BE1027301B1 - PROTECTION AND CONNECTION DEVICE FOR A PUBLIC LIGHTING DEVICE - Google Patents

Abstract

Device for protecting and connecting a public lighting device intended to be placed in the mast of a public lighting device, provided with a back plate and its installation method.

Description

xPROTECTION AND CONNECTION DEVICE FOR A PUBLIC LIGHTING DEVICE »The present invention relates to a device for protecting and connecting a public lighting device intended to be placed in the mast of a lighting device public.

Protection and connection devices exist and are for example described in document EP2940817 and allow typically to ensure the connection of the distribution network {often tip-phase} to the ofmentation of the luminaire [generally single-phase, to SGvOr A neutral and a Only phase} while ensuring electrical 1D protection, and the possibility of disconnection.

Such a protection and connection device is also sometimes called a "safe!" of candelabra ”, it is arranged to be instailé in ia lower parties of a candelabra, or level of an access door fitted in Is condelabra and allowing access to the disposifif by a dearer.

From this device, conductors run along the mast, and feed the lighting device which includes a discharge lamp or electrolurinescent diodes, also LED or LED. In such a device, the continuity of the distribution network is generally provided by a terminal block positioned in the box which allows several public lighting devices to be connected in series. In this box, we also come across elements of electrical protection against overcurrents such as a fuse holder, In practice, the electrician uses connection boxes as described in document EP2940817 in which installs (or the elements are pre-assembled in the factory) the protections necessary for the installation (circuit breaker = two-pole or two-pole switch. possibly surge arrester, possibly varsiance) l but almost the low voltage connection terminals (up to 400v) and pre-wired the assembly.

He goes to the site, opens the box, connects the electric cables to the terminals.

Then 1 connects the ecigirage luminaire (s), he closes the box and fixes it in the mast, Unfortunately although there is great flexibility for the electrician, this type of connection box requires the presence of an electrician to connect the luminaire to the public network, leave it in {A dangerous environment, typically along the circulation routes, where the electrician is particularly exposed to the dangers of coccdents, 1 exsis therefore a need to provide connection boxes which are simpler to install, that is to say for which the installation time on site is reduced in order to reduce the risks and the dangers of the installation, but also by its simplicity of Installation allows to reduce the errors which politically require a longer time on site but also does not necessarily require a specialized workforce af which can be, for example, positioned when the traffic lane is t secured by a large construction site for example, To solve this problem, the present invention provides a protection and connection device which comprises a back plate which is drawn in a foreground, provided with soldering means intended to be sofidarisée inside said mat, ladies wave plate comprising a reception area for a box and a recessed slot, having a median, said recessed slot 5e lying under said reception area when the dorsal slap is in a substantially veriicaie position, Eu } a flat wall, housed in said recessed slot so as to protrude far forward when said back plate is mounted in the mat ledlt, ij cij minus a DIN roll fixed frontally under kadıle flat wall when the dorsal plate is positioned veriogiement, iv ] a safe! arranged in said reception area, arranged to connect the lighting device to a current source, said box comprising at least one current output cable, intended to be connected to said lighting device and at least one glimentation comprising a plurality of electric wires, forming a supply cirouif, in which there is, between the supply and said current output, or less a protection device such as a bipolar disconnector, a bipolar disconnector, a surge arrester, a voristor and their combinations, Yv} A bomier including a series of terminals, Isa? bomier being arranged to connect a plurality of electric power supply lines coming from the electric power network audi cirouil of ofimeniafion of said box, said bomler being fixed to said at least one DIN rail, under said flat wall.

As can be seen, the protection and connection device according to the present invention has the advantages of not having to open the box during the connections, a significant saving of time for the installation while seriously imitating the wiring errors, requires the presence of an electrician only for the connection of the power to the bores and facilitates the connection of large section côbies (up to 35mrn7), Indeed, by the fact that the bomier has 616 moved from the box, under a plogue in the room towards the front, Test on the one hand isolated from water drops or events and is more accessible for connection (large section cable ease !. In addition, the connection device can be pre-wired, only requiring connection Id from the device to the public network and to the lighting device.

& In the remainder of this description, the “upper”, lower 4, “front”, “rear” & right ”and“ left ”numbers are defined with reference to a connection protection device, positioned vertically in inside the mast, with the box above the bomer, ie box where the eloni bomier separated from each other by a 19 plate protruding towards the front por opposition to the rear face yes is in contact with ha lighting device support plate.

In a porticular embodiment, said receiving area has a recessed part, delimited by a rim, a tongue extending from the rim in said first plane of the dorsal ploque, in a downward upward direction when the backplate is positioned vertically, ladie child tongue intended to be threaded into an enclosure of said box.

Advantageously, the dorsal plate comprises a means for fixing: a box, located above [a long reception area ade dorsal plate is in substantially verticole position.

Preferably, according to the present invention, the soliidarisgiion means are 2 in number, a first solidization means SS in an upper porie of the donal plate and a second securing means siué in a lower gate of the back plate, each first and second sofidarization means being a hollowed-out section in the shape of a U, desfinée to accommodate a fixing means present in the mast, preferably a screw head of a screw in sailfs on a pre-positioned piacifée in the said mast, said plate pre-positioned being a support plate intended to join together or less a protection and connection box.

In one form of ovantogous embodiment according to the present invention, said median of said recessed slit is not saraliel at a transverse median S of said back plate. ladies median of said recessed fsnte forming an angle with said fronsvernale median of said dorsal ploque preferably between 10 ° and 45 °, Preferably, the device for protecting and connecting a public lighting device according to the present invention comprises or at least two DIN rails.

More particularly, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, ledi! box includes more than one current output cable, for example 2, 3 or 4, each current output cable being intended to be connected to a lighting device on [edit met.

Advantageously, according to the invention, shock raf DIN comprises at least two anti-slip stops at its oxfrémités.

In a preferred embodiment, the runner output cable is provided at its fbre end with a quick connector, complementary to a quick connector placed on a headlight device cable.

Other embodiments of the protection and connection device according to the invention are indicated in the appended claims, The invention also relates to a method of assembling a protection device and connection of a device for 'ecigirage including

- an opening of an access door present on a mast carrying that at least one lighting device, = a solidorisotion of a dorsal plate of said protective box and of connection quali mast, preferably byintroduction & a first st a second securing means in the form of a recessed section in the shape of a U, under two sole heads on a plate pre-positioned in said mast, the pre-cositioned plate being a support plate desfinés to be joined or at least one protection box and connection of a lighting device.

- a connection of a plurality of electrical feed wires from the electrical network to said power supply cirouif of said casing, by inserting a chanun of electrical wires in an orlfice of a terminal attached to at least one DIN roll, arranged under a protruding part which extends fronically and transversely from Jo plagus dorscle, - A connection of said lighting device to a câtile of current sorile connected to a box arranged on said dorsal piacle, or above the wall in itself , so as to connect ledi! lightning device at the power source.

- A closure of said access ports of said mast.

More specifically, the method according to the present invention comprises a connection of several lighting device to several output cables connected to the box on the back plate.

Other embodiments of the process according to the invention are set out in the appended claims.

other characteristics, details and advantages of the invention will emerge from the description given below, to hire without limitation and with reference to the drawings.

Donate the drawings, the figure | shows a schematic view of the device for protecting and connecting a lighting device.

FIG. 2 represents a front view of the device for protecting and connecting a lighting device.

FIG. 3 represents an orière view of the protective device ei for connecting a lighting device.

As can be seen in Figures 1 and 2, the protection device and connection 1 of a public lighting device intended to be placed in the May of a public sharpening device, ID includes fi} a praque doraie 2 extending in a first plane, provided with ZA solldarsalion means intended to be soldered inside said word, ladie back plate 2 comprising a reception area 3 for a box 4 and a recessed slot 5, having a medine M, Jade recessed tent 5 located under said reception area 3 when the dorsal plate is substantially vertical posifion, ij a flat portal 6 is housed in said recessed slot S so as to make room forward when said dorsal plate 2 is mounted in said mast, Wi} at least one DIN rail 7 fixed frontally (that is to say on the front face pure opposition to the dorsal face which is against the pigque pre-assembled in the mast, under said flat wall when said back plate 2 is posifion born vertically, {vi a box 4 disposed in said acoueil zone 2 arranged to connect the lighting device to a current source, said box 4 comprising or less a current output cable, & intended to be connected to said device. 'lighting if or less a power supply comprising a plurality of electric wires, forming a power supply circuit, in which there is, between the power supply atiadite current output, at least one protective dissosiif 9 Isl than a bipolar circuit breaker, a bipolar disconnector, a surge arrester, a voristor and their combinations, ë {vi} a bomier 10 comprising a series of terminals 11, said extinguished bormier arranged to connect a plurality of electrical supply wires from the electrical network to the circuit. feeding said box 4, said terminal block 4 being fixed to said or least one DIN rail 7, under said flat wall.

According to the present invention, the aim is to help installers to quickly connect and protect public lighting luminaires without having to resort to specialized labor at all stations and which, moreover, is simple to install in order to improve safety around a traffic area.

The masts on the SPW network have 2 fictional bolts to fix a steel back plate 2 on which the protections and lights were previously installed.

The present invention provides a back plate 2 preferably of PVC typically 5mm thick in which two oblong buttonholes are made to position this back piece on the existing bolts and allow adjustment.

This plate is hollowed out in its center to acoueillr the electrical connection box 4 [whose maximum dimensions are those of the reception area, more particularly of the recess. The Das of the box 5 slides mechanically on a length 12 and the top is fixed or by means of a screw 14 in a twisted hole 13 in the back plate 2 of PVC.

The assembly is therefore secured mechanically on the backplate 2. The back plate 2 is equipped in its lower part with a DIN king for example in plastic 7 on which a terminal block 10 comprising 5 low-voltage connection terminals 11 is attached. Domes 11 can receive two or 3 power cables, They also have a housing and a clamping by conductor. The DIN rail 7 is completed by two stops preventing the slipping of the terminals. The dondie plate 2 is also recessed por Ic recisation of a slot 5 just above the posifion of the connection holes 1}. The exirusion is done with a slope towards one or the other side of the dorsal plague 2. A cover to exfrudate in a PVC plate of Smm in the form of a poroi of protections es! placed in the hollowed-out slot 5, projecting towards the front, this copot 6 is easily removable to facilitate installation or maintenance. Two holes on the lower left side of the back plate 2 are present, fitted with a clamp.

Preferably, all the edges of the back plate 2 and its components are rounded to avoid the cuts.

The protection and connection device 1 is pre-designed to receive the protective equipment on two floors.

Depending on whether the protection and connection device according to the present invention must connect one or two lighting device, {1 or Flurninarians), 1 is equipped with protection devices 5, such as one or two bipolar disconnector (s) equipped with ad hoc fuses, 25 of one or two varlstances, one or two lightning arresters. These protections are made by step. We therefore have a disconnector + a vorsiance + a surge protection device per width of the connection st protection device according to the invention, located in the box 4 and per floor. This arrangement makes it possible to visually assess the state of the components by luminaires connected to it, In the case of a luminaire, a transparent box is preferably used on the upper part and blue on the lower part (not intended), In the cos of two luminaires, a completely transparent box is used, This technique allows not to have to open the box to detect a problem. Each offset towards the luminaires is equipped with a surge arrester 9 in order to be able to balance the phases. is connected to a bipolar secfionneur Each disconnector is then connected to the terminals 11 outside the box 4, on the donaie plate 2. The surge protectors 5 are connected to the earth terminal 11, The cables 8 coming from the box 4 are fixed on the back plate 2 & using the clamp pre-assembled on the dorsais lacquer 2. The cable of the luminaire 8, for lightning, is equipped with a quick female connector IP68 15, with defromper ot code c to them. This cable is used to power the luminaire which is equipped with the corresponding Mole connector. The concept allows: - No need to open the casing for the connections - Significant time savings for the installation - Fos of wiring error - Electrician only necessary for the connection of ia

DUISSONCE QUX DOMES 28 - Xuccordement of cables with large spindle section 35mnm °} ease - Quick visualization of the state of the lightning and In vorktance - Resistance to starting currents of led anparents

- Easy maintenance for any component change

- The whole of the support is insulated in the event of uffisation of a PVC plate Hest of course that the present invention is in no way limited to the forms of reolisations described above st that many modifications can be made there brought without having to sew the appended claims

Claims (11)

CREVENDICATIONS 3 + Device for protection against rocking of a public lighting device intended to be placed on the mast of a public lighting device, comprising ij a back plate extending in a foreground, provided with means of sofcarisation provided to be attached to the interior Judi mat, the dordgle plugue comprising an acouel zone for a box and a recessed slot, presenting a median, the hollowed-out slit touching under the floor jo d'qecuell when the back plate is in position substantially vertical, ij a flat pig, housed in the slit hollowed out from the front to the front when said back plate is mounted in the mat, ix} or less a DIN rail fixed frontally under said Deci piane when said back plate is positioned vertically, {x} a box arranged in said reception area, designed to connect is lighting device to a current source, said box comprising or less a current outlet cable, Gestiné to be connected to said lighting device and at least one power supply comprising a pivraiifé of electric fis, forming a power supply circuit, in which there is, between the power supply and said current outlet, or at least a protection device such a two-pole circuit breaker, a two-pole disconnector, a porofoudre, a voristor and their combinations, xj a border comprising a series of terminals, the di bormier being Ggencé to connect a nlurality of supply electric tis coming from the eleciric network to said ofrmeniafion circuit of said box, fixed child bomer ordt: or less A DIM rail, under said wall plans. 2. A device for protecting and connecting a public lighting device according to claim 1, wherein said reception area has a recessed part, delirious by a periphery, a tongue extending from the periphery in said first plane of the dorsais plague, don a direction of the bottom vern the haul when lo dorsal plate is positioned vertically, said tongue being intended to be threaded into an enclosure of said cabinet. 3. A device for protecting and connecting a public lighting device, according to claim 1 or claim to, in which the back plate comprises a means for fixing a box, siiué above the area of acoueil when said dorsal plate is in a sersibly vertical position. A device for protecting and connecting a public lighting device according to any one of claims | a 3, in which the soldering means are or number of 2, a first securing means located in an upper part of the dorsal pigque lo and a second sofidorisation means located in a 22 lower porie of the dorsal plate, shock first and second soidarisation means being a recessed section in the shape of a U, intended to use a fixing means present in the mast, preferably a screw head of a screw in sails on a pre-cositioned plate in the mast, said pre- positonne child a support plate intended to solidornser or less a box of profecfion and connection. 5, Device for proisction and connection of a public lighting device according to any one of claims] to 4 wherein said median of said recessed tent is not parallel to a transverse median of the dorsdie Haque, said median of said recessed slot forming an angle with said fronsversal median of said dongle plate preferably between 10 ° and 45 °, &. Device for prolection and connection of a public lighting device according to any one of the claims | 8 6 5, including at least two DIN rails 7. Device for protecting and connecting a public lighting device according to one of claims 1 to 6, in which the box comprising more than one current output cable, for example 2, 3 or 4, each current output cable being intended to be connected ID © a lighting device on said me, 3. A device for protecting and connecting a public lighting device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, in which each DIN rail comprises at least two anti-slip stops at its ends. 9, A device for protecting and connecting a public lighting device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein said current output cable is provided at its flora end with a quick connector, complementary to a PIOCÉ quick connector on an idle lighting cable. 10. A method of assembling a device for protecting and connecting a lighting device comprising - an opening of an access pore present on a mat bearing that less a lighting device, - a soldarsation of 'a back plate of said box for protection and connection to said mast, preferably by the introduction of a first and a second means of sotidarisation in the form of a recessed section in the shape of a U, under two screw holes projecting on a pre plate - positioned in said mast, ladile pre-positioned plate being a support plate intended to sofdariser at least one protection box and connection of a lighting device, - a connection of a plurality of electric power supply wires from the electrical network or the power supply circuit of said box, by inserting each of the electrical wires into an orifice of a fixed terminal block & at least one DIN raf, arranged under a sailfe wall which extends frontally and trans verally of the back plate, - A connection of the lighting device & a current output cähle connected to a box discosed on said back plate, above said protruding wall, so as to connect said lighting device to the current source. - A closing of the said access door of the said mast. 11. The method of claim 10. comprising a connection of several disposifif éciarage to several output cables connected or box on the dorsal plate.