Lighting fixutre with a covert security camera

• US 6,259,476 B1
• Filed: 09/02/1998
• Issued: 07/10/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kenneth L. Greene
• Original Assignee: Kenneth L. Greene
• Inventors: Greene, Kenneth L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rao, Andy
• Application Number:
  US09/146,066
• Time in Patent Office: 1,042 Days
• Field of Search: 348/143, 348/151, 348/156, 348/214
• US Class Current: 348/151
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/0052 Audio or video equipment, e.g. televisions, telephones, cameras or computers; Remote control devices therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19619 Details of casing
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19632 Camera support structures, e.g. attachment means, poles
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/001 Concealed systems, e.g. disguised alarm systems to make covert systems

Abstract

A lighting fixture, primarily for outdoor use in providing light along a park path or the like, improved in a combination with a security camera in that the security camera has a desired covert location within the lighting fixture and the heat of the source of illumination is used to advantage to prevent a freeze-up and consequent malfunctioning of the security camera as might occur due to severe weather conditions.

Claims

1. A combination lighting fixture and a security camera wherein said lighting fixture comprises an exterior housing wall partially of light-transmitting construction material in a bottom location and opaque construction material in a top location with said housing wall bounding therebehind a housing interior compartment, a cooperating electric current-transmitting means and electric current-operated illumination means operatively electrically and physically interconnected to each other disposed in said interior compartment with said electric current-operated illumination means in a rearward clearance position from said light-transmitting construction material and said electric current-transmitting means in a rearward clearance position from said opaque construction material, a partitioning panel of non-conductive construction material having a U-shape configuration having edges bounding a correspondingly U-shape notch therein disposed so as to subdivide said interior compartment into a lower compartment occupied by said electric current-operated illumination means projected through said partition panel notch to one side of said partition panel and into an upper compartment occupied by said electric current-transmitting means projected to an opposite side of said partition panel and behind said opaque construction material, and a security camera positioned in said upper subdivided compartment, whereby said lighting fixture contributes to providing said security camera with a covert location to a viewer and also heat transmitted from said electric current-operated illumination means through said partition panel notch into said subdivided top compartment to facilitate the operation of said security camera therein.