Systems and methods for color changing device and enclosure

a technology of color changing devices and enclosures, applied in the direction of process and machine control, lighting and heating apparatus, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of inability to easily change color in response to computer states or digital information, and the color cannot be static,
US20060050509A9Inactive Publication Date: 2006-03-09SIGNIFY NORTH AMERICA CORP
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
SIGNIFY NORTH AMERICA CORP
Publication Date
2006-03-09
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A color-changing device which includes an enclosure at least a portion of which is material which is desired to change color. There is also included an illumination device, such as an LED or collection of LEDs which can illuminate the material. There can also be included a controller which can take some form of input, such as from a network, or a sensor, and can convert that input into a signal to control the illumination. There is also included a method for performing such color change.
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[0001] This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §120 as a continuation (CON) of U.S. Non-provisional application Ser. No. 09 / 917,246, filed Jul. 27, 2001, entitled “Systems and Methods for Color Changing Device and Enclosure.”

[0002] Ser. No. 09 / 917,246 in turn claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60 / 221,579 filed Jul. 28, 2000, entitled “Color Changing Device and Enclosure.”

[0003] Ser. No. 09 / 917,246 also claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §120 as a continuation-in-part (CIP) of co-pending U.S. Non-provisional application Ser. No. 09 / 669,121, filed Sep. 25, 2000, entitled “Multicolored LED Lighting Method and Apparatus”, which is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 09 / 425,770, filed Oct. 22, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,150,774, which is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 08 / 920,156, filed Aug. 26, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,016,038.

[0004] Ser. No. 09 / 917,246 also claims the benefit under 35 U.S...

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