ROTATABLE LIGHTING APPARATUS

• US 20120287653A1
• Filed: 05/10/2012
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dongguan Masstop Liquid Crystal Display Company Limited (Wintek Corporation), Wintek Corporation
• Original Assignee: Dongguan Masstop Liquid Crystal Display Company Limited (Wintek Corporation), Wintek Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Chin-Liang, Ye, Zhi-Ting, Lin, Ming-Chuan
• Granted Patent: US 8,708,510 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/430
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/23 Retrofit light sources for lighting devices with a single fitting for each light source, e.g. for substitution of incandescent lamps with bayonet or threaded fittings
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/02 with provision for adjustment, e.g. for focusing
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/74 with fins or blades
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/10 comprising a two-dimensional array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

A rotatable lighting apparatus includes a terminal, a base which includes a protruding part at a junction portion thereof, a rotatable lamp holder pivoted at the base and including a heat dissipation part and a lighting source, a passing-through device passing through the base and the rotatable lamp holder, and a bellow device connected to the base and the rotatable lamp holder. The heat dissipation part has a plurality of restricting trenches for fastening to the protruding part. When a tensile force is applied to the rotatable lamp holder, the rotatable lamp holder is capable of moving relative to the base along a moving-axis, so that the rotatable lamp holder is capable of rotating relative to the base. When the tensile force is removed, the rotatable lamp holder is fastened to one of the restricting trenches, so that the rotatable lamp holder is fixed to the base.

Claims

1. A rotatable lighting apparatus, comprising:

a terminal;

a base, wherein the terminal is fixed on the base, an end of the base opposite to the terminal forms a junction portion, and the junction portion includes at least one protruding part;

a rotatable lamp holder, pivoted at the junction portion of the base and comprising;

a heat dissipation part, comprising a plurality of restricting trenches for fastening to the protruding part; and

a lighting source, fixed on a single face of the heat dissipation part;

a passing-through device, passing through the base and the rotatable lamp holder, and the rotatable lamp holder is able to move relatively to the passing-through device along a moving-axis; and

a bellow device, connected to the base and the rotatable lamp holder, when a tensile force is applied to the rotatable lamp holder, the rotatable lamp holder is capable of moving relative to the base along the moving-axis, so that the protruding device is departed from the corresponding restricting trench, and thus the rotatable lamp holder is capable of rotating relative to the base, when the tensile force is removed, the rotatable lamp holder is fastened to one of the restricting trenches by resilience of the bellow device, so that the rotatable lamp holder is fixed on the base.

2. The rotatable lighting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base comprises a receding part, the protruding part is located on a bottom surface of the receding part, the heat dissipation part comprises a protruding portion, the restricting trenches are arranged on a surface of the protruding portion in a circular manner, the heat dissipation part extends correspondingly into the receding part of the base through the protruding portion, so that the protruding part in the receding part extends relatively into one of the restricting trenches of the protruding portion.

3. The rotatable lighting apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the protruding portion comprises an opening on an axis of the rotatable lamp holder, and the passing-through device comprises:

a screw, passing through the base and the opening of the protruding portion; and

a nut, disposed within an internal wall of the rotatable lamp holder and fixed on the screw which passes through the opening, so that movement of the rotatable lamp holder is restricted between the nut and the base.

4. The rotatable lighting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein cross-sectional areas of the rotatable lamp holder perpendicular to the moving-axis gradually increase from the protruding portion towards the other end.

5. A rotatable lighting apparatus, comprising:

a terminal;

a base, wherein the terminal is fixed on the base, an end of the base opposite to the terminal comprises a protruding portion, and an outer wall of the protruding portion comprises at least one locking protruding ring;

a rotatable lamp holder, pivoted at the protruding portion of the base and comprising;

a heat dissipation part, comprising a receding part for housing the protruding portion, a circumference of the receding part comprises at least one locking receding ring for fastening to the locking protruding ring; and

a lighting source, fixed on a single face of the heat dissipation part;

wherein after the locking receding ring is fastened to the locking protruding ring, the rotatable lamp holder only has one degree of rotational freedom relative to the axis of the base, and the angles of the rotational freedom exceeds 360 degrees.

6. The rotatable lighting apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the rotatable lamp holder does not slide along a direction of the axis.

7. The rotatable lighting apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the locking protruding ring and the locking receding ring are fastened uni-directionally.

8. The rotatable lighting apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein each of the locking protruding ring and the locking receding ring comprises an angular structure which faces the terminal, the locking protruding ring comprises a first slope, and the locking receding ring comprises a second slope which corresponds to the first slope.

9. The rotatable lighting apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the outer wall of the protruding portion further comprises at least one protruding ring, and the heat dissipation part further comprises at least one receding ring for fastening to the protruding ring.