License plate light

• US 7,160,007 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2005
• Issued: 01/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lucidity Enterprise Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Lucidity Enterprise Company Limited
• Inventors: Pan, Ko-Chuh
• Primary Examiner(s): Husar; Stephen F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dunwiddie; Meghan K.
• Application Number:
  US11/127,585
• Publication Number:
  US 20060256570A1
• Time in Patent Office: 608 Days
• Field of Search: 362/497, 362/240, 362/374, 362/375, 362/545, 362/800, 402/00, 402/04
• US Class Current: 362/497
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/56 for illuminating registrations or the like , e.g. for licence plates
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/80 Light emitting diode

Abstract

A license plate light includes a bottom base, an intermediate member, a support frame, a light base and a light cover. The bottom base is fixed with an automobile body or the license plate, and the intermediate body is fixed on the bottom base. The support frame is fixed on the intermediate member, and the light base is supported on the support frame at an intermediate height, having a circuit board with plural LED fixed and sealed in the interior hollow of the light base to make them waterproof. The light cover closes the rear side of the support frame and the light base. The support frame and the bottom base are positioned in an acute angle to let the LED in the light base incline downward so that the light of LED may shine slantingly downward through a lens to shoot on a license plate positioned under the license plate light.

Claims

1. A license plate light comprising:

a bottom base being opaque and of a plate shape and having a threaded hole respectively at two sides for a bolt to engage;

an intermediate member of a plate shape placed on said bottom plate;

a support frame having a bottom horizontal plate, a vertical plate and an upper horizontal plate, said vertical plate extending up from a rear side of said bottom plate and connected with said upper plate, said vertical plate having two lower bent walls right-angled inward respectively at two lower sides and two upper bent walls right-angled inward at two upper sides, said two lower bent walls and said upper bend walls respectively separated by a recess, said vertical plate having a threaded hole in an upper portion between said two upper bent walls, said intermediate member fixed on said lower horizontal plate with rivets;

a light base being opaque and shaped as a rectangular case with an open side;

a circuit board fixed in an interior hollow of said light base, a plurality of LED fixed radially on said circuit board;

a light cover consisting of a traditional lens and a cover body, said lens positioned in front of said support frame and combined with said upper horizontal plate of said support frame, said cover body positioned at a rear side of said support frame and secured stably with the support frame with a screw screwing an upper wall of said cover body with said upper plate of said support frame; and

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said light base further having an upright wall extending up from a rear side, said upright wall having a notch in an upper edge, said notch facing said threaded hole of said support frame for a screw to screw with for securing said light base stably with support frame, said rear side of said light base having a projecting post respectively extending down from two sides and having its lower end reaching beyond the bottom of said light base, said two projecting posts fitting in said two recesses of said vertical plate of said support frame, lower ends of said two projecting posts firmly contacting and securing said two lower bent walls of said support frame so as to keep said light base secured with said support frame.

2. The license plate light as claimed in claim 1, wherein said support frame and said lower horizontal plate are positioned in an acute angle.

3. The license plate light as claimed in claim 1, wherein said plural LED on said circuit board is fixed radially in a curved line.

4. The license plate light as claimed in claim 1, wherein said circuit board with said LED is fixed in an interior hollow of said light base, and sealed completely with sealing material.