Door monitoring contact switch device
AssigneeDial Tool Industries, Inc.
InventorsMario Pagliuzza, Karel Hauk, Steven Pagliuzza, Daniel Ott
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Abstract
A contact switch including a rail having slot with a first straight section and a second curved section, a toggle unit inside a housing, the toggle unit including an extension unit that slidably engages the slot and at least one contact, a contact unit in the housing including at least one contact, where the toggle unit moves in the housing such that the contacts on the toggle unit engage at least one contact on the stationary unit in the first straight section and the contacts disengage in the second curved section.
Claims12
A contact switch including:
- a rail having a slot with a first straight section and a second curved section;
- a toggle unit inside a housing, the toggle unit including an extension unit that slidably engages the slot and at least one contact;
- a stationary unit in the housing including at least one contact;
- wherein the toggle unit moves in the housing such that the at least one contact on the toggle unit engages the at least one contact on the stationary unit in the first straight section and the at least one contact on the toggle unit disengages the at least one contact on the stationary unit in the second curved section, and
- wherein the at least one contact on the toggle unit includes two contacts affixed to a back surface of the toggle unit with the two contacts being offset from one side of the back surface.
A glove compartment switch including:
- a gear;
- a rail connected to the gear, the rail having a slot with a first straight section and a second curved section;
- a toggle unit inside a housing, the toggle unit including an extension unit that slidably engages the slot and at least one contact;
- a stationary unit in the housing including at least one contact;
- wherein the toggle unit moves in the housing such that the at least one contact on the toggle unit engages the at least one contact on the stationary unit in the first straight section and the at least one contact on the toggle unit disengages the at least one contact on the stationary unit in the second curved section, and
- the at least one contact on the stationary unit connected to a second set of contacts positioned on one side of the rail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.