Showcase

• US 8,070,309 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2009
• Issued: 12/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Otsuki, Atsuo, Amari, Yoichi, Oketani, Tetsuya, Shibusawa, Sakumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Husar, Stephen F
• Assistant Examiner(s): CRANSON JR, JAMES W
• Application Number:
  US12/370,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20090207593A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,027 Days
• Field of Search: 362/125, 362/126, 362/133, 362/92, 362/147, 362/294
• US Class Current: 362/126
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 11/10 Arrangements of light sources
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/001 Devices for lighting, humidifying, heating, ventilation
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/405 for shop-windows or displays
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

An object is to provide a showcase capable of improving the appearance of an illumination apparatus and also capable of improving the effects of illumination by the illumination apparatus. In the showcase, the inside of a display chamber formed in a main body thereof is illuminated with the illumination apparatus. The illumination apparatus includes: a plurality of LED illumination components equipped with LED elements; a holding member attached to the main body to hold the LED illumination components; a wiring connector provided between the LED illumination components; and a reflecting plate covering the connector.

Claims

1. A showcase in which the inside of a display chamber formed in a main body thereof is illuminated with an illumination apparatus, the illumination apparatus including:

a plurality of LED illumination components equipped with LED elements;

a holding member attached to the main body to hold the LED illumination components;

a wiring connector provided between the LED illumination components; and

a reflecting plate covering the connector,

wherein the display chamber has a front opening, and cold air is discharged from a cold air outlet provided at the upper edge of the front opening and sucked in from a cold air inlet provided at the lower edge of the opening such that a cold air curtain is formed at the front opening of the display chamber; and

the illumination apparatus is attached to a ceiling of the display chamber in the rear of the cold air outlet, and light from the LED elements is radiated backwardly downward and toward the surface of the ceiling.

2. The showcase according to claim 1, comprising an attachment member attached to the ceiling of the display chamber, wherein the holding member is attached to the attachment member in a removably engaged manner.