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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:
Nov. 11, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Trent S Herman, Waterford, MI (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
362155 ; 362201 ; 362802 ; 200 6162 ; 200 6181 ;
Abstract
A battery-operated automatically switched lighting device is provided for illumination of the interior of enclosures provided with doors, such as for closets, cupboards, cabinets, and the like. Identical light transmitting housing parts are assembled together to contain batteries, a light bulb, and formed metal strips acting as contacts and switch actuator when the enclosure door is opened and closed. Various protrusions projecting from the bottom wall of each housing part together form battery, bulb, housing, and contact strip locating features, and molded locking tabs snap fit together to releasably hold the housing parts together.