EP2363635B1 - Prise de lampe pour phare - Google Patents

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EP2363635B1
EP2363635B1 EP10155545.6A EP10155545A EP2363635B1 EP 2363635 B1 EP2363635 B1 EP 2363635B1 EP 10155545 A EP10155545 A EP 10155545A EP 2363635 B1 EP2363635 B1 EP 2363635B1
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Berthold Döring
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Hella GmbH and Co KGaA
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S41/00—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps
    • F21S41/50—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by aesthetic components not otherwise provided for, e.g. decorative trim, partition walls or covers
    • F21S41/55—Attachment thereof
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S41/00—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps
    • F21S41/30—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by reflectors
    • F21S41/39—Attachment thereof

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  • the invention relates to a lamp holder for headlights, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a lamp holder for headlamp comprising a tubular socket body made of an electrically conductive material extending in a region between a reflector and a lamp ignitor.
  • the tubular socket body fastening means are assigned to lock the lamp in the mounting position.
  • the lamp holder comprises a ring element, which has a radial receiving surface for receiving a base of the lamp.
  • an axially extending claw is attached to the tubular socket body, which contacts in the mounting position an electrically conductive housing of the ignitor. In this way, a continuous electrically conductive surface between the reflector and the igniter is ensured.
  • a disadvantage of the known lamp holder is that for shielding purposes additional electrically conductive claw elements must be attached to the tubular socket body.
  • the DE 100 08 047 A1 discloses a lamp receptacle with a tubular socket body and an overhanging skirt of a lamp plug. Contact springs are used to attach the skirt on the front side of a reflector inserted tubular socket body. Axially protruding from the tubular socket body contact springs are not provided.
  • a lamp holder for headlights which has a tubular socket body and a ring member for attaching a lamp to a reflector.
  • the tubular socket body has, on the one hand, a plurality of circumferentially arranged contact springs for application to an ignition device of a lamp of the headlight and, on the other hand, contact springs for fastening to a reflector.
  • the ring element is arranged coaxially with the tubular socket body and attached via latching elements on an outer side of the tubular socket body.
  • an inner ring member is required, on which the tubular socket body is applied.
  • an outer ring member is required that is connected via locking elements with the tubular socket body and a detent with the inner ring member.
  • Object of the present invention is therefore to develop a lamp holder for headlights such that on the one hand a safe and reliable shielding against electromagnetic radiation and on the other a space-saving fixing of the lamp is ensured on the tubular socket body.
  • the invention has the features of claim 1.
  • the tubular socket body is frontally shaped such that arranged on a reflector side facing a plurality of circumferentially distributed first contact springs and arranged on a side facing the ignitor a plurality of circumferentially distributed second contact springs are arranged or formed.
  • the tubular socket body thus enables a direct and secure electrically conductive connection to the reflector on the one hand and the igniter on the other.
  • the contact springs are preferably coronary in the circumferential direction of the reflector or igniter.
  • the circumferential first contact springs and / or the circumferential second contact springs are integrally connected to a cylindrical portion of the tubular socket body.
  • the manufacturing costs can be reduced, in particular if the tubular socket body consists of a rolled spring steel sheet.
  • the socket body can be plugged with its cylinder portion on a crest approach area of the reflector and preferably releasably connected to the same.
  • the yielding first contact springs allow a secure electrical connection between the socket body and at least one metallic portion of the reflector.
  • the tubular Fassunosharm at least one recess for receiving a retaining spring, by means of which the lamp in the mounting position relative to the socket body can be fixed.
  • Vorteithaft can thereby be made a space-saving determination, since the retaining spring is preferably arranged integrated in the cylinder portion of the socket body.
  • the cylinder portion of the tubular socket body on at least one locking element, so that the tubular body is releasably attachable to the ring member.
  • the ring element is made of a plastic material which is integrally formed on the same in a vertex area of the reflector.
  • this can be formed in a simple manner corresponding lugs or projections and the like, which allows a centered position of the lamp or the igniter in relation to the reflector.
  • a lamp holder 1 according to the invention is preferably used in motor vehicles and there in headlights.
  • the lamp holder 1 on the one hand on a made of a plastic material ring element 2, which is integrally formed or molded in an apex portion 3 of a reflector 4 to the same.
  • the ring element 2 has a plurality of projecting in the axial and / or radial direction lugs 7, which allow a positionally correct positioning of the base of a permanently connected to an ignitor 6 lamp or the ignition device 6 to the reflector 4 in the mounting position.
  • the lamp holder 1 has a tubular socket body 8, which consists of an electrically conductive material.
  • the tubular socket body 8 has a cylinder portion 9 which has distributed in the circumferential direction a number of locking elements 10 which cooperate with externally arranged on the ring member 2 counter-locking elements 11, so that the socket body 8 is releasably secured to the ring member 2.
  • the locking elements 10 of the cylinder portion 9 engage behind an edge of the counter-latching element 11, so that the tubular socket body 8 is clamped in the mounting position on the ring member 2 and the reflector 4.
  • the cylinder portion 9 also has slots 12 (narrow recesses), so that a retaining spring 13 can be accommodated as a fastening means and adjusted between a locking and non-locking position for locking the lamp or the ignition device 6 to the tubular socket body eighth
  • the tubular socket body 8 consists of a metal material, preferably of a rolled spring steel sheet material, which is cup-shaped.
  • the tubular socket body 8 On a side facing the reflector 4, the tubular socket body 8 has a plurality of circumferentially distributed first contact springs 14 in the mounting position biased against an electrically conductive outer surface 15 (electrically conductive portion) of the reflector 4.
  • the first contact springs 14 are each formed beak-shaped and each extend at an acute angle outwardly with respect.
  • the first contact springs 14 are connected to the cylinder portion 9 such that they are in the radial direction are designed to be resilient and in the mounting position substantially flat against the outer surface 15 of the reflector 4.
  • the first contact springs 14 may also extend substantially in the axial direction. Such an embodiment of the first contact springs 14 lends itself to contact with a concentric neck of the reflector 4.
  • a plurality of circumferentially distributed second contact springs 17 is arranged, which extend substantially in the radial direction.
  • the second contact springs 17 are connected via a connecting web 18 with the cylinder portion 9.
  • the second contact springs 17 have a smaller contact surface than the first contact springs 14.
  • the second contact springs 17 are based in the mounting position on a radial wall 19 of the ignition device 6, so that a continuous electrically conductive connection between an electrically conductive housing 20 of the ignitor 6 and the electrically conductive outer surface 15 of the reflector 4 is made. An unwanted electromagnetic radiation to the outside can thus be prevented.
  • the first contact springs 14 and the second contact springs 17 are integrally connected to the cylinder portion 9 of the tubular socket body 8. They each extend annularly around the longitudinal axis L of the socket body 8.
  • the reflector 4 has a metallic base body, which with a plastic material in the apex region 3 thereof on the outside to form the ring element second molded on the other hand molded on the inside to form a mirrored plastic sealing surface.
  • the ring element 2 has a central socket hole 21 for insertion of the lamp. From a radial base side rise in the axial direction and / or radial direction three distributed arranged first lugs 7 'for axial support of the ignitor 6 on the ring element 2. In addition, two approximately 90 ° to each other staggered second lugs 7 "are provided for vertical positioning of the ignition device 6 relative to the lamp holder 1. The second lugs 7 "are prism-shaped and expand in the radial direction inwards. In addition, a fourth nose 22 for coding and a fifth nose 23 are formed as anti-twist.
  • the first contact springs 14 and the second contact springs 17 are arranged distributed uniformly in the circumferential direction.
  • the plurality of second contact springs 17 forms a bottom ring, by means of which the tubular socket body 8 can be supported on the radial wall 19 of the ignition device 6.
  • the slots 12 are formed relatively narrow, so that the shielding effect is improved.
  • axial spring 24 is preferably connected to a tab 26, which is connected by means of Naturalzugsnietung 27 with the cylinder portion 9 of the tubular socket body 8.

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Claims (7)

  1. Logement de lampe pour projecteurs, surtout d'un véhicule, avec un élément annulaire (2) présentant une surface de support radiale pour l'appui d'un culot de la lampe et avec un corps de douille tubulaire (8) d'une matière électriquement conductrice qui s'étend en position de montage de la lampe entre une section électriquement conductrice d'un réflecteur (4) et un boîtier (20) électriquement conducteur d'un dispositif d'allumage (6) pour la lampe, des moyens de fixation pour le verrouillage de la lampe en position de montage étant attribués au corps de douille tubulaire (8) et le corps de douille tubulaire (8) présentant d'une part sur un côté orienté vers le réflecteur (4) une majorité des premiers ressorts de contact (14) disposés dans la direction circonférentielle et sur un côté orienté vers le dispositif d'allumage (6) une majorité des deuxièmes ressorts de contact (17) disposés dans la direction circonférentielle d'autre part, les premiers ressorts de contact (14) et/ou les deuxièmes ressorts de contact (17) étant disposés de manière annulaire autour d'un axe longitudinal (L) du corps de douille tubulaire (8), les premiers ressorts de contact (14) s'étendant dans la direction axiale ou sous un angle aigu ouvert radialement vers l'extérieur pour le support du corps de douille tubulaire (8) sur une surface extérieure (15) du réflecteur (4) et les deuxièmes ressorts de contact (17) s'étendant dans la direction radiale pour le support du corps de douille tubulaire (8) sur une paroi radiale (19) du dispositif d'allumage (6),
    caractérisé en ce que
    le corps de douille tubulaire (8) présente au moins un évidemment (12) pour le logement d'un ressort de maintien (13) par lequel la lampe peut être fixée en position de montage par rapport au corps de douille tubulaire (8) et qu'une section de cylindre (9) du corps de douille tubulaire (8) présente au moins un élément d'accrochage (10) pour la fixation amovible du corps de douille tubulaire (8) sur l'élément annulaire (2), l'élément d'accrochage (10) étant en interaction avec un contre-élément d'accrochage (11) disposé sur l'extérieur de l'élément annulaire (2).
  2. Logement de lampe selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les premiers ressorts de contact (14) et/ou les deuxièmes ressorts de contact (17) sont reliés solidairement à la section du cylindre (9) du corps de douille tubulaire (8).
  3. Logement de lampe selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que le corps de douille tubulaire (8) est fait d'un matériau en tôle.
  4. Logement de lampe selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que l'élément annulaire (2) est fait d'un matériau plastique et que l'élément annulaire (2) dans une zone de sommet (3) du réflecteur (4) est surmoulé sur celui-ci.
  5. Logement de lampe selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que l'élément annulaire (2) présente une majorité des ergots (7, 7', 7", 22, 23) dépassants dans une direction axiale et/ou radiale pour l'appui du culot de la lampe et/ou du dispositif d'allumage (6) dans la bonne position sur le réflecteur (4).
  6. Logement de lampe selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que sur le côté orienté vers le dispositif d'allumage (6) du corps de douille tubulaire (8) un ressort axial (24) dépasse, qui s'appuie en position de montage sur une paroi latérale (25) du dispositif d'allumage (6) pour le positionnement radial du dispositif d'allumage (6) par rapport au corps de douille tubulaire (8).
  7. Logement de lampe selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que le corps de douille tubulaire (8) est réalisé en forme de pot, les deuxièmes ressorts de contact (17) formant une surface de contact disposée sous forme de couronne.
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US13/032,795 US20110216551A1 (en) 2010-03-04 2011-02-23 Lamp holding fixture for headlamps
CN201110049918.1A CN102192484B (zh) 2010-03-04 2011-03-02 用于前照灯的灯座

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