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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2006
Martin Boike, Wickede/Ruhr, DE;
Martin Boike, Wickede/Ruhr, DE;
Erco Leuchten GmbH, Ludenscheid, DE;
Abstract
A power-rail adapter () for mechanical and electrical connection of a light fixture () and/or of an operating unit () of the light fixture with a power rail (), comprising at least a switch shaft () that can be pivoted between a removing position in which the adapter is removable from the power rail and an installing position in which the adapter is fixed to the power rail is illustrated and described. A specific feature is amongst others that a coding stud () is provided on the switch shaft and that a coding groove () is provided at the power rail in which the coding stud can be introduced only with a single relative orientation of the adapter () with respect to the power rail () with pivoting of the switch shaft from the removing position into the installing position.