Combination turn-signal and hazard-warning switch means for an automobile
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
InventorsYoshihiro Kawai, Atushi Takemura
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Abstract
Combination turn-signal and hazard-warning switch means for an automobile wherein a turn-signal movable contact member has two operating portions disposed along a row of stationary contact members on an insulator plate and a hazard-warning movable contact member is movable into an operative position along said row of stationary contact members. The combination switch means thus constructed is capable of reducing the number of the stationary contact members required therefor and space required for the arrangement of the stationary contact members and capable of being formed very compactly.
Claims12
A combination turn-signal and hazard-warning switch means for an automotile having right and left indicator lights, which comprises turn-signal actuating means including a control lever and hazard-warning actuating means including a control knob, and which further comprises:
- housing means;
- stationary contact means mounted on said housing means, said stationary contact means having an insulator plate member and sets of first and second stationary contact members respectively provided on opposite sides of said insulator plate member in row arrangement, respective contact members being connected to a power source and the right and left indicator lights;
- first movable contact means including a first movable contact member having two operating portions disposed along said row arrangement of the first stationary contact members so as to make contact therewith and a first actuator member for said first movable contact member, which first actuator member is normally in a neutral position and movable into first and second operative positions upon the operation of said turn-signal actuating means to bring said operating portions into an indication operative position, making a turn-signal circuit through said first and second stationary contact members;
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- second movable contact means having second movable contact members disposed along said row arrangement adapted to contact said second stationary contact members and a second actuator member for said second movable contact members;
- said second actuator member being normally in a neutral position and movable into an operative position in the direction of said row arrangement upon the operation of said hazard-warning actuating means to make a hazard-warning circuit in cooperation with said second movable contact members and said second stationary contact members through their contacting relation;
- means mounting said first and second movable contact means on said housing means for movement parallel to each other and to said row arrangement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.