Patent ID: 7160139

Claim:
A contact assembly for supplying operating electricity to an electroluminescent illumination assembly which comprises a carrier plate with inner and outer faces, and a display that lies over said carrier plate outer face and that includes an insulation layer and a pigment layer that is luminous during operation and a transparent electrically conductive top electrode in addition to a transparent electrically insulating protective layer lying over said pigment layer, including: at least two adjacent electrically conductive exposed contact pads lying on said carrier plate outer face and connected to said display, said contact pads not covered by the electrically insulating protective layer; a first connector mounted on the carrier plate, said first connector having a body of insulating material, said first connector having at least two electrically conductive first contact elements mounted on the carrier plate with each of said first contact elements having an outer first element end engaging one of the contact pads and with the body of the first connector covering the first element outer ends and the contact pads to prevent a person from accidently engaging the contact elements and contact pads.