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US 5,342,217 AGranted
Electric switch unit, in particular for automotive vehicles
AssigneeSWF Auto-Electric GmbH
InventorGeorge Hofmann
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Abstract
An electric switch unit for automotive vehicles providing strain-relieving means for exiting cables, particularly flat cables, which control the exit of the cable to a present exit angle.
Claims9
An electric switch unit for automotive vehicles with a housing formed of a housing cover part and a functional housing part, said electric switch having an electric unit accommodated therein and a flat cable attached to said housing, said flat cable wrapped within said housing and wrapped around a strain relief, comprising:
- a fin-shaped wall connected to said housing cover having an extended shape in a direction transverse to the extension of said flat cable and around which said flat cable is wrapped, said functional housing part having projections at the exit of said flat cable from said housing, said projections having a slanted surface for controlling the cable exit from said housing to a predetermined angle,
- wherein said fin-shaped wall is connected to the bottom of said housing cover by a radius,
- wherein said flat cable extends in approximately a straight line path from a circuit board to an end of said fin-shaped wall wrapping therearound and remaining in contact therewith at the exit from said housing where said cable is in tangential contact with said radius.
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