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.
Claims9
A forward cooling headlight comprising:
- a body;
- a lens coupled to said body;
- a heatsink coupled to said body;
- at least one heatpipe, at least two lights;
- at least one motherboard coupled to said at least two lights wherein said at least one motherboard is coupled to said heatsink wherein said at least one heatpipe is coupled to said heatsink;
- at least one heat pump housing at least one thermo-electric power generator coupled to said heat pump housing wherein said thermo-electric power generator uses heat losses coming from said at least two lights and the motherboard to generate additional electricity to power said at least two lights, or other functions of said at least two lights;
- at least one Wankel engine comprising disposed in said heat pump housing coupled to the at least one heatpipe, said at least one Wankel engine being driven by fluids inserted by the heatpipes, to drive fluid in the housing from a hotter region to a cooler region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.