CN207394479U - A kind of LED desk lamp of adjustable color - Google Patents

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CN207394479U
CN207394479U CN201720156366.7U CN201720156366U CN207394479U CN 207394479 U CN207394479 U CN 207394479U CN 201720156366 U CN201720156366 U CN 201720156366U CN 207394479 U CN207394479 U CN 207394479U
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韩振伟
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The utility model discloses a kind of LED desk lamp of adjustable color, including lampshade, LED light source, pedestal, telescopic rod and power supply.The lampshade is formed by fixing cover page and movable guard page, and fixed cover page is connected with movable guard page by shaft.The LED light source is mounted on movable guard page inner wall, and LED light source includes the LED of multigroup color.The power supply is the independent current constant control that each group LED light source is realized by single chip circuit.By the way that different electric currents is controlled to export to obtain different groups of LED luminances.Different brightness LED lights just project the light of different-colour after the high diffusing reflection mixing of lampshade inner wall from desk lamp bottom.The light adjusting of different-colour can make desk lamp have different application environments.And movable guard page is closed or expansion can make desk lamp illumination space realize fill light or poly- spot light.The utility model has the characteristics that simple in structure, easy to use and highly practical, is widely used in office and the scenes such as red-letter day.

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A kind of LED desk lamp of adjustable color
Technical field
The utility model is related to lighting lamp technical field, more particularly, to a kind of LED desk lamp of adjustable color.
Background technology
With the fast development of lighting engineering and industry, the application of low-carbon new light sources becomes more and more important.LED is as new The lighting source of a generation has many advantages, such as that luminous efficiency height, fast response time, long lifespan, safety are high and color is various, it has also become Instead of the successor of conventional illumination sources.In addition, multi-functional and highly practical illuminating product is easier to be welcome be subject to market. But currently marketed lighting lamp product, still incandescent lamp and fluorescent lamp mainly are used as light source, such desk lamp efficiency is low, Power-consuming, caloric value is high and the ultraviolet light that sends is again uncontrollable, and easy harm users body is unfavorable for energy conservation and environmental protection.
For energy-saving and emission-reduction, recent years, occurs environmentally protective LED desk lamp illuminating product in the market, although such Desk lamp can reach certain energy saving purpose, but the design of desk lamp uses, and starting point is to provide lighting source for clerk (light source for being requirement outgoing is soft uniform light), and without considering desk lamp to other special occupation crowds to the needs of light source, Such as be engaged in electronic device detection and clock and watch repair etc. positions work light source, generally require light source can certain local location have compared with Strong point spot light.But current desk lamp market is seen while has uniform light and a desk lamp of stigma light not yet.In addition, commercial at present Function of desk lamp is all only used for illuminating, and function is more single, lacks flexibility.And LED light source is small various with color with structure Advantage is brought into play still without in current commercial desk lamp.
Utility model content
Technical problem to be solved in the utility model is to overcome the shortcomings of existing desk lamp, provides a kind of simple in structure, behaviour Work is convenient, brightness is adjustable, have poly- spot light or fill light switching and true money is examined and a kind of adjustable color of sterilizing LED desk lamps.
The utility model is mainly realized by following technical solution:
A kind of LED desk lamp of adjustable color, including lampshade, LED light source, pedestal, telescopic rod and driving circuit;Its feature It is that the lampshade includes fixed cover page and more than one movable guard page, fixed cover page is flexibly connected with movable guard page;It is described LED light source is mounted on the inner wall of movable guard page;The pedestal is connected with telescopic rod one end, the other end and lampshade of telescopic rod Connection;The driving circuit is used to drive LED light source;The LED light source is made of multigroup LED modules with different colors, different colours LED light source controlled through driving circuit and project the light of different-colour from desk lamp bottom after lampshade inner wall high diffusing reflection mixing. The inner wall of the lampshade scribbles high diffusing reflection coating material.If the movable guard page of lampshade is not turned on, then is sent by LED Light after the reflection and scattering of lampshade inside coating material, it is empty that obtained soft uniform light from lampshade bottom is emitted to illumination Between in.If the movable guard page of lampshade is opened, then the LED light on movable guard page inner wall directly illuminates space with poly- spot light directive In.
The LED light source is mounted on the inner wall of movable cover, if light source (refers to traditional high color temperature by white light LEDs LED), red-light LED and orange light LED are formed, then white, red and orange light LED can be mounted on same movable guard with regular interval On page inner wall, but the driving circuit of not homochromy LED is to separate independent control.White light, feux rouges and orange light LED are pacified can also respectively On the cover inner wall different mounted in three, uniform light is obtained by the light diffusing reflection in lampshade.
The LED light source, if being made of red-light LED, green LED and blue-ray LED, then the LED of three kinds of colors It is regular on the inner wall of same movable guard page.It can also be three kinds of LED modules with different colors chip packages into a LED Three primary colours module, the LED modules with different colors of the module is separate current control.Such multiple die set light sources may be mounted at same On the inner wall of movable guard page, it can also be mounted on the inner wall of multiple movable guard pages.
The LED light source, if being made of white light LEDs and blood orange light LED, wherein white light LEDs refer to traditional height Colour temperature LED, blood orange light LED are by UV LED chip reddish orange coloured fluorescent powder to be excited to realize.This white light LEDs and blood orange light LED It may be mounted on the same movable guard page inner wall of lampshade, can also be mounted on different movable guard page inner walls.
Further, the upper end of the movable guard page of the lampshade is connected with fixed cover page by shaft, under movable guard page With fixed cover page by the open or close that is buckled, elastic force buckle may be employed in buckle at end, can also use pressure buckle or magnetic force Buckle.
Further, shaft connection, connection mode can be using screw through the round tube hole of movable guard page and The circle wire hole of cover page is fixed to realize, in order to be easily opened shaft and be in a certain position, between screw and round tube hole, circle is logical Rubber gasket can be disposed between Kong Yuyuan wire holes;Connection side's also formula can be by the recessed circular groove of movable guard page with fixing the convex of cover page Cylinder interlocks to realize.
Further, the inner wall of the lampshade scribbles high diffuse-reflective material (such as BaSO4 composite materials).
Further, the driving circuit is to realize that the independent constant current of each group LED light source is driven by single chip machine controlling circuit Dynamic, different electric current outputs can be achieved with LED luminance adjusting;The surface plate of the pedestal, which is equipped with, adjusts each group LED light source brightness Soft-touch control.
Further, multigroup LED modules with different colors is white light LEDs, red-light LED and orange light LED or red, green, blue three Primary-color LED or white light LEDs and blood orange light LED.
The LED includes the White LED of more than colour temperature 4000K, and wavelength is in the red LED and wavelength of 615nm to 670nm In ultraviolet light LED totally three groups of light sources of 200nm to 400nm;White, red and ultraviolet light LED can be mounted on same together The LED on the inner wall of a movable guard page or not shared the same light is mounted on the inner wall of different movable guard pages;White LED, can To be made of same color temperature LED, can also be made of a variety of different-colour LED;Red LED or ultraviolet light LED, can be by same Wavelength LED is formed, and can also be made of the LED of a variety of different wave lengths.
Further, the surface plate of the pedestal is equipped with the soft-touch control for adjusting LED luminance;Driving circuit is installed on pedestal It is internal;The sensing control unit of driving circuit is corresponding with the soft-touch control of susceptor surface.
Further, the top of the lampshade is equipped with draw ring, passes through the length of draw ring adjustable telescopic rod.
Further, the inside of the telescopic rod is hollow that power cord is connected through telescopic rod inside and with LED.
The upper end of the lampshade movable guard page with fixed cover page is connected by shaft, and the shaft of connection can use spiral shell Silk is realized through the round tube hole 122 of movable guard page and the circle wire hole 111 of fixed cover page (in order to be easily opened shaft and be in Between screw and round tube hole, rubber gasket 1222 can be disposed between circular hole and circle wire hole for a certain position).The shaft of connection also may be used To interlock to realize by the recessed circular groove 123 of movable guard page and the convex cylindrical 112 of fixed cover page.
The lower end of the lampshade movable guard page is to realize the folding of movable guard page by buckle 121 with fixed cover page.Card Elastic force buckle may be employed in button, can also use pressure buckle or magnetic force buckle.
Compared with prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are:
1) this LED desk lamp realizes the adjustable color function of desk lamp, this is general by the constant current drive control of microcontroller power supply Not the characteristics of logical desk lamp does not have.The desk lamp of this adjustable color can meet needs of the different user to light quality.
2) this LED desk lamp is combined with fixed cover page using movable guard page and LED light source is arranged on movable guard page inner wall Fitting structure design, can flexibly change very much the emitting light path of LED, obtain the poly- spot light of direct projection or the soft uniform light of diffusing reflection, Meet more light scenes.
3) constant current independent control brightness is carried out to each color LED light source by the microcontroller of power supply, realizes that desk lamp is different The regulation and control of colour temperature.And movable guard page is combined with fixed cover page, and the desk lamp for LED light source being arranged on movable guard page inner wall is set Meter, may be such that desk lamp illumination range is expanded, and soft uniform light is obtained using the high diffusing reflection of lampshade inner wall, meet office and The needs of life, and the poly- spot light that fixed cover page obtains, which is unfolded, can meet the needs in the special lightings places such as electronics repairing.Colour temperature Adjustable desk lamp illumination, the operation for allowing user is more flexible, freely can carry out personalized adjusting according to time and ambient enviroment, improve The lighting environment of oneself improves work efficiency.
4) this Table lamp structure is simple, and processing and repair are all very convenient, can save material and reduce cost.
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Stereogram when Fig. 1 a are a kind of LED desk lamp normal work of adjustable color in embodiment (do not open up by movable guard page It opens).
Fig. 1 b are the stereogram after a kind of contraction of the LED desk lamp of adjustable color.
Side view when Fig. 2 is a kind of movable guard page expansion of LED desk lamp of adjustable color.
When Fig. 3 uses screw structural for shaft, front view and movable guard page and fixed cover page when movable guard page is unfolded Shaft figure.
When Fig. 4 a use screw structural for shaft, the inner wall front view of desk lamp movable guard page.
When Fig. 4 b use screw structural for shaft, the inner wall side view of desk lamp movable guard page.
Fig. 5 is a kind of pedestal figure of the LED desk lamp of adjustable color.
Fig. 6 a~Fig. 6 c are a kind of driving circuit figure of the LED desk lamp of adjustable color.
When Fig. 7 a use concave-convex buckle structure for shaft, front view when desk lamp movable guard page is removed.
When Fig. 7 b use concave-convex buckle structure for shaft, the inner wall front view of desk lamp movable guard page.
When Fig. 7 c use concave-convex buckle structure for shaft, the inner wall side view of desk lamp movable guard page.
In figure:1) lampshade;2) telescopic rod;3) pedestal;4) draw ring;11) fixed cover page;12) movable guard page;111) circle silk Hole;112) convex cylindrical;121) it is buckled;122) round tube hole;123)LED;124) recessed circular groove;1221) screw;1222) valve rubber Piece;31) soft-touch control.
Specific embodiment
It is further described below by two examples, but the utility model embodiment and protection are not limited only to this.
Embodiment one
In the embodiment, the desk lamp of adjustable color is mainly by lampshade 1, LED light source 123, pedestal 3, telescopic rod 2 and power supply structure Into.Wherein lampshade is made of fixed cover page 11 and three movable guard pages 12, is molded and obtained by plastic material.The inner wall of lampshade applies There is high diffuse-reflective material (such as BaSO4 composite materials).LED light source include one group of 12W white light LEDs (colour temperature about 6000K), one group 12W red-light LEDs (the wherein a length of 640nm of spike) and one group of 12W orange lights LED (wherein spike is grown in 210nm or so);Every group of LED Light source (white light LEDs, red-light LED and orange light LED) is separately mounted on the inner wall of three movable guard pages.Draw ring is equipped at the top of lampshade 4, by the length of the conveniently adjusted telescopic rod of draw ring, realize desk lamp normal work height and shrink the adjusting of height (see Fig. 1 a Shown in Fig. 1 b), so save laying for goods space.
The upper end of lampshade movable guard page with fixed cover page is connected (see Fig. 3) by shaft, and shaft is first using long screw Through rubber gasket 1222, the circle wire hole 111 for being then passed through the round tube hole 122 of movable guard page, rubber gasket and fixed cover page is real Existing, wherein round tube hole and movable guard page are integrally formed by processing, circle wire hole and fixed cover page be also by process one into Shape.The lower end of lampshade movable guard page is to realize the folding of movable guard page by buckle 121 with fixed cover page, and buckle is using conventional Elastic force buckle.
The surface plate of pedestal is equipped with the soft-touch control 31 for adjusting LED luminance.Driving circuit is connected with LED light source, installation In the inside of pedestal.As an example, driving circuit circuit shown in Fig. 6 a~Fig. 6 c forms, and includes capacitance (C1~C12), resistance (R1~R12, R25~R27), P-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (Q1~Q3), NPN triode (Q4~Q9), diode (D1~D6), inductance (L1~L3), White LED (w1~w12), red LED (r1~r12), ultraviolet light LED (u1~u12), voltage-stabiliser tube IC1, MCU IC2, MCU input/output signal (PWM-W, PWM-R, W-IS, R-IS, U-RS).Pedestal is connected with telescopic rod one end, telescopic rod Other end is connected with lampshade, and wherein telescopic rod is internally hollow structure, the output electric wire that the driving circuit out of pedestal picks out, It is connected inside through telescopic rod and with the LED on movable guard page inner wall.
The soft-touch control of susceptor surface has three rows, independently controls the unlatching of white light LEDs, red-light LED and orange light LED, Soft-touch control independent power source " ON/OFF " key and 8 frequency modulated light source brightness regulations are often arranged, as shown in Fig. 5, Fig. 6 c, wherein microcontroller sensing control Unit processed is corresponding with the soft-touch control of susceptor surface.The LED light of different brightness is just easily achieved by operating soft-touch control Source exports, if the brightness of the brightness of white LED light source, feux rouges and orange light LED is adjusted simultaneously, while movable guard page is not unfolded, So brightness of light source is mixed by light after the diffusing reflection of lampshade inner wall and realizes that the light of different-colour is adjusted, and from desk lamp Soft uniform light is projected in bottom, meets requirement of the office space to different-colour light quality;When expansion movable guard page, white light is allowed LED light source direct projection obtains the poly- spot light of larger range of exposures, can meet the specific use of desk lamp, such as clock and watch into illumination space The working environments such as repairing and circuit detection.If single adjusting red-light LED or orange light LED, red-letter day warm atmosphere can be set off by contrast.
Embodiment two
The implementation process of this example, most of identical with embodiment one, different contents mainly has at following 2 points:
1) lampshade is made of fixed cover page and a movable guard page, 12W red-light LEDs (long 620mm of spike or so), 12W Green light LED (long 540nm of spike or so) and 12W blue-ray LEDs (465nm or so) are installed by the be staggered light source board of composition of matrix On the inner wall of same movable guard page, the driving current of this each color LED is by power supply microcontroller independent control.
2) upper end of movable guard page with fixed cover page is connected by shaft, and shaft is the recessed circular groove by movable guard page 123 interlock to realize with fixing the convex cylindrical 112 of cover page, as shown in Fig. 7a-7c.Recessed circular groove and movable guard page are by processing one Body shapes, and convex cylindrical and fixed cover page are also integrally formed by processing.The lower end of lampshade movable guard page is logical with fixed cover page Buckle 121 is crossed to realize the folding of movable guard page, buckle is buckled using magnetic force.
By the soft-touch control on operation base surface, the LED light source output of different colours brightness easy to implement.If simultaneously The different brightness of red-light LED, green light LED and blue-ray LED are adjusted, the light output of different-colour value are just obtained, if movable guard page Be not unfolded, light after the high diffusing reflection of lampshade inner wall, and from lampshade bottom output different-colour soft uniform light.It is if living Dynamic cover page expansion, if single one kind adjusted in these three colors and two kinds, the large space around desk lamp is dried in certain color Hold in the palm life atmosphere.If adjusting these three colors simultaneously, white light output can be mixed to get, the white light scope of desk lamp is expanded Greatly, the more multipurpose of desk lamp can be met.
Embodiment three
The implementation process of this example, most of identical with embodiment one, different contents mainly has at following 2 points:
1) lampshade is made of fixed cover page and two movable guard pages, and LED light source includes one group of 12W white light LEDs, and (colour temperature is about 6000K), one group of 12W reddish orange LED, wherein blood orange light LED are to excite reddish orange coloured fluorescent powder by UV LED chip (360nm) It realizes, is a UV LED chip and reddish orange coloured fluorescent powder are packaged into a LED light.One group of white light LEDs is mounted on On the inner wall of one movable guard page, one group of reddish orange LED is mounted on the inner wall of another movable guard page.
2) the microcontroller constant current output of power supply is two groups, and corresponding pedestal operation surface touch switch is two rows control Three rows of system rather than embodiment one control.
The operation of the LED desk lamp of the adjustable color and implementation result are identical with embodiment one.
The application of the utility model is not limited only to examples detailed above one, two and three, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that can be with It is improved or converted according to the above description with example, all these correlation modifications and variations should all belong to appended by the utility model Scope of the claims.

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1. a kind of LED desk lamp of adjustable color, it is characterised in that including lampshade(1), LED light source(123), pedestal(3), telescopic rod (2)And driving circuit;It is characterized in that the lampshade includes fixed cover page(11)With more than one movable guard page(12), it is fixed Cover page is flexibly connected with movable guard page;The LED light source(123)On the inner wall of movable guard page;The pedestal is with stretching Bar one end connects, and the other end of telescopic rod is connected with lampshade;The driving circuit is used to drive LED light source;The LED light source It is to be made of multigroup LED modules with different colors, the LED light source of different colours is controlled through driving circuit and mixed through the high diffusing reflection of lampshade inner wall The light of different-colour is projected after conjunction from desk lamp bottom.
2. the LED desk lamp of a kind of adjustable color according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the movable guard page of the lampshade Upper end is connected with fixed cover page by shaft, and the lower end of movable guard page passes through buckle with fixed cover page(121)Open or close.
3. the LED desk lamp of a kind of adjustable color according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the inner wall of the lampshade scribbles height Diffuse-reflective material.
4. the LED desk lamp of a kind of adjustable color according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the driving circuit is to pass through list Piece machine control circuit realizes the independent constant current driving of multigroup LED modules with different colors, and it is bright that the output of different electric currents can be achieved with LED Degree is adjusted;The surface plate of the pedestal is equipped with the soft-touch control for adjusting multigroup LED modules with different colors brightness.
A kind of 5. LED desk lamp of adjustable color according to claim 1, it is characterised in that multigroup LED modules with different colors For white light LEDs, red-light LED and orange light LED or red, green, blue three-primary color LED or white light LEDs and blood orange light LED.
6. the LED desk lamp of a kind of adjustable color according to claim 5, it is characterised in that the LED of different colours can be installed On same movable guard page inner wall or on the inner wall of different movable guard pages.
7. the LED desk lamp of a kind of adjustable color according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the surface plate of the pedestal is equipped with Adjust the soft-touch control of LED luminance(31);Driving circuit is installed on chassis interior.
8. the LED desk lamp of a kind of adjustable color according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the top for further including lampshade is equipped with Draw ring(4), pass through the length of draw ring adjustable telescopic rod.
9. the LED desk lamp of a kind of adjustable color according to claim 1, it is characterised in that during the inside of the telescopic rod is Sky, power cord are connected through telescopic rod inside and with LED.
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