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US 6,641,418 B2Granted
Lamp socket
AssigneeHirose Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsTetsuya Takahashi, Kensaku Sato
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Abstract
An inside unit (54) is housed in the unit receiving section 81 of a lamp socket (1). The central terminal (3) is connected to the high-voltage output terminal (76) of the inside unit (54) and mounted in the terminal aperture (11A) of a terminal mount (11) at the center of the lamp socket (1). The low-voltage output terminal (77) of the inside unit (54) is connected to the side terminal (4) of the lamp socket (1).
Claims7
A lamp socket comprising:
- a socket body with a socket cavity into which a plugging section of a lamp is plugged;
- a central terminal provided at a center of said socket cavity for contact with a lamp terminal of said lamp;
- a side terminal provided in a side wall of said socket cavity for contact with a contact section of said plugging section;
- a unit receiving section provided in said socket body at a position opposite to said socket cavity;
- said socket body, said central terminal, said side terminal, and said unit receiving section constituting a lamp socket unit;
- an inside unit including a circuit section for starting said lamp and high-voltage and low-voltage output terminals connected to said circuit section;
- said inside unit being housed in said unit receiving section such that said high-voltage and low-voltage output terminals are brought into contact with said central and side terminals, respectively.
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A lamp socket comprising:
- a socket body with a socket cavity into which a plugging section of a lamp is plugged;
- a central terminal provided at a center of said socket cavity for contact with a lamp terminal of said lamp;
- a side terminal provided in a side wall of said socket cavity for contact with a contact section of said plugging section;
- a unit receiving section provided in said socket body at a position opposite to said socket cavity;
- said socket body, said central terminal, said side terminal, and said unit receiving section constituting a lamp socket unit;
- an inside unit including a circuit section for starting said lamp and high-voltage and low-voltage output terminals connected to said circuit section;
- said unit receiving section being divided into first and second storage rooms such that said first and second storage rooms receive said central and side terminals, respectively;
- a seal abutment section provided in either said first storage room or said inside unit so as to surround said central terminal;
- a seal mounting section provided in said second storage room so as to surround said high-voltage output terminal;
- a dielectric seal member provided in the seal mounting section;
- said inside unit being housing in said unit receiving section so that not only said high-voltage and low-voltage terminals are brought into contact with said central and side terminals, respectively, but also said dielectric seal member into abutment with said seal abutment section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.