Trigger switch
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsTaiki Koyama, Makito Morii, Koji Omori
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Abstract
A trigger switch has a switch housing fixed inside a tool housing of an electric power tool and internally having a holder, an operation unit provided outside the switch housing and connected to the switch housing so as to be approachable to and separable from the switch housing, a fixed contact provided in the holder, and a movable contact provided so as to face the fixed contact in the holder and configured to come into contact with and separate from the fixed contact in conjunction with an approaching motion and a separating motion of the operation unit with respect to the switch housing. A vibration damping elastic body is provided integrally on an outer surface of the switch housing.
Claims19
A trigger switch comprising:
- a switch housing fixed inside a tool housing of an electric power tool and internally having a holder;
- an operation unit provided outside the switch housing and connected to the switch housing so as to be approachable to and separable from the switch housing;
- a fixed contact provided in the holder;
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- a movable contact provided so as to face the fixed contact in the holder and configured to come into contact with and separate from the fixed contact in conjunction with an approaching motion and a separating motion of the operation unit with respect to the switch housing,
- wherein a vibration damping elastic body is provided integrally on an outer surface of the switch housing,
- wherein the switch housing is made up of a first housing having an opening on one surface and a second housing joined to the surface of the first housing to close the opening, and
- wherein the vibration damping elastic body is provided in a joining portion between the first housing and the second housing and covers the joining portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.