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US 7,883,235 B2Granted
Hermetically sealed flashlight assembly
OwnerRobert D. Galliinventor
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Abstract
A lighting assembly that incorporates a high brightness LED in a compact assembly that is sealed and sufficiently durable for a continuous operational range of between 350 feet below sea level and 35,000 feet above sea level. Further, the flashlight of the present invention includes a novel modular interface arrangement that allows the flashlight to be interfaced with a variety of different equipment or reconfigured in order to facilitate use for different functionality such as a marker light, a runway indicator light or a weapon mounted light.
Claims10
A modular flashlight system comprising:
- a flashlight fully contained and operational within an outer housing, said outer housing including a female receptor end of a detachable clip element integrally formed within one end thereof, said female receptor end including at least one set of interfitting mating formations;
- a modular accessory mount having a corresponding male clip element that includes complementary interfitting mating formations that are configured to be received and retained by said interfitting mating formations in said female receptor end at a first end thereof and a second end including apertures therein that receive and retain an accessory device, wherein said modular accessory mount is selectively removable from said flashlight while said flashlight remains operational.
A modular flashlight system comprising:
- a flashlight fully contained and operational within an outer housing, said outer housing including a male end of a detachable clip element integrally formed within one end thereof said male end including at least one set of interfitting mating formations;
- a modular accessory mount having a corresponding female receptor end that includes complementary interfitting mating formations that are is configured to be received and retained by said interfitting mating formations on said male end at a first end thereof and a second end including apertures therein that receive and retain an accessory device, wherein said modular accessory mount is selectively removable from said flashlight while said flashlight remains operational.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.