Patent Publication Number: US-10784428-B2

Title: LED filament and LED light bulb

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION 
     This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Applications No. 201910060475.2 filed on 2019 Jan. 22; No. 201911057715.X filed on 2019 Nov. 1; and No. 201911234236.0 filed on 2019 Dec. 5, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. 
     This application is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 16/234,124 filed on 2018 Dec. 27, which is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/858,036 filed on 2017 Dec. 29. 
     The application Ser. No. 15/858,036 is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/499,143 filed on 2017 Apr. 27. 
     The application Ser. No. 15/858,036 is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/723,297 filed on 2017 Oct. 3. 
     The application Ser. No. 15/858,036 is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 29/619,287 filed on 2017 Sep. 28. 
     The application Ser. No. 15/858,036 is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 29/627,379 filed on 2017 Nov. 27. 
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     BACKGROUND 
     Technical Field 
     The present invention relates to lighting fields, and more particularly to an LED filament and an LED light bulb having the LED filament. 
     Related Art 
     LEDs have the advantages of environmental protection, energy saving, high efficiency, and long lifespan. Therefore, it has been generally valued in recent years and gradually replaced the position of traditional lighting fixtures. However, the lighting of the traditional LEDs is directional, and unlike traditional lighting fixtures, which can make a wide-angle illumination. Therefore, applying LEDs to traditional lighting fixtures, depending on the types of the lighting fixtures, still has challenges. 
     In recent years, an LED filament that can make an LED light source resemble a traditional tungsten filament bulb and achieve 360° full-angle lighting has received increasing attention from the industry. This kind of LED filament is made by fixing a plurality of LED chips in series on a narrow and slender glass substrate, and then wrapping the entire glass substrate with silica gel doped with a phosphor or phosphors, and then forming electrical connection. In addition, there is one kind of LED soft filament, which is similar to the structure of the above-mentioned LED filament and is employed a flexible printed circuit substrate (hereinafter referred to FPC) instead of the glass substrate to enable the LED filament having a certain degree of bending. However, the soft filaments made by FPC have disadvantages. For example, since the FPC&#39;s thermal expansion coefficient is different from that of the silicone-covered filament, long-term use will cause the LED chip to displacement or even degumming; furthermore, the FPC may not beneficial to flexible adjustment of the process conditions and the like. 
     The applicant has previously disclosed a soft filament, for example, in some of the embodiments of Chinese Patent Publication No. CN106468405A, which provides a soft filament structure without a carrier substrate, and in the application, the traditional structure that needs the chip to be mounted on the substrate before coating phosphor or packaging is replaced by a flexible fluorescent package with a wavelength conversion effect. However, some of the filament structures have challenges related to the stability of metal wiring between the chips while they are being bent. If the arrangement of chips in the filament is dense, since the stress is too concentrated on a specific part of the filament upon the filament is in a bent configuration, when adjacent LED chips are connected by metal wiring, the metal wire connected to the LED chips would be damaged or even broken easily. Therefore, some embodiments in the application still have room for improvement in quality. 
     Most LED lights known to the inventor(s) use a combination of blue LED chips and yellow phosphors to emit white light, but the emission spectrum of LED lights in the red light region is weaker, and the color rendering index is lower. Therefore, it is difficult for the traditional LED lights to achieve a low color temperature. To increase the color rendering index, generally a certain amount of green phosphor and red phosphor is added; however, the relative conversion rate of red phosphor is lower, leading to a reduction in the overall luminous flux of the LED lights. That is, a decrease in light efficiency. 
     This application further optimizes the aforementioned applications to fit various kinds of processes and product requirements. 
     Furthermore, the LED filament is generally disposed inside the LED light bulb, and in order to present the aesthetic appearance and to make the illumination of the LED filament more uniform and widespread, the LED filament is bent to have a plurality of curves. However, since the LED chips are arranged in the LED filaments, and the LED chips are relatively harder objects, the LED filaments can hardly be bent into a desired shape. Moreover, the LED filament is also prone to have cracks due to stress concentration during bending. 
     SUMMARY 
     It is noted that the present disclosure includes one or more inventive solutions currently claimed or not claimed, and in order to avoid confusion between the illustration of these embodiments in the specification, a number of possible inventive aspects herein may be collectively referred to “present/the invention.” 
     A number of embodiments are described herein with respect to “the invention.” However, the word “the invention” is used merely to describe certain embodiments disclosed in this specification, whether or not in the claims, is not a complete description of all possible embodiments. Some embodiments of various features or aspects described below as “the invention” may be combined in various ways to form an LED light bulb or a portion thereof. 
     It is an object of the claimed invention to provide an LED filament, including: 
     a conductive section, including a conductor; 
     at least two LED sections connected to each other by the conductive section, and each of the LED sections comprising at least two LED chips electrically connected to each other through a wire; 
     two electrodes electrically connected to the LED section; and 
     a light conversion layer with a top layer and a base layer covering the at least two LED sections, the conductive section and the two electrodes, and a part of each of the two electrodes is exposed respectively; wherein the LED filament is supplied with electric power no more than 8 W, when the LED filament is lit, at least 4 lm of white light is emitted per millimeter of filament length of the LED filament. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, the top layer includes a phosphor composition that includes a first phosphor, a second phosphor, a third phosphor, and a fourth phosphor, where the weight percentage of each phosphor in the phosphor composition is as follow: the first phosphor is 5.45-5.55%, the second phosphor is 70-88%, the third phosphor is 0.6-7%, and the fourth phosphor is the rest amount of the phosphor. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, the top layer includes a glue where a weight ratio of the phosphor composition to the glue in the top layer is from 0.2:1 to 0.3:1. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, a peak wavelength of the first phosphor under an excitation of blue light is 490-500 nm, and an full width at half maximum (FWHM) is 29-32 nm; while a peak wavelength of the second phosphor under the excitation of blue light is 520-540 nm, and an FWHM is 110-115 nm. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, each millimeter of filament length includes at least two LED chips, and in a 25° C. ambient environment, a temperature of the LED filament is no greater than a junction temperature after the LED filament is lit for 15,000 hours. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, the LED filament includes a plurality of the LED sections, and each of the LED sections includes a plurality of the LED chips, a shortest distance between two LED chips of the LED chips located respectively in two adjacent LED sections is greater than a distance between two adjacent LED chips of the LED chips in the same LED section. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, a length of the wire is shorter than a length of the conductor. 
     It is another object of the claimed invention to provide an LED light bulb, comprising: 
     a lamp housing, filled with gas including nitrogen and oxygen, where the oxygen content is 1% to 5% of the volume of the lamp housing; 
     a bulb base connected to the lamp housing; 
     a stem connected to the bulb base and located in the lamp housing; and 
     a single LED filament, disposed in the lamp housing and the LED filament comprising: 
     a conductive section, comprising a conductor; 
     at least two LED sections connected to each other by the conductive section, and each of the LED sections comprising at least two LED chips electrically connected to each other through a wire; 
     two electrodes, electrically connected to the LED section; and 
     a light conversion layer with a top layer and a base layer, covering the at least two LED sections, the conductive section and the two electrodes, and a part of each of the two electrodes is exposed respectively; wherein the LED filament is supplied with electric power no more than 8 W, when the LED filament is lit, at least 4 lm of white light is emitted per millimeter of filament length; 
     a Cartesian coordinate system having a x-axis, a y-axis and a-z-axis is oriented for the LED light bulb, where the z-axis is parallel to the stem, wherein R1 is the diameter of the bulb base, R2 is the maximum diameter of the lamp housing or the maximum horizontal distance between the lamp housing in the Y-Z plane, and R3 is the maximum width of the LED filament in the y-axis direction on the Y-Z plane or the maximum width in the x-axis direction on the X-Z plane, where R1&lt;R3&lt;R2. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, the LED filament has at least two first bending points and at least one second bending point when the LED filament is bent. In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, the at least two first bending points and the at least one second bending point are arranged alternately. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, a height of any one of the at least two first bending points on the Z-axis is greater than a height of any one of the at least one second bending point. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, the LED filament has a plurality of the first bending points, distances between any of two adjacent first bending points of the first bending points on the Y-axis are equal or distances between any of two adjacent first bending points of the first bending points on the Z-axis are equal. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, the LED filament has a plurality of the first bending points, a distance between two adjacent first bending points of the first bending points on the Y-axis has a maximum value D1 and a minimum value D2, or a distance between two adjacent first bending points of the first bending points on the X-axis has the maximum value D1 and the minimum value D2, wherein the range of D2 is from 0.5 D1 to 0.9 D1. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, the LED filament include one conductor section and two LED sections, where a bending point of each of the two LED sections and each of the two electrodes are located substantially on a circumference of a circle taking the conductor section as a center. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, the LED filament includes a plurality of the LED sections, and each of the LED sections includes a plurality of the LED chips, a shortest distance between two LED chips of the LED chips located respectively in two adjacent LED sections is greater than a distance between two adjacent LED chips of the LED chips in the same LED section. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, a length of the wire is shorter than a length of the conductor. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, an impurity is attached to the inner wall of the lamp housing, where the average thickness of the impurity deposited per square centimeter of an inner wall area of the lamp housing is 0.01 to 2 mm. 
     In accordance with an embodiment with the present invention, a spectral distribution of the light bulb is between wavelength range of about 400 nm to 800 nm, and three peak wavelengths P1, P2, P3 are appeared in the wavelength ranges corresponding to light emitted by the light bulb, the wavelength of the peak P1 is between 430 nm and 480 nm, the wavelength of the peak P2 is between 580 nm and 620 nm, and the wavelength of the peak P3 is between 680 nm and 750 nm, wherein a light intensity of the peak P1 is less than that of the peak P2, and the light intensity of the peak P2 is less than that of the peak P3. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       The disclosure will become more fully understood from the detailed description given herein below for illustration only, and thus not limitative of the disclosure, wherein: 
         FIG. 1  illustrates a structural schematic view of an LED filament according to an embodiment of the present invention; 
         FIGS. 2A to 2D  illustrate a perspective view, a side view, another side view, and a top view of an LED filament according to an embodiment of the present invention; 
         FIG. 3  illustrates a schematic emission spectrum of an LED filament according to an embodiment of the present invention; 
         FIG. 4  illustrates a schematic emission spectrum of an LED filament according to an embodiment of the present invention; and 
         FIG. 5  illustrates a schematic emission spectrum of an LED filament according to an embodiment of the present invention. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     In order to make the abovementioned objects, features, and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. 
       FIG. 1  is a schematic structural view of an embodiment of an LED filament of the present invention. As shown in  FIG. 1 , the LED filament  400  includes a light conversion layer  420 , LED sections  402  and  404 , electrodes  410  and  412 , and a conductor section  430  located between the LED sections  402  and  404 . The LED sections  402  and  404  include at least two LED chips  442 , and the LED chips  442  are electrically connected to each other through a wire  440 . In this embodiment, the conductor section  430  includes a conductor  430   a  connected to the LED sections  402  and  404 . The shortest distance between the two LED chips  442  located respectively in two adjacent LED sections  402  and  404  is greater than the distance between the two adjacent LED chips  442  in the LED sections  402 / 404 . The length of the wire  440  is shorter than the length of the conductor  430   a . Therefore, when a bending portion is formed between the two LED sections  402  and  404 , it can be ensured that the generated stress will not cause the conductor section  430  to break. The light conversion layer  420  is coated on at least two sides of the LED chip  442 /the electrodes  410  and  412 . The light conversion layer  420  exposes a part of the electrodes  410  and  412 . The light conversion layer  420  may have at least one top layer  420   a  and one base layer  420   b  serving as an upper layer and a lower layer of the LED filament, respectively. In this embodiment, the top layer  420   a  and the base layer  420   b  are located on two sides of the LED chip  442 /electrodes  410  and  412 , respectively. In one embodiment, if the LED filament is supplied with electric power no more than 8 Watts (W), when the LED filament is lit, at least 4 lumen (lm) of white light is emitted per millimeter of filament length. In one embodiment, each millimeter of filament length includes at least two LED chips. In a 25° C. ambient environment, the temperature of the LED filament is no greater than the junction temperature after the LED filament is lit for 15,000 hours. 
     The phosphor composition that serves as a part of the top layer  420   b  includes a first phosphor, a second phosphor, a third phosphor, and a fourth phosphor. The peak wavelength of the first phosphor under the excitation of blue light is 490-500 nm, and the full width at half maximum (FWHM) is 29-32 nm. The peak wavelength of the second phosphor under the excitation of blue light is 520-540 nm, and the FWHM is 110-115 nm. The peak wavelength of the third phosphor under the blue light excitation is 660-672 nm, and the FWHM is 15-18 nm. The peak wavelength of the fourth phosphor under the excitation of blue light is 600-612 nm, and the FWHM is 72-75 nm; alternatively, the peak wavelength of the fourth phosphor under the excitation of blue light is 620-628 nm, and the FWHM is 16-18 nm; or, the peak wavelength of the fourth phosphor under the excitation of blue light is 640-650 nm, and the FWHM is 85-90 nm. The center particle diameter (D50) of any one of the group of the first phosphor, the second phosphor, the third phosphor, and the fourth phosphor ranges from 15 μm to 20 μm. Preferably, in one embodiment, the range of the D50 of the second phosphor and the third phosphor is from 15 to 16 μm, and the range of D50 of the first phosphor and the fourth phosphor is from 16 to 20 μm. When the blue light excites the phosphor, the different thickness of the top layer with consistent phosphor concentration will affect the full width at half maximum of the phosphor. In this embodiment, the thickness of the top layer  420   b  is 80-100 μm. The weight percentage of each phosphor in the phosphor composition is as follow: the first phosphor is 5.45-5.55%, the second phosphor is 70-88%, the third phosphor is 0.6-7%, and the fourth phosphor is the rest amount of the phosphor. The top layer is prepared at a certain ratio of phosphors to glue, phosphors with different peak wavelengths are selected, and the light performance is measured under the condition using a blue LED chip with a peak wavelength of 451 nm and a FWHM of 16.3 nm and utilizing a current of 30 mA. The results of light performance of different phosphor compositions are shown in Table 1 as below: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                 TABLE 1 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                 Contents (%) 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 First 
                 Second 
                 Third 
                 Fourth 
               
               
                   
                 phosphor 
                 phosphor 
                 phosphor 
                 phosphor 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 No. 
                 495 nm 
                 535 nm 
                 670 nm 
                 630 nm 
                 652 nm 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 1 
                 5.49 
                 72.55 
                 0.83 
                   
                 21.13 
               
               
                 2 
                 5.49 
                 72.55 
                 2.54 
                   
                 15.45 
               
               
                 3 
                 5.51 
                 85.83 
                 5.04 
                 3.62 
                   
               
               
                 4 
                 5.51 
                 85.83 
                 4.63 
                 3.59 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                   
                 Total phosphor 
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                   
                   
                 contents to 
                 Eff 
                   
                   
                 CCT 
               
               
                   
                 No. 
                 glue ratio (%) 
                 (lm/w) 
                 Ra 
                 R9 
                 (K) 
               
               
                   
               
               
                   
                 1 
                 27.4 
                 103.5 
                 94.7 
                 93.0 
                 2641 
               
               
                   
                 2 
                 27.4 
                 107.0 
                 92.8 
                 81.9 
                 2683 
               
               
                   
                 3 
                 27.6 
                 102.0 
                 97.0 
                 91.5 
                 2621 
               
               
                   
                 4 
                 27.6 
                 106.8 
                 97.1 
                 84.9 
                 2670 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     It can be known from top layers No. 1 to No. 4 in Table 1 that, the content of the third phosphor and the fourth phosphor in the phosphor composition will affect the light effect (Eff), the average color rendering index (Ra), and the saturated red color (R9). It can be known from compositions No. 1 and No. 2 that, when the content of the fourth phosphor with a peak wavelength of 670 nm increases, the Eff will increase, but Ra and R9 will decrease. As can be seen from No. 3 and No. 4 in Table 1, when the content of the fourth phosphor having a peak wavelength of 670 nm increases, the Eff will decrease, but Ra and R9 will increase. Therefore, when the fourth phosphor with different wavelength peaks is selected according to actual demands, the amounts of the third phosphor and the fourth phosphor may be adjusted to obtain better luminous performance. 
     Ratio Between Phosphors and Glue 
     Using the same phosphor, the ratio of the phosphor composition to the glue is adjusted and as shown in Table 2. As shown in Table 2, when the ratio of the phosphor composition to the glue is different, the Eff, the Ra, the R9, and the Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) will be different as well. When the ratio of the phosphor composition to the glue is more, the Eff, the Ra, and the CCT will decrease, and the R9 decreases first and then increases. Moreover, when utilizing the phosphor composition accompanied with a glue (such as silica gel) to form the top layer of the LED filament, since the specific weight of the phosphor composition is greater than that of the silica gel, apparent precipitation of the phosphor will occur during the manufacturing process of the top layer, causing the white LED color temperature to drift. The more ratio of the phosphor composition to the glue, the more produced precipitation of the phosphor, resulting in a more severe color temperature drift. Therefore, the weight ratio of the phosphor composition to the glue in the top layer is from 0.2:1 to 0.3:1, preferably, in one embodiment, from 0.25:1 to 0.3:1. In one embodiment, a certain amount of hollow glass microbeads can be added into the phosphor composition. When the phosphor precipitates, the glass microbeads will float, and during the floating process, the extent of backscattering/emission of light is reduced. Thus, the effect of light scattering resulting from the phosphor precipitation will be offset, and therefore the color temperature drift phenomenon can be alleviated. In addition, since the microbeads absorb less visible light, the addition of the glass microbeads has little impact on the initial brightness of white light LEDs. The mass ratio of the glass microbeads to the phosphor composition is 1:5 to 1:15, and in one embodiment the weight ratio of the glass microbeads to the phosphor composition is preferably 1:10 to 1:15. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                 TABLE 2 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                 Contents (%) 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 First 
                 Second 
                 Third 
                 Fourth 
               
               
                   
                 phosphor 
                 phosphor 
                 phosphor 
                 phosphor 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 No. 
                 495 nm 
                 500 nm 
                 535 nm 
                 670 nm 
                 600 nm 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 1 
                 4.01 
                 7.12 
                 77.44 
                 5.20 
                 6.23 
               
               
                 2 
                 4.03 
                 7.10 
                 77.46 
                 5.19 
                 6.22 
               
               
                 3 
                 4.02 
                 7.12 
                 77.47 
                 5.14 
                 6.25 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                   
                 Total phosphor 
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                   
                   
                 contents to 
                 Eff 
                   
                   
                 CCT 
               
               
                   
                 No. 
                 glue ratio (%) 
                 (lm/w) 
                 Ra 
                 R9 
                 (K) 
               
               
                   
               
               
                   
                 1 
                 27.2 
                 102.9 
                 99.0 
                 98.7 
                 2718 
               
               
                   
                 2 
                 35.2 
                 91.9 
                 98.6 
                 98.5 
                 2342 
               
               
                   
                 3 
                 40.2 
                 82.2 
                 97.9 
                 99.0 
                 2128 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In one embodiment, an LED filament is provided, and the provided LED filament is made of the aforementioned phosphor composition with a blue light chip. The blue light chip has a wavelength peak of 450 to 500 nm and a full width at half maximum of 15 to 18 nm. 
     Please refer to  FIGS. 2A and 2B to 2D .  FIG. 2A  shows a perspective view of an LED bulb  40   h  according to an embodiment of the present invention.  FIGS. 2B to 2D  show a side view, another side view, and a top view of the LED bulb  40   h  in  FIG. 2A , respectively. In this embodiment, as shown in  FIGS. 2A to 2D , the LED bulb includes a lamp housing  12 , a bulb base  16  connected to the lamp housing  12 , a stem  19 , and a single LED filament  100  where the stem  19 , and the single LED filament  100  are in the lamp housing  12 . The stem  19  includes a stem bottom and a stem top (or stand  19   a ) opposite to the stem bottom. The stem bottom is connected to the bulb base  16 , and the stem top extends into the interior of the lamp housing  12  (e.g., the stem top may be extended into approximately the center of the lamp housing  12 ). The LED filament  100  includes a filament body and two filament electrodes  110  and  112 . The two filament electrodes  110  and  112  are located at opposite ends of the filament body. The filament body is the part of the LED filament  100  that excludes the filament electrodes  110  and  112 . 
     During the manufacturing process of traditional bulbs, in order to avoid a tungsten wire burning in the air thereby causing the oxidative fracture failure, a glass structure with a horn shape (hereinafter refer to as “horn stem”) is designed to be disposed at the opening of the glass lamp housing and then the horn stem is sintered and sealed to the glass lamp housing. Then, a vacuum pump is connected to the lamp housing through the port of the horn stem to replace the air inside the lamp housing with nitrogen so as to suppress the combustion and oxidation of the tungsten wire inside the lamp housing. Eventually, the port of the horn stem will be sintered and sealed. Therefore, the vacuum pump can be applied to replace the air inside the lamp housing with full nitrogen or to configure a moderate ratio of nitrogen and helium inside the lamp housing through the stem to improve the thermal conductivity of the gas in the lamp housing and to remove the water mist in the air at the same time. In one embodiment, the gas inside the lamp housing can also be replaced with a moderate ratio of nitrogen and oxygen or a moderate ratio of nitrogen and air. The oxygen or air content is 1% to 10%, preferably 1% to 5% of the volume of the lamp housing. When the base layer contains saturated hydrocarbons, during the use of the LED bulbs, the saturated hydrocarbons will generate free radicals under the effect of light, heat, stress, etc. The generated free radicals or activated molecules will combine with oxygen to form peroxide radicals. Thus, the lamp housing filled with oxygen may increase thermal resistance and light resistance of the base layer having saturated hydrocarbons. 
     During the manufacturing process of the LED bulb, in order to increase the refractive index of the lamp housing  12  to the light emitted by the LED filament, some impurities, such as rosin, may be attached to the inner wall of the lamp housing  12 . The average thickness of the impurity deposition per square centimeter of the inner wall area of the lamp housing  12  is 0.01 to 2 mm, and the thickness of the impurity is preferably 0.01 to 0.5 mm. In one embodiment, the content of the impurity per square centimeter of the inner wall area of the lamp housing  12  accounts for 1% to 30%, preferably 1% to 10% of the content of the impurity on the inner wall of the entire lamp housing  12 . The content of the impurity can be adjusted, for example, by a method of vacuum drying to the lamp housing. In another embodiment, a part of impurities may be left in the gas of the lamp housing  12 , and the content of impurities in the gas is 0.1% to 20%, preferably 0.1 to 5%, of the volume of the lamp housing  12 . The impurity content may be adjusted by the method of vacuum drying to the lamp housing  12 . Because a small amount of impurities is contained in the filling gas, the light emitted by the LED filament is scattered or refracted by the impurities, and thus the light emitting angle may be increased, which is beneficial to improving the light emitting effect of the LED filament. 
     A Cartesian coordinate system having an X-axis, a Y-axis and a Z-axis is oriented for the LED light bulb, where the Z-axis is parallel to the stem  19 , and the LED filament  100  has at least two first bending point and at least one second bending points when the LED filament is bent. The at least two first bending point and the at least one second bending points are arranged alternately, and the height of any one of the at least two first bending point on the Z-axis is greater than that of any one of the at least one second bending points. In one embodiment, the distances between any of two adjacent first bending points on the Y-axis or on the Z-axis are equal. Therefore, the appearance of the LED filament can be neat and beautiful. In an embodiment, the distance between the two adjacent first bending points on the Y-axis or on X-axis has a maximum value D1 and a minimum value D2, where the range of D2 is from 0.5D1 to 0.9D1, and the light flux distribution on each plane is relatively consistent. Let (1) the diameter of the bulb base  16  be R1 (see  FIG. 2B ), (2) the maximum diameter of the lamp housing  12  or the maximum horizontal distance between the lamp housings  12  in the Y-Z plane be R2 (see  FIG. 2B ), and (3) the maximum width of the LED filament  100  in the Y-axis direction on the Y-Z plane (see  FIG. 2B ) or the maximum width in the X-axis direction on the X-Z plane be R3 (see  FIG. 2C ). R3 is between R1 and R2, that is, R1&lt;R3&lt;R2. When the LED filament is bent, the distance between adjacent first bending points and/or adjacent second bending points in the Z-axis direction is wide, which is beneficial to improving the heat dissipation effect of the LED filament. In the manufacturing process of the LED bulb, the LED filament  100  can be folded into the inner space of the lamp housing  12  first, and then the filament  100  can be manually or mechanically extended in the lamp housing  12  so that the maximum length of the filament  100  on the X-Z plane satisfies the above-mentioned relationship. 
     As shown in  FIG. 2A  to  FIG. 2D , in this embodiment, the LED filament  100  has one conductor section  130  and two LED sections  102  and  104 . The two adjacent LED sections  102  and  104  are connected through the conductor section  130 . The bent portion of the LED filament  100  at the highest point has an arc shape. That is, the LED sections  102  and  104  show arc shapes respectively at the highest point of the LED filament  100 . The conductor section  130  shows an arc shape at the lower point of the LED filament as well. The LED filament  100  may be configured to have a structure where each bent conductor section  130  is followed by one segment, and each LED sections  102 ,  104  is formed into a respective section. 
     Moreover, since a flexible substrate (preferably made of a silicone-modified polyimide resin composition) is adopted by the LED filament  100 , the LED sections  102  and  104  also have a certain degree of bending ability. In this embodiment, the two LED sections  102  are respectively bent to form an inverted U shape, and the conductor section  130  is located between the two LED sections  102 , and the degree of bending of the conductor section  130  is the same as or greater than that of the LED section  102 . That is, the two LED sections  102  are respectively bent at the higher point of the LED filament  100  to form an inverted U shape and have a bent radius RE The conductor section  130  is bent at the lower point of the LED filament  100  and has a bent radius R2, where R1 is greater than R2. The arrangement of the conductor sections  130  enables the LED filament  100  to achieve a bending with a small turning radius in a limited space. In one embodiment, the bending points of the LED section  102  and that of the LED section  104  are at the same height in the Z direction. In addition, the height of the pole  19   a  corresponds to the height of the conductor section  130 . For example, the lowest portion of the conductor section  130  may be connected to the top of the pole  19   a , so that the overall shape of the LED filament  100  may not be easily deformed. In different embodiments, the conductor sections  130  may be connected to the pole  19   a  by passing through a hole on the top of the pole  19   a , or the conductor sections  130  may be connected to the pole  19   a  by being glued on the top of the pole  19   a , but is not limited thereto. In one embodiment, the conductor section  130  and the pole  19   a  may be connected by a conductive wire. For example, a conductive wire is extended from the top of the pole  19   a  and connected to the conductor section  130 . 
     As shown in  FIG. 2B , in this embodiment, in the Z direction, the height of the conductor section  130  is higher than that of the two electrodes  110  and  112 . The two LED sections  102  may be seen as the two electrodes  110  and  112  extending upward to the highest point respectively and then bending down and further extending to connect to the conductor section  130 . As shown in  FIG. 2C , in this embodiment, the outline of the LED filament  100  in the X-Z plane is similar to a V shape, that is, the two LED sections  102  are extended obliquely upward and outward respectively, and are bent at the highest point then extended downwardly and inwardly to the conductor section  130 . As shown in  FIG. 2D , in this embodiment, the outline of the LED filament  100  in the X-Y plane has an S shape. As shown in  FIG. 2B  and  FIG. 2D , in this embodiment, the conductor section  130  is located between the electrodes  110  and  112 . As shown in  FIG. 2D , in this embodiment, in the X-Y plane, the bending point of the LED section  102 , the bending point of the LED section  104 , and the electrodes  110 ,  112  are located substantially on a circumference of a circle taking the conductor section  130  as a center. 
     Please refer to  FIG. 3 , which is a schematic emission spectrum of an LED light bulb according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the LED bulb lamp may be any LED bulb lamp disclosed in the previous embodiments, and a single LED filament (which may be any LED filament disclosed in the previous embodiments) is provided in the LED light bulb. By measuring the light emitted by the LED light bulb with a spectrometer, a spectrum diagram as shown in  FIG. 3  may be obtained. From the spectrum diagram, it can be seen that, the spectrum of the LED bulb lamp is mainly distributed between the wavelengths from 400 nm to 800 nm, and three peaks P1, P2, P3 appear at three places in this range. The peak P1 is about between 430 nm and 480 nm, the peak P2 is about between 580 nm and 620 nm, and the peak P3 is about between 680 nm and 750 nm. With regard to intensity, the intensity of the peak P1 is smaller than the intensity of the peak P2, and the intensity of the peak P2 is smaller than the intensity of the peak P3. As shown in  FIG. 3 , such a spectral distribution is close to the spectral distribution of a traditional incandescent filament lamp, and is also close to the spectral distribution of natural light. In an embodiment, a schematic emission spectrum of a single LED filament is shown in  FIG. 4 . It can be seen from this spectrum that, the spectrum of the LED bulb lamp is mainly distributed between the wavelength from 400 nm to 800 nm. There are three peaks P1, P2, and P3 appear in this range. The peak P1 is between about 430 nm and 480 nm, the peak P2 is between about 480 nm and 530 nm, and the peak P3 is between about 630 nm and 680 nm. Such a spectral distribution is close to the spectral distribution of a traditional incandescent filament lamp, and is also close to the spectral distribution of natural light. 
     Please refer to  FIG. 5 .  FIG. 5  is a light emission spectrum of an LED light bulb according to an embodiment of the present invention. As can be seen from the figure, the spectrum distribution of the LED bulb lamp between the wavelength of 400 nm to 800 nm has three peaks P1′, P2′, and P3′ similar to that shown in  FIG. 4 . The difference is that the intensity of P1′ is greater than that of P1, and the full width at half maximum of P3′ is greater than that of P3. The LED bulb has an average color rendering index Ra (R1-R8) greater than 95 and a saturated red (R9) greater than or equal to 90. The light efficiency (Eff) of the LED filament is greater than or equal to 100 lm/w. 
     The term “a filament” referred to in the present invention may be the aforementioned conductor section and the LED sections connected to each other, or may be formed by LED sections only. The LED sections may have the same and continuous light conversion layer (including the same and continuous top layer or bottom layer), and two conductive electrodes electrically connected to the conductive bracket of the light bulb are only provided at both ends. The structure that complies with the above description is the single LED filament structure mentioned in the present invention. 
     The invention has been described above in terms of the embodiments, and it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. It should be noted that variations and permutations (especially the embodiments that the LED filament provided in  FIG. 1  combined to the LED light bulb provided in  FIG. 2 ) equivalent to those of the embodiments are intended to be within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention is defined by the scope of the appended claims.