Switch structure
AssigneeTsung-Mou Yu
InventorChun-Hsu Chen
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Abstract
A switch structure comprises a control element, which comprises an alloy piece and a swinging device. The swinging device has an actuating element used to actuate the swinging device when the actuating element is pushed. When the alloy piece is overheated due to overloading of current, it will deform toward the actuating element so as to eject the actuating element, which causes the swing device to swing outwards and is released from the supporting of the stopper in the switch body. Then, the swing device moves towards the original closing position, and the elastic contacting piece is released from the pressing of the swing device to eject upwards. Two joints connected in an electric loop are tripped. The object of rapid response, cutting power source, and safety is therefore achieved.
Claims13
A switch structure, comprising a switch body, a switch cover body, a contact reed, a swing device, an alloy piece, an elastic contact piece, wherein said switch body is installed with a fixing pillar and a stopper, and said switch cover body joints with said contact reed, said swing device, and is installed with said alloy piece and said elastic contact piece, which are constructed and assembled in said switch body, wherein:
- said swing device has an elliptic hole at one end to connect to said fixing pillar in said switch body so as to swing, and a supporting rod used to insert into a through hole in said swing device to connect to said switch cover body, and anther end of said swing device is installed with an actuating part, which can rotate and is installed with an end part at another end;
- said alloy piece is fixed within said switch body, and a top side of said alloy piece pushes the end part of said actuating part installed in the swing device wherein said alloy piece is overheated and bends towards said actuating part when a current is overloaded, to push said actuating part to escape from the stopper in said switch body and then to fall down so that said swing device swings towards an original OFF position to release the elastic contact piece from a pressed status under said swing device to eject upwards, and meanwhile, two contact terminals which construct an electric loop are separated to cut off a power source.
A switch structure, comprising:
- a switch body, which has an opening at a top side, is installed with a stopper and a fixing pillar, and comprises a plurality of slots at a bottom side to connect to a first and a second contact terminals, wherein said second contact terminal has a lower contact;
- a switch cover body, combining a switch base, which comprises a supporting rod hole at a bottom side;
- a swing device, comprising an elliptic slot at one end to combines with said fixing pillar in said switch body, a through hole in said swing device used to connect to said supporting rod hole of the switch cover body by a supporting rod, an axial hole located at another end of said swing device, said swing device further comprising an actuating part, another end of the actuating part having an end part comprising a top push piece, which has a bottom side buckled to a top side of the stopper in the switch body;
- an alloy piece, fixed within said switch body and comprising a top side pushing said end part of the actuating part installed in the swing device;
- an elastic contact piece, having a upper contact which corresponds to the lower contact of said second contact terminal so that said elastic contact piece is located over said first and said second contact terminals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.