Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Special application – Steering wheel – shaft or column mounted
Patent
1997-03-11
1998-06-02
Gellner, Michael L.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Special application
Steering wheel, shaft or column mounted
H01H 2500
Patent
active
057603553
ABSTRACT:
An electric switch for operating a windshield wiper and washer apparatus of a motor vehicle has a housing in which a switching member for operating the wipers in a selected operation mode is swivelably mounted from a neutral position around a first axis to at least one operational position and a switch lever which, for operating the washer from a neutral position into an operational position, is swivelably mounted on the switching member around a second axis preferably perpendicularly intersecting the first axis. By a single actuation, it is possible by switching on the washer to also switch on the wipers. Therefore, in the first neutral position of the switching member, the switch lever, when being swiveled around the second axis into an operation position, is compulsorily swivelable together with the switching member around the first axis to such an extent that, after release of the switch lever, the switch lever reaches, together with the switching member, slide into a second position of the switching member.
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Bredernitz Roger G.
Glowczewski David A.
Friedhofer Michael A.
Gellner Michael L.
ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc.
Lewis J. Gordon
Twomey Thomas N.
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