LED-based light with supported heat sink
AssigneeiLumisys, Inc.
InventorsJohn Ivey, David L. Simon
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method of forming a LED-based light for replacing a conventional fluorescent bulb in a fluorescent light fixture including providing a heat sink of highly thermally conductive material having opposing longitudinally extending edges, mounting a plurality of LEDs in thermally conductive relation with the heat sink and enclosing the plurality of LEDs within a light transmitting cover such that the longitudinally extending edges engage an interior of the cover to support the heat sink within the light transmitting cover.
Claims20
A method of forming a LED-based light for replacing a conventional fluorescent bulb in a fluorescent light fixture, the method comprising:
- providing a heat sink of highly thermally conductive material having opposing longitudinally extending edges;
- mounting a plurality of LEDS in thermally conductive relation with the heat sink;
- and
- enclosing the plurality of LEDS within a light transmitting cover such that the longitudinally extending edges engage an interior of the cover and the heat sink is suspended within the light transmitting cover by the longitudinally extending edges.
The LED-based light claim of 1, wherein the heat sink is formed by shaping an elongate sheet of highly thermally conductive material to increase a surface area to width ratio thereof.
A LED-based light for replacing a conventional fluorescent bulb in a fluorescent light fixture, comprising:
- a heat sink of highly thermally conductive material having opposing longitudinally extending edges;
- a plurality of LEDs mounted in thermally conduction relation with the heat sink;
- and
- a light transmitting cover enclosing the plurality of LEDs such that the longitudinally extending edges engage an interior of the cover and the heat sink is suspended within the light transmitting cover by the longitudinally extending edges.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.