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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2003
Applicant:
Inventor:
George Kovacs, Wallingford, CT (US);
Assignee:
Light Sources, Inc., Orange, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 2/400 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 2/400 ;
Abstract
A connector includes a tubular wall on a first body containing a lamp envelope, coaxially receiving an insulating tube mounted on a second body having a cavity that receives the first body, spring metal strip terminals on the outside of the tubular wall in resilient contact with spring metal strip terminals on the inside of the cavity, and microprocessor controlled heated and cooled air delivered to the lamp envelope by way of the insulating tube in response to a sensor that monitors at least one of lamp amalgam temperature and lamp radiation.