Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Electric switch details – Contact
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-16
2011-08-16
Leon, Edwin A. (Department: 2833)
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Electric switch details
Contact
C439S840000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07999202
ABSTRACT:
A contact includes a first conductor that has a fitting hole formed therein; a second conductor that has a shaft that can be inserted into the fitting hole and an annular groove formed on an outer circumference of the shaft; and an inclined coil spring that has a ring inserted into a coil, is circularly formed by the ring to be provided inside the annular groove, and is in contact with the annular groove and the fitting hole to electrically connect the first and second conductors. The inclined coil spring is helically wound in a shape of an ellipse and is provided inside the annular groove so that a long axis of the ellipse is directed to an axial direction of the shaft and a short axis is directed to a radial direction of the shaft. Axial-direction both ends of the ring are in contact with a long-axis inner circumference of the inclined coil spring.
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Fujita Daisuke
Nakagawa Hiroyuki
Sadakuni Hitoshi
Shimazu Hideaki
Buchanan & Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Leon Edwin A.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
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