Lighting fixture and method for making and using

US10595469B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Grow Lites, LLC · US

Inventors

• John Golle · Eden Prairie, US
• Aaron J. Golle · Shakopee, US
• Barbara A. DeBaun · Woodbury, US
• David Trung Doan · Hengshan, TW
• Matthew P. Limpert · Bloomington, US
• Walter J. Paciorek · Phoenix, US
• Jason P. Green · Minneapolis, US
• Charles A. Lemaire · Apple Valley, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 13, 2017
• Grant date: Mar 24, 2020
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P60/14
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A lighting apparatus that includes a flexible circuit substrate that has a front face and an opposite back face, and a first end and an opposite second end; a first plurality of LED dice on the flexible substrate, wherein each die of the first plurality of LED dice emits blue light; a second plurality of LED dice that emits red light; a third plurality of LED dice that emits infrared, wherein the first, second and third plurality of LEDs each emit a full-width-half-maximum bandwidth of no more than 50 nm in each of their respective colors; a first and second end cap affixed to opposite ends of flexible substrate and configured to curve the first face of the flexible circuit substrate into a concave shape; and a pole bracket connected to the end caps for attaching to a pole that supports the lighting apparatus.