EP 2108885 B1 20120516 - Improved bulb-holder device
Title (en)
Improved bulb-holder device
Title (de)
Verbesserte Kolbenfassungsvorrichtung
Title (fr)
Dispositif de support de construction amélioré
Publication
Application
Priority
IT TO20080282 A 20080411
Abstract (en)
[origin: EP2108885A1] A bulb-holder device (1) including a collar (10) carrying therein a seat (12) for housing the fixing flange (12) of a bulb (3) and obtained integral with, or fixable to, a reflector (6) of a lighting or light signaling device (2) coaxially to an optical axis (X) thereof, and an elastically deformable spring element (14), having a first end (15) hinged to first securing means (16) for the collar and a second end (18) adapted to snappingly engage, in use, second securing means (20) for the collar to block in abutment, by a central position (21) thereof, the flange of the bulb in the seat of the collar, the latter and the flange being provided with mating reference means (23,24) to ensure a correct angular placing of the bulb in the seat; wherein the spring element (14), the first and second securing means (16,20) and the collar (10) are dimensioned and placed reciprocally in relation so that the spring element (14) is adapted to snappingly clasp the second securing means (20) only when the bulb (3) is correctly placed, with its flange (12) resting in abutment against a flat bottom wall (36) of the collar seat and the mating reference means (23,24) of the flange and seat reciprocally coupled.
IPC 8 full level
F21V 19/00 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
F21S 41/196 (2017.12)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
DE FR IT
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 2108885 A1 20091014; EP 2108885 B1 20120516; IT TO20080282 A1 20091012
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 09156743 A 20090330; IT TO20080282 A 20080411