Electrical plug for automobile use

• US 5,326,283 A
• Filed: 08/03/1993
• Issued: 07/05/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: E Lead Electronic Company Limited
• Original Assignee: E Lead Electronic Company Limited
• Inventors: Chen, Tonny
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Application Number:
  US08/101,563
• Time in Patent Office: 336 Days
• Field of Search: 439/621, 439/622, 439/699, 439/700, 439/638, 439/639, 439/640, 439/501
• US Class Current: 439/620.34
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/14 of electrically-heated lighters
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/02 Intermediate parts for distributing energy to two or more circuits in parallel, e.g. splitter with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/92

Abstract

An improved electric plug for automobile use is equipped with an extra extension cord sticking out of a side hole; and a cord fixing hook disposed at the periphery of the top end of the plug body; and a socket disposed at the top end of the plug body so as to permit another plug to be coupled thereto consecutively. The extension cord can be adjustably wound around the plug body with the cord retained by the cord fixing hook, permitting the length of the cord to be varied to meet different requirement in use.

Claims

1. An improved electric plug for automobile use, comprising a plug body;

a pair of flexible conducting strips;

a cap threadedly attached to one end of said plug body;

a contact pin led through said cap;

a fuse and a spring means disposed in contact with said contact pin consecutively and said spring abutting against a conducting plate of a base seat;

said flexible conducting strips each having an arc protrusion sticking out of a slot-like opening on said plug body; and

an extension cord having two wires one of which is connected to one of said flexible conducting strips and the other is connected to said conducting plate;

said plug being characterized by that a side hole is disposed on the periphery of said body so as to permit said extension cord to extend out of said plug body, serving as another power supply source;

said plug body is provided with a socket means at a top end thereof so as to permit either another plug of an electric device to be inserted therein or several said identical plug bodies to be consecutively connected end to end.

2. The improved electric plug as claimed in claim 1 wherein a cord fixing hook is disposed at the periphery of said plug body so as to permit said extension cord to be partly wound around said plug body and retained in place by said cord fixing hook.