发明名称 Automotive LED headlight cooling system
摘要 A lighting assembly includes a cooling system configured to enable the dissipation of a large amount of energy in the form of heat generated by a light source. The cooling system is configured as a gravity feed cooling loop that does not require a powered fluid pump. The light source can be a plurality of LEDs mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB is aligned and mounted vertically onto an evaporator. The evaporator is configured to enable the vertical alignment of the PCB and to cool the PCB while in this vertical alignment. The vertical alignment of the PCB enables horizontal projection of light emitted by the LEDs, such as in an automotive headlight application.
申请公布号 US9366394(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.06.14
申请号 US201414502805 申请日期 2014.09.30
申请人 Flextronics AP, LLC 发明人 Musser Jordon;Stratas Chris
分类号 F21K99/00;F21V29/00;F21S8/10;F21V29/51;F21Y101/02;F21S8/04 主分类号 F21K99/00
代理机构 Haverstock & Owens LLP 代理人 Haverstock & Owens LLP
主权项 1. A lighting assembly for cooling a light source, the lighting assembly comprising: a. a light source having a vertically aligned thermal exchange surface; b. an evaporator having a side thermal exchange surface thermally coupled to the vertically aligned thermal exchange surface of the light source, wherein the evaporator comprises a reservoir and a fluid within the reservoir, the evaporator is configured such that at least a portion of the fluid is vaporized by heat transferred from the light source; and c. a cooling loop coupled to the evaporator, wherein the cooling loop comprises a transfer pipe coupled to the evaporator, a radiator coupled to the transfer pipe, and a return pipe coupled to the radiator and to the evaporator, wherein the return pipe includes a first end coupled to the radiator and a second end coupled to the evaporator, the return pipe is configured and aligned having the first end of the return pipe positioned higher than the second end of the return pipe and an entirety of the return pipe is positioned higher than a bottom surface of the evaporator thereby enabling gravity feeding of fluid from the radiator to the evaporator, further wherein the radiator is configured to receive vapor from the evaporator via the transfer pipe and to condense the vapor to fluid, and the radiator is configured to gravity feed the fluid to the return pipe.
地址 Broomfield CO US