Patent ID: 6480336
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: E06B,F21S,F21V

Abstract:
A daylighting apparatus, mountable adjacent to a window opening located on a wall of a room, for redirecting incident sunlight into said room to illuminate said room, comprising:frame means for mounting said daylighting apparatus juxtaposed said window opening, where said window opening presents an occupant of said room with a field of view to look through said window opening; and a plurality of identical light reflecting element means, mounted in said frame means in a fixed position, that is a substantially parallel, equally spaced apart relationship, for redirecting said incident sunlight into said room, each of said light reflecting element means comprising: an elongated substantially linear member having a first edge located proximate said window opening and a second edge distal from said first edge, and having a top surface and a bottom surface, said top surface being of a geometry to redirect said incident sunlight received from a predetermined range of directions onto a predetermined region of a ceiling surface of said room absent said redirected incident sunlight being transmitted into said field of view, light blocking element means, integral to said bottom surface at a predetermined location and extending at an acute angle with reference to said top surface toward said first edge, for blocking low altitude components of said incident sunlight from entering said room.