Patent ID: 6570306
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
In combination with a wire having a conductive core and a lamp having a contact pin, a lamp holder comprising:a socket housing forming a seat centered on an axis; and a contact fitted to the seat and formed unitarily with a pair of opposite generally axially extending sides flanking the axis, a front finger extending generally axially from one of the sides and having a pair of opposite edges and therebetween a face directed radially toward the axis and pressing transversely of the axis against the lamp contact pin, and a back finger extending from the other side offset transversely of the axis from the front finger and having an outer edge juxtaposed with the one side, the conductive core being pinched between the back-finger outer edge and the one side laterally adjacent the front finger and bearing laterally against one of the edges of the front finger.