Patent ID: 8461752

Claim:
A lamp, comprising: a plurality of solid state light emitters; a bulb; a pedestal comprising first and second sections, the first section extending into an interior of the bulb supporting the solid state light emitters, at least some of the solid state light emitters being supported on the pedestal in orientations such that principal directions of light emissions from respective emitters are radial outward from the pedestal through the bulb in a plurality of different radial directions, and at least one of the solid state emitters being supported on an end of the first section of the pedestal in such an orientation so that a principal direction of emission of light from the at least one solid state light emitter is substantially the same as or parallel with a longitudinal axis of the lamp; an inner member, of a material that is at least partially light transmissive, radially and longitudinally around the solid state light emitters between an inner surface of the bulb and the solid state light emitters and at distances from the inner surface of the bulb and the solid state emitters; a phosphor, remotely deployed in the lamp with respect to the solid state light emitters, the phosphor being of a type for converting at least some portion of light from the solid state light emitters from a first spectral characteristic to a second spectral characteristic, to produce an output of the lamp from the bulb that is at least substantially white; a heat sink; a lighting industry standard lamp base for providing electricity from a lamp socket; and circuitry connected to receive electricity from the lamp base, for driving the solid state emitters to emit light, wherein: the inner member remotely deploys the phosphor with respect to the solid state light emitters, and the second section of the pedestal comprises a spiral-shaped heat pipe connected to and extending from the first section into the heat sink and forming a spiral in heat communicative contact with the heat sink.