LED-illuminated sign

摘要

The inventive LED-illuminated sign structure includes a frame, an outer shell and a plurality of separate LED emitters. The frame includes two opposite main support panels each having an upright outward surface, and shell-supporting members. The outer shell has a pair of opposite translucent sidewalls each extending along and is spaced from the respective outward surface. The LED emitters are spaced on each outward surface such that the translucent sidewalls are illuminated substantially entirely. The frame defines an open region for passing reflected light within the frame structure to and through the opposite translucent sidewall. The LED illuminator includes an LED emitter on a mounting surface, a one-piece lens member over the LED emitter and including a lens portion and a flange portion, and a gasket between the flange portion and the mounting surface. The lens member has a restraining ridge positioned to press the LED-emitter wires and the gasket against the mounting surface such that the wire portions between the ridge and the LED emitter remain in substantially fixed position regardless of wire movement beyond the restraining ridge.

主权项

1. An LED-illuminated sign structure comprising:
a frame including two opposite main LED-supporting panels each of which has substantially upright inward and outward surfaces; an outer shell secured with respect to the frame and having a pair of opposite translucent sidewalls with inner and outer surfaces, the shell and the frame configured and arranged such that each translucent sidewall extends along and is spaced from the outward surface of a respective one of the main LED-supporting panels; and each main LED-supporting panel supporting a plurality of separate LED emitters on the outward surface thereof, the frame defining an open region within the shell between, through and beyond the main LED-supporting panels such that light from the LED emitters on the outward surface of each of the main LED-supporting panels, when reflected back from the inner surface of the adjacent translucent sidewall, passes through the open region, including through such main LED-supporting panel, to and through the opposite main LED-supporting panel and the respective translucent sidewall.