JP5505950B2 - Lighting fixture renewal kit and renewal method using the same - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a luminaire renewal kit that can be used when replacing a luminaire that has reached the end of its life with a new one, and a renewal method using the same.

  Conventionally, it has been common to replace a luminaire that has reached the end of its life with a new one. However, in recent years when sustainability and zero emissions have been screamed, members that can be used tend to be reused as much as possible.

  The parts that are said to have a limited lifetime in indoor general lighting fixtures are concentrated on electrical components such as ballasts, sockets, terminal blocks, lead wires, etc. The main body and reflector made of steel plates can be used in the future. There are many cases.

  However, both the main body and the reflector are made according to the dimensions and mounting methods of the sockets and other members. If the same member cannot be procured, the reusable body and reflector may be wasted. Many.

General construction of the indoor luminaire goes without mention patent literature shows the structure of a straight-tube lamp luminaire in FIG. 6 as an example.

6 (a) is a luminaire cross-sectional view in a direction orthogonal to the lamp, FIG. 6 (b) is a luminaire cross-sectional view in the longitudinal direction of the lamp. As shown in these drawings, the lighting fixture has a main body 1 embedded in a ceiling surface of the room, and the main body 1 is formed in a concave shape. Electrical components 2 such as ballasts and terminal blocks are attached to the bottom surface of the main body 1. Further, a support plate 4 that supports the socket 3 is fixed to the side surfaces at both ends in the longitudinal direction of the main body 1, and a reflection plate 5 can be fixed to the support plate 4 with screws or the like. When the reflection plate 4 is fixed to the support plate 3, the electrical component 2 on the bottom surface of the main body 1 is hidden by the reflection plate 4, and only the socket 3 is exposed. For this reason, the reflector 5 is provided with a hole 5a for allowing the socket 3 to pass therethrough.

Patent Documents 1, 2, and 3 disclose a method for renewing a lighting fixture using a renewal kit, in which a main body and a reflecting plate of the lighting fixture are those of an existing lighting fixture.
JP 2003-288803 A Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 07-037418 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 08-180726

  The methods disclosed in Patent Documents 1, 2, and 3 update the ballast, socket, and terminal block all at the same time. Therefore, there is a problem that other parts are also replaced in accordance with the part having the fastest life.

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting fixture renewal kit that can solve the problems described in the background art. An example of the object is to provide a lighting fixture renewal kit capable of efficiently renewing a lighting fixture by reusing a main body and a reflector of a general lighting fixture for indoor use.

The present invention is used for renewal of a lighting fixture having the following components. That is, the renewed lighting fixture includes a main body, a lamp socket, a support plate fixed to the main body and supporting the socket, a reflector having a hole exposing the socket and fixed to the support plate, an electrical component, It has components and a power supply terminal block.

The renewal kit of this invention used for such a lighting fixture contains a lamp, and may further contain a unit part. The unit portion includes an electrical component and a power terminal block having a cord portion with a connector, and a pedestal that can be attached to the main body, to which the electrical component and the power terminal block are fixed. The lamp is provided with a cord portion with a connector, which holds the two lamps facing each other , holds the two sockets facing each other at a predetermined interval, and is provided between the main body and the reflecting plate. And an interval holding plate that can be attached to the back surface of the reflecting plate.

The present invention also provides a method for renewing the above-mentioned lighting fixture, wherein the above-mentioned lighting fixture renewal kit is prepared, and the main body and reflector of the above-described lighting fixture are used as they are, and the electrical components and power terminals of the above-described lighting fixture A method of using the above-mentioned unit portion is provided when renewing the table. Furthermore, when renewing the socket of said lighting fixture, the procedure which uses said lamp is also included.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, a lighting fixture can be efficiently renewed by reusing the main body and reflecting plate of a lighting fixture.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. However, it described using the same reference numerals the same as the components used in the lighting fixture of the background art shown in FIG.

  FIG. 1 shows a luminaire in which the renewal kit of the present invention has been applied. (A) is a sectional view of the luminaire in a direction orthogonal to the lamp, and (b) is a sectional view of the luminaire in the longitudinal direction of the lamp. .

Luminaire of this example was the same as the configuration shown in FIG. The renewal kit applied to this lighting fixture includes two units, a lamp 11 and a unit portion 14.

  The lamp 11 includes two sockets 3, an interval holding plate 12 to which the socket 3 is fixed so as to hold an interval between both sockets 3, and a wiring cord (not shown) that supplies power to each socket 3.

  The unit section 14 includes a terminal block that receives power, an inverter ballast, and a wiring cord (not shown) that supplies power passing through the ballast.

  A connector 18 is attached to the ends of the wiring cords of the lamp 11 and the unit unit 14, and the wiring connection between them can be performed with one touch.

  FIG. 2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the lamp 11, (a) is a side view of the lamp 11, (b) is an end view of the lamp 11, and (c) is a plane of the spacing plate 12 that is a component of the lamp 11. FIG. 4D shows a partially enlarged view of the spacing plate 12.

  As shown in this figure, the lamp 11 has a structure in which the socket 3 is attached to the interval holding plate 12, but socket mounting holes 12 a for attaching the socket 3 are opened at both ends of the interval holding plate 12. The interval between the sockets 3 is determined by the positions of the socket mounting holes 12a at both ends.

  The socket mounting hole 12a is not limited to the shape shown in FIG. 2 (d), but may be any shape that can mount any type of socket. Further, guide claws, ribs, and the like may be provided around the opening edge of the socket mounting hole 12a (see FIG. 5).

  The spacing plate 12 is provided such that the socket 3 is exposed through the hole 5a of the reflector 5 when the lighting fixture is renewed, and the double-sided tape 13 or the like is provided on the back surface (the surface opposite to the lamp) of the reflector 5. It is what is pasted and fixed with. Therefore, the thickness of the space | interval holding | maintenance board 12 is as thin as 1.2 mm, for example, and it considers so that it can respond to the attachment to various kinds of lighting fixtures. In addition, the spacing plate 12 is provided with a screw-through hole 12b through which the screw is inserted so as not to interfere with screwing when the reflecting plate 5 is fixed to the support plate 4.

  FIG. 3 is a detailed configuration diagram of the unit portion 13, (a) is an end view of the unit portion 13, and (b) is a side view of the unit portion 13.

  As shown in this figure, the unit portion 13 includes a base 15 on which a terminal block 16 and a ballast 17 are mounted. This pedestal 15 has screw through holes in two places at both ends. Therefore, the unit portion 13 has a simple mounting structure in which the base 15 is disposed in an empty space of the main body 1 and is screwed to the main body 1 with an electric screwdriver, and grounding can be secured at the same time by this mounting.

Next, the construction procedure using the renewal kit of the present embodiment will be described .

Step 1
First , the lamp is turned off and the lamp 19 is removed from the main body 1. Then, the reflector 5 is removed from the main body 1. This can be removed by loosening the screws 20 for fixing the reflector 5 to the support plate 4 shown in FIG. Further, the wiring cord is removed from the socket 3 that has reached the end of its life, and the socket 3 is removed from the support plate 4 fixed to the main body 1. At this time, if the ballast which is the electrical component 2 fixed to the main body 1 has reached the end of its life, the power cable is disconnected from the terminal block and the ballast is also detached from the main body 1.

Step 2
Further , the lamp 11 is fixed to the reflecting plate 5. At this time, the interval holding plate 12 is attached to the back surface of the reflecting plate 5 with an adhesive or a double-sided tape 13 so that the socket 3 of the lamp 11 is exposed through the hole 5a of the reflecting plate 5 (FIG. 1B). reference). Moreover, when the ballast which is the electrical component 2 is also removed in the procedure 1, the unit portion 14 is attached to the empty space of the main body 1 (see FIG. 1A). At this time, after screwing to the main body 1 using the base 15 of the unit portion 14, the power cable is inserted into the terminal block 16 of the unit portion 14. On the other hand, when the existing ballast is still used, a wiring cord connected to the existing ballast is connected to the socket 3 of the lamp 11.

Step 3
Thereafter , the wiring cords of the lamp 11 and the unit unit 14 are connected by the connector 18. Then, the reflector 5 to which the lamp 11 is fixed is fixed to the support plate 4 with screws 20, and the renewal work is completed.

  Since the renewal kit of the present invention as described above is divided into two units of the lamp 11 and the unit portion 14, it can be efficiently renewed according to the respective lifetimes of the socket and the ballast. In addition, due to the lot-up of parts, it is possible to renew an old-type lighting fixture that cannot be renewed in the past (currently, the lighting fixture can be completely replaced in such a case). Also, not only in-house manufactured products but also products from other companies can be installed. Moreover, since it is unitized, the workability is good and the renewal of the lighting fixture can be completed in a short time. By these things, cost reduction and industrial waste reduction are also effective, and environmentally friendly renewal work can be implemented.

  Next, other embodiments will be described.

  The distance holding plate 12 constituting the lamp 11 of the renewal kit as described above has a problem that the longer it is, the more difficult it is to handle, the weaker the strength, and the weaker the deformation, the larger the packaging dimensions, and the smaller the packaging can be handled by courier. Concerned.

  Therefore, a variation in which the interval holding plate 12 as shown in FIG. 2C is constituted by a plurality of divided members and these members are integrated at the time of construction is conceivable.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing a plurality of members constituting the spacing plate 12 according to this modified embodiment, and FIG. 5 shows a state when these members are integrated with each other.

In the example of FIG. 4 , the spacing plate 12 is composed of two divided members P and Q, and the members P and Q can be coupled to each other. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 5 , a convex plate-shaped male portion 21 is formed on the end portion of the member P so as to protrude. A female portion 22 into which the male portion 21 is inserted is formed at the end portion of the member Q that is coupled to the male portion 21 of the member P.

Female portion 22, as shown in FIG. 5 (d) (i.e. sectional view taken along line X-X in FIG. 5 (a)), formed by protruding the surface sandwiched the cut from an incision parallel to the member Q Further, it is a loop for inserting the convex plate-shaped male portion 21. As shown in (a) to (c) of FIG. 5, by putting through the convex-shaped male part 21 into the loop of the female portion 22, member P, Q each other is space holding plates 12 are coupled together It ’s done. Thus, since the space | interval holding | maintenance board 12 is divided | segmented and can be integrated when needed, said problem can be eliminated.

  Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the drawings, it is not limited to the illustrated structure and shape without departing from the technical idea of the present invention, and the above embodiments may be appropriately modified and implemented. Is possible.

It is sectional drawing which shows the structure of the lighting fixture which constructed the renewal kit of this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the lamp which is a component of the renewal kit for lighting fixtures of one Example. It is a figure for demonstrating the unit part which is a component of the renewal kit for lighting fixtures of one Example. It is a top view which shows the member which comprises the space | interval holding | maintenance board by another Example. It is a figure which shows a mode when the members of FIG. 4 are integrated. It is a figure which shows the general structural example of the lighting fixture for straight tube | pipe type lamps.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body 2 Electrical component 3 Socket 4 Support plate 5 Reflection plate 5a Hole 11 Lamp 12 Space | interval holding plate 12a Socket mounting hole 12b Screw through hole 13 Double-sided tape 14 Unit part 15 Base 16 Terminal block 17 Ballast 18 Connector 19 Straight pipe type Lamp 20 Screw 21 Male part 22 Female part

Claims (5)

A main body, a lamp socket, a support plate fixed to the main body and supporting the socket, a reflector having a hole exposing the socket and fixed to the support plate, an electrical component, and a power terminal block A lighting fixture renewal kit used for renewal of a lighting fixture having
Two sockets each having a cord portion with a connector and holding the lamps facing each other , the two sockets facing each other are held at a predetermined interval, provided between the main body and the reflector, and the reflection A lighting fixture renewal kit including a lamp including a spacing plate that can be attached to the back surface of the plate. The lighting device according to claim 1, further comprising: a unit portion comprising: an electrical component including a cord portion with a connector; a power supply terminal block; and a base attachable to the main body to which the electrical component and the power supply terminal block are fixed. Instrument renewal kit. The luminaire renewal kit according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the spacing plate is a long plate and is composed of a plurality of members divided in the longitudinal direction. A main body, a lamp socket, a support plate fixed to the main body and supporting the socket, a reflector having a hole exposing the socket and fixed to the support plate, an electrical component, and a power terminal block A renewal method of a lighting fixture having
An electrical component and a power terminal block provided with a cord portion with a connector, and a pedestal that can be attached to the main body to which the electrical component and the power terminal block are fixed;
Two sockets each having a cord portion with a connector and holding the lamps facing each other , the two sockets facing each other are held at a predetermined interval, provided between the main body and the reflector, and the reflection Prepare a luminaire renewal kit that includes a gap holding plate that can be attached to the back of the plate, and a lamp consisting of
The main body and the reflector of the lighting fixture are used as they are,
A renewal method using the unit when renewing the electrical component of the lighting fixture and the power terminal block, and using the lamp when renewing the socket of the lighting fixture.   The spacing plate is formed of a plurality of members that are long plates and are divided in the longitudinal direction, and the plurality of members are integrated when the socket of the lighting fixture is renewed. The renewal method of the lighting fixture of Claim 4.

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