Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Multiple circuit control – Multiple switch
Patent
1984-12-20
1986-09-02
Pellinen, A. D.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Multiple circuit control
Multiple switch
29622, 200159B, H01H 1314
Patent
active
046097910
ABSTRACT:
A keypad is formed of a set of transparent buttons slidably located within apertures of a grid. The grid has sidewalls for engagement with the base of a printed circuit board. Switch assemblies are provided by conductive elastomeric domes formed of a single sheet of elastomeric material disposed between the printed circuit board and the buttons. Integrally formed within a concave side of each dome is a contact region driven by a displacement of a button towards the printed cirucit board. An insulating layer above strip conductors of the circuit board is perforated at sites of the switches to allow the contact region to touch the exposed portions of the conductors to complete an electrical circuit. A dome deforms with springiness which urges the dome back to its original shape upon release of a button by a user of the keypad. Manufacture of the keypad is facilitated by construction of a set of the butons on a webbing which maintains alignment of the buttons as they are secured to the respective domes. The webbing is later removed to permit insertion of the buttons into apertures of the grid.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3898421 (1975-08-01), Suzumura
patent: 4272657 (1981-01-01), Iijima
Ginsburg Morris
ITT Corporation
Morris Jeffrey P.
O'Halloran John T.
Pellinen A. D.
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