Patent ID: 7326072

Claim:
A connection element, comprising two contact elements of an electrically conductive material and which, respectively, have two contact arms, connected integrally at one end to each other and formed yoke-like, so that their non-connected end portions are arranged opposite to each other and form contact portions, serving for contacting a flat contact tab at both sides at its wide sides, have a connection contact portion, connected integrally to a contact arm and projecting from the contact portions away from the connected end, a housing, which has a front end face and a side face arranged at an angle thereto, has for each contact element an accommodation chamber, which has an opening towards the front end face and a slot which extends from the side face into the accommodation chamber and through an end wall forming the front end face into the opening, wherein the two contact elements are capable of connecting to two flat contact tabs projecting radially from a lamp holder and offset along the axis and which wide sides extend transversally to the axis, and wherein the lamp holder is connectable, by a pivot movement around an axis, to the socket of a lamp.