Combined switch
AssigneeHosiden Corporation
InventorMakoto Asada
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Abstract
A main body portion has fixed contacts and houses movable contacts. A lower electrode plate and upper electrode plate serving as the movable contacts are deformed at a time of a pressing operation. The upper electrode plate is contactable to the lower electrode plate and lower electrode plate brings contact pairs mounted in a center of the bottom inside the main body portion into conduction. On the bottom inside the main body portion, contacts serving as fixed contacts for a rotating operation are formed on the circumference of the same circle outside contact pairs for the pressing operation. A brush serving as the movable contacts is secured to a lever receiving rotating operational forces and brings contacts into conduction.
Claims6
A combined switch realized by combining a push switch to be activated by a pressing operation and a rotary switch by a rotating operation comprising:
- a main body portion having fixed contacts for said push switch and said rotary switch and housing movable contacts for said push switch and said rotary switch;
- contact pairs for said push switch serving as said fixed contacts for said push switch mounted in a center of a bottom inside said main body portion;
- a lower electrode plate serving as said fixed contacts for said push switch having elastic forces and being deformed at a time of a pressing operation to bring said contact pairs for said push switch into conduction;
- an upper electrode plate serving as said movable contacts for said push switch having elastic forces and being deformed at a time of a pressing operation to be contactable to said lower electrode plate;
- a lever for said rotary switch to receive rotating operating forces;
- a plurality of contacts for said rotary switch serving as said fixed contacts for said rotary switch and enabling different connection according to rotating operations at least at two stages in both rotating directions from a neutral position of said lever and being formed on a circumference of a same circle outside said contact pairs for said push switch mounted on the bottom inside said main body portion;
- a common contact configured as a contact for said rotary switch to be commonly connected in different connections according to rotating operations of said lever;
- individual contacts configured as contacts for said rotary switch to be individually connected in different connections according to rotating operations of said lever;
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- a brush having a plurality of contactors sliding on a circumference of said same circle on which said contacts for said rotary switch are formed and being secured to said lever and serving as said movable contacts for said rotary switch to bring said common contact and said individual contacts into conduction according to a rotating operation on said lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.