Vehicle lamp having light bar

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9523477-B2
Application number	US-201414575137-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 18, 2014
Priority date	Sep 11, 2014
Publication date	Dec 20, 2016
Grant date	Dec 20, 2016

Abstract

A vehicle lamp includes a light bar, a plurality of circuit boards, a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) elements and a heat dissipating structure. The light bar has an annular top surface and an annular bottom surface. A coupling portion is formed on the bottom surface of the light bar. The LED elements are arranged on the circuit board. Light emitted from the LED elements are incident into the light bar through the coupling portion. The heat dissipating structure is coupled to the light bar with the LED elements and the circuit boards mounted between the light bar and the heat dissipating structure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle lamp comprising:
a light bar having an annular top surface and an annular bottom surface opposite to the top surface;
a coupling portion formed on the bottom surface of the light bar;
a plurality of circuit boards;
a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) elements arranged on the circuit boards, light emitted from the LED elements being incident into the light bar through the coupling portion; and
a heat dissipating structure coupled to the light bar with the LED elements and the circuit boards mounted between the light bar and the heat dissipating structure;
wherein the coupling portion comprises a plurality of first bulges protruding from the bottom surface, the LED elements are coupled to the bottom surface via the coupling portion, each first bulge is a wedge structure, each first bulges comprises a light incident surface and a light reflecting surface, the light incident surface is perpendicular to the bottom surface, the LED elements face the light incident surfaces.

2. The vehicle lamp of claim 1 , wherein the top surface and the bottom surface are perpendicular to a symmetry axis of the light bar.

3. The vehicle lamp of claim 1 , wherein the light incident surface is coplanar to the symmetry axis of the light bar.

4. The vehicle lamp of claim 1 , wherein the bottom surface further comprises a plurality of recesses, each recess has a plurality of oblique surfaces.

5. The vehicle lamp of claim 1 , wherein the heat dissipating structure comprises a heat collecting structure and a plurality of fins formed on the heat collecting structure, and the heat collecting structure is coupled to the circuit boards.

6. The vehicle lamp of claim 3 , wherein the light reflecting surface is a flat plane surface or a curved surface.

7. The vehicle lamp of claim 4 , wherein the oblique surfaces of each recess is a reflective surface.

8. The vehicle lamp of claim 5 , wherein the heat collecting structure is a closed annular structure.

9. The vehicle lamp of claim 8 , wherein the heat collecting structure comprises a upper surface and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface, the upper surface is coupled to the second sides of the circuit boards.

10. The vehicle lamp of claim 9 , wherein the upper surface comprises a plurality of second bulges, the second bulges are coupled to the second sides of the circuit boards.

11. The vehicle lamp of claim 9 , wherein the fins are formed on the lower surface of the heat collecting structure.

12. The vehicle lamp of claim 10 , wherein each bulge comprises a structure surface, and the structure surfaces are attached to the second sides of the circuit boards.

13. The vehicle lamp of claim 11 , wherein the fins are spaced from each other and extended from the lower surface away from the upper surface perpendicularly.

14. The vehicle lamp of claim 12 , wherein each structure surface is perpendicular to the upper surface of the heat collecting structure.

Assignees

• Hon Hai Prec Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lin Chen-Han

Classifications

• F21S48/328 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21S48/2237

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21S48/1317

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21S48/115

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21S48/211

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic