Patent ID: 9341324
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: F21L,F21V,F21Y

Claim Text:
1. A portable light including a sleeve comprising: a light housing having a barrel for receiving one or more sources of electrical power, the barrel having an interior dimension that is larger than an external dimension of the one or more sources of electrical power; a light source supported by said light housing for providing light; an electrical circuit for selectively applying electrical power from the one or more sources of electrical power to said light source to produce light; a hollow sleeve disposed in the barrel of said light housing surrounding the one or more sources of electrical power, said hollow sleeve having a plurality of pairs of longitudinal slots defining a plurality of elongated longitudinal spring members, wherein only one end of each of said longitudinal spring members is connected to said hollow sleeve and an opposite end thereof is free, wherein each of said longitudinal spring members is formed to partly extend in a radial direction outward of said hollow sleeve and to partly extend in a radial direction inward into said hollow sleeve, and wherein a dimension in a radial direction between the part formed to extend outward and the part formed to extend inward is at least as large as a difference between the interior dimension of the barrel of said light housing and the external dimension of the one or more sources of electrical power.