LED aircraft anticollision beacon

Details LED aircraft anticollision beacon LED aircraft anticollision beacon

2006-07-18

2006-07-18

Crosland, Donnie L. (Department: 2636)

Communications: electrical

Visual indication

Using light emitting diodes

C340S981000, C340S983000, C340S321000, C362S470000, C362S545000, C362S800000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07079041

ABSTRACT:
An exemplary aircraft anticollision beacon is constructed around a faceted aluminum support cylinder and base. The support cylinder has an outside surface with ten vertically oriented substantially planar faces. An array of LEDs is mounted in thermally conductive relationship on each face of the support cylinder. Each LED is partially surrounded by a trough-shaped reflecting surface that re-directs off axis light into a horizontal plane. Axially aligned, radially adjacent reflecting troughs combine to form the circumferential reflecting troughs. The support cylinder and base are connected in thermally conductive relationship to define a thermal pathway from the LEDs to a heat radiation surface on the base. The base is also configured to act as a heat sink for heat generating components of the LED driver circuits. The exemplary beacon employs a distributed energizing circuit in which each driver is configured to energize two of the ten arrays of LEDs.

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