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US 11,149,936 B2Granted
Uniformly lit planar field of illumination
AssigneeExposure Illumination Architects, Inc.
InventorDaniel S. Spiro
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Abstract
A light emitting embodiment uniformly illuminating a planar field configured to operate in conjunction with other like embodiments in proximity to form a continuous uniformly lit planar pathway and/or field of illumination.
Claims20
A heatsink light source comprising:
- a unitary nonlinear profiled heatsink comprises a plurality of heat dissipating fins and at least two bisecting planar surfaces linearly disposed along a longitudinal axis of the heatsink, each of the bisecting planar surfaces are substantially flat and at least one bisecting planar surface area differs from another bisecting planar surface area;
- a plurality of light sources coupled to each of the bisecting planar surfaces;
- a unitary lens comprising a plurality of light source dedicated optical lenses disposed over the light sources, and
- an arm coupled to the heatsink to provide at least one of vertical and lateral mobility,
- the light sources coupled to a first bisecting planar surface of the at least two bisecting planar surfaces are configured to target different contiguously first sub-fields of illumination, the light sources coupled to a second bisecting planar surface of the at least two bisecting planar surfaces are configured to target different contiguously second sub-fields of illumination, wherein the first and the second sub-fields of illumination form a larger contiguous field of illumination that is uniformly lit and pattern controlled;
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- a tilt angle between each of the bisecting planar surfaces increases in relation to the larger contiguous field of illumination such that the bisecting planar surface having a highest tilt angle or highest tilt angle and surface area illuminates a farthest sub-field of the field of illumination, and each of the bisecting planar surfaces are nonaligned along the longitudinal axis of the heatsink.
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A heatsink light source comprising:
- a unitary nonlinear profiled heatsink comprises at least two bisecting planar surfaces linearly disposed along a longitudinal axis of the heatsink, each of the bisecting planar surfaces are substantially flat and at least one bisecting planar surface area differs from another planar surface area;
- a plurality of light sources coupled to each of the bisecting planar surfaces;
- a unitary lens comprising a plurality of light source dedicated optical lenses;
- an arm coupled to the heatsink to provide at least one of vertical and lateral mobility;
- an enclosure with a plurality of mechanical and electromechanical receptacles configured to couple to at least one of a heatsink or a heatsink and another electrical device,
- wherein each of the plurality of light source dedicated optical lenses is disposed above at least two of the plurality of light sources,
- the light sources coupled to a first bisecting planar surface of the at least two bisecting planar surfaces are configured to target different contiguously first sub-fields of illumination, the light sources coupled to a second bisecting planar surface of the at least two bisecting planar surfaces are configured to target different contiguously second sub-fields of illumination, wherein the first and the second sub-fields of illumination form a larger contiguous field of illumination that is uniformly lit and pattern controlled;
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- a tilt angle between each of the bisecting planar surfaces increases in relation to the larger contiguous field of illumination such that the bisecting planar surface having a highest tilt angle or highest tilt angle and surface area illuminates a farthest sub-field of the field of illumination, and each of the bisecting planar surfaces are nonaligned along the longitudinal axis of the heatsink.
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A heatsink light source comprising:
- a unitary nonlinear profiled heatsink comprising at least two bisecting planar surfaces linearly disposed along the longitudinal axis of the heatsink, each of the bisecting planar surfaces are substantially flat and at least one bisecting planar surface area differs from another bisecting planar surface area;
- a plurality of light sources coupled to each of the bisecting planar surfaces;
- a unitary lens comprising a plurality of light source dedicated lenses;
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- an arm coupled to the heatsink to provide at least one of vertical and lateral mobility,
- wherein a profile of the unitary nonlinear profiled heatsink is configured based on:
- a predefined mounting height of the heatsink,
- a length of a horizontal path to be illuminated by the light sources,
- a predefined level of light,
- a tilt angle of the plurality of the bisecting planar surfaces,
- a type, a size, color, and a shape of the light sources that illuminate the horizontal sub-fields of illumination,
- an amount of power needed to attain the predefined light level, and
- the light source dedicated lens optics needed to illuminate a predefined path,
- a tilt angle between each of the bisecting planar surface with respect to a vertical plane increases from a first side of the heatsink to a second side of the heatsink, the first side being substantially parallel to the horizontal path to be illuminated, and
- each of the bisecting planar surfaces is nonaligned along the longitudinal axis of the heatsink.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.