Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
362404000 | Ceiling-suspended support | 23 |
20080198611 | Ceiling fixture mount-facilitating assembly - A ceiling fixture mounting assembly including a box for affixing to a ceiling and containing electrical wiring, the box having opposite vertical sidewalls each with first and second laterally spaced threaded holes receiving corresponding first and second fasteners, and two vertical mounting plates each projecting upwardly from the fixture to terminate in an upper edge and positioned to overlie one of the sidewalls and each having first and second ways receiving the first and second fasteners, respectively, the first way configured for supporting the fixture at an angle to the box for connecting the wires, wherein the improvement comprises each fastener having a head and a threaded portion and the first and second ways having first and second mounting slots, respectively, each having a lower closed end and an upper open end and sized smaller than the head, the plate having a recess at the closed end configured to receive the head such that it is in vertical alignment with the open end, thereby holding the plate in position against the box. | 08-21-2008 |
20080225534 | INTERNAL CABLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MOVABLE SUPPORT ARM - A cable management system for managing at least one cable extending through a support arm and through a hub, comprised of a spool disposed in a hub. The spool has an opening extending through a wall of the spool. A cable carrier is disposed within the support arm. The cable carrier is dimensioned to contain at least one cable extending through the support arm, a first end fixed relative to the support arm and a second end extending towards the hub. The cable carrier is disposed in the support arm such that the cable carrier replicates upon itself to define a first run and a second run. The second end of the cable carrier is movable relative to the hub when the support arm rotates about the hub, wherein the first run shortens and the second run lengthens when the support arm rotates in a direction about the hub. | 09-18-2008 |
20080259616 | ACOUSTIC SYSTEMS FOR LIGHTING IN SUSPENDED CEILINGS - An acoustic housing, a light fixture, a suspended ceiling system, and a method of decreasing sound transfer from a light fixture in a suspended ceiling are disclosed. An acoustic hood for a light fixture in a suspended ceiling may include a partially enclosed space formed between a plurality of wall portions. A light fixture may include first and second layers that are coupled to one another and form a partially enclosed space. A suspended ceiling system may include the acoustic hood or light fixture. The method relates to disposing an acoustic housing spaced from the light fixture. | 10-23-2008 |
20090091941 | PANEL COMPONENT HOLDER - The invention relates to a panel component holder arranged to be attached to a panel element. The panel component holder comprises at least one supporting means and a casing including a brim and at least one retainer. The at least one supporting means comprises an attached end being attached to the casing, an elastic means and a free end. Said at least one retainer is arranged to prevent outwardly movement of the at least one supporting means from said casing in a plane coinciding with the centre axis of the casing, wherein the outwardly movement of the supporting means is induced by the elastic means. | 04-09-2009 |
20090135615 | RECESSED LIGHTING FIXTURE - A recessed lighting fixture includes a housing having one or more side walls, one or more of which including at least one elongate slot formation, the slot formation including a pair of oppositely extending lateral edge formations, each lateral edge formation having a first dimension, a retaining clip to be located in the slot formation for movement therealong. The retaining clip has a first portion to extend through the slot formation and to travel along an inner surface of the corresponding side wall on opposite sides of the slot formation, a second portion having a second dimension exceeding the first dimension and to travel along an outer surface of a corresponding side wall on opposite sides of the slot formation. The second portion is arranged to be biased outwardly from the housing relative to the first portion, the second portion joined to a third portion, the third portion being arranged to extend through the slot formation in a retained position, in which the third portion is retained against an inner surface of the corresponding lateral edge formation with the second portion in a spring-loaded orientation. The third portion is movable from the retained position to a released position when separated from the lateral edge formation, thereby causing the second portion to be transferred from its spring-loaded orientation to an outwardly extended orientation relative to the housing. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135616 | RECESSED LIGHTING FIXTURE WITH POWER SUPPLY HOUSING - A recessed lighting fixture includes a housing having one or more side walls, one or more of which including at least one elongate slot formation, the slot formation including a pair of oppositely extending lateral edge formations, each lateral edge formation having a first dimension, a retaining clip to be located in the slot formation for movement therealong. The retaining clip has a first portion to extend through the slot formation and to travel along an inner surface of the corresponding side wall on opposite sides of the slot formation, a second portion having a second dimension exceeding the first dimension and to travel along an outer surface of a corresponding side wall on opposite sides of the slot formation. The second portion is arranged to be biased outwardly from the housing relative to the first portion, the second portion joined to a third portion, the third portion being arranged to extend through the slot formation in a retained position, in which the third portion is retained against an inner surface of the corresponding lateral edge formation with the second portion in a spring-loaded orientation. The third portion is movable from the retained position to a released position when separated from the lateral edge formation, thereby causing the second portion to be transferred from its spring-loaded orientation to an outwardly extended orientation relative to the housing. | 05-28-2009 |
20090168439 | CEILING LIGHT FIXTURE ADAPTABLE TO VARIOUS LAMP ASSEMBLIES - A ceiling light fixture includes a housing forming a channel having a trapezoidal cross section and a light-transmitting cover panel fixed in and covering the channel. The channel has a bottom wall forming a slot. A circumferential mounting frame is formed on a back of the bottom wall of the channel and barbs extend from the mounting frame. The bottom wall further forms a fitting hole. The ceiling light fixture selectively receives a first lamp assembly in the mounting frame and secures the lamp assembly with the barbs so that a light source of the lamp assembly is exposed through the slot for irradiating light or alternatively an end seat of a lamp tube is fit and retained in the fitting hole to set and fix the lamp tube in the slot to realize interchangeable use of the ceiling light fixture with different lamp assemblies. | 07-02-2009 |
20090290364 | Housing for suspendable assembly - The invention provides an improvement in suspendable structures and assemblies such as linear lighting fixtures/luminaires that are intended to be suspended from ceilings or other such structures. The housings of the assemblies are designed to include at least one structural member with prestressing in at least along a major longitudinal axis over at least a portion of the length of the member. Once the structural member is incorporated into the housing and overall assembly, the housing and/or assembly is substantially planar and uniform once the assembly is suspended, making the assembly both stronger and more aesthetically appealing. Other embodiments showing extensions to the invention are also disclosed. | 11-26-2009 |
20100259944 | SELF-LEVELING BRACKET FOR LIGHTING FIXTURE - A self-leveling bracket assembly for suspending a lighting fixture from a ceiling of a structure. The light fixture comprising a frame having a first and second ends, the self-leveling bracket assembly having two brackets, each bracket comprising a connector member adapted to be attached to the ceiling and a hangar having one end pivotally attached to the connector member and another end adapted to receive the light fixture. | 10-14-2010 |
20110116276 | MOUNTING ASSISTING MEMBER AND LIGHTING APPARATUS - In a mounting assisting member used for mounting a mounted body for a smaller mounting hole than a mounting hole provided in a mounting member to the mounting hole, the mounting assisting member, since support plate portions of the mounting assisting member come into surface contact with a peripheral edge portion in an upper surface side of a ceiling of a mounting hole by one surfaces. Accordingly, an influence of a concavity and convexity is lightened even in the case the concavity and convexity exists in a peripheral edge portion of the mounting hole, and a lighting apparatus for a smaller mounting hole than the mounting hole of the ceiling is stably held to the ceiling in a predetermined direction and by a predetermined support force. | 05-19-2011 |
20110157902 | COVER - The present invention relates to a device for covering an area, which device comprises an attachment portion and a body. Said body is designed partly spherical made of a flexible material and designed as a cover with a wall essentially extending around the entire cover which has an open end portion. Said wall extends from an end point to said end portion, which end portion is configured to assume a first position with regard to a plane in said end point of said cover and a second position by folding said wall and displacing said end portion past said plane. | 06-30-2011 |
20120140493 | LIGHT WITH ALIGNMENT FEATURE | 06-07-2012 |
20120201038 | Luminaire - The invention relates to a luminaire, in particular a table luminaire, having a luminaire body formed from a fibre-reinforced material and at least one lighting element, which is arranged on the luminaire body in an assigned lighting element holder and embodied as an OLED lighting element. | 08-09-2012 |
20140043835 | HORIZONTALLY AND VERTICALLY MOUNTABLE FIXTURE EXTENSION THAT CAN BE LOWERED FOR SERVICE - An example includes a lamp system couplable to a vertical structure and a horizontal structure, the system including a base including a first electrical contact couplable to a power source, a motor coupled to the base, the motor couplable to the power source, a cord coupled to the motor, with the motor configured to extend and retract the cord with respect to the base and a lamp socket coupled to the cord, the lamp socket including a second electrical contact mateable to the first electrical contact to electrically couple the lamp socket to the power source, wherein the base is hingedly couplable to a hinge plate, with a proximal portion of the hinge plate to be hinged to a side of the base in a vertical-mount configuration, with the cord extending through a channel located on a distal end of the hinge plate. | 02-13-2014 |
20140301091 | MEANS FOR SELECTIVE MOUNTING OF AN ILLUMINATED OR A TRANSLUCENT OBJECT - A mounting element for selective mounting of an object ( | 10-09-2014 |
20150070915 | Apparatus for Hanging Lighting Assembly - A lighting assembly that has a heat. sink with an arcuate channel thereon around a circular member to receive wiring. During manufacturing the wiring is connected a printed circuit board. that engages the heat sink and is disposed through an opening in the heat sink within the arcuate channel. Then, during installation the wiring is wrapped around the circular member within the arcuate channel and held in place with an end cap. The wiring is then connected to wiring within a building allowing during which process stress and stain is transferred from the wiring to the heat sink to prevent damage to the connection point between the wiring and the printed circuit board. | 03-12-2015 |
20150146439 | LIGHTING ARRANGEMENT - The invention relates to a lighting arrangement comprising, among others, means for supporting rods from the ceiling, light fixtures at the lower ends of the rods, and coupling means between the supporting means and the rods, allowing a modular light fixture to be installed with multiple configurations. | 05-28-2015 |
20160040862 | EASY TO INSTALL LUMINAIRE - A luminaire assembly is disclosed comprising a mounting part ( | 02-11-2016 |
20160076746 | PARTIALLY LIGHTED T-BAR - The partially lit T-bar includes a spine with a rest shelf at a lower portion thereof. The rest shelf supports adjacent ceiling tiles. The under surface of the rest shelf includes a lighting module on a portion and a plain unlit undersurface on other portions. Additional T-bars which are shorter, and typically fully lit or fully unlit and half the length of the partially lit T-bar are also provided which can attach at ends or near a midpoint of the partially lit T-bar and typically perpendicularly thereto. A great variety of lighting patterns in a dropped ceiling is thus facilitated. Each of the T-bars preferably also includes a heat sink on an upper portion of the spine and also preferably a lower heat sink on an upper portion of the rest shelf. Heat associated with the light element of the T-bar can thus be drawn away from a space below the ceiling. | 03-17-2016 |
20160201863 | DUAL-CONDUCTOR SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRICAL APPARATUS | 07-14-2016 |
362405000 | Body member with plural radial arms (e.g., chandelier) | 3 |
20110199775 | Modular lighting fixture with improved device for connecting the arms to the respective support - A modular lighting fixture ( | 08-18-2011 |
20160178147 | Chandelier for outdoor use | 06-23-2016 |
362406000 | With mounting means | 1 |
20140092610 | Ceiling Illumination with Mountings for Panels - An illuminating device for indoor lighting comprising a visible panel, through which light can be transmitted. The visible panel includes a portion having transparent material, and a panel retaining device. The retaining device has a retaining means for retaining the visible panel and a fixing means for mounting the visible panel on a ceiling or on a wall. The retaining device has at least three interconnected retaining arms which are arranged in the shape of a star and which retain at least two visible panel parts at the inner faces of the visible panel parts, the inner faces of the visible panel parts bordering each other such that said visible panel parts together form a substantially continuous visible panel surface. The visible panel parts have free outer faces which are not retained by the retaining arms and which together from the outer circumference of the visible panel. | 04-03-2014 |