Illuminating device

• US 9,726,358 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2015
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Schrims GmbH
• Original Assignee: Schrims GmbH
• Inventors: Schech, Christian, Wetzel, Bastian
• Primary Examiner(s): Cole, Brandon S
• Application Number:
  US14/940,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20160069553A1
• Time in Patent Office: 635 Days
• Field of Search: 315149-159
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 15/06 with illuminating devices
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 42/10 illuminated
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/023 Power supplies in a casing F21V23/003 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/0414 specially adapted to be used with portable lighting devices
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/0471 the sensor detecting the proximity, the presence or the movement of an object or a person
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/0485 the sensor sensing the physical interaction between a user and certain areas located on the lighting device, e.g. a touch sensor
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/004 Sanitary equipment, e.g. mirrors, showers, toilet seats or paper dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/06 for personal wear
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/302 for mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/115 by determining the presence or movement of objects or living beings
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

An illumination device that is operable while being transported and that can be placed, or is placed, in an object that can be opened and closed again. The illumination device comprises a first light source, an electric energy storage device, and a switch device that comprises a control unit including a sensor unit with which a first switching unit is transferable from an open switching state into a closed switching state. The first light source is suppliable with electric power from the electric energy storage device when a first sensor is touched and/or when said first sensor detects a motion. The sensor unit comprises a second sensor that at least detects if the object is open or closed. A second switching unit is transferable from an open switching state into a closed switching state in which the first light source and/or a second light source is/are supplied with electric power.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

an illumination device that is operable while being transported and is placed in an object that can be opened and closed again, wherein two dome-shaped parts form the object that can be opened and closed again, and wherein the two dome-shaped parts are formed of or comprise transparent or translucent or opaque material, the illumination device comprising;

at least a first light source;

an electric energy storage device; and

a switch device that comprises a control unit including a sensor unit with which a first switching unit is transferable from an open switching state into a closed switching state;

wherein the first light source is suppliable with electric power from the electric energy storage device when a first sensor for detecting motion of the sensor unit detects a motion,

wherein the first sensor of the sensor unit includes a pyrosensor and/or a capacitive sensor,

wherein the first light source is activated when a user approaches the object,

wherein the first light source, the electric energy storage device, and the switch device are inside the object that can be opened and closed again and is formed by the two dome-shaped parts,

wherein the first light source of the object that can be opened and closed again is arranged such that it shines outwards through the surface of each of the dome-shaped parts; and

wherein the control unit is designed such that the first switching unit switches from the closed switching state back into the open switching state 5 to 60 seconds after the first sensor of the sensor unit has last detected a motion.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the illumination device comprises a display element for displaying at least one piece of information, and/or the first light source forms a display element for displaying at least one piece of information.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display element is connectable to the electric energy storage device via the first switching unit, and

wherein the at least one piece of information includes a time of day, a date, and/or a signal.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display element comprises an acoustically, visually, and/or haptically perceivable display of the information.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a data storage device that is arrangeable in or on the object, and

wherein at least one datum is transferable to and/or stored on said data storage device using an interface unit.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the object that can be opened and closed again forms a container for holding at least one physical element.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the illumination device further comprises a dimmer that is actuatable by the control unit and with which the power supplied to the first light source can be abruptly or steadily reduced down to zero.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is designed such that the first switching unit switches from the closed switching state back into the open switching state 5 to 30 seconds after the first sensor of the sensor unit has last detected a motion.

9. The illumination device according to claim 1, wherein the first light source includes a filament-type light bulb, an LED, and/or luminescent film.