Patent ID: 6183104
Filing Date: 2001-02-06
Classification: F21S,F21V,F21W,F21Y,H01R,H02G

Abstract:
A modular lighting system for permitting user selectable mountable arrangement of a lightable course on a support structure, the system comprising:modular elements, each including discrete electrically conductive pathways;said modular elements being comprised of at least one light strip module including an elongated base member and a cover receivable in mounted engagement to said base member, at least a portion of said cover demonstrating impaired optical transparency sufficient to obscure external viewing of elements disposed within said light strip module while permitting passage outward of internally generated visible light, thereby permitting said cover to be maintained in said mounted engagement during periods of disuse in which the elements disposed within the housing are visually obscured, and also during active illuminated use without requiring removal of the cover to permit viewing of the internally generated visible light;said light strip module further comprising light sources disposed within said light strip module, said light sources being connected across a selected two of said discrete electrically conductive pathways; andsaid discrete electrically conductive pathways of light strip module being interconnectable to corresponding ones of and a adjacent one of said modular elements.