Modular uninterruptible lighting system
OwnerM. Larry Edwards, Allan A. Nostwick +1inventors
InventorsM. Larry Edwards, Allan A. Nostwick, Roland O. Hildebrand
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Abstract
A modular fail-safe uninterruptible lighting system in which lights are identified singly and/or in clusters to form separately controllable entities. Each entity is provided with a modular receiver that is individually controllable to any of six selected states; and one or more modular switched logic controllers is provided to produce signals individually representing the six states. These signals are conducted from the switched logic controllers to the receivers at relatively low control voltages so as to cause the entities to function according to selected states when an outage occurs on the normal lighting system power source.
Claims34
An uninterruptible lighting system comprising:
- (a) A plurality of lights and a source of normal energizing electric power for said lights;
- (b) Means including receiver means interconnected with each of said lights for conditioning said lights to any selected one of a plurality of states;
- (c) Control means selectively conditionable to produce individual control signals individually representing said plurality of states;
- (d) Control signal communication means interconnecting said control means and said receiver means for communicating said control signals from said control means to said receiver means;
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- (e) Means including said receiver means effective when said source of normal energizing power is interrupted for severally conditioning said lights to states severally represented by selected ones of said plurality of states.
A modular uninterruptible lighting system comprising:
- (a) A plurality of lights and a source of normal energizing electric power for said lights, at least one of said lights being identified individually as an identified entity, and others of said lights being identified in groups as group entities;
- (b) Receiver means interconnected with each of said entities for individually conditioning said entities to any selected one of a plurality of states;
- (c) Control means selectively conditionable to producee control signals individually representing said plurality of states;
- (d) Communication means interconnecting said control means and said receiver means for communicating said signals from said control means to said receiver means;
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- (e) Conditioning means including said receiver means effective when said source of normal energizing power is interrupted for individually conditioning said identified entity and group entities to states individually represented by selected ones of said plurality of states.
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