Patent ID: 6837598
Filing Date: 2005-01-04
Classification: F21S,F21V,F21Y

Abstract:
1. A lighting device having a three-way conductor strip extending in an axial direction; LED elements arranged one behind the other in a row and in intervals along the axial direction of the conductor strip; the three-way conductor strip comprises a continuous positive conductor, a continuous negative conductor and an interrupted central conductor that extends from LED element to LED element in the row; a respective plastic housing containing each LED element, the housing being shaped to also surround the conductor strip at and around the LED element, the housing being at least partly light emitting; the housing being comprised of a first and a second shell, the first shell being a holding shell configured to hold and holding therein the respective LED element, at least one electrically conductive contact at the LED element in the housing and at an axial direction conductor strip area of the conductor strip; the second shell is fixable to the first shell by sealing means between the first and second shells.