US 11,037,744 B2Granted

Switch device

AssigneeAlps Alpine Co., Ltd.

InventorKazuyoshi Yamagata

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Abstract

A switch device includes a first switch and a second switch; a support member that houses the first switch and the second switch; a driving member that is inclined in a predetermined inclination direction and presses one of the first switch and the second switch; a holding member disposed on the driving member to be movable in the predetermined inclination direction; and an operation knob. The driving member is disposed to extend over the first and second switches, and includes a pressing portion and a cam portion. The cam portion extends upward from the middle of the pressing portion. A first cam surface having a concave shape is formed on the upper end of the cam portion. The holding member has a recessed portion into which the cam portion is inserted, and a projecting portion projecting downward from the center of the recessed portion and contacting the first cam surface.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A switch device comprising:

a first switch and a second switch each configured to return to an initial state by elastic force;
a support member that houses the first switch and the second switch;
a driving member supported by the support member such that the driving member is inclined in a predetermined inclination direction and presses one of the first switch and the second switch;
a holding member disposed on the driving member to be movable in the predetermined inclination direction;
and
an operation knob held by the holding member;
wherein
the driving member is disposed to extend over the first switch and the second switch, and includes a pressing portion and a cam portion, the pressing portion having a shaft at a center thereof, the cam portion extending upward from middle of the pressing portion, and a first cam surface having a concave shape being formed on an upper end of the cam portion, and
the holding member has a recessed portion into which the cam portion of the driving member is inserted, and a projecting portion that projects downward from a center of the recessed portion and that contacts the first cam surface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/001,996Filed 25 Aug 2020 · continuation
Priority: JP JP2018-05894426 Mar 2018
Published: US 2020/0388452 A110 Dec 2020
Granted: 15 Jun 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H01H 21/36
Movable parts; Contacts mounted thereon: driving mechanisms
H01H 19/14
Movable parts; Contacts mounted thereon: operating parts, e.g. turn knob
H01H 25/04
Switches with compound movement of handle or other operating part: operating part movable angularly in more than one plane, e.g. joystick
H01H 25/06
Switches with compound movement of handle or other operating part: operating part movable both angularly and rectilinearly, the rectilinear…