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US 12,740,548 B2Granted
Aquarium system with controlable light and methods
AssigneeSpectrum Brands, Inc.
InventorsJoe Flora, John Edward Fox, Jr., Joseph Roark, Chad Robbins
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Abstract
An aquarium system includes an aquarium tank arrangement and a light source. The light source has a controllable output of colored light projecting into the aquarium tank arrangement. The light source can provide a cycle of projecting light of at least two different colors.
Claims20
An aquarium lighting system comprising:
- (a) a cabinet configured to hold an aquarium tank arrangement including a row of aquarium tanks;
- (b) a lighting fixture positioned above the cabinet and extending across the row of aquarium tanks, the lighting fixture comprising:
- (i) a first row of light emitting diodes (LEDs) configured to emit white light;
- (ii) a second row of LEDs configured to emit colored light;
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- (iii) a housing containing the first and second rows of LEDs;
- (c) a control box electrically connected to the lighting fixture, the control box comprising a switch configured to selectively activate segments of the first row of LEDs, segments of the second row of LEDs, or segments of both rows of LEDs simultaneously, projecting different colored lights into different aquarium tanks in the row;
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- (d) a connector positioned between the lighting fixture and the control box.
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An aquarium system comprising:
- (a) an array of aquarium tanks arranged in rows and columns within a cabinet;
- (b) a surface skimmer positioned in each aquarium tank;
- (c) a plurality of lighting fixtures, with at least one lighting fixture positioned above each row of aquarium tanks;
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- (d) each lighting fixture extending across a row of the aquarium tanks and comprising a plurality of LEDs arranged to project different colored lights into different aquarium tanks in the respective row.
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An aquarium lighting system comprising:
- (a) an aquarium tank arrangement including a row of aquarium tanks;
- (b) a light source extending across the row of aquarium tanks positioned to project colored light into the aquarium tank arrangement;
- (c) a mobile device;
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- (d) an application executable on the mobile device, wherein the application is configured to set an output of the colored light from the light source, projecting different colored lights into different aquarium tanks in the row.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.