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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2002
Paul J. Jurkovic, Painesville, OH (US);
Harold D. Myers, Jr., Madison, OH (US);
David A. Westenfelder, II, Mantua, OH (US);
Eye Lighting International, Mentor, OH (US);
Abstract
A lamp assembly and a method for securing a base on the lamp that electrically connect a side lead wire to the base shell and that also secure the base to the lamp without using either solder or adhesive. Welding efficiency is optimized for the side lead wire to base shell connection. A metal screw base having base screw threads is screwed onto an outer jacket having a threaded seal with seal screw threads and with at least one lead wire extending out of a bottom of the seal being electrically and mechanically connected to a flag assembly being at least a wire in a close-fitted electrically nonconductive sleeve. A groove is formed across the seal screw threads, the groove being dimensioned to closely fit around the flag assembly; and the flag assembly being positioned in the groove such that an inner end of the flag assembly is electrically connected to the lead wire, and an outer, flag, end of the flag assembly is bent over a lip of the base and welded to an outside surface of the base, with the weld preferably being near to the lip.