LIGHTING APPARATUS

• US 20140085909A1
• Filed: 12/04/2012
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: AHN, Teajeong
• Granted Patent: US 9,062,862 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/382
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/10 around a horizontal axis F16M11/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/024 by positive interaction, e.g. male-female connections
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/033 the surface being a wall or like vertical structure, e.g. building facade
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/086 with lighting device attached sideways of the standard, e.g. for roads and highways
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/30 Pivoted housings or frames
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/00 Protecting lighting devices from thermal damage; Cooling or heating arrangements specially adapted for lighting devices or systems lighting fixtures combined with outlets for air-treatment systems F24F13/078
• 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

There is disclosed a lighting apparatus, more particularly, a lighting apparatus that is able to control a radiation angle of a body provided therein, with being fitted to a lighting space and in an installation spot or in a state of being installed, and to enhance luminance efficiency and save the energy.

Claims

1. A lighting apparatus comprising:

a body comprising a substrate, an LED mounted on the substrate, an electronic module to supply an electric power to the LED and a heat sink to radiate the heat generated from the LED;

a connection member having a one portion provided in the body and the other portion having a tooth part provided therein;

a support member to support the connection member and to have the tooth part positioned therein;

a first shaft to rotatably connect the support member and the connection member with each other; and

a holding member provided in the support member to maintain or release a rotation locking state of the connection member with respect to the support member based on a rotational direction of the tooth part, the holding member comprising a latch part selectively fixed to and separated from the tooth part,

wherein the latch part allows the tooth part to rotate in one direction of the tooth part and not to rotate in the other opposite direction of the tooth part.

2. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the latch part maintains a rotation locking state of the tooth part in a first tilted direction in which the weight of the body works, and

the latch part allows the rotation of the tooth part in a second tilted direction which is the reverse direction of the first tilted direction.

3. The lighting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when the latch part of the holding member is separated from the tooth part of the connection member by applying an external force to the latch part, a rotation locking state of the connection member is released.

4. The lighting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a rotation locking state of the holding member is maintained by the support member, when an external force is applied to the body in a first tilted direction.

5. The lighting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the rotation locking state of the holding member is maintained by making a predetermined portion of the holding member contact with the support member.

6. The lighting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when the contact between the holding member and the support member is released by applying an external force to the holding member, the rotation locking state of the connection member is released to make the body be rotatable in a first tilted direction or a second tilted direction.

7. The lighting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when an external force is applied to the body, the rotation locking state of the holding member and the rotation locking state of the connection member are released.

8. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first fixing pin fixed to the tooth part via the support member.

9. The lighting apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the first fixing pin is inserted in a predetermine space formed between neighboring saw-teeth of the tooth part.

10. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an angle display part is provided in the support member to display a tilted angle of the connection member with respect to the support member.

11. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one or more stopper is provided in the connection member to contact with the support member at the maximum tilted angle of the body.

12. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tooth part comprises a first tooth part and a second tooth part twisted a predetermined angle with respect to the first tooth part, and

the holding member comprises a first holding member selectively fixed to the first tooth part and a second holding member selectively fixed to the second tooth part.

13. The lighting apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the first tooth part and the second tooth part have the same circular pitch.

14. The lighting apparatus according to claim 12, wherein a unit adjustment angle to adjust the tilted angle of the body is determined based on the twisted angles of the first and second tooth parts.

15. The lighting apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the unit adjustment angle to adjust the tilted angle of the body is determined based on a circular pitch smaller than the circular pitches of the first and second tooth parts.

16. The lighting apparatus according to claim 12, wherein when an external force is applied to the body, the rotation locking state of the connection member is maintained by the first holding member or the second holding member.

17. The lighting apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the rotation locking state of the first holding member or the second holding member is maintained by making a predetermined portion of the first holding member or the second holding member contact with the support member.

18. The lighting apparatus according to claim 17, wherein when the contact state between the corresponding holding member and the support member by applying the external force to the first or second holding member in the rotation locking state, the rotation locking state of the connection member is released to make the body be rotatable in a first tilted direction or a second tilted direction.

19. The lighting apparatus according to claim 18, wherein when the external force is applied to the body in the second tilted direction, the rotation locking state of the first holding member or the second holding member and the rotation locking state of the connection member are released.

20. The lighting apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the support member comprises a side wall and a second side wall that are spaced apart a predetermined distance from each other, and

the tooth part of the connection member is arranged in a space part formed between the first side wall and the second side wall, and

a first shaft passes one of the side walls and the connection member to rotatably couple the connection member to the support member.

21. The lighting apparatus according to claim 20, wherein the first holding member and the second holding member are arranged in the space part between the first side wall and the second side wall, and

the first holding member and the second holding member are coupled to a second shaft passing through one of the side walls.

22. The lighting apparatus according to claim 20, wherein an angle display part is provided in one of the side walls to display a tilted angle of the connection member with respect to the support member.

23. The lighting apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising:

a first fixing pin fixed to the first tooth part or the second tooth part via the support member.

24. The lighting apparatus according to claim 23, wherein the first fixing pin is inserted in a space between neighboring saw-teeth of the corresponding tooth part.

25. The lighting apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the tooth part comprises a connected part provided between the first tooth part and the second tooth part, and

a stopper is provided in a longitudinal end of the connected part to contact with the support member at the maximum tilted angle of the connection member with respect to the support member.

26. The lighting apparatus according to claim 25, further comprising:

a second fixing pin inserted in the connected part via the support member at the maximum tilted angle of the connection member.

27. The lighting apparatus according to claim 25, wherein a slot is provided in the connected part, and

a cable connected to the electronic module is exposed outside via the slot of the connected part and the support member.

28. A lighting apparatus comprising:

a body comprising a substrate, an LED mounted on the substrate, an electronic module to supply an electric power to the LED and a heat sink to radiate the heat generated from the LED;

a connection member provided in the body;

a support member having the connection member rotatably coupled thereto; and

a holding member provided in the support member to maintain a rotation locking state of the connection member to maintain the body tilted at a predetermined angle with respect to the support member,

wherein the rotation locking state of the connection member is released to adjust the tilted angle of the body, when an external force is applied to the body or the holding member in a first tilted direction in which the weight of the body acts or a second tilted direction which is the reverse direction of the first tilted direction.