In various embodiments, a lamp is provided. The lamp may include a mounting board; at least one semiconductor light source arrangement arranged on the mounting board and comprising a base, which is provided with base contacts for supplying energy to the at least one semiconductor light source arrangement and which is compatible with a standardized incandescent lamp base; and at least one insulation displacement contact to make electrical contact with the at least one semiconductor light source arrangement.

A light emitting diode (LED) module includes a base that is conductive and is selectively covered with an insulative layer. The base can include a connecting flange and a light emitting region. Traces are provided on the insulative coating and can be used to connect LEDs positioned on the light emitting region to pads on the connecting flange. The connecting flange can be offset in angle and/or position from the base and can be configured to provide a contact shape suitable to mate with a connector in a polarized manner. The base can be shaped so as to provide the desired functionality.

Disclosed herein are a color coating composition for an LED lamp diffuser and a color-coated glass article using the same. The color coating composition is capable of increasing durability and a life of an LED lamp, satisfactorily maintaining an external appearance and a lighting quality thereof for a long time, and realizing various colors, by manufacturing a glass-made diffuser as a means for diffusing light of the LED lamp in a manner of coating the diffuser on various sheets of transparent or translucent glass such as tubes and bulbs so that the diffuser is not deformed and discolored due to light and heat, and has high strength and translucency.

A lighting device comprising light radiation sources (12a, 12b, 12c, 12d) arranged in a plurality of cells (CI, C2, C3, C4) wherein each cell comprises at least one light radiation source, an output screen (16) for receiving light radiation from said light radiation sources (12a, 12b, 12c, 12d), and optical elements (18, 20) arranged between said cells (CI, C2, C3, C4) and said screen (16) so as to convey onto said screen (16) with a uniformly distributed intensity the light radiation produced by said light radiation sources (12a, 12b, 12c, 12d), the illumination of said screen (16) resulting from the superimposition of light radiation individually produced by the cells of said plurality (CI, C2, C3, C4).

A light module may include a conversion means, which is designed to absorb excitation radiation having a first wavelength of an absorption spectrum and to convert it into light having a second wavelength of an emission spectrum. The light module includes an excitation radiation source designed to emit excitation radiation. The excitation radiation source is arranged in such a way that emitted excitation radiation can be radiated at least indirectly onto the conversion means. The light module includes a spectral filter having a long-pass filter characteristic and having a limiting wavelength. The spectral filter is designed and arranged to reduce the emission spectrum having the second dominant wavelength to the output spectrum having the first dominant wavelength. The conversion means has an emission spectrum having a red spectral component and having a second dominant wavelength and having a full width at half maximum of at least 120 nm.

A light emitting diode-based bulb that includes a bracket and a housing translatably coupled with the bracket. The housing includes at least one light emitting diode (LED) unit disposed on a front face of the housing arranged to generate light in a direction away from the front face of the housing and a rear face of the housing with a heat sink thermally integrated into the housing. The heat sink including at least one heat dissipating member extending outwardly from the rear face of the housing to dissipate heat generated by the at least one light emitting diode (LED) unit. A fan is attached to the rear face of the housing, where the fan generates airflow that removes the heat generated by the least one light emitting diode unit.

A tubular solid state lighting device is disclosed having a light transmissive tube. A flexible carrier strip having a first portion attached to an inner wall section of the tube, and comprises an elongate major surface and a further elongate major surface opposite the elongate major surface. The elongate major surface carries a plurality of solid state lighting elements on the first portion and a plurality of electrically conductive contacts on adjacent terminal regions separated by a recess at one end. The flexible carrier strip is soldered to a rigid printed circuit board comprising a first major surface onto which a driver circuit for the solid state lighting elements is mounted facing the flexible carrier strip and a second major surface opposite the first major surface carrying a plurality of spatially separated soldering pads along an edge of the second major surface. The further elongate major surface contacts the second major surface such that each electrically conductive contact is aligned with one of the spatially separated soldering pads and is soldered to said soldering pad by a solder portion extending over the terminal region carrying said electrically conductive contact. A method of forming such an assembly and an assembly method for a tubular lighting device are also disclosed.

A wavelength converting member is provided, comprising a wavelength converting layer comprising an organic wavelength converting compound distributed in a matrix comprising an amorphous or semi-crystalline aromatic polyester wherein the aromatic polyester molecules are predominantly in a randomly oriented state, said wavelength converting member further comprising at least one support element. By avoiding uniaxial or biaxial orientation of the polyester matrix, the organic wavelength converting compound (organic phosphor) is well protected against photo-chemical degradation. The support element ensures the dimensional stability of the polyester matrix at temperature above the glass transition temperature.

A method and apparatus is provided that enables the rotational adjustment of a non rotationally-symmetrical optical element in order to change the direction of the emitted light from an LED emitter of a lighting unit or to change the overall luminous distribution pattern in a luminaire including a plurality of LED emitters and optical elements. The apparatus enables simple and accurate rotational adjustment, while providing for the retaining of the selected rotational position of the optical element. The adjustment can be made before or after the installation of the lighting unit or luminaire, and can be accomplished without requiring tools and expert personnel.

An LED light bulb provides a supporting structure having a central axis, a substantially circular configuration of LEDs surrounding said central axis and mounted to said supporting structure, a bulb envelope surrounding the central axis and enclosing the circular configuration of LEDs, and at least one of the LEDs being at least partially surrounded by a light collecting optic having an optical axis radiating outwardly from the central axis, that collects and projects light emanating from the LEDs as a concentrated beam along and surrounding the optical axis of the light collecting optic away from the bulb envelope.