Illumination – Light source or light source support and luminescent material
Patent
1996-04-19
1997-08-26
Dority, Carroll B.
Illumination
Light source or light source support and luminescent material
362 95, 200310, F21V 916
Patent
active
056604599
ABSTRACT:
An illuminating apparatus for a wall switch or outlet that has a pair of terminals across which an electric potential is available, including an electroluminescent lamp plate having first and second electrode deposits on a surface thereof, and a contact plate disposed between the wall switch or outlet and the electroluminescent lamp plate and having a front surface facing the electroluminescent lamp plate and a back surface facing the switch or outlet, the contact plate having first and second conductors, each of which pass through the contact plate, the first conductor contacting the first electrode deposit and one of the terminals, and the second conductor contacting the second electrode deposit and the other of the terminals.
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Competitive Technologies Inc.
Dority Carroll B.
E-Lite Technologies, Inc.
Novack Michael R.
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