Accessible control panel for overhead electrical apparatus in a suspended ceiling system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8578659
APP PUB NO 20100187370A1
SERIAL NO

12322133

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An overhead arrangement, for use in a suspended ceiling system having a grid framework of frame elements lying in a ceiling plane and bounding a plurality of openings for supporting a corresponding plurality of ceiling members, includes an electrical apparatus, such as a DC power supply, a support for supporting the electrical apparatus on the framework at an elevation above one of the ceiling members supported in one of the openings, and a slanted control panel on the housing and having manually accessible controls and visually accessible displays. The slanted control panel is obliquely and downwardly inclined relative to the ceiling plane to enable manual access to the controls and visual access to the displays through the opening to the slanted control panel from below the framework after the ceiling member is at least partially removed from its opening without mechanical interference between the ceiling tile and the electrical apparatus.

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NEXTEK POWER SYSTEMS INC461 BURROUGHS STREET DETROIT MI 48202

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Gutschow, Wayne A Yaphank, US 1 1
Hartman, Benjamin New York, US 2 324
Parigoris, Ronald J Kings Park, US 1 1

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