LED illumination device

• US 8,029,169 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2009
• Issued: 10/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Liu, Tay-Jian
• Primary Examiner(s): SHALLENBERGER, JULIE A
• Application Number:
  US12/467,309
• Publication Number:
  US 20090323361A1
• Time in Patent Office: 869 Days
• Field of Search: 362/294, 362/373, 361/697
• US Class Current: 362/373
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/086 with lighting device attached sideways of the standard, e.g. for roads and highways
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/00 Protecting lighting devices from thermal damage; Cooling or heating arrangements specially adapted for lighting devices or systems lighting fixtures combined with outlets for air-treatment systems F24F13/078
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/673 the fans being used for intake
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/74 with fins or blades
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/745 the fins or blades being planar and inclined with respect to the joining surface from which the fins or blades extend
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/763 the planes containing the fins or blades having the direction of the light emitting axis
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/103 of streets or roads
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/0002 Not covered by any one of groups H01L24/00, H01L24/00 and H01L2224/00

Abstract

An LED illumination device includes a lamp housing, a heat sink, a cooling fan, and a light source. The heat sink, the cooling fan and the light source are received in the lamp housing. The heat sink includes a base and a plurality of fins extending from the base. The light source is attached to the base of the heat sink. The cooling fan causes ambient air to enter into the lamp housing and flow through the heat sink. A plurality of air-disturbing plates extends from the lamp housing towards the heat sink. The air-disturbing plates disturb the air in the lamp housing and guide the disturbed air into air passageways defined between adjacent fins of the heat sink.

Claims

1. An LED illumination device, comprising:

a lamp housing being provided with an air inlet and an air outlet at two opposite ends thereof, respectively;

a heat sink received in the lamp housing, the heat sink including a base and a plurality of fins extending from the base, an air passageway being defined between two adjacent fins;

a cooling fan received in the lamp housing, the cooling fan causing ambient air to enter the lamp housing via the air inlet, then flow through the heat sink and finally be exhausted out of the lamp housing via the air outlet, a plurality of air-disturbing plates extending from the lamp housing towards the heat sink, the air-disturbing plates disturbing the air in the lamp housing and guiding the disturbed air into the air passageways between the fins of the heat sink; and

a light source being attached to the base of the heat sink;

wherein the air-disturbing plates are divided into a plurality of rows along a longitudinal axis of the lamp housing, each row has a plurality of air-disturbing plates, and an elongated gap is defined between every adjacent two air-disturbing plates of each row of the air-disturbing plates.

2. The LED illumination device of claim 1, wherein the air-disturbing plates in a same row have an identical height, and the air-disturbing plates in one row have a height different from that of an adjacent row.

3. The LED illumination device of claim 1, wherein the gaps between the air-disturbing plates in one row and the gaps between the air-disturbing plates in an adjacent row are alternately arranged with respect to each other, so that each air-disturbing plate of one row is aligned with a gap of an adjacent row along the longitudinal axis of the lamp housing.

4. The LED illumination device of claim 1, wherein the air-disturbing plates extend inclinedly downwards from the lamp housing towards the heat sink, and the air-disturbing plates are inclined toward the air outlet.

5. The LED illumination device of claim 4, wherein a spacing is defined between the lamp housing and a top end of the heat sink, the air-disturbing plates extend into the spacing, and the air-disturbing plates guide the disturbed air in the spacing into the air passageways between the fins of the heat sink.

6. The LED illumination device of claim 5, wherein a lower portion of the air flows directly into the air passageways between the fins of the heat sink, an upper portion of the air facing the spacing is disturbed by the air-disturbing plates and then guided by the air-disturbing plates into the air passageways between the fins of the heat sink to mix with the lower portion of the air.

7. The LED illumination device of claim 4, wherein the cooling fan causes the air to flow through the heat sink from a front end towards a rear end of the lamp housing, and the air-disturbing plates slant backwards from the front end towards the rear end of the lamp housing.

8. The LED illumination device of claim 7, wherein the cooling fan is mounted at the front end of the lamp housing, and the air inlet and the air outlet are respectively provided at the front end and the rear end of the lamp housing, and the heat sink is located between the air inlet and the air outlet.

9. The LED illumination device of claim 8, further comprising a circuit board mounted at the front end of the lamp housing and a partition plate arranged between the circuit board and the cooling fan, the partition plate is spaced from the cooling fan, whereby a space is defined between the partition plate and the cooling fan, the air inlet is defined at the front end of the lamp housing at a position corresponding to the space, and the air outlet is defined at the rear end of the lamp housing.

10. The LED illumination device of claim 9, wherein the air inlet and the air outlet are defined at a bottom side of the lamp housing, and a dustproof unit is provided at each of the air inlet and the air outlet.

11. The LED illumination device of claim 1, wherein the lamp housing includes a lamp base and a lampshade covering the lamp base, the chamber is defined between the lamp base and the lampshade, the heat sink is mounted on the lamp base, the lampshade includes a front section, a central section, and a rear section, the cooling fan is mounted under the front section of the lampshade, the heat sink is mounted under the central section of the lampshade, the rear section of the lampshade is arc-shaped and extends from the central section gradually towards the lamp base of the lamp housing.

12. The LED illumination device of claim 1, wherein a plurality of spaced water troughs are defined in one surface of the metal base, traversing the metal fins.

13. The LED illumination device of claim 1, wherein the base of the heat sink is substantially V-shaped and includes a convex surface and an opposite concave surface, the fins extending from the convex surface, the LEDs being mounted on the concave surface.

14. An LED illumination device, comprising:

a lamp housing being provided with an air inlet and an air outlet at front and rear ends thereof, respectively;

a heat sink received in the lamp housing and located between the air inlet and the air outlet, the heat sink including a base and a plurality of fins extending from the base, an air passageway being defined between two adjacent fins;

a cooling fan received in the lamp housing, the cooling fan being mounted at the front end of the lamp housing, the cooling fan causing ambient air to enter the lamp housing via the air inlet, then flow through the heat sink and finally be exhausted out of the lamp housing via the air outlet, a plurality of air-disturbing plates extending from the lamp housing towards the heat sink, the air-disturbing plates disturbing the air in the lamp housing and guiding the disturbed air into the air passageways between the fins of the heat sink;

a light source being attached to the base of the heat sink;

a circuit board mounted at the front end of the lamp housing; and

a partition plate arranged between the circuit board and the cooling fan, the partition plate being spaced from the cooling fan, whereby a space is defined between the partition plate and the cooling fan, the air inlet being defined at the front end of the lamp housing at a position corresponding to the space, the air outlet being defined at the rear end of the lamp housing;

wherein the air-disturbing plates extend inclinedly downwards from the lamp housing towards the heat sink, and the air-disturbing plates are inclined toward the air outlet; and

wherein the cooling fan causes the air to flow through the heat sink from the front end towards the rear end of the lamp housing, and the air-disturbing plates slant backwards from the front end towards the rear end of the lamp housing.

15. The LED illumination device of claim 14, wherein the air inlet and the air outlet are defined at a bottom side of the lamp housing, and a dustproof unit is provided at each of the air inlet and the air outlet.