Patent ID: 7837580

Claim:
An archery arrow, which comprises: a shaft having forward and rearward portions and having a rearwardly positioned tubular portion; a light transmitting nock, with a transparent internal transverse wall, attached to the rearward end of the shaft; a battery; a light assembly comprising: a light source positioned so that the light source is in physical contact with said transparent internal transverse wall, a switch having normally open electrical contacts, said switch being closable, and circuitry interconnecting the battery, the switch, and the light source, for permitting illumination of the light source upon activation of said switch; said light assembly being free of a housing, and occupying a bore of said arrow shaft rearward end and wherein the connected light transmitting nock and the light assembly are interconnected and retained together with a battery by a retaining wire which is attached to said nock and light assembly, said battery having a transverse groove, said retaining wire defining a first wire loop along an intermediate portion of the length of wire, said first loop occupying said groove, said wire also defining a second loop that extends around said battery.