Method for manufacturing a lighting arrangement
AssigneePhilips Lighting Holding B.V.
InventorsSébastien Paul René Libon, Johannes Wilhelmus Weekamp
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Abstract
Disclosed is method of manufacturing a lighting arrangement (100) comprising a plurality of conductive wires (110) organized in a flexible grid comprising a plurality of grid nodes (115), each grid node comprising a first one of said conductive wires and a second one of said conductive wires, at least some of the grid nodes further comprising a solid state lighting element (120) conductively coupled to the first one of said conductive wires and the second one of said conductive wires, wherein each grid node comprises a mechanical support member (130, 134) including a polymer portion (130) embedding the first one of said conductive wires and the second one of said conductive wires.
Claims7
A method of manufacturing a lighting arrangement, the method comprising:
- winding a plurality of conductive wires in parallel on a support;
- defining a plurality of grid nodes by conductively coupling a plurality of solid state elements to said plurality of conductive wires such that each solid state element is conductively coupled to a first one of said conductive wires and a second one of said conductive wires;
- forming a mechanical support member at each grid node by embedding a portion of the first one of said conductive wires and a portion of the second one of said conductive wires in a polymer portion, wherein the mechanical support member comprises a support body;
- dicing the mechanical support member to form a resultant structure;
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- removing the support from the resultant structure;
- wherein said forming step comprises immobilizing the portion of the first one of said conductive wires and the portion of the second one of said conductive wires on the support body using said polymer portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.