Patent ID: 7153006

Claim:
A lamp assembly of a flashlight device, comprising: a lamp member positioned at an end of a body of said flashlight device, said lamp member comprising a closed casing, a lamp housed inside said casing, and a transparent lens positioned at an end of said casing along the path of light from said lamp, said casing having a flanged rim around and at the outer side of said transparent lens; at least an optical lens positioned inside said flanged rim and attached to the outer side of said transparent lens of said lamp member; and a rim member joined to said flanged rim so that said optical lens is fixed between said rim member and said transparent lens; wherein said flanged rim has a plurality of L-shaped notches configured along an inside circumference of said flanged rim; each of said notches comprises a first groove along the axial direction of said flanged rim and a second groove perpendicular to said first groove, jointly forming the L shape of said notches; said rim member has a plurality of wedges protruding from an outside circumference of said rim member; and said rim member is joined to said flanged rim by having said wedges aligned with and inserted into said first grooves, and by twisting said rim member so that said wedges are slid into said second grooves; a bump is configured at an appropriate location along each of said second grooves so as to, when said wedges slide into said second grooves and cross said bumps, confine said wedges inside said second grooves.