Patent ID: 11906144
Assignee: SEASONS 4, INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 15:
16. A method for providing power-channel selection and electrical connection of a lighting element to a selected one of a plurality of insulated wires of a flat ribbon cable, the method comprising:
connecting, via a cable interface, a lighting-element socket to the flat ribbon cable;
piercing, via a plurality of piercing members, insulation of corresponding ones of the plurality of insulated wires when the cable interface connects the lighting-element socket to the flat ribbon cable, the plurality of piercing members including a plurality of peripheral ones located at a common radial distance about a central one;
providing, via each of the plurality of piercing members, a conductive connection point to the corresponding one of the plurality of insulated wires;
receiving, via a lighting-element socket coupled to the cable interface, a lighting element within;
conductively connecting, via the lighting-element socket, a central electrical contact at a base of the lighting element received and the central one of the plurality of piercing members;
conductively connecting, via the lighting-element socket, a peripheral electrical contact about the base of the lighting element received and an inner conductive peripheral wall of the lighting-element socket; and
rotatably selecting and conductively connecting, via a rotatable power-channel selector conductively connected to the inner conductive peripheral wall of the lighting-element socket, to a selected one of the peripheral ones of the plurality of piecing members.