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US 2001/0040801 A1Published application
Thin flat illuminator
OwnerMark Howard Krietzman, Yu-Hsin Cheninventors
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Abstract
A flat illuminator, which may utilize a plurality of batteries and may support multiple LED illumination sources, adapted for high volume assembly with a momentary on/off switch formed therein. Encoded data and/or a key blank may also be combined with the flat illuminator.
Claims36
A LED illuminator comprising;
- a flat substantially planar plastic body with an edge, a top surface and a bottom surface;
- a chamber formed within the top surface of the plastic body adapted to receive a battery power supply, a means for switching and a LED mount;
- a LED mount formed within the chamber and extending through a portion of the plastic body;
- a battery power supply, adapted to fit within the chamber with a first and a second terminal;
- a LED adapted to seat within the LED mount with a first lead wire in conductive contact with the first terminal and a second lead wire;
- a switching channel, remote from the battery power supply, into which the second lead wire extends and terminates;
- a flexible contact strip conductively affixed, at one end, to the second terminal and extending above the second lead wire;
- a flexible chamber cover which mates with and seals off the chamber;
- and,
- a momentary switch formed by the reversible deformation of the flexible contact strip and chamber cover whereby pressing on the chamber cover will urge the flexible contact strip into contact with the second lead wire thereby supplying current to the LED.
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A LED illuminator comprising;
- a flat substantially planar plastic body with a an edge, a top surface and a bottom surface;
- a chamber formed within the top surface of the plastic body adapted to receive the battery power supply, a means for switching and a LED mount;
- a battery holster, adapted to receive a battery power supply, with a side wall and with a floor, formed within the chamber
- a LED mount formed within the chamber and extending through on edge of the plastic body;
- a battery power supply, placed within the battery holster, with a first and a second terminal;
- a LED adapted to seat within the LED mount with a first lead wire in conductive contact with the first terminal and a second lead wire;
- a unitary channel into which the second lead wire extends and conductive contact with the first terminal and a second lead wire;
- a unitary channel into which the second lead wire extends and terminates within the bottom of the battery holster;
- one or more lifting means are placed under the second terminal whereby the second terminal is held remote from the second lead wire;
- a flexible chamber cover which mates with and seals off the chamber;
- and,
- a momentary switch formed by the reversible deformation of the lifting means when the second terminal of the battery power supply is urged downward and against the second lead wire via the pressing on the chamber cover.
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A LED illuminator comprising;
- a flat substantially planar plastic body with a an edge, a top surface and a bottom surface;
- a chamber formed within the top surface of the plastic body adapted to receive a first and a second battery power supply, a means for switching and a LED mount;
- a battery holster, adapted to receive the first battery power supply, with a side wall and with a floor, formed within the chamber
- an auxiliary battery holster, adapted to receive the second battery power supply, with a side wall and with a floor, formed within the chamber
- a LED mount formed within the chamber and extending through on edge of the plastic body;
- a channel extending from the LED mount to the first and second battery holsters;
- a first battery power supply, placed within the battery holster, with a top facing first terminal and a bottom facing second terminal;
- a second battery power supply, placed within the auxiliary battery holster, with a bottom facing first auxiliary terminal and a top facing second auxiliary terminal;
- an auxiliary contact strip adapted to sit beneath and in conductive contact with the second terminal and beneath the first auxiliary terminal;
- a LED adapted to seat within the LED mount with a first lead wire in conductive contact with the first terminal its second lead wire in conductive contact with the top facing second auxiliary terminal.
- one or more lifting means placed under the first auxiliary terminal above the auxiliary contact strip whereby the first auxiliary terminal is held remote from the auxiliary contact strip;
- a flexible chamber cover which mates with and seals off the chamber;
- and,
- a momentary switch formed by the selected movement of the first auxiliary terminal downward against the auxiliary contact strip.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.