Downlight apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10837611-B2
Application number	US-201916696799-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2019
Priority date	Oct 27, 2017
Publication date	Nov 17, 2020
Grant date	Nov 17, 2020

Abstract

A downlight apparatus includes a main housing, a light module, a diffusion cover and a light guide. The main housing has a surrounding wall and a base part. The light module is attached to the base part for emitting a first light and a second light. The diffusion cover is fixed to a bottom end of the surrounding wall, for converting the second light to a peripheral light on an exterior surface of the diffusion cover. The light guide has a light entrance side facing to the base part for directing the first light through the light guide to escape at a light escape side of the light guide. The light escape side of the light guide is surrounded by diffusion cover.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lighting apparatus, comprising:
a main housing having a surrounding wall and a base part, a top end of the surrounding wall fixed to the base part forming a cup containing space;
a light module at least partly attached to the base part for emitting a first light and a second light;
a light guide having a light entrance side facing to the base part for directing the first light through the light guide to escape at a light escape side of the light guide,
wherein the light escape side of the light guide is surrounded by a peripheral light generated by diffusing the second light.

2. The lighting apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a driver, wherein the driver controls the light module to emit the first light and the second light separately.

3. The lighting apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the light module has a first LED module and a second LED module for emitting the first light and the second light respectively.

4. The lighting apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the first LED module and the second LED module emit lights with different optical spectrums.

5. The lighting apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the light module further comprises a substrate, the first LED module is disposed at a central portion of the substrate and the second LED module is disposed at a peripheral portion of the substrate.

6. The lighting apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first LED module and the second LED module are mounted on two different substrates, the two different substrates are disposed at different heights with respect to the base part.

7. The lighting apparatus of claim 6 , wherein a diffusion cover is used for converting the second light to the peripheral light, and the diffusion cover comprises a peripheral light guide, and the second LED module emits the second light into the peripheral light guide to form the peripheral light.

8. The lighting apparatus of claim 7 , wherein both sides of the peripheral light guide emit the peripheral light.

9. The lighting apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the light guide is an elongated column.

10. The lighting apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the light escape side has a three-dimension shape for producing a corresponding three-dimension luminance effect.

11. The lighting apparatus of claim 9 , wherein a diffusion cover is used for converting the second light to the peripheral light, and the diffusion cover defines an inner wall surrounding the elongated column.

12. The lighting apparatus of claim 11 , wherein an inner wall of the diffusion cover has a three-dimension surrounding inwardly curve surface.

13. The lighting apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the diffusion cover protrudes below the bottom end of the surrounding wall.

14. The lighting apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the three-dimension surrounding inwardly curve surface is corresponding to the surrounding wall so as luminance level over the diffusion cover is evenly distributed.

15. The lighting apparatus of claim 14 , wherein an interior side of the surrounding wall has reflective material for reflecting light evenly over the diffusion cover.

16. The lighting apparatus of claim 15 , wherein luminance difference between any two positions of the diffusion cover is less than 30%.

17. The lighting apparatus of claim 1 , wherein there are a plurality of the light guides.

18. The lighting apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of light guides have light escape sides facing to different directions.

19. The lighting apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first light and the second light have different color spectrums.

20. The lighting apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the base part has a back structure with two sockets for selectively installing different fixing structures for fixing the downlight apparatus to different stations.

Assignees

• Xiamen Eco Lighting Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hou Shouqiang
• Wen Xiaoliang
• Zeng Maojin
• Yi Bin

Classifications

• F21Y2113/13

  comprising an assembly of point-like light sources · CPC title

• F21V3/02

  characterised by the shape · CPC title

• F21V3/10

  characterised by coatings · CPC title

• F21V23/003

  the elements being electronics drivers or controllers for operating the light source, e.g. for a LED array · CPC title

• F21K9/61

  using light guides · CPC title