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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. 31, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1997
Marinus P Koster, Eindhoven, NL;
Arnoldus M Kieboom, Eindhoven, NL;
Johannes A Van Heeswijk, Eindhoven, NL;
Other;
Abstract
The illumination device has a capped electric lamp (1), a reflector (10) and retention means (20) for keeping the lamp (1) fixed to the reflector (10), an electric element (4) of the lamp (1) being aligned with respect to the reflector (10). The cap (5) of the lamp (1) has sphere discs and/or V-shaped grooves as reference means (7) around an axis (3) of its lamp vessel (2), with respect to which the electric element (4) is aligned. The reflector (10) has about an opening (12) for inserting the lamp (1) V-shaped grooves and/or spherical discs as the alignment means (13), cooperating with the reference means of the lamp cap (5). The reference means (7) and the alignment means (13) allow for an easy, fast and reliable mounting of the lamp (1) in the reflector (10), the electric element (4) occupying a predetermined position therein.