Pivoting thermal transfer joint
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsSebastien Lafreniere, Luc Monfette
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Abstract
A recessed luminaire thermal management assembly (20) includes a recessed luminaire can (22) having an open lower end (26) and an upper end (24) with at least one sidewall (28) extending between the open lower end and the closed upper end, an intermediate heat sink (50) connected to the luminaire can, the intermediate sink being rotatable through a horizontal plane, a source heat sink (70) being movable through a vertical plane, the source heat sink transferring heat to the luminaire can through the intermediate sink.
Claims20
A recessed luminaire thermal management assembly, comprising:
- a recessed luminaire heat sink housing having an open lower end and an upper end with at least one sidewall extending between said open lower end and said closed upper end;
- an intermediate heat sink connected to said luminaire heat sink housing, said intermediate sink being movable at least partially within a substantially horizontal plane;
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- a source heat sink being movable independently of said intermediate heatsink through a substantially vertical plane, said source heat sink transferring heat to said intermediate sink at one of a first arcuate thermal interface and through said intermediate heat sink to said luminaire heat sink housing at a second thermal interface.
A pivoting heat transfer assembly for a luminaire, comprising:
- a heat sink can having an upper end, an open lower end and a plurality of fins;
- a first spring structure connecting said heat sink can to an intermediate sink, said intermediate sink being rotatable about a substantially vertical axis;
- a source heat sink being disposed against said intermediate heat sink, said source heat sink being movable independently of said intermediate heatsink about a substantially horizontal axis;
- an LED circuit board connected to said source heat sink;
- wherein said source heat sink transfers heat directly to said intermediate heat sink and said intermediate heat sink transfers heat directly to said heat sink can.
A pivoting thermal transfer assembly, comprising:
- a first sink being movable in a first direction;
- a second sink being movable in a second direction and connected to said first sink along an arcuate thermal transfer interface, said arcuate thermal transfer interface allowing transfer of thermal energy from one of said first sink to said second sink;
- wherein said first direction is through a first plane and said second direction is through a second plane and further wherein said first direction and said second direction are substantially perpendicular;
- a third sink being a heat sink can said can housing said first and second sinks.
The assembly of claim 19, further comprising a plurality of LED lamps in thermal communication with one of said first sink and said second sink.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.