Tape strip for effecting moving light display

• US 4,173,035 A
• Filed: 12/01/1977
• Issued: 10/30/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Media Masters Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Media Masters Incorporated
• Inventors: Hoyt, Steven D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Padgett, Benjamin R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gron, T. S.
• Application Number:
  US05/856,498
• Time in Patent Office: 698 Days
• Field of Search: 362/812, 362/806, 362/213, 362/125, 362/211, 362/227, 362/249, 362/252, 339/17 N, 339/17 E, 339/17 F, 339/17 LC, 339/17 LM, 40/541, 40/594, 174/117 A, 58/50 R
• US Class Current: 362/249.04
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 10/00 Lighting devices or systems producing a varying lighting effect
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 2/005 of modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/24 of ribbon or tape form, e.g. LED tapes
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/08 Devices for easy attachment to any desired place, e.g. clip, clamp, magnet
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/0808 Adhesive means
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/06 the elements being coupling devices , e.g. connectors
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2103/10 comprising a linear array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/30 Driver circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/189 characterised by the use of a flexible or folded printed circuit H05K3/326 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/806 Ornamental or decorative
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/812 Signs
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/14 Layer or component removable to expose adhesive

Abstract

A flexible lighting strip including a circuit of modular construction formed thereon, light emitting diodes connected to said circuit, and the circuit being connectable to control circuitry which provides selected energization to said circuit and the light emitting diodes for effecting a moving light display.

Claims

1. A flexible lighting strip comprising, in combination;

a printed circuit formed on said strip;

said circuit being formed as discrete modules along the length of the strip with terminal connectors at the ends of each module to permit said module to be connected to an energizing source as an individual circuit independently of the other modules;

a plurality of lamps mounted in spaced relation along the length of the strip and electrically connected to said printed circuit;

a group of lamps connected in each of said modules, each group having the same number of lamps;

said circuit being connectable to a source for energizing the lamps of said discrete modules to light in sequence,

and the corresponding lamps in the various modules being connected by said circuit to be energized concurrently, at a repetition rate of up to about one second to give the appearance that the lights from said lamps are moving along the length of the strip.