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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 1983
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
William E Cross, Brookfield, OH (US);
Robert G Plyler, Vienna, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3391 / ; 339 / ; 3391 / ; 339128 ; 3391 / ;
Abstract
A lamp socket that is insertable into a generally circular opening in a mounting panel and having a pair of radially outwardly extending access slots for portions of the lamp socket, characterized in that the lamp socket includes a flexible locking tab that moves into one of the access slots to lock the lamp socket to the mounting panel after the lamp socket is rotated a limited distance about the longitudinal center axis of the lamp socket.