Richard W Kurtz

US Patent:

7270443, Sep 18, 2007

Filed:

Jan 13, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/332720

Inventors:

Richard Kurtz - Plainsboro NJ, US
Edward Ma - Great Neck NY, US

International Classification:

F21V 17/02

US Classification:

362282, 362322, 362217

Abstract:

A directional lighting fixture can receive an elongated lamp. The fixture has a spaced pair of connective devices each having a barrel with an electrical contact adapted to connect to opposite ends of the lamp. A tubular lamp cover has a light transmissive section and a light reflective section. Each section is contiguous to the other and trough-shaped. The lamp cover is rotatably mounted around the barrels of the connective devices.

US Patent:

20090196029, Aug 6, 2009

Filed:

Feb 5, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/025806

Inventors:

Richard Kurtz - Plainsboro NJ, US
Edward Ma - Great Neck NY, US

International Classification:

F21S 15/00
H01J 61/04
H01R 4/48

US Classification:

362221, 313631, 439851

Abstract:

A lighting assembly includes a discharge lamp having a discharge tube with a longitudinal centerline reaching between opposite ends of the tube. A pair of electrodes are mounted at opposite ends of the discharge tube. The lamp has a pair of connectors each connected to a different corresponding one of the pair of electrodes. Each of the connectors have at least one pin (a) externally mounted alongside the discharge tube without extending past the ends of the tube, and (b) extending at an angle no greater than an acute angle relative to the centerline. The assembly also has a lamp fixture with an elongate housing and a pair of sockets mounted at opposite ends of the housing. Each of the sockets includes at least one longitudinal slot having an opening extending longitudinally between a proximal side of the slot and an open distal side of the slot. The longitudinal slot has an electrical contact. The at least one pin of the pair of connectors is snapped into the longitudinal slot against the electrical contact of the pair of sockets.