Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions, Inc.

Michael A Bass, Legal Representative

Frederick Marshall Morgan

Colin N Piepgras

Brian J Chemel

Michael Blackwell

Tomas Jonathan Mollnow

Kevin Paul McCormick

Modular lighting fixtures that allow convenient installation and removal of LED-based light-generating modules and controller modules. In one example, a modular lighting fixture includes a housing configured to be recessed into or disposed behind an architectural surface such as ceiling, wall, or soffit, in new or existing construction scenarios. The fixture housing includes a socket configured to facilitate one or more of a mechanical, electrical and thermal coupling of the light-generating module to the fixture housing. The ability to easily engage and disengage the LED-based light-generating module with the socket, without removing the fixture housing itself, allows for straightforward replacement of the light-generating module upon failure, or exchange with another module having different light-generating characteristics. Modular lighting controllers for such fixtures also may be easily installed in or removed from the fixture housing via the same access route by which the light-generating module is installed and removed.

LED-based light-generating modules for socket engagement, and methods of assembling, installing and removing same

Modular LED-based lighting fixtures having socket engagement features

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Boston, MA, United States of America

Michael A Bass, Legal Representative