Control device with several stable positions, especially for a cigar lighter
AssigneeValeo Vision
InventorPhilippe Rostan
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Abstract
A control device with several stable positions, has a cam and a finger, the finger traveling along a cam track around the cam, when the finger and the cam are moved with respect to one another in translation. The cam track has curvature about an axis of rotation parallel to the axis of the translation to move the finger and the cam in rotation with respect to one another. The finger and the cam each are a cylindrical ring, these two rings being coaxial and capable of a rotational movement with respect to one another, along the axis of rotation.
Claims14
A control device with several stable positions comprising a cam and a finger, the finger traveling along a cam track around the cam, when the finger and the cam are moved with respect to one another in translation, the cam track exhibiting curvature about an axis of rotation parallel to the axis of the translation in order, during the translation, to move the finger and the cam in rotation with respect to one another, wherein the finger and the cam consist respectively of a cylindrical ring, these two rings being coaxial and capable of a rotational movement with respect to one another, along the axis of rotation.
A cigar lighter intended to be mounted on a dashboard, especially of a motor vehicle, comprising a power-supply body and a removable, heating pushbutton including a pushing surface, the button being able to occupy a first position in the unit, in which it is at least partly projecting with respect to the sweep of the dashboard, in order to be able to be grasped and extracted from the unit, and a second position in which the button can be heated, wherein the button is, moreover, able to take up a third, stable position in which it is not heated and where the pushing surface follows the sweep of the dashboard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.