Visual indicator support on a printed circuit

• US 4,575,785 A
• Filed: 08/01/1984
• Issued: 03/11/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: La Telemecanique Electrique
• Original Assignee: La Telemecanique Electrique
• Inventors: Lerude, Gerard, Roux, Christine
• Primary Examiner(s): Moy, Magdalen Y. C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Okonsky, David A.
• Application Number:
  US06/636,636
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: 362/226, 362/227, 362/249, 362/370, 362/437, 362/438, 362/353, 362/800, 362/362, 362/383
• US Class Current: 362/646
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10446 Mounted on an edge soldering edge mounted components H05K3/3405; edge terminals H05K2201/1034
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10462 Flat component oriented parallel to the PCB surface
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10568 Integral adaptations of a component or an auxiliary PCB for mounting, e.g. integral spacer element
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2203/167 Using mechanical means for positioning, alignment or registration, e.g. using rod-in-hole alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/301 by means of a mounting structure H05K3/325 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/3447 Lead-in-hole components H05K3/3415 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/12 Resilient or clamping means for holding component to structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/80 Light emitting diode

Abstract

A visual indicator lamp support is provided comprising an elongate insulating body having a front face and a rear face substantially perpendicular to its longitudinal dimension and forming, at its front face, jaws for insertion of the indicator lamp, a bearing surface inside said body cooperating with the rear face of the indicator lamp, holes through which the wires thereof extend formed through said body and means for securing to a printed circuit card, wherein said body forms a reference surface perpendicular to said rear face and joined thereto by a re-entrant surface adapted for freeing a portion of said wires and shaped so that bending back of said body from a first position in which its rear face is in abutment against the card and plays the role of spacer defining a pre-determined distance between said rear face of the indicator lamp and the surface of the printed circuit for soldering said wires to a second position in which said reference surface is in abutment against the card, results in causing pre-determined bending of said wires.

Claims

1. In a visual indicator lamp support comprising an elongate insulating body having a front face and a rear face substantially perpendicular to its longitudinal dimension and forming, at its front face, jaws for insertion of an indicator lamp, said indicator lamp having lead wires, a bearing surface inside said body cooperating with a rear surface of the indicator lamp, passage holes for the lead wires thereof formed through said body and means for securing the lead wires to a printed circuit card, said body having a reference surface perpendicular to the rear face and having a re-entrant surface with said passage holes therein and joining said reference surface and rear face to thereby form a channel, said channel frees a portion of said wires for bending, said body being rotatable from a first position in which its rear face is in abutment against the card while said leads are secured to a second position in which said reference surface is in abutment against the card, said rotation causing a pre-determined bending of said wires.

2. The visual indicator lamp support as claimed in claim 1, wherein said jaws from a housing for a cylindrical or oqival shaped body of said indicator lamp, adapted so that the axis of symmetry thereof is held in a direction substantially parallel to said longitudinal dimension.

3. The visual indicator lamp support as claimed in claim 2, wherein the internal surfaces of said jaws, which define said housing, form chambers limited rearwardly by edges adapted for braking removal of the body of the indicator lamp.

4. A support assembly comprising a plurality of visual indicator lamp supports such as claimed in claim 1, which are identical and whose bodies are joined together by weakened portions allowing separation of the plurality of supports.

5. The assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein said weakened portions are provided with holes for introducing therein tools for centering the assembly with respect to a printed circuit.

6. The visual indicator lamp support as claimed in claim 1, wherein said securing means comprise a hook adapted for cooperating, by clipping-on, with an edge of the printed circuit card adjacent the passage holes for the wires, when said body is in a bent-back position.

7. The visual indicator lamp support as claimed in claim 6, wherein said hook is integral with said reference surface and comprises a chamfer at its clip-on end.

8. The visual indicator lamp support as claimed in claim 6, wherein said re-entrant surface is shaped so as to serve as a bending jig for said wires, so that after clipping-on a resilient stress continues to be exerted on said wires.

9. The visual indicator lamp support as claimed in claim 8, wherein said re-entrant surface has the form of a step in height whose width is parallel to said rear face.

10. A visual indicator lamp support as claimed in claim 4, wherein said holes for passing the wires through open rearwardly of said body at the level of said bearing surface and are extended rearwardly by grooves opening at the level of the width of said step.