Running board lighting assembly
CA 2282819 A1 · Owner: Bogdan, Alexei · Inventors: Hoffknecht, Marc Oliver; Bogdan, Alexei
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A running board lighting assembly consisting of an array of LEDs, a lens tube and a power circuit provides distributed light to the surface of a running board step which appears to be evenly distributed and which, when reflected from the running board step surface appears to, have a near incandescent quality. The LED array includes conventional green LEDs, which also emit longer wavelengths horizontally and evenly, spaced within the lens tube. The lens tube is installed within the running board cladding, above the running board step. The lens tube is extruded from acrylic material containing appropriate dye so that when light from, the green LED array passes through the lens tube the green …
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- Filed September 21, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 21, 2019.
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