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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2012
Stanley D. Robbins, Deputy, IN (US);
Richard C. Bozich, Canton, MI (US);
Martin J. Marx, Madison, IN (US);
James E. Roberts, Madison, IN (US);
Jennifer M. Ehlers, Madison, IN (US);
AL Bolander, Memphis, IN (US);
Stanley D. Robbins, Deputy, IN (US);
Richard C. Bozich, Canton, MI (US);
Martin J. Marx, Madison, IN (US);
James E. Roberts, Madison, IN (US);
Jennifer M. Ehlers, Madison, IN (US);
Al Bolander, Memphis, IN (US);
Grote Industries, LLC, Madison, IN (US);
Abstract
An edge lighting device, and a method of providing edge lighting, including providing a lighting device with at least one light emitting diode (LED) chip embedded therein, wherein the LED chip(s) generates light photons. A path of the light photons within the lighting device that are emitted by the LED chip(s) from a top surface of the LED chip(s), are redirected from a first edge of the lighting device back through the lighting device to a second edge of the lighting device opposite to the first edge. The first edge and the second edge of the lighting device are perpendicular to the top surface of the LED chip(s). The photons which were redirected from the first edge of the lighting device then follow a path through the second edge of the device and are then output from the edge lighting device at the second edge of the device.