Patent ID: 7563143

Claim:
A lighting apparatus comprising: a housing receiving an electric bulb; and a plurality of busbars disposed in the housing for connecting the electric bulb with an electrical cable, the busbars each having an electrode connection portion to be connected with an electrode of the electric bulb and an electrical cable connection portion to be connected with the electrical cable, wherein each electrical cable connection portion has bottom wall and a piercing blade or a piercing claw upstanding from the bottom wall, the electrical cable connection portion being bent perpendicularly obliquely at a connection place between the electrical cable connection portion and the electrode connection portion away from the electrode connection portion so that the bottom wall perpendicularly crosses a longitudinal direction of the electrode connection portion, the bottom wall being disposed outside of the housing opposite the electric bulb so that the piercing blade or the piercing claw is oriented in a direction opposite the electrode connection portion.