Special connector members for small electrical light emitting devices, bases, and sockets

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Although specific embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings, it should be understood that such embodiments are by way of example only and merely illustrative of but a small number of the many possible specific embodiments which can represent applications of the principles of the present invention.
Various changes and modifications obvious to one skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains are deemed to be within the spirit, scope and contemplation of the present invention as further defined in the appended claims.
A lamp and light bulbs are somewhat synonymous terms.
To distinguish them, a light bulb is a lamp with a base.
A lamp just has leads coming from the bulb portion.
It has been discussed earlier that a typical low electrical current small light bulb socket has two terminals, which are either the positive terminal and the negative terminal for the DC electrical circuits, or the power terminal and the ground terminal for the AC electrical circuits.
Two conventional methods of connecting two thin insulated wires to the terminals respectively are soldering and screw mounting.
Both methods require manually stripping off the insulating cover of the end portion of an insulated wire to expose its copper conducting core.
In FIG.
1 there is shown a first type prior art small light bulb socket 300 which requires the conventional soldering method for electrical wiring.
Prior art small light bulb socket 300 has two terminals 312 and 314.
Two insulated wires 2 and 4 are connected to terminals 312 and 314 of prior art socket 300 respectively by the soldering method.
First the end portion of insulated wire 2 is stripped off manually to expose its conducting core 6, and the end portion of insulated wire 4 is also stripped off manually to expose its conducting core 8.
Then the exposed conducting core 6 of insulated wire 2 is soldered to terminal 312 of prior art socket 300 by a drop of solder 316 and the exposed conducting core 8 of insulated wire 4 is soldered to terminal 314 of prior art socket 300 by a drop of solder 318