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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:
Aug. 24, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph Wnuk, Westland, MI (US);
Carl G Czarnecki, Canton, MI (US);
Assignee:
United Technologies Automotive, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
362 80 ; 362 74 ; 362365 ; 362374 ; 296 378 ;
Abstract
An automobile dome light assembly for mounting directly to a preinstalled headliner having a lamp housing with a bulb socket, power terminal connector and an integrally formed self-contained connector subassembly for securing the lamp housing directly to the headliner. The connector subassembly has a pivotal latching arm for clamping the headliner to the lamp housing with snap lock engagement of the latching arm to the lamp housing.