Lutron Electronics Company, Inc.

At&t Bell Laboratories

At&t Information Systems Inc.

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Carl W Gomes, Ii

Elliot G Jacoby

Joel S Spira

Noel Mayo

Roland L Ledyard

Michael W Pessina

Jason O Adams

Michael A Ryan

Gregory S Altonen

Michael P Zambelli

Donald M Genaro

Gordon E Sylvester

Daniel R Biskup

Christopher James Salvestrini

Cristian J Felix

Richard David Samuels

Shawn L Leichliter

Jackson Gehman

John N McGarvey

Joseph E Tatarski

A control system includes an electrical load control device responsive to radiant energy and a transmitter. The transmitter includes two sets of radiant energy generators connected to an electrical circuit such that polarity of the sets is reversed. A transmissive enclosure includes indented portions defining deflectors oriented obliquely with respect to a generator support surface. The transmitter is secured to a bracket for attachment to a backcover of the load control device. The control system may also include a master control generating an electrical control signal in response to an actuator or in response to a radiant energy signal. The control system is capable of limiting the master control to generate a signal only in response to the actuator. A power supply for the transmitter includes a filter network having a filter capacitor and resistor in series with a power supply capacitor and a diode in parallel with the resistor.

Dimmer control system having remote infrared transmitters

A wallbox dimmer switch includes an actuator mounting frame having a platform portion that is receivable in a rectangular wallplate opening having standard toggle-type dimensions. The dimmer switch includes a pushbutton actuator for a switch and an adjacently located dimmer actuator that extend substantially parallel to a first side of the platform portion. The pushbutton actuator includes a user-engageable portion having an outer surface of which at least the end portions are defined by a portion of a substantially prolate spheroid for minimization of undesirable coupling between the adjacent actuators during actuation by a user. The switch may also include an actuator for an airgap switch extending through the platform portion and an array of indicator lights that are displayed through openings extending to an actuator-presentation surface of the platform portion.

Wallbox dimmer switch having side-by-side pushbutton and dimmer actuators

Screwless faceplate

Dimmer switch

Switch

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Carl W Gomes, Ii