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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Sharming Lin, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc., Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
362249 ; 362800 ;
Abstract
A receptacle for light emitting diodes includes a housing defining an opening at one end and having a bottom at another end; a first positioning device being a disk adapted to be received in substantially a middle inner periphery of the housing, defining a plurality of holes each of which receives a corresponding light emitting diode; and a second positioning device being a disk including a plurality of holes each of which encloses a head portion of a corresponding one of the light emitting diodes, thereby retaining an axis of each light emitting diode in a same direction.