US 6,582,101 B2Granted

Light reflector

AssigneeAllied Lighting Systems, Inc.

InventorsPeter C. Sara, Steven C. Donner, Henry M. Avila

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Abstract

A light reflector having a row of light reflecting segments separated by fold lines, wherein one segment is located at a top of the row and another segment is located at a bottom of the row. A pair of wings is connected at the sides of the row, each one of the wings including a plurality of light reflecting segments separated by fold lines, wherein at least some of the light reflecting segments of the row and at least some of the light reflecting segments of the wings form a shell-shaped arrangement wherein at least some light reflecting segments of the row and at least some light reflecting segments of the pair of wings are bent at their respective fold lines whereby the arrangement is generally curved along an imaginary line connecting the one segment and the another segment and generally curved along an imaginary line perpendicular to the first mentioned line.

Claims23

Dependent claims

A light reflector, comprising:

a centrally disposed pair of rows of light reflecting segments separated by fold lines, said rows having one light reflecting segment located at a top thereof and another light reflecting segment located at a bottom thereof, wherein each light reflecting segment is integrally connected to another light reflecting segment within one of said pair of rows and with a corresponding light reflecting segment in the other one of said rows, said rows being integrally connected to form a generally V-shaped pattern;
a pair of wings integrally connected at the sides of said pair of rows, each one of said wings including a plurality of light reflecting segments;
wherein at least some of the light reflecting segments of said pair of rows and at least some of said light reflecting segments of said wings are joined to form a shell-shaped arrangement;
and
wherein at least some of the light reflecting segments of said pair of rows and at least some of the light reflecting segments of said pair of wings are bent at their respective fold lines;
whereby said arrangement is generally curved along an imaginary line connecting said one light reflecting segment and another light reflecting segment and generally curved along an imaginary line perpendicular to the first mentioned imaginary line.

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Facts

Application: 10/117,420Filed 4 Apr 2002 · continuation in part
Priority: 23 Oct 2000
Published: US 2002/0159259 A131 Oct 2002
Granted: 24 Jun 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

F21V 7/10
Reflectors for light sources: construction
F21V 7/09
Optical design: with a combination of different curvatures
F21V
Functional features or details of lighting devices or systems thereof

Family

Application09/694,721Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 23 Oct 2000
US 2002/0159259 A1Pre-grant publication · published 31 Oct 2002
US 6,508,574 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 6,582,101 B2This patent

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