EP0621439A1 - Appareil d'éclairage consistant en tubes luminescents formant une bande lumineuse - Google Patents

Appareil d'éclairage consistant en tubes luminescents formant une bande lumineuse Download PDF

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EP0621439A1
EP0621439A1 EP93106399A EP93106399A EP0621439A1 EP 0621439 A1 EP0621439 A1 EP 0621439A1 EP 93106399 A EP93106399 A EP 93106399A EP 93106399 A EP93106399 A EP 93106399A EP 0621439 A1 EP0621439 A1 EP 0621439A1
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Jürgen Brüggemann
Helmuth Zahnbrecher
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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
    • F21V27/00—Cable-stowing arrangements structurally associated with lighting devices, e.g. reels 
    • 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
    • F21V21/00—Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices; Hand grips
    • F21V21/02—Wall, ceiling, or floor bases; Fixing pendants or arms to the bases
    • F21V21/025—Elongated bases having a U-shaped cross section
    • 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
    • F21V23/00—Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices
    • F21V23/02—Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices the elements being transformers, impedances or power supply units, e.g. a transformer with a rectifier
    • F21V23/026—Fastening of transformers or ballasts

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  • the invention relates to a light band arrangement according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • Such a light band arrangement is known from EP-A1-0 486 714.
  • a U-shaped support rail for a light strip that is to be used in the commercial sector.
  • the mounting rail already receiving the through-wiring for the light band is designed such that it is connected to the free ends of its side walls, i.e. H.
  • the U-leg can accommodate luminaire inserts of different lengths, tailored to the commercial dimensions of fluorescent lamps, but also inserts for other luminaire shapes.
  • the known solution describes in detail how plug connections of such light inserts can be produced economically with the through-wiring provided in the mounting rail.
  • the description of the known solution does not go into structural details of how the luminaire inserts themselves are to be designed.
  • light strip arrangements are particularly suitable for use in the commercial sector of large series products, in which the manufacturer relies on cost-effective mass production, on the part of the user or customer, on a simple, tool-free and quick assembly, possibly also disassembly of individual parts of such a light strip.
  • the user should low number of basic elements a high flexibility in the design of such light strips are offered to solve certain, individual lighting tasks. From a manufacturing point of view, it is important for the present case that, due to the flexibility of such a lighting system, different luminaire inserts required can nevertheless be easily and inexpensively manufactured using simple means and, if possible, always using the same manufacturing and assembly steps with high quality requirements.
  • a luminaire insert With regard to a luminaire insert, this means that lamp sockets have to be fixed in different ways on a base element, henceforth referred to as a support plate, for the illuminants provided in each case. Furthermore, the necessary electrical or electronic components must be arranged. Finally, the entire arrangement is ready to be wired, so that a preassembled unit is provided with an equipped luminaire insert, which can be easily attached to the mounting rail of the light strip arrangement on site.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object to provide a continuous row arrangement of the type mentioned, in which luminaire inserts are provided which can be produced particularly economically in a large series, in particular the assembly of the luminaire inserts for all components to be fastened with the exception of the lamp holders of one side and is always possible in the same way regardless of the type of the respective components.
  • the invention is based on the basic idea that it must be possible to use all electrical or electronic components such as plug sockets, ballasts , Capacitors, mechanical fasteners and the like to a base element of the luminaire insert, the mounting plate, in the same way, so that basically at least similar, if not the same assembly steps are repeated or simultaneous for the assembly of all these components, which significantly simplify the manufacturing technology . Furthermore, this solution has the advantage that such an assembly can then also be carried out in a predetermined cycle pattern, since preferably all assembly steps follow the same scheme.
  • a support plate for the luminaire inserts which can vary in length depending on the type, but always has the same cross-sectional profile.
  • the support plate In cross section, the support plate has a flat, substantially U-shaped symmetrical profile. Legs of this U-shaped profile form the side walls of the support plate. These each have a shoulder drawn inwards parallel to the base surface of the support plate, which, when a light insert is installed, the contact surfaces for the leg ends of the support rail, which is also U-shaped form.
  • the free ends of these side walls are angled inwards, which not only means stiffening the support plate, but rather and moreover offers a possibility of using the inner edge of these side walls as a contact surface for fastening elements. For this reason, this bent edge points obliquely inwards and thus protrudes from the outer surface of the side wall of the support plate by a predetermined acute angle.
  • This support plate profile which is identical for all luminaire inserts, forms the prerequisite for the identical fastening of all electrical, electronic, and possibly also mechanical components of the luminaire insert with the exception of the socket for the lamps. Due to the system, the latter must be mounted on the surface of the luminaire insert facing away from the mounting rail.
  • One and the same type of spring clip is now used to fasten the components mentioned. It is designed in such a way that it can be placed on it from the open side of the supporting sheet profile, snaps under elastic deformation when pressed into the profile and then locks itself in place by reaching behind the angled inner edge. Because of the different dimensions of the components to be fastened, it is not possible to use an identical spring clip for all components. Nevertheless, all spring clips are structurally identical with respect to the latching device and thus all components can be assembled in the same way - in the case of automatic production with similar tools in the same assembly steps - which is an essential requirement for a high degree of automation in production.
  • FIG. 1 The structural design of a light band arrangement is shown schematically in a cross section in FIG. It contains the support rail 1 known from the initially cited literature reference EP-A1-0 486 714 with a box-shaped profile, which is shown here in the installed position, ie open towards the bottom. Since this component is assumed to be known in the present case, it no longer needs to be described in detail. It is enough to point out that this mounting rail has U-shaped, inwardly bent side walls 11, the apex of which form contact surfaces for luminaire inserts.
  • luminaire inserts are first of all basic elements of different lengths for receiving fluorescent lamps of lengths customary on the market, each basic element being able to be equipped with one or more lamps.
  • special luminaire inserts can also be provided, for example for integrating spotlights into the continuous row.
  • This support plate 2 is angled upwards on both sides to side walls which each have a shoulder 22 projecting inwards into the profile cross section at a certain distance from the base surface 21 and parallel thereto.
  • These shoulders 22 form the bearing surface of the support plate 2 of a lamp insert on the side walls 11 of the support rail 1.
  • the upper edges of the side walls of the support plate 2 are bent inwards so that an approximately V-shaped, downwardly open wall closure of the support plate profile with a results in inward, obliquely downward side edge 23 results.
  • This profile described has a stiffening effect on the elongated support plate 2 of the luminaire insert in the case of long fluorescent lamps, this stiffening is advantageous, but not yet the essential function of the angled side edge 23. So this profile - as mentioned above - also serves to create a contact surface to the mounting rail 1, but moreover it is a prerequisite for the expedient, production-technically optimized and yet reliable fastening the electrical, electronic, and possibly also mechanical components of a luminaire insert. Such components include in a known manner, for example, cable connectors as well as ballasts, discrete capacitors, etc.
  • Figure 1 shows in principle and for clarification only a schematically indicated in dash-dotted lines component 3 and a dimensionally adapted, in its basic function but identical in all embodiments fastener in the form of a spring clip 4. It is a multi-angled leaf spring with a Dimensions of the respective component 3 corresponding width, which is adapted with its outer contours to the inner contour of the support plate profile.
  • This spring clip 4 shown as a single part in FIG. 2, has at least one latching lug 41 in each of its side walls. In the embodiment shown, this is a triangular tab that is cut out of the side wall of the spring clip 4 and pressed out.
  • the spring clip 4 is shaped so that the respective component 3 in it from above, possibly also can be inserted in the direction of the longitudinal axis penetrating the plane of the drawing and is then elastically encompassed by it on all sides.
  • the spring clip 4 - depending on the embodiment with or without already inserted component 3 - is always placed from above onto the side edges 23 of the support plate 2 and pressed into the profile.
  • the inward-facing side edges 23 of the support plate 2 initially act as run-up surfaces for the outward-pointing lower edges of the locking lugs 41 of the spring clip 4.
  • the lower edges of the locking tabs 41 run along and along the side edges 23 of the support plate 2 finally snap into place, engaging behind the side edges 23.
  • the inclined upper edge of the locking lugs 41 not only secures this locking position, locking itself, but also offers a certain tolerance compensation, which positions the spring clip 4 together with the now clamped component 3 securely on the support plate 2.
  • the described type of fastening of the components 3 with which the lamp insert is fitted is basically identical.
  • the spring clips used have different, component-related dimensions.
  • Figure 3 shows a spring clip 42 which is adapted to the cross-sectional dimensions of an electronic ballast 32.
  • the spring clip 42 is designed such that it engages around the inserted ballast 32 from above, while the spring clip shown in FIG. 1, which is intended to accommodate a discrete capacitor, is open at the top.
  • FIG. 486 714 A spring clip 43 for a plug connection is shown in FIG. In this illustration it is indicated that a multi-core busbar 5 is arranged on a retracted bead 12 on the bottom of the mounting rail 1. As is described in more detail in the aforementioned EP-A1-0 486 714, the individual lamp inserts are connected to this busbar 5 via plug contacts 61 of a plug connector 6. In this case, the connector strip is mounted on a bent bracket 7, which in turn is fixed in a spring clip 43.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a further property of the profile of the support plate 2 of a lamp insert described above with reference to FIG. 1.
  • the edge-side training not only serves the function described above, but also has a further purpose.
  • the space delimited by the side walls and the side edges 23 and the bottom surface 21 in the support plate profile forms a cable channel 24 for receiving wiring cables 7 of the luminaire insert.
  • cable holders 8 are provided. This is what it is about are stretched plastic elements with longitudinal walls 81 arranged in the manner of a star in cross-section. Because of these side walls, which are arranged so as to be rotationally symmetrical to one another, the cable holder 8 can be clamped between the bottom surface 21 of the support plate 2 and behind the side edges 23. He fixes the wiring cable 7 in the cable duct 24 by clamping.
  • the configuration of the load-bearing profile of the luminaire insert can be used in a variety of ways when fitting a luminaire insert, but also when assembling it on site.
  • the defined contact surfaces of each luminaire insert on the mounting rail 1 of the light strip in the form of the retracted shoulder 22 offer a possibility, if necessary, of inserting seals between these contact surfaces and thus the requirements of using such a light strip arrangement in dust-proof, possibly even dust-tight design.

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  • Arrangement Of Elements, Cooling, Sealing, Or The Like Of Lighting Devices (AREA)
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EP0693655A1 (fr) * 1994-07-01 1996-01-24 SLI Lichtsysteme GmbH Etrier de retenue pour ballast électronique
EP0826923A3 (fr) * 1996-08-26 1998-08-12 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Luminaire
EP0898686A1 (fr) † 1996-05-20 1999-03-03 Zumtobel Staff GmbH Systeme d'eclairage muni d'un corps de base servant de support pour au moins une lampe
WO2012139289A1 (fr) * 2011-04-13 2012-10-18 东莞华明灯具有限公司 Structure de raccordement entre un plateau de lampe et un corps de lampe
EP2886946A1 (fr) * 2013-12-18 2015-06-24 Regent Beleuchtungskörper AG Support pour un composant de fonctionnement d'un éclairage
CN106801850A (zh) * 2016-12-14 2017-06-06 安徽银盾斯金铝业有限公司 一种高铁站路灯防护罩铝型材

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EP0114621A1 (fr) * 1983-01-17 1984-08-01 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Armature lumineuse et procédé de montage
EP0150271A2 (fr) * 1984-01-25 1985-08-07 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Dispositif pour la fixation amovible d'un profil en U d'armature lumineuse

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AT358660B (de) * 1978-11-02 1980-09-25 Zumtobel Ag Halter zum festsetzen von lose eingesetzten teilen in einem gehaeuse
EP0114621A1 (fr) * 1983-01-17 1984-08-01 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Armature lumineuse et procédé de montage
EP0150271A2 (fr) * 1984-01-25 1985-08-07 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Dispositif pour la fixation amovible d'un profil en U d'armature lumineuse

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EP0693655A1 (fr) * 1994-07-01 1996-01-24 SLI Lichtsysteme GmbH Etrier de retenue pour ballast électronique
EP0898686A1 (fr) † 1996-05-20 1999-03-03 Zumtobel Staff GmbH Systeme d'eclairage muni d'un corps de base servant de support pour au moins une lampe
EP0898686B2 (fr) † 1996-05-20 2008-02-20 Zumtobel Lighting GmbH Systeme d'eclairage muni d'un corps de base servant de support pour au moins une lampe
EP0826923A3 (fr) * 1996-08-26 1998-08-12 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Luminaire
WO2012139289A1 (fr) * 2011-04-13 2012-10-18 东莞华明灯具有限公司 Structure de raccordement entre un plateau de lampe et un corps de lampe
EP2886946A1 (fr) * 2013-12-18 2015-06-24 Regent Beleuchtungskörper AG Support pour un composant de fonctionnement d'un éclairage
CH709008A1 (de) * 2013-12-18 2015-06-30 Regent Beleuchtungskörper Ag Halter für eine Betriebskomponente einer Leuchte.
CN106801850A (zh) * 2016-12-14 2017-06-06 安徽银盾斯金铝业有限公司 一种高铁站路灯防护罩铝型材

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