Socket for compact fluorescent lamps

Details Socket for compact fluorescent lamps Socket for compact fluorescent lamps

1987-10-26

1989-01-24

Pirlot, David

Electrical connectors

Coupling part to receive fluorescent or neon lamp

With additional retaining or locking means for coupled...

439242, 439350, H01R 3302

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047998962

ABSTRACT:
A socket for a compact fluorescent lamp which includes two or more parallel tubes that share a common base, said base including at least two terminal pins and retaining means for engagement with the socket, has a housing including a back wall, a front wall, with top and bottom walls and two side walls extending from said back wall and forward of said front wall, thereby defining a front opening for receiving said lamp base. Channels are formed in said housing enclosing conductive terminals for receiving each of said terminal pins in electrically conductive engagement. Said front wall defines openings through which the terminal pins project for engagement with said conductive terminals. An inward facing nonresilient hook is formed on the forward edge of one of said top and bottom walls for engagement with said retaining means of the lamp base, and an inward facing resilient hook is formed on the forward edge of the other of said top and bottom walls for establishing reversible locking engagement with said retaining means of said lamp base. When said lamp base is inserted in said socket, the combination of the grasping engagement of said inward facing hooks and said retaining means and the grasping engagement of said terminal pins and said conductive terminals is sufficient that said socket and said lamp can be mounted in any orientation without the need for additional support apart from said socket itself. All electrically active parts are inaccessible and totally protected against accidental contact with external objects.

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patent: 4713019 (1987-12-01), Gaynor
patent: 4723200 (1988-02-01), Troen

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