SHOWCASE

• US 20090116228A1
• Filed: 10/29/2008
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Oketani, Tetsuya, Amari, Yoichi, Otsuki, Atsuo
• Granted Patent: US 8,038,312 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/125
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/001 Devices for lighting, humidifying, heating, ventilation
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/015 Devices for covering joints between adjacent lighting devices; End coverings
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/30 Pivoted housings or frames
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/0471 the sensor detecting the proximity, the presence or the movement of an object or a person
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/405 for shop-windows or displays
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2103/10 comprising a linear array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

An object is to provide a showcase capable of effectively illuminating commodities displayed on a shelf in a display chamber, especially commodities in shelf foremost parts. In the showcase in which the shelf for displaying the commodities is disposed in the display chamber constituted in a main body and in which a front-surface opening of the display chamber is openably closed by see-through doors and in which an illumination device is vertically attached to the main body on an inner side from the edge of the opening, the illumination device is constituted of LED elements, and light from the LED elements is emitted toward front parts of the shelf.

Claims

1. A showcase in which a shelf for displaying commodities is disposed in a display chamber constituted in a main body and in which a front-surface opening of the display chamber is openably closed by see-through doors and in which an illumination device is vertically attached to the main body on an inner side from the edge of the opening, the illumination device being constituted of LED elements, light from the LED elements being emitted toward front parts of the shelf.

2. The showcase according to claim 1, wherein the illumination device is constituted of an LED illumination member including the plurality of LED elements, and a holding member holding the LED illumination member and attached to the main body, and the holding member is formed of a reflective plate portion positioned on the door side of the LED illumination member.

3. The showcase according to claim 1, wherein the illumination device is constituted of an LED illumination member including a plurality of LED elements, and a holding member holding the LED illumination member and attached to the main body, and the vertical position of the LED illumination member is changeable with respect to the holding member.

4. The showcase according to claim 1, wherein the illumination device is constituted of an LED illumination member including a plurality of LED elements, and a holding member holding the LED illumination member and attached to the main body, and the holding member is rotatable around a vertical axis.

5. The showcase according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the LED illumination member includes a substrate having the surface to which a plurality of LED elements are attached, and a passage for heat release is formed in the holding member so that the passage is positioned on the side of the back surface of the substrate.