Device for Switching and Controlling Electrical Apparatuses
AssigneeJohnson Electric S.A.
InventorsGerhard Fangmann, Udo Balgheim, Martin Koepsell
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Abstract
A device for switching and controlling electrical apparatus, has a guide bearing for creating haptics indicating the position of the device. The guide bearing has one bearing part constructed as a switch housing and one bearing part constructed as an actuating element. The guide bearing has a control path formed on one of the bearing parts and a rolling-body mount constructed on the other bearing part. A rolling body is held in the rolling-body mount. A haptic spring presses the rolling body onto the control path. The structure of this device is suitable for creating haptics, without the operational reliability and service life of the guide bearing being appreciably impaired.
Claims14
A device for switching and controlling electrical apparatuses, with a guide bearing, which has at least one bearing part constructed as a switch housing and also at least one bearing part constructed as an actuating element,
- wherein the guide bearing has at least one control path formed on at least one of the bearing parts thereof and also at least one rolling-body mount constructed on the respectively other bearing part,
- in that at least one rolling body is held in the rolling-body mount of the one bearing part, and
- in that the rolling-body mount has at least one haptic spring pressing the rolling body onto the control path of the respectively other bearing part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.