Luminaire
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1. A luminaire, comprising:
- a housing;
a light-transmissive diffuser extending across said housing for diffusing light impinging upon said diffuser from within said housing;
a multiplicity of spaced apart elongated light guides in said housing emitting light continuously over respective lengths thereof, each of said light guides being cladded optical fiber having a cladding removed over a portion of a periphery thereof and for the entire respective length of light emission therefrom; and
means at an end of said housing or injecting light into corresponding ends of said light guides.
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Abstract
A luminaire which has in its housing a multiplicity of groups of light emitters of different colors or pluralities of optical waveguides constructed to emit light progressively along the lengths thereof and a diffuser at which the colors can be mixed and from which the light emerges. The emitters can be controlled at the housing or light can be delivered to the optical waveguides by optical fibers from remote light sources.
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16 Claims
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1. A luminaire, comprising:
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a housing; a light-transmissive diffuser extending across said housing for diffusing light impinging upon said diffuser from within said housing; a multiplicity of spaced apart elongated light guides in said housing emitting light continuously over respective lengths thereof, each of said light guides being cladded optical fiber having a cladding removed over a portion of a periphery thereof and for the entire respective length of light emission therefrom; and means at an end of said housing or injecting light into corresponding ends of said light guides. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A luminaire, comprising:
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an inflatable and deflatable housing; a light-transmissive diffuser extending across said housing for diffusing light impinging upon said diffuser from within said housing; a multiplicity of elongated light guides in said housing emitting light over respective lengths thereof; means at an end of said housing for injecting light into corresponding ends of said light guides; and means for introducing a gas into and removing a gas from said housing.
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