Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Electric switch details – Actuators
Patent
1996-07-01
1998-06-23
Walczak, David J.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Electric switch details
Actuators
200330, 200331, H01H 300
Patent
active
057692092
ABSTRACT:
A toggle switch handle for a toggle switch mounted to the dash of a truck consists in substantial part essentially of a resilient bendable material. The switch is generally spatulate in shape with a base, a distal end, rounded side edges and recessed or concave major opposed surfaces. The handle is elongated with a longitudinal axis. The handle has a stiffness in bending in response to a force applied at the distal end of the handle and in a direction perpendicular to longitudinal axis from twenty-five pounds to thirty pounds per inch at seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit and most preferably twenty-eight pounds per inch. The handle may be of an elastomeric material of a durometer of from 85 to 95, and most preferably about 90, on the Shore A scale measured at seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit. The handle is coupled to switch components by a lever. The extent to which the lever projects into the base of the handle is limited so that the lever has a minimal impact on the bendability of the toggle switch handle. During impact, such as may arise during a collision, the toggle switch handle bends to absorb shock arising from impact against the handle during the collision.
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Freightliner Corporation
Walczak David J.
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