ENERGY-SAVING LIGHTING FIXTURE

• US 20100253226A1
• Filed: 08/26/2009
• Published: 10/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yadent Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Yadent Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: OKI, Isamu
• Application Number:
  US12/547,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20100253226A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/113
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/232 specially adapted for generating an essentially omnidirectional light distribution, e.g. with a glass bulb
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/275 Details of bases or housings, i.e. the parts between the light-generating element and the end caps; Arrangement of components within bases or housings F21K9/278 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/64 using wavelength conversion means distinct or spaced from the light-generating element, e.g. a remote phosphor layer
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/66 Details of globes or covers forming part of the light source
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/76 with essentially identical parallel planar fins or blades, e.g. with comb-like cross-section
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/77 with essentially identical diverging planar fins or blades, e.g. with fan-like or star-like cross-section
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/83 the elements having apertures, ducts or channels, e.g. heat radiation holes
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 3/00 Globes; Bowls; Cover glasses with refracting properties F21V5/00; with reflecting properties F21V7/00; characterised by cooling arrangements F21V29/506
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2107/30 on the outer surface of cylindrical surfaces, e.g. rod-shaped supports having a circular or a polygonal cross section
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

An energy-saving lighting fixture includes a light transmissive tubular enclosure including an inner tube defining an inner compartment therein, and an outer tube disposed around and spaced apart from the inner tube to define an outer compartment therebetween. As such, the tubular enclosure has a double-tube structure. A lamp assembly includes at least one lamp device disposed fixedly in the inner compartment of the tubular enclosure.

Claims

1. An energy-saving lighting fixture comprising:

a light transmissive tubular enclosure including an inner tube defining an inner compartment therein, and an outer tube disposed around and spaced apart from said inner tube to define an outer compartment therebetween, such that said tubular enclosure has a double-tube structure; and

a lamp assembly including at least one lamp device disposed fixedly in said inner compartment of said tubular enclosure.

2. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a circuit board disposed in said inner compartment of said tubular enclosure, said lamp assembly including a plurality of said lamp devices disposed on said circuit board and arranged in rows.

3. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a tubular circuit board disposed in said inner compartment of said tubular enclosure, said lamp device being connected fixedly to an outer surface of said circuit board.

4. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 3, wherein said circuit board is a flexible printed circuit board.

5. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a washer sleeved on said circuit board in a close fitting manner.

6. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 5, wherein said washer is made of resin.

7. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 4, further comprising two end caps disposed respectively at two opposite ends of said circuit board, each of said end caps having an end wall abutting against a corresponding one of said ends of said circuit board and an annular wall extending from said end wall and sleeved on said corresponding one of said ends of said circuit board in a close fitting manner.

8. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 7, wherein said end caps are made of resin.

9. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 3 further comprising a heat-dissipating strip disposed in and in contact with said circuit board.

10. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 9, wherein said heat-dissipating strip includes a tubular strip body defining a heat-dissipating compartment therein, and a plurality of heat-dissipating fins extending from an inner surface of said tubular strip body toward said heat-dissipating compartment.

11. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 10, wherein said tubular strip body of said heat-dissipating strip has a base segment, and at least one flat segment connected to said base segment, said circuit board having a base board portion aligned with said base segment, and at least one flat board portion aligned with said flat segment.

12. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 10, wherein said base segment has an outer surface coated with an insulating colloidal layer.

13. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 3, further comprising two control modules disposed to connect with two opposite ends of said tubular circuit board, and at least one power terminal connected electrically to said control modules.

14. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 13, further comprising two input terminals each of which has two spaced apart electrode pins and which are connected respectively and electrically to said control modules, and two cap bodies being disposed to seal two ends of said tubular enclosure, respectively, each of said cap bodies being formed with two through holes, said electrode pins of said input terminals extending respectively through said through holes of said cap bodies.

15. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 14, further comprising a heat-dissipating strip disposed in said circuit board and defining a heat-dissipating compartment, each of said control modules having a heat-dissipating hole being in fluid communication with said heat-dissipating compartment, each of said cap bodies having a ventilating hole being in fluid communication with said heat-dissipating hole of a corresponding one of said control modules and, thus, said heat-dissipating compartment.

16. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 1, wherein said lamp device is a light emitting diode (LED).

17. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 1, wherein said tubular enclosure further includes two spaced-apart connecting walls interconnecting said inner tube and said outer tube to close two ends of said outer compartment.

18. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 17, wherein said outer compartment is filled with gas.

19. The energy-saving lighting fixture as claimed in claim 1, wherein said tubular enclosure is applied with a fluorescent coating, said fluorescent coating being applied on a surface of one of said inner tube and said outer tube that faces said outer compartment.