Luminaire assembly and clamping element for luminaire assembly
AssigneeSignify Holding B.V.
InventorMICHAL JAN HORACZEK
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Abstract
A clamping element for clamping a luminaire assembly, comprising an inner section, a peripheral section, and an annular flexure section bridging the inner section and the peripheral section. The annular flexure structure allows elastic displacement of the inner section such that the flexure section, when extended, causes a clamping force between the inner and peripheral sections. The clamping element may thus be manufactured as a flat element, and in use be extended to desired height creating a biasing spring force. Thereby, one single clamping element may be used for a range of different stacks with different clamping height.
Claims15
A luminaire assembly comprising:
- a set of components arranged in a stack along a central axis, and
- a clamping element for clamping the stack of components in a luminaire assembly, the clamping element comprising:
- an inner section;
- a peripheral section, co-planar with and surrounding the inner section;
- and
- an annular flexure section bridging the inner section and the peripheral section, said annular flexure structure allowing an elastic displacement of the inner section with respect to the peripheral section in a direction normal to a planar extension of the peripheral section, such that, when the inner section is separated from the peripheral section in said direction, the flexure section causes a clamping force between the inner and peripheral sections,
- wherein the inner section abuts an outer component in a back end of the stack and the peripheral section is attached to an outer component in a front end of the stack, such that said components are sandwiched between the inner and outer ring sections and are clamped by the clamping force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.