Patent ID: 8663040
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. An illuminated game ball with an improved illuminated cap assembly that enables a user to manually control illumination for daytime and night time use, reduce accidental activation, and allows for easier battery exchange, comprising: a. a solid, opaque, spherical body with an axially aligned cap bore that partially extends into said spherical body; b. an illuminated cap assembly configured to be selectively inserted and temporarily locked into said cap bore, said cap assembly includes an outer housing, an intermediate member, and an inner housing, said outer housing includes a top flange plate and a perpendicular aligned, hollow cylinder opened at one end, said top flange plate includes a transversely aligned slot and a coaxially aligned plunger bore, said intermediate member includes a PCB with a perpendicular aligned bridle attached thereto and an upward extending plunger switch, said bridle includes a lower horizontal surface with at least one longitudinally aligned, downward extending LED bulb attached thereto, said inner housing includes a lower flange plate and an upward extending cylindrical side wall that surrounds said intermediate member, said lower flange plate includes an LED bulb bore, said cylindrical side wall on said inner housing being smaller in diameter than said cylindrical side wall on said outer housing thereby enabling inner housing to fit into said outer housing; c. three stacked batteries located inside said bridle and electrically connected between said PCB and said LED, and d. whereby when said intermediate light assembly is coaxially aligned inside said inner housing and said inner housing is attached to said outer housing, said plunger on said intermediate light assembly is recessed and coaxially aligned with said plunger bore formed on said top flange plate on said outer housing, and said LED bulb extends downward through said bulb hole on said lower flange plate on said inner housing.