Socket for wedge base bulb

Details Socket for wedge base bulb Socket for wedge base bulb

1992-11-25

1994-02-15

Pirlot, David L.

Electrical connectors

With vitreous-type envelope

Having only two duplicate contacts arranged bilaterally...

439699, H01R 1900

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052862232

ABSTRACT:
A socket for a wedge base bulb, in which a cylindrical socket body has an opening for receiving the bulb and a terminal having a pair of opposed contact pieces is mounted in the opening and the contact pieces grip a base portion of the bulb therebetween so as to be electrically connected to the base portion, the improvement comprising: a slot for receiving a rectangular platelike mounting portion of the terminal, which is formed on an inner face of a circumferential wall of the socket body so as to confront the opening; a step portion which projects radially inwardly from an axially lower location of the inner face of the circumferential wall in the slot; wherein when the bulb has a minimum size, the bulb is supported by a lower portion of the mounting portion of the terminal; and wherein when the bulb has a maximum size, an upper portion of the mounting portion of the terminal is deflected radially outwardly by the bulb about a fulcrum defined by an upper edge of the step portion of the slot so as to grip the bulb.

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patent: 4795373 (1989-01-01), Fitzgerald et al.
patent: 4804343 (1989-02-01), Reedy et al.
patent: 4957455 (1990-09-01), Horiuchi et al.

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