Patent ID: 8294372

Claim:
An online time dimmer, having its one end connected electrically to a power supply through electric wiring and a plug, while the other end to a lighting load through electric wiring, comprising a base, an electric circuit unit lodged in said base and a top cover joined with said base correspondingly, wherein said base is provided with a through hole near each of two ends for the insertion by a fastener; said electric circuit unit comprising a circuit board and electric components set up thereon, where the circuit board connects electrically to the aforesaid electric wiring at its two ends, said electric circuit unit being functionally made up of a dimmer circuit and a time circuit, and structurally comprising a power switch and a time switch; said top cover being provided with screw holes internally at the locations corresponding to the through holes of said base for threaded joining with the fasteners, and having two openings on its surface which accommodates a switch button and a time button respectively, where the bottom of the buttons is in contact with the power switch or the time switch; when in use, depressing the switch button in turn pressing the power switch, which activates power-on, power-off and the adjustment of brightness operated on the lighting load through the dimmer circuit; and depressing the time button in turn pressing the time switch, which enables the time circuit to operate time setting on the lighting load.