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US 6,867,959 B2Granted
Double-wall ballast engagement and ballast mounting method
AssigneeRuud Lighting, Inc.
InventorsEric Haugaard, Kurt Wilcox
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AssigneeRuud Lighting, Inc.
InventorsEric Haugaard, Kurt Wilcox
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A housing 20 for electrical lighting fixtures with improved ballast mounting is disclosed. The ballast 10 is mounted such that it tightly engages two walls 30,40 of the housing. The housing is a heat sink and heat from the ballast is efficiently transferred to the two walls. The ballast is preferably mounted to one of the two walls. The wall to which the ballast is mounted preferably includes a channel 33 and the ballast preferably includes a bore 12, such that a rod 50 passing through the bore and positioned in the channel mounts the ballast to the wall. A method of mounting a ballast to a housing for electrical lighting fixtures such that the ballast tightly engages two walls of the housing is also disclosed. Such mounting is preferably performed by a single mount.
In a housing for electrical lighting fixtures, the housing of the type enclosing ballasts and lamps, the housing including first and side walls, the improvement wherein a ballast is directly and tightly engaged with at least two walls.
In a housing for electrical lighting fixtures, the housing of the type enclosing ballasts and lamps, the housing including first and side walls, the improvement wherein a ballast is tightly engaged with at least two walls, the ballast is mounted to one of the at least two walls, the first wall includes at least one channel, the ballast includes at least one bore, and a first rod passes through a first bore and is positioned in a first channel to mount the ballast to the first wall.
A method of mounting a ballast to a housing for electrical lighting fixtures, the housing having a first wall and side walls, the method comprising mounting the ballast to one of the first or side walls such that the ballast directly and tightly engages the one and another of the first and side walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.