EP0495696A1 - Elektrische Verteiler-Leitung und Adapter für solch eine Leitung - Google Patents

Elektrische Verteiler-Leitung und Adapter für solch eine Leitung Download PDF

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EP0495696A1
EP0495696A1 EP92400060A EP92400060A EP0495696A1 EP 0495696 A1 EP0495696 A1 EP 0495696A1 EP 92400060 A EP92400060 A EP 92400060A EP 92400060 A EP92400060 A EP 92400060A EP 0495696 A1 EP0495696 A1 EP 0495696A1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R25/00—Coupling parts adapted for simultaneous co-operation with two or more identical counterparts, e.g. for distributing energy to two or more circuits
    • H01R25/14—Rails or bus-bars constructed so that the counterparts can be connected thereto at any point along their length
    • H01R25/147—Low voltage devices, i.e. safe to touch live conductors
    • 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
    • F21V21/00—Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices; Hand grips
    • F21V21/34—Supporting elements displaceable along a guiding element
    • F21V21/35—Supporting elements displaceable along a guiding element with direct electrical contact between the supporting element and electric conductors running along the guiding element

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  • the present invention relates to low voltage electricity distribution lines and it finds an important, although not exclusive, application in indoor installations for distributing low voltage electricity to lamps.
  • lamp support rails solves this problem only very imperfectly.
  • the rails used being rigid, can only be transported in the form of relatively short sections, involving numerous connections, but the sections nevertheless remain bulky. It is impossible or difficult to bend these rails in place to make them follow a winding path.
  • the functions of supporting the electricity receivers and supplying these receivers are generally dissociated.
  • the core consists of a flexible or rigid strip, to which the two metal strips are fixed by a method not described.
  • the present invention aims to provide an electricity distribution line that better meets those previously known to the requirements of practice and accessories specially adapted to such a line.
  • the invention proposes in particular a line for distributing electricity to receivers, in accordance with claim 1.
  • the support may have a housing made up of two shells of electrically insulating material provided with means making it possible to apply them one against the other by tightening the edges and / or the rail.
  • the rail itself constitutes a component that can be stored in sections a few meters long in the form of a coil of a few tens of centimeters in diameter; this rail can follow a winding and / or twisted path and follow a helical path; it can be supported by walls of any orientation, varying along the line; it returns to the rectilinear state when it is released.
  • the invention also provides an electrical receiver adapter for a line of the type defined above, according to claim 7.
  • Figure 1 shows only a line fragment according to the invention, located outside the areas which receive supports or receivers. However, this fragment includes a connection between two successive sections.
  • Each line section comprises a flat rail 10 of composite structure, the lateral edges of which are embedded in edges 12.
  • the rail comprises an insulating core 14 carrying on each face a conductive strip 16, the edges and a fraction of the surface of which are covered by the edges 12 of the core.
  • the constituent materials of the rail and the thickness of the rail are chosen so that the assembly can be stored in the form of a roll of a few decimeters in diameter.
  • the core may be made of flexible polyvinyl chloride having a thickness of the order of a millimeter, sufficient to ensure isolation at low voltage.
  • the conductive strips can be made of beryllium bronze, coated with a thin protective film (nickel for example) or chrysocale, each having a thickness of between 0.2 and 0.8 mm, depending on the conductivity required.
  • edges whose cross section is U- shaped (rounded in Figure 1, or at right angles as in Figure 3), can be fitted onto a conductive strip very easily by simple elastic deformation of one of the arms of the U- section by sliding a tool along a blade, after the strip has been inserted into the other border.
  • connection between two successive sections can be achieved by various means, in particular using sleeves 18 of the kind shown in FIG. 1.
  • This sleeve 18 consists of two shells 20 delimited by a convex bottom and two parallel flanks cut so that their edges only lean against each other if the sides compress the edges 12.
  • the shells 20 can be easily produced by molding synthetic insulating material.
  • the shells can be kept applied one against the other by any means, in particular by snap-fastening and / or using clamps 22 having the same constitution as those fitted to the receiver adapters which will be described later.
  • Electrical continuity is established between two successive sections, for example using elastic plates of conductive material 24, for example having a hoop shape resting on the shells and whose bottom connects the sections: such an assembly allows without difficulty to make currents of the order of 20 A.
  • the adapter 24 shown by way of example in FIGS. 2 and 3 is intended to receive a low-voltage dichroic lamp 26 and its reflector 28. However, it would be possible to form similar adapters intended for other receivers.
  • the adapter 24 comprises a case formed by two identical shells 30, but mounted head to tail, of electrically insulating material.
  • the bottom of each shell has a convex outer face and an inner face such that the shells can grip the edges 12 by deforming them elastically, as appears in FIG. 3.
  • each shell has a elastic pawl 32 provided to hang on a projection 3 of the other shell when the two shells are close enough to compress the edges and be immobilized by friction along the rail.
  • the locking is completed by pliers 36 which can be identical to the pliers 22 for assembling the sleeves 18. These pliers can consist of a shaped elastic strip piece, the end parts of which have a shape such that they hang on the shells.
  • the two shells can include zones forming a hinge on one side of the rail.
  • each shell has a boss 38 in which is embedded an elastic blade 40 for bearing on one of the strips 16.
  • This blade constitutes a current drawing element. It is intended to be connected to a flexible wire 42 supplying the receiver.
  • a simple solution for joining the wire 42 consists in providing it with a terminal lug 44 which can be fitted onto a tab 42 belonging to a cut sheet metal part also comprising the blade 40.
  • Each of the shells 30 is pierced in its center with a hole for receiving a rod 46 for supporting the lamp socket 47.
  • the rods 46 are hollow and also serve as a passage for the supply wires 42.
  • the rods are rotatably mounted in the aligned holes and fixed by desereable means.
  • these means comprise a nut 48 screwed onto a threaded end portion of the corresponding rod.
  • Each rod 46 has two elbows so that their ends opposite those fixed to the housing are also aligned and offer a second axis of articulation, orthogonal to the axis of articulation on the case. These two end parts are mounted, by means allowing rotation, on a stirrup 50 carrying the socket 47 and the reflector 48: it is unnecessary to describe here the mounting of the stirrup on the rods 46, since it can be similar to that already described and the mounting of the stirrup on the socket, since it can be conventional.
  • the support 18 shown diagrammatically in FIG. 5 is also provided to allow the rail 10 to be given a any orientation relative to a fixing plate 52, at least in a large range of travel.
  • the support 18 may comprise two shells identical or similar to the shells 30 of an adapter, but devoid of elastic contact blades and rod passage holes 46.
  • a yoke 54 connected to a rod 56 by means allowing the rod to rotate about an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the rail 10.
  • the rod5 6 is itself mounted on the plate 52 by means making it possible to orient the rod around its axis 54.
  • These latter means can be constituted by a nut 58 screwed onto a threaded end portion of the rod which rests on the plate 52 by a shoulder.
  • the means for supplying current to the line are not shown: they may have a constitution similar to that of the connection sleeves 18 and be located at any point on the line.
  • they may consist of two shells of insulating material, of means enabling them to be brought together by enclosing the edges and, on each shell, of a wide strip of conductive material embedded in the shell and bearing on the rail, connected to an external supply conductor.
  • the invention is susceptible of numerous variant embodiments.
  • the line supports can have the constitution shown diagrammatically in FIGS. 6 and 7.
  • the support or coat hook shown in FIG. 6 comprises a hooking plate 60 provided with means (not shown) for fixing on a wall (wall or partition).
  • a folded plate 62 whose end part makes an angle of 45 °, with the axis of the plate.
  • the rail hooking elements consist of two legs 64, 66, made of cut and folded strip, the end portions of which tighten the edges 12 and retain the rail.
  • the legs 64, 66 are secured to the plate 62 by a screw 68 which engages in a tapped hole in the leg 66.
  • the end flanges 70 of the legs have a length such that they do not project beyond the edges 12 which they enclose.
  • a counter-plate 72 can be placed on the plate 60 to hide the fixing screws engaged in the lights in an arc of a circle of the plate and held by magnets 74 placed on either side of the base of the dish 62.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Fastening Of Light Sources Or Lamp Holders (AREA)
  • Non-Portable Lighting Devices Or Systems Thereof (AREA)
  • Arrangement Of Elements, Cooling, Sealing, Or The Like Of Lighting Devices (AREA)
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EP19920400060 1991-01-10 1992-01-10 Elektrische Verteiler-Leitung und Adapter für solch eine Leitung Expired - Lifetime EP0495696B1 (de)

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FR9100253A FR2671673B1 (fr) 1991-01-10 1991-01-10 Ligne de distribution d'electricite et adaptateur pour une telle ligne.
FR9100253 1991-01-10

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DE29518253U1 (de) * 1995-11-17 1996-01-11 Briloner Leuchten GmbH, 59929 Brilon Niedervoltstromschienensystem für Leuchten
US6241064B1 (en) 1997-04-11 2001-06-05 Andreas Hierzer Fitting, conductor rail and coupling device

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EP0050547A1 (de) * 1980-10-17 1982-04-28 Thomson-Csf Leitende Verbindung zum Transport von Impulsen starker Leistung und deren Herstellungsverfahren
DE8808131U1 (de) * 1988-06-24 1988-08-25 Bredin, Achim, 44892 Bochum Magnetische Niedervoltleuchte
DE8811846U1 (de) * 1988-09-17 1988-10-27 Bredin, Achim, 7425 Hohenstein Stromband - Niedervoltleuchte
DE8911456U1 (de) * 1989-09-26 1990-01-04 Schmitz, Michael, 5000 Köln Niedervolt-Beleuchtungsvorrichtung

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EP0050547A1 (de) * 1980-10-17 1982-04-28 Thomson-Csf Leitende Verbindung zum Transport von Impulsen starker Leistung und deren Herstellungsverfahren
DE8808131U1 (de) * 1988-06-24 1988-08-25 Bredin, Achim, 44892 Bochum Magnetische Niedervoltleuchte
DE8811846U1 (de) * 1988-09-17 1988-10-27 Bredin, Achim, 7425 Hohenstein Stromband - Niedervoltleuchte
DE8911456U1 (de) * 1989-09-26 1990-01-04 Schmitz, Michael, 5000 Köln Niedervolt-Beleuchtungsvorrichtung

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DE29518253U1 (de) * 1995-11-17 1996-01-11 Briloner Leuchten GmbH, 59929 Brilon Niedervoltstromschienensystem für Leuchten
US6241064B1 (en) 1997-04-11 2001-06-05 Andreas Hierzer Fitting, conductor rail and coupling device
AT408162B (de) * 1997-04-11 2001-09-25 Hierzer Andreas Adapter, stromschiene und kupplungsvorrichtung

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FR2671673A1 (fr) 1992-07-17

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