Danish company develops shock-resistant electric socket
January 20, 2007
Ever since Thomas Edison invented the incandescent lamp in 1878 - and the matching Edison socket - people have gotten electric shocks from the sockets. Ever since Thomas Edison invented the incandescent lamp in 1878 - and the matching Edison socket - people have gotten electric shocks from the sockets. In Europe alone more than 20,000 people get an electric shock from an electric socket every year and in about 2,000 cases people has gotten such a serious electric shock, that they had to receive treatment in hospital.

But now - after 130 years – the era is over, when you risk getting electric shocks from Edison sockets.

The Danish company Insalvo Denmark has developed the “EdisonSalvo® socket”. With this socket it is no longer possible to get an electric shock by ordinary use, and a worldwide patent has just been taken out for this revolutionary invention.

In the near future the new “EdisonSalvo® socket” will be presented to a number of potential lamp makers. It is expected that the “EdisonSalvo® socket” will be on the market in the summer of 2006.

Inventor and co-owner of InSalvo Denmark Carsten Hornshoj got the idea for the “EdisonSalvo® socket” by coincidence. One day his three-year-old son got an electric shock when he put his finger in an old Edison socket. This made Carsten Hornshoj think about all the times he himself got electric shocks as a child. He understood that children apparently has a “thing” about putting their fingers in electric sockets, and that one cannot keep them from doing it if they get the chance. Therefore, the obvious solution had to be developing a socket from which you cannot get an electric shock if you put your finger or some other object in the switched-on socket.

After several experiments in his workshop the idea of the “EdisonSalvo® socket” had taken shape and Carsten Hornshoj contacted PHASION and HIH-Development, which have helped him with the further development of the “EdisonSalvo® socket – with the financial aid of the Danish Ministry of Science. Through the whole process safety has been the main focus and the result is a socket from which you cannot get an electric shock. It was also important to give the “EdisonSalvo® socket” the same outer dimensions as the existing sockets.

The “EdisonSalvo® socket” comes in all usual sizes. The team behind the development of the socket has high hopes of it and expects a fair share of the global market for electric sockets.

With the new shock-resistant “EdisonSalvo® socket” InSalvo Denmark has prepared the way for a great breakthrough in the area of electrical safety.
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Ever since Thomas Edison invented the incandescent lamp in 1878 - and the matching Edison socket - people have gotten electric shocks from the sockets.


 
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