US 11,940,107 B2
Lighting device and a method of manufacturing a lighting device
Ties Van Bommel, Horst (NL); and Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Eindhoven (NL)
Assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 18/031,921
Filed by SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Oct. 5, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/077380
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 14, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/078813, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 20201917 (EP), filed on Oct. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0383916 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. F21S 4/22 (2016.01); F21K 9/232 (2016.01); F21Y 107/70 (2016.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC F21S 4/22 (2016.01) [F21K 9/232 (2016.08); F21Y 2107/70 (2016.08); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lighting device comprising
a housing; and
a flexible elongated carrier having a first side and a second side,
a plurality of first sections each first section comprising a plurality of solid state lighting elements, arranged on the first side of the elongated carrier, wherein each first section is arranged at a distance from a surface of the housing; and
a plurality of second sections, each second section being at least in part attached to the surface of the housing; and wherein
the first sections and the second sections are alternatingly arranged in a succession along a longitudinal extension of the elongated carrier; and wherein
the elongated carrier has been bent and/or folded at at least some of the second sections such that the elongated carrier has a shape in accordance with a shape of a spiral as seen from above the surface of the housing, and
wherein at least some of the second sections have been bent and/or folded at least twice.