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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1985
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1984
David V Tinder, Dearborn, MI (US);
United Technologies Automotive, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A one-piece plastic holder is provided for mounting a generally tubular lamp on a circuit board. The lamp has a filament connected to a pair of leads extending from the lamp base. The lamp holder includes an annular base portion adapted to be supported on a surface of a circuit board, a support spine extending upwardly from the base portion, at least two angularly-spaced, snap-fit mounting members depending from the base portion for insertion through respective mounting apertures in the circuit board and for locking engagement with the reverse surface of the board, and a pair of notches in the lamp base portion through which the respective pair of lamp leads may be led. The support spine of the lamp holder includes a clamp, as for instance a pair of opposed arcuate jaws for resiliently engaging and retaining a respective lamp. The geometry of the lamp holder mounting members and the circuit board apertures cooperatively serve to key the holder to a predetermined angular orientation relative to the circuit board. The notches in the lamp holder base portion are spaced 180.degree. from one another in predetermined angular relation with the lamp holder, such that the lamp is mounted in predetermined angular relation to the holder. The lamp holder mounting members are spaced 180.degree. from one another and differ from each other in respective cross-sectional geometries so as to effect the angularly keyed relation with the circuit board.