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US 7,255,471 B2Granted
Safety night light
AssigneeLeviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorsJoseph Diorio, Jenkin P. Hua, Eddie A. Ling, Anthony Vallone
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Abstract
A night light having a lamp socket for holding a lamp and a lamp shade around the lamp such that when the lamp shade is removed from the lamp socket, power to the lamp is automatically interrupted.
Claims8
A night light comprising:
- a lamp holder having a lamp socket for receiving a lamp;
- a pair of prongs for receiving power from a wall socket;
- normally open contacts interposed between one of said prongs and said lamp socket;
- an actuator coupled to urge said normally open contacts to close;
- a lamp shade detachably coupled to said lamp socket to engage said actuator and urge said normally open contacts to close when coupled to said socket;
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- an on/off switch coupled in series with said normally open contacts to manually control the flow of current to said contacts.
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