Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
313012000 | Recirculating systems | 14 |
20090230834 | LED ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIGHT ENGINE THEREOF - An LED illumination device includes an optical section at a front end thereof, an electrical section at a rear end thereof, and a heat dissipation section between the optical section and the electrical section. The optical section includes an LED electrically connecting with the electrical section, and a light output housing around the LED. The heat dissipation section includes a U-shaped heat pipe, a heat sink and a mounting seat. The heat pipe includes an evaporation section and two condensation sections extending backwardly from two opposite ends of the evaporation section, respectively. The condensation sections are inserted into the heat sink. The mounting seat bestrides on the evaporation section. The LED thermally connects with evaporation section via the mounting seat. | 09-17-2009 |
20090256458 | Light-emitting diode illuminating equipment with high power and high heat dissipation efficiency - The invention provides light-emitting diode illuminating equipment with high power and high heat-dissipation efficiency. In particular, the light-emitting diode illuminating equipment, according to the invention, is very suitable to be used as a street lamp. | 10-15-2009 |
20090256459 | LED ILLUMINATING DEVICE AND LIGHT ENGINE THEREOF - An LED illuminating device includes an optical section, an electrical section, and a heat dissipation section therebetween. The optical section includes a light source. The electrical section electrically connects with the light source. The heat dissipation section includes a mounting seat, a heat pipe and a heat sink. The heat pipe includes an evaporation section fixed on the mounting seat and thermally connecting with the light source and a condenser section. The heat sink includes a plurality of umbrella-shaped fins each including a main body perpendicular to the condenser section of the heat pipe and two flanges angling downward from two opposite edges of the main body towards the light source. A plurality of air venting holes are defined in the main body and the flanges of each fin. | 10-15-2009 |
20090267474 | LED LAMP HAVING A VAPOR CHAMBER FOR DISSIPATING HEAT GENERATED BY LEDS OF THE LED LAMP - An LED lamp includes a heat dissipation device and a plurality of LED modules. The heat dissipation device includes a heat conductive member and a fin unit. The LED modules are attached to a top surface of a first plate of the heat conductive member. The heat conductive member comprises a plurality of posts embedded in the top surface of the first plate. Peripheries of the first and second plates are in a hermetical conjunction with each other to form a chamber containing phase-changeable working fluid therein. The first plate has a plurality of receiving recessions which are depressed downwardly from the top surface thereof and respectively receive the posts. Screws are used to extend through the LED modules to threadedly engage in the posts thereby to intimately mount the LED modules on the top surface of the first plate of the heat conductive member. | 10-29-2009 |
20100007258 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display device includes a display panel for displaying images, such as a PDP. The display panel includes either a plurality of grooves constituting a plurality of flow paths aligned in a certain direction on its rear surface, or a plurality of flow paths aligned in a certain direction internally. The above-described image display device can enlarge heat radiation area in the display panel, and efficiently decrease the temperature of the display panel. | 01-14-2010 |
20100141108 | LED ILLUMINATING DEVICE AND LIGHT ENGINE THEREOF - An LED illuminating device includes an optical section, an electrical section, and a heat dissipation section. The heat dissipation section is provided with a heat sink and at least one heat pipe therein. The heat sink includes a metal tube, a plurality of metal fins extending radially and outwardly from the metal tube, and a heat-absorbing plate attached to a bottom of the metal tube. A chamber is axially recessed from a top of the metal tube to the heat-absorbing plate. The heat pipe includes an evaporating section and a condensing section. The evaporating section of the heat pipe is attached to an inner surface of the heat-absorbing plate. The condensing section of the heat pipe is attached to an inner circumferential surface of the metal tube. The light source is attached to an outer surface of the heat-absorbing plate. | 06-10-2010 |
20100225217 | LED ILLUMINATING DEVICE AND LIGHT ENGINE THEREOF - An LED illuminating device includes an optical section, an electrical section, and a heat dissipation section. The heat dissipation section is provided with a loop heat exchange device. The loop heat exchange device includes a hollow metal base and a plurality of metal fins extending outwardly from the metal base. A hermetical chamber is defined in the metal base. The chamber is cylindrical and has a U-shaped cross section along an axial direction of the metal base. A wick structure is attached to an inner surface of the chamber. A working fluid is saturated in the wick structure. A light source is thermally attached to the metal base. | 09-09-2010 |
20100327723 | LED ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A light emitting diode (LED) illumination device includes a vapor chamber, a circuit board and at least one LED. At least one protrusion is formed on a surface of the vapor chamber, and a heat conducting tin layer is formed on the protrusion. The circuit board includes at least one through hole for passing the protrusion. The circuit board is formed by sequentially stacking an insulating layer and a heat conducting layer. The LEDs are installed on and contacted with the protrusions respectively, and each LED has two pins electrically connected to the circuit board. The LED device of the present invention is in a direct contact with the protrusion of the LED, such that the heat dissipated from the LED can be conducted to the vapor chamber, and then the vapor chamber carries away the heat quickly. | 12-30-2010 |
20110006657 | LED ILLUMINATING DEVICE - An LED illuminating device includes a housing defining a sealed boiling room, an optical module and an adiabatic member. The boiling room has a lower room and annular room surrounding the lower room. A wick structure is received in and attached to an inner side of the housing. Working fluid is received in the boiling room and saturated in a bottom portion of the wick structure located at a bottom of the lower room. The optical module is provided with a plurality of LEDs attached to the housing at a position under the bottom portion of the wick structure. The adiabatic member is received in the boiling room and attached to a middle portion of the wick structure at a top of the lower room for avoiding thermal and flow interactions between liquid in the middle portion of the wick structure and vapor in the lower room. | 01-13-2011 |
20110084585 | LAMP ASSEMBLY - A lamp assembly includes a storage tank, a lamp, a liquid inlet pipe, a liquid outlet pipe and an actuator. The storage tank contains liquid therein. The lamp includes a lighting portion and a lid located at a top of the lighting portion. A flume is defined between a top end of the lighting portion and the lid. The liquid inlet pipe connects a first end of the storage tank and a corresponding end of the flume. The liquid outlet pipe connects an opposite second end of the storage tank and a corresponding end of the flume of the lamp. The actuator drives the liquid to circulate between the storage tank and the flume of the lamp to thereby dissipate heat generated by the lamp. | 04-14-2011 |
20120286640 | SOLID STATE LIGHTS WITH THERMOSIPHON LIQUID COOLING STRUCTURES AND METHODS - A solid state lighting (SSL) device with a solid state emitter (SSE) being partially exposed in a channel loop, and methods of making and using such SSLs. The SSE can have thermally conductive projections such as fins, posts, or other structures configured to transfer heat into a fluid medium, such as a liquid coolant in the channel loop. The channel loop can include an upward channel in which the SSE is exposed to warm the coolant in the upward channel, and a downward channel through which coolant moves after being cooled by a cooling structure. The coolant in the channel loop can naturally circulate due to the heat from the SSE. | 11-15-2012 |
20130249374 | PASSIVE PHASE CHANGE RADIATORS FOR LED LAMPS AND FIXTURES - Heat management devices and structures are disclosed that can be used in lamps having solid state light sources such as one or more LEDs. Some lamp embodiments comprise one or more phase change radiators that utilize the latent heat of fluids to circulate and draw heat away from the LEDs and radiate the heat into the ambient, allowing for the LEDs to operate at a lower temperature. Some phase change radiators according to the present invention can comprise a main radiator body and multiple radiator coolant loops mounted to the body. The present invention relies on the circulation of heated fluid through the radiator body to radiate heat from the LEDs. The heated liquid moves away from the LEDs and is circulated back to thermal contact with the LEDs thought the coolant loops. | 09-26-2013 |
20140265810 | Solid-state light source using passive phase change cooling - A solid-state light source with light emitting diodes embedded in thermally conductive luminescent elements is cooled by immersion cooling via a phase change material (liquid or pool boiling). The thermally conductive translucent luminescent elements are arranged to confine the boiling to an inner tube with the condensed liquid on the output faces so as to provide a flicker free 360 degree output light source. At least one face of each LED is exposed directly to the fluid and the LED is unconstrained so as to provide optical emission with little to no wavelength shift as a function of drive current. | 09-18-2014 |
20140312760 | LED LIGHT SOURCE - A light emitting diode (LED) light source, a method of manufacturing an LED light source, and a method of cooling an LED source. The LED light source comprises: an LED source; and an enclosure surrounding the LED source; wherein a gas or gas mixture is filled within the enclosure such that the gas or gas mixture acts as a medium for heat transfer away from the LED source; and wherein the gas or gas mixture is chosen to provide an increased heat transfer from the LED source compared to air. | 10-23-2014 |