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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
Hafele America Co., Archdale, NC (US);
Jeffery Raymond Ratkus, High Point, NC (US);
Steven Craig Jones, High Point, NC (US);
James Daniel Tripp, Lexington, NC (US);
Nina Pavlova Gueorguieva, Jamestown, NC (US);
Hafele America Co., Archdale, NC (US);
Abstract
An extruded housing using a single polymeric material to form an opaque body portion that defines an open channel, a light transmitting lens portion, and a hinge portion joining the body portion to the lens portion to form a unitary body. The hinge portion allows the lens portion to pivot relative to the body portion between an open position, where the channel is open, and a closed position, wherein the lens closes the open channel. The extruded housing is designed to form part of a light emitting diode light fixture, where the housing accepts a strip or plurality of LEDs within the channel for emission of light through the lens portion.