Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Electric switch details – Cases and bases
Patent
1993-06-18
1994-08-30
Luebke, Renee S.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Electric switch details
Cases and bases
200559, 2003023, H01H 2108
Patent
active
053430077
ABSTRACT:
A sealed rocker switch includes a button having a lever. A coil spring coaxial with the lever and enclosing a portion of the lever forces a plunger against an actuator that rocks to place a spring blade in contact with blade contacts to operate the switch. The blade contacts are snapped into the case of the switch to maintain the blade contacts in a desired position, and are potted with a potting compound to make a seal. The actuator may be shaped in one of several ways to provide maintained contact, momentary contact, or a combination of these. A groove in the lever supports an O-ring against the case to seal the switch at the button end.
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Crawford Michael J.
Roeser Thomas
Luebke Renee S.
Otto Engineering, Inc.
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