Abstract: A locking and disconnect system for use with an ultraviolet lighting system used in a waste management system. The system includes a light coupled to a housing having a cam receiving portion. The system further includes a cell for housing the light. The cell includes a cam locking mechanism engageable with the cam receiving portion of the housing.

Abstract: A lighthead mounting structure provides both precise alignment of a lighthead and an effective heat transfer path away from heat generating components of the lighthead. Cooperating aluminum brackets are configured to lock together and overlap to provide an effective heat transfer path.

Abstract: A surface-mountable light fixture (100) can comprise a base (101) that is configured and arranged to be mounted in an installed position juxtaposed against a mounting surface (102). At least one light source interface (109, 110) that requires mains electricity is contained within this base. This base further comprises an access port (111) formed therein which, when opened while the base is mounted in an installed position on the mounting surface, provides end user access to electrical conductors for the light source interface(s) as well as the mains electricity (104, 105). This base then also further comprises a lockable cover (112) that is configured and arranged to selectively and reversibly seal the access port to deny end user access to the electrical conductors.

Abstract: An LED holder has a housing, a disc mounted in a lower end of the housing, a seat formed on the disc, a pair of sockets formed in the seat and a bracket mounted detachably on the seat to hole the LED. Hence, the LED is assembled and disassembled easily.

Abstract: A lamp-fixing device includes a base and at least one receiving unit. The receiving unit is formed on the base. The receiving unit includes two opposite protruding walls extending perpendicular out from the base. The two protruding walls and the base cooperatively define a receiving space used to receive one end of a lamp tube with an electrode holder. The two protruding walls and the base each define a heat dissipation hole therein of the receiving space.

Abstract: A fluorescent tube lamp socket having a housing with opposing sided electrical contacts with one of the contacts and housing portion pivotal relative to the other to allow for increased access and easier placement of a lamp therein. The bulb socket housing having a cavity providing for pivotal movement during lamp insertion that once placed therein is pivotal to a seated locked position ensuring contact between the bulb pins and socket electrical contacts.

Abstract: A light for use in light strings has a deeper socket, a longer base and longer Dumet wires than a standard socket, base, and Dumet wires so that the standard bases and bulbs will not operate in the non-standard socket. Furthermore, the base and sockets are keyed so that they are restricted to at most two orientations with respect to each other and cannot be twisted with respect to each other.

Abstract: Retrofit fluorescent lighting fixtures for installation into a surface mounted cylindrical lighting fixture of the square or cylindrical shape. A 4-wire assembly is used for replacing conventional incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent light bulbs in existing lighting fixtures recessed downlights, in particular. The retrofit lighting fixtures include, inter alia, a threaded connector, a ballast, a heat exchanger, a fluorescent light source connector and a threaded body for receiving a reflector glass.

Abstract: A lamp holding unit includes a coupling terminal and a main body. The coupling terminal includes a coupling plate extended in a direction crossing a longitudinal direction of a lamp. The coupling plate has a cutout portion to receive a lead line of the lamp so that the cutout portion of the coupling plate making contact with the lead line. The main body is coupled with the coupling terminal and guiding the lamp. Therefore, an electrical connection between the lamp holding unit and the lead line of the lamp is stabilized, so that noise or spark caused by mal-connection is prevented.

Abstract: Control panel architectures, and, specifically, architectures having bulb assemblies as features, particular those in control panels used in motor vehicle applications, are disclosed. By providing restricting means such as for leg features as part of the control panel assay, bulb assemblies are more resistant to damage to the bulb globe or filaments, or other elements, due to the effect of undesired movement or vibration that occurs in motorized vehicles.

Abstract: A light tube assembly includes a light tube and a stabilizer which includes a tubular body with copper members that are slidably engaged with curved slots in a base. A core with terminal plates is received in the tubular body and two locking pin 51s extend through grooves in the tubular body and are removably inserted into the base. An end cap is rotatably connected to the core and is positioned at three positions. The three positions allow the user to replace the base, to replace the light tube and to secure the light tube respectively.

Abstract: A lamp has a polygonal-section plug part extending along an axis and having at least one radially outwardly directed face formed with a radially outwardly projecting retaining bump. A socket has a core body formed with a polygonal-section socket hole complementary to the plug part and into which the plug part can be fitted axially in an installed position and that substantially completely prevents angular displacement of the plug part relative to the core body in the installed position. A sleeve surrounds the core body and can angularly shift relative thereto between a freeing end position and a blocking end position. The sleeve is formed with a radially inwardly projecting retaining formation that, in the installed position of the plug part, is angularly offset from the bump in the freeing position and that operatively engages and blocks axial displacement of the bump in the blocking position.

Abstract: An improved LED positioning structure includes a retaining holder and a cover; multiple slots being disposed on one side of the retaining holder; a slope externally extending beneath each slot gradually and externally extending a slope; a hole connecting through each slot being formed on the bottom of the slope; a positioning channel at the top of the retaining holder for LED pins to respectively penetrate each hole, thus each pin being placed in a slot; a bent part of each pin being formed by the curvature located between the slot and the positioning channel to position the LED mask in the positioning channel; and the cover being positioned at top of the slot to secure the LED in place.

Abstract: The invention relates to a firecracker-like light string, which includes bulb assemblies on both sides as a string of firecrackers. Blind wires are interconnected with the electrical wire to position the bulb assemblies on both sides of the electrical wires in secure. The string can be hung without other supporting frame to display a spiral firecracker-like decorative effect.

Abstract: A luminaire assembly (10) using a double-ended, unshielded high intensity discharge (HID) light source (100). In one aspect, the assembly (10) includes a light source mount (22) adapted to manually, without tools, mount and remove the HID light source (100). The light source mount (22) can optionally include structure (106L and R, 134L and R) to automatically position the light source (100) in a desired orientation. In another aspect, the assembly (10) includes a connection (104L and R, 304L and R, 306L and R) adapted to manually, without tools, connect the light source (100) to electrical power, the connection (104L and R, 304L and R, 306L and R) can be configured to have no electrically conducting surfaces directly exposed or accessible to human fingers and can be configured to be positioned relatively away from the light source (100).

Abstract: A lamp string includes bulb mounting units arranged electrically in series with each other, and light-emitting units, each provided with two conductive leads. Each bulb mounting unit includes: a receptacle formed with angularly displaced first and second inner shoulders, the first inner shoulder having a shorter depth than the second inner shoulder from a top open end of the receptacle; a mounting seat mounted in the receptacle and including a flange formed with an axially extending protrusion, the flange having a portion seated on the first inner shoulder, the axially extending protrusion being seated on the second inner shoulder; and first and second conductive contacts contacting the leads of a respective light-emitting unit.

Abstract: A line voltage track light system comprising a number of track elements supported by ceiling feed mounts secured to a ceiling on the one hand, and clipped to the track elements by one-piece adaptors on the other hand, wherein installation of the line voltage track light system comprises securing ceiling feed mounts to a ceiling, and clipping the track elements to one-piece adaptors supported by rods extending from the ceiling feed mounts.

Abstract: A lamp includes a lamp cover, a light emitting diode (LED), and a lamp holder, wherein the lamp holder includes an inner cover and an outer cover. The inner cover includes a pair of movable parts each having a top portion and a bottom portion. Two longitudinal channels are formed through the internal space of the inner cover and are in communication with through holes in the top portion and the bottom portion. The LED legs extend downwardly through the through holes of the top portion and make electrical contact, in the longitudinal channels, with lead wires projecting upwardly through the through holes in the bottom portion. The inner cover is inserted into the outer cover to form an annular groove intermediate the outer wall surface of the inner cover and the inner wall surface of the outer cover. The lamp cover head is mounted in the annular groove.

Abstract: A replaceable lamp header for positioning a lamp within a reflector assembly includes a base member having first and second lateral portions, at least one first source connection coupled to each of the first and second lateral portions, at least one second source connection coupled to each of the first and second lateral portions, a first interconnect coupling the first source connections and being external to the base member, and a second interconnect coupling the second source connections and being external to the base member.

Abstract: An emergency lighting device adapted to be quickly and easily mounted and installed. In one embodiment, a mounting member of the device is first mounted to a desired structure and connected to an external power supply. Once mounted and completed, and emergency lighting assembly is secured to the mounting member. In certain embodiments, securing the emergency lighting assembly to the mounting member connects the device to the external power supply and energizes the device.

Abstract: A low-voltage luminaire assembly is provided with a transformer and a lamp holder, one or more of which have quick-release connections. Methods for installing and servicing the luminaire assembly are also provided. The luminaire assembly may also have a plurality of lamp holders, a plurality of input and output electrical wires, a rotary dimmer switch, and an electrical plug component. The transformer and lamp holders are mounted to an object and the electrical wires are tailored to the necessary installation dimensions, thereby providing a luminaire assembly that is easily and neatly installable to any object in any desired configuration.

Abstract: A connector assembly has a holder, a socket, a plug, a connecting tube and a holding element. The holder has two notches. Each notch has a groove defined in one side of the notch. The connecting tube is securely attached to the plug and has multiple teeth formed respectively at opposite ends of the diameter of the connecting tube and corresponding respectively to the notches in the holder. The holding element is U-shaped and attached to the holder, engages with teeth on the connecting tube and the grooves in the holder. The holder element has a middle segment and two tabs. The tabs extend perpendicularly from the ends of the middle segment and respectively into the notches. Each tab has two edges engaging respectively with the groove in the side of a corresponding notch of the holder and one of the teeth on the connecting tube.

Abstract: A lamp (L) having tubular end contacts (L1) adapted for insertion into opposite lamp holders (P), each lamp holder (P) having a body (S) in an insulating material and a contact element (C) shaped to provide a seat for the lamp contact (L1). In one embodiment, the seat comprises a cylindrical central portion (C1) positioned between flexible opposite arched walls (C2) with two upper divergent flanges (C2a). The lamp end contacts (L1) are positioned between the flexible arched walls (C2) of the contacts (C), in order to receive the cylindrical parts (C1) of the seats of the contact elements (C) inside the end contacts (L1) of the lamp (L). By the rotation of the lamp (L) around the cylindrical parts (C1) of the contact elements (C), an unwanted removal of the lamp (L) from the lamp holders (P) is prevented.

Abstract: A stepwise combined sockets for Christmas lights includes a pair of first and second sockets stepwise combined together with the first socket higher the second socket, a vertical space form between the pair of socket slightly extended into second socket, a first inlaid groove in an inner periphery of the second socket and pair of second inlaid groove respectively formed in an inner periphery of the sockets opposite to the vertical space for engaging a pair of single contact plates from a first and a second electric wires, a bent common contact plate striding over the two socket having an upper vertical portion disposed into the first socket a transverse portion stopping on the bottom of the vertical space and a lower vertical portion engaged within the first inlaid groove in the second socket, a wrapper ring wrapped the upper rim of the first socket having a downward projection from a side thereof blocking the vertical space, the projection having a lower end stopped against the transverse portion of the comm

Abstract: A modular light assembly is provided. The light assembly includes a light housing with sides, an electrical light source inside the housing and connected to a connector on at least one side of the housing, and a pin for pivotally, electrically and detachably connecting the side with the connector to a side of another housing having the connector. The connector includes a quarter turn receptacle set into a dielectric medium, which is surrounded by a conductive metal ring. The electrical light source may be a plurality of LED lamps connected to a printed circuit board, which is connected to the connector. The light assembly may also be connected to other electrical and non-electrical devices having a connector.

Abstract: A retainer for securing a lamp having a connector. The retainer includes a pedestal having a circumference. A socket for receiving the connector is defined by the pedestal and includes a perimeter extending beyond the socket. A retainer is operably connected to the pedestal and is linearly confined between a first position and a second position. The retainer traverses the perimeter of the socket in its first position. An inhibitor capable of being secured about the circumference of the pedestal constrains the first member in its first position to impede removal of the lamp.

Abstract: A mounting assembly includes first long and short legs on a first light bulb holder to correspond to first long and short recesses in the first socket, a first sectorial periphery in an outer periphery of the first light bulb holder to correspond to the first arcuate periphery on the first socket and a first right angle on the first light bulb holder to correspond to the first angle on the first socket. Further provisions are second long and short legs on a second light bulb holder to correspond to second long and short recesses in the second socket, a second sectorial periphery in an outer periphery of the second light bulb holder to correspond to the second arcuate periphery on the second socket and a first right angle on the second light bulb holder to correspond to the second angle on the second socket.

Abstract: A halogen lampholder includes a base, a locking spring, two clipping members, two sliding members, a bottom cover, an outer shell and an outer ring. The base is assembled with the locking spring, the clipping members and the sliding members and then, with the bottom cover and the outer shell orderly. The base has a vertical plugging chamber for a fitting portion and two conducting teeth of a lamp to plug in. The locking spring clamps the fitting portion of the lamp. The clipping members connect with the conducting teeth. The sliding members are placed in the base to restrain the locking spring. The bottom cover restrains the locking spring and the clipping members. The outer shell covers the bottom cover, combined with an outer ring and a power-wire tube for a power wire to pass through and reach the clipping members.

Abstract: An outdoor decorative lighting arrangement and system includes a plurality of lighting fixtures with each fixture including a stake, a bulb and shade assembly, and a coupling assembly for connecting the bulb and shade assembly to the stake. The shades are detachable and interchangeable on the lighting fixtures and come in a variety of forms or shapes that are representative of different holiday occasions and events. The decorative lighting system can be used with an existing permanent outdoor lighting system, and can operate off of 110 volt AC current, 12 volt DC current, or through solar panels incorporated with one or more of the light shades.