Toggle electro-mechanical assembly
AssigneeHydra-Electric Company
InventorJohn Chick Hong Tang
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Abstract
An assembly including: a disk spring; a plurality of normally closed contacts disposed in a plane below the disk spring; a plurality of normally open contacts disposed in a plane above the disk spring; a pivot ring supporting a lower surface of the disk spring; and an actuating pin having a shoulder in contact with an upper surface of the disk spring; where a movement of the actuating pin away from a header assembly snap deflects the disk spring to a first position to contact the plurality of normally open contacts, and a movement of the actuating pin towards the header assembly snap deflects the disk spring to a second position to contact the plurality of normally closed contacts.
Claims20
An assembly comprising:
- a disk spring;
- a plurality of normally closed contacts disposed in a first plane;
- a plurality of normally open contacts disposed in a second plane;
- a pivot ring supporting a first surface of the disk spring;
- and
- an actuating pin having a shoulder in contact with a second surface of the disk spring, wherein the actuating pin is connected to a central common terminal;
- wherein a movement of the actuating pin in a first direction snap deflects the disk spring to a first position to contact the plurality of normally open contacts, and a movement of the actuating pin in a second direction snap deflects the disk spring to a second position to contact the plurality of normally closed contacts.
A method comprising:
- moving an actuating pin in a first direction, wherein movement of the actuating pin the first direction snap deflects a disk spring to a first position to contact a plurality of normally open contacts;
- and
- moving the actuating pin in a second direction, wherein movement of the actuating pin in the second direction snap deflects the disk spring to a second position to contact a plurality of normally closed contacts, wherein the plurality of normally closed contacts are disposed in a first plane, wherein the plurality of normally open contacts are disposed in a second plane, and wherein the first plane and the second plane are separated by the disk spring;
- wherein the actuating pin is connected to a central common terminal.
An assembly comprising:
- a disk spring;
- a plurality of normally closed contacts disposed in a first plane;
- a plurality of normally open contacts disposed in a second plane;
- a pivot ring supporting a first surface of the disk spring;
- an actuating pin having a shoulder in contact with a second surface of the disk spring;
- a yoke;
- a first pivoting pin having a proximate end disposed proximate an adjustment pin, a distal end disposed proximate the yoke, and a pivot point disposed in a housing of the assembly;
- a first bellows disposed about the first pivoting pin;
- a second pivoting pin having a proximate end disposed proximate the adjustment pin, a distal end disposed proximate the yoke, and a pivot point disposed in the housing of the assembly;
- and
- a second bellows disposed about the second pivoting pin;
- wherein a movement of the yoke towards a header assembly causes the movement of the actuating pin away from the header assembly, and a movement of the yoke away from the header assembly causes the movement of the actuating pin towards the header assembly;
- and
- wherein a movement of the actuating pin snap deflects the disk spring to at least one of:
- a first position to contact the plurality of normally open contacts and a second position to contact the plurality of normally closed contacts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.