US 10,895,368 B2 · Flush mount lighting fixture

Abstract

In an example embodiment, a lighting fixture comprising a lighting device and a mounting bracket is provided. The lighting device comprises a front cover, a back cover, a frame, and at least one LED mounted within the interior of the lighting device. The frame has an interior edge that is in contact with a perimeter of the front cover and a perimeter of the back cover. The front cover, the back cover, and the frame define the interior of the lighting device. At least one of the frame and the back cover comprises one or more attachment mechanisms. The mounting bracket comprises a junction box mounting element configured for securing the mounting bracket to a junction box or a mounting surface, and one or more attachment mechanism mating elements configured to mate with the one or more attachment mechanisms when the lighting device is rotated within the mounting bracket to secure the lighting device into the mounting bracket.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A mounting bracket for flush mounting a lighting device, the mounting bracket comprising:

a planar member having a longitudinal axis, one or two transverse members disposed at opposite ends of the planar member, and at least one attachment mechanism mating element disposed on an end of one of the one or two transverse members opposite the first planar member, and wherein:
the at least one attachment mechanism mating elements is configured to engage a corresponding attachment mechanism disposed on the lighting device to secure the lighting device to the mounting bracket, and the planar member includes two adjacent openings and a receiving member aligned along the longitudinal axis and offset from a center of the planar member, the receiving member being positioned intermediate the two openings and configured to have a clip member of a tether of the lighting device secured thereto.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/551,194Filed 26 Aug 2019 · continuation

Priority

22 May 2014

Published

US 2019/0376672 A112 Dec 2019

Granted

19 Jan 2021

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

F21V 21/03
Wall, ceiling, or floor bases; Fixing pendants or arms to the bases: ceiling bases, e.g. ceiling roses
E04B 9/006
Ceilings; Construction of ceilings, e.g. false ceilings; Ceiling construction with regard to insulation: with means for hanging lighting fixtures…
F21S 8/043
Intended only for mounting on a ceiling or the like overhead structures: mounted by means of a rigid support, e.g. bracket or arm
F21S 8/061
By suspension: with a non-rigid pendant, i.e. a cable, wire or chain

Family

Application62/002,088Us provisional application · filed 22 May 2014

Application14/720,255Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 22 May 2015

Application15/272,645Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Sep 2016

US 9,835,300 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 5 Dec 2017

Application15/898,711Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Feb 2018

US 9,927,103 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Mar 2018

US 2019/0376672 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Dec 2019

US 10,473,306 B2Parent of this continuation

Application15/272,645Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 2015/0338038 A1Published application

US 2017/0009962 A1Published application

US 2018/0172248 A1Published application

US 10,895,368 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.

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Abstract

Claims18