Socket for light emitting diode

• US 5,087,212 A
• Filed: 10/16/1990
• Issued: 02/11/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hirose Electric Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Hirose Electric Company Limited
• Inventors: Hanami, Chiyoki
• Primary Examiner(s): DESMOND, EUGENE
• Application Number:
  US07/598,370
• Time in Patent Office: 483 Days
• Field of Search: 439/620, 439/546, 439/547, 362/226, 362/800
• US Class Current: 439/620.04
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6616 with resistor
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/06 with two current-carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts, having their axes parallel to each other
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/80 Light emitting diode

Abstract

A socket for a light emitting diode with a pair of leads, which includes a case (2); a first lead terminal (4) provided in the case and having a resistor contact and a first lead contact for contact with one of the leads; a second lead terminal (5) provided in the case and having a first contact portion and a second lead contact for contact with the other lead; a contact terminal (6) provided within the case and having a second contact portion and a second resistor contact; a resistor (7) provided within the case so that the resistor is held between the first and second resistor contacts.

Claims

1. A detachable socket for a two-lead electrical device having a pair of leads, comprising:

an insulating case consisting of a socket body with an insertion portion having a smaller circumference and a terminal opening on its side extending in its axial direction, and a cover portion attached to a top of said socket body and having a recess for receiving said two-lead electrical device;

a first lead terminal provided in said socket body and having a resistor contact and a first lead contact for contact with one of said leads;

a second lead terminal provided in said socket body and having a first contact portion extending downwardly along said insertion portion and exposed from said terminal opening on said insertion portion for contact with a first contact element of a mating socket;

a contact terminal mounted on an outside of said insertion portion and having a second contact portion extending downwardly along said insertion portion for contact with a second contact element of said mating socket and a second resistor contact extending laterally from a top portion thereof into said insertion portion; and

a resistor provided within said socket body so that said resistor is held between said first and second resistor contacts.