumination pattern on the surface to be irradiated, wherein a cross-section of the emission surface, the cross-section of the emission surface being perpendicular to the optical axis of the light emitting element, has a shape of an n-sided regular polygon, the n-sided regular polygon being defined by straight lines connecting corners adjacent to each other in n corners respectively corresponding to n corners of the illumination pattern on the surface to be irradiated, and wherein sides of the cross-section of the emission surface are substantially parallel to corresponding sides of the cross-section of the incidence surface.