Patent ID: 6923194

Claim:
An outdoors umbrella, comprising: an umbrella awning; an umbrella frame comprising a main supporting stem and an awning frame comprising an upper housing supported by said main supporting stem and a plurality of awning supporting arms outwardly and radially extended from said upper housing to support said umbrella awning to define a shielding zone under said umbrella awning, wherein said umbrella frame further comprises a connecting arm, having two longitudinal mounting slots at two sides thereof, pivotally and inclinedly extended from a top portion of said main supporting stem to said upper housing of said awning frame to substantially support said awning frame; a lighting system which comprises a plurality of illuminating units mounted on said awning frame for providing illumination to said shielding zone; and a solar power supply arrangement comprising a solar collecting device having a collecting surface positioned above said shielding zone for exposing in sunlight to collect solar energy, wherein said solar collecting device is electrically connected to said lighting system for converting said solar energy into electrical energy so as to provide said electrical energy to said lighting system, wherein said solar collecting device comprises two sliding guiders extended downwardly to slidably mounted along said two mounting slots of said connecting arm to securely mount said solar collecting device along said connecting arm that said collecting surface of said solar collecting device is inclinedly orientated for facing towards sunlight to collect said solar energy.