Patent ID: 8632364
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: F21V,H01R

Abstract:
1. A socket for a wedge bulb, the wedge bulb including a light emitting element and a connector protruding from a lower end of the light emitting element and provided at each of a front surface and a rear surface thereof with a pair of electric terminals arranged in parallel to each other, the socket comprising: an elastic supporting terminal unit provided at an inner wall surface of a coupling recess defined in the socket and serving to elastically support the connector inserted into the coupling recess while achieving electrical connection with the electric terminals, wherein the elastic supporting terminal unit includes a first elastic supporting terminal having a pair of first elastic supporting pieces and a second elastic supporting terminal having a pair of second elastic supporting pieces, and one of the first and second elastic supporting pieces has a height difference in a longitudinal direction with respect to the other elastic supporting pieces; and wherein one of the electric terminals is pressed and supported by one of the first and second elastic supporting pieces at a different height from the other electric terminal.