Lighting Device

• US 20090116229A1
• Filed: 11/05/2008
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Energizer Brands, LLC (Energizer Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Eveready Battery Company Incorporated (Energizer Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Osiecki, Scott, Allen, Scott, Dalton, David R., Brown, John R., Englert, Robert, Schweitzer, Andrew, Rugendyke, Timothy
• Granted Patent: US 7,703,940 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/191
• CPC Class Codes: F21L 4/005 the device being a pocket lamp F21L4/022, F21L4/045, F21L4/085 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 6/00 Lighting devices intended to be free-standing F21S9/00, F21S10/00, F21S13/12 take precedence lighting devices specially adapted to be transported from place to place, e.g. lighting devices carried on wheeled supports F21L; details of supports for lighting devices F21V21/00
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 6/002 Table lamps, e.g. for ambient lighting
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 6/007 for indirect lighting only, e.g. torchiere with reflector bowl directed towards ceiling
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/06 by suspension
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/108 Arms
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/145 for portable lighting devices

Abstract

A lighting device (30) having a housing (12) which includes a lamp means, a battery housing to receive at least one battery and a switch means to open and close a circuit between said lamp means and terminals of said at least one battery when located in said housing. Said lighting device includes a lanyard (110, 112) attached to said housing (12) characterised by said lanyard having a proximal end attached to said housing (12) and a distal end, whereby said distal end or a portion of said lanyard (110, 112) is adapted to be releasably attached to said housing (12).

Claims

1. A lighting device comprising:

a housing having first and second ends;

a lamp disposed in the housing proximal to the first end;

a contact disposed in the housing and configured to receive power used to illuminate the lamp;

a switch that opens and closes a circuit which electrically couples the lamp and the contact; and

a lanyard having first and second ends, wherein the first end of the lanyard is attached to a first portion of the second end of the housing, and the second end of the lanyard includes a hook that attaches to a second different portion of the second end of the housing.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the second end of the housing releasably attaches to the second different portion.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the hook is part of a clasp affixed to the second end of the housing.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the second different portion is an eyelet.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the second different portion is an aperture.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the second end of the housing includes two sides that extend along a longitudinal axis of the device and a third side, which is generally perpendicular to the two sides and connected thereto, wherein the first and second ends of the lanyard connect to different ones of the two sides of the second end of the housing.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the second end of the housing includes two sides that extend along a longitudinal axis of the device and a third side, which is generally perpendicular to the two sides and connected thereto, wherein the first and second ends of the lanyard connect to the third side of the second end of the housing.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the lanyard includes a loop of cord.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the loop of cord has an adjustable length.

10. The device of claim 9, further including a clamping mechanism with a lever pivotally connected to the housing on either side of a slot formed in or on the housing.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the lever pivots away from the housing to release the loop cord to adjust the length of the loop cord and pivots towards the housing to maintain the length.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein the lanyard includes a cable.

13. A lighting device comprising:

a housing, including a lamp and a battery receiving region; and

a lanyard attached to the housing, the lanyard including a first end attached to a first portion of a first end of the housing and a second end releasably attached to a second portion of the first end of the housing by an adjustable securing apparatus.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the adjustable securing apparatus alternately holds the second end of the lanyard at one of a plurality of locations on the lanyard.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein each of the locations corresponds to a different length of the lanyard between the adjustable securing apparatus and first end of the housing.

16. The device of claim 13, wherein the lamp is disposed at a second end of the housing, which is opposite the first end of the housing, along a longitudinal axis of the housing.

17. The device of claim 13, wherein the adjustable securing apparatus comprises a clasp.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the adjustable clasp secures the second end of the lanyard so as to vary a length of the lanyard between the clasp and the first end of the housing.

19. A method, comprising:

releasably attaching a hook on a first end of a lanyard of a lighting device to a first end of the lighting device, wherein a second opposing end of the lanyard is fixedly attached to the first end of the lighting device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein a light source is disposed in a second opposing end of the device.