Pushbotton Switch
AssigneeExcel Cell Electronic Co., Ltd.
InventorYung-Ming Kuo
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Abstract
A pushbutton switch includes a pushbutton unit and a resilient member. The pushbutton unit includes a mounting seat and a pushbutton covering the mounting seat. The resilient member has a switch contactor, two resilient arms extending respectively from opposite ends of the switch contactor, two abutment segments engaging the limiting seat, and four sustainment segments extending away from the abutment segments and inclined toward the switch contactor. When the pushbutton is pressed to push the sustainment segments, the resilient arms are deformed to have a resilient force for urging the pushbutton away from the limiting seat, and to drive the switch contactor to contact and move an activator of a switch assembly.
Claims10
A pushbutton switch adapted to be connected to an activator of a switch assembly, comprising:
- a pushbutton unit including
- a limiting seat that is adapted to be disposed in proximity to the activator, and
- a pushbutton that covers said limiting seat and that cooperates with said limiting seat to define a receiving space;
- and
- a resilient member disposed in said receiving space, and having
- a switch contactor that is adapted to be disposed adjacent to the activator, and that has opposite ends spaced apart from each other in an extending direction,
- two resilient arms that extend respectively from said opposite ends of said switch contactor, two abutment segments that are respectively connected to said resilient arms, and that engage said limiting seat, and
- four sustainment segments, two of said sustainment segments being connected to one of said resilient arms, extending away from a respective one of said abutment segments toward said pushbutton, being inclined toward said switch contactor and being spaced apart from each other in a transverse direction that is transverse to the extending direction, the other two of said sustainment segments being connected to the other one of said resilient arms, extending away from the other one of said abutment segments toward said pushbutton, being inclined toward said switch contactor and being spaced apart from each other in the transverse direction;
- wherein, when said pushbutton is pressed to push said sustainment segments, said resilient arms are resiliently deformed to have a resilient force for urging said pushbutton away from said limiting seat, and to drive said switch contactor to contact and move the activator.
A resilient member adapted for use in a pushbutton switch, the pushbutton switch being connected to an activator of a switch assembly, and including a limiting seat that is disposed in proximity to the activator, and a pushbutton that covers the limiting seat and that cooperates with the limiting seat to define a receiving space, said resilient member being disposed in the receiving space and comprising:
- a switch contactor that is adapted to be disposed adjacent to the activator, and that has opposite ends spaced apart from each other in an extending direction;
- two resilient arms that extend respectively from said opposite ends of said switch contactor;
- two abutment segments that are respectively connected to said resilient arms, and that engage said limiting seat;
- and
- four sustainment segments, two of said sustainment segments being connected to one of said resilient arms, being adapted to extend away from a respective one of said abutment segments toward the pushbutton, being inclined toward said switch contactor, and being spaced apart from each other in a transverse direction that is transverse to the extending direction, the other two of said sustainment segments being connected to the other one of said resilient arms, being adapted to extend away from the other one of said abutment segments toward the pushbutton, being inclined toward said switch contactor, and being spaced apart from each other in the transverse direction;
- wherein, when the pushbutton is pressed to push said sustainment segments, said resilient arms are resiliently deformed to have a resilient force adapted for urging the pushbutton away from the limiting seat, and to drive said switch contactor to contact and move the activator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.