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US 2006/0032732 A1Published application
Electric part with illumination having an illuminating member movable integrally with an operating member and being superior in assembleability
AssigneeAlps Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshitaka Miwa, Shinji Komatsu, Fumito Kajiwara, Mikio Sasaki, Dohyung Kim
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Abstract
In order to provide an electric part with illumination in which unevenness of illumination is eliminated, the illumination efficiency is improved, and good assembleability is achieved, an illumination member is retained on a base, and the base is retained by an operating member and a movable contact for electrically connecting an electrode on the illuminating member and a power feed pattern is retained on the operating member.
Claims10
An electric part with illumination comprising:
- an operating member being movably retained and having an illuminating section thereon;
- an illuminating member moving integrally with the operating member and illuminating the illuminating section;
- a fixed portion having power feed patterns which can feed power to the light illuminating member;
- a movable contact moving integrally with the operating member and having a sliding strip, the sliding strip having a connecting portion to be electrically connected to an electrode of the illuminating member and a contact point sliding on the power feed patterns;
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- a base retaining the illuminating member and being retained by the operating member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.