Low profile lamp socket assembly and method of making
CA 1300703 C · Owner: Cooper Automative, Inc. · Inventors: Forish, John A.; Rogers, John J.
Overview
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This invention pertains to a lamp socket assembly for use in automotive applications and the like. The assembly includes a housing, a contact insert, and a body. The contact insert is captured in the cavity of the housing by the body. The body is welded to the housing. Lugs on the body secure the assembly to a panel. A seal is placed between a flange on the housing and the panel to seal the assembly to the panel. Contacts are retained in the contact insert by engagement of U-shaped portions in slots of the contact inserts. Blade terminals are inserted through windows in the housing contact insert, and, contacts to interlock the terminals with the contacts and to keep the contacts secured in …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
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- Granted May 12, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 12, 2009.
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