Patent Application
20190191674
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The disclosure and prior art relates to illuminated aquarium devices and more particularly pertains to a new illuminated aquarium device for emitting light downwardly towards the aquarium and outwardly from a light source.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a tank that is configured to be filled with water and house fish. A lighting unit is positioned on top of the tank. The lighting unit emits light downwardly into the tank and laterally from the lighting unit when the lighting unit is turned on.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A lighting unit 30 is positioned on top of the tank 12. The lighting unit 30 emits light downwardly into the tank 12 and laterally from the lighting unit 30 when the lighting unit 30 is turned on. The term “laterally” here means above and outside of the tank 12 such that the lighting unit lights an area round the tank 12 so that it may be used to illuminate a room containing the tank 12. The lighting unit 30 comprises a housing 32 that includes an upper wall 34 and a peripheral wall 36 that is attached to and extends downwardly from the upper wall 34. The peripheral wall 36 is translucent. The upper wall 34 is removable from the peripheral wall 36.
A plurality of light emitters 38 is mounted in the housing 32. Each of the light emitters 38 emits light downwardly into the tank 12 and outwardly through the peripheral wall 36 when the light emitters 38 are turned on. Each of the light emitters 38 comprises a light emitting diode. A window 40 is attached to the peripheral wall 36 and covers the light emitters 38 such that the light emitters 38 are positioned between the window 40 and the upper wall 34. The window 40 may comprise of a lens such that the window 40 may reflect light outwardly from the housing 32 at different angles as well as change a color of the light emitted.
A power switch 42 is electrically coupled to each of the light emitters 38 and is actuated to turn the light emitters 38 on. The power switch 42 is mounted on the peripheral wall 36. A power supply 44 is electrically coupled to the light emitters 38. The power supply 44 is positioned within the housing 32 and is accessible when the upper wall 34 is removed from the peripheral wall 36. The power supply 44 comprises at least one battery.
In use, the assembly 10 is used conventionally as a light source. The tank 12 is positioned upright with the base 16 on a ground surface 46. The power switch 42 is actuated to illuminate each of the light emitters 38. Each of the light emitters 38 emits light downwardly toward the tank 12 and outwardly from the peripheral wall 36 such that the light emitters 38 act as a conventional light source.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
