Integrated ceiling and light system

US9951916B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AWI Licensing LLC · US

Inventors

• Peter J. Oleske · Lancaster, US
• Brian L. Springer · Lancaster, US
• Anthony J. Jaskierski · Akron, US
• Todd M. Bergman · Lititz, US
• Keith A. Koger · Lancaster, US
• Christopher D. Gaydos · Lititz, US
• Craig W. Desantis · Lititz, US
• Jere W. Myers · Washington Boro, US
• Jonathan P. Van Dore · Minneapolis, US
• G. Douglas Vernau · Mountville, US
• Kenneth P. Kehrer · Lancaster, US
• Paul A. Hough · Lititz, US
• Ravindra Deshpande · Lancaster, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2015
• Grant date: Apr 24, 2018
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F21V33/006
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An integrated ceiling and light system that incorporates a light module into a ceiling tile. The system may include a grid support system suspended from an overhead support structure that includes at least one grid support element and first and second ceiling tiles supported by the grid support element in an adjacent manner. A nesting cavity may be formed into the first and second ceiling tiles such that a light module may be disposed within the nesting cavity and coupled to the first and second ceiling tiles. The ceiling tiles may be of the type that conceals the grid support element on which it is supported. In one alternative embodiment, the light module and a nesting region of the ceiling tile may include corresponding edge profiles to facilitate mating therebetween to enable coupling of the light source to the ceiling tile.