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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1996
Erzsebet Cserteg, Budapest, HU;
Jozsef Fulop, Budapest, HU;
Miklos Hargitai, Budapest, HU;
Gyorgyi Horvath, Budapest, HU;
Jozsef Tokes, Budapest, HU;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to an electric lamp, especially a compact fluorescent lamp comprising a light source as well as a base part constructed to be suitable for supporting and for mechanically and electrically connecting the light source to a lampholder and embracing the ends of the light source where the ends of the electrical leads of the light source are connected to contacts fixed on the base part. The invention also relates to a method for fixing the light source and the base part of an electric lamp, especially of a compact fluorescent lamp to each other. The essential feature of the lamp according to the invention is that an adapter piece embracing at least one of the ends of the light source being with its ends in the base part is fixed to the end(s) of the light source, and the adpapter piece is fixed to the base part. The essential feature of the method according to the invention is that an adapter piece is placed on at least one end of the light source provided with a pinched portion which adapter piece is fixed on the pinched portion of the lamp by snapping, and the surfaces of the adapter piece and of the pinched portion are formed to be suitable for being snapped into each other, and the end(s) provided with the pinched portion(s) of the light source is (are) placed into the base part, and the adapter piece(s) is (are) fixed here by means of a permanent joint.