Lamp socket with stabilizing features

Details Lamp socket with stabilizing features Lamp socket with stabilizing features

2006-12-26

2006-12-26

Ta, Tho D. (Department: 2833)

Electrical connectors

With insulation other than conductor sheath

Plural-contact coupling part

Reexamination Certificate

active

07153171

ABSTRACT:
A lamp socket includes a housing having a lamp receiving side and a wire receiving side. The lamp receiving side includes a lamp receptacle configured to receive the lamp assembly when inserted in a lamp insertion direction. The wire receiving side includes a contact receptacle. A contact is mounted in the contact receptacle in the housing. The contact includes a mating end for electrically and mechanically engaging the lamp assembly. The mating end includes a first side wall and an end wall joined to one another along a bend that extends along a longitudinal axis of the contact. The longitudinal axis extends in a direction non-perpendicular to the insertion direction. The first side wall has a planar surface that extends along a vertical plane. The planar surface engages the lamp assembly continuously along a length of the planar surface in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the contact and to the lamp insertion direction. The lamp socket further includes a retainer having a first end mounted in the housing and a second end configured to engage a groove formed in the lamp holder to retain the lamp holder in the housing.

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patent: 4902251 (1990-02-01), Grzena
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patent: 7014510 (2006-03-01), Powers et al.
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patent: 2004/0132336 (2004-07-01), Powers et al.
patent: 2005/0227541 (2005-10-01), Garcia et al.

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