LED lamp

• US 8,052,301 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2009
• Issued: 11/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd., Fuzhun Precision Industry Company Limited (Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd., Fuzhun Precision Industry Company Limited (Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhou, Qin-Fei, Chen, Yong-Dong, Wung, Shih-Hsun
• Primary Examiner(s): BRUCE, DAVID VERNON
• Application Number:
  US12/417,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20100157593A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: 362/217.05, 362/218, 362/219, 362/249.02, 362/294, 362/296.01
• US Class Current: 362/249.02
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/28 rigid, e.g. LED bars
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/013 the housing being an extrusion
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/015 Devices for covering joints between adjacent lighting devices; End coverings
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/0045 by tongue and groove connections, e.g. dovetail interlocking means fixed by sliding
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/008 the casing being outside the housing of the lighting device
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 27/02 Cable inlets
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/75 with fins or blades having different shapes, thicknesses or spacing
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/763 the planes containing the fins or blades having the direction of the light emitting axis
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/0083 Array of reflectors for a cluster of light sources, e.g. arrangement of multiple light sources in one plane combination of two or more reflectors F21V7/0025
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/10 comprising a two-dimensional array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2113/00 Combination of light sources
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

An LED lamp includes a bracket, a supporting plate mounted on the bracket, and a plurality of LED modules mounted on the supporting plate. The bracket includes a bottom plate, two sidewalls and two engaging portions. The two sidewalls respectively connect to two opposite sides of the bottom plate and extend upwardly from the bottom plate. Two protruded portions respectively obliquely extend from inner surfaces of the two sidewalls to define two grooves therebelow, respectively. The supporting plate has two opposite sides respectively slidably received in the grooves. A bottom surface of the supporting plate thermally contacts with a top surface the bottom plate. The LED modules are mounted on a top surface of the supporting plate.

Claims

1. An LED lamp comprising:

a bracket comprising a bottom plate, two sidewalls and two engaging portions, wherein the two sidewalls respectively connect to two opposite sides of the bottom plate and extend upwardly from the bottom plate, two opposite grooves are respectively defined in inner surfaces of the two sidewalls, the two engaging portions respectively extending inwardly from two top portions of the two sidewalls respectively;

a supporting plate having two opposite sides respectively slidably received in the two grooves of the two sidewalls and thermally contacting with the bottom plate of the bracket;

a plurality of light modules including LED modules mounted on a top surface of the supporting plate; and

an envelope mounted on tops of the engaging portions of the bracket and spaced from the light modules.

2. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein two extending portions respectively extend outwardly from the two opposite sides of the supporting plate and are respectively received in the two grooves of the two sidewalls.

3. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 2, wherein a protruded portion protrudes inwardly and upwardly from a bottom end of the inner surface of each of the sidewalls and extends along a lengthwise direction of each of the sidewalls, the protruded portion and the bottom plate of the bracket defining a corresponding one of the grooves therebetween.

4. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of fins extends downwardly from a bottom surface of the bottom plate.

5. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the light modules are sandwiched between the engaging portions and abut against the engaging portions, respectively.

6. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein a transition portion is connected between a corresponding engaging portion and a top end of a corresponding sidewall.

7. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 6, wherein a bottom surface of the corresponding engaging portion and a bottom surface of the transition portion are coplanar, while a top surface of the corresponding engaging portion forms a step.

8. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 6, wherein a height of the step is a distance between the top surface of the corresponding engaging portion and the top surface of the transition portion.

9. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 6, wherein the height of the step is larger than a thickness of an edge portion of the envelope.

10. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein two mounting plates are mounted on lateral ends of the bracket, respectively.

11. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the light modules comprises a printed circuit board with a plurality of LED modules and a reflector mounted on the printed circuit board and covering the LED modules, the reflector being spaced from the envelope.

12. An LED lamp comprising:

a bracket comprising a bottom plate and two sidewalls, wherein the two sidewalls respectively connect to two opposite sides of the bottom plate and extend upwardly from the bottom plate, two protruded portions respectively extending from inner surfaces of the two sidewalls, the protruded portions obliquely connecting with a top surface of the bottom plate;

a supporting plate having two opposite sides respectively slidably arranged between the protruded portions and the bottom plate of the bracket, a bottom surface of the supporting plate thermally contacting with the top surface the bottom plate;

a plurality of light modules with LED modules mounted on a top surface of the supporting plate.

13. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 12, wherein a plurality of fins extends downwardly from a bottom surface of the bottom plate.

14. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 12, wherein the sidewalls form engaging portion below tops thereof, the light modules are sandwiched between the engaging portions and abut against the engaging portions.

15. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 12, wherein a transition portion is connected between a corresponding engaging portion and a top end of a corresponding sidewall.

16. The LED lamp as claimed in claim 13, wherein a bottom surface of the engaging portion and a bottom surface of the transition portion are coplanar, while a top surface of the engaging portion forms a step, the envelope sitting on the step.