Daylight portable lamp for inspecting painted surfaces, in particular in the course of paint repair work on motor vehicles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10473288-B2
Application number	US-201715678571-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 16, 2017
Priority date	Aug 19, 2016
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

A daylight portable lamp for inspecting painted surfaces, in particular in the course of paint repair work on motor vehicles, includes at least a head part with a light-exit opening, through which the light that can be produced by the daylight portable lamp can leave, and a sleeve, which surrounds the light-exit opening and is produced from an elastic, preferably rubber-elastic, material, arranged at the light-exit opening.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A daylight portable lamp for inspecting painted surfaces, in particular in the course of paint repair work on motor vehicles, the daylight portable lamp comprising:
a head part with a light-exit opening, through which light produced by the daylight portable lamp can leave;
an elastic sleeve arranged at the light-exit opening, the elastic sleeve surrounding the light-exit opening and produced from an elastic material; and
a handle part extending along a longitudinal axis,
wherein the head part is arranged at one end of the handle part in such a way that the end face of the head part that is provided with the light-exit opening protrudes with respect to the handle part substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the handle part.

2. The daylight portable lamp of claim 1 , wherein the head part has a rigid-plastic housing part, on the end face of which the sleeve is fastened.

3. The daylight portable lamp of claim 2 , wherein the sleeve is produced from a thermoplastic elastomer and the rigid-plastic housing part is produced from polyamide.

4. The daylight portable lamp of claim 2 , wherein the head part comprises a lighting element for producing the light, which is arranged in the rigid-plastic housing part.

5. The daylight portable lamp of claim 2 , wherein the sleeve is fastened in an interlocking and/or frictionally engaging manner, in particular on the end face of the rigid-plastic housing part of the head part.

6. The daylight portable lamp of claim 2 , wherein the sleeve has at least one radially inwardly protruding retaining lug, by which the sleeve is fastened, in particular on the end face of the rigid-plastic housing part of the head part.

7. The daylight portable lamp of claim 2 , wherein a cover plate, which is fastened on the head part by the sleeve and is exchangeable together with the sleeve, is provided for the light-exit opening.

8. The daylight portable lamp of claim 7 , wherein the sleeve has on an inner circumference a peripheral axial bearing surface for the cover plate, by which the cover plate is pressed against the end face of the head part, in particular the end face of the rigid-plastic housing part.

9. The daylight portable lamp of claim 2 , wherein the elastic sleeve is fastened to the housing part in a nondestructively detachable manner.

10. The daylight portable lamp of claim 2 , wherein the elastic sleeve is capable of producing an impact damping effect such that an impact in a region of the light-exit opening is damped by the elastic sleeve.

11. The daylight portable lamp of claim 2 , further comprising:
a cover plate for the light-exit opening, the elastic sleeve fastening the cover plate on the housing part,
wherein a peripheral axial bearing surface on an inner circumference of the elastic sleeve presses the cover plate against the end face of the rigid-plastic housing part.

12. The daylight portable lamp of claim 1 , wherein the end of the handle part that is remote from the head part has an extension, which protrudes with respect to the handle part substantially in the same direction as the end face of the head part that is provided with the light-exit opening.

13. The daylight portable lamp of claim 12 , wherein the daylight portable lamp has a rechargeable battery, which is detachably fastened at the end of the handle part that is remote from the head part and the battery partially forms the extension.

14. The daylight portable lamp of claim 1 , wherein the end face of the extension has two projections, which can serve as bearing elements.

15. The daylight portable lamp of claim 1 , wherein the end face of the sleeve that is directed away from the head part is curved.

16. The daylight portable lamp of claim 1 , wherein the elastic sleeve is produced from a rubber-elastic material.

Assignees

• Sata Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Maier Norbert
• Tschan Alexander

Classifications

• G01N21/57

  Measuring gloss · CPC title

• G01N21/8803 Primary

  Visual inspection (measuring projectors G01B9/08) · CPC title

• G01N21/8806

  Specially adapted optical and illumination features · CPC title

• G01N2201/0221

  Portable; cableless; compact; hand-held · CPC title

• F21V1/22 Primary

  the material being plastics · CPC title