Patent ID: 7524101

Claim:
An edge lit light emitting panel assembly comprising: an optically conductive light emitting panel member having top and bottom surfaces and a greater cross-sectional width than thickness and a light input surface at least at one end of the panel member for receiving light, the light input surface having a greater width than thickness, at least one light output region on at least one of the top and bottom surfaces, a predetermined pattern of deformities on or in the panel member configured to cause light to be emitted from the light output region, an array of LEDs positioned in close proximity to the light input surface that emit light out of a side of the LEDs closest to the light input surface, at least one reflector around one or more of the LEDs that collects light in more than one plane, the at least one reflector having a greater width than height, the width of the reflector being in the same plane as the width of the panel member and shaped to reflect and focus the light emitted from the LEDs at an acceptable angle for entering the light input surface, and the focused-light being shaped to have a greater cross-sectional width than height corresponding to the width and thickness of the light input surface.