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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2005
Bradley Stephen Garrett, Denver, CO (US);
Christopher Joseph Pahl, Denver, CO (US);
Bradley Stephen Garrett, Denver, CO (US);
Christopher Joseph Pahl, Denver, CO (US);
Cooper Technologies Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A direct-indirect luminaire including a pair of sockets for receiving at least one tubular fluorescent lamp; a louver, arranged on one side of the lamp socket, for controlling downlight from the lamp; and a shutter, arranged on an opposite side of the lamp socket, for controlling uplight from the lamp. The shutter may include a plurality of adjustably sizeable apertures which may be formed by adjacent members that are slidable relative to each other, with matching patterns of overlapping openings. The adjacent members may further include nested concave surfaces facing the lamp, such as channel-shaped members with openings that are arranged on at least two walls of the channel. A positioner may also be provided for designating a size of the apertures. For example, the positioner may include a protuberance on one of the adjacent members for engaging a hole in the other of the adjacent members.