Patent ID: 8578659
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
1. An overhead arrangement in a suspended ceiling system having a framework lying in a ceiling plane and bounding openings for supporting ceiling members, comprising: an electrical power control apparatus having a housing containing electrical circuitry for controlling and supplying electrical DC power to electrical equipment operatively connected to the electrical power control apparatus outside the housing; a support for supporting the housing on the framework such that a generally planar bottom wall of the housing lies in a horizontal plane generally parallel to the ceiling plane at an elevation directly above one of the ceiling members supported in one of the openings, the elevation being of sufficient height to prevent mechanical interference between the one ceiling member and the housing when the one ceiling member is at least partially removed from the one opening; and a slanted control panel on the housing and obliquely and downwardly inclined relative to the bottom wall of the housing, the entire slanted control panel being supported in an overlying relationship directly above, and being positioned entirely within, the one opening to enable access through the one opening to the slanted control panel from below the framework when the one ceiling member is at least partially removed from the one opening.