Light fixture assembly having improved heat dissipation capabilities
AssigneeInteltech Corporation
InventorsDaryl Soderman, Dale B. Stepps
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Abstract
A light fixture assembly including an illumination assembly in the form of one or more light emitting diodes is interconnected to an electrical energy source by control circuitry. A mounting assembly supports the illumination assembly and a cover structure is disposed in heat transferring relation to the illumination assembly, wherein the cover structure, which has an enlarged surface area formed of a heat conductive material, defines a decorative exterior of the light fixture and is disposed exterior of a mounting surface, thereby effectively dissipating the heat generated by the LED illumination assembly towards the environment being illuminated by the light fixture.
Claims15
A light fixture assembly having heat dissipating capabilities, said light fixture assembly comprising:
- an illumination assembly,
- a mounting assembly formed of heat conductive material and disposed in supporting, heat transferring engagement with said illumination assembly,
- a cover structure, said cover structure at least partially formed of a heat conductive material and connected in heat transferring engagement with said mounting assembly and in heat transferring relation to said illumination assembly,
- said cover structure including an enlarged exterior surface area exposed to an area being illuminated by said illumination assembly,
- said heat conductive material of each of said cover structure and said mounting assembly being sufficiently heat conductive to collectively define a heat sink,
- said enlarged exterior surface area having a greater transverse dimension than said mounting assembly and extending radially outward from said mounting assembly and said illumination assembly, and
- said enlarged exterior surface area disposed to radiate heat outwardly from said mounting assembly and said illumination assembly.
A recessed light fixture, said light fixture comprising:
- an LED light source,
- a mounting assembly formed of heat conductive material and connected in supporting engagement with said LED light source,
- said mounting assembly at least partially recessed within a mounting surface,
- a cover structure, said cover structure formed of a heat conductive material and connected in heat transferring engagement with said mounting assembly and in heat transferring relation to said LED light source,
- said conductive material of each of said cover structure and said mounting assembly being sufficiently heat conductive to collectively define a heat sink for said LED light source,
- said cover structure including an enlarged decorative exterior surface having a greater transverse dimension that said mounting assembly, said enlarged decorative exterior surface being disposed exteriorly of the mounting surface and structured to radiate heat outwardly, away from the mounting surface, said mounting assembly and said LED light source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.