Switch device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
InventorsTomoya Honda, Hideyuki Myojo
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Abstract
A switch device includes a housing, an operating body that is held by the housing and is pushed into the housing by a push operation, an operating body-side guide portion protruding from a lower surface of the operating body, a housing-side guide portion that protrudes from a bottom surface of the interior of the housing and, together with the operating body-side guide portion, guides movement of the operating body based on the push operation, and an elastic body that is provided between the operating body and the housing on the outer side of the operating body-side guide portion and the housing-side guide portion and applies an elastic force to the housing and the operating body.
Claims12
A switch device, comprising:
- an upper housing and a lower housing that are connectible by a single pushing operation on the upper housing;
- an operating body that is held between the upper and lower housing and is inserted into the lower housing by a push operation, and which includes an operating body-side guide portion protruding from a lower surface of the operating body, and at least one protruding piece that extends laterally with respect to the operating body-side guide portion and that is captured by the upper housing;
- a housing-side guide portion that protrudes from a bottom surface of an interior of the lower housing and, together with the operating body-side guide portion, guides movement of the operating body between the upper and lower housing;
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- an elastic body that is provided between the operating body and the lower housing on an outer side of the operating body-side guide portion and the housing-side guide portion and applies an elastic force to the upper housing and the operating body,
- wherein the operating body comprises four corners at symmetrical positions on an upper surface and four protruding pieces below the four corners, and is held by the upper housing by contact between upper surfaces of the protruding pieces and the upper housing.
A switch device, comprising:
- an upper housing and a lower housing that are connectible by a single pushing operation on the upper housing;
- an operating body that is held between the upper and lower housing and is inserted into the lower housing by a push operation, and which includes an operating body-side guide portion protruding from a lower surface of the operating body, and at least one protruding piece that extends laterally with respect to the operating body-side guide portion and that is captured by the upper housing;
- a housing-side guide portion that protrudes from a bottom surface of an interior of the lower housing and, together with the operating body-side guide portion, guides movement of the operating body between the upper and lower housing based on the push operation;
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- an elastic body that is provided between the operating body and the lower housing on an outer side of the operating body-side guide portion and the housing-side guide portion and applies an elastic force to the upper housing and the operating body,
- wherein the lower housing, the elastic body, the operating body, and the upper housing are assembled together by the single pushing operation that connects the upper housing to the lower housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.