Lamp socket with retaining clip for lamp
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Solution Overview
Problem
Generic lamp sockets for cooking appliance lights face challenges in simplification and improved fabrication due to limited temperature sensitivity and established components, necessitating a design that optimizes installation space and ventilation.
Innovation Solution
A lamp socket design featuring a socket body with a base receiver, connection contacts, and an attachment ring with spring arms that are inserted from the top, allowing for improved ventilation and reduced component count, enabling easier assembly and enhanced electrical safety through friction or positive form locking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the retaining clip is inserted from below into the socket body, then the lamp base can be retained in the base receiver, but the installation space at the bottom side is occupied and ventilation is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The retaining clip is inverted from the conventional design where it is inserted from below into a design where it is inserted from the top side of the socket body. This inversion relocates the retaining mechanism to the top, freeing up the bottom side for ventilation purposes while maintaining the lamp base retention function through the spring arms that engage with the lamp base from above
2Reliability
If the retaining clip is inserted from below into the socket body, then the lamp base can be retained, but ventilation of the lamp is restricted due to limited space at the bottom side
Solution Approach 1:
By inverting the insertion direction of the retaining clip from below to above, the design creates open space at the bottom side of the socket body. This allows ventilation openings to be positioned at the bottom, enabling heat to escape from the lamp, thereby improving thermal management while the top-positioned spring arms continue to provide reliable lamp base retention
3Reliability
If multiple separate components are used for the retaining mechanism, then the lamp base can be retained, but fabrication costs increase and manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The retaining arms are merged with the attachment ring to form a single integrated component. This combination reduces the total number of parts that need to be manufactured and assembled, simplifying the fabrication process and reducing costs while maintaining the retention function through the spring arms that are formed as an integral part of the attachment ring structure
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design frees up installation space at the bottom for improved ventilation, reduces fabrication costs by minimizing components, and enhances electrical safety, leading to a more efficient and reliable cooking appliance light solution.
Implementation Method 1
two spring arms respectively arranged at the two retaining arms and forming a receiving gap for the lamp base between each other
Data Source
AI summary
A lamp socket for a cooking appliance light, the lamp socket including a socket body; a base receiver configured to receive a lamp base of a lamp and formed at a top side of the socket body; connection contacts for external connection conductors of a voltage supply, the connection contacts arranged at a bottom side of the socket body; an attachment ring configured to retain the lamp base in the base receiver; two retaining arms integrally formed at the attachment ring; two spring arms respectively arranged at the two retaining arms and forming a receiving gap for the lamp base between each other and respectively including a free spring arm end and a connected spring arm end respectively connected at each of the two retaining arms, wherein the two spring arms are arranged in the base receiver.