Integrated Solid-State Lamp
First Claim
1. An Integrated Solid-State Lamp comprising:
- one or more light emission chambers angled both upward and downward;
one or more solid state light emitting elements positioned to produce light in direct, lateral, and indirect zones without any heat sink obstruction;
a base contact representing an isolation base comprised of a white ceramic, or thermally conducting polymer;
the isolation base serves to both isolate electrically as well as scatter light optically emerging from the downward facing LED array;
a cooling vent allowing the lamp to breathe air from the bottom through and around the LED'"'"'s to a top escape;
side wall panels becoming light emission surfaces when illuminated by the LED light sources; and
one or more flow slots allowing both light and air may also pass from the top half of the lamp to the bottom half of the lamp or vice versa.
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Abstract
An integrated solid-state lamp comprised of thermally conducting materials such as alumina ceramic or graphite filled polymers may simultaneously perform optical operations on the light emerging from solid-state emitters to enable the creation of a lamp which produces light in both direct and indirect light zones with a near-field uniformity more comparable to that produced by a vertical filament incandescent lamp. The light chamber structures may incorporate optical light path modifiers which push light into additional lighting zones for proximately omnidirectional light. Diffuser structures may incorporate hole patterns to improve thermal flow and light recycling efficiency. The distribution produced fully encompasses 0-180 deg. Light produced by the lamp chambers or atrium serve in like manner to the atrial chambers of the heart to produce light uniformly in all directions for general illumination at high efficiency.
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20 Claims
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1. An Integrated Solid-State Lamp comprising:
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one or more light emission chambers angled both upward and downward; one or more solid state light emitting elements positioned to produce light in direct, lateral, and indirect zones without any heat sink obstruction; a base contact representing an isolation base comprised of a white ceramic, or thermally conducting polymer; the isolation base serves to both isolate electrically as well as scatter light optically emerging from the downward facing LED array; a cooling vent allowing the lamp to breathe air from the bottom through and around the LED'"'"'s to a top escape; side wall panels becoming light emission surfaces when illuminated by the LED light sources; and one or more flow slots allowing both light and air may also pass from the top half of the lamp to the bottom half of the lamp or vice versa. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An Integrated Solid-State Lamp assembly comprising:
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a primary light control surface which may be flat, concave, convex, or free-form; a lateral chamber surface which homogenizes light emerging from an interleaved LED attached to a top chamber/heat sink array; a flat light control surface nearest to a directly printed electrical circuit; when the assembly is folded symmetrically to form a singular cavity, and then polar arrayed into 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 or more chambers the net effect is an illumination source in which light emerges from the entire lamp rather than smaller elements at the top of the lamp distinctly separate from the occluding heat sink of the solid-state lamp. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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20. An Integrated Solid-State Lamp comprising:
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an electrical base being either an Edison E26 screw, GU24, bayonet, or other electrical contact structure; and isolator comprised of a ceramic, providing a lamp base holder as well as holding the diffusers; an array of diffusers homogenizes light emerging from the light cavities, which also provide thermal dissipation; the internal walls of the chambers reflect light a plurality of times to produce a pentagonal light chamber; LED or other solid-state light sources receive power through an interconnected network; A constant current power supply or driver converts AC to DC power is housed within the central core of the lamp; an upper light chamber/heat sink has LED'"'"'s on the bottom face or flat surface to source the light cavities and vice versa; LED'"'"'s placed on the top surface of heat sink/light chamber array source the light cavities comprised within the symmetric and rotated light chamber/heat sink array; the diffuser array is comprised of glass or polymer structures which may include micro-structure, textures, holes, or impregnated dissimilar refractive index loading to diffuse the light.; top part holds the diffuser array into place and is intimately connected to the heat sink/light chamber to dissipate heat to the air; an 8 cell chamber is rotated 22.5 degrees to interleave the light cavities thereby removing dark line stripes in near-field illumination; and the direct attachment of the LED'"'"'s to the ceramic heat sinks reduces thermal resistance, lowers die/phosphor temperatures, and improves light output, efficiency, and life of the lamp.
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