LED LAMP

• US 20090323347A1
• Filed: 11/20/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd., Fuzhun Precision Industry Company Limited (Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd., Fuzhun Precision Industry Company Limited (Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: FENG, JIN-SONG, ZHANG, YI, LAI, CHENG-TIEN
• Granted Patent: US 8,052,300 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/294
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 2/005 of modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/001 the light sources being semiconductors devices, e.g. LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/713 in direct thermal and mechanical contact of each other to form a single system
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/75 with fins or blades having different shapes, thicknesses or spacing
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/76 with essentially identical parallel planar fins or blades, e.g. with comb-like cross-section
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/80 Light emitting diode

Abstract

An LED lamp includes a heat sink, a plurality of fin arrays mounted on the heat sink, and a plurality of LED modules mounted on the fin arrays. The heat sink includes a base and a plurality of heat dissipating fins extending from the base. The fin arrays are mounted on a top surface of the base of the heat sink. Each fin array consists of a plurality of fins interlocked together. Each fin array has a bottom mounting surface in contact with the top surface of the base and a top engaging surface defined at an acute angle with respect to the top surface of the base. The LED modules are mounted on the engaging surfaces of the fin arrays, respectively, via heat absorbing plates.

Claims

1. An LED lamp comprising:

a heat sink comprising a base and a plurality of heat dissipating fins extending from the base;

a plurality of fin arrays mounted on a top surface of the base of the heat sink, each fin array having a bottom mounting surface in contact with the top surface of the base and a top engaging surface defined at an acute angle with respect to the top surface of the base; and

a plurality of LED modules mounted on the engaging surfaces of the fin arrays, respectively.

2. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein each fin array comprises a plurality of fins engaged and parallel to each other, a plurality of air passages being defined between the fins of the each fin array.

3. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 2, wherein each fin is trapezoidal.

4. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 2, wherein each fin extends a top flange and a bottom flange from a top edge and a bottom edge respectively, the top flanges of the fins forming the engaging surface and the bottom flanges forming the mounting surface.

5. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 2, wherein the fins each define at least a pair of tabs extending perpendicularly from lateral sides thereof to connect with each other.

6. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fin arrays are symmetrically distributed on the base about a central line of the base, which extends longitudinally through a centre of the base.

7. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 6, wherein the engaging surfaces of the fin arrays angle to face the central line of the base.

8. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of heat absorbing plates each sandwiched between engaging surfaces of the fin arrays and the LED modules.

9. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the heat dissipating fins of the heat sink extend from a bottom surface of the base and lateral sides of the top surface of the base.

10. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 9, wherein heights of the heat dissipating fins of the heat sink extending from the bottom surface of the base of the heat sink gradually decrease along an axis away from a central line of the base.

11. An LED lamp comprising:

a heat sink having a flat face;

a plurality of fin arrays each comprising a plurality of fins interlocked together, the fins defining a plurality air passages therebetween, each fin having a first flange and a second flange opposite and angled to the first flange, the first flanges of the fins of each fin array forming a mounting surface in contact with the flat face of the heat sink, the second flanges of the fins of each fin array forming an engaging surface defined at an acute angle with respect to the flat face of the base and the mounting surface of the each fin array; and

a plurality of LED modules mounted on the engaging surfaces of the fin arrays to widen illumination area of the LED lamp.

12. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 11, wherein each fin is trapezoidal and each fin array has an elongated configuration.

13. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 11, wherein the fin arrays are symmetrically distributed on the flat face of the heat sink about a central line of the flat face of the heat sink.