Patent ID: 7422340

Claim:
Apparatus comprising a continuous electroluminescent (EL) lighting assembly including at least two separate EL lighting elements, and wherein the continuous EL lighting assembly includes at least one printed circuit portion including at least four conductors running alongside one another, and further wherein the at least two EL lighting elements are elongate and each have a first end and an opposite second end, and wherein the at least four conductors arrive at the first end of a first one of the two EL lighting elements and at least two of the four conductors extend from the first end to the second end of the first one of the two EL lighting elements and continue beyond the second end of the first one of the two EL lighting elements and arrive at the first end of the second one of the two EL lighting elements, wherein the at least two of the four conductors extending from the first end to the second end of the first one of the two EL lighting elements extend proximate to and in parallel with the first one of the two EL lighting elements and further wherein the at least two of the four conductors extending proximate to and in parallel with the first one of the two EL lighting elements are disposed on the printed circuit portion.