Multiple swivel flashlight

• US 7,222,986 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2005
• Issued: 05/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Daka Research, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Daka Research, Inc.
• Inventors: Mah, Pat Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Shea; Sandra
• Assistant Examiner(s): Payne; Sharon
• Application Number:
  US11/075,076
• Publication Number:
  US 20060198133A1
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• Field of Search: 362/202, 362/297, 362/187, 362/190, 362/197, 362/239, 362/241, 362/282, 362/371, 362/418, 362/427, 362/429, 362/449, 362/420, 362/188, 362/184, 362/199, 362/250
• US Class Current: 362/202
• CPC Class Codes: F21L 4/04 characterised by the provision of a light source housing portion adjustably fixed to the remainder of the device
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/02 with provision for adjustment F21V17/04 - F21V17/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/145 for portable lighting devices
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/22 telescopic

Abstract

A multiple swivel flashlight provides a stable housing with flat bottom for ready support on most surfaces, as well as a pair of lamp reflector arms which are either conducting or carry conductors to supply the reflectors with the voltage and current needed to drive the lamps. Where the exterior of the support arms are conducting, they are either coated or painted to insulate the exterior. Where the support arms are non-conducting, conductors are either inlaid or attached, preferably along the interior surface of the conductors. The support arms support the reflectors at an angle in order to enable the user to optimally adjust the position of the multiple swivel flashlight.

Claims

1. A portable flashlight comprising:

a main housing;

a source of power having at least a first and a second pole and located within said main housing;

a first conducting reflector support arm electrically connected to said first pole of said source of power;

a second conducting reflector support arm electrically connected to said second pole of said source of power;

a first reflector light source supported by and pivotally rotatable with respect to said first and said second conducting reflector support arms and electrically connected in series between said

first and said second conducting reflector support arms;

a second reflector light source supported by and pivotally rotatable with respect to said first and said second conducting reflector support arms and electrically connected in series between said first and said second conducting reflector support arms.

2. The portable flashlight as recited in claim 1 and wherein said first and second conducting reflector support arms are angled with respect to said main housing.

3. The portable flashlight as recited in claim 1 and wherein said main housing is elongate having a flat bottom and a battery end cap opposite said first and said second conducting reflector support arms.

4. The portable flashlight as recited in claim 1 and wherein said main housing includes at least one of a charging and auxiliary power port for enabling said portable flashlight to accept energy external to said main housing.

5. The portable flashlight as recited in claim 1 and wherein said first and second conducting reflector support arms each include a conductive circular area annular portion for facilitating electrical power transfer to said first and said second reflector light sources throughout a full range of pivot of each of said first and second conducting reflector support arms.

6. The portable flashlight as recited in claim 1 and wherein said a first and said second conducting reflector support arms are telescoping and wherein one of said first and second reflector light sources are displaceable away from the other of said first and second reflectors.