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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2001
Yosiaki Aiso, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A bulb socket for retaining, for instance, an automobile wedge-base bulb that is comprised of a glass bulb that encloses a filament and a flat sealing element provided at the bottom of the glass bulb and having a lead wire on its flat surface, the bulb socket including a bulb retention portion and a conducting terminal provided inside the bulb retention portion. The conducting terminal that retains the flat sealing element of the bulb and is in contact the lead wire is formed with an engagement piece that engages with an engagement step formed in the cylindrical bulb retention portion, thus keeping the conducting terminal inside the bulb retention portion; and a window is opened in the bulb retention portion so that the engagement piece of the conducting terminal and the engagement step of the bulb retention portion can be seen through the window.