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US 6,686,550 B2Granted
Switch
AssigneeNiles Parts Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Seki, Hideji Onodera
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AssigneeNiles Parts Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Seki, Hideji Onodera
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A switch which can widen a degree of freedom of setting height and shape of a click groove while providing a click groove on a side of a movable contact and promote operation feeling without increasing cost. This switch brings a movable contact into contact with a fixed contact and separates the movable contact therefrom by pivoting a movable piece by moving a steel ball on the movable piece by operating a switch knob; wherein the movable piece is provided with a flat click portion having a contact portion and a click groove at an end edge thereof, the click portion being arranged erect relative to a housing; a steel ball contained in a ball support portion via a coil spring; and an opening of the ball support portion provided with a fitting groove to be fitted loosely to the end edge of the click portion of the movable piece.
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By sliding: knife-and-clip contacts
Driving mechanisms: with indexing or latching means, e.g. indexing by ball and spring; with means to ensure stopping at intermediate operative…
Driving mechanisms: using cams
Operating parts, e.g. handle: with push-pull operation, e.g. which can be pivoted in both directions by pushing or pulling on the same extremity…
Term ended 12 Aug 2022 (estimated)
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a switch such as a seesaw type switch, a lever switch or the like used in a power window switch or the like of an automobile.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIG. 1 is a disassembled perspective view of a power window switch to which an embodiment of the invention is applied.
FIG. 2 is a plane view of a terminal block according to the embodiment.
FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along a line SA—SA of FIG. 2 according to the embodiment.
FIG. 1 shows a disassembled perspective view of a power window switch 1 for, for example, for an automobile as a switch according to an embodiment of the invention. There is shown the power window switch 1 for an automobile of a right-hand drive vehicle, which is installed, for example, at an arm rest of a door at a driver seat or a vehicle compartment side of a door of an automobile. Further, a position and a direction of a respective portion or member, mentioned later, indicate a direction in the attached drawing, upper and lower directions, left and right directions and front and rear directions are changed by a state of attaching the power window switch 1 for an automobile to the automobile and are not limited to illustration. In the following, a detailed description will be given of the embodiment with an illustrated arbitrary state of the attached drawing as a reference.
The power window switch 1 for an automobile is provided with a case 3 and a terminal block 5. The case 3 and the terminal block 5 are coupled to each other to constitute a housing 6.
The case 3 is molded by resin, constituted by a shape of a box a lower face of a which is opened and an upper face thereof is provided with a plurality of knob attaching portions 7,9, 11, 13, 15, and 17. Each of left and right side walls 3a of the case 3 (only left side wall is shown in FIG. 1), is provided with engaging windows 30 at two locations thereof for attaching the case 3 to the terminal block 5 attachably and detachably. Switch knobs 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, and 29 are respectively supported by the respective knob attaching portion 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17.