LED light fixture with integrated light shielding

• US 9,212,812 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2013
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IDEAL Industries Lighting, LLC (Ideal Industries Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: CREE Incorporated (Wolfspeed, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kinnune, Brian, Snell, Nathan, Goldstein, Corey, Medendorp, Nicholas W. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): CARIASO, ALAN B
• Application Number:
  US13/764,746
• Publication Number:
  US 20140226339A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,037 Days
• Field of Search: 362/244, 362/245, 362/247, 362/248, 362/294, 362/373
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 11/16 using sheets without apertures, e.g. fixed
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/116 Fixing lighting devices to arms or standards F21V21/002 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/505 of reflectors
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/70 characterised by passive heat-dissipating elements, e.g. heat-sinks
• 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 7/10 Construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/103 of streets or roads
• 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 fixture including a housing, a heat sink secured with respect to the housing and an LED illuminator secured with respect to the heat sink. The heat sink includes central and peripheral portions. The central portion has an LED-supporting surface and forward, rearward and lateral sides, the LED illuminator being at the LED-supporting surface. The peripheral portion extends laterally from the lateral sides. The central portion of the heat sink has downwardly-extending shield members at the lateral sides thereof configured and dimensioned to block illumination in a direction opposite the LED illuminator. In embodiments where the optical member is configured for directing emitter light predominantly toward the forward side, the central heat-sink portion has a downwardly-extending shield member at the rearward side thereof configured and dimensioned to block rearward illumination.

Claims

1. An LED light fixture securable to an elongate support member, the light fixture comprising:

an enclosure enclosing electronic LED power circuitry and having a rearward opening for receiving a fixture-adjacent end of the elongate support member; and

an LED illuminator on a heat sink extending forwardly from the enclosure, the heat sink comprising lateral shield members at lateral sides thereof and a rearward shield member at least partially defined by a rearward side of the heat sink and configured and dimensioned to block illumination from the LED illuminator toward the elongate support member.

2. The LED light fixture of claim 1 wherein the LED illuminator comprising a circuit board with at least one LED emitter thereon and an optical member thereover for directing light-fixture illumination, the optical member being configured for directing emitter light predominantly forward.

3. The LED light fixture of claim 2 wherein the rearward shield member extends to positions beyond the optical member and includes a reflective coating redirecting rearward light forward.

4. The LED light fixture of claim 2 wherein the enclosure is formed by a housing which comprises a main portion including the forward wall-portion at least partially defining the rearward shield member.

5. The LED light fixture of claim 4 wherein the forward wall-portion of the housing includes a reflective coating redirecting rearward light.

6. The LED light fixture of claim 4 wherein the main portion of the housing comprises (a) a housing body including the forward wall-portion and (b) a cover member movably secured with respect to a housing body, the housing body and the cover member forming a substantially closed chamber.

7. The LED light fixture of claim 6 wherein the cover member has a forward end secured to the forward wall-portion of the housing body and at least partially defining the rearward shield member.

8. The LED light fixture of claim 7 wherein the forward end of the cover member includes a reflective coating redirecting rearward light forward.

9. The LED light fixture of claim 7 wherein the cover member also has a rearward end opposite the forward end and a cover wall extending therebetween, the cover wall including a reflective coating.

10. The LED light fixture of claim 9 wherein the forward wall-portion of the housing includes a reflective coating redirecting rearward light.

11. The LED light fixture of claim 6 wherein:

the fixture comprises a frame including an open forward region and a rearward region which has a rearmost portion adapted for securement to the support member; and

the heat sink is positioned within the open forward region and secured with respect to the frame with open spaces remaining therebetween.

12. The light fixture of claim 11 wherein the frame and the main portion of the housing are formed as a single piece.

13. The light fixture of claim 12 wherein the heat sink and the frame are formed as a single piece.

14. The LED light fixture of claim 13 wherein the cover member is a one-piece polymeric structure.

15. The LED light fixture of claim 14 wherein:

the housing body has a main wall and a surrounding wall extending therefrom to a housing-body edge, the surrounding wall having two lateral wall-portions extending between the forward wall-portion and a rearward wall-portion; and

the rearward end of the cover member is hingedly secured with respect to the rearward wall-portion of the housing body, the forward end of the cover member having an integrated latching member detachably securing the forward end of the cover member with respect to the forward wall-portion of the housing body.

16. The LED light fixture of claim 15 wherein the housing further comprises a forward portion extending from the main portion of the housing and defining the forward region, the main portion having a greater lateral cross-dimension than the lateral cross-dimension of the heat sink, the forward portion of the housing having lateral cross-dimension(s) greater than the lateral cross-dimension of the heat sink and spanning the heat sink.

17. The LED light fixture of claim 16 wherein:

the forward portion has outer lateral edges; and

open spaces are defined between the lateral sides of the heat sink and the outer lateral edges of the forward portion of the housing,

whereby the lateral shield members block lateral light from reflection by the forward portion of the housing.

18. The LED light fixture of claim 14 wherein the electronic LED power circuitry includes an antenna and circuitry for wireless control of the fixture.

19. The LED light fixture of claim 2 wherein the at least one LED emitter comprises an array of LED light sources spaced along the circuit board.

20. The LED light fixture of claim 19 wherein the optical member comprises a plurality of lenses each over a corresponding one of the LED light sources.

21. The LED light fixture of claim 20 wherein each LED light source comprises an array of LEDs.

22. An LED light fixture comprising:

a housing comprising (a) a housing body including a forward wall-portion and (b) a cover member movably secured with respect to the housing body, the cover member having a cover wall extending between forward and rearward ends,

an LED assembly secured with respect to the housing and comprising a heat sink and an LED illuminator on the heat sink, the LED illuminator comprising an optical member positioned over at least one LED emitter and configured for directing emitter light predominantly forward; and

a rearward shield member at a rearward side of the LED illuminator and extending to a position lower than a lowermost outer-surface portion of the optical member for redirecting rearward light, the shield member being at least partially defined by the forward wall-portion of the housing, the cover wall including a lowermost portion which is at a position lower than the lowermost position of the rearward shield member to further block rearward illumination.

23. The light fixture of claim 22 wherein the heat sink and the housing are formed as a single piece.

24. The LED light fixture of claim 22 wherein the rearward shield is at least partially defined by the heat sink.

25. The LED light fixture of claim 24 wherein the heat sink extends forwardly from the forward wall-portion of the housing.

26. The LED light fixture of claim 25 wherein the forward wall-portion of the housing includes a reflective coating redirecting rearward light.

27. The LED light fixture of claim 25 wherein the housing body and the cover member form a substantially closed chamber.

28. The LED light fixture of claim 27 wherein the forward end of the cover is secured to the forward wall-portion of the housing body and at least partially defines the rearward shield member.

29. The LED light fixture of claim 28 wherein the forward end of the cover member includes a reflective coating redirecting rearward light.

30. The LED light fixture of claim 22 wherein the cover wall includes a reflective coating.

31. The LED light fixture of claim 22 wherein the cover member is a one-piece polymeric structure.

32. The light fixture of claim 31 wherein the heat sink and the housing body are formed as a single piece.

33. The light fixture of claim 27 wherein the heat sink and the housing body are formed as a single piece.