Oil filled switch mechanism and uses therefore
AssigneeSuzi Light Corporation
InventorJack L. Warren
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an improved switch mechanism suitably fashioned for providing an indicator in one embodiment of an automobile's acceleration, deceleration, or coasting. Further, a second switch mechanism which operates as a function of a command from a second circuit and its associated induction coil has been provided. In one form, the side to side translation of a bar having a contact element thereon causes electricity to be transferred from a current source or battery to two or three contact points which are selectably engageable and provide a current to the circuits associated with these engageable contacts so as to activate a circuit.
Claims8
A switching mechanism comprising in combination a closed reservoir, oil disposed in said reservoir, a contact bar medially disposed within said reservoir in a horizontal sense, a first pair of contact elements disposed on the top of said contact bar and separated from each other and a second pair of contact elements disposed below said contact bar and similarly separated, a ball having conductive properties disposed between said second pair of contact elements and adapted to connect one of said second pair of contact elements with said contact bar, and a fifth contact element disposed on said contact bar on an upper face thereof whereby when said fifth contact element on said contact bar bridges said first pair of contact elements, said second pair of contact elements are disengaged and when said fifth contact element does not bridge said first pair of contact elements, a connection is made between one of said first pair of contact elements and one of said second pair through a conductive portion of said contact bar and said ball.
A switch mechanism comprising a container, an oil reservoir in said container, an upper contact having biasing means and connected to a current source, a contact bar below said upper contact, and a pair of contact elements below said contact bar and separated from each other, a conductive ball between said pair of contact elements, biasing means at one extremity of said contact bar and coaxial therewith, and electromagnetic means at an opposed extremity whereby when said electromagnet is energized, said contact bar will translate laterally in one direction and said ball will complete a circuit with one of said pair of contact elements and said bar, and when said electromagnetic means is de-energized, said contact bar will return to a rest position by the force of said biasing means and said ball will energize the other of said pair of contact elements.
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