Illumination system and mobile body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9840194-B2
Application number	US-201715453222-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 8, 2017
Priority date	Mar 10, 2016
Publication date	Dec 12, 2017
Grant date	Dec 12, 2017

Abstract

An illumination system includes: a seat; a wall; and a sleep control light for controlling sleep, wherein the seat includes a backrest and a seating portion, and makes a transition between a seated state and a lying state when the backrest and the seating portion make a slide movement, the seated state being a state where a minor angle formed between the backrest and the seating portion is a first angle, the lying state being a state where the minor angle is a second angle greater than the first angle, an optical axis of the sleep control light is tilted downward with respect to the horizontal plane, the sleep control light is located behind or above the seat when the seat is in the seated state, and the optical axis of the sleep control light passes through the backrest when the seat is in the lying state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An illumination system, comprising:
a seat;
a wall surrounding the seat at least partially; and
a sleep control light for controlling sleep, wherein
the seat includes a backrest and a seating portion, and makes a transition between a first state and a second state when the backrest and the seating portion make a slide movement, the first state being a state in which a minor angle formed between the backrest and the seating portion is a first angle, the second state being a state in which the minor angle formed between the backrest and the seating portion is a second angle greater than the first angle,
an optical axis of the sleep control light is tilted downward with respect to a horizontal plane,
the sleep control light is located either one of behind the seat and above the seat when the seat is in the first state, and
the optical axis of the sleep control light passes through the backrest when the seat is in the second state.

2. The illumination system according to claim 1 , wherein
at least a portion of the sleep control light is covered by the backrest when the seat is in the first state, and
the sleep control light is exposed when the seat is in the second state.

3. The illumination system according to claim 1 , wherein
the sleep control light is supported by the wall.

4. The illumination system according to claim 3 , wherein:
the wall includes a protrusion protruding from the wall toward a region above the backrest when the seat is in the first state,
the sleep control light is disposed at the protrusion,
at least a portion of the sleep control light is covered by the backrest when the seat is in the first state, and
the sleep control light is exposed when the seat is in the second state.

5. The illumination system according to claim 3 , wherein:
the wall includes a protrusion protruding from the wall toward a region above the backrest when the seat is in the first state,
the sleep control light is disposed at the protrusion,
the illumination system further comprises a lid which covers at least a portion of the sleep control light when the seat is in the first state, and
the sleep control light is exposed when the seat is in the second state.

6. The illumination system according to claim 1 , wherein
the optical axis of the sleep control light passes through a facial region of a user when the seat is in the second state, the facial region including a face of the user and a region surrounding the face of the user.

7. The illumination system according to claim 1 , further comprising
a controller which executes a sleep promoting mode for promoting sleep and an awakening promoting mode for promoting awakening, by controlling the sleep control light.

8. The illumination system according to claim 7 , wherein
the controller starts the sleep promoting mode when the seat makes a transition from the first state to the second state, and starts the awakening promoting mode after a lapse of a first time period following a start of the sleep promoting mode.

9. The illumination system according to claim 8 , wherein
the controller starts the awakening promoting mode at a time earlier than a wake-up time by a second time period, the wake-up time being a preset time.

10. The illumination system according to claim 9 , wherein
the controller increases the second time period with increase in a third time period which is a time period from the start of the sleep promoting mode to the wake-up time.

11. The illumination system according to claim 7 , wherein
a color temperature of the sleep control light in the sleep promoting mode is lower than a color temperature of the sleep control light in the awakening promoting mode.

12. The illumination system according to claim 7 , wherein
a color temperature of the sleep control light in the awakening promoting mode is greater than 3000 K.

13. The illumination system according to claim 1 , further comprising
a reading light, wherein
when the seat is in the second state, a position at which an optical axis of the reading light passes through either one of the backrest and the seating portion is closer to the seating portion than a position at which the optical axis of the sleep control light passes through the backrest.

14. A mobile body comprising
the illumination system according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hasegawa Junichi
• Hatta Kazuhiro
• Noguchi Hiroki

Classifications

• F21V19/00 Primary

  Fastening of light sources or lamp holders (fastening electric light source solely by the coupling device H01R33/00 {; special means for attaching candle to candle holder F21V35/003}) · CPC title

• F21V1/08

  adjustable · CPC title

• B64D2011/0053

  Cabin passenger reading lights · CPC title

• B64D11/0641

  Seats convertible into beds · CPC title

• B64D11/0639

  with features for adjustment or converting of seats · CPC title