Illumination – Sound equipment illuminator
Patent
1996-04-03
1998-05-05
Cariaso, Alan
Illumination
Sound equipment illuminator
362 61, 362374, 362375, B60Q 130
Patent
active
057464987
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a vehicle lamp that is mountable in an interior of a vehicle, particularly a raised auxiliary brake lamp with a housing in which a transparent light body is fixedly mounted and which is provided with a lamp, and, as needed, a reflector, as well as electrical leads.
German Gebrauchsmuster 77 39 340 describes a vehicle lamp having a housing with spring tongues mounted thereon which extend into an interior of a box-like light body. Outwardly directed protrusions grip into openings of the light body. A disengagement of the housing from the light body is caused by exterior pressure on the protrusions of the spring tongues. Indeed no tools are necessary to bring about this disengagement for this known vehicle lamp; however, the visible protrusions of the spring tongues are very intrusive when the vehicle lamp is mounted in a vehicle interior. Further, the housing must be manufactured in many colors because it would also be very disturbing if vehicle lamps in only one color were available for all possible interior colors of a line of motor vehicles. Further, it is unavoidable that electrical contact elements are visible.
German DE 41 37 612 C1 discloses a license-plate lamp, which can be mounted on an exterior of a vehicle, having a housing with upper and lower parts which are self-engagingly snapped together. In a short side wall of the housing upper part there are two vertical, parallel, separated, slits which form tongues having interengaging members at their free ends which interengage with interengaging elements in the housing lower part. Also in this lamp these interengaging members are visible from outside the lamp. If this lamp were to be mounted in an interior, it would have to be manufactured in many colors in order to match the colors of the interiors. Still further, electrical leads are also visible in this lamp.
Finally, an attaching arrangement is disclosed for headlights for motor vehicles in German Gebrauchsmuster 83 03 898 in which a protruding bracket and a tongue-shaped ear (having a hook) are formed on a housing of elastic material. An edge of a reflector has a shoulder with which it is fixedly held in the manner of a clamp because the hook engages the shoulder. The structure of the lamp cannot be understood from this publication. This attaching arrangement should achieve a clamping of the reflector edge on the housing and a self-guiding, functional, positioning of the reflector.
Building on the known vehicle lamp from German Gebrauchsmuster 77 39 340, it is an object of this invention to provide a vehicle lamp having the characteristics set forth in the preamble of claim 1 which is mountable in an interior of a vehicle in which a visible surface of the vehicle lamp, after it is mounted, can be easily matched with a color arrangement of a vehicle interior in a simple manner, whereby the same housings can be used for all decoration color schemes. Still further, the visible surfaces should be smooth and neither electrical contact elements nor interengagement elements should be visible.
SUMMARY
The stated object is achieved by placing a removable covering cap over a housing, with the covering cap's outer surface being shaped to match a mount location of the lamp--thereby forming its visible surfaces--, with spring snapping tongues formed on exterior surfaces of side portions of the housing having outwardly protruding catch noses for gripping behind snapping engaging elements mounted on the interior of the covering cap, and the removable covering cap having flexible detaching lashings bendable about defined axes for releasing the catch noses of the spring snapping tongues from the snapping engagement elements upon application of an inward force on the removable covering cap from outside, at the catch noses.
By means of the removable covering cap it is now possible that the housing can be manufactured in one color for all color schemes. In order to match colors, only the removable covering cap must be manufactured in the required colors. Bec
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Cariaso Alan
Hella KG & Hueck Co.
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