Patent ID: 7637638

Claim:
A lighting apparatus comprising: a heat-dissipating unit including a base wall that extends in a longitudinal direction, said base wall having a top side and a bottom side formed with a convex surface portion that is opposite to said top side; a circuit board unit disposed on said base wall, and including a plurality of board strips, each of which is formed with a plurality of spaced-apart holes; and a lighting unit including an outer pair of light emitting sets and at least one other light emitting set disposed between said outer pair of said light emitting sets, said light emitting sets of said lighting unit being disposed on said convex surface portion and being coupled electrically to said circuit board unit, each of said light emitting sets of said lighting unit having a plurality of light emitting units that are spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction, wherein a number of said light emitting units in each of said light emitting sets in said outer pair is larger than a number of said light emitting units in each of said at least one other light emitting set of said lighting unit, wherein each of said light emitting units extends though a respective one of said holes in said board strips and includes a metal heat-dissipating plate contacting said convex surface portion of said base wall of said heat-dissipating unit.