Electric push-button switch

Details Electric push-button switch Electric push-button switch

1988-09-26

1990-01-16

Cusick, Ernest G.

Electricity: circuit makers and breakers

Snap

Magnetic snap

200468, 200 5A, 200532, 200536, 200341, 200241, 335205, H01H 502

Patent

active

048944998

ABSTRACT:
The electric push-button switch comprises a housing portion and a linearly moveable push-button portion. Guide columns at the housing portion and the push-button portion attain accurate linear guiding and rotational positioning of the push-button portion. These guide columns mutually interact or interengage and are in multiple line contact with one another. This multiple line contact extends in the direction of movement of the push-button portion. The length of such line contact is variable between a rest position and an operating position of the push-button portion. This line contact is greatest when the push-button portion assumes its operating position. A contact surface of a fixed counter contact comprises a planar slide surface for resilient contact arms carried by the push-button portion. The friction arising during the forced sliding movement of the resilient contact arms over the contact surface produces self-cleaning of the contacts and damping of contact chatter movements. The contact chatter time, even when eccentrically actuating the push-button switch, can be decisively shortened by the exact guidance and damping of the movements. A snap-action, which is to be overcome when actuating the push-button switch, advantageously comprises a permanent magnetic cover plate at the housing portion and an armature plate at the push-button portion. The push-button switch can be used for single switches or for switches forming component parts of a push-button panel or switchboard having a common housing portion.

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