US 6,686,551 B2Granted

Switch, in particular battery cutout switch for vehicles and the like

AssigneeMenber's S.p.A.

InventorGiorgio Pasotto

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Abstract

A switch destined in particular for usage as a general cutout switch for batteries in low-voltage vehicle electrical systems and the like includes a supporting body carrying at least one pair of fixed electrical contacts,—a mobile element carrying at least one mobile electrical contact, cooperating with the fixed contacts and movable in a rectilinear direction between an open-contacts position and a closed-contacts position and vice versa, a rotary control member suitable for controlling the movement of the mobile element, an elastic structure that tends to push the mobile element towards the open-contacts position, mutually cooperative contact surfaces provided on the control member and on the mobile element and mutually cooperative stop mechanisms provided on the supporting body and on the rotary control member.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A switch, in particular a battery cutout switch for vehicles including:

a supporting body carrying at least one pair of fixed electrical contacts,
a mobile element carrying at least one mobile electrical contact, cooperating with said fixed contacts and movable in a rectilinear direction between an open-contacts position and a closed-contacts position and vice versa,
a rotary control member suitable for controlling the movement of the mobile element towards the closed-contacts position,
elastic means that tend to push the mobile element towards the open-contacts position,
mutually cooperative contact surfaces provided on the rotary control member and on the mobile element for transforming the rotary motion of the rotary control member into linear motion of the mobile element, and
mutually cooperative stop mechanisms provided on the supporting body and on the rotary control member for holding the rotary control member in a blocked position corresponding to the closed-contacts position, said stop mechanisms being formed to disengage when the rotary control member is subjected to movement in the axial direction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/196,711Filed 15 Jul 2002
Priority: EP 0112272921 Sep 2001
Published: US 2003/0057082 A127 Mar 2003
Granted: 3 Feb 2004
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H01H 19/6355
Contacts actuated by rectilinearly-movable member linked to operating part, e.g. by pin and slot: using axial cam devices for transforming the…
H01H 9/0066
Details of switching devices, not covered by groups H01H1/00 - H01H7/00: auxiliary contact devices
H01H 9/16
Details of switching devices, not covered by groups H01H1/00 - H01H7/00: indicators for switching condition, e.g. "on" or "off"
H01H 2003/0246
Emergency operating parts, e.g. for stop-switch in dangerous conditions: resetting of bistable emergency operating part by rotating itself or an…