US 5,816,837 A · Fluorescent-lamp socket assembly

Abstract

A fluorescent-lamp socket assembly has a socket, a standard base, and a starter base. The socket has a nonconductive housing having an open end and a pair of conductors in the housing engageable with contact pins of a lamp fitted to the housing and exposed in the open housing end. The standard base is shaped to fit complementarily into and close the open housing end and is formed with throughgoing holes through which wires can be engaged with the conductors. The starter base has a one-piece nonconductive housing having a plug end shaped to fit complementarily into and close the open housing end and an opposite end adapted to hold a starter and a conductor inside the starter-base housing for connecting a starter in the opposite end with one of the conductors in the socket.

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Dependent claims

A fluorescent-lamp socket assembly comprising:

a socket having
a nonconductive housing having an open end, and
a pair of conductors in the housing engageable with contact pins of a lamp fitted to the housing and exposed in the open housing end;
a standard base shaped to fit complementarily into and close the open housing end and formed with throughgoing holes through which wires can be engaged with the conductors;
and
a starter base having
a one-piece nonconductive housing having a plug end shaped to fit complementarily into and close the open housing end and an opposite end adapted to hold a starter, and
a one-piece conductor inside the starter-base housing connecting the starter in the opposite end with one of the conductors in the socket, the plug end being formed with a throughgoing hole through which a wire can be engaged with the other of the conductors.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Fluorescent-lamp socket assembly

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Fluorescent-lamp socket assembly

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