Method for directing light in a fluorescent piece
OwnerKurt Perssoninventor
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Abstract
The method is for directing light in a fluorescent piece. Sequentially placed wedge-shaped pieces form a multiple-piece arrangement. Each piece has a base surface and a sloping top surface so that there is a first pointed end at one end and a short end surface at a second opposite end thereof. The pieces are exposed to light beams that hit fluorescent particles disposed inside the pieces. As a result, the particles emit a fluorescent light that are reflected off the inner surfaces of each piece as long as the light beams do not hit the surface at a perpendicular angle. The light beams are directed to penetrate the short end of each piece to form a continuous illuminated surface.
Claims8
A method for modifying a directing light in a fluorescent piece, comprising:
- providing sequentially placed wedge-shaped pieces so that a first piece is adjacent to a second piece that is adjacent to a third piece to form a multiple-piece arrangement, each piece having a base surface and a sloping top surface, the base surface and the top surface having a first pointed end at one end and a short-end surface at a second opposite end thereof, the pieces having a plurality of fluorescent particles disposed therein, the base surface, the top surface and the short-end surface of each piece being constructed of a material that only permits light beams from inside to pass therethrough when the light beams are transmitted at a perpendicular angle relative to the base surface, the top surface or the end surface;
- exposing the top surfaces of the pieces to light beams from above the arrangement;
- the light beams penetrating the top surfaces and hitting the fluorescent particles;
- in response to the light beams, the fluorescent particles emitting monochrome light beams;
- the monochrome light beams hitting an inside surface of the top surface at an angle other than a perpendicular angle;
- the monochrome light be reflecting off the inside surface of the top surface as reflecting monochrome light beams;
- the reflecting monochrome light beams being directed towards the short-end surface and hitting the inside surface of the short-end surface at the perpendicular angle and penetrating through the short-end surface as emitting monochrome light beams so that a combination of the emitting monochrome light beams forms a continuous illuminated surface in one direction only through the short-end surface.
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