Abstract: A light assembly for installation in an aquatic facility such as a swimming pool, fountain or the like. The light assembly has a watertight lamp housing mounted within a generally cup-like mounting box to be installed within a wall recess or opening in the aquatic facility. Both the mounting box and the lamp housing have body shells which are tapered for stacking during manufacture, storage, and installation. The mounting box has a coupling which is adapted for connection to an electrical conduit containing an electrical cable that conducts electrical power to the lamp housing and which is adjustable to accommodate a range of orientations of the conduit relative to the box. The body of the lamp housing has a unique one piece shell construction including an integrally formed main body portion and face ring which greatly simplifies and reduces the manufacturing cost of the housing.

Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle comprises a lens, a reflector, a supporting casing supporting the lens and the reflector, a housing, and an element for compensating manufacturing tolerances and dampening vibrations and including an elastic element arranged between the supporting casing and the housing.

Abstract: An aerodynamic vehicle headlamp having a lens cover of increased strength with no increased thickness and no reinforcing ribs. The headlamp includes a lamp housing, a reflector mounted in the housing, a projecting lens provided in front of the reflector near the light gathering region thereof, and a transparent lens cover sloping forward and disposed in front of the projecting lens and lying across the optical axis of the reflector and covering the front opening of the lamp housing. The lens cover has a curved portion corresponding to the effective light distribution region defined by the projecting lens and an annular wall extending from the surface of the lens cover, with the curved portion being surrounded by the annular wall.

Abstract: A device arranged to be releasably mounting within a hole in a panel, e.g., a ceiling, to hold a lamp bulb and associated reflector or any other member therein. The device comprises a tubular body, a flange for engaging one side of the panel, and plural, equidistantly, peripherally-spaced, flexible arms for engaging the other side of the panel. Each arm extends outward from the body and is moveable from an extended position to a retracted position and vice versa. The arms are moved from the extended position to the retracted position when the body is pushed into the hole while being twisted about its longitudinal central axis in one rotational direction. The arms automatically move back to the extended position when the device is in place to hold the device securely within the hole. The device can be removed by pulling it out of the hole while twisting it about its longitudinal axis in the same rotational direction as used to insert it, whereupon the arms flex to the retracted position.

Abstract: A light assembly for outdoor purposes utilizing a supportive and corrosion protective housing allowing below grade placement. Individualized lamp and electrical component assemblies are separately sealed from water infiltration and are located within the housing with electrical connections provided by submersible rated cable and connectors. A potting material in the lamp assembly encapsulates the electrical wires which are further surrounded by a solid soldering compound barrier. A closure assembly separately seals the electrical components using a mounting base, a harness and a potting body which form one body through molding of the potting body about the remainder of the elements. A harness assembly wicking barrier is employed which further isolates the transformer from water infiltration. Bare metal strips forming conductors are encapsulated in the potting material. A face ring with slotted openings permits air flow and water entry into the housing for cooling the lamp assembly.

Abstract: A vehicle headlamp ventilation system includes a dust-resistant maze box. The maze box comprises a pair of rubber hose connections provided on opposite ends of a box, the box having an opening portion at one surface thereof, and ribs extending from the bottom surface of the box to the opening portion and which define a zig-zag flow path inside the box to prolong a spatial distance between the pair of rubber hose connections. The ribs are provided interiorly of the box, and the opening portion is closed by a cover which contacts the upper edges of the ribs. The dust-resistant maze box may also be formed integrally with a housing of a vehicle headlamp with the bottom surface of the box common with the housing of the headlamp.

Abstract: A head lamp for motor vehicle comprising a reflector, an adjusting member for adjusting a reflector position, and an assembly for connecting the adjusting member with the reflector and including a socket that receives a ball portion formed at an end of the adjusting member, and has a hair pin-shaped resilient portion which extends through a sleeve body defined by a reflector connecting portion, and includes an outer surface complementary to a guide surface defined by an inner surface of the sleeve body, and an end having a shoulder thereat that engages a shoulder formed on an end portion of the sleeve body, in the end position of the socket.

Abstract: A display device for producing a display, which device comprises a base, a rotatable member, first rotation means for rotating said rotatable member about a first axis, illumination means for producing a said display and arranged to be rotated about said first axis by said rotatable member, and second rotation means for causing movement (as herein defined) of said illumination means about a second axis different from and non-orthogonal to said first axis.

Abstract: A car headlight lamp having a lamp envelope (1), which is closed by seals (2) through which current lead-in members (3,4) are passed and is secured by a holding member to a socket (17), the holding member having a dipping cap (12), which at least partly surrounds the lamp envelope and is connected to a current lead-in member (4) of the lamp envelope. The socket (17) has an outwardly projecting cylindrical flange bush (24) for receiving the lamp envelope (1) and the lamp envelope has a tubular prolongation (6), onto which a clamping sleeve (7) is slipped, which consists of a cylindrical sleeve body (8), which has an outer flange (9) secured to the flange bush and several inwardly directed resilient tongues (10), which bear on the prolongation of the envelope. The dipping cap (12) is secured to the clamping sleeve (7).

Abstract: The lamp handle cover system for surgical lamps includes a semi-permanent, non-disposal surgical lamp handle and its accessory component, a sterile disposable semi-flexible handle cover, which, in combination, provides an aseptic medium by which a surgical team member can manually adjust the operating room lamp during a surgical procedure, thereby preventing accidental or unknown incidental contamination. The non-disposable lamp handle includes an ergonomically designed grip handle and a locking/coupling assembly which couples the grip handle to the male component of the conventional surgical lamp. The sterile disposable handle cover is formed from a flexible sleeve closed at one end and having a relatively rigid collar formed about the opposite open end. By holding the sleeve just below the collar, the surgical team member can easily slide the handle cover over the grip handle to engage the locking/coupling assembly which holds the handle cover in a secure position.

Abstract: A globe mounting device for a ceiling lamp is capable of supporting a glass globe safely and is also capable of maintaining the globe safely fixed for a long period of time by providing cushion materials to support the globe resiliently and having plate springs press downwardly against the globe. The invention comprises a lamp device holder which has a short cylindrical casing and an annular radial flange extending therefrom, a U-shaped supporting bracket with outwardly extending supporting pieces at both ends thereof to which cushion materials are fixed and insulating plate bolts for fixing the insulating plate and the supporting bracket to the short cylindrical casing and a semispherical glass globe having cut out recesses at opposing sides of an inwardly extending flange at the top end thereof. According to the invention, the globe can be fixed safely and kept fixedly safely for a long period of time.

Abstract: A lamp cover assembly for electric appliances which enables a lamp cover to be disassembled without being completely separated from the bottom face of the appliance. The assembly includes a lamp cover support means on which the lamp cover is pivotally mounted so that the lamp cover pivots without being completely separated from the bottom face when it is disassembled for replacing the lamp.

Abstract: A vanity mirror for mounting in a vehicle sun visor including a housing and an external connector provided in the sun visor, a lamp section including a tubular electric lamp provided in a recess formed in the housing and an internal connector provided in the housing. Two contact members for supporting the bases on both sides of the electric lamp are provided and the end of one extremity of these contact members are formed into electric lamp supporting portions. The other end of at least one of these contact members is made into a connecting piece for connecting the external connector thereto. Also, the internal connector is formed by placing a connecting piece connected to the other end of the other contact member in parallel with the connecting piece of the first contact. With this construction use of vehicle as a ground is avoided so that the supporting structure of the mirror with the lamp may be formed of a nonmetallic lightweight material.

Abstract: A surface lighting apparatus for backlighting a liquid crystal display panel(LCD) (4) has a light guide (11) for evenly illuminating back face of the LCD, the light guide comprising: an incidence plane wherefrom light beams from light source come in; a front face disposed vertical to the incidence plane wherefrom the light beams are out; and a curved back face whereon light reflecting layer is formed for reflecting the light beams to the front face.

Abstract: A light base and transformer housing to house an isolation transformer and to be used as a mounting base for airport mavigational lights comprising a unitary housing made from a noncorrosive material provided with external vertically extending fluted indentations so that said housing will have greater compressive strength and will resist movement in the ground when installed therein and after concrete or bitumen has been poured around said housing.

Abstract: An indicator gauge is disclosed, which comprises a meter panel. The meter panel includes a transparent base plate, a transparent colored layer applied to a rear surface of the transparent base platen and a fluorescent transparent substance layer applied to a front surface of the transparent base plate. A visual alarm indicator includes an opaque mark mounted to a given portion of the meter panel, a lamp housing having an open end which is connected to a rear surface of the meter panel in such a manner as to face toward the given portion and an electric lamp installed in the lamp housing. An ultraviolet lamp is arranged in front of the meter panel and generates ultraviolet rays upon electric energization thereof.

Abstract: An illuminated license plate frame is provided with lights arranged in a cavity formed between first and second frame members. The first frame member is light transmitting and the second, outwardly facing frame member is opaque, so that the emitted light is indirectly transmitted through the light transmitting frame member to produce a soft glow illumination effect.

Abstract: An illuminated splash guard includes a matrix of light emitting diodes (LED) arranged in a preconfigured matrix to direct a desired signal rearwardly of the splash guard organization. The light emitting diodes are arranged within the direct current circuit of an associated vehicle and may optionally be of a plug-in arrangement or in a modified aspect of the invention, include a snap-on illumination member containing a series of the light emitting diodes throughout, wherein the member is in turn mechanically associated with the direct current circuit of the vehicle. A further modification of the invention includes a translucent illumination member secured to the flexible mud flap member, wherein the translucent member includes a fiber optic cable including a series of spaced light emitting diode members arranged at terminal and juncture portions of the translucent member to effect illumination thereof.

Abstract: A combination lighting fixture and graphic display means is disclosed for suspension from a ceiling having a concealed raceway for wiring and lighting transformers, while at the same time having an integral lighting track to which may be mounted track lights and which also produces direct downward lighting, and indirect uplighting, while providing illuminated display panels to which graphics may be applied.

Abstract: An improved light diffusion box for photographic, industrial and consumer uses. The light diffusion box includes a hollow housing of fabric material provided with a front screen and having means for securing a ring to the rear end thereof, the ring being adapted to mount a light source within the housing. The housing has sides which are coupled together and each side has a silver laminate layer adjacent to a thin, white nylon layer. A deflection/transmission panel is between the light source and the front screen. A graduated or alternated deflection/transmission pattern is printed on at least one face of the panel and such pattern is equal and opposite to the naturally-occurring light fall-off from the light source. The center of the pattern forces the strong light nearest the source to be largely deflected into the sidewalls of the housing and only slightly transmitted.