November 3, 2006—Cyberlux Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of solid-state diodal lighting solutions, has announced that the US Patent Office recently awarded protection for the Company’s “Apparatus and Methods for Providing Emergency Safety Lighting.”
The claims awarded by the US Patent Office address a solid-state lighting device capable of transforming existing electrical wall outlets into an emergency lighting system for homes, hospitals, hotels, nursing homes and businesses.
The lighting device, designed as a replacement electrical wall outlet, simply plugs into an existing outlet after removal of its cover plate, says Cyberlux.
Although the lighting device continues to operate as an electrical outlet, it also contains a constant charge battery; a motion sensor for initiating low levels of lighting for gentle illumination of a darkened room or navigation of a corridor; a power sensor for broadcasting a high level of light up the attendant wall surface to reflect off of the ceiling thereby illuminating a room or corridor; and a photo cell that detects ambient light in the space which disables the system.
The lighting device is intended to provide long- term solutions for emergency and interim lighting. The patent addresses an electrochemical lighting system capable of providing prolonged illumination with the use of light emitting diodes (LEDs) as the illumination source.
The 21 claims awarded under the “Apparatus and Methods for Providing Emergency Safety Lighting” patent when combined with the 22 claims of a prior patent award, “Apparatus and Methods for Providing an Emergency Lighting Augmentation System,” create an extensible intellectual property foundation for emergency lighting devices and emergency lighting systems, says the company.
For more information, see the Cyberlux Web site.
