Push-button and electrical system comprising the same
AssigneeSchneider Electric Industries SAS
InventorThierry Fort
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Abstract
A push-button (100) includes a plunger sub-assembly (10) that comprises a translation-to-rotation converting part (5), a latch part (6) and a latch spring element (56). The latch spring element connects the latch part to the translation-to-rotation converting part so that rotation of the translation-to-rotation converting part caused by a user pressing the push-button drives the latch part into a position where said latch part abuts a relief portion in the internal surface of a casing (30) of the push-button. Such arrangement of the plunger sub-assembly avoids that numerous repeated locking operations damage to the latch part and/or relief portion. Lifetime of the push-button is thus increased.
Claims15
A push-button adapted for being pressed by a user parallel to a pressing direction, and for remaining in a locked pressed position until an unlocking action is executed by the user, where at least part of a plunger sub-assembly is driven into rotation by the user pressing a push-head of the push-button and the rotated part of the plunger sub-assembly then abuts a relief portion existing in an internal surface of a casing of said push-button, thereby producing locking of the pressed position,
- wherein the plunger sub-assembly comprises:
- a translation-to-rotation converting part, adapted for being rotated by the user pressing the push-head;
- a latch part, having an edge arranged for abutting the relief portion in the internal surface of the casing so as to produce locking of the pressed position;
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- a latch spring element separated from the translation-to-rotation converting part, and connecting the latch part to said translation-to-rotation converting part so that rotation of the translation-to-rotation converting part drives the latch part, through the latch spring element, into a position that leads to abutment of said latch part against the relief portion in the internal surface of the casing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.