EP0735314B1 - Housing for a lamp socket to be mounted on the light fixture housing - Google Patents

Housing for a lamp socket to be mounted on the light fixture housing Download PDF

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EP0735314B1
EP0735314B1 EP96103253A EP96103253A EP0735314B1 EP 0735314 B1 EP0735314 B1 EP 0735314B1 EP 96103253 A EP96103253 A EP 96103253A EP 96103253 A EP96103253 A EP 96103253A EP 0735314 B1 EP0735314 B1 EP 0735314B1
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Dieter Dipl.-Ing. Henrici
Karl-Wilhelm Vogt
Olaf Baumeister
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R33/00Coupling devices specially adapted for supporting apparatus and having one part acting as a holder providing support and electrical connection via a counterpart which is structurally associated with the apparatus, e.g. lamp holders; Separate parts thereof
    • H01R33/05Two-pole devices
    • H01R33/06Two-pole devices with two current-carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts, having their axes parallel to each other
    • H01R33/08Two-pole devices with two current-carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts, having their axes parallel to each other for supporting tubular fluorescent lamp
    • H01R33/0863Two-pole devices with two current-carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts, having their axes parallel to each other for supporting tubular fluorescent lamp characterised by the mounting means
    • H01R33/0872Two-pole devices with two current-carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts, having their axes parallel to each other for supporting tubular fluorescent lamp characterised by the mounting means for mounting in an opening of a structure
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21LIGHTING
    • F21SNON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S8/00Lighting devices intended for fixed installation
    • F21S8/02Lighting devices intended for fixed installation of recess-mounted type, e.g. downlighters
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21LIGHTING
    • F21VFUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V19/00Fastening of light sources or lamp holders
    • F21V19/0075Fastening of light sources or lamp holders of tubular light sources, e.g. ring-shaped fluorescent light sources
    • F21V19/008Fastening of light sources or lamp holders of tubular light sources, e.g. ring-shaped fluorescent light sources of straight tubular light sources, e.g. straight fluorescent tubes, soffit lamps
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21LIGHTING
    • F21VFUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V23/00Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21LIGHTING
    • F21YINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED
    • F21Y2103/00Elongate light sources, e.g. fluorescent tubes

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  • the invention relates to an attachment housing for a luminaire body wall and for holding a Lamp holder, the one consisting of insulating material Add-on housing is approximately pot-shaped with a Bottom, side walls and one inside the lamp pointing opening, the edge of the locking means for Anchoring the floor with respect to the Install the lamp body wall facing outwards Pot on a section of the lamp body wall are assigned and the lamp holder near the floor in Can be attached inside the pot.
  • the invention is therefore essentially the Task, an attachment housing for a lamp body wall for one or with one mounted in it or to propose a mountable lamp holder, its new arrangement and design a simplified manual, but especially automatic Wiring enables.
  • the attachment housing is used to solve this task Provide guides for one conductor each. This extend preferably starting near the pot edge, to close to the respective conductor insertion opening as Snap-in socket with accessible from the front Conductor insertion opening lamp holder.
  • the guides preferably as such on the Conductor diameter coordinated guide channels formed are that the conductors are guaranteed to be free of buckling Guideway and your own Stripped conductor ends into the socket without kinks Plug contacts of the screwless terminals can be inserted are manual or automatic free conductor ends to be introduced, i.e. conductor sections of several centimeters in length, without disabilities from the level of the luminaire body wall up to the connection terminals of the luminaire socket, whereby a kink, Bend or any other hindrance is absolutely excluded as a result of the tours.
  • Fig. 1 shows an overall designated 10 Recessed ceiling light for two, not shown, Tubular fluorescent lamps on the front.
  • the lamps are connected in two pairs Lamp sockets 11, two of which on a lamp body front wall 12 and the other two in with 13 designated mounting housings are arranged.
  • Fig. 1 Other components of a fluorescent lamp are as shown in Fig. 1: an electrical connector 14, two ballasts 15, a capacitor socket 16, and two starters 17 with the associated starter sockets 18. For any compensation that may be required is a capacitor 19 to the capacitor socket 16 connectable. These components are among each other by means of a necessary number of conductor sections 21 electrically connected, and line holder 20 serve the clear as above all secure definition of the lines.
  • Luminaire body end wall 12 While each lamp is just up to one end Luminaire body end wall 12 reaches, it protrudes with their opposite end over the corresponding one End wall 22 and dives into one through each an extension housing 13 artificially extended installation space on.
  • the add-on housing also known as "backpacks" are called from the interior of the trough-shaped lamp body 10 through a cutout 23 in the Luminaire body wall 22 pushed and latch on the Edge of the cutout 23 with the help of near the flange molded barb-like locking tongues 24.
  • the attachment housing 13 is in essentially pot-shaped with a bottom 25, four side walls 26, 27, 28 and 29 and with one Flange 30 on its open side.
  • the flange 30 are the locking means 24 are formed.
  • the main one is that in the junction box 13 two guides 32 in the form of at least largely closed-walled channels are arranged (The recognizable longitudinal slits are only technical in shape conditional), which is from the flange 30, that is from the Luminaire body end wall 22 in the interior of the Pot-shaped extension housing 13 and close to the assigned conductor insertion openings 33 the lamp socket 31 open behind which the screwless Conductor terminals in the insulating body of the Lamp socket 31 are arranged.
  • the channel-like guides 32 have a essentially circular cross-section, whose Diameter for the unobstructed introduction of a Conductor is slightly larger than the outer diameter its insulating jacket. This ensures that you have a connecting wire with stripped conductor end free of kinks and bends from the mouth 32a of the respective Push guide 32 forward and in contact with the Can bring contacts of the lamp holder 31.
  • a second peculiarity of the illustrated embodiment is that the wall 29 of the Add-on housing 13 has a wall opening 34. He is provided in the panel housing that in faces the same direction as the open side of the Tray of the lamp body 10. The interior of the attachment housing 13 is therefore from the same direction accessible as the interior of the lamp body 10.
  • the width of the cutout 34 is such that a Lamp socket 31 in the already on the lamp body wall 22 mounted add-on housings can be used, either by hand or automatically with one robots suitable for component placement.
  • the latch the socket 31 in the operating position in the add-on housing 13 can be done automatically in any case what through the frame top 31a, on the Extension housing rear wall 15 molded locking tongues 35 in Fig. 3 is illustrated.
  • the end faces near the ground 36 of the material areas containing the guides 32 37 form when inserting the lamp holder 31 on the the bottom 15 facing side a safe guide in correct allocation.
  • FIG. 5 connecting a conductor 21 with the help a robot-controlled conductor laying tool 38, which is able to get the line in needed Donate length, the conductor relative to his to advance one's own current position.
  • the ladder laying tool 38 is in front of the mouth 32a of the guide 32 positioned, and then promoted the conductor 21 until the stripped conductor end 21a in the plug connection contacts 13 stop inside the lamp holder has found.
  • manual conductor connection in a simple way by mere Insert the one provided with a stripped end 21a Conductor 21 are performed.

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The electrical fluorescent strip lighting unit has a rectangular housing that includes the electrical starter circuitry and has a pair of socket covers (13) at each end that receive the ends of the lighting tubes. Each socket unit projects on the outside of the main housing wall (22) and have a box shaped form. The sockets (31) are inset with a guide or lead in section (30) formed with a number of latching elements (24) that engage the housing to install the units on the main housing wall. Corner sections are formed with guide bushes (32) that receive the connecting wires.

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Die Erfindung bezieht sich auf ein Anbaugehäuse für eine Leuchtenkörperwand und zur Aufnahme einer Lampenfassung, wobei das aus Isolierstoff bestehende Anbaugehäuse etwa topfförmig ausgebildet ist mit einem Boden, Seitenwänden und einer ins Leuchteninnere weisenden Öffnung, derem Rand Rastmittel zur Verankerung des mit seinem Boden bezüglich der Leuchtenkörperwand nach außen weisend angebrachten Topfes an einem Ausschnitt der Leuchtenkörperwand zugeordnet sind und die Lampenfassung bodennah im Innern des Topfes anbringbar ist.The invention relates to an attachment housing for a luminaire body wall and for holding a Lamp holder, the one consisting of insulating material Add-on housing is approximately pot-shaped with a Bottom, side walls and one inside the lamp pointing opening, the edge of the locking means for Anchoring the floor with respect to the Install the lamp body wall facing outwards Pot on a section of the lamp body wall are assigned and the lamp holder near the floor in Can be attached inside the pot.

Bei insbesondere Leuchtstofflampen-Deckeneinbauleuchten für Rasterdecken besteht eine Besonderheit darin, daß die wannenförmigen Leuchtenkörper in Relation zu den zu verwendenden Leuchtstofflampen aufgrund der Leuchtenrastermaße eine zu geringe Länge aufweisen. Es ist deshalb üblich, an einem Stirnende der Leuchte die Lampenfassungen in einem Anbaugehäuse anzuordnen, das auch "Montagekasten" oder "Rucksack" genannt wird. und den Lampeneinbauraum über die Leuchtenkörperwand hinaus vergrößert. Das als Kunststoffspritzgießteil gefertigte Anbaugehäuse ist ein topfförmiger Kasten und wird von der Innenseite des Leuchtenkörpers mit seinem Boden voraus durch einen Ausschnitt in der Leuchtenkörperwand gesteckt, bis sein Flanschrand an der offenen Topfseite mit dem Ausschnitt der Leuchtenkörperwand verrastet. Der Boden des Anbaugehäuses weist Halterungen, z.B. in Form von Durchbrüchen auf zum Eingriff von Befestigungs-Rastzapfen der Lampenfassung. With in particular fluorescent lamp recessed ceiling lights there is a special feature for grid ceilings in that the tub-shaped lamp body in relation to the fluorescent lamps to be used due to the luminaire grid dimensions are too short. It is therefore common to have one end of the lamp to arrange the lamp holders in an add-on housing, which is also called "assembly box" or "backpack". and the lamp installation space over the lamp body wall enlarged beyond. That as a plastic injection molded part Manufactured extension housing is a pot-shaped box and is from the inside of the lamp body with his Floor ahead through a cutout in the luminaire body wall inserted until its flange edge on the open Pot side with the cutout of the lamp body wall locked. The bottom of the attachment housing has brackets, e.g. in the form of breakthroughs to engage Fixing locking pin of the lamp holder.

Diese besondere Anordnung und Ausgestaltung bringt einige Schwierigkeiten bei der Bestückung eines Leuchtenkörpers mit den Fassungen und im Zuge der Leiteranschlüsse mit sich. Bei manueller Verdrahtung geht man in der Regel so vor, daß man zunächst die Leiterenden in die Anschlußklemmen der betreffenden Fassung einsteckt, dann die Fassung in das Anbaugehäuse einrastet und dieses mit Fassung und angeschlossenen Leitern versehene Anbaugehäuse in der Leuchtenkörperwand verankert. Das ist umständlich.This special arrangement and design brings some difficulties when fitting a lamp body with the sockets and in the course of the conductor connections with yourself. With manual wiring you go usually in such a way that you first the conductor ends plugs into the terminals of the relevant socket, then the socket snaps into the add-on housing and this provided with socket and connected conductors Extension housing anchored in the luminaire body wall. It is cumbersome.

Noch größere Probleme treten dann auf, wenn eine Leuchte automatisch verdrahtet werden soll, z.B. nach dem Prinzip der DE-A-44 31 254, vorzugsweise mit Hilfe eines Industrieroboters mit einem Leitungsverlegewerkzeug. Denn ohne besonderen Aufwand ist der Roboter nicht in der Lage, die Arbeitsschritte der soeben geschilderten manuellen Verdrahtung oder einer ähnlichen nachzuvollziehen. Hier müssen andere Wege beschritten werden.Even bigger problems arise when one Luminaire should be wired automatically, e.g. to the principle of DE-A-44 31 254, preferably with the help of an industrial robot with a cable laying tool. Because the robot is without any special effort unable to follow the steps outlined above manual wiring or similar understand. Here other paths have to be taken become.

Der Erfindung liegt demzufolge im wesentlichen die Aufgabe zugrunde, ein Anbaugehäuse für eine Leuchtenkörperwand für eine bzw. mit einer in ihm montierten bzw. montierbaren Lampenfassung in Vorschlag zu bringen, dessen neue Anordnung und Gestaltung eine vereinfachte manuelle, insbesondere aber auch automatische Verdrahtung ermöglicht.The invention is therefore essentially the Task, an attachment housing for a lamp body wall for one or with one mounted in it or to propose a mountable lamp holder, its new arrangement and design a simplified manual, but especially automatic Wiring enables.

Zur Lösung dieser Aufgabe ist das Anbaugehäuse mit Führungen für jeweils einen Leiter versehen. Diese erstrecken sich vorzugsweise, topfrandnah beginnend, bis nahe der jeweiligen Leitereinstecköffnung der als Steckrastfassung mit frontseitig zugänglichen Leitereinstecköffnung ausgeführten Lampenfassung.The attachment housing is used to solve this task Provide guides for one conductor each. This extend preferably starting near the pot edge, to close to the respective conductor insertion opening as Snap-in socket with accessible from the front Conductor insertion opening lamp holder.

Als Folge dieser Ausgestaltung des Anbaugehäuses ist sowohl die manuelle als auch eine automatische Bestückung des Leuchtenkörpers wie auch die Verdrahtung, d.h. der manuelle oder automatische Anschluß von Leitern an die im Anbaugehäuse aufzunehmende Lampenfassung wesentlich aufgrund der integrierten Leiterführung vereinfacht. Dazu kann zunächst die Lampenfassung allein im Anbaugehäuse vormontiert sein und diese Baugruppe dann in der Leuchtenkörperwand verrastet werden. Erst daraufhin werden die Leiter mit ihren abisolierten Enden in die schraubenlosen Anschlußklemmen der Fassung eingeschoben, und zwar vom Innenraum des Leuchtenkörpers her, also - siehe DE-A-44 31 254 - im Zuge des dem dort dargestellten Verlegewerkzeugs typischen Arbeitsfortgangs.As a result of this configuration of the attachment housing is both manual and automatic Equipping the luminaire body as well as the wiring, i.e. manual or automatic connection of Ladders to the lamp holder to be accommodated in the attachment housing essentially due to the integrated conductor routing simplified. First of all, the lamp holder only be pre-assembled in the attachment housing and this The assembly is then locked in the luminaire body wall become. Only then are the leaders with their stripped ends in the screwless Inserted terminals of the socket, namely from Interior of the lamp body, so - see DE-A-44 31 254 - in the course of that shown there Laying tool typical work progress.

Aus der FR-A-2016439 ist demgegenüber lediglich ein Anbaugehäuse für eine Leuchtenkörperwand bekannt, in der eine Lampenfassung mittels einer Kompensationsfeder variabel angeordnet ist.In contrast, from FR-A-2016439 is only an attachment housing for a lamp body wall is known, in which a lamp holder by means of a Compensation spring is variably arranged.

Die Führungen, die vorzugsweise als derart auf den Leiterdurchmesser abgestimmte Führungskanäle ausgebildet sind, daß die Leiter unter Gewährleistung knickbeanspruchungsfreier Führung frei vorschiebbar und ihre abisolierten Leiterenden knickfrei in die fassungsseitigen Steckkontakte der schraubenlosen Anschlußklemmeneinsteckbar sind, führen die manuell oder automatisch einzuführenden freien Leiterenden, also Leiterabschnitte von mehreren Zentimetern Länge, behinderungsfrei von der Ebene der Leuchtenkörperwand bis hinein in die Anschlußklemmen der Leuchtenfassung, wobei ein Verknicken, Verbiegen oder eine sonstige Behinderung infolge der Führungen absolut ausgeschlossen ist. Bei der manuellen Bestückung erlaubt es diese Anordnung, daß die Leiter gewissermaßen blind eingesteckt werden können, bei der automatischen Verdrahtung muß lediglich eine für das Vorschieben des Leiters erforderliche Leiterüberlänge ausgebildet sein, was jedoch keinerlei Schwierigkeiten bereitet, da die Leiterfördereinrichtung im Verlegewerkzeug in Lage ist, eine vorberechnete Leiterlänge zu spenden (P 44 31 254.7).The guides, preferably as such on the Conductor diameter coordinated guide channels formed are that the conductors are guaranteed to be free of buckling Guideway and your own Stripped conductor ends into the socket without kinks Plug contacts of the screwless terminals can be inserted are manual or automatic free conductor ends to be introduced, i.e. conductor sections of several centimeters in length, without disabilities from the level of the luminaire body wall up to the connection terminals of the luminaire socket, whereby a kink, Bend or any other hindrance is absolutely excluded as a result of the tours. At the manual assembly allows this arrangement, that the conductors are plugged in blindly, so to speak can, with the automatic wiring only an excess conductor length required for advancing the conductor be trained, but none at all Difficulties because the ladder conveyor in the laying tool is capable of a pre-calculated Donate conductor length (P 44 31 254.7).

Weitere vorteilhafte und zweckmäßige Ausgestaltungen sind in den weiteren Unteransprüchen angegeben und auch aus der nachfolgenden Beschreibung der Erfindung anhand eines bevorzugten Ausführungsbeispiels im einzelnen beschrieben. In den Zeichnungen zeigen:

Fig. 1
eine schematische Darstellung eines mit den erforderlichen Bauelementen und Leiterzügen bestückten Leuchtenkörpers einer Leuchte für Leuchtstofflampen, die mit zwei Anbaugehäusen an der Leuchtenkörperstirnwand ausgerüstet ist,
Fig. 2
eine schaubildliche Darstellung eines mit einer Lampenfassung versehenen und in einer Leuchtenkörperwand einsteckenden Anbaugehäuses,
Fig. 3
die Darstellung nach Fig. 2 jedoch in teilweise längsgeschnittener Darstellung,
Fig. 4
eine Stirnansicht mit Blickrichtung in das mit einer Lampenfassung bestückte Anbaugehäuse und
Fig. 5
einen Längsschnitt zur Veranschaulichung der Leiterbestückung der im Anbaugehäuse festgelegten Lampenfassung.
Further advantageous and expedient refinements are specified in the further subclaims and are also described in detail from the following description of the invention using a preferred exemplary embodiment. The drawings show:
Fig. 1
1 shows a schematic representation of a luminaire body of a luminaire for fluorescent lamps which is equipped with the necessary components and conductor tracks and is equipped with two attachment housings on the luminaire body end wall,
Fig. 2
2 shows a diagrammatic representation of an attachment housing provided with a lamp holder and inserted into a lamp body wall,
Fig. 3
2, however, in a partially longitudinal section,
Fig. 4
an end view looking in the mounted with a lamp holder housing and
Fig. 5
a longitudinal section to illustrate the conductor assembly of the lamp socket fixed in the attachment housing.

Fig. 1 zeigt eine insgesamt mit 10 bezeichnete Deckenraster-Einbauleuchte für zwei nicht dargestellte, stirnseitig gesockelte Leuchtstofflampen in Röhrenform. Zur mechanischen Halterung und dem elektrischen Anschluß der Lampen dienen je zwei paarig angeordnete Lampenfassungen 11, von denen zwei an einer Leuchtenkörperstirnwand 12 und die beiden anderen in mit 13 bezeichneten Anbaugehäusen angeordnet sind.Fig. 1 shows an overall designated 10 Recessed ceiling light for two, not shown, Tubular fluorescent lamps on the front. For mechanical mounting and electrical The lamps are connected in two pairs Lamp sockets 11, two of which on a lamp body front wall 12 and the other two in with 13 designated mounting housings are arranged.

Weitere Bauelemente einer Leuchtstoffleuchte sind, wie in Fig. 1 gezeigt: eine elektrische Anschlußklemme 14, zwei Vorschaltgeräte 15, eine Kondensatorfassung 16, sowie zwei Starter 17 mit den zugehörigen Starterfassungen 18. Für eine eventuell erforderliche Kompensation ist ein Kondensator 19 an die Kondensatorfassung 16 anschließbar. Diese Bauelemente sind untereinander mittels einer notwendigen Vielzahl von Leiterabschnitten 21 elektrisch miteinander verbunden, und Leitungshalter 20 dienen der übersichtlichen wie vor allem sicheren Festlegung der Leitungen.Other components of a fluorescent lamp are as shown in Fig. 1: an electrical connector 14, two ballasts 15, a capacitor socket 16, and two starters 17 with the associated starter sockets 18. For any compensation that may be required is a capacitor 19 to the capacitor socket 16 connectable. These components are among each other by means of a necessary number of conductor sections 21 electrically connected, and line holder 20 serve the clear as above all secure definition of the lines.

Während jede Lampe an einem Ende knapp bis zur Leuchtenkörperstirnwand 12 heranreicht, ragt sie mit ihrem gegenüberliegenden Ende über die entsprechende Stirnwand 22 hinaus und taucht in einen durch jeweils ein Anbaugehäuse 13 künstlich verlängerten Einbauraum ein. Die Anbaugehäuse, im Fachjargon auch "Rucksäcke" genannt, werden vom Innenraum des wannenförmigen Leuchtenkörpers 10 aus durch einen Ausschnitt 23 in der Leuchtenkörperwand 22 geschoben und verrasten an dem Rand des Ausschnitts 23 mit Hilfe von flanschrandnah angeformten, widerhakenartigen Rastzungen 24.While each lamp is just up to one end Luminaire body end wall 12 reaches, it protrudes with their opposite end over the corresponding one End wall 22 and dives into one through each an extension housing 13 artificially extended installation space on. The add-on housing, also known as "backpacks" are called from the interior of the trough-shaped lamp body 10 through a cutout 23 in the Luminaire body wall 22 pushed and latch on the Edge of the cutout 23 with the help of near the flange molded barb-like locking tongues 24.

In Fig. 2 ist dies noch wesentlich deutlicher dargestellt, und zwar mit Blickrichtung aus dem Innenraum des Leuchtenkörpers 10. Das Anbaugehäuse 13 ist im wesentlichen topfartig ausgebildet mit einem Boden 25, vier Seitenwänden 26, 27, 28 und 29 sowie mit einem Flansch 30 an seiner offenen Seite. Dem Flansch 30 sind die genannten Rastmittel 24 angeformt. Insgesamt stellt das Anbaugehäuse ein einstückiges Spritzgußteil aus Kunststoff dar. Nahe seinem Boden 25 ist im Innenraum des Anbaugehäuses 13 eine Leuchtstofflampenfassung 31 anzuordnen. Dies kann in einem Vormontageschritt geschehen, bevor dann die Baueinheit Anbaugehäuse/Lampenfassung 13/31 im Wandausschnitt 23 der Leuchtenkörperstirnwand 22 verankert wird. Es ist jedoch, wie weiter unten noch beschrieben wird, auch möglich, die Lampenfassung 31 erst dann in das Anbaugehäuse einzusetzen, wenn dieses bereits an der Leuchtenkörperwand 22 angebracht worden ist.This is shown even more clearly in FIG. 2, with a view from the interior of the lamp body 10. The attachment housing 13 is in essentially pot-shaped with a bottom 25, four side walls 26, 27, 28 and 29 and with one Flange 30 on its open side. The flange 30 are the locking means 24 are formed. Overall poses the attachment housing from a one-piece injection molded part Plastic. Near its bottom 25 is in the interior of the attachment housing 13 is a fluorescent lamp holder 31 to arrange. This can be done in a pre-assembly step happen before then the assembly housing / lamp holder 13/31 in the wall section 23 of the Luminaire body end wall 22 is anchored. It is however, as will be described below, also possible, the lamp holder 31 only then in the attachment housing to be used if this is already on the luminaire body wall 22 has been attached.

Bei dem in Fig. 2 dargestellten Ausführungsbeispiel bestehen im Hinblick auf die Erfindung einige Besonderheiten. Die wesentliche ist die, daß im Anbaugehäuse 13 zwei Führungen 32 im Form von zumindest weitestgehend geschlossenwandigen Kanälen angeordnet sind (die erkennbaren Längsschlitze sind allein formtechnisch bedingt), die sich vom Flansch 30, also von der Leuchtenkörperstirnwand 22 aus in den Innenraum des topfförmigen Anbaugehäuses 13 hineinerstrecken und dicht vor den zugeordneten Leitereinführöffnungen 33 der Lampenfassung 31 münden, hinter denen die schraubenlosen Leiter-Anschlußklemmen im Isolierkörper der Lampenfassung 31 angeordnet sind.In the embodiment shown in Fig. 2 some exist with regard to the invention Particularities. The main one is that in the junction box 13 two guides 32 in the form of at least largely closed-walled channels are arranged (The recognizable longitudinal slits are only technical in shape conditional), which is from the flange 30, that is from the Luminaire body end wall 22 in the interior of the Pot-shaped extension housing 13 and close to the assigned conductor insertion openings 33 the lamp socket 31 open behind which the screwless Conductor terminals in the insulating body of the Lamp socket 31 are arranged.

Die kanalartigen Führungen 32 weisen einen im wesentlichen kreisförmigen Querschnitt aus, dessen Durchmesser zur behinderungsfreien Einführung eines Leiters etwas größer ist als der Außendurchmesser seiner Isolierumhüllung. Dadurch ist es gewährleistet, daß man einen Anschlußdraht mit abisoliertem Leiterende knick- und biegefrei von der Mündung 32a der jeweiligen Führung 32 vorschieben und in Kontaktstellung mit den Kontakten der Lampenfassung 31 bringen kann.The channel-like guides 32 have a essentially circular cross-section, whose Diameter for the unobstructed introduction of a Conductor is slightly larger than the outer diameter its insulating jacket. This ensures that you have a connecting wire with stripped conductor end free of kinks and bends from the mouth 32a of the respective Push guide 32 forward and in contact with the Can bring contacts of the lamp holder 31.

Eine zweite Besonderheit des dargestellten Ausführungsbeispiels besteht darin, daß die Wand 29 des Anbaugehäuses 13 einen Wanddurchbruch 34 aufweist. Er ist in derjenigen Anbaugehäusewand vorgesehen, die in die gleiche Richtung weist wie die offene Seite der Wanne des Leuchtenkörpers 10. Der Innenraum des Anbaugehäuses 13 ist deshalb aus derselben Richtung her zugänglich wie der Innenraum des Leuchtenkörpers 10. Die Weite des Ausschnittes 34 ist so bemessen, daß eine Lampenfassung 31 in das bereits an der Leuchtenkörperwand 22 montierte Anbaugehäuse eingesetzt werden kann, und zwar entweder von Hand oder automatisch mit einem zur Bauelementbestückung geeigneten Roboter. Die Verrastung der Fassung 31 in Betriebslage im Anbaugehäuse 13 kann dabei in jedem Fall automatisch erfolgen, was durch die Fassungsoberseite 31a übergreifende, an der Anbaugehäuserückwand 15 ausgeformte Rastzungen 35 in Fig. 3 veranschaulicht ist. Die bodennahen Stirnseiten 36 der die Führungen 32 beinhaltenden Werkstoffbereiche 37 bilden beim Einsetzen der Lampenfassung 31 auf der dem Boden 15 zugewandten Seite eine sichere Führung in lagegerechter Zuordnung.A second peculiarity of the illustrated embodiment is that the wall 29 of the Add-on housing 13 has a wall opening 34. He is provided in the panel housing that in faces the same direction as the open side of the Tray of the lamp body 10. The interior of the attachment housing 13 is therefore from the same direction accessible as the interior of the lamp body 10. The width of the cutout 34 is such that a Lamp socket 31 in the already on the lamp body wall 22 mounted add-on housings can be used, either by hand or automatically with one robots suitable for component placement. The latch the socket 31 in the operating position in the add-on housing 13 can be done automatically in any case what through the frame top 31a, on the Extension housing rear wall 15 molded locking tongues 35 in Fig. 3 is illustrated. The end faces near the ground 36 of the material areas containing the guides 32 37 form when inserting the lamp holder 31 on the the bottom 15 facing side a safe guide in correct allocation.

Schließlich besteht noch eine Besonderheit darin, daß eine Lampenfassung 31 verwendet wird, deren Leitereinstecköffnungen 33 auf ihrer Frontseite liegen, also achsparallel zur Lampenachse verlaufen und somit auch achsparallel zu den Führungen 32. Fig. 5 veranschaulicht das Anschließen eines Leiters 21 mit Hilfe eines robotergesteuerten Leiterverlegewerkzeugs 38, welches in der Lage ist, die Leitung in benötigter Länge zu spenden, den Leiter also relativ zu seiner eigenen Momentanstellung vorzuschieben. Das Leiterverlegewerkzeug 38 wird vor die Mündung 32a der Führung 32 positioniert, und sodann der Leiter 21 gefördert, bis dessen abisoliertes Leiterende 21a in den Steckanschlußkontakten innerhalb der Lampenfassung 13 Halt gefunden hat. In gleicher Weise kann natürlich auch der manuelle Leiteranschluß auf einfache Art durch bloßes Einschieben des mit einem abisolierten Ende 21a versehenen Leiters 21 durchgeführt werden.Finally, there is a peculiarity that a lamp socket 31 is used, the conductor insertion openings 33 are on their front, thus run parallel to the axis of the lamp and thus also illustrated axially parallel to the guides 32. FIG. 5 connecting a conductor 21 with the help a robot-controlled conductor laying tool 38, which is able to get the line in needed Donate length, the conductor relative to his to advance one's own current position. The ladder laying tool 38 is in front of the mouth 32a of the guide 32 positioned, and then promoted the conductor 21 until the stripped conductor end 21a in the plug connection contacts 13 stop inside the lamp holder has found. In the same way, of course manual conductor connection in a simple way by mere Insert the one provided with a stripped end 21a Conductor 21 are performed.

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  1. Built-on housing (13) for a luminaire body wall (22) and for receiving a lampholder (31), wherein the built-on housing (13) made of insulating material is of a substantially pot-shaped construction having a base (25), side walls (26, 27, 28, 29) and an opening, which is directed into the luminaire interior and has locating means (24) associated with its edge for anchoring the pot, which is fitted with its base (25) directed outwards relative to the luminaire body wall (22), to a cutout (23) of the luminaire body wall (22), and the lampholder (31) is mountable close to the base in the interior of the pot, characterized in that the built-on housing (13) is provided with guides (32) for, in each case, one conductor (21).
  2. Built-on housing according to claim 1, characterized in that the guides (32), starting from close to the pot edge, extend into the interior of the built-on housing (13).
  3. Built-on housing according to claim 1 or 2,
    characterized in that the guides (32) take the form of guide channels adapted to the conductor diameters in such a way that the conductors (21) are freely feedable, while simultaneously guaranteeing guidance free of buckling stress, and their bared conductor ends (21a) are insertable in a kink-free manner into the holder-side plug-in contacts of the screwless terminals of the lampholder (31).
  4. Built-on housing according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that at least one wall (29) of the pot-like built-on housing (13) has, disposed close to the base, a window-like opening (34) through which a lampholder (31) is insertable - optionally even with the built-on housing (13) already attached to the luminaire body wall (22) - from the outside into the built-on housing (13).
  5. Built-on housing according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized by the use of a lampholder (31) having fastening elements, which extend substantially parallel to the base (15) of the built-on housing (13) and perpendicular to the lamp axis, for latched anchoring to the wall (26) of the built-on housing (13) lying opposite the wall opening (34).
  6. Built-on housing according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized by the use of a lampholder (31) having fastening elements, which extend substantially perpendicular to the base (15) of the built-on housing (13) and parallel to the lamp axis, for latched anchoring to the base (25) of the built-on housing (13).
  7. Built-on housing according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that an insertion pocket for a lampholder (31) is formed in the built-on housing (13) substantially in alignment with the window-like opening (34) between the base (15) and the inner end face (36) of the guide (32) and that means of mounting the lampholder (31) are formed only on the built-on housing (13).
  8. Built-on housing according to claim 7, characterized in that the mounting means (35) take the form of locating tabs, which at least partially embrace the lampholder (31).
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