Abstract: 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 such as, for example, a lamp out condition upon occurrence of such a lamp out condition, 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. The luminaire managers communicate with each other, whereby they form a network.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 11, 2006
Publication date:
April 19, 2007
Applicant:
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Inventors:
Jeff Walters, Charles Darnell, Zachary Gibler, David Henderson, Michael Minarczyk, William Holland
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:
Application
Filed:
September 11, 2006
Publication date:
April 19, 2007
Applicant:
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Inventors:
Jeff Walters, Charles Darnell, Zachary Gibler, David Henderson, Michael Minarczyk, William Holland
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:
Application
Filed:
September 11, 2006
Publication date:
April 19, 2007
Applicant:
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Inventors:
Jeff Walters, Charles Darnell, Zachary Gibler, David Henderson
Abstract: 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:
Application
Filed:
September 11, 2006
Publication date:
April 19, 2007
Applicant:
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Inventors:
Jeff Walters, Charles Darnell, Zachary Gibler, David Henderson
Abstract: A light management system having networked intelligent luminaire managers and an activation device. 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:
Application
Filed:
September 11, 2006
Publication date:
March 15, 2007
Applicant:
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Inventors:
Jeff Walters, Charles Darnell, Zachary Gibler, David Henderson
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:
August 25, 2005
Date of Patent:
February 27, 2007
Assignee:
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Leonhardt, Tori C. Poppenheimer, David Crookham, Nicole Skogg
Abstract: Housings for emergency unit luminaires may be configured to receive both fixed and movable optical assemblies for mounting, allowing for the manufacture of a single housing for production of differing lighting products or lamp assemblies. Additionally, structural elements of a housing may support printed circuit boards, electronics, test devices, and the like, as well as permit electrical connections to be accomplished during assembly of front and back portions of the housing without the need for fasteners requiring tools.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 23, 2003
Date of Patent:
February 27, 2007
Assignee:
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Inventors:
Paul Kenneth Pickard, James Michael Lay
Abstract: A bollard for mounting to a foundation includes a bollard post element having a cavity therein with a base plate integrally fixed about its periphery to the bollard post element at the cavity. The base plate includes anchor holes and threaded holes extending therethrough. Levelers having threaded shafts with pads on one end and drivers on the other engage the threaded holes. Threaded anchor shafts extendible through the anchor holes and fixable to the foundation for the bollard are drawn in tension by nuts on top of the based plate. This simultaneously places the levelers in compression. In installation, the highest point on the foundation beneath the periphery of the base plate is established and the levelers adjusted to extend the bollard vertically with the bollard extending from that highest point.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 25, 2005
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2006
Assignee:
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Leonhardt, Tori C. Poppenheimer, David Crookham
Abstract: A substantially bell-shaped light fixture component for use with a lighting fixture, the light fixture component having upper and lower openings and curved or undulating segments on the light fixture component body that diffuse light from the light source used in connection with the light fixture component. The outer surface of the light fixture component body also has a plurality of curvilinear prisms for reflecting light by internal prismatic reflection. The inner and outer surfaces of the light fixture component create an even distribution of light that emanates from the light fixture component in use.
Abstract: A wiring system for distributing three-phase power from a three-phase power supply is provided. The wiring system includes a power distribution cable assembly and a load cable assembly. The power distribution assembly comprises a first power connector head and a second power connector head operatively connected to the respective ends of a length of power cable such that the connection of the power conductors of the respective power terminals disposed in fixed arrays in the respective connector heads is switched. The load cable assembly has a load connector head connected to an end of a load cable. The load connector head has a fixed array of terminals that includes three terminals selected from a group consisting of a first power terminal, a second power terminal, a third power terminal, a neutral terminal, and a ground terminal.
Abstract: An overhead luminaire includes an externally accessible plug-in starter module that is electrically connectable to a starter receptacle located within a luminaire housing without having to open the housing and without the need for tools.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2003
Date of Patent:
March 21, 2006
Assignee:
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Inventors:
Johnny L. Sears, Jr., David Henderson, Rick W. Kauffman, John DeCandia
Abstract: Functional yet decorative luminaires intended to create distinctive environments within specific areas of a space in which one or more luminaires are used, the luminaires of the invention visually tie to architectural elements of the space by providing a customizable glow of color surrounding a typically white light that acts to illuminate the space functionally. A downlighting luminaire configured according to the invention as one example is typically configured to utilize two separate reflectors, usually reflectors having concave reflective surfaces and being mounted concentrically within a housing, an inner reflector directing light centrally through an aperture of the luminaire with the light so directed typically being white light useful for illumination intended to facilitate usual activities within the space.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 2, 2003
Date of Patent:
March 21, 2006
Assignee:
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Inventors:
Leslie Charles King, Carl T. Gould, Chester G. Vier
Abstract: A heat retaining sleeve for raising the cold spot temperature of a fluorescent lamp is comprised of a base end, a distal end, and a sleeve body sized and shaped to fit over the end of a fluorescent lamp or lamps where the lamp's cold spot exists. The sleeve creates a heat retaining air gap between the inner surface of the sleeve body and the lamp end or ends with the cold spot, and has sufficient length to so that, when fitted over the lamp end or ends, the cold spot temperature is elevated to a temperature that increase the lumen output of the fitted fluorescent lamp or lamps.