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US 2009/0021927 A1Published application
Refrigerator shelf led lighting
AssigneeElectrolux Home Products, Inc.
InventorsDavid L. Hall, Partap Singh Chaudhary
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Abstract
An illumination device for illuminating an interior space of a refrigerator includes a panel and an illuminator for introducing light into the panel. The illuminator introduces light into the panel along an edge of the panel. A surface of the panel includes a plurality of lines for diverting introduced light to a region that is outside of the panel. The plurality of lines form a grid.
Claims17
An illumination device for illuminating an interior space of a refrigerator, comprising:
- a panel, and
- an illuminator for introducing light into the panel along an edge of the panel, wherein a surface of the panel includes a plurality of lines for diverting introduced light to a region that is outside of the panel, and further wherein said plurality of lines form a grid.
An illumination device for illuminating an interior space of a refrigerator, comprising:
- a vertically repositionable shelf located within the interior space, wherein the shelf includes a semilogarithmic grid that is laser engraved into a bottom surface of the shelf;
- and
- an illuminator located along a rear wall of the refrigerator and along an edge of the shelf, wherein the illuminator includes a plurality of light emitting diodes for producing light that is introduced into the shelf along said edge of the shelf, and further wherein introduced light is diverted outside of the shelf through the semilogarithmic grid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.