Commercial lighting integrated platform

• US 9,261,263 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korrus Incorporated (MKD Electric, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Tempo Industries, LLC
• Inventors: Pearson, Dennis, Jin, Guang, Dochnahl, Wesley Scott, Santana, Jorge
• Primary Examiner(s): Dzierzynski, Evan
• Assistant Examiner(s): TUMEBO, TSION M
• Application Number:
  US13/689,489
• Publication Number:
  US 20130279180A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• Field of Search: 362/217.01, 362/217.02, 362/217.12, 362/217.14, 362/364, 362/365, 362/371, 362/372
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 2/00 Systems of lighting devices, not provided for in main groups F21S4/00 - F21S10/00 or F21S19/00, e.g. of modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/063 with a rigid pendant, i.e. a pipe or rod
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/01 Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts F21V15/02 takes precedence housings forming signs or letters G09F13/04
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/015 Devices for covering joints between adjacent lighting devices; End coverings
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/12 by screwing
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/005 for several lighting devices in an end-to-end arrangement, i.e. light tracks
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/008 Suspending from a cable or suspension line
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/104 Pendants
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/112 Fixing lighting devices to pendants F21V21/002 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/006 the substrate being distinct from the light source holder
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/023 Power supplies in a casing F21V23/003 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/50 Cooling arrangements air-treatment systems dissipating or using the heat of lighting fixtures F24F3/056
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2103/10 comprising a linear array of point-like light-generating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

One or more interconnectable modules, each comprising a housing mounting an LED circuit board on an underside thereof and having a guide track on a top surface thereof with one or more slip fitter components shaped to slidably insert into and engage or attach to the guide track and configured to cooperate with one or more of a ceiling mounting bracket, a hanger bracket, an eye hanger and a cable hanging arrangement in order to provide multiple modes of hanging, suspending or otherwise mounting the one or more lighting modules.

Claims

1. A lighting platform mounting one or more LEDs comprising:

a first bottom cover having respective first and second side channels formed at opposite corners thereof, the first and second side channels each comprising a horizontal bottom edge curving into a vertical side edge;

an upper housing having respective outer side surfaces which, at respective upper ends thereof, extend outwardly, then vertically downward, then horizontally inward and then downwardly to form respective extended end tip surfaces;

respective screws inserted through said first and second side channels and angled upwardly and threaded into said end tip surfaces to thereby attach said bottom cover to said upper housing; and

a driver assembly comprising an LED driver for supplying power to said one or more LEDs mounted in an internal cavity defined by said bottom cover and upper housing, the driver assembly being spring biased upwardly such that a surface of the driver assembly is forced against a surface of the upper housing to facilitate heat transfer between the driver assembly and the upper housing.

2. The lighting platform of claim 1 wherein respective gaps are provided between the ends of the vertical sides of the bottom cover and the lower corners of the outer sides of the upper housing to provide first lens attachment mechanism.

3. The lighting platform of claim 2 wherein a second lens attachment mechanism is provided on an outer generally horizontal surface of the bottom cover.

4. The lighting platform of claim 1 wherein a top portion of the upper housing defines first and second sidewardly facing channels for receiving a slip fitter component.

5. The lighting platform of claim 1 further comprising a second bottom cover and a cover splice component configured to attach together the respective first and second bottom covers.

6. The lighting platform of claim 1 wherein the end tip surfaces are shaped and dimensioned so as to detect misalignment of the respective screws during insertion.

7. The lighting platform of claim 1 wherein said upper housing contains a vertical extrusion fitted between inner vertical edges of said upper housing so as to define a wire way between the vertical extrusion and an inside surface of one of the sides of the upper housing.

8. The lighting platform of claim 7 wherein a cable is connected to the upper housing either directly or through one or more components and to the bottom cover such that the bottom cover is suspendable from the upper housing when the screws attaching the bottom cover to the upper housing are removed.

9. The lighting platform of claim 1 wherein the driver assembly includes a driver bracket attached to a driver component and having respective flanges formed thereon and first and second bolts passing through the respective flanges and through respective springs to attach the driver bracket in position.

10. The lighting platform of claim 1 further comprising a second bottom cover and a plurality of side clips for attaching together said first and second bottom covers.

11. The lighting platform of claim 1 wherein the ends of the vertical portions of the side channels are respectively gapped away from the lower ends of the respective sides of the upper housing.

12. The lighting platform of claim 1 wherein said respective screws are inserted through apertures formed in said first and second side channels.

13. The lighting platform of claim 1 further comprising a circuit board attached to a bottom surface of said bottom cover.

14. The lighting platform of claim 1 wherein the respective end tip surfaces are angled slightly outwardly.