Sliding contact switch
AssigneeZF Friedrichshafen AG
InventorsMichael Pabst, Alfons Müller
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Abstract
An electrical sliding contact switch comprises a contact transmitter element with a first and a second rigidly interconnected sliding contact, which are pressed against a corresponding surface designed for a common sliding section by respective contact areas in the same direction, while there is an insulated segment and a contact segment for each sliding contact within the common sliding section respectively, whereby one insulated segment is slid over by a contact area of a sliding contact, when the corresponding other sliding contact is sliding over its contact segment with its contact area, whereby a notch is arranged within the insulating segment which is slid over by a contact area of a sliding contact in case the other sliding contact is sliding over its contact segment.
Claims11
An electrical sliding contact switch, comprising:
- a contact transmitter element comprising a first sliding contact and a second sliding contact being rigidly interconnected with the first sliding contact;
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- a common sliding section comprising:
- a first surface, against which the first sliding contact and the second sliding contact press at a first direction and on which the first sliding contact is slidable along a first sliding path and the second sliding contact is slidable along a second sliding path;
- a first insulating segment and a first contact segment on the first surface along the first path and a second insulating segment and a second contact segment on the first surface along the second path, being configured so that when the first sliding contact slides over the first insulating segment, the second sliding contact slides over the second contact segment, wherein the first insulating segment comprises a first notch which is slid over by the first sliding contact when the second sliding contact slides over the second contact segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.