Patent ID: 8342727

Claim:
A lamp socket assembly, comprising: a lamp base body molded from a first plastic material, said lamp base body having an upper portion formed with a socket cavity configured for receipt of a bulb and a lower portion depending from said upper portion; a plurality of contacts disposed in said socket cavity; a plurality of functional terminals configured in electrical communication with said contacts; a plurality of pass through terminals configured out of electrical communication with each of said contacts; a housing overmolded onto at least a portion of said lower portion of said lamp base body, said housing being molded from a second plastic material separate from said first plastic material; and wherein said lower portion of said lamp base body has a through opening receiving said functional terminals and said pass through terminals, said housing being overmolded about a portion of said functional terminals and about a portion of said pass through terminals and fixing said functional terminals and said pass through terminals to said lamp base body.