JPH10106519A - Battery mounting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress heat effect on a battery body mounted on a luminaire. SOLUTION: A battery holder 43 to accommodate a battery body B is installed outside the body 11 of a luminaire. Between the battery holder 43 and luminaire body 11, a space is reserved using a spacer 62 having a low thermal conductivity. At the body 11, an opening 51 for the battery is furnished as positioned opposing to the opening 44 in the holder 43. The opening 51 is enclosed with a cover 65 in such an arrangement as capable of being opened and closed. A heat insulation 66 is installed inside the cover 65.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a battery mounting device for holding a battery body.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, a battery mounting device for holding a battery body has been used in an emergency lighting fixture for lighting a lamp by the power of a built-in battery body in an emergency. The battery mounting device is housed inside the instrument body together with a lamp, a ballast, and the like, and is attached to the instrument body with bolts or the like.

Incidentally, in order to suppress the deterioration of the battery body incorporated in the emergency lighting equipment, it is necessary to keep the temperature of the battery body as low as possible. Therefore, in order to reduce the influence of heat from a lamp or the like, a configuration using a heat shield is considered.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional construction, a heating element such as a ballast or a lamp is housed inside the apparatus main body, and the heat radiated from these heating elements causes the apparatus main body. When the temperature inside the battery becomes high, there is a problem that it is difficult to keep the temperature of the battery body low.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a battery mounting device capable of suppressing a thermal influence from a member to be mounted.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a battery mounting device for mounting a battery on a mounted member that houses a heat-generating member therein, the battery mounting device holding a battery body; Fixing means for fixing the battery holder at a position outside the attached member and at a position separated from the attached member.

In this configuration, the battery body is held by the battery holder that is spaced outside the mounted member, so that thermal effects from the heat generating member housed inside the mounted member are generated. And the deterioration of the battery body is suppressed.

[0008] The battery mounting device according to the second aspect is the first aspect.
In the battery mounting device described above, the member to be mounted includes a battery opening facing the battery holder, and a lid that covers the battery opening so as to be openable and closable.

In this configuration, the thermal effect of the heat generating member on the battery body is reduced when the battery opening is closed by the lid, and the inner side of the member to be mounted is opened when the battery opening is opened. This allows maintenance of the battery body.

[0010] The battery mounting device according to the third aspect is the first aspect.
Or the fixing means for fixing the battery holder by tightening the battery holder toward the member to be attached, and securing the separation distance between the battery holder and the member to be attached. And a spacer to be used.

In this configuration, the structure of the fixing means is simplified, and the fixing means can be constituted by a general member, so that the manufacturing cost is reduced.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the battery mounting device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIGS. 3 and 4, reference numeral 1 denotes a ceiling-mounted emergency lighting device. The lighting device 1 always operates with electric power supplied from a commercial AC power supply, and also has a battery body B in an emergency. It operates by the supplied power.

1 to 4, reference numeral 11 denotes an instrument body (chassis) as a member to be attached. The instrument body 11 is composed of an upper plate 12 and one of opposing side plates 14, 14.
, And the other opposing side plate portions 15, 15 are formed in a rectangular frame shape having a lower surface as an irradiation opening 16.

The lower surface of the upper plate 12, ie, the instrument body
On the inner surface of 11, along the vicinity of one side plate portion 14,
A socket mounting portion 21 is provided.
, Two pairs of lamp sockets 22 are attached. Further, on the lower surface of the upper plate portion 12, along with the vicinity of the other side plate portion 15 on both sides, a ballast as a heating member is provided.
24 is attached and located between these ballasts 24, a lighting unit as a heating member, a terminal block,
An inspection switch with a drawstring, a charge monitor with a light emitting diode, and the like are attached. Further, a pair of mounting holes for bolts are formed on both sides of the upper plate portion 12, and a hanging bolt provided in the ceiling is inserted into these mounting holes for bolts, and a nut is tightened from below, so that the appliance body 11 is formed. Is fixed in the ceiling. Furthermore, in the upper plate part 12,
A power supply hole is formed, and a power supply line wired in the ceiling is introduced from the power supply hole into the inside of the appliance body 11, and is connected to a terminal block or the like. In addition, each side plate part 14, 15
Near the upper end of the
26 are formed.

A pair of reflectors 31 are attached below the upper plate 12 by decorative screws. These reflectors 31 include an upper surface reflector 32 and the upper surface reflector 32.
An inclined reflecting plate portion 33 inclined in an expanding manner from both sides downwards on both sides of 32 is provided, and each lower surface is a reflecting surface portion.

Each of the lamp sockets 22 is provided with a fluorescent lamp F as a heat generating member. Each of the fluorescent lamps F is a single-ended die having a substantially U-shaped luminous tube, consumes 36 W, and has a luminous tube that is a reflector.
It is arranged so as to face the lower surface of the upper surface reflection plate portion 32 of 31.

Below the reflector 31, an aluminum louver 35 having a substantially lattice shape in a plane is disposed.
An irradiation opening 16 is provided by a so-called V spring (mounting spring) 37.
Is held by a frame 38 attached to the edge of the frame.

Further, a battery mounting device 41 for holding the battery B is provided on the upper plate portion 12 of the appliance body 11 at a position separated from the ballast 24 and the lighting unit.

Next, the battery mounting device 41 will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, the battery body B is, for example, a storage battery of a so-called battery pack in which a plurality of substantially cylindrical battery bodies are covered with a plastic film, and has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which both ends are curved. It has become. Also,
A lead wire B1 is led out of the battery body B, and a connector B2 provided at the tip of the lead wire B1 is connected to a lighting unit or the like to supply power.

The battery body B is housed in a battery holder 43. The battery holder 43 has a substantially rectangular box shape capable of storing the battery body B, and has an opening 44 on the lower surface. Further, mounting pieces 45, 45 protrude from edges of the lower ends of both ends in the longitudinal direction of the battery holder 43, and each of the mounting pieces 45, 45 has a pair of screw holes.
46 are formed.

The upper plate 12 of the appliance body 11 has a rectangular battery opening 51 having the same shape as the opening 44 of the battery holder 43. Through holes 52 are formed in the vicinity of both ends in the longitudinal direction, facing the respective screw holes 46 of the battery holder 43. In addition, this upper plate
12, screw locking portions 54 are formed on both sides of the battery opening 51, and cover screws 55 are inserted into these screw locking portions 54 from above and locked. I have. Each screw locking portion 54 is composed of locking pieces 57, 57 formed by cutting and raising the upper plate portion 12 so as to be opposed to each other while being inclined downward, and press-fit between these locking pieces 57, 57. The cover screw 55 is sandwiched and held.

The battery holder 43 has a screw 61 as a fixing tool inserted into each through hole 52 from below, with the opening 44 facing above the battery opening 51, and the screw hole 46. And is fixed by screwing. Furthermore, a cylindrical spacer 62 made of a material having a low thermal conductivity such as plastic is attached to each screw 61, and these spacers 62 abut on the mounting piece 45 and the upper plate 12, Battery holder 43
Are fixed in a state of being separated from the appliance body 11 by a predetermined distance (space distance) A.

The battery opening 51 of the upper plate 12 is provided with a lid
It is detachably covered by 64. And this lid 64
Is composed of a cover 65 made of a metal plate or the like, a heat insulating material 66 disposed on the upper surface of the cover 65 by bonding or the like. The cover 65 has a substantially rectangular flat shape,
The cover screw 55 is inserted from the upper side into the through holes 67 provided in the vicinity of both sides, and the thumbscrew 68 is screwed from below the cover screw 55 with the width dimension being larger than the battery opening 51. Then, the cover 64 is attached to the upper plate 12 so as to cover the battery opening 51. Further, the heat insulating material has a predetermined thickness dimension, has a planar shape that allows the battery opening 51 to be inserted, and is housed in the battery holder 43 with the battery opening 51 closed with the lid 64. And is held in contact with the battery body B.

On the other hand, by loosening and removing the thumb screw 68,
The lid 64 is easily removed from the upper plate 12 and the battery opening is opened.
The maintenance work such as replacement and inspection of the battery body B can be performed via 51.

According to the present embodiment, the instrument body
The heat conduction and the heat radiation, which are the paths of heat generated from the inside of the battery 11, can be blocked, the temperature of the battery B stored in the battery holder 43 is prevented from rising, and the performance of the battery B is maintained. be able to.

That is, the battery holder 43 for housing and holding the battery body B is not only disposed outside the apparatus main body 11, which is heated to a high temperature by the heat generated by the fluorescent lamp L, the ballast 24, and the like.
Since the battery holder 43 is held in a state of being separated from the appliance main body 11 via the spacer 62, heat conducted from the appliance main body 11 is blocked by the spacer 62 and the space between the appliance main body 11 and the battery holder 43. be able to. In addition, a cover 65 is provided to cover the battery opening 51 in a state close to sealing, and a heat insulating material 66 is arranged between the cover 65 and the battery body B. Touching the battery body B can be suppressed. Further, the heat slightly transmitted to the battery body B can be released to the outside of the battery holder 43 and the tool body 11 by the space between the tool body 11 and the battery holder 43.

Further, since the fixing means for holding the battery holder 43 in a state of being separated from the appliance main body 11 can be formed by general screws 61 and spacers 62, the manufacturing cost can be reduced. Further, since the heat insulating material 66 also serves as a member for holding the battery body B, the number of components can be reduced and the manufacturing cost can be reduced.

The battery mounting apparatus according to the present invention can be applied to a configuration in which a battery is mounted on a member to be heated, in addition to a lighting fixture.

[0031]

According to the battery mounting device of the first aspect,
Since the battery body is held by the battery holder that is spaced apart outside the mounted member, the thermal effect from the heat generating member housed inside the mounted member is reduced, and the deterioration of the battery body is reduced. Can be suppressed.

According to the battery mounting device of the second aspect, in addition to the effects of the first aspect, the thermal effect of the heat generating member on the battery body is reduced while the battery opening is closed by the lid,
The deterioration of the battery body can be suppressed, and maintenance work such as replacement of the battery body can be performed from the inside of the attached member in a state where the battery opening is opened.

According to the battery mounting device of the third aspect, in addition to the effects of the first and second aspects, the structure of the fixing means is simplified, and the fixing means can be constituted by a general member. And the manufacturing cost can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an embodiment of a battery mounting device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the battery mounting device.

FIG. 3 is a side view, partially cut away, of the lighting fixture provided with the battery mounting device.

FIG. 4 is a side view of the lighting device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Device body as a member to be mounted 24 Ballast as a heat generating member 41 Battery mounting device 43 Battery holder 51 Battery opening 61 Screw as a fixture 62 Spacer 64 Lid B Battery B F Fluorescent lamp as a heat generating member

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A battery mounting device for mounting a battery on a mounted member accommodating a heat-generating member inside, comprising: a battery holder for holding a battery body; And a fixing means for fixing the battery at a position separated from the mounting member. 2. The battery according to claim 1, wherein the attached member includes a battery opening facing the battery holder, and a cover that covers the battery opening so as to be openable and closable. Mounting device. 3. The fixing means comprises: a fixing device for tightening and fixing the battery holder toward the member to be mounted; and a spacer positioned between the battery holder and the member to be mounted to secure a separation dimension. The battery mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the battery mounting device is provided.