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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2011
Michael Quilici, Essex, MA (US);
Ernest Davey, Jr., Salem, NH (US);
Michael Quilici, Essex, MA (US);
Ernest Davey, Jr., Salem, NH (US);
OSRAM SYLVANIA INC., Wilmington, MA (US);
Abstract
A light fixture and method for producing downward-propagating illumination that includes an edge-lit lightguide illuminated from its perimeter. The lightguide has a light extractor, such as a dot pattern on its bottom surface, which extracts a portion of the light from inside the lightguide and directs it to a diffuser. The fixture also includes a downlight, arranged above the lightguide and producing a downlight beam downward. The downlight beam transmits from the top face through the bottom face of the lightguide and emerges from the bottom face of the lightguide as a directional beam. The downlight beam has a downlight beam footprint. The light extractor has a light extractor area that excludes the downlight beam footprint, and the diffuser has a diffuser area that also excludes the downlight beam footprint.