Patent ID: 7563003

Claim:
A retrofit HID lamp assembly adapted for use in a non-HID lighting receptacle that is constructed and arranged to receive a non-HID lamp assembly for the production of light, the retrofit HID lamp assembly comprising: a housing compatible in size and shape with the receptacle, and having an interior; a ballast unit disposed substantially within the housing interior; a base terminal structure adapted to receive electrical inputs and communicatively coupled to the ballast unit; a reflector disposed substantially within the housing and defining a reflector aperture; a lens coupled with any of the housing and the reflector, wherein the lens and the reflector are arranged to bound portions of a non-pressurized reflector cavity disposed within the housing interior; and an HID lamp having a light emissive portion that is removably insertable through the reflector aperture into the non-pressurized reflector cavity, having a base portion arranged for disposition outside the non-pressurized reflector cavity when the light emissive portion is disposed within the non-pressurized reflector cavity, and being electrically coupleable with the ballast unit via electrical contacts disposed on or in the base portion.