Snap-in lamp socket for printed circuits
CA 2038829 A1 · Owner: Owen, Marvin L. · Inventors: Owen, Marvin L.; Fitzgerald, James J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The lamp assembly includes a lamp socket adapted for receiving a lamp. The lamp socket has a rectangular subbase which includes at least one tang projecting upwardly from the subbase which is adapted to apply an outward force against the inner sides of the circular section of a hole in a circuit board or panel. The tang has at least one downwardly facing shoulder spaced upwardly from the upper surface of the subbase by a distance which is substantially the thickness of the circuit board or panel whereby the shoulder is moved to allow the insertion of the lamp assembly into the hole of the circuit board or panel and then moved back into position to hold the circuit board or panel under the …
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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.
Why it's free to use
- Filed March 22, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended March 22, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by March 22, 2013.
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