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Patent US8136965 - Light fixtures and lighting devices - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign in<nobr>Advanced Patent Search</nobr>PatentsA lighting device comprises a heat sink, a housing mounted to and/or thermally coupled to the heat sink, a basket assembly attached to the housing, a solid state light emitter thermally coupled to the heat sink, and a baffle assembly attached to the housing. Also, a lighting device comprising a basket...http://www.google.com/patents/US8136965?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8136965 - Light fixtures and lighting devicesAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS8136965 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 12/116,346Publication dateMar 20, 2012Filing dateMay 7, 2008Priority dateMay 7, 2007Also published asCN101680638A, CN101680645A, CN101790660A, CN101790660B, CN103471013A, EP2153116A1, EP2153122A1, EP2162674A1, EP2458269A1, US20080278950, US20080278952, US20080278957, US20120257384, WO2008137903A1, WO2008137905A1, WO2008137906A1Publication number116346, 12116346, US 8136965 B2, US 8136965B2, US-B2-8136965, US8136965 B2, US8136965B2InventorsPaul Kenneth Pickard, Gary David TROTTOriginal AssigneeCree, Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (55), Non-Patent Citations (32), Referenced by (2), Classifications (11), Legal Events (3) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetLight fixtures and lighting devicesUS 8136965 B2Abstract A lighting device comprises a heat sink, a housing mounted to and/or thermally coupled to the heat sink, a basket assembly attached to the housing, a solid state light emitter thermally coupled to the heat sink, and a baffle assembly attached to the housing. Also, a lighting device comprising a basket assembly and a baffle assembly. In some embodiments, the basket assembly comprises a first member defining a first opening, a second member, a space between the first and second members, and lenses in the opening and in the space. In some embodiments, the heat sink extends farther in a first direction in a first plane than a largest dimension of the housing in any plane which is parallel to the first plane. In some embodiments, at least one additional component (e.g., a power supply module or a junction box) is in contact with the heat sink element.
A troffer is typically installed within a suspended ceiling grid system where one or more ceiling tiles are replaced with the troffer. Thus, the exterior dimensions of the troffer are typically sized to fit within the regular spacing of the ceiling tiles. In the United States, the spacing of the ceiling grid is often 2 foot (61 cm) by 2 foot (61 cm) and, therefore, troffers will typically have a dimension that is a multiple of 2 feet (61 cm). For example, many troffers are 2′ (61 cm)�2′ (61 cm) or 2′ (61 cm)�4′ (122 cm). Similar regular spacing is also provided in Europe but is provided in a metric unit of measure.
(2) U.S. Patent Application No. 60/793,524, filed on Apr. 20, 2006, entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Gerald H. Negley and Antony Paul van de Ven) and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/736,761, filed Apr. 18, 200 7(now U.S. Patent Publication No. 2007/0278934), the entireties of which are hereby incorporated by reference;
(3) U.S. Patent Application No. 60/793,518, filed on Apr. 20, 2006, entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Gerald H. Negley and Antony Paul van de Ven) and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/736,799, filed Apr. 18, 2007 (now U.S. Patent Publication No. 2007/0267983), the entireties of which are hereby incorporated by reference;
(4) U.S. Patent Application No. 60/857,305, filed on Nov. 7, 2006, entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Antony Paul van de Ven and Gerald H. Negley; and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/936,163, filed Nov. 7, 2007 (now U.S. Patent Publication No. 2008/0106895), the entireties of which are hereby incorporated by reference;
(5) U.S. Patent Application No. 60/916,596, filed on May 8, 2007, entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Antony Paul van de Ven and Gerald H. Negley), the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference;
(6) U.S. Patent Application No. 60/916,607, filed on May 8, 2007, entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Antony Paul van de Ven and Gerald H. Negley), the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference;
(7) U.S. Patent Application No. 60/839,453, filed on Aug. 23, 2006, entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Antony Paul van de Ven and Gerald H. Negley) and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/843,243, filed Aug. 22, 2007 (now U.S. Patent Publication No. 2008/0084685), the entireties of which are hereby incorporated by reference;
(8) U.S. Pat. No. 7,213,940, issued on May 8, 2007, entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Antony Paul van de Ven and Gerald H. Negley), the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference;
(9) U.S. Patent Application No. 60/868,134, filed on Dec. 1, 2006, entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Antony Paul van de Ven and Gerald H. Negley), the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference;
(10) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/948,021, filed on Nov. 30, 2007 (now U.S. Patent Publication No. 2008/0130285), entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Antony Paul van de Ven and Gerald H. Negley), the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference;
(11) U.S. Patent Application No. 60/868,986, filed on Dec. 7, 2006, entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Antony Paul van de Ven and Gerald H. Negley), and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/951,626, filed Dec. 6, 2007 (now U.S. Patent Publication No. 2008/0136313), the entireties of which are hereby incorporated by reference;
(12) U.S. Patent Application No. 60/916,597, filed on May 8, 2007, entitled �LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING METHOD� (inventors: Antony Paul van de Ven and Gerald H. Negley) and U.S. Patent Application No. 60/944,848, filed Jun. 19, 2007, the entireties of which are hereby incorporated by reference; and
(13) U.S. Patent Application No. 60/990,435, filed on Nov. 27, 2007, entitled �WARM WHITE ILLUMINATION WITH HIGH CRI AND HIGH EFFICACY� (inventors: Antony Paul van de Ven and Gerald H. Negley), the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
Films and/or lenses can be made by any desired method, a wide variety of which are well-known to those of skill in the art. For example, in some embodiments, lenses with one or more films attached thereto can be made by film insert molding (e.g., as described in U.S. Patent Application No. 60/950,193, filed on Jul. 17, 2007, entitled �OPTICAL ELEMENTS WITH INTERNAL OPTICAL FEATURES AND METHODS OF FABRICATING SAME� (inventors: Gerald H. Negley and Paul Kenneth Pickard; and U.S. Patent Application No. 61/023,973, filed on Jan. 28, 2008, the entireties of which are hereby incorporated by reference) or by coextrusion.
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