US 11,901,763 B2
Driver for emergency lighting means
Deepak Makwana, Newcastle Upon Tyne (GB); and Jagjitpati Shukla, Spennymoor County Durham (GB)
Assigned to Tridonic GmbH & Co KG, Dornbirn (AT)
Appl. No. 17/790,972
Filed by Tridonic GmbH & Co KG, Dornbirn (AT)
PCT Filed Jan. 14, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/050623
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/144329, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2000841 (EP), filed on Jan. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0022976 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H02J 9/02 (2006.01); H05B 47/17 (2020.01); H05B 47/19 (2020.01)
CPC H02J 9/02 (2013.01) [H05B 47/17 (2020.01); H05B 47/19 (2020.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driver (100) for emergency lighting means (101), comprising:
output terminals (111a-b) for electrically supplying at least one emergency lighting means (101), and
a test switch (103) for starting a test routine controlled by a controller (109) of the driver (100),
wherein the driver (100) is set to a commissioning mode, and not the test routine, if the test switch (103) is activated according to a predefined operation pattern defined by time durations and/or repetition criteria of the operation pattern,
the driver (100) in the commissioning mode is configured to receive commissioning data by a subsequent operation of the test switch (103), and
the commissioning data refers to a location of the emergency lighting means (101), in particular a room number, and/or an assignment of the emergency lighting means (101) to a group of lighting means.