RETROFIT LED MODULE

• US 20140268649A1
• Filed: 04/04/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mandy Holdings Lllp
• Original Assignee: Man-D-Tec, Inc.
• Inventors: Mandy, Dalton J., Mandy, Terry R., Mandy, Brandon R.
• Application Number:
  US13/856,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20140268649A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/95
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/233 specially adapted for generating a spot light distribution, e.g. for substitution of reflector lamps
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/90 Methods of manufacture
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/026 intended to be recessed in a ceiling or like overhead structure, e.g. suspended ceiling
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/04 Recessed bases
• 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 29/74 with fins or blades
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/30 Semiconductor lamps, e.g. solid state lamps [SSL] light emitting diodes [LED] or organic LED [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49117 Conductor or circuit manufacturing

Abstract

An LED retrofit assembly including an LED module comprising an LED lamp, and a power supply module coupled to the LED lamp. The power supply conditions power received from an external power source to power the LED lamp and is mountable remotely from the LED module. The LED module is removably supportable by a bayonet base lamp socket.

Claims

1. An LED retrofit assembly for a bayonet base lamp socket, the assembly comprising:

an LED module comprising an LED lamp; and

a power supply module coupled to the LED lamp, configured to condition power received from an external power source to power the LED lamp, and further configured to be mounted remotely from the LED module, the LED module being configured to be removably supported by a bayonet base lamp socket in a position to emit light in a desired direction when the power supply is energizing the LED module.

2. An LED retrofit assembly as defined in claim 1 in which the LED module is configured to be removably supported by a bayonet base lamp socket including a first bayonet base lamp socket detent configured to axially receive a bayonet base lamp, and then allow the lamp to be rotated into engagement with the bayonet base lamp socket detent so as to resist axial separation of the bayonet base lamp from the lamp housing.

3. An LED retrofit assembly as defined in claim 2 in which the LED module includes a first LED module detent configured and positioned to allow a portion of the LED module to be received into the bayonet base lamp socket and then rotated to engage the first LED module detent with the bayonet base lamp socket detent so as to resist axial separation of LED module from the lamp housing.

4. An LED retrofit assembly as defined in claim 3 in which the LED module includes a second LED module detent configured and positioned to allow a portion of the LED module to be received into the bayonet base lamp socket and then rotated to engage a second LED module detent with the bayonet base lamp socket detent so as to cooperate with the first LED module detent and first bayonet base lamp socket detent in resisting axial separation of LED module from the lamp housing.

5. An LED retrofit assembly as defined in claim 1 in which the LED module includes a reflector shaped in such a way, and a lens fabricated in such a way, as to cause light from at least one LED supported within the LED module to appear evenly distributed across the lens.

6. An LED retrofit assembly as defined in claim 1 in which the LED module includes detents configured to be engaged by and to receive torque application from an installation and removal tool.

7. A method for installing an LED retrofit assembly, the method including the steps of

disposing a power supply of an LED retrofit assembly in a location remote from a bayonet base lamp socket in which an LED module of the assembly is to be supported;

connecting the power supply to an LED lamp of the LED module;

axially inserting a portion of the LED module axially into the bayonet base lamp socket; and

engaging the LED module in the bayonet base lamp socket against axial separation by rotating the LED module relative to the bayonet base lamp socket.

8. The method of claim 7 including the additional step of removing a bayonet base lamp from the bayonet base lamp socket before the step of inserting a portion of the LED module.

9. The method of claim 7 including the additional step of disconnecting a bayonet base lamp power supply from an electrical source.

10. The method of claim 7 in which the step of disposing a power supply of an LED retrofit assembly in a location remote from a bayonet base lamp socket includes disposing the power supply above a ceiling panel through which a lamp supported by the lamp socket would be positioned to shine.

11. The method of claim 7 in which:

the step of axially inserting a portion of the LED module axially into the bayonet base lamp socket includes passing the LED module upward through a ceiling panel hole through which a lamp carried by the bayonet base lamp socket would be positioned to shine; and

the step of rotating the LED module relative to the bayonet base lamp socket includes the step of engaging an LED module detent with a corresponding bayonet base lamp socket detent in such a way as to resist axial separation of the LED module from the bayonet base lamp socket.