Switch
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsKenji KUROKI, Yuya KUDO, Kenji TAKAHAMA
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Abstract
A switch includes a housing, a movable member reciprocable in a movement direction relative to the housing and including an operation part located at an end of the movable member outside the housing, and a guide that guides the movable member in the movement direction. The operation part has a plurality of slopes extending linearly from the operation surface toward a distal end of the movable member outside the housing, sloping away from a central axis of the movable member toward the operation surface, and sloping in directions intersecting with one another as viewed in the movement direction.
Claims8
A switch, comprising:
- a housing comprising an operation surface with an operation hole and an internal compartment communicating with outside through the operation hole;
- a movable member accommodated in the compartment and extending in a movement direction intersecting with the operation surface from the compartment to outside the housing through the operation hole, the movable member comprising an operation part located at an end of the movable member outside the housing, the movable member being reciprocable in the movement direction relative to the housing;
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- a guide configured to guide the movable member in the movement direction,
- wherein the operation part comprises a plurality of slopes extending linearly from the operation surface toward a distal end of the movable member outside the housing, sloping toward a central axis extending in the movement direction of the movable member away from the operation surface, and sloping in directions intersecting with one another as viewed in the movement direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.