Lamp bulb socket

Details Lamp bulb socket Lamp bulb socket

1996-02-16

1997-08-26

Pirlot, David L.

Electrical connectors

Contact comprising cutter

Insulation cutter

439340, H01R 424

Patent

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056605617

ABSTRACT:
A lamp bulb socket include a socket body having a bore to receive therein the base of a lamp bulb. An inner threading is provided on a surface of the bore which is defined by a helical slot surrounding the bore intervened with a helical rib. A chamber is provided in the socket body to be in communication with the bore through access openings defined by portions of helical slot. A cylindrical neutral contact member is received within the chamber to be contactable by the base of the bulb through the access openings. The neutral contact member is retained within the chamber by portions of the helical rib that are intervened between the access openings. The socket body has a central through hole formed on the bottom thereof to receive therein a cylindrical hot contact member with an inner end of the hot contact member exposed within the bore. A concave member configured in accordance with the tip of the bulb base is integrally formed on the inner end of the hot contact member to snugly receive therein the tip of the bulb base. Both the neutral contact member and hot contact member have a sharpened tip projecting out of the bottom of the socket body to pierce into electrical wires to establish electrical connections therewith. An end cap is provided to secure the cable to the bottom of the socket body.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3251023 (1966-05-01), Schick
patent: 5474467 (1995-12-01), Chen
patent: 5573419 (1996-11-01), Chen

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