Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control device having an integral reflecting structure for a sensing circuit
-
Application No.: US16174545Application Date: 2018-10-30
-
Publication No.: US10237949B1Publication Date: 2019-03-19
- Inventor: William Taylor Shivell , Matthew Philip McDonald
- Applicant: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.
- Applicant Address: US PA Coopersburg
- Assignee: LUTRON ELECTRONICS CO., INC.
- Current Assignee: LUTRON ELECTRONICS CO., INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Coopersburg
- Agency: Condo Roccia Koptiw LLP
- Main IPC: H05B37/02
- IPC: H05B37/02 ; H01H13/83 ; G09G3/34 ; H01H9/18

Abstract:
A wall-mounted keypad may include a light detector circuit located inside the keypad that is configured to measure an ambient light level in a space. The light detector circuit may receive ambient light through an aperture that is hidden from view by the keypad. The keypad may include a reflector for directing ambient light onto the light detector circuit. The keypad may include an enclosure that houses the light detector circuit. The enclosure may define a recess that exposes at least a portion of the light detector circuit. The enclosure may include a reflector that may focus ambient light received through the aperture onto the light detector circuit. The keypad may include a control circuit that may be configured to illuminate the indicia of respective buttons of the control device in response to actuations of the one or more buttons, in accordance with the measured ambient light level.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190069374A1 CONTROL DEVICE HAVING AN INTEGRAL REFLECTING STRUCTURE FOR A SENSING CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2019-02-28
Information query