LED light bulb equipped with light transparent shell fastening structure

• US 8,421,320 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2011
• Issued: 04/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sheng-Yi Chuang
• Original Assignee: Sheng-Yi Chuang
• Inventors: Chuang, Sheng-Yi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ashok
• Application Number:
  US13/114,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20120187818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 693 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 313/46
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/232 specially adapted for generating an essentially omnidirectional light distribution, e.g. with a glass bulb
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/005 with keying means, i.e. for enabling the assembling of component parts in distinctive positions, e.g. for preventing wrong mounting
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/002 Arrangements of cables or conductors inside a lighting device, e.g. means for guiding along parts of the housing or in a pivoting arm
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/83 the elements having apertures, ducts or channels, e.g. heat radiation holes
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 3/00 Globes; Bowls; Cover glasses with refracting properties F21V5/00; with reflecting properties F21V7/00; characterised by cooling arrangements F21V29/506
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2105/10 comprising a two-dimensional array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

An LED light bulb includes a power conversion board, at least one light source baseboard electrically connected to the power conversion board, a heat sink and a light transparent shell to hold the light source baseboard. The heat sink has a wedged groove with a first holding portion formed thereon. The light transparent shell includes a sphere and a neck wedged in the wedged groove. The sphere and neck have an inner wall surrounded to hold the power conversion board and an outer wall opposite to the inner wall. The neck has a longitudinal shell retaining portion on the outer wall corresponding and fastening to the first holding portion and at least one transverse shell retaining portion. The wedged groove has at least one second holding portion corresponding and fastening to the transverse shell retaining portion to restrict relative turning of the light transparent shell and heat sink.

Claims

1. An LED light bulb equipped with light transparent shell fastening structure, comprising:

a power receiving base;

a power conversion board electrically connected to the power receiving base and at least one light source baseboard;

a heat sink which holds the light source baseboard and includes a housing chamber to hold the power conversion board, the heat sink further including a wedged groove which includes a wall with a first holding portion formed thereon; and

a light transparent shell which includes a space to hold the light source baseboard, a sphere and a neck extended from the sphere to wedge in the wedged groove, the sphere and the neck including an inner wall to surround the space and an outer wall on another side opposite to the inner wall, the outer wall of the neck including a longitudinal shell retaining portion corresponding and fastening to the first holding portion to restrict the light transparent shell from moving vertically against the heat sink,

wherein the neck further includes at least one transverse shell retaining portion, the wedged groove including at least one second holding portion corresponding and fastening to the transverse shell retaining portion to restrict the light transparent shell from turning against the heat sink.

2. The LED light bulb of claim 1, wherein the longitudinal shell retaining portion and the first holding portion are respectively a jutting surface and an indented surface corresponding to each other.

3. The LED light bulb of claim 2, wherein the longitudinal shell retaining portion surrounds the neck, the first holding portion corresponding to the longitudinal shell retaining portion and surrounding the wedged groove.

4. The LED light bulb of claim 1, wherein the power conversion board is a switch-type power circuit.

5. The LED light bulb of claim 1, wherein the transverse shell retaining portion is a bump extended from the outer wall of the light transparent shell, the second holding portion being a notch located on the wedged groove and corresponding to the bump.

6. The LED light bulb of claim 1, wherein the neck includes a plurality of transverse shell retaining portions extended from the outer wall at varying lengths, the wedged groove including a plurality of second holding portions formed at different depths corresponding to the transverse shell retaining portions.

7. The LED light bulb of claim 1 further including a coupling holder located in the housing chamber, the coupling holder including a fastening portion at one end to fasten to the power receiving base, an insulation wall to form a circuit holding compartment to hold the power conversion board, and a longitudinal holder retaining portion, the heat sink including a third holding portion corresponding and fastening to the longitudinal holder retaining portion to restrict the coupling holder from moving vertically against the heat sink.

8. The LED light bulb of claim 7, wherein the coupling holder further includes at least one transverse holder retaining portion, the heat sink including at least one fourth holding portion corresponding and fastening to the transverse holder retaining portion to restrict the coupling holder from turning against the heat sink.

9. The LED light bulb of claim 7, wherein the coupling holder further includes a mask portion attached to a lower side of the heat sink to seal a lower opening of the housing chamber.

10. The LED light bulb of claim 7 further including an isolation member held in the housing chamber, the isolation member including an isolation wall interposed between the power conversion board and the heat sink and a wiring outlet threaded through by power cords to connect the power conversion board with the light source baseboard, the isolation wall forming compact coupling with the insulation wall of the coupling holder.

11. The LED light bulb of claim 10, wherein the light source baseboard includes a wiring bore communicating with the housing chamber to allow at least one power cord to pass through to form electrical connection with the light source baseboard.

12. The LED light bulb of claim 11, wherein the isolation member includes a protruding portion surrounding the wiring outlet, the protruding portion being wedged in the wiring bore of the light source baseboard.

13. The LED light bulb of claim 1, wherein the light source baseboard is an aluminum baseboard including a plurality of conductive wires.

14. The LED light bulb of claim 1, wherein the heat sink includes a plurality of radiation fins stacked over one another, the radiation fins including a plurality of vents to form at least one airflow passage.