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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1976
Filed:
Jul. 03, 1974
Paul T Cote, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A multiple flash lamp unit having a group of electrical connector terminals adapted to be plugged into a socket. The unit is provided with a transverse protective terminal which momentarily electrically shorts across the socket contacts while the unit is being plugged into the socket, so as to discharge any residual voltage in the firing pulse source, such as a piezoelectric element, before the lamp connector terminals engage the socket contacts. The transverse protective terminal may be integral with a lamp connector terminal, and preferably is integral with a terminal connected electrically so as to have a relatively large stray capacitance to ground.