Forward cooling headlight
AssigneeMatrix Railway Corporation
InventorsNelson Rivas, Gary Provenzano
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Abstract
There is disclosed a forward cooling headlight comprising a body, a lens coupled to the body and a heatsink coupled to the body. There is also a heatpipe and at least one light. The light is coupled to the heatsink, wherein the heatpipe is coupled to the heatsink at a first end, and to the body at a second end. The heatsink draws heat away from the light, via the heatpipe and towards the body. There can be at least one synthetic jet coupled to the heatpipe to aid in cooling the light. In addition, in at least one embodiment, there can be at least two lights with at least two different drivers with a first driver driving a first light and a second driver driving a second light wherein when each of the lights is lit it is capable of generating a different focal point.
Claims20
A forward cooling headlight comprising:
- a body;
- a lens coupled to said body;
- a heatsink coupled to said body wherein said heatsink extends radially outside of said body and said lens and comprises annular fins;
- a continuous closed-loop heatpipe,
- at least two lights;
- at least one signal in communication with said at least two lights;
- at least one controller in communication with said at least one signal, said at least one controller for selectively switching “ON” at least one of the at least two lights;
- wherein said at least two lights are coupled to said heatsink, and wherein said heatpipe is coupled to said heatsink at a first end and to said body at a second end wherein said heatsink draws heat away from said light, and wherein said heatpipe draws heat away from said heatsink and towards said body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.