The invention is a system for simultaneously, yet safely, suspending and powering objects through connectors on a wall. The system includes one or more connectors, preferably pins, mounted to a wall. Each connector has a groove and a lip that houses an electrical conductor, which may be a metal rod. One or more suspendable objects, which may be storage bins or electrical appliances, are designed to engage with the connectors. Each suspendable object has at least one horizontal track that guides the lip of each connector into one or more openings in the track. When the lip engages an opening, the object is suspended from the wall. Each opening also contains an electrical conductor that engages with the electrical conductor within the connector, thereby providing power to the suspendable object. The connectors may be attached to rails, and the system may be utilized within an automated storage and retrieval system.

The invention is a system for simultaneously, yet safely, suspending and powering objects through connectors on a wall. The system includes one or more connectors, preferably pins, mounted to a wall. Each connector has a groove and a lip that houses an electrical conductor, which may be a metal rod. One or more suspendable objects, which may be storage bins or electrical appliances, are designed to engage with the connectors. Each suspendable object has at least one horizontal track that guides the lip of each connector into one or more openings in the track. When the lip engages an opening, the object is suspended from the wall. Each opening also contains an electrical conductor that engages with the electrical conductor within the connector, thereby providing power to the suspendable object. The connectors may be attached to rails, and the system may be utilized within an automated storage and retrieval system.

The object of the invention is to provide a plug-in module System for constructing different plug-in module circuit boards from couplable plug-in modules for light-emitting diodes which are to be plugged onto the circuit board top side for example. The plug-in modules can be connected to the housing outer sides for forming the circuit boards from longitudinal circuit board rows by means of lateral longitudinal recesses and grid ribs, wherein, in each case one upper guide bore with an electrical voltage contact-making means, for example for a common plug-in diode bridge, is applied to the top sides of two adjacent plug-in modules in a laterally adjacent manner, and for forming additional perpendicular circuit board rows in each case contact-making means and plug-in connections of the contacts of the circuit board longitudinal rows on the front side with a projecting end section of a contact spring strip with corresponding contact-making means of the plug-in modules of the perpendicular circuit board rows, further on their housing rear sides an opening housing outlet with openings of the guide bores for mating the contact spring strips with the contact spring end section of the rear plug-in module. The plug modules therefore have two guide bores with a contact spring strip which widens from the top side to the front side over two contacts, a common wide front opening of the guide bores and a latching structure on the outer sides. Furthermore, latching and plug-in sections for contact spring strips which are situated one behind the other on the housing rear sides when mating in perpendicular longitudinal circuit board rows as conductor strips for voltage connection.

The object of the invention is to provide a plug-in module System for constructing different plug-in module circuit boards from couplable plug-in modules for light-emitting diodes which are to be plugged onto the circuit board top side for example. The plug-in modules can be connected to the housing outer sides for forming the circuit boards from longitudinal circuit board rows by means of lateral longitudinal recesses and grid ribs, wherein, in each case one upper guide bore with an electrical voltage contact-making means, for example for a common plug-in diode bridge, is applied to the top sides of two adjacent plug-in modules in a laterally adjacent manner, and for forming additional perpendicular circuit board rows in each case contact-making means and plug-in connections of the contacts of the circuit board longitudinal rows on the front side with a projecting end section of a contact spring strip with corresponding contact-making means of the plug-in modules of the perpendicular circuit board rows, further on their housing rear sides an opening housing outlet with openings of the guide bores for mating the contact spring strips with the contact spring end section of the rear plug-in module. The plug modules therefore have two guide bores with a contact spring strip which widens from the top side to the front side over two contacts, a common wide front opening of the guide bores and a latching structure on the outer sides. Furthermore, latching and plug-in sections for contact spring strips which are situated one behind the other on the housing rear sides when mating in perpendicular longitudinal circuit board rows as conductor strips for voltage connection.

The invention is an apparatus comprising a suspendable box, especially a storage bin or appliance, with electrically conductive members mounted thereon that both suspend and supply electrical power to the box. The electrically conductive members comprise insulative housings with openings that attach to wall hooks. Both the members and the wall hooks comprise electrical conductors. When the wall hooks are fitted inside the members, the electrical conductors engage to provide electrical power to the box, simultaneously suspending the box from the wall to which the wall hooks are mounted. The power supplied to the box may power electrical features like outlets, lights, or, especially, a microcontroller with a data transceiver, which allows the box to communicate with other like boxes, robots, or central controllers. The box is ideally suited to function within an automated storage and retrieval system, and preferably has specific dimensions that allow it to do so.

The invention is an apparatus comprising a suspendable box, especially a storage bin or appliance, with electrically conductive members mounted thereon that both suspend and supply electrical power to the box. The electrically conductive members comprise insulative housings with openings that attach to wall hooks. Both the members and the wall hooks comprise electrical conductors. When the wall hooks are fitted inside the members, the electrical conductors engage to provide electrical power to the box, simultaneously suspending the box from the wall to which the wall hooks are mounted. The power supplied to the box may power electrical features like outlets, lights, or, especially, a microcontroller with a data transceiver, which allows the box to communicate with other like boxes, robots, or central controllers. The box is ideally suited to function within an automated storage and retrieval system, and preferably has specific dimensions that allow it to do so.

This invention relates generally to the field of lighting products, and more particularly, a luminaire configured to provide optimal conditions for the growth of vegetation in indoor and/or greenhouse conditions in a way that is efficient for the users of those products.

A double-ended socket system for safely and easily seating a double-ended lamp is disclosed. The system has two socket assemblies spaced a distance corresponding to the length of a double-ended lamp. Each socket assembly has a housing with a recess that houses a cylindrical socket for receiving a lamp end that rotates between a disengaged orientation and an engaged orientation. The housing has an attached electrical connector connected to a power source. The socket has another attached electrical connector that contacts the electrical connector of the housing only when the socket is rotated to the engaged orientation, thus eliminating the electrical shock hazard of conventional double-ended socket systems. The lamp may be removed only while in the disengaged orientation. A user may install a double-ended lamp into the socket system by use of only one hand. A method of use of a double-ended socket system is also disclosed.

A track system may include a track assembly and a support assembly. A track assembly may include a toothed portion. The support assembly may include a support member removable from and adjustably connected to the track assembly. The toothed portion may include a plurality of track teeth. The support member may include an adjuster pinion. The adjuster pinion may include a plurality of pinion teeth configured to engage the plurality of track teeth. The adjuster pinion may be adjustable to an engaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are engaged with one another. The adjuster pinion may be adjustable to a disengaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are not engaged with one another.

A track system may include a track assembly and a support assembly. A track assembly may include a toothed portion. The support assembly may include a support member removable from and adjustably connected to the track assembly. The toothed portion may include a plurality of track teeth. The support member may include an adjuster pinion. The adjuster pinion may include a plurality of pinion teeth configured to engage the plurality of track teeth. The adjuster pinion may be adjustable to an engaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are engaged with one another. The adjuster pinion may be adjustable to a disengaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are not engaged with one another.