Control device having an integral reflecting structure for a sensing circuit
AssigneeLutron Technology Company LLC
InventorsWilliam Taylor Shivell, Matthew Philip McDonald
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AssigneeLutron Technology Company LLC
InventorsWilliam Taylor Shivell, Matthew Philip McDonald
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A wall-mounted keypad may include a light detector circuit located inside the keypad that is configured to measure an ambient light level in a space. The light detector circuit may receive ambient light through an aperture that is hidden from view by the keypad. The keypad may include a reflector for directing ambient light onto the light detector circuit. The keypad may include an enclosure that houses the light detector circuit. The enclosure may define a recess that exposes at least a portion of the light detector circuit. The enclosure may include a reflector that may focus ambient light received through the aperture onto the light detector circuit. The keypad may include a control circuit that may be configured to illuminate the indicia of respective buttons of the control device in response to actuations of the one or more buttons, in accordance with the measured ambient light level.
A wallbox-mountable electrical load control device, comprising:
A method to control illumination an electrical load control device including a plurality of buttons, a faceplate at least partially surrounding the plurality of buttons, and a housing insertable into a wallbox, the method comprising:
A non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device that includes instruction that, when executed by control circuitry included in a wallbox-mountable electrical load control device, causes the control circuitry to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.