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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1995
Carroll W Smith, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey T Maddox, Austin, TX (US);
Mikhail A Dubinovskiy, Austin, TX (US);
Mark A Stultz, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher A Cogburn, Austin, TX (US);
High End Systems, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
An automated color mixing wash luminaire includes a movable yoke and a housing movably connected to the yoke. The housing has a first portion including a light source and provides for removing heat generated from the light source. A second portion of the housing includes movable color filters and a power lens. The light source is operable to project a beam of light along a path through the color filters and the lens. Heat removal is provided by cooling fins and at least one heat filter supported in the path of the beam so that a portion of the beam passes through the heat filter and a portion of the beam is reflected from the path toward the cooling fins. The power lens is formed by a disc of cast transparent material including several lens elements in a honeycomb pattern. Each lens element has a convex surface. At least one of the color filters is a gradient density color filter formed of a disc-shaped substrate having a planar surface including a photolithograpically etched film deposited thereon. The film forms a Gausian pattern arcuate band extending around a substantial portion of the planar surface. The band has inner and outer edges and the density of the film is greater in an area along a radius between the inner and outer edges and less along the radius at the inner and outer edges.