Abstract: A combination axial fan and LED lighting system configured to fit into the footprint of a standard ceiling tile. The system includes a housing container and an axial fan. The fan has a fan cavity including air diversion mechanism to direct air from the fan cavity toward the lighting and fan components. The invention includes an airflow surface to direct air existing the fan cavity along an LED light fixture.

Abstract: A connection assembly generally comprising a thick conductor piece including a receptacle with an inner wall and a thin conductor piece. The thin conductor piece has a protrusion for insertion into the receptacle. A press-fit element can be inserted into the receptacle with the protrusion arranged in the receptacle between the press-fit element and the thick conductor piece.

Abstract: A light assembly includes a housing with a mounting bracket extending from an upper surface, a circuit board, a light source provided on the circuit board, and a cover with an aperture in a bottom surface for light from the light source to pass through. The housing includes a side wall defining an interior space configured to receive the circuit board, and a plurality of cutouts formed in the sidewall. The cover includes a tab and at least one cap, both extending from the bottom surface of the cover, with the cap extending farther than the tab. The circuit board is positioned in the housing, with the cover closing the interior space such that the tab and cap each coupled to one of the cutouts, the tab and the cutout defining a gap through which wires connected to the circuit board extend, while preventing light from exiting through the cutouts.

Abstract: The electrical connector includes: a housing having a terminal space therein; and a connector terminal to be housed in the terminal space. The connector terminal includes: a terminal body operable to be inserted into the terminal space; and a lance formed at the terminal body for preventing the terminal body from being pulled out of the terminal space. The terminal space includes a pair of walls. The lance includes: a first elastically deformable portion outwardly extending from the terminal body; and a second elastically deformable portion being continuous with a distal end of the first portion, and being disposed outwardly of the first portion relative to the terminal body. A gap is formed between the terminal body and each of the walls, and the first and second portions can pass the gap in an elastically deformed condition.

Abstract: A lamp socket includes a lamp connection unit which is electrically connected to a lamp, a power connection unit which is disposed below and adjacent to the lamp connection unit along a longitudinal axis and is electrically connected to an electric source which supplies power to the lamp, and a fastening member which is disposed on the power connection unit, wherein the power connection unit comprises at least one sub-component which has a surface area perpendicular to the longitudinal axis which is larger than the largest surface area of the lamp connection unit perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and wherein the sub-component of the power connection unit with the largest surface area perpendicular to the longitudinal axis is located proximate to the lamp connection unit.

Abstract: A lighting assembly for a light emitting diode (LED) package having an LED chip on the top of a mounting substrate with power leads on the top of the mounting substrate arranged proximate to a first edge of the mounting substrate, which is mounted to a base, includes power contacts defining separable interfaces for contacting the power leads on the mating substrate of the LED package and supplying power to the LED chip. The power contacts have compliant beams extending to the separable interfaces that are deflected when contacting the power leads such that the power contacts are biased against the power leads. The power contacts are terminated to corresponding power conductors opposite the separable interfaces. The lighting assembly also includes a dielectric housing holding the power contacts, with the housing having mounting features for securing the housing to the base independent of the LED package.

Abstract: A backlight assembly includes a lamp socket unit, a printed circuit board and a lower receiving container. The printed circuit board includes a cutout portion which receives the lamp socket unit therethrough. The lower receiving container receives the lamp socket unit and the printed circuit board. The lamp socket unit is coupled to the printed circuit board, and the printed circuit board, having the lamp socket unit coupled thereto, is disposed in the lower receiving container.

Abstract: A lamp socket includes a lamp connection unit which is electrically connected to a lamp, a power connection unit which is disposed below and adjacent to the lamp connection unit along a longitudinal axis and is electrically connected to an electric source which supplies power to the lamp, and a fastening member which is disposed on the power connection unit, wherein the power connection unit comprises at least one sub-component which has a surface area perpendicular to the longitudinal axis which is larger than the largest surface area of the lamp connection unit perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and wherein the sub-component of the power connection unit with the largest surface area perpendicular to the longitudinal axis is located proximate to the lamp connection unit.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an insert (1) suitable for being placed in a wall, ceiling or other element wherein an electrical installation means such as a lamp socket or the like may be fitted. Ventilation means (6) are provided inside the insert (1) such that an air current may be created and further that the air current may be led past the electrical installation (15), such that the overall heat accumulation inside the device may be drastically reduced.

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 first electronic control unit (10) provided with a printed circuit board (13) and a second electronic control unit (E) having pressure sensors (30) mounted therein can be assembled with each other. Intermediate connectors (40) are mounted in the first electronic control unit (10), and terminal fittings (42) are accommodated therein. Each terminal fitting (42) is provided with a board-side connecting portion (53) to be soldered to the printed circuit board (13) and a resilient contact piece (51) to be resiliently brought into contact with a terminal portion (32) of the pressure sensor (30).

Abstract: A socket for automotive vehicles is provided, in which the number of components and the assembling man-hour is small, and thus the cost is low. A vehicle socket is electrically connected to a power supply with a plug of an appliance for automotive vehicles. The socket is formed of a resinous molded body of near cylindrical shape comprising a flange along an outer periphery of an opening in which the plug is inserted, and terminals molded on the bottom surface by insert molding.

Abstract: An apparatus that prevents the interchange or replacement of an expensive compact fluorescent lamp with a standard inexpensive incandescent bulb to diminish thefts of the more expensive lamp, by using a locking lamp socket insert in combination with newly designed screw lamp base that permits the operation of the compact fluorescent lamp. Should the compact fluorescent lamp be substituted with a standard inexpensive incandescent bulb, the center contact in the base of the incandescent bulb cannot touch the centrally located leaf-spring contact of the lamp socket, thereby preventing the incandescent bulb from operating. The lamp socket insert is a rigid plastic material such as nylon, shaped as a flat disk with three tangential cantilever, spaced apart vanes. A pointed end of each tine permits the insert to rotate upon insertion, but a counterclockwise rotation causes the tines to bite into the interior socket sidewalls preventing its counter-rotation and removal.

Abstract: A socket for automotive vehicles is provided, in which the number of components and the assembling man-hour is small, and thus the cost is low. A vehicle socket is electrically connected to a power supply with a plug of an appliance for automotive vehicles. The socket is formed of a resinous molded body of near cylindrical shape comprising a flange along an outer periphery of an opening in which the plug is inserted, and terminals molded on the bottom surface by insert molding.

Abstract: The present invention provides a front mounting socket for a gas light tube that can be mounted and removed from a sign substrate without requiring access to the rear portion of a sign enclosure. The front mounting socket is installed and removed from the sign surface substrate by turning two diametrically positioned screw members which are a part of the retaining clips. Each retaining clip comprises a retainer member and a screw member supported in a screw groove formed in the socket body and the retainer member defining a retaining surface that engages the sign surface substrate when the operator tightens each screw member until the retainer member abuts the sign substrate, thereby interposing the sign substrate between each retainer member and the retaining surface of the mounting surface which secures the socket to the sign.

Abstract: A lamp socket is disclosed. The lamp socket comprises a socket body engaged with a lamp, a cylindrical hood accommodating a light emitting portion of the lamp, the hood having a first end portion formed integrally with the lamp socket, and a second end portion forming a peripheral edge of an opening in which the lamp can be inserted therefrom, a flange provided on an outer peripheral face of the hood and abutting against a peripheral edge of a mounting hole in a panel, an elastic engaging portion disposed on the outer peripheral face of the hood and engaging with the peripheral edge of the mounting hole in the panel, and a protecting portion provided at both sides of the elastic engaging portion on the outer peripheral face of the hood and preventing the elastic engaging portion from deforming by external force.

Abstract: A plug-in lamp socket assembly is provided that maintains connections sealed to the environment between the electrical lamp leads, electrical socket contacts and circuits of the circuit carrier. The assembly has a lamp socket member for receiving a lamp in an aligned manner. A cap plate connects to the lamp socket member and is non-removable therefrom. The lamp socket has tabs that require proper alignment of the tabs for insertion into a circuit carrier having circuits molded therein. An O-ring seals the removable connection between the lamp socket, cap plate, assembly and the circuit carrier. The circuit carrier is sealed to the lens housing.

Abstract: A snap-in lampholder with insulation displacing contacts which can be attached to the end or midspan of a two conductor electrical cord. The lampholder portion has a main body which contains a screwshell portion and a contact portion. The contacts extend into the screwshell portion to engage the screwshell and center base contact of an inserted lamp. A cap is depressed to force the individual conductors into associated ID contacts and to lock the cap to the contact portion. The entire assembly can then be mounted to a mounting can or panel which in turn can be mounted upon a mounting surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a front mounting socket for a gas light tube that can be mounted and removed from a sign substrate without requiring access to the rear portion of a sign enclosure. The front mounting socket is installed and removed from the sign surface substrate by pinching together diametrically positioned retaining clips. Each retaining clip comprises a resilient portion formed by two longitudinal slots in the socket body and is provided with a retaining lip having a raised portion defining a retaining surface that engages the sign surface substrate.

Abstract: A tubular lamp socket includes a body provided with two different selectable kinds of structures for fixing on a wall. One kind is using screws, and another is using engage arms. If a wall has an open hole, the engage arms can be used, and if otherwise, screws can be used. Thus it has convenience in fixing on a wall.

Abstract: A plug-in lamp socket assembly is provided that maintains connections sealed to the environment between the electrical lamp leads, electrical socket contacts and circuits of the circuit carrier. The assembly has a lamp socket member for receiving a lamp in an aligned manner. A cap plate connects to the lamp socket member and is non-removable therefrom. The lamp socket has tabs that require proper alignment of the tabs for insertion into a circuit carrier having circuits molded therein. An O-ring seals the removable connection between the lamp socket, cap plate, assembly and the circuit carrier. The circuit carrier is sealed to the lens housing.

Abstract: An adapter (1, FIG. 1) is provided for the connection of an optoelectronic component such as an LED (light emitting diode) (2) to a circuit board (8) that lies in a case (34), wherein the adaptor positions the LED close to a window (32) in the top wall (30) of the case. The adapter has a pair of passages (4, 5) for holding conductors (11, 12) that connect terminals of the LED to SMD (surface mount device) contacts (6) that connect to the circuit board. The adapter holds the LED high enough above the circuit board, for the upper face (36) of the LED to lie in or close to the level of the window, so light from the LED can be readily seen from outside the case.

Abstract: A socket for a small incandescent lamp for the detachable and fixable insertion in an opening of a printed circuit board, which is adapted to the socket and provided with enlargements at the edge, and for contacting the lamp by pressing the lamp-connection wires, which are carried at flexible contact arms, against the strip conductors of the printed circuit board, wherein the socket can be inserted with, in each case, the same orientation of the lamp, so as to make contact, into the opening from both sides of the printed circuit board and removed from both sides independently of the side from which it was inserted, and in that a first insertion mechanism, which is dependent on the insertion side, is a locking mechanism and a second insertion mechanism, which is dependent on the other insertion side, is a jamming-turning mechanism, the fixation of the socket being accomplished independently of the insertion mechanism by locking arms, which are formed flexibly at the socket, engage the printed circuit board and

Abstract: A vehicle signal lamp assembly includes lamp filaments extending in a direction generally parallel to the line of action of the principal vibratory force imposed on the lamp assembly. The assembly includes a lamp having a base that mounts two or more pairs of relatively stiff filament support wires. The lamp assembly further includes a socket having a cavity mated to the cross sectional configuration of the lamp base, and resilient electrical contact leaf members in the cavity engageable with the filament support wires when the lamp base is plugged into the socket cavity. The socket is carried in a resilient mounting that provides partial shock isolation for the socket and lamp.

Abstract: A socket for receiving a threaded article therein for complementary threaded engagement between the article and the socket. The socket includes one or more sets of threads integrally formed upon an interior side wall of the socket wherein at least one thread of the set has a length shorter than the remaining threads so as to prevent cross-threading.

Abstract: A plate-like support has a pair of opposite faces and is formed with a throughgoing opening. A synthetic-resin lamp holder having a longitudinally open socket is formed with a foot projecting generally perpendicularly of the socket through the opening and formed with respective longitudinally spaced front and back abutments bearing on one of the faces of the support and respective side retaining formations between the abutments. A plug engaged snugly against the other face of the support between the abutments of the foot is formed with a pair of retaining formations lookingly engageable with the formations of the foot. An electrical wire extends through the plug, through the opening, and between the abutments to the socket.

Abstract: A mounting structure for a vanity mirror includes two screw penetration holes formed in a lamp section of the vanity mirror; positive and negative contacts for supplying a light source in the lamp section with electricity, the positive and negative contacts being formed with through holes and being disposed such that each of the through holes formed in the positive and negative contacts is aligned with a corresponding one of the screw penetration holes of the lamp section; two contacts provided on a sun visor and connected to a power source, the sun visor-side contacts being formed with through holes and being positioned such that each of the through holes of the sun visor-side contacts is aligned with a corresponding one of the screw holes in bosses of the sun visor which are located at positions corresponding to the screw penetration holes of the lamp section; and two mounting screws made of a conductive material which are passed through the through holes of the contacts of the lamp section, the screw penet

Abstract: A lamp socket mounting device includes a butterfly clamping plate mounted around a lamp socket to hold it in the socket mounting hole of a socket holder, wherein the butterfly clamping plate consists of a loop-like base frame portion mounted around the lamp socket, two curved, symmetrical upper stop frame portions bilaterally extended downwards from the loop-like base frame portion, two half-round bottom stop frame portions stopped against the socket holder at the bottom, and two neck portions respectively connected between the upper stop frame portions and the bottom stop frame portions and stopped against the periphery of the socket mounting hole, the upper stop frame portions having a respective bottom end terminated to a respective clamping edge stopped against the socket holder at the top.

Abstract: A lamp assembly for being installed in circuit boards and the like comprises a lamp-receiving socket that can be inserted and removed from an opening of the circuit board in an axial direction without being rotated. The socket includes snap arms which have cam follower surfaces enabling the snap arms to be elastically flexed to retracted positions as the socket is installed.

Abstract: A molded receptacle including an interior wall surface and screw threads formed on the interior wall surface by a mold core. The threads have a predetermined thread profile including root radii substantially corresponding to a desired thread standard and crest radii which are smaller than the root radii. The crests of the threads are deformable after molding to enable the mold core forming the threads to be stripped from the receptacle in a direction substantially perpendicular to the major axis of the threads to provide crests which are deformed from their original molded shape yet dimensioned to fall within the desired thread standard. The receptacle is utilized as a threaded socket having one or more electrical contact members. The socket includes a housing which can be formed as stated above including an interior side wall having the threads, a first closed end, a second open end and a first aperture formed through a portion of the housing.

Abstract: A socket for a miniature incandescent lamp for the detachable and lockable insertion in a recess in a printed circuit board and for making electrical contact with the lamp by pressing the connecting leads against the printed circuit board with a separate manufacture of the socket and the lamp, the socket consisting of a hollow cylinder with two axially superimposed parts of different external diameters, the cylinder, to accommodate the connecting leads of the lamp, having two diametrically opposite longitudinal slots, the width of which corresponds approximately to the diameter of the connecting leads and which extend over the whole height of the part of smaller diameter and into the part of larger diameter by an amount corresponding at most to the diameter of the connecting leads.

Abstract: An incandescent electric lamp and a socket for receipt of the lamp. The socket contains an insulator to prevent completion of the electrical circuit for illuminating the filament contained within the lamp except when the lamp has a wattage rating which is equal to or less than the wattage rating for which the socket is designed. When the wattage rating is proper, the central contact assembly of the base of the electric lamp bypasses the insulator to establish a completed electrical circuit. In one embodiment, the insulator defines an opening of a predetermined diameter through which a protrusion on the base of the lamp extends when its diameter is equal to or less than the opening in the insulator. In an alternative embodiment, the insulator has a diameter of a predetermined value while the central contact assembly defines a depression having a diameter which is equal to or greater than the diameter of the insulator.

Abstract: A rubber ring disposed snugly over the glass envelope of a lamp and slid against a larger cylindrical lamp body centers and spaces the lamp within a reflector hole by positioning the ring within a counterbore recess in a back surface of the reflector concentric with the hole. The height of the ring is greater than the depth of the counterbore recess to space the lamp body away from the back surface of the reflector. A rubber strip is disposed between the opposite end of the lamp body and a housing member, the strip and ring being compressed in assembly to resiliently support the lamp, absorbing vibration and shock forces imparted to the lamp through the housing.

Abstract: A connector socket for a wedge-base lamp is improved by socket structures which aid in leading the base end of the bulb into alignment with the insertion channel and at the same time prevent contact between the base end and the top ends of the socket terminals in a way which might lead to wrenching or deformation of the terminals.

Abstract: An L-shaped bulb socket comprising an L-shaped socket consisting of a bulb receiving portion and a connector receiving portion and a pair of L-shaped terminal members which are inserted into the socket body through the terminal inserting holes formed in the bulb receiving section and the connector receiving portion of the socket body.

Abstract: A mounting device for a fluorescent lamp includes a socket which is swingably supported in a socket holder for being movable between an inclined position and an operational position and is provided with a socket body and a locking member extending in axial direction rearwardly away from the connection of the lamp to the socket body. The socket holder has an opening through which the socket body projects with its locking member in order to encompass the respective inner surface of the opening in a pinless hinge-like member. For limiting the swiveling movement of the socket, the socket body is provided with a stop member which cooperates with the innerside of the holder.

Abstract: A connector is disclosed which permits an electrically illuminated ornament or the like to be readily connected to a string of conventional light sockets. A first connection is provided which preferably is in the form of a conventional socket for receiving a lamp which is inserted in a grommet carried by an ornament. At the opposite end, contacts are mounted in a support member of insulating material to form a plug assembly arrangd to fit within a conventional socket. The construction is such as to accommodate various types and dimensions of sockets. A coupling element attaches the connector to the ornament and acts as both a retention device and as a heat sink for the miniature light, the coupling element having particular utility in an edge-lit ornament.