Switch cover plate providing automatic emergency lighting
CA 2329042 A1 · Owner: Moreland, Gregory B. · Inventors: Moreland, Gregory B.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A wall mounted cover plate (40) conceals an electrical circuit (50) capable of sensing the field provided by a covered switch (30) or electrical socket circuit. When power is lost at the wall circuit the electrical circuit (50) senses the loss of power and activates one or more LEDs (90A) to provide emergency illumination. The electrical circuit (50) is self contained and does not require stand-by energy so that the batteries (58) are long lasting.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed February 26, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 26, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 26, 2021.
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