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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1995
Tadashi Harada, Shizuoka, JP;
Kihachiro Uchida, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A bulb socket which includes a tubular socket body for receiving a base of a bulb, a positive terminal insertion portion which is formed at the socket body and opens in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the socket body, a positive terminal inserted into the socket body through the positive terminal insertion portion and held at an inner bottom portion of the socket body, and a negative terminal supported on an inner peripheral surface of the socket body. The positive terminal insertion portion extends diametrically of the socket portion and has a length larger than the diameter of the socket portion. The positive terminal has a length larger than the diameter of the socket body, and is supported in the positive terminal insertion portion.