US 10,497,527 B2 · Switch with customized circuit board electrical contact pad placement using selectively mounted electrical contactors

Abstract

A modular auxiliary switch includes a housing including a first housing part and a separate second housing part secured to the first housing part. A printed circuit board is housed in one of the first and second housing parts, and has a first side facing the first housing part and a second opposite side facing the second housing part. An actuator mechanism is housed in the first housing part and is coupled to the printed circuit board. A separate first electrical contactor is selectively mounted to the printed circuit board so that a first electrical contact surface of the first electrical contactor overlaps and is in direct contact with one of the first side and the second side to define a first electrical contact pad on the printed circuit board.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A modular assembly for an auxiliary switch comprising:

a printed circuit board including a first side and a second opposite side;
and
a first electrical contact separate from the printed circuit board, the first electrical contact having a planar first wall, a trifurcated second wall spaced from the first wall and having an arcuate section extending toward the first wall, and a base wall interconnecting the first and second walls, the first electrical contact selectively fixed to the printed circuit board with the first wall in direct contact with the first side to define a first electrical contact pad on the printed circuit board and the trifurcated second wall in direct contact with the second side.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/959,428Filed 23 Apr 2018 · us provisional application

Priority

26 Apr 2017

Published

US 2018/0315574 A11 Nov 2018

Granted

3 Dec 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H01H 71/46
Automatic release mechanisms with or without manual release: having means for operating auxiliary contacts additional to the main contacts
H01H 1/5805
Electric connections to or between contacts; Terminals: connections to printed circuits
H01H 11/0012
For converting electric switches: for converting normally open to normally closed switches and vice versa
H01H 11/04
Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of electric switches: of switch contacts

Switch with customized circuit board electrical contact pad placement using selectively mounted electrical contactors

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Switch with customized circuit board electrical contact pad placement using selectively mounted electrical contactors

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Abstract

Claims17