Patent ID: 7497593

Claim:
An obstruction and beacon signaling apparatus, comprising: a plurality of high intensity chip-on-board (COB) packaged light emitting diode (LED) units, being mounted on the circumference of a heat sink to produce a plurality of light beams, wherein heat produced by said plurality of LED units is dissipated through said heat sink; a plurality of optical beam transformers, each transformer being positioned in a path of a beam among said plurality of light beams, for individually controlling a set of properties of each beam and producing a transformed light beam with high luminous intensity; and an electronic timing circuit for modulating a drive current of said plurality of LED units, such that the luminous intensity of said transformed light beams are modulated to produce a time sequenced flash pattern for long-distance obstruction and beacon signaling; wherein each optical beam transformer among the plurality of optical beam transformers is associated with a respective LED unit among the plurality of high intensity LED units to individually control the set of properties of one associated light beam; wherein the optical beam transformer comprises a non-imaging optical lens and an optical diffuser; wherein the plurality of high intensity chip-on-board (COB) packaged light emitting diode (LED) units is mounted on a plurality of vertically adjacent stacks thereby producing an improved luminous intensity for the signaling apparatus.