Lighting device

• US 8,109,647 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2010
• Issued: 02/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Suzhou Lekin Semiconductor Company Limited
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Soo, Kim Dong, Ha, Kim Yun
• Primary Examiner(s): MAY, ROBERT J
• Application Number:
  US12/845,387
• Publication Number:
  US 20110058358A1
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 362/219, 362221-224, 36221702-21705, 362/237, 362/240, 362/241, 362/243, 362/249.02, 362/235, 362/404, 362/342
• US Class Current: 362/217.03
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/20 with light sources held by or within elongate supports
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/28 rigid, e.g. LED bars
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/02 of recess-mounted type, e.g. downlighters specially adapted for vehicle exteriors F21S41/00-F21S45/00
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/04 intended only for mounting on a ceiling or the like overhead structures F21S8/02 takes precedence; details of ceiling bases F21V21/03
• 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 17/104 using feather joints, e.g. tongues and grooves, with or without friction
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/026 Fastening of transformers or ballasts
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/70 characterised by passive heat-dissipating elements, e.g. heat-sinks
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/005 with an elongated shape to cooperate with linear light sources
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/0058 adapted to cooperate with light sources of shapes different from point-like or linear, e.g. circular light sources
• 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

A lighting device includes a first lighting module, a second lighting module, a case coupled to the first and second lighting modules, and a power circuit between the first and second lighting modules. Each of the first and second lighting modules includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and bottom surfaces of the first and second lighting modules and the power circuit are aligned on substantially a same plane.

Claims

1. A lighting device comprising:

a first lighting module having first and second louvers;

a second lighting module having third and fourth louvers;

a first diffuser over the first lighting module; and

a second diffuser over the second lighting module, wherein the first and second lighting modules each include a plurality of light emitting diodes, wherein the first and second lighting modules each include a first slanted side surface and a second slanted side surface, and wherein;

the first diffuser is coupled between the first and second slanted side surfaces of the first lighting module,

the second diffuser is coupled between the first and second slanted side surfaces of the second lighting module,

the first and second louvers are coupled to respective edges of the first and second slanted side surfaces of the first lighting module and extend at an obtuse angle relative to the first diffuser, and

the third and fourth louvers are coupled to respective edges of the first and second slanted side surfaces of the second lighting module and extend at an obtuse angle relative to the second diffuser.

2. The lighting device of claim 1, further comprising:

a power circuit to power the first and second lighting modules,

wherein the second louver is coupled to the third louver, and

wherein the power circuit is located in a space covered by the second and third louvers.

3. The lighting device of claim 2, wherein the first and fourth louvers include or are attached to respectively coupling members to couple the device to a ceiling or other surface.

4. The lighting device of claim 1, further comprising:

a power circuit to power the first and second lighting modules,

wherein the second louver is integrally formed with the third louver, and

wherein the power circuit is located in a space covered by the second and third louvers.

5. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth louvers are curved and wherein the first and third louvers are curved in a same direction and the second and fourth louvers are curved in a same direction different from the direction in which the first and third louvers are curved.

6. The lighting device of claim 5, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth louvers are concave.

7. The lighting device of claim 5, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth louvers are convex.

8. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth louvers are substantially linear and wherein the first and third louvers extend in a same direction and the second and fourth louvers extend in a same direction different from the direction in which the first and third louvers extend.

9. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the first and second diffusers are substantially coplanar.

10. The lighting device of claim 1, further comprising:

a power circuit to power the first and second lighting modules,

wherein the power circuit is located between the first and second lighting modules.

11. A lighting device comprising:

a case comprising;

a bottom plate;

walls extending from ends of the bottom plate; and

louvers coupled to and inclined from respective edges of the walls;

a light emitter coupled to the bottom plate;

a diffuser plate spaced apart from the light emitter and disposed between the walls, and

a reflector, disposed on an inner surface of the case, to reflect light emitted from the light emitter and to direct the reflected light through the diffuser plate, wherein each of the louvers is oriented at an obtuse angle relative to the diffuser plate and wherein the light emitter includes an LED.

12. The lighting device of claim 11, wherein a surface of the reflector is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the inner surface of at least one of the walls.

13. The lighting device of claim 11, further comprising a support frame comprising:

a frame body surrounding outer lateral surface of the case;

a case support extending from inner lateral surface of the frame body and supporting the weight of the case; and

a ceiling fixed part extending from outer lateral surface of the frame body and being fixed to the ceiling.

14. The lighting device of claim 11, wherein at least one of the walls of the case comprises a coupling groove formed at ends thereof and wherein the ends of the walls are coupled to the diffuser plate.

15. The lighting device of claim 14, wherein the diffuser plate is slidably coupled to the coupling groove.

17. The lighting device of claim 11, wherein the case comprises:

a first case and a second case being coupled to each other and having a predetermined space formed therebetween;

a first light emitter and a second light emitter, each of which is arranged on the bottom plates of the first case and the second case respectively; and

an electric power controller arranged on a line extending from the bottom surfaces of the first light emitter and the second light emitter to the space between the first light emitter and the second light emitter.

18. The lighting device of claim 11, wherein the reflector is coupled to one or more of the louvers at a predetermined angle.

19. The lighting device of claim 11, wherein:

each of the louvers is oriented at a first angle, and

the reflector is oriented at a second angle different from the first angle.

20. The lighting device of claim 11, wherein at least one of the louvers is coupled to one of the walls at a first angle and wherein the reflector is coupled to said one of the walls at a second angle different from the first angle.

16. The lighting device of 11, wherein the case has a cross section formed by cutting the case in a direction perpendicular to one direction of the case, and wherein the cross section has a substantially uniform shape in the one direction.