Actuator for an electric push-button switch, particularly in vehicles

Actuator for an electric push-button switch (30), particularly in motor vehicles, with a housing shell (10) with a shell opening (13) for holding the push-button switch (30), with a handle plate (20) aligned with the switch opening (13) for manual actuation (28), with a handle suspension for pushing the handle plate (20) back into an outer, unactuated rest position (20.1), with outer stops (21) on the handle plate (20), on the one hand, and outer opposing stops (11) on the housing shell (10), on the other hand, which determine the outer rest position (20.1) of the suspended handle plate (20),

• wherein the handle plate (20) is movable back into an inner operative position (20.2) when actuated (28) against its handle suspension, with a pressure-actuated switching element (31) on the switch housing (32), which is pushable out by a switch suspension (33) into an extended position (30.1),
• wherein, in the extended position (30.1), the handle plate (20) is in its rest position (20.1), and the contacts in the push-button switch (30) are in a first switching position, and when the handle plate (20) is actuated (28), the switching element (31) moves against its switch suspension (33) into a depressed position (30.2), in which its contacts are in a second switching position, wherein
• the switch suspension (33) of the push-button switch (30) is simultaneously the handle suspension for the handle plate (20), which causes the unactuated handle plate (20) to be held by the switch suspension (33) of the push-button switch (30) in its outer rest position (20.1), in which the outer stops (21) of the handle plate rest on the outer opposing stops (11) of the housing shell (10), and that
• the handle plate (20) has inner stops (22) and the housing shell (10) has inner opposing stops (12), which, when the handle plate (20) is unsymmetrically actuated (29), cause the handle plate (20) to assume an inclined position (20.3) in such a way that the switching element (31) of the push-button switch (30) is nevertheless moved by the handle plate (20) into its depressed effective contact position (30.2).