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EP3876365A1
EP3876365A1 EP21151832.9A EP21151832A EP3876365A1 EP 3876365 A1 EP3876365 A1 EP 3876365A1 EP 21151832 A EP21151832 A EP 21151832A EP 3876365 A1 EP3876365 A1 EP 3876365A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V21/00—Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices; Hand grips
    • F21V21/005—Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices; Hand grips for several lighting devices in an end-to-end arrangement, i.e. light tracks
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V21/00—Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices; Hand grips
    • F21V21/34—Supporting elements displaceable along a guiding element
    • F21V21/35—Supporting elements displaceable along a guiding element with direct electrical contact between the supporting element and electric conductors running along the guiding element
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/46—Bases; Cases
    • H01R13/502—Bases; Cases composed of different pieces
    • H01R13/5025—Bases; Cases composed of different pieces one or more pieces being of resilient material
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R25/00—Coupling parts adapted for simultaneous co-operation with two or more identical counterparts, e.g. for distributing energy to two or more circuits
    • H01R25/14—Rails or bus-bars constructed so that the counterparts can be connected thereto at any point along their length
    • H01R25/142—Their counterparts

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  • the invention relates to light adapters for a track light system and a track light system with such light adapters.
  • Track systems for luminaires offer the possibility of selectively positioning and / or aligning lighting means, e.g. according to the special needs of an illuminated room.
  • a lighting system typically includes one or more busbars, each of which carries one or more lighting units and supplies them with electrical energy.
  • the busbars thus serve, on the one hand, for power distribution and, on the other hand, as mechanical assembly means in order to fasten the lights at variable positions, in particular continuously, along a length extension of the respective rail.
  • the rails can be mounted, for example, on a ceiling, a wall and / or another carrier.
  • the luminaires themselves can be designed differently in terms of their lighting parameters, e.g. in terms of intensity, directional characteristics, beam angle, color, etc.
  • the rails of such systems include assembly slots, which typically have widths of 1 cm or more.
  • track lighting systems generally have an electrical supply rail which is attached to a rear or inner end of the respective mounting slot for contacting the lighting means received.
  • a minimum width for the respective assembly slot is to be selected to be correspondingly large in order to be able to guarantee the necessary minimum distances between the electrical contacts.
  • such track lighting systems offer a high degree of flexibility in terms of the specific arrangement of the individual lights.
  • the lights can be slid along the rail and / or relative to the Rail can be realigned.
  • the lights attached to the track can also be removed, added, and / or exchanged as required.
  • the pamphlets WO 2016/132361 A1 and WO 2018/037396 A1 describe examples of such track lighting systems.
  • One of the objects of the invention is to find particularly simple and practical solutions for attaching lights for track lighting systems with curved track profiles.
  • a light adapter for a track light system comprises a support rail which is designed to be curved at least in sections along a longitudinal extension and has at least one mounting slot along the longitudinal extension.
  • the lamp adapter is designed to be selectively insertable along the longitudinal extension of the support rail into the at least one assembly slot for electrical contacting of the support rail.
  • the lamp adapter comprises an adapter body which is divided into adapter segments along a longitudinal extension of the adapter body, two adapter segments being connected to one another via a bending area, the adapter body being designed to be bendable in relation to the longitudinal extension of the adapter body at the bending area.
  • a light adapter for a track light system comprises a support rail which is designed to be curved at least in sections along a longitudinal extension and has at least one mounting slot along the longitudinal extension.
  • the light adapter is selectively along the longitudinal extension of the mounting rail in the at least one mounting slot electrical contacting of the mounting rail is designed to be pluggable.
  • the light adapter comprises an adapter body which is essentially made of an elastomer so that it can be bent continuously along a longitudinal extension of the adapter body.
  • a track lighting system comprises a mounting rail which is at least partially curved along a longitudinal extension and has at least one mounting slot along the longitudinal extension, and a lighting adapter according to the first or second aspect of the invention.
  • the present invention is based is to design a light adapter in a flexible manner in order to enable it to be introduced into a curved support rail of a track light system in a particularly practical and simple manner.
  • two alternative variants are provided for the light adapter.
  • the flexibility of the lamp adapter is achieved by dividing the adapter body into flexible bending areas.
  • the flexibility of the lamp adapter is implemented in that the adapter body of the lamp adapter is made flexible essentially from an elastomer continuously along its length.
  • the luminaire adapter can thus be particularly easily bent in relation to its longitudinal extension to a curvature of the respective mounting rail and then inserted into the mounting rail.
  • the light adapter can also be designed to be displaceable along the entire length or part of the longitudinal extension of the mounting rail, the light adapter adapting to a change in the curvature of the mounting rail due to its flexibility.
  • the bending area can be made of plastic.
  • a relatively soft plastic can be selected so that the bending area can be provided, for example, as a flexible web between adjacent, relatively rigid or rigid adapter segments.
  • the bending area can have a plurality of perforations.
  • the flexibility of the bending area can also be achieved in that the material of the bending area is interspersed with cutouts, i.e. controlled structural weakening.
  • the adapter body can essentially consist of plastic.
  • the adapter body can be made entirely of plastic.
  • the lamp adapter can comprise a printed circuit board within the adapter body. At least one electronic component for transmitting electrical energy and control signals from the mounting rail can be contained on the printed circuit board.
  • the circuit board can be designed to be bendable in accordance with the adapter body.
  • the adapter body serves, so to speak, as a housing for receiving a printed circuit board.
  • the adapter body can be divided into two or more housing parts for this purpose, which can be connected to one another or detached from one another with a suitable mechanism in order to allow access to the circuit board.
  • the circuit board is designed to be bendable in accordance with the adapter body, i.e. the circuit board is at least as bendable as the adapter body. It follows from this, among other things, that the modulus of elasticity and / or the geometrical moment of inertia of the circuit board must be adapted to that of the adapter body.
  • the circuit board or the lamp adapter can be supplied with electrical energy and / or with control signals via one or more corresponding supply rails within the mounting slot of the mounting rail.
  • the electronic components and / or parts on the circuit board can in turn supply and control light units which are carried by the light adapter.
  • Control signals can include, for example, signals from a digital addressable lighting interface (DALI) system.
  • illuminants carried by the luminaire adapter can be controlled, for example with regard to a color, an emission characteristic, a brightness, a lighting mode, etc.
  • the lamp adapter in particular the adapter body, can have one or more electrical contacting elements which, when the lamp adapter is plugged in, establish electrical contact between the lamp adapter and one or more supply rails of the support rail.
  • contacting elements such as spring contacts and / or pickups can be provided on an outside of the adapter body of the lamp adapter, via which the electronic components inside the lamp adapter (in particular on the circuit board) can be electrically connected to supply rails lying on the side of the plugged-in lamp adapter.
  • the rail lighting system can be designed to be particularly narrow.
  • the mounting slot can be designed with a slot width of less than 7.5 mm, for example 6 mm, whereby the light adapter can also be made correspondingly narrow, so that the result is a track light system that is significantly narrower than corresponding systems from the prior art Technology is.
  • the circuit board can be divided into circuit board segments along the longitudinal extent of the adapter body.
  • two circuit board segments can be connected to one another via a circuit board bending area.
  • the printed circuit board bending areas can be arranged within the adapter body corresponding to the bending areas of the adapter body.
  • the circuit board like the adapter body, is thus divided into individual segments that are connected to one another by flexible bending areas.
  • the bending areas of the circuit board are arranged within the adapter body corresponding to the bending areas of the adapter body, ie in particular they are spaced apart at the same intervals as the bending areas of the adapter body.
  • the printed circuit board can also have a large number of perforations in its bending areas, with the necessary flexibility being achieved by eliminating material, similar to the adapter body.
  • the circuit board segments can be more or less rigid in this case.
  • the perforated areas narrow, e.g. milled, webs can be formed in the bending areas. In this case, the flexibility is also achieved by eliminating material, although the material is not removed from the outside at certain points, but over a large area.
  • segment pairs can be connected by means of flexible elements that are soldered on.
  • Rotatable connectors can also be used, etc.
  • the printed circuit board can be made bendable continuously along the longitudinal extension of the adapter body.
  • the printed circuit board can thus, for example, be made entirely of a flexible material, for example an elastomer.
  • the adapter body can essentially consist of rubber.
  • the adapter body can be made entirely of rubber. It will be clear to the person skilled in the art that appropriate alternative materials can be used which ensure appropriate flexibility or bendability.
  • the lamp adapter can comprise a printed circuit board within the adapter body. At least one electronic component for transmitting electrical energy and control signals from the mounting rail can be contained on the printed circuit board.
  • the circuit board can be designed to be bendable in accordance with the adapter body.
  • the circuit board can also be accommodated in an adapter body serving as a housing in the case of the second variant, the flexibility of the circuit board being selected according to the adapter body in order to make it at least as bendable as the adapter body . Accordingly, the modulus of elasticity and / or the geometrical moment of inertia of the circuit board must be adapted to that of the adapter body.
  • the circuit board can have an elastic band.
  • the at least one electronic component can be attached to the elastic band.
  • the elastic band is located together with the electronic components attached to it within the adapter body of the light adapter.
  • the lamp adapter can be designed to be displaceable along the at least one assembly slot in an inserted state.
  • the lamp adapter can have one or more slide elements or slide arms, along which the lamp adapter can slide along in complementary recesses in the support rail.
  • the light adapter can be held in the mounting rail by locking elements.
  • the lamp adapter can be designed to be inserted into the at least one assembly slot with a slot width of less than 7.5 mm.
  • the mounting slot can be about 6 mm wide or narrower.
  • the light adapter can be designed to fit into an opening of 6 mm or less.
  • the light adapter can thus have an insertion width of 7.5 mm, 6 mm or less. It goes without saying that the person skilled in the art can use other specific slot widths as long as the mounting slot and thus the rail profile remain sufficiently narrow, ie narrower than 7.5 mm.
  • the track lighting system is thus characterized by a particularly narrow design.
  • the lamp adapter can have locking elements. In the plugged-in state, the light adapter can be latched into the at least one mounting slot of the support rail via the latching elements.
  • the latching elements can be formed on an outside of the lamp adapter or the adapter body in such a way that when the lamp adapter is inserted into the mounting slot, the latching elements are first pushed into the lamp adapter from the outer edges of the mounting rail and then back out of the lamp adapter into corresponding receptacles in the interior of the mounting rail jump out so that the luminaire adapter can snap into the mounting rail.
  • the lamp adapter can have a dismantling device.
  • the dismantling device can be designed to adjust the latching elements in order to release the latched lamp adapter from the mounting rail.
  • the light adapter can be designed with one or more push buttons or the like.
  • the locking arms can be adjusted by pressing the push buttons, e.g. retracted from an extended / unfolded locking position so that the light adapter can be pulled out of the mounting slot and thus removed from the mounting rail.
  • the pushbutton (s) can be provided on an outside of the light adapter (e.g. on the adapter body) in such a way that an operator can access them even when the light adapter is installed, i.e. plugged in.
  • the light adapter can carry at least one light unit for generating light.
  • the light adapter can be designed with one or more receptacles into which individual light units or lights can be inserted, for example an LED spotlight or another light source.
  • the lighting unit can be electrically connected to the mounting rail via the lighting adapter.
  • the lamp adapter can terminate flush with the mounting rail in the inserted state.
  • the luminaire adapter fits discreetly and space-savingly into the mounting rail design.
  • the light adapter can also be designed to hold one or more light units or light sources, which can be plugged into the mounted light adapter from outside the mounting slot, so that only the actual light sources are visible on the mounting rail, while the light adapter is more or less visible in the mounting slots remains less hidden.
  • the mounting rail can have a metal material and / or a plastic.
  • the mounting rail can essentially be made of metal, a metal alloy and / or a metallic material combination, e.g. aluminum or an aluminum alloy. In this case, the resulting heat can be dissipated directly via the mounting rail.
  • the mounting rail can also have a plastic material or be made of this.
  • Figure 1 shows a schematic sectional view of a track lighting system 100 according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • the track lighting system 100 comprises two identical track half-shells 2, which are each formed on an inner side 20 along a longitudinal extension L1 with a total of three cutouts.
  • One The first plug-in receptacle 5a is formed in each case on a first mounting edge 6a of the rail half-shells 2 along the longitudinal extension L1 (top in FIG Fig. 1 ).
  • a second plug-in receptacle 5b is formed on a second mounting edge 6b, the second plug-in receptacle 5b being designed mirror-symmetrically to the first plug-in receptacle 5a.
  • a central plug-in receptacle 8 is formed between the first plug-in receptacle 5a and the second plug-in receptacle 5b.
  • the result is a symmetrical arrangement of the first and second plug-in receptacles 5a, 5b along the transverse extent Q between the first mounting edge 6a and the second mounting edge 6b.
  • the two rail half-shells 2 serve as housing shells or housing halves of a mounting rail 1 that can be equipped on both sides and can be made, for example, of aluminum or another material with good heat conduction.
  • the rail half-shells 2 are formed with a curved outer side 26 which is shaped corresponding to a section of a cylinder surface of a circular cylinder. It goes without saying that this specific embodiment of the outside 26 is purely exemplary and that the person skilled in the art can also use, for example, rectangular rail half-shells 2 with a flat (not curved) outside 26.
  • the first and second plug-in receptacles 5a, 5b serve on the one hand as assembly spaces for the introduction of half-shell connectors 3 to connect the two track half-shells 2 to the support rail 1, and on the other hand for the attachment of lamp adapters 4 to the support rail 1, as will be explained below .
  • the middle plug-in receptacle 8 serves as a receptacle for an electrical supply rail 7, which is designed to be plugged into the middle plug-in receptacle 8 and can supply the lighting means of the attached light adapter 4 with electrical energy and control signals via electrical contacts 14.
  • the light adapter 4 can have electrical contacting elements 24, for example spring contacts, which establish the electrical contact 4 with the supply rail 7.
  • the rail half-shells 2 are fixed to one another by one or more half-shell connectors 3 to form the support rail 1.
  • the respective half-shell connector 3 is brought between the two rail half-shells 2 and inserted into the first plug-in receptacles 5a or second plug-in receptacles 5b.
  • the two rail half-shells 2 are arranged facing one another on the inner sides 20, so that the first plug-in receptacles 5a and the second plug-in receptacles 5b lie opposite one another.
  • the half-shell connector 3 has a significantly shorter length than the rail half-shells 2 and can thus be inserted selectively along the longitudinal extension L1 in order to couple the two rail half-shells 2 to one another at different points or longitudinal sections.
  • the half-shell connector 3 comprises two clamping elements 10a, 10b that can be pressed apart and one or more adjusting elements 11, via which the clamping elements 10a, 10b can be pressed apart in such a way that the half-shell connector 3 can be clamped in the plug-in receptacles 5a, 5b for mutual fixation of the rail half-shells 2.
  • the adjusting element 11 is designed as a screw.
  • the clamping elements 10a, 10b can be pushed apart in an adjustment direction.
  • the clamping elements 10a, 10b are drawn together or pressed together again.
  • An upper clamping element 10a of the half-shell connector 3 has upper joining arms 12a which are designed to be complementary to upper joining areas 17a of the plug-in receptacles 5a, 5b.
  • the upper joining arms 12a and the upper joining areas 17a have a stepped shape which is designed to form a form-fitting clamping connection and can serve as an assembly aid when adjusting the elements.
  • a lower clamping element 10b of the half-shell connector 3 has lower joining arms 12b which are designed to be complementary to lower joining areas 17a of the plug-in receptacles 5a, 5b.
  • the lower joining arms 12b and the lower joining areas 17a also simulate a form-fitting connection Formation of the clamping connection, the lower joining areas 17a having an undercut shape so that a toothing or half-sided dovetail connection is formed in a clamped state (cf. Fig. 1 above). This means that a form fit both in the transverse direction Q (ie in the vertical direction in Fig. 1 ) and perpendicular to the transverse direction Q (ie in the horizontal direction in Fig. 1 ) is formed.
  • a first assembly slot 9a is defined between the first assembly edges 6a and a second assembly slot 9b between the second assembly edges 6b along the longitudinal extension L1 of the rail half-shells 2.
  • Fig. 1 concretely, an upper assembly slot 9a and an opposing lower assembly slot 9b are formed.
  • the assembly slots 9a, 9b can have a slot width B of less than 7.5 mm, e.g. 6 mm or less.
  • the track lighting system 100 is thus distinguished by a particularly narrow design.
  • conventional track lighting systems practically always have significantly wider mounting slots of 10 mm or more.
  • track lighting systems 100 generally have an electrical supply rail which is attached to a rear end of the respective mounting slot for the lighting adapter. Not least because a certain minimum distance is required between the electrical contacts (safety standards, etc.), this increases the minimum width of the mounting slot for the adapter. By attaching the present supply rails 7 to the sides of the lamp adapter 4, the minimum slot width can be further reduced.
  • the half-shell connector 3 is designed in such a way that, after the two rail half-shells 2 have been connected, it ends flush with the respective mounting edges 6a 6b of the rail half-shells 2. After the mounting rail 1 has been mounted, a rail arrangement with an approximately circular cylindrical shape results, the cylinder having a mounting slot 9a, 9b in the longitudinal direction on two opposite sides, which is only interrupted at the mounting points of the half-shell connector 3.
  • the half-shell connector 3 can in particular be fixed in its position after installation in the plug-in receptacles 5a, 5b.
  • the connection of the two rail half-shells 2 via the half-shell connector 3 can in particular be (repeatedly) detachable or non-detachable.
  • the connection of the rail half-shells 2 by the half-shell connector 3 takes place in the present case purely mechanically (via a form fit or force fit).
  • further means can also be used for the connection closure.
  • the half-shell connector 3 can be glued to the rail half-shells 2 in a materially bonded connection.
  • the half-shell connector 3 can magnetically couple the two rail half-shells 2 to one another.
  • FIG. 13 shows a perspective side view of components of the track lighting system 100 from FIG Fig. 1 .
  • the rail half-shells 2 and thus also the support rail 1 are designed to be curved at least in sections along their longitudinal extension L1.
  • luminaire adapters 4 are provided in the present case, which are configured flexibly in order to be plugged into the assembly slots 9a, 9b for electrical contacting of the support rail 1, in particular the supply rails 7 arranged therein.
  • the track light system 100 thus further comprises at least one light adapter 4, which is designed to be selectively inserted along the longitudinal extension L1 into the mounting slots 9a, 9b in such a way that the light adapter 4 in an inserted state through the respective mounting slot 9a, 9b between the Supply rails 7 protrudes and is in electrical contact with the supply rails 7.
  • the luminaire adapter 4 can be displaced along the longitudinal extension L1 of the mounting rail 1 (see broad arrows in FIG Fig. 2 ).
  • the light adapter 4 is equipped with one or more light units 13, for example LED light elements.
  • the interior of the light adapter 4 is designed with corresponding electronic components 23 in order to electrically couple the light units 13 to the supply rails 7, so that these can be supplied with electrical energy and with control signals (indicated schematically in dashed lines in Fig. 3 ).
  • a lamp adapter 4 which comprises an adapter body 19 which is divided into adapter segments 21 along a longitudinal extension L2 of the adapter body 19.
  • two adapter segments 21 are connected to one another via a bending area 18, the adapter body 19 being designed to be bendable at the bending area 18 in relation to the longitudinal extension L2 of the adapter body 19.
  • the adapter body 19 and thus the lamp adapter 4, as indicated in the figure can be bent in each bending area 18 along a vertical axis in the figure.
  • the light adapter 4 can comprise two, three, four, five or more such adapter segments 21 and the number can be varied depending on the application.
  • the adapter body 19 can be made of a plastic, for example, which can have increased flexibility in the bending areas 18 in particular.
  • the adapter body 19 is perforated in the bending areas in order to make the already basically flexible plastic of the adapter body 19 more bendable due to the omission of material.
  • the plastic material can be selected in such a way that the adapter segments 21 are designed to be relatively rigid, at least with respect to the bending areas 18.
  • the adapter body 19 is made predominantly or completely from an elastomer so that it can be bent continuously along a longitudinal extension of the adapter body 19.
  • the adapter body 19 can in this case be made of a rubber material or another highly flexible material. In this case, no special bending areas 18 need to be formed.
  • the light adapter 4 can now not only simply be inserted into the curved support rail 1 regardless of a specific curvature that is locally present, but also along the support rail 1 easily displaceable if the curvature of this should change along its longitudinal extension L1. In this case, the lamp adapter 4 automatically curves along with the curvature of the lamp adapter 4.
  • the lamp adapter 4 is designed with several locking elements 15, via which the lamp adapter 4 can be locked in an inserted state in the respective first plug-in receptacles 5a and / or second plug-in receptacles 5b.
  • the lamp adapter 4 can thus be inserted from below into the lower mounting slot 9b and brought between the supply rails 7, the latching elements 15 engaging in the lower plug-in receptacles 5b, whereby the lamp adapter 4 is held in the mounting rail 1.
  • the light adapter 4 can be designed in such a way that, in the inserted state, it ends flush with the respective mounting edges 6a, 6b of the rail half-shells 2, so that only the light units 13 protrude from the support rail 1. In principle it is of course also possible for the lamp adapter 4 to protrude from the respective assembly slot 9a, 9b even after assembly. Furthermore, the lamp adapter 4 can be designed with a corresponding insertion width of 7.5 mm or less, for example 6 mm, in order to fit into the mounting slots 9a, 9b.
  • the lamp adapter 4 can have a dismantling device 25, for example one or more push buttons, which can be designed to adjust the locking elements 15.
  • the dismantling device 25 can be designed to retract the latching elements into the lamp adapter 4 in order to release it from the latching and pull it out again from the mounting slot 9a, 9b and thus to dismantle it from the mounting rail.
  • the light adapter 4 can be in Fig. 1 For example, it can be inserted into the first (upper) mounting slot 9a for generating indirect light and into the second (lower) mounting slot 9b for generating direct light.
  • the track lighting system 100 can be mounted with half-shell connectors 3, which are fixed at a certain distance from one another, for example 1 m, in the upper mounting slot 9a.
  • the half-shell connectors 3 can be designed with assembly elements for suspended assembly of the track lighting system 100, for example assembly openings from which the system 100 can be suspended.
  • a lamp adapter 4 can now be introduced into the upper mounting slot 9a and moved there, either between the two half-shell connectors 3 or between one of the half-shell connectors 3 and one end of the support rail 1 in the longitudinal direction.
  • Another lamp adapter 4 can be adjusted in the lower assembly slot 9b over the entire longitudinal extension L1 of the support rail 1.
  • a track lighting system 100 which offers a high degree of flexibility in the arrangement and alignment of lighting units on a mounting rail 1 and at the same time is easy to assemble, since lighting adapters 4 with lighting units 13 can be inserted from different sides in order to use the same rail 1 to produce different lighting.
  • the track lighting system 100 can be mounted on a room ceiling, one of the mounting slots 9a being aligned in the direction of the ceiling and the other mounting slot 9b in the direction of the floor. Lighting units 13 installed in the upper mounting slot 9a can thus be used for indirect lighting, while lighting units 13 can emit direct light in the lower mounting slot 9b.
  • the lamp adapter 4 comprises a circuit board 22 within the adapter body 1, on which the at least one electronic component 23 for the transmission of electrical energy and control signals from the support rail 1, ie from the supply rails 7, is contained and which can be bent accordingly to the adapter body 19 is trained.
  • the adapter body 19 serves here as a housing for receiving the printed circuit board 22.
  • the adapter body 19 is divided into two housing halves 28, which are connected via one or more housing closures 27 can be connected to each other or detached from each other in order to ensure access to the circuit board 22 (cf. in particular Figures 4 and 5 ).
  • the circuit board 22 is designed to be bendable in accordance with the adapter body 19, ie the circuit board 22 is at least as bendable as the adapter body 19.
  • the circuit board 22 is divided along the longitudinal extension L2 of the adapter body 19 into circuit board segments 21a, two circuit board segments 21a being connected to one another via a circuit board bending area 18a and the circuit board bending areas 18a corresponding to the bending areas 18 of the adapter body 19 are arranged within the adapter body 19 .
  • circuit board bending areas 18a of the circuit board 22 as well as the bending areas 18 of the adapter body 19 are provided with a plurality of perforations in order to enable a corresponding elasticity.
  • the circuit board segments 21a can be made significantly more rigid (comparable to the adapter segments 21).
  • circuit board 22 in FIG Fig. 5 is purely exemplary. Different possibilities for the design of a corresponding printed circuit board 22 are shown in Figures 6 to 10 shown by way of example (the electronic components 23 located thereon not being shown to simplify the illustration).
  • the exemplary circuit board 22 of the Fig. 6 corresponds to the one from Fig. 5 , ie this is divided into circuit board segments 21a, which are connected by circuit board bending areas 28a in which the circuit board 22 is perforated. In this case, no electronic components 23 are attached to these printed circuit board bending areas 28a; rather, they are located on the circuit board segments 21a.
  • Fig. 7 shows the in Fig. 7 The embodiment shown on the side in a top view, in which the narrow, milled webs in the printed circuit board bending areas 28a can be clearly seen.
  • Figures 9 and 10 represent further alternative versions.
  • the relatively rigid circuit board segments 21a are connected in the circuit board bending areas 28a by means of soldered-on flexible elements.
  • rotatable connectors are used for this purpose.
  • the printed circuit board 22 can alternatively also be made bendable continuously along the longitudinal extension L2 of the adapter body 19. Especially in the alternative, continuously bendable embodiment of the adapter body 19 made of an elastomer, the printed circuit board 22 can for example have an elastic band on which the at least one electronic component 23 is attached.

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