US 12,435,510 B2Granted

Ceiling mount adaptable to various ceiling rail widths

AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

InventorsYuhai Guo, Aijun Liu, Yuying Chen

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Abstract

A ceiling mount comprises a mounting plate to be coupled to an electronic device and two clips to be mounted to a ceiling rail. The clips comprise engagement members to engage with opposite sides of the ceiling rail, respectively, and support arms movably coupling the engagement members to the mounting plate. One of the support arms of each clip comprises linear gear teeth. The ceiling mount also comprises a circular gear coupled to the mounting plate and engaged with the respective linear gear teeth of the clips, and a pawl engaged with the circular gear and movable between a first state and a second state. In the first state of the pawl, the engagement members can be moved toward one another and are prevented from being moved away from one another, and in the second state of the pawl, the engagement members can be moved away from one another.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A ceiling mount for an electronic device, comprising:

a mounting plate configured to be coupled to the electronic device;
two clips configured to engage with opposite sides of a ceiling rail to mount the ceiling mount to the ceiling rail, wherein each of the clips comprises:
an engagement member configured to engage the ceiling rail;
and
one or more support arms coupled to the engagement member and movably coupled to the mounting plate such that the engagement member can translate relative to the mounting plate, wherein one of the support arms comprises linear gear teeth;
a circular gear coupled to the mounting plate and engaged with the respective linear gear teeth of both of the clips;
and
a pawl engaged with the circular gear and movable between a first state and a second state,
wherein in the first state of the pawl, the engagement members are allowed to be moved toward one another and are prevented from being moved away from one another, and
wherein in the second state of the pawl, the engagement members are allowed to be moved away from one another.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.