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US 7,612,689 B2Granted
Rotary encoding switch
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsSiegfried Neumann, Uwe Weiss
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Abstract
In one embodiment of the present invention, a rotary encoding switch is disclosed such as used in the function setting for relays or similar. In one embodiment, a particularly secure function setting for relays or similar may be achieved by means of a rotary encoding switch with a number of switch stages with separations between the switch stages which are not constant.
Claims10
A rotary encoding switch, comprising:
- a rotary encoder disk, including a number of switching stages, distances between the switching stages on the rotary encoder disk varying logarithmically, the distances between the switching stages decreasing starting from the switching stages assigned relatively low setting values to the switching stages assigned relatively high setting values.
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