A search for IKEA patents returned 5716 patents, which should explain, at least partly, the timelessness, craftpersonship, and success of so many IKEA products. Founded in 1943, in Sweden, IKEA is now a multinational company, the largest retail furniture company in the world since 2008.
The IKEA design for the corded and battery-operated, Luriga hedgehog, LED night light for kids, is a patented invention. The child-friendly lamp is soft with two settings, white and color-changing, fading in and out of green. An internal timer slowly switches off the lamp. However, it is the way the invention looks that was patented—the ornamental hedgehog aspect of the night light. The US design patent, USD847401S1, titled Lamp, was awarded to Tina Alnæs, an industrial designer, on April 30th, 2019.
Below, the Figure 1 extracted from the patent shows a perspective view of the inventive design. An image of the marketed Luriga hedgehog LED night light is also shown below the patent figure.
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