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AU5415879A – Edge lighted display
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AU5415879A – Edge lighted display
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Edge lighted display

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Publication number
AU5415879A

AU5415879A
AU54158/79A
AU5415879A
AU5415879A
AU 5415879 A
AU5415879 A
AU 5415879A
AU 54158/79 A
AU54158/79 A
AU 54158/79A
AU 5415879 A
AU5415879 A
AU 5415879A
AU 5415879 A
AU5415879 A
AU 5415879A
Authority
AU
Australia
Prior art keywords
lighted display
edge lighted
edge
display
lighted
Prior art date
1978-12-26
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)

Abandoned

Application number
AU54158/79A
Inventor
George W. Plumly
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)

Individual

Original Assignee
Individual
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
1978-12-26
Filing date
1979-12-21
Publication date
1980-07-03

1979-12-21
Application filed by Individual
filed
Critical
Individual

1980-07-03
Publication of AU5415879A
publication
Critical
patent/AU5415879A/en

Status
Abandoned
legal-status
Critical
Current

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Classifications

G—PHYSICS

G02—OPTICS

G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS

G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings

G02B6/0001—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems

G02B6/0011—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems the light guides being planar or of plate-like form

G02B6/0013—Means for improving the coupling-in of light from the light source into the light guide

G02B6/0015—Means for improving the coupling-in of light from the light source into the light guide provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk of it

G02B6/002—Means for improving the coupling-in of light from the light source into the light guide provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk of it by shaping at least a portion of the light guide, e.g. with collimating, focussing or diverging surfaces

G02B6/0021—Means for improving the coupling-in of light from the light source into the light guide provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk of it by shaping at least a portion of the light guide, e.g. with collimating, focussing or diverging surfaces for housing at least a part of the light source, e.g. by forming holes or recesses

G—PHYSICS

G02—OPTICS

G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS

G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings

G02B6/0001—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems

G02B6/0033—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide

G02B6/0035—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk of it

G02B6/0036—2-D arrangement of prisms, protrusions, indentations or roughened surfaces

G—PHYSICS

G02—OPTICS

G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS

G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings

G02B6/0001—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems

G02B6/0033—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide

G02B6/0035—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk of it

G02B6/004—Scattering dots or dot-like elements, e.g. microbeads, scattering particles, nanoparticles

G02B6/0043—Scattering dots or dot-like elements, e.g. microbeads, scattering particles, nanoparticles provided on the surface of the light guide

G—PHYSICS

G02—OPTICS

G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS

G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings

G02B6/0001—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems

G02B6/0033—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide

G02B6/0035—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk of it

G02B6/0045—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk of it by shaping at least a portion of the light guide

G02B6/0046—Tapered light guide, e.g. wedge-shaped light guide

G—PHYSICS

G02—OPTICS

G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS

G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings

G02B6/0001—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems

G02B6/0075—Arrangements of multiple light guides

G02B6/0076—Stacked arrangements of multiple light guides of the same or different cross-sectional area

G—PHYSICS

G02—OPTICS

G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS

G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings

G02B6/0001—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings specially adapted for lighting devices or systems

G02B6/0033—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide

G02B6/0058—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide varying in density, size, shape or depth along the light guide

G02B6/006—Means for improving the coupling-out of light from the light guide varying in density, size, shape or depth along the light guide to produce indicia, symbols, texts or the like

G—PHYSICS

G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS

G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS

G09F13/00—Illuminated signs; Luminous advertising

G09F13/18—Edge-illuminated signs

G09F2013/1804—Achieving homogeneous illumination

G—PHYSICS

G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS

G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS

G09F13/00—Illuminated signs; Luminous advertising

G09F13/18—Edge-illuminated signs

G09F2013/1804—Achieving homogeneous illumination

G09F2013/1827—Prismatic window

G—PHYSICS

G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS

G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS

G09F13/00—Illuminated signs; Luminous advertising

G09F13/18—Edge-illuminated signs

G09F2013/1804—Achieving homogeneous illumination

G09F2013/1831—Achieving homogeneous illumination using more than one light source

AU54158/79A
1978-12-26
1979-12-21
Edge lighted display

Abandoned

AU5415879A
(en)

Applications Claiming Priority (4)

Application Number
Priority Date
Filing Date
Title

US97324678A

1978-12-26
1978-12-26

US973246

1978-12-26

US06/095,651

US4385343A
(en)

1978-12-26
1979-11-30
Edge lighted devices

US95651

1979-11-30

Publications (1)

Publication Number
Publication Date

AU5415879A
true

AU5415879A
(en)

1980-07-03

Family
ID=26790446
Family Applications (1)

Application Number
Title
Priority Date
Filing Date

AU54158/79A
Abandoned

AU5415879A
(en)

1978-12-26
1979-12-21
Edge lighted display

Country Status (11)

Country
Link

US
(1)

US4385343A
(en)

AR
(1)

AR221920A1
(en)

AU
(1)

AU5415879A
(en)

BR
(1)

BR7908512A
(en)

DE
(1)

DE2951471A1
(en)

ES
(1)

ES487609A0
(en)

FR
(1)

FR2445485A1
(en)

GB
(1)

GB2039405A
(en)

GR
(1)

GR66522B
(en)

IT
(1)

IT1126806B
(en)

NL
(1)

NL7909316A
(en)

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Disc for use as part of a disc light

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Glass-box light for emergency route indication in building

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1995-11-16
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Housing-free escape sign luminaire

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1996-11-14
1998-05-22
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A light unit

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1997-06-26
2000-08-30
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Electric sign

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(en)

1998-02-17
1998-04-15
Ici Plc
An edge-lit illumination system

DE29809938U1
(en)

1998-06-03
1998-08-27
Mueller Frank R Dipl Ing

Display device with changing display

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1998-07-06
1999-04-29
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2001-01-15
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2001-01-16
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2000-03-16
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2004-01-10
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(en)

1958-04-25
1960-09-28
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1979

1979-11-30
US
US06/095,651
patent/US4385343A/en
not_active
Expired – Lifetime

1979-12-18
GB
GB7943560A
patent/GB2039405A/en
not_active
Withdrawn

1979-12-19
GR
GR60810A
patent/GR66522B/el
unknown

1979-12-20
DE
DE19792951471
patent/DE2951471A1/en
not_active
Withdrawn

1979-12-21
AU
AU54158/79A
patent/AU5415879A/en
not_active
Abandoned

1979-12-24
ES
ES487609A
patent/ES487609A0/en
active
Granted

1979-12-26
FR
FR7931645A
patent/FR2445485A1/en
not_active
Withdrawn

1979-12-26
AR
AR279447A
patent/AR221920A1/en
active

1979-12-26
BR
BR7908512A
patent/BR7908512A/en
unknown

1979-12-27
IT
IT28398/79A
patent/IT1126806B/en
active

1979-12-27
NL
NL7909316A
patent/NL7909316A/en
not_active
Application Discontinuation

Also Published As

Publication number
Publication date

ES8100457A1
(en)

1980-11-01

NL7909316A
(en)

1980-06-30

ES487609A0
(en)

1980-11-01

US4385343A
(en)

1983-05-24

IT7928398D0
(en)

1979-12-27

FR2445485A1
(en)

1980-07-25

BR7908512A
(en)

1980-09-23

GR66522B
(en)

1981-03-24

AR221920A1
(en)

1981-03-31

GB2039405A
(en)

1980-08-06

IT1126806B
(en)

1986-05-21

DE2951471A1
(en)

1980-07-10

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