Full-cutoff LED luminaire with front-pivot power door and heat sink with refractor mounting

• US 9,845,945 B1
• Filed: 08/11/2016
• Issued: 12/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Signify Holding B.V. (Signify N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company (Eaton Corporation PLC.)
• Inventors: Newton, Chad Stuart, Bednarick, Ronald Joseph, Gibbs, Anthony Ryan
• Primary Examiner(s): Coughlin, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US15/234,884
• Time in Patent Office: 495 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/00 Lighting devices intended for fixed installation F21S9/00, F21S10/00 take precedence; using a string or strip of light sources F21S4/00
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/01 Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts F21V15/02 takes precedence housings forming signs or letters G09F13/04
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/06 the fastening being onto or by the lampholder
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/12 by screwing
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/18 Latch-type fastening, e.g. with rotary action
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/20 by toggle-action levers
• 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 21/116 Fixing lighting devices to arms or standards F21V21/002 takes precedence
• 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 23/009 the casing being inside the housing of the lighting device
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/0464 the sensor sensing the level of ambient illumination, e.g. dawn or dusk sensors
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/06 the elements being coupling devices , e.g. connectors
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/503 of light sources cooling arrangements structurally associated with gas-discharge or vapour-discharge lamps H01J61/52; cooling arrangements structurally associated with electric incandescent lamps H01K1/58; cooling arrangements structurally associated with light-emitting diodes H01L33/64
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/75 with fins or blades having different shapes, thicknesses or spacing
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/77 with essentially identical diverging planar fins or blades, e.g. with fan-like or star-like cross-section
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/773 the planes containing the fins or blades having the direction of the light emitting axis
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/10 Outdoor lighting
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an LED luminaire capable of providing full cutoff illumination in a base configuration, without the addition of reflectors or refractors. The LED luminaire is also interchangeably couplable to one or more different reflectors and refractors. In certain example embodiments, the present disclosure provides a dusk to dawn luminaire operable as a full cutoff luminaire in a base configuration and which is also compatible with an American Nation Standards Institute (ANSI) dusk to dawn reflector/refractor assembly. In an example embodiment, the LED luminaire also includes a housing with a front pivoting door configured to swing away from a mounting structure when opened.

Claims

1. A full cutoff luminaire, comprising:

a housing comprising an open side and a mounting end, wherein the mounting end is configured to mount the full cutoff luminaire to a mounting surface;

a power door disposed on the open side of the housing and pivotally coupled to the housing such that the power door swings away from the housing and mounting surface when the power door is released;

a heat sink coupled the power door,

wherein the heat sink includes a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, a heat sink body extending between the top surface and the bottom surface, and a plurality of heat sink fins extending radially outward from the heat sink body,

wherein at least one heat sink fin of the plurality of heat sink fins has a hooked portion,

wherein the hooked portion of the at least one heat sink fin is configured to engage a latching mechanism of a refractor or a reflector to couple the refractor or the reflector to the heat sink via the latching mechanism, and

wherein the top surface of the heat sink is coupled to the power door; and

at least one light source that is coupled to the bottom surface of the heat sink.

2. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 1, wherein the heat sink further comprises at least one attachment feature configured to optionally couple the heat sink with the refractor or the reflector via fasteners.

3. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 2, wherein the heat sink is configured to couple to an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard reflector/refractor assembly.

4. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 1, wherein the mounting end of the housing comprises an internal wall configured to bias a mounting bracket.

5. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 1, further comprising at least one optic disposed over the at least one light source and coupled to the heat sink.

6. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 1, further comprising an LED driver disposed within a cavity defined by the housing and electrically coupled to the at least one light source through the heat sink.

7. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 1, further comprising a photocell module coupled to the housing and configured to control the at least one light source according to an ambient light level.

8. A full cutoff luminaire, comprising:

a housing that accommodates one or more electrical components of the light fixture;

a power door that is pivotally coupled to the housing and comprising a through aperture disposed at a first end of the power door;

a heat sink that is coupled to a surface of the power door at the first end of the power door such that the power door is disposed between the heat sink and the housing,

wherein the heat sink includes a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, a heat sink body extending between the top surface and the bottom surface,

wherein the heat sink further includes a cavity that extends from the bottom surface through the top surface, and

wherein the heat sink is coupled to the surface of the power door such that the through aperture of the power door is axially aligned with the cavity of the heat sink;

at least one light source disposed on a circuit board that is coupled to the bottom surface of the heat sink opposite the housing,

wherein the circuit board is coupled to the one or more electrical components in the housing via electrical wires that traverse the axially aligned through aperture of the power door and the cavity of the heat sink; and

a mounting end coupled to the housing adjacent a second end of the power door.

9. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 8, wherein the power door swings away from the mounting end when a coupling feature that couples the power door to the housing is released.

10. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 8, wherein the heat sink is configured to optionally couple to an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard dusk to dawn reflector/refractor assembly via at least one attachment feature.

11. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 8, wherein the heat sink comprises an inner groove configured to receive and retain a lipped portion of one or more different reflectors or refractors.

12. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 8, wherein the heat sink comprises one or more threaded screw-holes configured to align with corresponding screw-holes in one or more different reflectors or refractors, and receive and retain a screw therethrough.

13. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 8, wherein the light fixture is a full cutoff light fixture when the heat sink is not coupled to the one or more different reflectors or refractors.

14. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 8, wherein the at least one light source comprises at least one LED.

15. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 8, further comprising:

an LED optic coupled to the heat sink, the LED optic fabricated from a polycarbonate material.

16. The full cutoff luminaire of claim 8, wherein the one or more electrical components comprise at least an LED driver, wherein the LED driver is electrically coupled and provides power to the at least one light source via the electrical wires.

17. A full cutoff luminaire, comprising:

a housing comprising a hinge;

a heat sink coupled to the housing,

wherein the heat sink includes a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, a heat sink body extending between the top surface and the bottom surface, and a plurality of heat sink fins extending radially from the heat sink body,

wherein the heat sink further comprises at least one attachment feature configured to optionally couple the heat sink to one or more different reflectors or refractors,

wherein a power door is coupled to the top surface of the heat sink and disposed in between the housing and the heat sink,

wherein the power door comprises a component disposed at a first end of the power door that is configured to couple with the hinge and a releasable attachment mechanism disposed at a second end of the power door that is opposite to the first end,

wherein the component of the power door is coupled to the hinge on the housing such that the power door is hingedly coupled to the housing via the hinge at the first end of the power door and coupled to the housing via the releasable coupling feature at the second end of the power door; and

wherein the top surface of the heat sink is coupled adjacent the first end of the power door;

at least one light source coupled to the bottom surface of the heat sink opposite the housing; and

a mounting end coupled to the housing adjacent the second end of the power door.

18. The luminaire of claim 17, wherein the heat sink is configured to optionally couple to an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard dusk to dawn reflector/refractor assembly via a bail latch.

19. The luminaire of claim 18, wherein the at least one light source and heat sink configuration provides full cutoff lighting.