EP0268282A2 - Armature lumineuse - Google Patents

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EP0268282A2
EP0268282A2 EP87117004A EP87117004A EP0268282A2 EP 0268282 A2 EP0268282 A2 EP 0268282A2 EP 87117004 A EP87117004 A EP 87117004A EP 87117004 A EP87117004 A EP 87117004A EP 0268282 A2 EP0268282 A2 EP 0268282A2
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compression spring
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Manfred Grimm
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Thorn Licht GmbH
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V17/00—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages
    • F21V17/10—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages characterised by specific fastening means or way of fastening
    • F21V17/16—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages characterised by specific fastening means or way of fastening by deformation of parts; Snap action mounting
    • F21V17/164—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages characterised by specific fastening means or way of fastening by deformation of parts; Snap action mounting the parts being subjected to bending, e.g. snap joints
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V17/00—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages
    • F21V17/10—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages characterised by specific fastening means or way of fastening
    • F21V17/107—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages characterised by specific fastening means or way of fastening using hinge joints

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  • the invention relates to a lamp, preferably a recessed ceiling lamp, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a luminaire cover is held on the luminaire housing by means of two-leg spring wire clips, in that these spring wire clips penetrate baffles arranged on the luminaire housing and are locked in the operating position of the cover with the baffles.
  • the legs of the spring wire bracket have hook-shaped bends on the top, such that when the lamp cover is overcome by overcoming the Spring wire brackets exerted locking forces pulls down, then these hook-shaped ends of the spring wire bracket come to rest laterally on the scenes and so then hold the cover in its suspended position. From this suspended position, the cover can be folded down by unhooking the spring wire bracket on one side of the lamp housing.
  • a secure protective conductor connection between the cover and the luminaire housing is not intended.
  • the manual insertion of the spring clip into the slots of the scenes is difficult and cannot be carried out easily by a single person.
  • the load-bearing capacity of such spring wire clips in their locked positions is not significant if they are so weakly designed that manual operation of them which requires relatively little force should be possible.
  • an electrical protective conductor connection between the grid and the luminaire housing which is secure even under difficult conditions, is obtained via the suspension devices.
  • the suspension devices are structurally simple and are suitable for economical manufacture and quick, easy assembly. They can also be easily designed so that they require little force to insert the carrier into the compression spring parts, even with high locking forces. Since the compression spring of the compression spring part constantly contacts the carrier inserted into it and presses it against the compression spring part, a secure electrical connection between the carrier and the compression spring part is always ensured as long as these two parts are in engagement with one another. Even when the grid is suspended and possibly folded down, the secure protective conductor connection between the Grid and the lamp housing guaranteed as long as at least one carrier is still loaded by the compression spring of the compression spring part assigned to it. This cannot lead to premature interruption of the electrically conductive protective conductor connection between the grid and the support and the luminaire housing, which is produced for each individual suspension device.
  • this lamp is extremely easy and unproblematic even for inexperienced people and there is no safety hazard as a result of constantly good protective conductor connection between the grid and the luminaire housing.
  • the lamp can be of any desired type, preferably a recessed ceiling lamp.
  • the lamp housing can have a round, cuboid or any other desired shape.
  • the individual suspension device only needs to consist of the compression spring part and the carrier, whereby these two parts can preferably be stamped and bent parts which can be produced inexpensively. With larger lights, however, more than two suspension devices can be provided, preferably four.
  • the luminaire 10 shown in the drawing which may preferably be a recessed ceiling luminaire, has a metallic luminaire housing 11 and a metallic grid 13 detachably held in it by means of suspension devices, such as 9. Furthermore, a lamp 12, which in this exemplary embodiment can be a straight fluorescent lamp, is arranged in the lamp housing 11.
  • the grid 13 has two profile side plates 14 which are concavely curved as seen from the lamp space and serve as metallic side reflectors and which are firmly and electrically conductively connected to one another by metallic transverse lamellae 15 inserted in their lower region.
  • the suspension devices 9 are of identical design and each have a support 26 and a compression spring part 33, each support 26 is pivotally articulated to a holding part 17 of the grid 13.
  • the side plates 14 of the grid 13 each have an upwardly open channel 16 which extends over their length. At least one resilient holding part 17 is inserted into each such groove. Depending on the length of the lamp 10, a holding part 17 or a plurality of holding parts 17 can be inserted into the individual grooves 16, to each of which a support 26 is pivotally articulated.
  • a perspective view of such a holding part 17 is shown in FIG. 6. It consists of spring plate and also has a groove 19 on the underside, which is inserted in a form-fitting manner in the groove 16 of the side plate 14 in question.
  • This holding part 17 has an arcuate bulge 20, which serves its better self-resilience and on the top it has two sharp claws or tips 21, over which the side plate 14 in question is bent in a hook shape, so that this tip makes safe electrical contact in the side plate 14 push something in, since this holding part 17 is resiliently biased so that this safe electrical contact is constantly maintained.
  • the holding part 17 is a one-piece stamped and bent part that was hardened after bending to produce its resilient properties. It has on the outside of its channel 19 a bearing bracket 23 which, as shown, has two free legs 22 each provided with a bearing hole. The intermediate web 25 connecting these free-ending legs 22 is split for better suspension of these mutually aligned bearing holes, such as 24, of the leg 23 having legs 22, by means of two L-shaped, symmetrical incisions, so that these legs 22 can spring well. These legs 22 of the bracket are bent so that they are preloaded on the rigid support 26 rotatably mounted in their bearing holes 24 Establishing secure electrical connection between the holding part 17 and the metallic carrier 26 are pressed.
  • the support 26 is an L-shaped, rigid sheet metal strip, which has on its short lower, approximately horizontal leg 27 two with stamped, aligned pins 28, which in the bearing holes 24 of the bracket 23 for pivoting the bracket forming a pivot bracket 26 intervene.
  • the two legs 22 of the bearing bracket 23 are always with prestress against the support 26 which is rotatably mounted in them, in order to always ensure reliable electrical contact between the support 26 and the holding part 17.
  • the carrier 26 shown diagrammatically in FIG. 5 has a latching lug 30 and a retaining projection 31 on its long, approximately vertical, straight leg 29.
  • the entire support 26 is made in one piece from sheet metal by stamping and bending. Its holding projection 31 is in the form of a flat tab formed by punching and right-angled bending, and the latching lug 30 is made by punching two mutually parallel slots and bending out the resultant thereby Bridges made in approximately V-shaped shape.
  • the compression spring part 33 of the individual suspension device 9, shown diagrammatically in FIG. 4, is also made of sheet metal by punching and bending and is made of resilient metal. It has a flat, wide main area 34, which bears on a flat area of the side wall 35 of the lamp housing 11. On the upper side adjoin this main area 34 two claws or tines 36 leading upwards in an arc, which protrude through small holes in the ceiling 37 of the lamp housing 11 and which widen in a downward direction from their free ends so that they reach the edges of these holes are constantly pressed with resilient self-bias in order to create permanent, secure electrical connection between the metallic lamp housing 11 and this metallic compression spring part 33.
  • This one-piece compression spring part 33 also has in the vicinity of its lower end, just above its cranked end region 38, two resilient tabs projecting obliquely backwards downwards, which are seated firmly on their lower edges through corresponding small holes in the side wall 35 of the housing 11 protrude through.
  • This compression spring part 33 is thereby supported on the underside of the lamp housing and its prongs 36 are constantly pressed with resilient bias against the edges of the ceiling holes of the lamp housing 11 which they penetrate, so that it is detachably held on the lamp housing.
  • This compression spring part 33 has a tongue-shaped leaf spring 39 which is stamped in one piece with it and whose free end region, as shown, is angled in a V-shape.
  • This leaf spring 39 attaches in one piece to the upper edge of a circumferentially closed opening 40 of the compression spring part, which opening 40 extends from the upper foot of the leaf spring 39 approximately to the beginning of the lowest, flat end region 41 of the compression spring part 33 or a short distance into it extends.
  • This opening 40 which has a constant width, also passes here through the short, flat transverse region 42 of the compression spring part 33 which runs perpendicular to the lower end region 41 and to the main region 34.
  • the transverse region 42 is horizontal and the regions 34, 41 are directed vertically.
  • This opening 40 is penetrated by the carrier 26, as shown, and the carrier 26 can only from it in the downward direction at the same time manual sideways movement are pulled out so that the carrier 26 is secured against unintentional removal from the compression spring part 33.
  • the lower edge 43 of the opening 40 forms both a support for the holding projection 31 of the carrier 26 and a catch for the locking lug 30 of the carrier 26.
  • the support 26 penetrating the opening 40 of the compression spring part is in its uppermost position, which is latched to the compression spring part 33 and in which its lower end 30 is held by the compression spring 39 of the compression spring part 33 is pressed laterally onto the lower edge 43 of the opening 40, which serves as a catch.
  • These holding projections 31 are directed at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the approximately vertical, long legs 29 of the supports 26 and consequently cannot pass by the edges 43 by themselves, but come to a secure support on them, so that the suspended position of the grid according to FIG. 3 now is set in which the Grid 13 is held in a suspended horizontal position by the suspension devices 9.
  • the compression springs 39 ensure secure electrical contact of the supports 26 with them as long as the supports 26 are not detached from the compression spring parts 33. All other connection points between the lamp housing 11 and grid 13 via the suspension devices 9 are electrically conductive connections, so that excellent and secure electrical protective conductor connection between the grid 13 and the lamp housing 11 is ensured via each of the suspension devices 9, as long as at least one carrier 26 in the associated compression spring part 33 is inserted.
  • These suspension devices 9 are also inexpensive and very easy to assemble and enable extremely simple suspension and folding of the grid 13 even by inexperienced persons.
  • the return of the grid 13 into its operating position inserted into the lamp housing 11 is also extremely simple and can also be carried out by inexperienced persons such as housewives or the like.

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  • Securing Globes, Refractors, Reflectors Or The Like (AREA)
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EP87117004A 1986-11-20 1987-11-18 Armature lumineuse Expired - Lifetime EP0268282B1 (fr)

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AT87117004T ATE84865T1 (de) 1986-11-20 1987-11-18 Leuchte.

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FR2736994A1 (fr) * 1995-07-18 1997-01-24 Raymond A & Cie Systeme de fixation de grille de luminaire avec continuite de masse
EP0860653A2 (fr) 1997-02-19 1998-08-26 RIDI-LEUCHTEN GmbH Dispositif de fixation d'une grille pour luminaire au boítier
DE19744392C1 (de) * 1997-10-08 1999-04-08 Lenneper Gmbh & Co Kg Anordnung zur Befestigung eines Funktionsteiles in einem Gehäuse
EP1188983A3 (fr) * 2000-09-18 2004-06-02 Zumtobel Staff GmbH Dispositif de verrouillage pour grille de luminaire et luminaire, notamment luminaire encastré
CN107940407A (zh) * 2017-10-31 2018-04-20 沈惠萍 灯座与灯泡的安装结构

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US3302019A (en) * 1964-09-29 1967-01-31 Smithcraft Corp Incandescent light fixture improvements
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US2792245A (en) * 1956-11-29 1957-05-14 Marvin Electric Mfg Company Means for attaching a bezel
US2960361A (en) * 1957-03-11 1960-11-15 Thomas Industries Inc Spring fastener and supplemental support
US3302019A (en) * 1964-09-29 1967-01-31 Smithcraft Corp Incandescent light fixture improvements
DE2607129A1 (de) * 1976-02-21 1977-09-01 Trilux Lenze Gmbh & Co Kg Leuchte
DE2655252A1 (de) * 1976-12-07 1978-06-08 Trilux Lenze Gmbh & Co Kg Leuchte
DE2655251A1 (de) * 1976-12-07 1978-06-08 Trilux Lenze Gmbh & Co Kg Leuchte
DE2855031A1 (de) * 1978-12-20 1980-07-10 Trilux Lenze Gmbh & Co Kg Langgestreckte leuchte
DE2915099A1 (de) * 1979-04-12 1980-10-16 Siemens Ag Verschluss zum loesbaren verbinden von gehaeuseteilen von leuchten

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2736994A1 (fr) * 1995-07-18 1997-01-24 Raymond A & Cie Systeme de fixation de grille de luminaire avec continuite de masse
EP0860653A2 (fr) 1997-02-19 1998-08-26 RIDI-LEUCHTEN GmbH Dispositif de fixation d'une grille pour luminaire au boítier
DE19744392C1 (de) * 1997-10-08 1999-04-08 Lenneper Gmbh & Co Kg Anordnung zur Befestigung eines Funktionsteiles in einem Gehäuse
EP1188983A3 (fr) * 2000-09-18 2004-06-02 Zumtobel Staff GmbH Dispositif de verrouillage pour grille de luminaire et luminaire, notamment luminaire encastré
CN107940407A (zh) * 2017-10-31 2018-04-20 沈惠萍 灯座与灯泡的安装结构
CN107940407B (zh) * 2017-10-31 2019-09-10 顾南江 灯座与灯泡的安装结构

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GR3007237T3 (fr) 1993-07-30
EP0268282A3 (en) 1990-02-07
ES2037062T3 (es) 1993-06-16
ATE84865T1 (de) 1993-02-15
DE3783725D1 (de) 1993-03-04

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