Wall socket with swaged prongs

Abstract

A wall plug device for connecting an electrical appliance to a socket of a power supply system. The device is composed of: a housing having an outer surface and an inner surface and provided with two pairs of passages, each pair including a first passage and a second passage; and two electrical contact prongs, each having a main body portion and a connecting portion, the main body portion extending to a first end of the prong for making electrical contact with the socket outside the housing and the connecting portion extending to a second end of the prong that is remote from the first end. The connecting portion has an anchor element that extends through the first passage of a respective pair of passages and an electrical connection element that extends through the second passage of the respective pair of passages, and the anchor element is deformed from a first configuration in which the anchor element can be inserted through the first passage to a second configuration in which the anchor element is secured in the housing.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.