Push switch device
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Fujita, Kenji Shinohara, Hiroto Yonehara
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Abstract
A switch device may include a pressing member, an urging member, fixed contacts, at least one movable contact swingable in a direction intersecting with a movement direction of the pressing member and connecting and disconnecting between the fixed contacts. The pressing member may include a slider portion extending in a direction oblique to the movement direction and slidable along the movable contact. The movable contact may be pressed by the slider portion in the pressing member sliding to swing and come in contact with and separate from at least one of the fixed contacts in response to the pressing member moving from a reference position to a pressed position.
Claims20
A switch device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a pressing member accommodated by a side of the housing, and configured to move from a reference position to a pressed position in a predetermined movement direction upon receiving an external pressing force and return to the reference position upon being released from the external pressing force;
- an urging member configured to urge the pressing member toward the reference position;
- a plurality of fixed contacts;
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- at least one movable contact swingable in a direction intersecting with the movement direction of the pressing member, the at least one movable contact being configured, by swinging back and forth in the direction intersecting the movement direction, to connect and disconnect between the plurality of fixed contacts, wherein
- the pressing member comprises a slider portion extending in a direction oblique to the movement direction and slidable along the at least one movable contact, and
- the at least one movable contact is pressed by the slider portion in the pressing member by sliding along the at least one movable contact to cause the at least one movable contact to swing away from the side of the housing toward a center of the housing in the direction intersecting the movement direction so as to come in contact with at least one of the plurality of fixed contacts in response to the pressing member moving from the reference position to the pressed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.