LED holder

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9239152-B2
Application number	US-201414478304-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 5, 2014
Priority date	Sep 5, 2013
Publication date	Jan 19, 2016
Grant date	Jan 19, 2016

Abstract

A holder comprises a base body, at least two terminals, a connector and at least two wires. The base body defines a receiving hole for receiving the light emitting module. The terminals are provided to the base body and each have a pressing contact portion and a wire insertion structure, the pressing contact portions extend into the receiving hole and respectively press against the contact pads of the light emitting module. The connector is provided to the base body so as to externally connect a mating connector. The wires respectively correspond to the terminals to allow one end of each wire to be detachably connected to the wire insertion structure of the corresponding terminal and the other end of the each wire to be connected to the connector so that the terminals and the connector are electrically connected.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A holder, comprising
a base body defining a receiving hole;
at least two terminals provided to the base body, each of the terminals having a pressing contact portion extending into the receiving hole and a wire insertion structure configured to detachably connect to a wire;
a connector provided to the base body; and
at least two wires supported by the base body, wherein one end of each wire of the at least two wires is respectively detachaby connected to one of the corresponding terminals and the other end of each wire of the at least two wires is connected to the connector, wherein the terminals and the connector are electrically connected.

2. The holder of claim 1 , wherein the base body has a mounting groove for receiving the connector.

3. The holder of claim 1 , wherein the wire insertion structure of the terminals is a wire trap.

4. The holder of claim 3 , wherein the wire insertion structure of the terminals is a two-way wire trap.

5. The holder of claim 1 , wherein the wire insertion structure of the terminals are in form of insulation-displacement termination.

6. The holder of claim 1 , wherein
the base body has a top face and a bottom face, and the receiving hole has a window portion passing through the top face and a frame groove portion recessed from the bottom face toward the top face, and the window portion and the frame groove portion are communicated;
the base body further has at least a resilient abutting block defining a part of the frame groove portion.

7. An illumination device, comprising:
a light emitting module having a light emitting portion and at least two contact pads; and
a holder, comprising:
a base body defining a receiving hole for receiving the light emitting module;
at least two terminals supported by the base body, each terminal of the at least two terminals having a pressing contact portion and a wire insertion structure, the pressing contact portions extending into the receiving hole and respectively pressing against the contact pads of the light emitting module;
a connector provided to the base body, the connector configured to externally connect to a mating connector; and
at least two wires supported by the base body, each wire of the at least two wires having one end respectively connected to one of the at least two terminals and wherein another end of each of the wires of the at least two wires is connected to the connector so that the terminals and the connector are electrically connected via the at least two wires.

8. The illumination device of claim 7 , wherein the base body has a mounting groove for receiving the connector.

9. The illumination device of claim 8 , further comprising:
a cover covering the holder and assembled to and engaged with the holder, and having an opening for exposing the light emitting portion and an aperture which allows the connector to expose outwardly.

10. The illumination device of claim 9 , wherein
the base body further has a top face and a bottom face, and the receiving hole has a window portion passing through the top face and a frame groove portion recessed from the bottom face toward the top face, and the window portion and the frame groove portion are communicated, the light emitting module is received in the frame groove portion and the light emitting portion is exposed from the window portion;
the base body further has at least a resilient abutting block defining a part of the frame groove portion to abut against a side edge of the light emitting module.

11. The illumination device of claim 7 , wherein the wire insertion structures of the terminals are in form of wire trap.

12. The illumination device of claim 11 , wherein the wire insertion structures of the terminals are in form of two-way wire trap.

13. The illumination device of claim 7 , wherein the wire insertion structures of the terminals are in form of insulation-displacement termination.

Assignees

• Molex Llc

Inventors

• Ho Yi-Tse

Classifications

• F21Y2105/00

  Planar light sources · CPC title

• F21V19/0055 Primary

  by screwing · CPC title

• F21Y2105/001

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21Y2101/02

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21V23/06

  the elements being coupling devices {, e.g. connectors} · CPC title