Multi-configurable light emitting diode (LED) flat panel lighting fixture

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10465871-B2
Application number	US-201715800409-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 1, 2017
Priority date	May 22, 2014
Publication date	Nov 5, 2019
Grant date	Nov 5, 2019

Abstract

A mounting bracket for mounting a light emitting diode (LED) flat panel light to a mounting surface is provided. The mounting bracket comprises a bracket frame. The bracket frame comprises one or more second mating mechanisms configured to each mate with a corresponding first mating mechanism of the LED flat panel light when the LED flat panel light is rotated within the bracket frame and with respect to the bracket frame; one or more suspension wire receiving mechanisms, each suspension wire receiving mechanism configured to receive and retain a suspension wire for suspending the LED flat panel light as a pendant light; and one or more junction mount securing mechanisms configured to flush mount the mounting bracket to a junction box.

First claim

That which is claimed:

1. A mounting bracket for mounting a light emitting diode (LED) flat panel light, the mounting bracket comprising:
a bracket frame comprising:
one or more second mating mechanisms configured to each mate with a corresponding first mating mechanism of the LED flat panel light when the LED flat panel light is rotated within the bracket frame and with respect to the bracket frame, wherein the rotation of the LED flat panel light within a plane of the bracket frame and with respect to the bracket frame causes the mating of the one or more second mating mechanisms each with the corresponding first mating mechanism of the LED flat panel light;
one or more suspension wire receiving mechanisms, each suspension wire receiving mechanism configured to receive and retain a suspension wire for suspending the LED flat panel light as a pendant light; and
one or more junction mount securing mechanisms configured to flush mount the mounting bracket to a junction box.

2. The mounting bracket of claim 1 further comprising:
a junction mount configured to secure the mounting bracket to a junction box, the junction mount secured to at least one of the one or more junction mount securing mechanisms.

3. The mounting bracket of claim 1 further comprising:
at least one suspension wire, the at least one suspension wire having a first end retained by one of the one or more suspension wire receiving mechanisms and having a second end retained by a suspension bracket, the suspension bracket being configured to be mounted to a junction box and to suspend an LED flat panel light therefrom.

4. The mounting bracket of claim 1 wherein the one or more suspension wire receiving mechanisms comprise one or more tabs integrally formed with the bracket frame, each tab comprising a retaining mechanism, each of the retaining mechanisms configured to retain a suspension wire therein.

5. The mounting bracket of claim 4 wherein the one or more tabs comprise three tabs.

6. The mounting bracket of claim 1 wherein the one or more junction mount securing mechanisms comprises two tabs integrally formed with the bracket frame and configured to receiving and retain a fastener therein, the fastener configured to secure a junction mount to the junction mount securing mechanism.

7. The mounting bracket of claim 1 wherein the one or more junction mount securing mechanisms and the one or more suspension wire receiving mechanisms comprise a total of four tabs integrally formed with the bracket frame, each tab having a hole therethrough for receiving and retaining at least one of a suspension wire or a fastener.

8. The mounting bracket of claim 1 , wherein the one or more second mating mechanism comprise one or more notches configured to each receive a protrusion of a corresponding first mating mechanism of the LED flat panel light therein when the LED flat panel light is rotated within the bracket frame and with respect to the bracket frame.

9. The mounting bracket of claim 8 , wherein the one or more second mating mechanisms comprise a locking mechanism associated with each of the one or more notches, the locking mechanism configured to retain the protrusion.

10. A light emitting diode (LED) flat panel light comprising:
a front cover and a back cover;
a ring positioned between the front cover and the back cover;
at least one LED mounted within the ring such that light emitted by the LED is emitted toward a central region of the ring;
a frame having an interior edge, the interior edge in contact with a perimeter of the front cover and a perimeter of the back cover, the frame comprising one or more first mating mechanisms along an external edge of the frame; and
a mounting bracket secured to the one or more first mating mechanisms, the mounting bracket comprising:
one or more second mating mechanisms configured to each mate with a corresponding first mating mechanism of the LED flat panel;
one or more suspension wire receiving mechanisms, each suspension wire receiving mechanism configured to receive and retain a suspension wire for suspending the LED flat panel as a pendant light;
one or more junction mount securing mechanisms configured to have a junction mount secured thereto; and
at least one of:
a junction mount configured to secure the mounting bracket to a junction box, the junction mount secured to at least one of the one or more junction mount securing mechanisms via one or more fasteners, or
at least one suspension wire, the at least one suspension wire having a first end retained by one of the one or more suspension wire receiving mechanisms and having a second end retained by a suspension bracket, the suspension bracket being configured to be mounted to a junction box and to suspend an LED flat panel light therefrom.

11. A light emitting diode (LED) flat panel light comprising:
a front cover and a back cover;
a ring positioned between the front cover and the back cover;
at least one LED mounted within the ring such that light emitted by the LED is emitted toward a central region of the ring;
a frame having an interior edge, the interior edge in contact with a perimeter of the front cover and a perimeter of the back cover, the frame comprising one or more first mating mechanisms along an external edge of the frame; and
at least one spring-loaded wall clip secured to the frame via the one or more first mating mechanisms, the spring-loaded wall clip configured to mount the LED flat panel light within a hole in a mounting surface such that the LED flat panel is flush-mounted to the mounting surface.

12. The LED flat panel light of claim 11 , wherein the one or more first mating mechanisms are configured to alternatively (a) secure a mounting bracket to the frame or (b) secure the at least one spring-loaded wall clip to the frame.

13. The LED flat panel light of claim 11 , wherein the one or more first mating mechanisms comprise three mating mechanisms and the at least one spring-loaded wall clip comprises three spring-loaded wall clips.

14. The LED flat panel light of claim 11 , wherein the frame comprises a lip such that when the LED flat panel light is flush-mounted to the mounting surface, the lip is configured to engage a first surface of the mounting surface and the at least one spring-loaded clip is configured to engage a second surface of the mounting surface.

15. The LED flat panel light of claim 11 , wherein the LED flat panel light has a thickness in a range of approximately half an inch to one inch.

Assignees

• Feit Electric Co Inc

Inventors

• Feit Alan Barry
• Halliwell Brian

Classifications

• F21S8/024 Primary

  intended to be recessed in a wall or like vertical structure, e.g. building facade · CPC title

• F21Y2105/00

  Planar light sources · CPC title

• F21V19/0045

  by tongue and groove connections, e.g. dovetail interlocking means fixed by sliding · CPC title

• F21S8/061

  with a non-rigid pendant, i.e. a cable, wire or chain · CPC title

• F21Y2115/10

  Light-emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title