ANTENNA COMBINED WITH LIGHTING DEVICE

• US 20140168020A1
• Filed: 05/03/2012
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Galtronics Corporation Limited (Baylin Technologies (USA), Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Galtronics Corporation Limited (Baylin Technologies (USA), Inc.)
• Inventors: Stoytchev, Marin, Wannagot, Gary, Zaila, Samuel, Chair, Ricky, Cozzolino, Randell, Connors, Cliff
• Application Number:
  US14/115,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20140168020A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/721
• 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 23/00 Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices characterised by cooling arrangements F21V29/508
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/045 the sensor receiving a signal from a remote controller
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/773 the planes containing the fins or blades having the direction of the light emitting axis
• 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: F21V 33/0004 Personal or domestic articles
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 5/54 supported by a separate part, e.g. base
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 61/327 "Compact"-lamps, i.e. lamps having a folded discharge path
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 61/56 One or more circuit elements structurally associated with the lamp
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/22 by structural association with other equipment or articles
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2208 associated with components used in interrogation type services, i.e. in systems for information exchange between an interrogator/reader and a tag/transponder, e.g. in Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] systems methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns G06K7/00; record carrier for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/42 Housings not intimately mechanically associated with radiating elements, e.g. radome
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/44 using equipment having another main function to serve additionally as an antenna , e.g. means for giving an antenna an aesthetic aspectH01Q1/27 - H01Q1/34 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/26 with folded element or elements, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of operating wavelength resonant loop antennas H01Q7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/00 Circuit arrangements for operating light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission

Abstract

A lighting device including at least one light source, a housing located adjacent to the at least one light source, the housing defining a longitudinal axis and being intersected by a lateral axis and an antenna at least partially enclosed by the housing and located proximal to the at least one light source, the antenna being operative to radiate energy, more than half of the energy being radiated in a direction within a hemisphere symmetric about the longitudinal axis and having an equatorial plane in which the lateral axis extends.

Claims

1. A lighting device, comprising:

at least one light source;

a housing located adjacent to said at least one light source, said housing defining a longitudinal axis and being intersected by a lateral axis; and

an antenna at least partially enclosed by said housing and located proximal to said at least one light source, said antenna being operative to radiate energy, more than half of said energy being radiated in a direction within a hemisphere symmetric about said longitudinal axis and having an equatorial plane in which said lateral axis extends.

2. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one light source comprises at least one light emitting diode.

3. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one light source comprises at least one compact fluorescent lamp.

4. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said antenna is fully enclosed by said housing.

5. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said antenna is located with respect to said at least one light source so as to have a negligible effect on the light emissive properties of said at least one light source.

6. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said housing comprises a socket adapted for connection to a power supply.

7. A lighting device according to claim 6, wherein said hemisphere is directed away from said socket.

8. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said housing comprises a heat sink.

9. A lighting device according to claim 8, wherein said antenna is supported by said heat sink.

10. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said antenna is supported by a holder of said at least one light source.

11. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said antenna is supported by a collimator.

12. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said antenna is supported by a printed circuit board.

13. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said antenna is supported by a dedicated non-conductive carrier.

14. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said antenna is planar.

15. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said antenna has three-dimensional geometry.

16. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said antenna comprises a single-feed antenna.

17. A lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said antenna is adapted for at least one of wireless control and wireless monitoring of said lighting device.

18. A lighting device according to claim 17, wherein said antenna is adapted for wireless communication with a control module.

19. A lighting device according to claim 17, wherein said antenna is adapted for wireless communication with wireless devices in a wireless network.

20. A lighting device according to claim 4, wherein said antenna is located with respect to said at least one light source so as to have a negligible effect on the light emissive properties of said at least one light source.