Switching device
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsGerhard Kuhlmann, Erwin Wolf, Gunter Wahl
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Abstract
A switching device has a switch and an actuating member displaceable in switching on and switching off directions and tiltable in engaging and disengaging directions coordinated with one another so that when the actuating member moves in switching on direction and tilts in engaging direction it switches on the switch and is arrested, and when the actuating member moves in switching off direction and disengaging direction it is released and switches off the switch. The actuating member is tiltable about an axis located in a plane which extends between a point of connection with the spring and gripping surfaces provided on the actuating member.
Claims17
A switching device, comprising a switch;
- an actuating member displaceable in a switching-on direction so as to switch on said switch and also displaceable under the action of a spring force in a switching-off direction so as to switch off said switch, said actuating member being also tiltable, upon displacement in the switching-on direction, to an engaging position for arresting said actuating member and to a disengaging position for releasing said actuating member, so that when said actuating member is displaced in said switching-on direction and to said engaging position it switches on said switch and is arrested and when said actuating member is tilted to said disengaging position and displaced in said switching-off direction it is released and switches off said switch;
- means for spring biasing said actuating member in said switching-off direction;
- means for holding said actuating member in said engaging position;
- and means for mounting said actuating member for displacement and tilting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.