Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Electric switch details – Actuators
Patent
1993-04-02
1995-05-02
Luebke, Renee S.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Electric switch details
Actuators
200513, H01H 2300
Patent
active
054121698
ABSTRACT:
An electrical switch assembly is disclosed to include a housing mounting a pair of spaced switches. A rocker actuator is rockably mounted for movement relative to the housing about a rotational axis between the spaced switches, and with wing portions of the actuator on opposite sides of the rotational axis provided for alternatingly actuating the pair of switches. The rocker actuator is a one-piece component and includes a relatively stiff rocker arm rockable about the rotational axis, a connecting flange projecting outwardly from the periphery of the rocker arm, and an integral flexible intermediate wall joining the rocker arm and the connecting flange. The flexible intermediate wall supports the rocker arm in a neutral position. However, the rocker arm flexes the intermediate wall when the rocker arm is rotated about the axis in either opposite direction from the neutral position to alternate actuating positions. The flexible intermediate wall is of a material to return the rocker arm automatically to the neutral position when pressure on the rocker arm is released.
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Comerci Joseph D.
DeRoss Robert
Fuerst Robert M.
Hester Todd A.
Sommer Edward S.
Luebke Renee S.
Molex Incorporated
Weiss Stephen Z.
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