Industry Patents

Patent: 7267461

Directly Viewable Luminaire

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Patent Number: 7267461 
Title: Directly Viewable Luminaire 
Abstract: A luminaire comprising a housing having thermally separate compartments for an electronics portion and a lighting portion. These thermally separate compartments can provide thermal isolation between the electronics portion and the lighting portion. The lighting portion comprises a plurality of light-emitting elements and further includes an optical device comprising two linear diffuser elements and can be used to further improve the light emission characteristics of the light-emitting elements thereby providing a directly viewable luminaire wherein the illumination produced by point light sources appears uniform along the length of the luminaire. A power supply for supply of energy to the light-emitting elements and a controller for controlling application of energy from a power source to the light-emitting elements is provided in the electronics portion and can be thermally separated within the electronics portion.  
Country of Issue: US 
First Named Inventor: Kan, Weston 
Assignee: TIR Systems 
Continuation or Divisional of:  
International Classification: F21S 8/04 
US Classification: 362/373 
Issue Date: 09-11-2007 
Filing Date: 01-28-2005 
Application : 11/046176 
Notes:  
Link to Patent at freepatentsonline.com: 7267461 at Freepatentsonline 
Link to World Patent Family1: World Patent Family at European Patent Office 
Link to Google Patents1: 7267461 at Google Patents 

 

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