US 7,026,564 B1Granted

Paddle switch assembly

AssigneePass & Seymour Legrand

InventorsGerald R. Savicki, Jr., Benjamin Coley, Francois Duval, Gad Shaanan

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Abstract

A rocker switch assembly includes a switch body, a mounting strap, a frame, and a paddle for actuating the switch between an on and an off position. The paddle has a uni-convex cylindrical exterior surface. The rocker switch assembly further includes a faceplate in the form of a frame having an opening. The exterior front surface of the faceplate has a uni-convex cylindrical surface profile. In an assembled condition, the paddle substantially occupies the faceplate opening. Due to the selected convex shapes of the paddle and faceplate, a portion of the paddle front surface is always substantially flush with a portion of the faceplate surface and at no time does any part of the paddle surface protrude past the faceplate front surface.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A rocker switch assembly, comprising:

a switch body including switch contacts;
a mounting strap engaged with the switch body;
a frame attached to the switch body;
and
a paddle for actuating the switch contacts,
wherein the paddle has a pivot structure cooperatively engageable with a portion of the frame for selective rotational movement around a pivot axis between a limited forwardly-tilted position and a limited rearwardly-tilted position, further wherein the paddle has a uni-convex cylindrical exterior surface with a curvature, Rp, wherein the paddle has an upper and lower surface, further wherein one of the upper and the lower circumferential surfaces engages a space intermediate a portion of the mounting strap and a surface of the frame in one the forwardly-tilted position and the rearwardly-tilted position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.