Vehicle lamp with a lamp carrier made from a sheet metal blank
AssigneeWestfalische Metall Industrie KG Hueck & Co.
InventorHans P. Brockmeyer
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Abstract
Light bulbs of a multi chamber vehicle lamp are inserted into a lamp carrier made of sheet metal. Conductor strips are stamped out of the sheet metal for current conduction. The lamp carrier forms a common mass connection for all light bulbs. The contacting to the respective center pole of the light bulbs is effected directly by the free end portion of the conductor strip which is stamped out from a region of the lamp carrier remote from the light bulb socket. By a deformation of the conductor strip, the end portion is placed on the center axis of the opening accommodating the light bulb, and engages the center pole of the light bulb under pretension.
Claims11
Vehicle lamp with a lamp carrier, comprising:
- a sheet metal blank having a plurality of openings;
- light bulbs accommodated in said openings and electrically conductively seated with sleeve-shaped socket contacts;
- electrical conductor strips stamped from said lamp carrier sheet metal blank and serving as electrical conductors for the individual light bulbs, said electrical conductor strips stamped from said lamp carrier remaining at their original position within said lamp carrier after having been stamped out from said lamp carrier, said light bulbs having center poles, said stamped-out conductor strips having free ends engaging springly the center pole of a respective light bulb, said conductor strip having a respective end portion contacting the center pole of the light bulb, said end portion being stamped out from a region of the lamp carrier substantially remote from an opening accommodating a light bulb socket, said end portion being brought by a deformation of the conductor strip from its original position into a central position underneath a central axis of said opening accommodating said light bulb, said electrical conductor strips being integral and one piece with said lamp carrier before being stamped out from said lamp carrier, said conductor strips after being stamped out having when operative an electrical polarity which is opposite to the electrical polarity of the lamp carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.