Patent ID: 6648691
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A lampholder comprising:a socket having an inner end and formed with an outwardly open lamp seat defining an axis and adapted to fit with a base of a high-voltage lamp, and a pair of inwardly open blind contact holes; a base fitted against the inner end, formed at the contact holes with respective contact seats, and having a floor formed in line with each contact hole with an axially throughgoing aperture; and respective contacts in the contact seats and each formed with an abutment arm extending along a wall of the respective contact hole and a spring arm extending into the respective contact hole and elastically deformable from a rest position closely juxtaposed with the respective abutment arm to a holding position spaced therefrom, whereby a conductor pushed axially forward through one of the apertures into the respective contact hole will wedge between the respective spring arm and abutment arm.