US 2011/0032219 A1 · LEVER SWITCH WITH DISPLAY DEVICE

Abstract

The present invention is directed to provide a lever switch with a display device that is variably displayable of pictures or texts. A lever 18 is configured by disposing an organic light-emitting device 10 in a manner that it is interposed between an operating unit 1 and an operating unit cover 13 and coupling a shaft 14 to the operating unit 1, and a housing 19 is fitted with a bezel 24 so that the lever 18 protrudes from a hole for tilting 24a of the bezel 24, thereby the lever 18 is tiltably disposed. In the housing 19, a printed circuit board 20 is arranged with a photo-interrupter 23 implemented thereon for detecting a tilting motion of the lever 18.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A lever switch with a display device including a lever tiltably disposed in a housing and detection means for detecting a tilting motion of the lever arranged in the housing, wherein the lever is provided with a display unit and a display device is provided below the display unit.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/723,866Filed 15 Mar 2010

Priority

JP 2009-1811384 Aug 2009

Published

10 Feb 2011

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H01H 25/04
Switches with compound movement of handle or other operating part: operating part movable angularly in more than one plane, e.g. joystick
G05G 9/047
In which movement in two or more ways can occur simultaneously: the controlling member being movable by hand about orthogonal axes, e.g. joysticks
H01H 9/181
Distinguishing marks on switches, e.g. for indicating switch location in the dark; Adaptation of switches to receive distinguishing marks: using a…
H01H 21/025
Details: light-emitting indicators

Lever switch with display device

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Lever switch with display device

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Abstract

Claims7