Lighting arrangement for freight compartments

US6106140A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Krummer · Weißenburg, DE
• Otmar Kruppa · Deiningen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 29, 1999
• Grant date: Aug 22, 2000
• Expiry date: Jan 29, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D2011/0038
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A lighting arrangement for a space or compartment (2) which can be closed off, with a fire-proofing ceiling (3), in particular for receiving freight in passenger aircraft, comprising lighting units (6) arranged in the fire-proofing ceiling (3), which for the purposes of static load relief of the fire-proofing ceiling (3) and at the same time for a better lighting effect for the space or compartment (2), has the following features: a plurality of through openings (19) are arranged in distributed fashion in the fire-proofing ceiling (3), fire-resistant light coupling-out elements (16) are arranged in the through openings (19) in such a way that their light cones (9) intersect in the space or compartment (2) and the light coupling-out elements (16) are connected by way of optical waveguides (14) to at least one common light source (15).