Lighting apparatus

Abstract

A lighting apparatus includes a tilt housing, a bottom plate, a first cap cover, a second cap cover, a driver, a light source plate and a light passing cover. The lighting apparatus may be installed in a closet. The tilt housing includes a tilt plate, a top plate and a side plate. The tilt plate has a first side connected to the top plate. The bottom plate has a front side connected to a second side of the tilt plate. The bottom plate also has a back side connected to the side plate. The second side is opposite to the first side in the tilt plate. The bottom plate and the tilt housing form a polygonal tube defining an inner container. The first cap cover and the second cap cover are fixed to two opposite ends of the polygonal tube for concealing the inner container.

Claims

1. A lighting apparatus to be installed in a closet, comprising: a tilt housing comprising a tilt plate, a top plate and a side plate, wherein the tilt plate has a first side connected to the top plate, a tilt angle between the first side of the tilt plate and the top plate is between 100 degrees to 170 degrees; a bottom plate having a front side connected to a second side of the tilt plate and having a back side connected to the side plate, wherein the second side is opposite to the first side in the tilt plate, the bottom plate and the tilt housing form a polygonal tube defining an inner container; a first cap cover; a second cap cover, wherein the first cap cover and the second cap cover are fixed to two opposite ends of the polygonal tube for concealing the inner container; a driver disposed in the inner container; a light source plate placed on an exterior side of the tilt plate; and a light passing cover having a top end fixed to the first side of the tilt plate and having a bottom end fixed to the second side of the tilt plate, wherein the first cap cover and the second cap cover respectively have a positioning groove for inserting two lateral sides of polygonal tube, the positioning groove ensure a shape of the polygonal tube unchanged, wherein the first cap has a first cap connector fixed to a first tube connector of the polygonal tube for preventing the first cap detached from the polygonal tube, wherein the first cap connector has a protruding block to be inserted to a connector hole on the top plate as the first tube connector, wherein the protruding block has an elastic unit for lowering the protruding block when the protruding block is moved along a first sliding track disposed on the top plate before the protruding block is inserted to the connector hole with an elastic force of the elastic unit.

2. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the tilt plate, the top plate and the side plate are elongated rectangular plates.

3. The lighting apparatus of claim 2, wherein the top plate and the tilt plate are connected with a first sliding track structure.

4. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the light source plate is placed on the exterior side of the tilt plate with a first sliding structure.

5. The lighting apparatus of claim 4, wherein the light passing cover is an elongated convex structure.

6. The lighting apparatus of claim 5, wherein the light passing cover has a pair of plugging ears to be inserted to a second sliding track.

7. The lighting apparatus of claim 5, wherein there are multiple prism units disposed on the light passing cover for diffusing a light of the light source plate.

8. The lighting apparatus of claim 5, wherein there are multiple wave bars protruding form a base surface of the light passing cover for diffusing a light of the light source plate.

9. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the light passing cover and the tilt plate are connected with a second sliding track structure.

10. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first cap cover has a conductive path for electrically connecting LED modules on the light source plate and the driver.

11. The lighting apparatus of claim 10, wherein terminal plugs are disposed for electrically connecting the LED modules and the driver to the conductive path when the first cap cover is fix to the polygonal tube.

12. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first cap connector comprises a screw hole aligning with a screw opening of the first tube connector for inserting a first screw to fix the polygonal tube with the first cap cover.

13. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein there is a retractable curtain disposed on the light passing cover for selectively changing a luminance area of the light passing cover.

14. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein a manual switch is disposed on the top plate, the manual switch is electrically connected to the driver for changing a control setting of LED modules on the light source plate.

15. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driver comprises a driver circuit disposed on a driver plate, the driver plate is inserted into the inner container via a third sliding track.

16. The lighting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first cap cover has an extending socket for routing electricity to another light device.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

(1) FIG. 1 illustrates a lighting apparatus.

(2) FIG. 2 illustrates an exploded view of the lighting apparatus in FIG. 1.

(3) FIG. 3 illustrates a top view of the example in FIG. 1.

(4) FIG. 4 illustrates a side view of a cross-sectional diagram showing relation among components in the embodiment of FIG. 1.

(5) FIG. 5 illustrates a diagram showing the tilt housing.

(6) FIG. 6 illustrates a lighting passing cover example.

(7) FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a first cap cover.

(8) FIG. 8 illustrates an example of a bottom plate.

(9) FIG. 9 shows another embodiment.

(10) FIG. 10 shows prism units disposed on a light passing cover.

(11) FIG. 11 shows wave bars disposed on a light passing cover.

(12) FIG. 12 shows an example of a first cap cover.

(13) FIG. 13 shows a connection structure.

(14) FIG. 14 illustrates a retractable curtain with a roller disposed on the light passing cover.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

(15) Please refer to FIG. 9. In FIG. 9, a lighting apparatus includes a tilt housing 601, a bottom plate 602, a first cap cover 603 and a second cap cover 604. The tilt housing 601 includes a tilt plate 605, a top plate 606 and a side plate 607. The lighting apparatus may be installed in a closet or other places.

(16) The tilt plate 605 has a first side 6051 connected to the top plate 606. A tilt angle 6053 between the first side 6051 of the tilt plate 605 and the top plate is between 100 degrees to 170 degrees.

(17) The bottom plate 602 has a front side 6021 connected to a second side 6052 of the tilt plate 605. The bottom plate 602 also has a back side 6022 connected to the side plate 607.

(18) The second side 6052 is opposite to the first side 6051 in the tilt plate 605.

(19) The bottom plate 602 and the tilt housing 601 form a polygonal tube, which is the combined structure of the tilt housing 601 and the bottom cover 602, defining an inner container 6011.

(20) The first cap cover 603 and the second cap cover 604 are fixed to two opposite ends 6013, 6014 of the polygonal tube for concealing the inner container 6011.

(21) A driver 6071 is disposed in the inner container 6011. The driver 6071 may include circuits for rectifying an alternating current to a direct current power, a filter for filtering output currents and/or controlling intensities of LED modules 60721 disposed on a light source plate 6072.

(22) The light source plate 6072 may also have diffusing lenses 60722 respectively covering the LED modules 60721 for diffusing the light of the LED modules. With such design, the light of the light source plate 6072 is more evenly.

(23) A light source plate 6072 is placed on an exterior side 6054 of the tilt plate 605.

(24) A light passing cover 6073 has a top end 60731 fixed to the first side 6051 of the tilt plate 605 and has a bottom end 60732 fixed to the second side 6052 of the tilt plate 605. The light passing cover 6073 may further diffuse the light of the LED modules 60721.

(25) In FIG. 9, the tilt plate 605, the top plate 606 and the side plate 607 are elongated rectangular plates.

(26) In some embodiments, the top plate 606 and the tilt plate 605 are connected with a first sliding track structure.

(27) In some embodiments, the light source plate 6072 is placed on the exterior side 6054 of the tilt plate 605 with a first sliding structure 6056. Specifically, the light source plate 6072 may have block edges corresponding to two sliding tracks disposed on the tilt plate 605. The light source plate 6072 is attached to the tilt plate 605 by inserting the block edges into the sliding tracks.

(28) In some embodiments, the light passing cover 6073 is an elongated convex structure. Specifically, there is a protruding container space above the light source plate 6072.

(29) In some embodiments, the light passing cover 6073 has a pair of plugging ears 60733, 60734 to be inserted to the second sliding track 6057.

(30) The second sliding track 6057 may include two sliding tracks on the tilt plate 605 corresponding to the pair of plugging ears 60733, 60734 so that the pair of plugging ears 670733, 60734 are sliding into the sliding tracks. FIG. 5 show a more detailed example for such arrangement.

(31) In FIG. 10, there are multiple prism units 692 disposed on the light passing cover 691 for diffusing a light of the light source plate.

(32) In FIG. 11, there are multiple wave bars 693 protruding form a base surface of the light passing cover 694 for diffusing a light of the light source plate. In some embodiments, there are more wave bars 693 disposed at center positions then at peripheral positions of the light passing cover 694. Such setting makes light rendered on the light passing cover 694 more even.

(33) In some embodiments, the light passing cover and the tilt plate are connected with a second sliding track structure.

(34) In FIG. 12, the first cap cover 671 has a conductive path 672 for electrically connecting LED modules on the light source plate and the driver. Specifically, the light source plate is placed at one side of the tilt plate while the driver is placed at the other side of the tilt plate as illustrated in FIG. 9. In some embodiments, the conductive path may be passing through the tilt plate. In some other embodiments, the conductive path 672 is placed on the first cap cover for electrically connecting the LED modules of the light source plate and the driver, e.g. with two terminal plugs 673, 674 connected with a metal strip 675.

(35) In some embodiments, terminal plugs 673, 674 are disposed for electrically connecting the LED modules and the driver to the conductive path when the first cap cover is fix to the polygonal tube.

(36) In some embodiments, the first cap cover and the second cap cover respectively have a positioning groove 676 for inserting two lateral sides of polygonal tube. Specifically, the polygonal tube has multiple side edges, and there may be corresponding positioning grooves for inserting side edges of the polygonal tube to ensure a shape of the polygonal tube unchanged.

(37) In FIG. 2, the first cap cover has a first cap connector 401 fixed to a first tube connector 402 of the polygonal tube for preventing the first cap cover detached from the polygonal tube.

(38) In FIG. 13, the first cap connector 681 has a protruding block 683 to be inserted to a connector hole 682 on the top plate 684 as the first tube connector.

(39) In FIG. 13, the protruding block 683 has an elastic unit 685 for lowering the protruding block 685 when the protruding block 685 is moved along a first sliding track disposed on the top plate before the protruding block 685 is inserted to the connector hole 682 with an elastic force of the elastic unit 685.

(40) In some embodiments, the first cap connector includes a screw hole aligning with a screw opening of the first tube connector for inserting a first screw to fix the polygonal tube with the first cap cover, as the example in FIG. 2.

(41) In FIG. 14, there is a retractable curtain 632 with a roller 633 disposed on the light passing cover 634 for selectively changing a illuminance area 631 of the light passing cover by covering a portion of the illuminance area.

(42) In FIG. 1, a manual switch 2 is disposed on the top plate.

(43) The manual switch is electrically connected to the driver for changing a control setting of LED modules on the light source plate.

(44) In FIG. 9, the driver includes a driver circuit 60712 disposed on a driver plate 6071.

(45) The driver plate 6071 is inserted into the inner container via a third sliding track 60713.

(46) In some embodiments, the first cap cover 603 has an extending socket 6031 for routing electricity to another light device.

(47) Please refer to FIG. 1. FIG. 1 shows a detail example of such embodiment. In FIG. 1, a tilt housing 3 has a switch button 1 and a manual switch 2. A light passing cover 5 is placed above a light source plate. A first cap cover 4 and a second cap cover are disposed on two sides of the tilt housing 3. There is protruding edge 14 in the first cap cover 4 to partially covering the tilt housing 3.

(48) Please refer to FIG. 2. FIG. 2 shows an exploded view of the example in FIG. 1.

(49) In FIG. 2, the light source plate 6, the driver 7 and the bottom cover 8 are further illustrated in addition to the disclosure of FIG. 1. Components with the same reference numerals refer to the same units and are not repeated again.

(50) FIG. 3 shows a top view of the example in FIG. 1.

(51) FIG. 4 shows a cross-sectional side view of the example in FIG. 1. In FIG. 3, there is a cavity 308 defined by the light passing cover 5 for diffusing a light of the light source plate 6. There is a tilt plate connector 303 for mounting a tilt plate for disposing the light source plate 6. There is a heat dissipation groove 13 defined by the tilt housing.

(52) FIG. 5 shows an example of a tilt housing in the example of FIG. 1.

(53) In FIG. 5, there are two sliding tracks 306, 307 for inserting a light source plate. The tilt plate connectors 303, 304 are used for fixing the light passing cover. There is a top plate 302 and a side plate 301 as explained the example of FIG. 9 above. Positioning structures like escape opening 305 may be disposed for aligning and fixing components.

(54) FIG. 6 shows a light passing cover 5 example with plug ears 9 on both edges.

(55) FIG. 7 further shows a connector 10 used for fixing to the tilt housing. The connector 10 has a hole for inserting a screw passing through a hole on the tilt housing. There is also an installation block 11 for installing and placing the driver.

(56) FIG. 8 shows a bottom plate 8 with protruding edges 12 for aligning and fixing the tilt housing mentioned above.

(57) The foregoing description, for purpose of explanation, has been described with reference to specific embodiments. However, the illustrative discussions above are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise forms disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possible in view of the above teachings.

(58) The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the techniques and their practical applications. Others skilled in the art are thereby enabled to best utilize the techniques and various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.

(59) Although the disclosure and examples have been fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be noted that various changes and modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the art. Such changes and modifications are to be understood as being included within the scope of the disclosure and examples as defined by the claims.