The present invention relates to a connection panel which is intended for an interior wall, ceiling, or other similar in¬ terior decoration panel, which is equipped with electrically conductive strips to which electrical appliances, such as lamps, blowers or electronic devices, can be connected.

Nowadays various long connection troughs are used, in which the necessary lamps can be installed at the desired points, but only in a long rail. The purpose of the invention is to provide a connection panel of a new type, which is decorative and to which electrical appliances such as lamps can be connected at any desired point. The connection panel according to the inven¬ tion is characterized in that the panel surface has, between metal strips, metal plates such as round decorative buttons, to which lamps can be attached by means of permanent magnets at their bases, or the strips are chromium-plated steel, in which case a lamp can be attached directly to the strips so that the contact leads projecting from the lamp receive current from the metal strips. Since the panel is equipped throughout with uni¬ directional electrically conductive metal strips, with attach¬ ment buttons between them, any necessary electrical appliances, such as lamps, can be installed arbitrarily at any desired point. A low voltage, such as 12 V or 24 V, is used in the metal strips. There are already so-called low-voltage lamps for these said voltages available on the market.

The invention is described below with the help of an example, with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which

Figure 1 depicts part of a ceiling panel,

Figure 2 depicts a side view of a lamp installed in the ceiling panel, and

Figures 3 and 4 depict another embodiment, in which the strips

are in part inside the panel sheet and form a checkered pattern surface.

The panel is equipped with superficial unidirectional electri¬ cally conductive metal strips 1, to which a lamp 2 is con¬ nected. In the panel surface, between the metal strips 1, there are metal buttons 3, to which the lamp 2 has been attached by means of a permanent magnet 4 at its base. The resilient con¬ tact leads 5 projecting from the lamp 2 receive current from the metal strips 1. The electric current coming to the metal strips in the ceiling panel can be grouped so that the strips of one ceiling are behind a plurality of switches, in which case lamps can be switched on and off in groups, in a manner known per se. Since electrical transformation and connections and switches constitute technology known per se, they are not discussed in greater detail in the present application. Of course, also other electrical appliances, such as small blowers for providing circulation of air, can be connected to the panel.

In Figures 3 and 4 the strips 6, 7 are made up of chromium- plated steel strip, which is in part on the panel surface and in part inside the panel sheet. The lamp 8 base 9, in which the attaching magnet is located, is placed directly in the desired visible square in such a manner that the contact lead project¬ ing from the lamp will settle on the adjacent square, which has another electrically conductive strip. In this embodiment the base of the lamp has a second contact surface, in which case one contact lead projecting from the lamp will suffice.

The strips i, 6, 7 need not necessarily have to be of metal; they can be of any electrically conductive material, such as electrically conductive plastic. For the attachment of the lamp, some metal plate is, of course, needed.