Industry Patents

Patent: 8439520

Color-Configurable Lighting Assembly

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Patent Number: 8439520 
Title: Color-Configurable Lighting Assembly 
Abstract:

A collimated light source with solid-state light emitters in which the solid-state light emitter is optically coupled to a high refractive index reflector optic, which reduces the cone angle of the light input to the reflector optic. Reducing the cone angle allows the reflective surface of the reflector optic to be reduced in size compared with a conventional reflector in air. The solid-state light emitter is mounted near the light output surface to further reduce the size of the collimated light source. The highly collimated light beams of different colors generated by multiple collimated light sources enable the lighting assembly to use a decussate optical filter having dichroic filter elements to combine the light beams to provide the compact lighting assembly having a configurable output light color.  

Country of Issue: US 
First Named Inventor: Richardson 
Assignee: Rambus 
Continuation or Divisional of:  
International Classification: F21V 9/00 
US Classification: 362/231 
Issue Date: 05-14-2013 
Filing Date: 10-21-2011 
Application : 13/279091 
Notes:  
Link to Patent at freepatentsonline.com: 8439520 at Freepatentsonline 
Link to World Patent Family1: World Patent Family at European Patent Office 
Link to Google Patents1: 8439520 at Google Patents 

 

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