Push switch
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsMasahiro Masuda, Yasunori Yanai, Yoshikazu Yagi
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Abstract
An operating body being made of a metal plate and being overlaid with polyamide resin layer, a side of the operating body having an operating part protruding from a front side of a switch case, and an other side having a driving part in an arm shape and a sliding guide in a frame shape surrounding the driving part, in which the driving part in the arm shape being compression pressed to be a thin plate, and the sliding guide being formed with an upper sliding contact in a hemisphere shape coming into contact with an undersurface of cover above the contact and a lower sliding contact formed long in back and forth direction coming into contact with a protective sheet under the contact.
Claims6
A push switch comprising:
- a switch case having an upper opening;
- a movable contact formed in a dome shape protruding towards the upper opening;
- an operating body being made of a metal plate including:
- polyimide resin layer on an upper side of the operating body;
- an operating part protruding from a front side of the switch case;
- a deformable elastic driving part in an arm shape having a tip portion;
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- a sliding guide surrounding an outer edge of the driving part,
- the operating body movable in a horizontal direction in the upper opening of the switch case;
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- a metal cover having an inclined part in a central part thereof, the inclined part deforming the tip portion of the driving part elastically downward when the operating part of the operating body is pushed in the horizontal direction.
A push switch comprising:
- a switch case having an upper opening;
- a metal cover having an inclined part in a central part thereof;
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- an operating body including:
- an operating part protruding from a front side of the switch case;
- a deformable elastic driving part in an arm shape having a tip portion;
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- a sliding guide surrounding an outer edge of the driving part, the sliding guide including a first rounded sliding contact protruding from an upper surface of the sliding guide and a second straight sliding contact protruding from a lower surface of the sliding guide,
- the operating body movable in a horizontal direction between the upper opening of the switch case and a lower plane of the metal cover,
- wherein the inclined part deforms the tip portion of the driving part elastically downward when the operating part of the operating body is pushed in the horizontal direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.