Stop lamp switch
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Matsuo Industries, Inc.
InventorsMasayuki Nishiguchi, Masao Okumura, Yuji Sekitomi, Kyohei Manabe
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Abstract
A stop lamp switch including: an enclosure; a reed switch disposed in the enclosure; a magnet, disposed in the enclosure, a magnetic field of which opens and closes the contacts of the reed switch; an actuating shaft that is movable along an axial direction of the enclosure; a blocking member provided on the actuating shaft, that moves with the movement of the actuating shaft, between a first position, at which the magnetic field from the magnet directed toward the first reed switch is blocked, and a second position, at which the blocking of the magnetic field from the magnet directed toward the first reed switch is no longer blocked.
Claims10
A switch suitable for a stop lamp, comprising:
- an enclosure;
- a first reed switch and a second reed switch, disposed in the enclosure;
- an actuating shaft that is movable along an axial direction of the enclosure;
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- a ring-shaped magnet, disposed on the actuating shaft, the first reed switch being disposed inside the ring-shaped magnet and the second reed switch being disposed outside the ring-shaped magnet, wherein a magnetic field of the ring-shaped magnet opens and closes contacts of the first and second reed switches and the ring-shaped magnet moves with the movement of the actuating shaft, between a first position, at which a magnetic field is not applied to the first reed switch, and a second position, at which the magnetic field is applied to the first reed switch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.