Solar powered warning light device

• US 7,044,616 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2004
• Issued: 05/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yi Cyuan Shih
• Original Assignee: Yi Cyuan Shih
• Inventors: Shih, Yi Cyuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Husar, Stephen F
• Application Number:
  US10/938,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20060056171A1
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 362/183, 362/191, 362/276, 362/802, 362/812, 362/135, 362/138, 362/140, 404/6
• US Class Current: 362/135
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 9/037 the solar unit and the lighting unit being located within or on the same housing
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/36 using visible light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/02 Signs, boards, or panels, illuminated by artificial light sources positioned in front of the insignia

Abstract

A solar powered warning light device includes a housing having a front orifice, a solar panel disposed on top of the housing to receive solar energy, a circuit board disposed in the housing and having a converting device coupled to the solar panel, to receive and to convert the solar energy into electric energy and stored in one or more capacitors. The circuit board includes one or more light devices coupled to and energized by the capacitor, and engaged in the orifice of the housing, to emit light out of the housing. A switch may switch on and off the light device, and a photoactive member is coupled to the electric switch, to operate the electric switch by the light of the environment.

Claims

1. A solar powered warning light device comprising:

a convex mirror including a hood provided on top thereof,

a housing disposed on said hood of said convex mirror and including at least one flap extended therefrom and engaged and secured onto said hood, and including a chamber formed therein, and including an orifice formed in a front portion thereof, and communicating with said chamber of said housing, and including an open top formed therein,

a solar panel disposed on top of said housing and received and engaged in said open top of said housing, to receive solar energy,

a circuit board disposed in said chamber of said housing and including a converting device disposed thereon and coupled to said solar panel, to receive solar energy from said solar panel, and to convert the solar energy into electric energy, and including an electric energy storing device having at least one capacitor coupled to said converting device, to receive and to store the electric energy from said converting device,

said circuit board including at least one light device coupled to said electric energy storing device and energized by said electric energy storing device, said at least one light device being engaged in said orifice of said housing, to generate and to emit a light out through said housing, and to light dark environment,

an electric switch coupled to said at least one light device, to switch on and off said at least one light device, and

a photoactive member coupled to said electric switch, and to be actuated by a light of the environment, in order to operate said electric switch, and then to switch on and off said at least one light device depending on the light of the environment.

2. The solar powered warning light device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said solar panel includes an aperture formed therein, to receive said photoactive member, and to allow said photoactive member to be actuated by the light of the environment.