Rotatable socket for a halogen lamp

• US 6,287,152 B1
• Filed: 12/01/2000
• Issued: 09/11/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sun Lite Sockets Industry Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sun Lite Sockets Industry Incorporated
• Inventors: Yang, Wen Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Sircus, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): DINH, PHUONG K
• Application Number:
  US09/726,323
• Time in Patent Office: 284 Days
• Field of Search: 439/337, 439/644, 439/673, 439/674
• US Class Current: 439/644
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/08 for halogen lamps
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/22 for screw type base, e.g. for lamp

Abstract

A rotatable socket for a halogen-lamp. The socket includes a porcelain base having two insert grooves at its bottom and an H-shaped upright post standing on the bottom. A plus and minus contact members respectively positioned in two opposite recessed sides of the H-shaped upright post. The top end of the plus contact member rests on a protruding lug on the top center of the H-shaped upright post. The top end of the minus contact member rests on the top of the right side wing of the H-shaped post. A mica plate is fitted on the H-shaped post and a metal threaded sleeve surrounds the H-shaped post and is fixed with it by rivets, permitting the top end of the plus contact member to protrude out in order to function as a plus terminal and an upper rim of the threaded sleeve presses the top section of the minus contact member to function as a minus terminal.

Claims

1. A rotatable socket for a halogen lamp comprising:

a porcelain base comprising two arc-shaped insert grooves in its bottom,

an H-shaped upright post formed to stand on said bottom, the H-shaped upright post comprising two oppositely positioned left and right side wings,

two coil springs positioned at two opposite recessed sides of said upright post,

a plus contact member and a minus contact member respectively positioned in said two recessed sides of said H-shaped upright post,

a top curved section of said plus contact member resting on a top center of said H-shaped upright post,

a top curved section of said minus contact member positioned on top of said right side wing of said H-shaped upright post,

said plus and minus contact members extending to said insert grooves and forming terminal members positioned oppositely and in parallel with each other,

said coil springs respectively positioned between backs of said terminal members and said porcelain base to push said terminal members to contact an inner circumference of said insert grooves,

said H-shaped upright post fitted with a mica plate and surrounded by a metal threaded rotatable sleeve which is riveted together with said side wings of said H-shaped post, with its bottom rim pressing said mica plate as well as said plus and minus contact members,

said threaded rotatable sleeve having an open top to permit a top section of said plus contact member to protrude out therefrom and an annular rim on its top to press said top section of said minus contact member on said right side wing of said H-shaped post, and

said rotatable socket is rotatably attachable and electrically connectable to a conventional lamp socket such that a halogen lamp is securable on to the rotatable socket and electrically connectable thereto.

2. The rotatable socket for a halogen lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein a projecting lug is formed integral on said top center of said H-shaped upright post to let the top curved section of said plus contact member rest on and protrude out of said threaded rotatable sleeve so that said plus contact member is contactable with a plus terminal of a conventional threaded lamp socket.

3. The rotatable socket for a halogen lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein two gaps are formed between said two opposite sides of said H-shaped upright post and said threaded rotatable sleeve can be respectively filled up with porcelain blocks to insulate said upright post from said threaded rotatable sleeve.