Patent ID: 8668504
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A threadless light bulb socket for releasable non-rotational engagement with a threaded base of a light bulb comprising: an insulator housing of electrically insulative material having a top portion defining an opening, a bottom portion, an outer circumferential surface and defining a housing channel communicating between the top portion and the bottom portion; an electrically conductive ground socket carried within the housing channel of the insulator housing and defining a medial chamber communicating with the opening defined in the insulator housing and having an outer circumferential surface, an inner circumferential surface, and communicating with a ground lead wire; a ground socket spring housing having an outer end proximate the outer circumferential surface of the ground socket, a thread lock seat proximate the inner circumferential surface of the ground socket and defining a medial channel communicating between the outer end and the thread lock seat; a thread lock and a biasing spring carried in the medial channel of the spring housing to bias the thread lock toward the thread lock seat and partially into the medial chamber of the ground socket to communicate with an electric terminal of the threaded base of the light bulb; and a cap fastened to the bottom portion of the insulator housing to enclose the ground socket within the medial chamber, the cap carrying a positive terminal contact to electrically communicate with the threaded base of the light bulb and a positive lead wire.