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US 5,312,274 AGranted
Controller of decorative light sets
OwnerShuan-Guan Tuaoinventor
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Abstract
A controller relates to a controller for decorative light sets, which has been provided with a connecter having flutes which can engage with several electric wires of light sets easily and lets every metal terminal of wires contact directly with a related metal piece on an IC board in the controller for an electrical connection.
Claims2
A controller for decorative light sets comprising:
- (a) a box member forming an open internal chamber for placement of an IC board having a plurality of vertically directed conductors extending therefrom;
- (b) a substantially planar stand member located within said internal chamber of said box member between said plurality of conductors and an end wall of said box member, said stand member having a plurality of transversely extending notches formed within an upper surface thereof for insertion therein of a plurality of electric wires;
- (c) a cover member for engagement with an upper section of said box member for closing said box member and forming a closed internal chamber;
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- (d) a connector member insertable within said box internal chamber for positional location between said plurality of conductors and said stand member, said connector member having a plurality of vertically directed sets of flutes extending in a transverse direction, each of said sets of said flutes having an upper flute portion and a lower flute portion divided by a connector lug member extending from a side surface of said connector member, said electric wires passing within at least one of said notches and within at least an upper flute portion, over said connector lug member and into said lower flute portion, terminating in a metal terminal of said electric wires for contact with at least one of said conductors.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.