Socket for a miniature incandescent lamp

US5129829A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Paul Albrecht · DE

Inventors

• Werner Arnold · Plankstadt, DE
• Georg Muller · Neuss, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 19, 1991
• Grant date: Jul 14, 1992
• Expiry date: Jun 19, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H05K3/301
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A socket for a miniature incandescent lamp for the detachable and lockable insertion in a recess in a printed circuit board and for making electrical contact with the lamp by pressing the connecting leads against the printed circuit board with a separate manufacture of the socket and the lamp, the socket consisting of a hollow cylinder with two axially superimposed parts of different external diameters, the cylinder, to accommodate the connecting leads of the lamp, having two diametrically opposite longitudinal slots, the width of which corresponds approximately to the diameter of the connecting leads and which extend over the whole height of the part of smaller diameter and into the part of larger diameter by an amount corresponding at most to the diameter of the connecting leads.