Communications: electrical – Visual indication – With lamp enclosed in transparent housing
Patent
1997-01-24
1999-01-19
Hofsass, Jeffery A.
Communications: electrical
Visual indication
With lamp enclosed in transparent housing
3408154, 340691, 362 26, G08B 536
Patent
active
058618155
ABSTRACT:
A light bar and reflector assembly for indicating the status of a computing device is disclosed. A reflector assembly having a light source is connected to the chassis of a computer. The reflector assembly includes reflective surfaces that reflect light from the light source through an opening in the reflector assembly. A light bar is attached to the bezel such that, when the bezel is placed over the computer chassis, the light bar aligns with the opening in the reflector assembly. The light bar includes reflective surfaces so as to channel the light from the light source to refractive surfaces which refract the light into the air such that a distinctive light pattern is visible across the length of the light bar. The design of the light bar produces an intense broad band of visible light on the light bar. The light intensity dissipates towards each end of the light bar. A colored light source located within the reflector assembly may be engaged so as to produce a colored band of visible light on the light bar.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5008655 (1991-04-01), Schlesinger et al.
patent: 5268823 (1993-12-01), Yergenson
patent: 5515244 (1996-05-01), Levins et al.
Hofsass Jeffery A.
La Anh
Silicon Graphics Inc.
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