US 11,746,965 B2
Lighting device with a wireless communication antenna
Ties Van Bommel, Eindhoven (NL); Antonius Adrianus Maria Marinus, Eindhoven (NL); Yacouba Louh, Eindhoven (NL); and Frank Jan Baas, Eindhoven (NL)
Assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/501,458.
Application 17/501,458 is a continuation of application No. 15/246,159, filed on Aug. 24, 2016, granted, now 11,175,000.
Claims priority of application No. 15183300 (EP), filed on Sep. 1, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0065408 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. F21K 9/232 (2016.01); F21K 9/90 (2016.01); F21V 23/04 (2006.01); H05B 47/19 (2020.01); F21Y 101/00 (2016.01)
CPC F21K 9/90 (2013.01) [F21K 9/232 (2016.08); F21V 23/0435 (2013.01); H05B 47/19 (2020.01); F21Y 2101/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lighting device comprising;
a light source carrier having one or more solid state light sources;
a light transmissive envelope to contain the light source carrier;
an exhaust tube arranged inside the light transmissive envelope for introducing a gas into the light transmissive envelope; and
a wireless communication antenna arranged inside an opening of the exhaust tube that introduces the gas into the light transmissive envelope, wherein the antenna is isolated from the light source carrier.