Decorative light source shielding
AssigneeSignify Holding B.V.
InventorsRifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Paulus Albertus Van Hal
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Abstract
A body (10) is disclosed for obscuring a light source arrangement (3). The body comprises a surface (20) including a plurality of optically reflective relief structures (30, 30′, 30″), each relief structure comprising a first portion (31) and a second portion (33) adjacent to said first portion extending from said surface, wherein the first portion has a different optical reflectivity to the second portion and neighboring optically reflective relief structures are separated by an optically transparent medium contacting said neighboring optically reflective relief structures. Also disclosed is a luminaire comprising such a body and a method of manufacturing such a body.
Claims13
A body comprising a surface,
- wherein the surface comprises a first optically reflective relief structure and a second optically reflective relief structure, each of the first and second optically reflective relief structures comprising a first portion and an adjacent second portion extending from said surface, the first portion having a different optical reflectivity to the second portion,
- wherein the first and second optically reflective relief structures are separated by an optically transparent medium contacting the first and second optically reflective relief structures,
- wherein the first portion of the first optically reflective relief structure faces the second portion of the second optically reflective relief structure,
- wherein the surface further comprises an optically reflective intermediate surface portion in between the first and second optically reflective relief structures, and
- wherein the intermediate surface portion comprises a first region and an adjacent second region, the first region of the intermediate surface portion being proximal to and having the same optical reflectivity as the first portion of the first optically reflective relief structure, and the second region of the intermediate surface portion being proximal to and having the same optical reflectivity as the second portion of the second optically reflective relief structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.