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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1998
Mitsuji Kubota, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The disclosed lamp wiring structure includes a connector, a plurality of bulb sockets which are electrically connected to the connector and to which lamps are installed, respectively, a plurality of electric wires electrically connecting the connector and the plural bulb sockets, a plurality of lamp containers, and a coupling member covering the plural electric wires and mechanically coupling the connector to the plural bulb sockets. In addition, the disclosed socket coupling structure includes a bulb socket to which a lamp is installed, a flange formed around the bulb socket, a lamp container which has a lamp insertion hole and to which the bulb socket is fixed, a fixed claw formed around the lamp insertion hole of the lamp container and a movable claw formed around the lamp insertion hole of the lamp container. If the bulb socket is pushed into the bulb container while the lamp installed at the bulb socket is inserted into the lamp insertion hole of the lamp container, the flange is engaged with the fixed claw and the movable claw so as to fix the bulb socket to the lamp container.