Patent ID: 8575519

Claim:
An electronic gas igniter for an electric household appliance, comprising: a first casing made of electrically non-conducting material; an igniter, an electronic control device, and a terminal board all integrally connected to said first casing; said first casing further comprising a cable clamp apparatus; wherein the terminal board comprises a second box-like casing made of electrically non-conducting material independent of the first casing; said second casing further comprising a cup-shaped body having first and second opposite side openings and an inlet oriented substantially perpendicular to said first and said second opposite side openings, and a lid dimensioned and configured to close the inlet; said first casing having a first end including a pair of electric power contacts for the igniter and being coupled through said first side opening of said cup-shaped body so as to be removably snap-secured in use, said pair of electric power contacts being arranged within the cup-shaped body in a position facing said inlet to define said terminal board with the second casing, and wherein the lid is hingedly restrained to a first side of the cup-shaped body adjacent to said side openings and is adapted to be snap-coupled to a second side of the cup-shaped body opposite the first side, and wherein a first and a second clamping apparatus each defined by corresponding first cantilevered projections having a saddle-shaped free end, and by second cantilevered projections, having a flat free end, and wherein the first clamping apparatus is integrally made in one piece with said cup-shaped body and said second clamping apparatus is integrally made in one piece with said lid; and, wherein said first casing carries on said first end and laterally to said electric power contacts respective connection contacts to said electronic control device, which are accommodated within the first casing, along with said igniter; said second casing being provided, on a side wall of the cup-shaped body adjacent to said first side opening of the same with a through cutout which accommodates in use, when the first casing is coupled to the second through said first side opening, said connection contacts to said electronic control device.