Lever switch mounted on a vehicle
AssigneeToyo Denso Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasayuki Iwanami, Takatoshi Komatsu
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Abstract
To provide a lever switch that reduces collision sound when a switch moving body rotates while reducing the number of parts. A click feeling generator is made integrally of an elastic member and disposed inside a third case. An operation lever is operated to rotate the switch moving body with respect to the third case. The click feeling generator includes clicking surfaces that abut on a tip end of the switch moving body to impart a click feeling, a shoulder portion, and a low rigidity portion. A corner portion of the switch moving body in the rotation direction abuts on the corresponding low rigidity portion to limit a rotation range of the switch moving body.
Claims8
A lever switch comprising:
- a case;
- a click feeling generator that is disposed inside the case and made of an elastic member;
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- a switch moving body that is disposed inside the click feeling generator and rotates with respect to the case by operation of an operation lever, wherein
- the click feeling generator includes a clicking surface abutting on a tip end of the switch moving body and imparting a click feeling, a shoulder portion formed at an inner end of the click feeling generator, and a low rigidity portion formed between the shoulder portion and the clicking surface,
- the click feeling generator is disposed in the case with a clearance, and
- a corner portion of the switch moving body in a rotating direction thereof abuts on the low rigidity portion to limit a rotation range of the switch moving body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.