Touch-control light emitting apparatus

• US 6,155,700 A
• Filed: 03/26/1999
• Issued: 12/05/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ming-Tay Hsu
• Original Assignee: Ming-Tay Hsu
• Inventors: Hsu, Ming-Tay
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, Y MY QUACH
• Application Number:
  US09/276,639
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• Field of Search: 362/196, 362/202, 362/203, 362/205, 362/206, 362/208, 362/363, 362/800, 362/809, 362/253, 446/485, 446/439
• US Class Current: 362/363
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 17/28 Electric lighting systems
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/04 the elements being switches safety devices F21V25/00

Abstract

A touch-control light emitting apparatus comprising a hollow housing, a battery seat, a light emitting body, a light emitting body seat, a plurality of batteries, a spring, a touch button module, characterized in that the battery seat is formed within the hollow housing and is provided with a plurality of batteries, the light emitting body is mounted with the light emitting body having a short contacting leg passed through the light emitting body seat and in contact with the positive terminal of the battery, a long contacting leg provided within the vertical slot across the light emitting body seat and the battery seat, the end of the long contacting leg being in contact with the top end of the spring, the top end of the battery also serially connected to the bottom of the battery seat, the lower end of the spring is in contact with a metal cap having being connected to a touch button at the bottom thereof, the touch button is pivotally mounted at an opening provided at the bottom of the hollow housing; thereby when the touch button is pressed, the metal cap moves upward to contact with the negative terminal of the battery within the battery seat such that the negative current passes through the metal cap and the spring to the long contacting leg, and the light emitting body is then lighted.

Claims

1. A touch-control light emitting apparatus comprising a hollow housing, the hollow housing essentially comprised of an upper housing and a lower housing of symmetrical shape connected to each other, a battery seat formed within the hollow housing and receiving a plurality of batteries, a light emitting body seat within the hollow housing, a light emitting body having a short contacting leg passed through the light emitting body seat and in contact with a positive terminal of the batteries, the light emitting body having a long contacting leg provided within a plurality of vertical slots across the light emitting body seat and the battery seat, an end of the long contacting leg in contact with a top end of the spring within the hollow housing, a top end of the batteries electrically connected in series to a bottom of the battery seat, a lower end of the spring in contact with a metal cap, a bottom of the metal cap connected to a touch button in the lower housing, and the touch button pivotally mounted at an opening, formed at a bottom of the hollow housing, with the metal cap having a protrusion moving upward to contact with a negative terminal of the batteries within the battery seat, when the touch button is pressed, such that a negative current passes through the metal cap and the spring to the long contacting leg, to light the light emitting body.

2. The touch-control light emitting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein an opening is formed in a blocking channel of the upper housing, a light mask is mounted to the light emitting body seat and covers the light emitting body, and a top end of the light mask exposed at the opening of the upper housing.

3. The touch-control light emitting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein a recess is formed at a top end of the battery seat to connect with the light emitting body seat, a pair of symmetrical framed slots are formed on the battery seat and adjacent to the recess for engaging with a pair of protruded blocks on lateral sides of the light emitting body seat so that light emitting body seat is rigidly secured within the battery seat.

4. The touch-control light emitting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the vertical slot of the battery seat is formed within a framed slot on the battery seat and is extended downward from a recess, in the battery seat and adjacent the framed slot, toward the metal cap, the vertical slot of the light emitting body seat is formed in a protruded block, formed on the light emitting body seat, and is extended downward toward the battery seat, and the vertical slots are symmetrically mounted such that the long contacting leg of the light emitting body extending vertically downward toward the metal cap after being bent at an angle of 90 degrees.