US 10,301,857 B2Granted

Push-button switch device for vehicle

AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock

InventorsYuuichi Satou, Kunihiro Kuroda, Tsuyoshi Tsuboi

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Abstract

In a push-button switch device for a vehicle including a case fixed to a vehicle body or a lid openably and closably mounted on the vehicle body, a push-button that forms a housing chamber in cooperation with the case and supported on the case configured for a pushing operation, and a switch housed in and fixed to the housing chamber for changing a switching mode thereof in response to a pushing operation of the push-button, a through passage is formed in the case, the through passage having one end part thereof communicating with the housing chamber, and an air vent hole is provided in the case, the air vent hole providing communication between the other end part of the through passage and the outer panel. Such configuration prevents water from entering a housing chamber thereby avoiding deterioration of the push-button, and enabling the housing chamber to breath.

Claims2

Dependent claims

A push-button switch device for a vehicle, comprising:

a case that is fixed to a vehicle body or a lid openably and closably mounted on the vehicle body,
a push-button that forms a housing chamber in cooperation with the case and that is supported on the case so as to be capable of being subjected to a pushing operation, and
a switch that is housed in and fixed to the housing chamber so as to change a switching mode thereof in response to the pushing operation of the push-button,
wherein a through passage is formed in the case fixed to the vehicle body or an outer panel of the lid,
wherein the through passage provides an air passageway between an interior of the housing chamber and an interior of the outer panel,
wherein the through passage has a first end at the interior of the housing chamber and a second end, comprising an air vent hole, at the interior of the outer panel, and
wherein a canopy part extends from the air vent hole through the outer panel and into the interior of the outer panel.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/776,049Filed 23 Jan 2014
Priority: JP 2013-05311115 Mar 2013
Published: US 2016/0024822 A128 Jan 2016
Granted: 28 May 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

E05C 1/14
With operating handle or equivalent member moving otherwise than rigidly with the latch: the handle or member moving essentially towards or away…
E05B 81/76
Monitoring or sensing, e.g. by using switches or sensors: detection of handle operation; Detection of a user approaching a handle; Electrical…
H01H 13/06
Cases; Covers: dustproof, splashproof, drip-proof, waterproof or flameproof casings
H01H 13/82
Having a plurality of operating members associated with different sets of contacts, e.g. keyboard: characterised by contact space venting means