Patent ID: 6960776

Claim:
A light assembly comprising a thermally conductive housing, said housing having a bottom portion and a top portion, an interior surface of said housing defining a hollow, an exterior surface of said housing being an exterior surface of the lighting assembly; a thermally conductive base, said base composed of a single thermally conductive material, said base being connected to said bottom portion of said housing, an exterior surface of said base being another exterior surface of the light assembly; at least one infrared (IR) light emitting diode attached to, but electrically isolated from, an interior surface of said base said IR light emitting diode adapted to emit infrared light, said infrared light being non-coherent and non-directional; and at least one collimating lens connected to said top portion of said housing, said collimating lens adapted to collimate infrared light to produce a beam of infrared light output from the light assembly; wherein said infrared light emitted by said IR light emitting diode radiates in a direct path through said hollow, the direct path leading from said IR light emitting diode to said collimating lens, and said base directly transfers heat generated by said IR light emitting diode to the exterior of the light assembly.