Removable LED lampholder

• US 20060098442A1
• Filed: 11/10/2004
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jing Jing Yu
• Original Assignee: Jing Jing Yu
• Inventors: Yu, Jing Jing
• Application Number:
  US10/984,651
• Publication Number:
  US 20060098442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/378
• CPC Class Codes: F21K 9/00 Light sources using semiconductor devices as light-generating elements, e.g. using light-emitting diodes [LED] or lasers
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/0005 of sources having contact pins, wires or blades, e.g. pinch sealed lamp F21V19/001 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/09 for baseless lamp bulb

Abstract

A removable LED (light emitting diode) lampholder comprises a keyed LED base and a socket. The keyed LED base has a hollow body and is used to hold and fix an LED bulb. The socket houses an LED base and two electrical wire terminals. Each of the two terminals can connect to one or two electrical wires through the bottom side of the socket. A keyed LED base and a correspondingly-shaped socket are well matched in shape and size, so that the LED base can plug into the socket only in one orientation from the top end of the socket, and fix firmly inside the socket. The base can be pulled out from the socket when needed. The two LED pins bent over tow opposite outer sides of a LED base will firmly touch the two electrical terminals when the base is plugged in the socket, and thus ensure a reliable electrical connection between a pin and a terminal.

Claims

1. A removable lampholder for an LED light bulb, comprising

a keyed LED base,

a socket,

two electrical terminals,

a wedge.

2. The said keyed LED base in claim 1 has a hollow body, wherein, there is a cylinder-shaped section as the base upper body for holding and fixing an LED light bulb, and a rectangular cube section as the base lower body. The base upper body and lower body are molded into a single body.

3. The base upper body in claim 2 has a protrusion built on the corner of one lateral side and the top side.

4. The base lower body in claim 2 has two small going-through holes on the flat bottom for passing two LED pins.

5. The said socket in claim 1 has a hollow cylinder-shaped body, wherein, the top side and the bottom side are open. A certain part of the socket upper body on the corner of one lateral side and the top side is extended outward, and thus forms a housing with its top side open and bottom side closed.

6. The keyed LED base and the socket in claim 1 are well matched in shape and size, where the LED base can insert into the socket from its top side only when the protrusion of the base and the housing of the socket are oriented in the same direction, and the housing of the socket houses the protrusion of the base.

7. The socket in claim 1 has 4 shallow vertical slots on its inner wall, with two slots forming a pair respectively. Each vertical slot is formed by a low ridge and a groove next to the ridge. The top end of each vertical slot is open, while the bottom end is closed.

8. The first slot pair in claim 7 is located on one side of the socket inner wall, while the second pair is located on the opposite side of the socket inner wall.

9. The said two electrical terminals in claim 1 are thin metal plates, wherein, there is a clamp portion on the lower part of each terminal for connecting one or two electrical wires. The first terminal can insert into the first pair of slot on one side of a socket inner wall as defined in claim 8, from the open top end and until it reaches the closed bottom end of the slots. The second terminal can insert into the second pair of slot on the other side of the socket inner wall as defined in claim 8, from the open top end and until it reaches the closed bottom end of the slots.

10. The said wedge in claim 1 is used to close the bottom side of the socket. The three vertical semicircular grooves carved on two sides of the wedge and the three vertical semicircular grooves carved on two inner sides of the socket lower body will form three circular holes when the wedge is installed in place. These holes will pass three electrical wires.