INTEGRAL LAMP ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION THEREOF

• US 20120170286A1
• Filed: 12/12/2011
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Federal-Mogul, LLC (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Federal-Mogul, LLC (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Molinaro, Mark, Bodem, Jack, Ramey, David E., Bryant, Johnny D., Simchak, Jeffrey D.
• Application Number:
  US13/316,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20120170286A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/362
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 41/192 Details of lamp holders, terminals or connectors
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/195 Details of lamp holders, terminals or connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/504 different pieces being moulded, cemented, welded, e.g. ultrasonic, or swaged together
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/09 for baseless lamp bulb
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49227 Insulator making

Abstract

An integral lamp assembly and method of construction thereof is provided. The integral lamp assembly includes a bulb and a plurality of terminals fixed to the bulb. The assembly further includes a socket having at least one through passage wherein the terminals extend through the at least one through passage. The assembly also includes a housing overmolded in bonded relation to at least one of the socket and the terminals such that the housing prevents the bulb from being removed from the socket and prevents the socket from being removed from the housing.

Claims

8. A method of constructing an integral lamp assembly, comprising:

providing a bulb having a plurality of terminals with proximal end portions fixed to the bulb and distal end portions extending away from the bulb;

providing a socket having at least one through passage;

disposing the distal end portions of the plurality of terminals through the at least one through passage; and

overmolding a housing in bonded relation to at least one of the socket and the plurality of terminals and preventing the bulb from being removable from the socket.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the overmolding step includes overmolding the housing in bonded relation to the socket and to a portion of the distal end portions of the terminals.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the overmolding step includes avoiding overmolding the housing in bonded relation to the proximal end portions of the terminals.

11. The method of claim 8 further including bending the plurality of terminals after inserting the distal end portions through the at least one through passage and before the overmolding step.

13. The method of claim 8 further including overmolding the housing having a receptacle extending about free ends of the terminals.

12-1. The method of claim 12 wherein the overmolding step includes avoiding overmolding the housing in bonded relation to the proximal end portions.