Illumination – Light modifier – Refractor
Patent
1992-05-27
1993-12-28
Makay, Albert J.
Illumination
Light modifier
Refractor
362260, 362331, 362339, F21V 502
Patent
active
052745368
ABSTRACT:
A fluorescent lamp cover molded as a unitary hollow structure made of light-transparent synthetic acrylic resin having an opening for receiving the fluorescent lamp in the interior of the cover. A prismatic diffuser plate of the lamp cover has an interior flat major side surface and on an opposite side surface of the plate an exterior major side surface having a pattern of adjacent pyramidal projections having flat sides through which the illumination light energy from the fluorescent lamp incident on the interior flat major side surface passes outwardly of the cover. The pyramidal projections are of two types and each have an apex which defines the outermost exterior point of the corresponding pyramidal projection. The prismatic diffuser plate interior flat major side surface is spaced a selected distance from the fluorescent lamp within in the interior of the cover so that the exterior major side surface pattern of pyramidal projections diffuses the light energy passing therethrough and effectively renders the configuration of the fluorescent lamp indistinguishable when the lamp is on and the cover prismatic diffuser plate is viewed from the exterior. This relationship causes the cover prismatic plate to appear to be an independent source of illumination. Other sides of the cover have internal or external situations for effecting light diffusion and are formed as parallel grooves with parallel ridges or ribs between the grooves.
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Burns Robert E.
Kabushiki Kaisha Mochiro Kikaku
Lobato Emmanuel J.
Makay Albert J.
Quach Y.
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