Small lamp socket device for panel/printed board

• US 5,513,082 A
• Filed: 07/27/1995
• Issued: 04/30/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Oshino Electric LAMP Works Limited
• Original Assignee: Oshino Electric LAMP Works Limited
• Inventors: Asano, Yoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Gromada, Denise L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Basichas, Alfred
• Application Number:
  US08/508,567
• Time in Patent Office: 278 Days
• Field of Search: 362/226, 362/365, 362/366, 362/368, 362/396, 362/800, 248/222.12
• US Class Current: 362/656
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/002 the fastening means engaging the encapsulation or the packaging of the semiconductor device
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/0025 the fastening means engaging the conductors of the light source, i.e. providing simultaneous fastening of the light sources and their electric connections
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/74 Means for mounting coupling parts in openings of a panel
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/09 for baseless lamp bulb
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/80 Light emitting diode

Abstract

This invention provides a small lamp socket device for a panel/printed board which can be fitted from the surface of a printed board with a one-touch operation. Contact portions for a pattern face and snap portions for clamping and contacting a panel/printed board are disposed at upper and lower positions of the walls of an insulating socket main body 1, to which a small lamp is fitted, so that they protrude and oppose one another with a predetermined space between them. The snap portions have resilience so that they can come into and out from the socket main body, and the panel/printed board is clamped by the contact portions 6 and the snap portions after passing through a fitting hole of the panel/printed board.

Claims

1. A small lamp socket device for a panel with at least a single fitting hole, comprising:

an insulating socket main body for receiving therein a small lamp,

contact portions of a metal spring for a pattern face, said contact portions serving as terminals, and

snap portions of a metal spring for clamping and contacting said panel, said snap portions serving as terminals,

said contact portions and said snap portions being disposed at upper and lower positions of side walls of said insulating socket main body in such a fashion as to project and oppose one another in a spaced confronting relation,

said snap portions having resilience to come into and out from said socket main body, said panel being clamped by said contact portions and said snap portions after passing through said fitting hole of said panel.

2. A small lamp socket device for a panel according to claim 1, wherein the terminals of said contact portions and said snap portions are connected together in a unitary structure.

3. A small lamp socket device for a panel according to claim 1, wherein the terminals of said contact portions and said snap portion are separated from each other.

4. A small lamp socket device for a panel according to claim 1, wherein said snap portion is formed by bending arcuate plates, said arcuate plates each having a plurality of engagement portions for an edge of said fitting hole of said panel.

5. A small lamp socket device for a panel with at least a single fitting hole, comprising:

an insulating socket main body for receiving therein a small lamp,

contact portions of a metal spring for a pattern face, said contact portions serving as terminals,

snap portions of a metal spring for clamping and contacting said panel, said snap portions serving as terminals,

said contact portions and said snap portions being disposed at upper and lower positions of side walls of said insulating socket main body in such a fashion as to project and oppose one another in a spaced confronting relation,

said snap portions having resilience to come into and out from said socket main body, said panel being clamped by said contact portions and said snap portions after passing through said fitting hole of said panel, and

fall-prevention means formed at opposing walls orthogonally crossing the position of the terminals of said socket main body.

6. A small lamp socket device for a panel according to claim 5, wherein said fall-prevention means has projections formed at front and rear walls orthogonally crossing said terminals of the socket main body.