T type quick-lock lampholder

• US 6,758,578 B1
• Filed: 06/11/2003
• Issued: 07/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tsung-Yuan Chou
• Original Assignee: Tsung-Yuan Chou
• Inventors: Chou, Tsung-Yuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Sember, Thomas M.
• Application Number:
  US10/458,315
• Time in Patent Office: 391 Days
• Field of Search: 362/226, 362/391, 362/806, 439/419, 439/280
• US Class Current: 362/647
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/06 the fastening being onto or by the lampholder
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 19/00 Fastening of light sources or lamp holders fastening electric light source solely by the coupling device H01R33/00 ; special means for attaching candle to candle holder F21V35/003
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/002 making direct electrical contact, e.g. by piercing F21V21/35 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/02 Wall, ceiling, or floor bases; Fixing pendants or arms to the bases F21V21/08 takes precedence; bases for movable standing lamps F21V21/06
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/0824 Ground spikes
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/112 Fixing lighting devices to pendants F21V21/002 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/116 Fixing lighting devices to arms or standards F21V21/002 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/29 employing universal joints
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 25/10 coming into action when lighting device is overloaded, e.g. thermal switch
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/22 for screw type base, e.g. for lamp
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/806 Ornamental or decorative

Abstract

A lamp holder includes a socket and a cap. The socket is provided at a rear end with a wire groove and two piercing terminals upward projected from the wire groove. The cap has a top recess to provide a bottom surface. To assemble the lamp holder to an cable, simply position the wire in the wire groove and screw the cap onto the rear end of the socket. The bottom surface of the cap and areas at two lower opposite sides of the cap evenly apply forces in the same direction to three serial points on the cable while pressing the latter against the piercing terminals, so that the cable is quickly and accurately pierced through to electrically connect to the lamp holder. The lamp holder may also be connected to a universal link, a lampshade and the like for use at different places.

Claims

1. A lamp holder comprising a socket and a cap;

said socket being internally provided at predetermined positions near a rear end thereof with piercing terminals for directly piercing through an cable assembled to the rear end of said socket and thereby electrically connecting said cable to said lamp holder, said socket also being provided at the rear end with an axially extended and externally threaded first connecting head and a rear flange radially outward extended from a root of said first connecting head;

two wiring notches being oppositely provided on said first connecting head, and a sunken wire groove being provided on the rear end and said rear flange of said socket to extend between said two wiring notches; and

said wire groove being provided at predetermined positions on a bottom thereof with openings, from which said piercing terminals in said socket are outward projected;

said cap being internally provided with screw threads for engaging with said externally threaded first connecting head, and having a top recess that has a bottom surface adapted to press against said cable positioned in said wire groove;

said cap having a cap flange radially outward extended from a periphery of an end of said cap facing toward said socket;

whereby when said cable is connected to said lamp holder by positioning said cable in said sunken wire groove and tightening said cap to said first connecting head of said socket, said bottom surface of said cap and two areas of said cap flange at two opposite sides of said bottom surface together compress against said cable to evenly apply forces in the same direction to three serial points, that is, a front, a middle, and a rear point, on said cable, so that said cable is quickly pierced through by said piercing terminals projected from said openings on said wire groove without becoming misaligned with or skidded off said piercing terminals.

2. The lamp holder as claimed in claim 1, wherein said socket further includes a second connecting head that is externally threaded and axially extended from a front end of said socket for an internally threaded shade ring to screw thereto, and a front flange radially extended from a root of said second connecting head;

and said shade ring being provided around an end facing toward said socket with a ring flange.

3. The lamp holder as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a lamp panel and a lampshade;

said lamp panel having a first end movably clamped between said front flange on said socket and said ring flange on said shade ring screwed onto said second connecting head of said socket, and a second end to which said lampshade is detachably connected.

4. The lamp holder as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cap is provided in said top recess with a universal socket adapted to receive a universal joint ball provided at an end of a universal link, and said universal link being provided at another end with a chuck.

5. The lamp holder as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cap is provided in said top recess with a universal socket adapted to receive a universal joint ball provided at an end of a universal link, and said universal link being provided at another end with a spike.

6. The lamp holder as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cap is provided in said top recess with a universal socket adapted to receive a universal joint ball provided at an end of a universal link, and said universal link being provided at another end with a sucker.

7. The lamp holder as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cap is provided in said top recess with a universal socket adapted to receive a universal joint ball provided at an end of a universal link, and said universal link being provided at another end with a magnet.

8. The lamp holder as claimed in claim 1, wherein said wire groove on said socket is provided with a replacement opening, and one of said piercing terminals is connected to a auto-reset fuse, such that said fuse-connected piercing terminal is replaceable via said replacement opening.