Socket for a lamp having an OLED illuminant

US9423108B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION · JP
• Osram OLED GMBH · DE
• OLEDWORKS GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Ulrich Spintge · Sprockhövel, DE
• Karsten Diekmann · Rattenberg, DE
• Britta Goeoetz · Regensburg, DE
• Steven Rossbach · Adorf, DE
• Vincent Johannes Jacobus Van Montfort · Sittard, NL
• Tom Munters · Hasselt, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 18, 2011
• Grant date: Aug 23, 2016
• Expiry date: Apr 5, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02B20/30
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to an illuminant (23) and a socket (20) for a lamp (15). The features of the socket can be implemented also independently of the features of the illuminant (23). The socket has supply terminal areas on multiple sides of the socket housing such that the socket (20) can be selectively supplied with electricity and wired from different sides or also simultaneously from multiple sides. Independently of the number and the arrangement of the supply terminal areas (94), multiple electrical supply terminals (95) having the same polarity are provided on the socket (20). Said supply terminals (95) having the same polarity are electrically short-circuited by means of a shorting connector (116), in particular two identical shorting connectors (116) being arranged in the socket housing. Said socket (20) and illuminant (23) modularly achieve large total illumination surfaces in a lamp (15) and an appealing appearance in a very simple manner.