Lighting fixture
CA 2202816 C · Owner: National Service Industries, Inc. · Inventors: Bell, L. Michael; Norris, Roger Erle; Schmidt, Peter Michael
Overview
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An improved fluorescent troffer lighting fixture particularly intended for recessed mounting to a suspended ceiling grid, the fixture of the invention having a housing frame configured with spaced end plates which secure to a top plate and side flanges without the need for separate fasteners. The end plates top plate and side flanges of the fixture housing snap-fit together through the use of cooperating fastening elements formed integrally with said end plates inter alia. The fixture housing mounts a louver and a channel with fastening structure integrally formed with the fixture housing the channel mounting at least one fluorescent lamp and having reflective surfaces opposing said lamp …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 16, 1997 and granted June 13, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 16, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 16, 2019.
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