Lamp with heat dissipating capability

• US 7,507,004 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2007
• Issued: 03/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chuen-Shing Chen
• Original Assignee: Chuen-Shing Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Chuen-Shing
• Primary Examiner(s): Sawhney; Hargobind S
• Application Number:
  US11/835,287
• Publication Number:
  US 20080285289A1
• Time in Patent Office: 595 Days
• Field of Search: 362/227, 362/235, 362/240, 362244-246, 362/294, 362/310, 362/362, 362/368, 362/373, 362/540, 362543-547, 362/800
• US Class Current: 362/373
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/01 Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts F21V15/02 takes precedence housings forming signs or letters G09F13/04
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/717 using split or remote units thermally interconnected, e.g. by thermally conductive bars or heat pipes
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/773 the planes containing the fins or blades having the direction of the light emitting axis
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 31/00 Gas-tight or water-tight arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 31/005 Sealing arrangements therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

A lamp includes a housing, a heat dissipating plate, a circuit unit, and a heat distributing unit. The housing includes a housing body surrounding an axis and having an opening. The heat dissipating plate is disposed in the housing body and has a peripheral portion contacting the housing body. The circuit unit is disposed in the housing body, and includes a base plate coupled to the heat dissipating plate, and a light emitting unit mounted to the base plate opposite to the heat dissipating plate. The heat distributing unit is disposed in the housing body, and includes a heat conducting bar coupled to the heat dissipating plate opposite to the circuit unit, and further coupled to a heat distributing plate opposite to the heat dissipating plate. The heat distributing plate has a plate periphery contacting the housing body.

Claims

1. A lamp comprising:

a housing including a housing body that surrounds an axis, and that has a first opening;

a heat dissipating plate disposed in said housing body and having

a peripheral portion that contacts said housing body,

a first plate side that faces said first opening in said housing body, and

a second plate side that is disposed opposite to said first plate side;

a circuit unit disposed in said housing body and including a base plate that has

a first plate surface coupled to said first plate side of said heat dissipating plate, and

a second plate surface disposed opposite to said first plate surface, and

a light emitting unit that is mounted to said second plate surface of said base plate, and that faces said first opening in said housing body; and

a heat distributing unit disposed in said housing body and including

a heat conducting bar that has

a first contact end coupled to said second plate side of said heat dissipating plate, and

a second contact end disposed opposite to said first contact end, and

a heat distributing plate that is coupled to said second contact end of said heat conducting bar, and that has a plate periphery contacting said housing body;

wherein heat generated by said circuit unit is transmitted to said housing body via said heat conducting bar and said heat distributing plate; and

wherein said housing body of said housing further has

a second opening formed in an axial direction opposite to said first opening,

an inner wall surface surrounding the axis, and

a plurality of ribs protruding radially and inwardly from said inner wall surface, each of said ribs having a first end disposed adjacent to said first opening and contacting said peripheral portion of said heat dissipating plate, and a second end disposed adjacent to said second opening and contacting said plate periphery of said heat distributing plate of said heat distributing unit.

2. The lamp as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a heat dissipating collar that is disposed in said housing body of said housing between said heat dissipating plate and said first opening in said housing body, that surrounds said light emitting unit of said circuit unit, and that has one end opposite to said first opening that abuts against said peripheral portion of said heat dissipating plate.

3. The lamp as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a cover plate that is disposed in said heat dissipating collar, that is disposed parallel to said base plate of said circuit unit, and that is formed with a light hole corresponding in position to said light emitting unit of said circuit unit.