Multi-cell LED flashlight

• US 6,536,912 B2
• Filed: 04/11/2001
• Issued: 03/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pelican Products Incorporated (Pelican Products Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pelican Products Incorporated (Pelican Products Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Parker, David H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Quach-Lee, Y. My
• Assistant Examiner(s): Neils, Peggy A
• Application Number:
  US09/832,763
• Publication Number:
  US 20020149930A1
• Time in Patent Office: 713 Days
• Field of Search: 362/202, 362/205, 362/206, 362/396, 362/204, 362/208
• US Class Current: 362/206
• CPC Class Codes: F21L 4/045 Pocket lamps
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/0414 specially adapted to be used with portable lighting devices
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

A flashlight includes battery cells and an LED light source. A switching device is at the base of the barrel and the bottom of the battery. A head is located above the barrel. A housing holds the LED, and the cells are on a tray associated with the housing, and filtered in the body to be removable when the head is separated from the body.

Claims

1. A flashlight comprising:

a body for receiving a battery, the body having a longitudinal axis and a top and a base;

a head on the body having a lens and being for receiving an LED;

an LED coupled to a tray adapted to contain at least one battery therein;

a switch device with electrical contacts, the switch device being located towards the base of the body, the switch device acting to move inwardly and outwardly to open and close an electric circuit between the battery and the LED, said tray including a contact strip extending along the longitudinal length of the tray to the switch device, the switch device being mounted at the base of the tray, said switch device, said LED and said contact strip being mounted to said tray comprising a single complete assembly.

2. A flashlight as claimed in claim 1 wherein the switch device is operable to create the following conditions of the flashlight:

permanently on, permanently off and temporarily on under pressure from a finger urging closure of contacts in the switch and releasable from the temporarily on position on release of the finger pressure.

3. A flashlight as claimed in claim 1, the tray, switch device, LED and contact strip being removable from the body as a single unit.