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Highly efficient luminaire having optical transformer providing precalculated angular intensity distribution and method therefore

DC CAFC
  • US 8,220,959 B2
  • Filed: 05/14/2010
  • Issued: 07/17/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A light transformer for highly efficient directing and redistributing light from a light source in a predetermined pattern, comprising:

  • a first end that receives light from the light source;

    a second end that outputs the received light, the second end located on an opposite end of the device from the first end;

    a first member located on a third end of the device between the first end and the second end, wherein the first member has an outer wall comprising a total internal reflection surface that redirects and redistributes the received light in a direction of the second end;

    a first planar optical window located at an end of the first member, the first planar optical window being substantially perpendicular to the axis of light direction;

    a second member located on a fourth end of device, the fourth end located on an opposite end of the device from the third end, between the first end and the second end, the second member having an outer wall comprising a total internal reflection surface which redirects and redistributes the received light in a direction of the second end;

    a second planar optical window located at an end of the second member, the second planar optical window being substantially perpendicular to the axis of light direction, the second planar optical window further being symmetrical across the axis of light direction with the first planar optical window; and

    an aspheric lens located between the first and the second members, the aspheric lens having an input side on the first end of device and an output side on the second end of device, the output side of aspheric lens located between the first and the second planar optical windows.

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