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US3363093A
US3363093A US466322A US46632265A US3363093A US 3363093 A US3363093 A US 3363093A US 466322 A US466322 A US 466322A US 46632265 A US46632265 A US 46632265A US 3363093 A US3363093 A US 3363093A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V7/00—Reflectors for light sources
    • F21V7/04—Optical design
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V19/00—Fastening of light sources or lamp holders
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED
    • F21Y2103/00—Elongate light sources, e.g. fluorescent tubes

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  • Mirror reflecting lamps of this type produce a narrow light band which reach a maximum near the axis of the reflector.
  • a side angle of about 15 the light intensity is already reduced about one-fifth and amounts to only the double of the bare fluorescent lamp at 30.
  • the reflector becomes ineffective, so that with further angle openings only the bare fluorescent tube illuminates.
  • the cross-section according to the invention comprises two partial parabolas.
  • These partial parabolas when assembled, have only about half the focal length of the heretofore focal length of a fluorescent light tube.
  • the axes of illuminations of these partial parabolas extend 3,363,093 Patented Jan. 9, 1968 laterally.
  • the main axis of the light is spaced about onehalf the radius of the fluorescent lamp tube and the crosssection point of the partial parabolas are disposed on the main axis about the zenith of the fluorescent lamp tube or within said tube.
  • the focal points of the parial parabolas may be disposed laterally of the main axis or within the fluorescent lamp cylinder.
  • the side wings of the middle reflecting troughs can extend a distance of about one-half of the radius under the fluorescent light tube.
  • the opening distance corresponds to the circumference of the cylinder tube, so that the total surface thereof may be employed for reflection purposes.
  • a mirror reflector of this type, for fluorescent lamp tubes produces a light band which has about 3.14 times the light intensity of a bare tube in the direction of the main axis, yet in contrast to the known reflectors has a double light intensity at side angle of 45
  • there are no dead reflection Zones for equal opening angles because the heretofore unused part of the surface of the fluorescent light tube, which is adjacent to the apex of the reflector, reflects partially directly into space through the lateral displacement of the partial parabolas and partly on the equal sides of the outer reflector wings and therefrom further into the free space.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-section of both reflector members and a cross-section through the fluorescent light tube;
  • FIG. 2 is a schematically shown side reflection of a known parabola reflector
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the lateral reflection of a reflector according to the invention, in comparason with a known reflector and FIG. 4 shows the comparative cross-section of FIG. 1, with the course of radiation and reflection drawn in.
  • the fluorescent light tube is indicated by the numeral 1 in FIG. 1.
  • the known parabolic reflector member 2 is indicated by dotted lines and the reflector trough by numeral 3 and consisting of two partially parabolic cross-sections 3 and 3
  • S indicates the apex of the known parabola, while S and S the apices of the partial parabolas.
  • F is the focal point of the known parabola and F and F are the focal points of the partial parabol-as.
  • H is the focal axis of the known parabola-s and at the same time the main axis of lamp 1, H and H are the focal axes of the partial parabolas and r the radius of the fluorescent lamp tube.
  • the reflector member according to the invention is disposed with the joining edges between the two partial parabolas on the fluorescent light tube 1, in its apex line.
  • the apex points S and S of both partial parabolas 3 and 3 are disposed at a distance of less than r from the cylindrical surface on the fluorescent lamp tube.
  • Both focal points F and F are disposed interiorly of fluorescent light tube 1.
  • FIG- URE 4 the course of rays for various boundary rays is shown in FIG- URE 4, for a simple parabolic reflector on the left and for the right hand trough of the biparabolic reflector according to the invention of the right.
  • Normal rays are understood to mean those rays which emerge perpendicularly from a point on the lamp surface as if they originated from its centre axis.
  • Tangential rays are those which emerge tangentially from luminous points on the surface.
  • the focal ray MP is reflected back into itself and remains ineffective in space.
  • the rays M8 and MP are reflected at 4 and 5 respectively back onto the surface of the lamp at 6 and 7, respectively and again remain ineffective in space. There is thus absent special reflection for all normal rays substantially in the upper third of the region of the reflector 2 adjacent to the lamp.
  • the comparable rays M5 and MF are reflected on the partial parabolic reflector 3 into the room past the fluorescent lamp 1.
  • the following conditions apply:
  • the tangential ray F is reflected at 8, substantially parallel to the main axis H, into the room.
  • the tangential ray associated with the normal ray MP is not reflected at all. The behaviour is similar for a transverse ray at the lowest point U of the fluorescent lamp.
  • the tangential ray through F is first reflected to R on the reflector and then into the room.
  • the tangential ray associated with the normal ray MF is reflected at R on the reflector and from there into the room.
  • the transverse ray at the lowest point U of the fluorescent lamp which is reflected into the room at R.
  • FIGURES 2 and 3 The practical result is compared in FIGURES 2 and 3.
  • the hatched lines show the light bands emerging from the light fitting.
  • dead reflection zones appear at the outer edges of the reflector at a lateral angle of about 30. At a lateral angle of about 45 the reflector is completely ineffective and has only dead reflection zones.
  • fluorescent lamp'and reflector form closed light bands for the whole width of opening of the reflector at the same lateral angles. Only at even greater lateral angles do similar dead reflection zones appear rising from the outer edges while at the same opposite reflector edges gradually hide the fluorescent lamp.
  • the reflectors according to the invention may appropriately be produced from plastic materials which are provided with a metallized reflection layer instead of the former glass mirror construction,
  • the use of plastic materials not only simplifies and reduces the cost of productiombut enables such mirror reflectors to be constructed in the form of attachments with which existing installations can be equipped subsequently, as a result of the considerable reduction in weight.
  • the reflectors may have incisions of excisions,
  • the width and depth of the holders and posthe heretofore employed glass mirrors may be provided with a metalized reflecting shield.
  • the employment of synthetic materials not only simplifies and cheapens production, but also permits, through a substantial reduction in weight, the construction of such a mirror reflectors as mounting devices with which available installations may be outfitted.
  • the refiectors may have cutouts or recesses, and may be provided with sockets and starters, so that the reflectors may be held by a simple placing of these on the fluorescent light tubes and may be secured against rotation.
  • a mirror reflector for elongated fluorescent lamps having a form which, in cross-section, comprises two adjacent partial parabolas and is adapted to fit on the top line of a fluorescent lamp having a circular cross-section and envelop the top and the sides of the lamp, the two focal axes of the parabolas extending through the surface of the fluorescent lamp laterally of a vertical plane through the main axis of the fluorescent lamp and parallel therewith, the two focal points of the component parabolas lying in the fluorescent lamp.

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US4106083A (en) * 1975-08-26 1978-08-08 Friedrich Wolff Reflector for use in sunlamps or the like
US4078169A (en) * 1976-08-23 1978-03-07 Armstrong J Delvin Apparatus for promoting plant growth with artificial light
US4383289A (en) * 1980-12-15 1983-05-10 Ian Lewin Task lighting fixture for concentrating illumination
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US4539628A (en) * 1983-04-08 1985-09-03 Christian Bartenbach Nonglare light fixtures for a rod-shaped light source
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