FLUORESCENT LAMP, AND ILLUMINATING DEVICE

摘要

An entire length of a fluorescent lamp is made short to allow the fluorescent lamp to be downsized and the part other than the fluorescent lamp to be shortened so as to advantageously improve the design potentials and enhance the lighting effect. A fluorescent lamp 20 to be fitted to a feeding side member 10, or a hook ceiling, having a pair of retaining holes and a pair of feeding side terminals arranged at corresponding positions, comprises a fluorescent lamp main body 21, an inverter-containing case 22 arranged at a proximal end side of the fluorescent lamp main body 21 and a pair of terminals 23 arranged at the side of the case 22 opposite to the fluorescent lamp main body 21. The pair of terminals 23 have the tip ends bent so as to be retained by the feeding side member 10 and establish electric connection to the feeding side terminals as they are respectively inserted into the pair of retaining holes of the feeding side member 10 and displaced in the rotating direction around the center of the fluorescent lamp.