Solar light with port
AssigneeLuminAID LAB, LLC
InventorsAndrea M. Sreshta, Anna Ruth Stork
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Abstract
A portable device for generating and providing electricity is disclosed. The device includes one or more flat solar panels; one or more batteries arranged to be changed with electric power from the one or more flat solar panels; one or more lights arranged to be powered from the one or more batteries; one or more electric connectors arranged to receive electric power form the one or more batteries and to connect to combined power/data connections on portable electronic devices; and an expandable and collapsible housing holding the solar panels, batteries, and lights, and arranged to form a hollow inner volume when expanded and a flat panel when contracted.
Claims20
A solar-powered lamp, comprising:
- a bottom portion;
- a top portion;
- a side wall connected at a first end of the solar-powered lamp to the bottom portion and at a second end of the solar-powered lamp to the top portion, wherein the solar-powered lamp is expandable and contractable by collapsing and expanding the side wall;
- an enclosure formed in the top portion, the enclosure containing:
- a solar panel,
- a rechargeable battery,
- a printed circuit board, and
- one or more LEDs coupled to the printed circuit board;
- a flange formed in a surface of the enclosure, the flange defining an aperture between an interior of the enclosure and an exterior of the solar-powered lamp;
- one or more ports positioned in the aperture, the one or more ports electrically connected to the printed circuit board;
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- a cap sized to form a seal with the flange to cover the aperture, and configured to be removed from the flange by a user to access the one or more ports positioned in the aperture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.