Switch
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorKousuke YOSHIDA
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Abstract
A switch comprises a room light case, a switch knob arranged inside an aperture portion of the room light case, guide grooves provided on an inner circumferential face of the aperture portion of the room light case, and guide ribs provided on an outer circumferential face of the switch knob. The switch knob moves for a switch stroke part in a depth direction of the aperture portion, from a waiting position to a pressed-down position by a pressing down operation. The guide grooves are provided in a range deeper than a depth size of the switch stroke from an opening edge located on the switch case surface side of the aperture portion.
Claims4
A switch, comprising:
- a switch case having an aperture portion formed thereon into a sleeve shape;
- a switch knob provided in the aperture portion, the switch knob slidably arranged between an waiting position where the switch knob is located in a switch case surface side of the aperture portion and a pressed-down position where the switch knob is located in an interior side of the aperture portion by a switch stroke from the waiting position;
- guide ribs formed along a moving direction of the switch knob, on either one of an inner circumferential face of the aperture portion and an outer circumferential face of the switch knob facing the inner circumferential face;
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- guide grooves on the other of the inner circumferential face and the outer circumferential face, into which the guide ribs are inserted;
- wherein either the guide ribs or the guide grooves are provided in a range deeper than a depth size of the switch stroke from an opening edge located on the switch case surface side of the aperture portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.