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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
May. 18, 1999
Zinovy Tyves, Windsor, CA;
Joseph Frank Carnaghi, Macomb, MI (US);
Gordon Leroy Cook, Flint, MI (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A courtesy light fixture for an automotive vehicle includes a housing having a base, a header wall and a supporting portion connecting the header wall to the base. The base includes a plurality of resilient clips which snap onto a support member of a door module. Resilient fingers of the base bear against the support member and urge the base inward to seat the clips against the support. The header wall mounts a lamp receptacle. A seal surrounding the receptacle engages a flange of a lens assembly on a trim panel of the door module so that a lamp in the receptacle is held in a fixed relation with the lens assembly for best illumination of the lighted area. The lens assembly is removable from the trim panel for changing the lamp without removing the trim panel from the door. The resilient fingers yield to take up variations between the trim panel location and the door module support member so the seal always engages the lens housing and flange to maintain the desired lamp position and prevent entry of contaminants or water into the lamp location.