Patent ID: 8366291

Claim:
A lighting device, comprising: a tubular element ( 1 ) comprising a flexible printed circuit ( 3 ) having conducting tracks ( 32 ) on which light-emitting diodes ( 31 ) are disposed, the conducting tracks ( 32 ) including passage ports ( 33 ) having electrically conducting connection rings ( 34 ) disposed thereon, and a flexible cover ( 2 ) having diffusing or coloring properties of the emitted light, the flexible cover ( 2 ) including a longitudinal aperture ( 23 ) for introducing the flexible printed circuit ( 3 ) into a recess ( 24 ) of the flexible cover ( 2 ), the flexible cover ( 2 ) further including a set ( 25 ) of integrally formed, mutually opposed, male and female configurations connectable and disconnectable to one another by pressure for watertight closing of the longitudinal aperture ( 23 ) and recess ( 24 ) after the flexible printed circuit ( 3 ) is introduced through the longitudinal aperture ( 23 ) and into the recess ( 24 ); and an external connector ( 4 ) having two sets of electrically conducting connection pins ( 41 a , 41 b ) disposed opposite each other for clamping and electrically connecting to the connection rings ( 34 ) to supply power to the light emitting diodes ( 31 ) from a power supply cable ( 5 ).