Mercury wetted switch
AssigneeC. P. Clare Corporation
InventorRomain Fran.cedilla.ois Bollen
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Abstract
A switch assembly comprising a housing including a baseplate on which are mounted a magnet core having a pair of flanges and a winding wound around it, and two switch capsules positioned on either sides of the magnetic core with each capsule being insulated from each flange magnetic core by insulating means. Magnets are also positioned to provide either a monostable or a bistable mode of operation as desired. With this construction, the magnetic and electric paths in the assembly are physically separate from one another, thereby allowing the magnetic and electric materials to be chosen independently from each other.
Claims13
A switch comprising:
- a housing with an interior region;
- an electrically conductive cantilever beam disposed within the interior region and pivotable at a pivot, the pivot being connected to a first electrically conductive contact;
- second and third electrically conductive contacts coupled to the interior region;
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- magnetic means, magnetically coupled to the cantilever beam, for controllably pivoting the cantilever beam between a first position in which the first electrically conductive contact is connected by the cantilever beam to the second electrically conductive contact and a second position in which the first electrically conductive contact is connected by the cantilever beam to the third electrically conductive contact.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.