Lamp

• US 9,395,069 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2014
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Optoma Corporation
• Original Assignee: Optoma Corporation
• Inventors: Lai, Chung-Ping, Yeh, Ming-Hong, Huang, Chih-Hung
• Primary Examiner(s): Dzierzynski, Evan
• Assistant Examiner(s): PEERCE, MATTHEW J
• Application Number:
  US14/296,471
• Publication Number:
  US 20150354788A1
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 362/233, 362/183, 362/157, 362/154
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 2/005 of modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 9/02 the power supply being a battery or accumulator
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/096 Magnetic devices
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/00 Use or application of lighting devices or systems for decorative purposes, not provided for in codes F21W2102/00 – F21W2107/00
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

A lamp is provided. The lamp has one of a first connection portion and a second connection portion. Another one of the first connection portion and the second connection portion belongs to another lamp. The first connection portion has a first electrode set, the second connection portion has a second electrode set, and the first electrode set and the second electrode set contact each other when the lamp and the another lamp are stacked each other.

Claims

1. A lamp, comprising:

one of a first connection portion and a second connection portion,

wherein another one of the first connection portion and the second connection portion belongs to another lamp,

wherein the first connection portion has a first electrode set, the second connection portion has a second electrode set, and the first electrode set and the second electrode set contact each other when the lamp and the another lamp are stacked each other,

wherein the first electrode set comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, the second electrode set comprises a third electrode and a fourth electrode, and the second electrode is a ring-shaped electrode,

wherein the first connection portion further has a ring-shaped trough, the ring-shaped electrode is located in the ring-shaped trough, and the fourth electrode is adapted to insert into the ring-shaped trough and contact the ring-shaped electrode.

2. The lamp according to claim 1, further comprising a magnetic component, and the lamp is stacked to an object by magnetic attraction generated between the magnetic component and the object.

3. The lamp according to claim 1, further comprising:

a main body, has a front side and a rear side opposite to each other;

a cover, covering the main body; and

a light source, disposed at the front side, wherein a light emitted by the light source passes through the cover to reach an external space.

4. The lamp according to claim 1, further comprising an electric power storage unit and is adapted to store electric power in the electric power storage unit.

5. The lamp according to claim 1, wherein the second connection portion further has at least one pillar, the pillar inserts into the ring-shaped trough and props the ring-shaped electrode and the pillar is adapted to move along the ring-shaped trough when the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are stacked each other.

6. A lamp, comprising:

a first lamp unit, having one of a first connection portion and a second connection portion; and

at least one second lamp unit, having another one of the first connection portion and the second connection portion,

wherein the first connection portion has a first electrode set, the second connection portion has a second electrode set, and the first electrode set and the second electrode set contact each other when the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are stacked each other,

wherein the first electrode set comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, the second electrode set comprises a third electrode and a fourth electrode, and the second electrode is a ring-shaped electrode,

wherein the first connection portion further has a ring-shaped trough, the ring-shaped electrode is located in the ring-shaped trough, and the fourth electrode is adapted to insert into the ring-shaped trough and contact the ring-shaped electrode.

7. The lamp according to claim 6, wherein the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are stacked each other, the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are adapted to rotate relatively along a rotating axis.

8. The lamp according to claim 6, wherein the first connection portion further has a position-limiting concave portion, the first electrode set is located in the position-limiting concave portion and the second connection portion is limited in the position-limiting concave portion when the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are stacked each other.

9. The lamp according to claim 6, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode respectively contact the third electrode and the fourth electrode continuously when the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are stacked each other and relatively rotate along a rotating axis.

10. The lamp according to claim 9, wherein the first electrode and the third electrode are located on the rotating axis and contact each other and the fourth electrode moves along and continuously contact the ring-shaped electrode when the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are stacked each other and relatively rotate along the rotating axis.

11. The lamp according to claim 10, wherein the fourth electrode comprises an elastic portion and a contacting portion connected to each other, and the contacting portion is adapted to lean against the ring-shaped electrode by elastic force of the elastic portion.

12. The lamp according to claim 6, wherein the first connection portion and the second connection portion further has a first magnetic component and a second magnetic component respectively, and the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are fixed together by magnetic attraction generated between the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component.

13. The lamp according to claim 12, wherein a quantity of the at least one second lamp unit is plural, each of the second lamp units further has a third connection portion, each second connection portion and each third connection portion are disposed at two opposite sides of each of the second lamp units, the third connection portion has a third electrode set and a third magnetic component, two of the second lamp units adjacent to each other are fixed together by magnetic attraction generated between the corresponding second magnetic component and the corresponding third magnetic component and two of the second lamp units adjacent to each other contact each other by the corresponding second electrode set and the corresponding third electrode set when the second lamp units are sequentially stacked on the first lamp unit.

14. The lamp according to claim 6, wherein at least one of the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit comprises:

a main body, has a front side and a rear side opposite to each other;

a cover, covering the main body; and

a light source, disposed at the front side, wherein a light emitted by the light source passes through the cover to reach an external space.

15. The lamp according to claim 14, wherein the cover is a diffuser.

16. The lamp according to claim 14, wherein the cover comprises a light penetration portion corresponding to the front side and a light shielding portion corresponding to the rear side.

17. The lamp according to claim 6, wherein when the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are stacked each other and rotate relatively along a rotating axis, a light emitting direction of the second lamp unit is changed relative to a light emitting direction of the first lamp unit.

18. The lamp according to claim 6, wherein at least one of the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit further has a wireless transmission module, and an external device is adapted to transmit a wireless signal to the wireless transmission module to control a light emitting color and/or a light emitting intensity of at least one of the first lamp unit and the second lamp unit.

19. The lamp according to claim 6, wherein the first lamp unit further has a power cord and is adapted to receive the electric power provided by an external power source through the power cord.

20. The lamp according to claim 6, wherein the second lamp unit further has an electric power storage unit and is adapted to store the electric power in the electric power storage unit.