Patents Assigned to Acuity Brands, Inc.
  • Patent number: 7380661
    Abstract: Packaging and delivery systems and methods for lighting devices such as streetlights. One embodiment of the invention includes a lighting device packaging and delivery system for a partially or completely preassembled and pre-wired luminaire and pole. The packaging and methods allow the unit to be shipped and installed with very little or no assembly required. The unit, or multi-pack of units, may be packaged with all of the required components, such as the photo control and lamp, already installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Gibler, David Henderson
  • Patent number: 7333903
    Abstract: A network operation center for a light management system having networked intelligent luminaire managers. A plurality of networked luminaire managers, each collocated with a respective luminaire, monitor the status of their respective luminaires. The luminaire managers include transmitters for transmitting status information about their respective luminaires and third-party devices to a network server. The network server forwards the received status information from the networked luminaire managers to a computer of an owner/operator of the plurality of luminaires and/or a third-party user. The luminaire managers communicate with each other, whereby they form a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff D. Walters, Charles J. Darnell, Zachary S. Gibler, David A. Henderson, Michael M. Minarczyk, William Eric Holland
  • Patent number: 7329022
    Abstract: An improved small profile hanger system for ceiling suspended lighting fixtures comprises a plurality of hanger assemblies having a support stem and a downwardly arced crossbar. The support stem and crossbar have a relatively small elliptical profile have two sets of wire holes, each set of wire holes having an inner hole and an outer hole overlapping the inner hole, the inner and outer holes defining an intervening gap narrower than the dimension of either hole. The holes are sized to receive an insulated wire; the intervening gap preventing the wire from crossing over into the adjacent hole. The wire holes of the support stem are in communication with the wire holes of the crossbar providing a fully enclosed wiring passage from a ballast box assembly installed above a suspended ceiling to energize a lamp in a diffuser depending from a pair of the crossbars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Trung Tran, Hue Ly
  • Patent number: 7325946
    Abstract: A lamp fixture includes a housing with a high voltage end lamp socket therein. A fluorescent lamp extends from the socket. A heater is at the fluorescent lamp at the high voltage end lamp socket and is adjacent to. The heater includes a plate radiator which is attached to the outside of the light reflector and a thermostat. The thermostat is hooked to the line voltage to the fixture. A substantially clear heat reflector extends partially around the fluorescent lamp and, with the heater, substantially encloses circumferentially the fluorescent lamp at the high voltage end lamp socket. The reflector is pivotally mounted relative to the fluorescent lamp to allow retraction of the heat reflector for placement of the fluorescent lamp. A light reflector extends partially around the fluorescent lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Glenn M. Tyson
  • Patent number: 7325998
    Abstract: A bollard includes a bollard post having a lamp which includes a louver stack. The louver stack includes louvers spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the bollard post. The bollard post is rectangular in cross section and the louver stack extends outwardly beyond the periphery of the bollard. There is a primary light source inwardly of the louver stack and a mechanism for providing light downwardly about the base end of the bollard post. One such mechanism includes an LED providing a light wash down the bollard post from beneath where that louver extends outwardly of the periphery of the bollard post. A second mechanism employs a top reflector above the primary light source to reflect light downwardly about the light source. Bottom reflector surfaces direct the light from the top reflector outwardly to louver reflectors located beneath the lowermost louver. Such reflectors can reflect light downwardly for light wash of the bollard post and an illumination about the base of the bollard post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Leonhardt, Tori C. Poppenheimer, David Crookham, Nicole Skogg
  • Publication number: 20070285921
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and apparatuses for dynamically controlling the operational modes of a single luminaire or a group of networked luminaires configured to deliver an illumination pattern having a decorative colored glow surrounding a central region of substantially uniform brightness. A control module for the luminaire is configured to drive three dimmable fluorescent ballasts, as well as a LED module. A variety of operational modes including different schemes for color mixing and color cycle control can be selected by a user and implemented by a microcontroller. A group of luminaires is connected in a standard communication protocol-based master-slave configuration, where the slave units respond to commands received from the master unit, and the last slave unit automatically engages terminating and biasing resistors for proper operation of the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Don Zulim, Stephen Haight Lydecker, Leslie Charles King, Jon Dale Hinnefeld
  • Patent number: 7296910
    Abstract: A light fixture or troffer for directing light emitted from a light source toward an area to be illuminated, including a reflector assembly within which the light source is positioned; a housing defining at least one selectively enclosable ballast enclosure; and a ballast that is positionable in the at least one ballast enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: John T. Mayfield, III, Stephen H. Lydecker, Gary D. Trott, Carl T. Gould, Kevin Leadford, Christopher L. Sharp
  • Patent number: 7284878
    Abstract: The present invention is a fluorescent light lumen regulating apparatus. More specifically, in one aspect, the present invention is a fluorescent lighting assembly for mounting at least one fluorescent lamp. In this aspect, the lighting assembly comprises a lamp housing. In another aspect, the invention further comprises a thermal dissipater to selectively dissipate heat from the fluorescent lamp to the ambient air to maintain the temperature of the cold spot of the fluorescent lamp within a predetermined temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Jay Dorogi, Eric Seth Perkins, Luke Jonathon Siefker, Terry Alan Richards
  • Patent number: 7261435
    Abstract: A light fixture or troffer for directing light emitted from a light source toward an area to be illuminated, including a reflector assembly within which the light source is positioned and a lens assembly detachably secured to a portion of the reflector assembly such that a lens of the lens assembly overlies the light source and such that substantially all of the light emitted from the light source passes through the lens assembly. In one example, the lens includes a curved prismatic surface that can be oriented toward or away from the underlying light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl T. Gould, John T. Mayfield, III, Gary D. Trott, Christopher L. Sharp
  • Patent number: D550154
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Kenneth Pickard
  • Patent number: D550881
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: James Michael Lay, George McIlwraith
  • Patent number: D552778
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Doyle Scott Butler
  • Patent number: D553779
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Doyle Scott Butler
  • Patent number: D553781
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Kenneth Pickard, James Michael Lay, Doyle Scott Butler, Mark Campbell Logan, Leslie Charles King
  • Patent number: D556357
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Doyle Scott Butler, J. Michael Lay
  • Patent number: D558376
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott L. Posey, Bradley Robert Layne
  • Patent number: D561926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Utkan Salman
  • Patent number: D565232
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Doyle Scott Butler
  • Patent number: D569031
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank A. Friedman, Michael Trung Tran
  • Patent number: D570027
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Acuity Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Ray Miller, Doyle Scott Butler, Frank A. Friedman