Clock with lighting elements
AssigneeGradual LLC
InventorRussell Greenberg
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Abstract
A visual time clock comprises a set of vertically stacked or adjacent chambers, each of the at least two chambers having interior-located, connected LED strips which are electronically controlled and selectively powered by being turned on or off or dimmed or brightened as time passes. Each chamber is meant to visually show an amount of elapsed time, e.g., seconds, minutes, hours and days (and years and century, if desired). When one chamber visually fills with the timed illumination of the LEDs, it will void and reset its LEDs and simultaneously illuminate one or more of the LEDs of the adjacent chamber.
Claims19
A visually readable clock device, comprising:
- at least one chamber having two ends and each chamber(s) representing a distinct unit of time;
- and one or more strip connected and substantially uniformly spaced lighting elements forming lighting assemblies extending from one end of each of the chambers towards the other end, within the at least one chamber, wherein the one or more lighting assemblies is connected to a timer controller and a source of power configured to illuminate individual of said lighting elements by turning the same on or off or dimming or brightening the same within the at least one chamber based at least partially on the passage of each unit of time.
A visually readable clock device, comprising:
- a first chamber representing a first unit of standard time, the first chamber comprising an axially-extending first light assembly housed therein comprising a first set of strip-connected and substantially equally spaced LEDs, said LEDs not being viewable directly from the exterior of said first chamber, configured to illuminate the first chamber based at least partially on the first unit of standard time;
- and a second and adjacent chamber representing a second and distinct unit of standard time, the second chamber comprising a second set of strip-connected and substantially equally spaced LEDs, said second light assembly configured to illuminate the second chamber based at least partially on the second unit of standard time.
A visually readable clock device, comprising:
- a housing member comprising one or more adjacent chambers, each of the one or more chambers representing a distinct unit of time;
- one or more strip-connected and evenly spaced lighting components of lighting assemblies extending through the one or more chambers, wherein the one or more lighting assemblies is configured fully or partially or illuminate by activating, brightening or dimming each of the elements of the lighting assemblies based at least on the unit of time corresponding to the one or more chambers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.