JPH0877822A - Monitor lamp holder for guide lamp device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To simplify and shorten the time of inspection works of light source, auxiliary power supply, etc., eliminate to spoil visual unity sense of a free body, and downsize an area occupied by the frame body facing to a display face of a light transmission panel so as to improve design performance. CONSTITUTION: A monitor lamp holder is provided with a support part 21 for supporting monitor lamps 11a, 11b which are exposed from the notched parts in the bottom face of a frame body 3 to the outside and a circuit board storage part 23 for supporting a printed circuit board 12 which is constituted a part of a wiring line for the monitor lamps 11a, 11b. A guide part 22 for coupling the support part 21 with the circuit board storage part 23 comprises a flat-board vertical part 22a and a horizontal part 22b. Only the support part 21 and the vertical part 22a are positioned in the frame body 3 and the guide part 22 and the circuit board storage part 23 are positioned the light distribution line which extends from a light source 5 to the bottom edge of the light transmission panel 4.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a guide light device for displaying and guiding the location of an emergency exit in a building or the like, and more particularly to a monitor lamp for confirming the operating states of a light source, an auxiliary power supply and the like included in the guide light device. The present invention relates to a monitor lamp holder that supports.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional guide light device, as shown in FIG. 6, a main body 201 having a light source and an auxiliary power source inside.
And a frame body 203 that holds the translucent panel 202 that covers the opening on the front surface of the main body and that is fitted to the edge of the opening. In this guide light device, the main body 201 is embedded in a wall surface 211, and the translucent panel 20 is inserted from the wall surface 211.
Only 2 and the frame 203 are exposed. With this configuration, the range exposed from the wall surface 211 can be reduced so that the interior image of the building is not damaged.

By the way, in the guide light device, it is necessary to periodically check whether or not the emergency exit can be displayed and guided even when a power failure occurs in a disaster.
It is necessary to provide a monitor lamp for checking the operating states of the light source, auxiliary power supply, etc. built into 01. Therefore,
The monitor lamp 204 is arranged in the main body 201 so as to face the front side, and when inspecting the operating states of the light source and the auxiliary power source, the frame body 203 is removed from the front surface of the main body 201 together with the translucent panel 202, and the operation cord 206 of the monitor switch 205 Is operated to visually confirm whether or not the monitor lamp 204 is turned on.

However, from the front of the main body 201 to the frame 20
The work of removing 3 together with the translucent panel 202 is complicated,
There is a problem that it takes a long time to inspect the operating states of the light source and the auxiliary power source. Therefore, as shown in FIG.
3, an opening hole 207 is provided in a part of the front surface of the opening 3.
There is one in which the lighting state of the monitor lamp 204 can be visually confirmed through 7. With this configuration, it is not necessary to remove the frame body 203 together with the translucent panel 202 when inspecting the operating states of the light source, the auxiliary power source, and the like, and the inspection work can be simplified and shortened.

[0005]

However, in the conventional guide light device shown in FIG. 7, since the opening hole is formed in a part of the front surface which is the display surface side of the translucent panel in the frame body,
The visual sense of the frame is impaired, and a sufficient space for holding the monitor lamp is required on the front side of the frame so that the shadow of the monitor lamp is not projected on the translucent panel. There is a problem in that the area occupied by the frame body on the display surface is increased, and the designability is deteriorated.

An object of the present invention is to expose the light of the monitor lamp from the bottom surface of the frame and to enable wiring to the monitor lamp without blocking the light of the light source distributed to the light transmitting panel, There is no need to remove the frame from the main body when inspecting the operating conditions of the light source, auxiliary power supply, etc., and the inspection work can be simplified and shortened,
Moreover, the monitor lamp holder of the guide light device is provided, which does not impair the visual sense of unity of the frame body and does not increase the area occupied by the frame body with respect to the display surface of the translucent panel. To do.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a main body having a light source and an auxiliary power source therein, and a light-transmitting panel for covering an opening on a front surface of the main body, the edge of the opening being held. In a guide light device consisting of a frame body fitted to the section,
A monitor lamp holder comprising a monitor lamp for displaying a state of a light source and an auxiliary power supply, wherein a support portion for supporting the monitor lamp, a part of which is exposed from the bottom surface of the frame to the outside, and a terminal of the monitor lamp are connected to the main body. A guide part for guiding the inside is provided, and the guide part is formed below the light distribution line extending from the light source to the lower edge of the translucent panel.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the guide portion is continuous with the vertical portion located rearward of the front edge of the support portion and substantially horizontally rearward from the upper end of the vertical portion along the bottom surface of the main body. It is characterized by comprising a horizontal portion.

The invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that the supporting portion includes a through hole through which an operation cord of a monitor switch provided inside the main body penetrates.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a frame is provided which holds a main body having a light source and an auxiliary power source inside and a translucent panel that covers an opening in the front of the main body, and is fitted to the edge of the opening. A guide lamp device comprising a body and a monitor lamp holder including a monitor lamp for displaying a state of a light source and an auxiliary power source, one end of which faces the light emitting portion of the monitor lamp and the other end of which is the bottom surface of the frame body. The optical fiber exposed to the outside from a part of the above is formed below the light distribution line from the light source to the lower edge of the translucent panel.

[0011]

According to the first aspect of the invention, the monitor lamp holder is composed of the support portion and the guide portion. Part of the monitor lamp is exposed to the outside from the bottom of the frame. The support portion and the guide portion are located below the light distribution line extending from the light source to the lower edge of the translucent panel. Therefore,
The monitor lamp can be seen from below the frame,
It is not necessary to form an opening hole for exposing the monitor lamp on the front surface of the frame body. Further, the light of the light source distributed to the translucent panel is not blocked by the monitor lamp holder.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the guide portion includes a vertical portion located rearward of the front edge of the support portion, and a horizontal portion continuous rearward from the upper end of the vertical portion along the bottom surface of the main body. It is composed of Therefore, if the horizontal part is placed on the bottom surface of the main body with the back surface of the vertical part in contact with the edge part of the bottom surface of the main body, only the support part supporting the monitor lamp is exposed from the bottom surface of the main body. Only the support portion faces the bottom surface of the frame body.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the supporting portion is formed with a through hole through which the operation cord of the monitor switch provided inside the main body penetrates. Therefore, when fitting the frame body to the front surface of the main body, the operation string is not caught between the edge portion of the front surface of the main body and the frame body.

According to the invention described in claim 4, an optical fiber is provided, one end of which faces the light emitting portion of the monitor lamp and the other end of which is exposed to the outside. Therefore, the structure of the monitor lamp holder is simplified.

[0015]

1 is an assembly view of an induction light device to which a monitor lamp holder according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied. The guide light device 1 includes a main body 2 and a frame body 3. Body 2
The frame body 3 is formed by pressing using a metal flat plate as a material. Inside the main body 2, a light source lamp 5, a drive circuit 6, a power supply circuit 7, a monitor switch 8 and a rechargeable battery 9 are provided, and the main body 2 is open at the front surface. The upper and lower surfaces of the main body 2 at the upper and lower edges of the opening are bent in the vertical direction and then bent in the horizontal direction. At the front edge of the main body 2, the translucent panel 4
The frame body 3 holding the is externally fitted.

A notch 14 extending to both the vertical surface 2a and the horizontal surface 2b at a position on the right side of the center of the lower edge.
Are formed. The support portion of the monitor lamp holder 10 fits into the notch 14. The monitor lamp holder 10 is
Two monitor lamps 11 that are molded from resin
While holding a and 11b, the monitor lamp 11
The printed circuit board 12 that constitutes a part of a power supply circuit that supplies power to a and 11b is housed. The monitor lamp holder 10 is fixed to the inside of the bottom surface of the main body 2 via a mounting screw 13.

One of the monitor lamps 11a indicates whether or not the normal state or abnormal state of the light source lamp 5 is turned on when the operation cord 8a of the monitor switch 8 is pulled downward. The other monitor lamp 11b similarly
Whether or not the charge state of the rechargeable battery 9 is appropriate is displayed depending on whether or not the light is turned on. LEDs can be used as the monitor lamps 11a and 11b.

FIG. 2 is an external view of the monitor lamp holder. The monitor lamp holder 10 includes a monitor lamp 11
a support portion 21 having two concave portions 21a into which a and 11b fit, a guide portion 22 including a vertical portion 22a and a horizontal portion 22b, and a holding member 2 for holding the printed circuit board 12.
The substrate housing portion 23 in which 3a is formed is integrally resin-molded. The vertical portion 22a and the horizontal portion 22b forming the guide portion 22 are formed in a substantially flat plate shape. The printed circuit board 12 has terminals 24 for the monitor lamps 11a and 11b.
Has a fixed end, and the terminal 24 is bent at an intermediate portion so as to extend substantially along the vertical portion 22a and the horizontal portion 22b of the guide portion 22.

FIG. 3 is a side sectional view showing a state in which the monitor lamp holder is attached to the main body of the guide light device.
The monitor lamp holder 10 is attached to the main body 2 with the mounting screw 13.
It is fixed in place on the bottom of the. The mounting screw 13 is fitted into a hole 13a formed on the bottom surface of the main body 2 from the outside,
It is screwed into the screw hole 25 formed in the monitor lamp holder 10. As described above, the monitor lamp holder 10 is fixed to the position where the support portion 21 and the vertical portion 22a are fitted into the notches 14 formed in the edge portion of the main body 2. At this time, the horizontal portion 22b comes into close contact with the bottom surface of the main body 2, and the vertical portion 22a comes into close contact with the vertical surface 2a of the edge portion of the main body 2. Therefore, the main body 2
Only the support portion 21 is exposed to the outside from the edge of the bottom surface of the
Only the support portion 21 is located inside the frame body 3, and the lower surface of the support portion 21 holding the monitor lamps 11a and 11b is exposed to the outside from the notch 15 of the frame body 3.

Further, as described above, the vertical portion 22a and the horizontal portion 22b forming the guide portion 22 are formed in a flat plate shape, and the position of the front surface of the vertical portion 22a is the position of the support portion 21 connected therebelow. It is retracted from the front position. Further, due to the horizontal portion 22b, the substrate storage portion 23 is at a position retracted from the edge portion of the bottom surface of the main body 2 by a certain distance. Therefore, the monitor lamp holder 10 as a whole is positioned below the light distribution line that connects the light source lamp 5 and the lower edge of the translucent panel 4, and the light distributed from the light source lamp 5 to the translucent panel 4 is It is not blocked by the monitor lamp holder 10.

FIG. 4 is an external view of a monitor lamp holder according to another embodiment of the present invention. Monitor lamp holder 1
00 has two recesses 101a opened in the lower surface of the supporting portion 101, and two small holes 101b communicating with the respective recesses 101a are formed in the upper surface of the supporting portion 101. In addition, the vertical portion 102 that constitutes the guide portion 102
A groove 111 that is continuous from the small hole 101b to the substrate housing portion 103 is formed in the a and the horizontal portion 102b. Further, the horizontal portion 102b is on the rear side (the substrate storage portion 103 side).
The board housing portion 103 is inclined forward as it goes upward in a range in which the angle formed with the horizontal portion 102b is an obtuse angle.

With the above configuration, the monitor lamp 11a,
The terminals 24 of the board 11b of the board 11 are arranged so that the terminals 24b of the terminal 11b do not contact each other in the groove 111 from the small hole 101b.
Connected to the printed circuit board inside. Also, the horizontal portion 102b
Also, due to the inclination given to the board housing portion 103, the bending angle of the terminals 24 of the monitor lamps 11a and 11b does not become an acute angle, and the terminals 2 of the monitor lamps 11a and 11b are prevented.
4 is accommodated in the groove 111 along the vertical portion 102a and the horizontal portion 102b, and the non-contact state between the terminals 24 is maintained. Therefore, it is possible to reliably prevent the terminals 24 from coming into contact with each other and other conductive wires and prevent a short circuit accident.

In the monitor lamp holder 100, a through hole 122 is formed in the supporting portion 101. Through hole 12
2 is open to the side surface of the support portion 101. The operation string 8a of the monitor switch housed in the main body 2 penetrates through the through hole 122. The operation string 8a is guided by the through hole 122. With this configuration, when the frame body 3 is fitted to the main body 2, it is possible to prevent the operation string 8a from being sandwiched between the edge portion of the main body 2 and the frame body 3, and the operation string 8a is not properly operated or cut. Can be prevented.

FIG. 5 is a side view of the monitor lamp holder according to the embodiment of the invention described in claim 4. In this monitor lamp holder 130, the monitor lamps 141a and 141b are connected to the printed circuit board 13 with the light emitting portion being close to the board surface.
2 and the optical fiber 131 constitutes a supporting portion and a guiding portion. One end of the optical fiber 131 faces the light emitting portions of the monitor lamps 141a and 141b, and the other end is exposed to the outside from the bottom surface of the frame body 3. Monitor lamp 1
The light from the light emitting portions 41a and 141b is distributed from one end of the optical fiber 131 to the other end, and can be visually recognized from the outside of the guide light device. With this configuration, the monitor lamp holder can be made smaller.

The monitor lamp holder having the shape shown in FIG. 2 or 4 may be integrally resin-molded at a predetermined position of the main body. By configuring in this way,
The number of parts of the guide light device can be reduced, and the work of attaching the monitor lamp holder to the main body can be eliminated.

[0026]

According to the invention described in claim 1, the monitor lamp can be visually recognized from the lower side of the frame body, and it is necessary to remove the frame body together with the translucent panel at the time of checking the operating states of the light source and the auxiliary power source. Therefore, the inspection work can be simplified and shortened. Also, it is not necessary to form an opening hole for exposing the monitor lamp on the front surface of the frame,
The visual sense of unity of the frame is not impaired, and the area occupied by the frame with respect to the display surface of the translucent panel is not increased, so that the design can be improved. Further, the light of the light source distributed to the translucent panel is not blocked by the monitor lamp holder.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, only the support portion of the monitor lamp holder can be exposed to the outside through the opening of the bottom surface of the main body, and only this support portion can face the bottom surface of the frame. It is possible to reduce the size of the frame body. Also,
The support part, the guide part, and the substrate housing part can be configured in a step-like shape that becomes higher from the front surface of the main body to which the frame body fits, and the light of the light source distributed to the translucent panel is monitored. It is possible to reliably prevent the lamp holder from blocking the light and prevent the image of the internal structure from being projected on the translucent panel.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, when the frame body is fitted to the front surface of the main body, the operation string is not caught between the edge portion of the front surface of the main body and the frame body, It is possible to reliably prevent the operation string from being cut.

According to the invention described in claim 4, the light emitted from the monitor lamp can be guided to the supporting portion by the fiber, and the structure of the monitor lamp holder can be simplified.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an assembly view of a guide light device to which a monitor lamp holder according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is an external view of the monitor lamp holder.

FIG. 3 is a side sectional view showing how the monitor lamp holder is attached to the main body of the guide light device.

FIG. 4 is an external view of a monitor lamp holder according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an external view of a monitor lamp holder according to an embodiment of the invention described in claim 4.

6 and 7 are external views of a conventional guide light device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-guide light device 2-main body 3-frame body 4-transparent panel 5-light source lamp 8-monitor switch 8a-operation string 9-rechargeable battery 10-monitor lamp holder 11a, 11b-monitor lamp

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Shoji Michiura 1048, Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka Prefecture Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A main body having a light source and an auxiliary power source inside, and a translucent panel for covering an opening on the front surface of the main body are held.
A guide lamp device comprising: a frame body fitted to an edge of the opening; and a monitor lamp holder including a monitor lamp for displaying a state of a light source and an auxiliary power source, the monitor lamp holder including a part from a bottom surface of the frame body. Is provided with a support portion for supporting the monitor lamp exposed to the outside, and a guide portion for guiding the terminal of the monitor lamp into the main body, and the guide portion is provided with the light distribution line from the light source to the lower edge of the translucent panel. A monitor lamp holder for an induction light device, characterized in that it is formed below. 2. The guide portion is composed of a vertical portion located rearward of a front edge of the support portion, and a horizontal portion extending substantially horizontally from the upper end of the vertical portion to the rear along the bottom surface of the main body. The monitor lamp holder of the guide light device according to claim 1. 3. The monitor lamp holder according to claim 1, wherein the support portion includes a through hole through which an operation cord of a monitor switch provided inside the main body penetrates. 4. A main body having a light source and an auxiliary power source inside, and a translucent panel covering an opening on the front surface of the main body are held.
A guide lamp device comprising: a frame body fitted to an edge of the opening; and a monitor lamp holder including a monitor lamp for displaying a state of a light source and an auxiliary power source. And an optical fiber whose other end is exposed to the outside from a part of the bottom surface of the frame body is formed below the light distribution line from the light source to the lower edge of the translucent panel. Monitor lamp holder.