US 9,142,368 B2Granted

Push switch

AssigneesCitizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.

InventorShinsuke Watanabe

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Abstract

Provided is a push switch that can be made thin without requiring that a notch be made into a mounting board. The push switch includes a substrate having a L-shaped cross section and wherein the substrate has a front surface, a back surface and a side face, an accommodating recess provided on the front surface, a center contact provided so as to be substantially centralized in the accommodating recess, a pair of peripheral contacts each provided at a circumferential edge of the accommodating recess, a movable contact spring constructed so as to extend across the pair of peripheral contacts and designed to be brought into contact with the center contact when pressed, a connection pad provided on the back surface and electrically connected to the mounting substrate, and an electrode provided on the side face and electrically connected to the connection pad.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A push switch provided at an edge of a mounting substrate which does not have a cutout thereof, the push switch comprising:

a substrate having a L-shaped cross section and wherein said substrate has a front surface located perpendicular to a mounting surface of said mounting substrate, a back surface for mounting on said mounting substrate and a side face for facing to said front surface;
an accommodating recess provided on said front surface;
a center contact provided so as to be substantially centralized in said accommodating recess;
a pair of peripheral contacts each provided at a circumferential edge of said accommodating recess;
a movable contact spring constructed so as to extend across said pair of peripheral contacts and designed to be brought into contact with said center contact when pressed;
a connection pad provided on said back surface and electrically connected to said mounting substrate;
and
an electrode provided on said side face and electrically connected to said connection pad.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/329,941Filed 12 Jul 2014 · continuation
Priority: JP 2012-03728523 Feb 2012
Published: US 2014/0151213 A130 Oct 2014
Granted: 22 Sep 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H01H 13/14
Movable parts; Contacts mounted thereon: operating parts, e.g. push-button
H01H 1/26
With resilient mounting: with spring blade support
H01H 1/5805
Electric connections to or between contacts; Terminals: connections to printed circuits
H01H 13/04
Details: cases; Covers

Family

PCT/JP2013/054607Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Feb 2013
US 2014/0318943 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 Oct 2014
Application14/128,591Parent of this continuation
US 8,809,709 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2014/0151213 A1Published application
US 9,142,368 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.