Patent ID: 6024468
Filing Date: 2000-02-15
Classification: F21S,F21V,F21Y

Abstract:
A lighting fixture comprising in combination: a fixture body having a ballast compartment above a socket compartment, said ballast compartment having an upper pendant mounting end, said socket compartment having at least one reflector therein and, lens at a lower light emitting end of said socket compartment, which said reflector directs light produced through a light emitting end, of said socket compartment, said ballast compartment having a plurality of ballasts connected to a plurality of sockets mounted on a plurality of socket plates within said socket compartment, said sockets powering a plurality of compact U-shaped fluorescent lamps, each said compact U-shaped fluorescent lamp being provided with individual electrical power from each said ballast, independent from electrical power of each other said ballast, wherein the light produced by said lamps passes directly through the lens at said light emitting end or is reflected by said reflector through said lens at said light-emitting end of said lighting fixture, wherein said ballast compartment of said lighting fixture includes a shape allowing for stable pendant mounting, said shape of said ballast compartment of said lighting fixture being a truncated pyramid, open at bottom end thereof and having said suspended pendant mount at an upper end thereof, wherein a height of said ballast compartment is at least twice the height of said socket compartment.