LED lamp

• US 9,322,531 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2014
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Liang, Chun-Wei, Hsiao, Kuang-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): HAN, JASON
• Application Number:
  US14/460,648
• Publication Number:
  US 20150292681A1
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• Field of Search: 3622171-21717, 362/225, 362/249.02, 362/311.02, 362/800
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/27 Retrofit light sources for lighting devices with two fittings for each light source, e.g. for substitution of fluorescent tubes
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/003 Fastening of light source holders, e.g. of circuit boards or substrates holding light sources
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/0035 the fastening means being capable of simultaneously attaching of an other part, e.g. a housing portion or an optical component
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/02 the elements being transformers, impedances or power supply units, e.g. a transformer with a rectifier
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/06 the elements being coupling devices , e.g. connectors
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2103/10 comprising a linear array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/00 Coupling devices specially adapted for supporting apparatus and having one part acting as a holder providing support and electrical connection via a counterpart which is structurally associated with the apparatus, e.g. lamp holders; Separate parts thereof

Abstract

An LED lamp includes a tube and a light bar received in the tube. The tube includes a base and a lamp window. A lengthwise first slot is defined on a center bottom of the base. The light bar includes a first surface, an opposite second surface, a first side and an opposite side. The first side and the second side are respectively coupled with the first surface and the second surface. Several light emitting diodes are mounted on at least one of the first surface or the second surface. The first side of the light bar is inserted into the first slot of the base. The second side of the light bar is close to a center bottom of the lamp window.

Claims

1. An LED lamp, comprising:

a tube comprising a base having a center bottom, and a lamp window, the center bottom of the base defining a first slot; and

a light bar being received in the tube, the light bar comprising;

a first surface;

a second surface opposite the first surface;

a first side;

a second side opposite the first side, the first side and the second side being coupled to the first surface and the second surface respectively, wherein the light bar is a lengthwise plate, a length of the light bar is less than that of the tube, a width of the light bar ranges from a radius of the tube to a diameter of the tube, and a thickness of the light bar corresponds to the first and second sides; and

one or more light emitting diodes being mounted on at least one of the first surface or the second surface, the first side of the light bar being inserted into the first slot of the base, and the second side of the light bar facing the lamp window.

2. The LED lamp of claim 1, wherein the base comprises two flanges spaced from each other at the center bottom of the base, the two flanges are extended along a lengthwise direction of the tube, and the first slot is defined between the two flanges.

3. The LED lamp of claim 1, wherein a shape of the lamp window is similar to that of the base.

4. The LED lamp of claim 3, wherein a cross-section of the tube is a circle, a polygon or an optical free-form surface.

5. The LED lamp of claim 1, wherein the light emitting diodes are arranged in a lengthwise row at a center of the first surface and the second surface to allow side light emitted from the light emitting diodes emitting out of the lamp window directly, and the other light emitted from the light emitting diodes being reflected by the base and then emits outside.

6. The LED lamp of claim 1 further comprising two lamp holders and two power boards, the two lamp holder being located at the two ends of the tube, the two power boards being received in the lamp holders, respectively.

7. The LED lamp of claim 6, wherein the lamp holder each is column-shaped, and the lamp holder each comprises an end and a wall extended perpendicularly from the end with an opening facing the end.

8. The LED lamp of claim 7, wherein two symmetrical and lengthwise second slots are defined in the wall to fix the corresponding power board.

9. The LED lamp of claim 7, wherein two perforations are defined in the end of the lamp holder and are spaced from each other.

10. The LED lamp of claim 9, wherein two pins are jointed on the power board, and each pin is inserted in a corresponding perforation of the end of the lamp holder to fix the power board.

11. The LED lamp of claim 6, wherein two bending sheets are formed on the power board with a groove defined therebetween, a second gap is defined in the power board and is close to the light bar, a first gap is defined in one end of the light bar, the first and second gaps intersect with each other, and the light bar is electrically connected to the power board by inserting into the groove.

12. The LED lamp of claim 7, wherein the tube is wrapped by the openings of the lamp holders.