Sign box

• US 5,950,340 A
• Filed: 02/02/1999
• Issued: 09/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fay Kan-Kyone Woo
• Original Assignee: Fay Kan-Kyone Woo
• Inventors: Woo, Fay Kan-Kyone
• Primary Examiner(s): Melius, Terry Lee
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dolce, Marcus
• Application Number:
  US09/241,738
• Time in Patent Office: 224 Days
• Field of Search: 40/564, 40/570, 40/572, 40/546, 40/580, 362/31, 362/249, 362/235, 362/800, 362/812
• US Class Current: 40/564
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0036 2-D arrangement of prisms, protrusions, indentations or roughened surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0038 Linear indentations or grooves, e.g. arc-shaped grooves or meandering grooves, extending over the full length or width of the light guide
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0046 Tapered light guide, e.g. wedge-shaped light guide
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0083 Details of electrical connections of light sources to drivers, circuit boards, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/04 Signs, boards or panels, illuminated from behind the insignia
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2013/222 with LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/812 Signs

Abstract

A sign box includes a light permeable box body of V-shaped cross section, a locating block securely fastened to one side of the flat box body, a circuit board securely mounted on the locating block, the circuit board having a plurality of LEDs (light emitting diodes) respectively inserted into respective through holes at the locating block, a control circuit mounted on the circuit board to control the operation of the LEDs, a cover covered on the control circuit, the circuit board and the locating block, and a mounting frame securely mounted on the cover for securing the sign box to a support.

Claims

1. A sign box comprising:

a light permeable box body, said box body having a substantially V-shaped cross section;

a locating block securely fastened to one side of said box body, said locating block having a plurality of through holes longitudinally arranged in a line and respectively disposed in communication with an inside space of said box body;

a circuit board securely mounted on said locating block, said circuit board having a plurality of LEDs (light emitting diodes) respectively inserted into the through holes at said locating block;

a control circuit mounted on said circuit board to control said LEDs;

a cover securely fastened to said box body and covered on said control circuit, said circuit board and said locating block, said cover comprising two coupling grooves longitudinally disposed on two opposite lateral sides thereof, and two mounting flanges at two opposite ends thereof respectively securely fastened to two opposite side walls of said box body by fastening elements; and

a mounting frame securely mounted on said cover for securing the sign box to a support, said mounting frame comprising two inward coupling flanges respectively raised from two opposite lateral side walls thereof and respectively coupled to the two coupling grooves at said cover, and a plurality of screw rods for mounting.

2. The sign box of claim 1 wherein said box body is filled up with a liquid that refracts light.

3. The sign box of claim 1 wherein said box body comprises a plurality of elongated refracting prisms formed integral with an inside wall thereof.

4. The sign box of claim 1 wherein said box body comprises a plurality of refracting facets formed integral with an inside wall thereof.