Auckland Uniservices Limited

Lantal Textiles

Urs Baumann

John Talbot Boys

Grant Anthony Covic

An arrangement for supplying a load with electrical energy from a power source comprises a textile, woven floor covering () with longitudinally running warp threads and transversely running weft threads, three or more current conductors () that are spaced apart and substantially parallel to one another being woven in either as warp threads or as weft threads, the current conductors replacing part of a filling warp, a binding warp or the weft threads during the weaving operation. The arrangement also comprises a feed for the connection of the current conductors () to the power source and a coupling device () for picking up electrical energy from the current conductors () in the floor covering () and transporting it further to the load when the coupling device () is brought into a power pick-up area of the floor covering (). The coupling device () is formed in particular in such a way that electrical energy can be inductively picked up from the current conductors () running in the floor covering. The supply arrangement allows a high degree of flexibility and can be integrated well in rooms.

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Urs Baumann