Method for mounting light-emitting elements

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9920910
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13684308

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In a first aspect of the present invention, it is suggested that a mounting method for mounting light-emitting elements as evenly as possible in a mounting area of a lighting device may permit increased number of light-emitting elements. In a second aspect of the present invention, a lighting device including a substrate with a circular mounting area, a plurality of light-emitting elements configured to be positioned at centers of equal smaller circular areas that are calculated to be equal in size in the circular mounting area, the equal smaller circular areas being equal in size to each other and set as large as possible without an overlapping portion in the circular mounting area, a total area of the equal smaller circular areas being smaller than the circular mounting area, and the light-emitting elements and the equal smaller circular areas being the same in number is suggested.

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CITIZEN WATCH CO LTDTOKYO JAPAN TOKYO METROPOLIS

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Funakubo, Takuya Yamanashi, JP 13 86

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