Switch with pivoting control member mounted on slider

Details Switch with pivoting control member mounted on slider Switch with pivoting control member mounted on slider

1995-03-15

1997-04-22

Gellner, Michael L.

Electricity: circuit makers and breakers

Multiple circuit control

Multiple switch

200 4, 200 16C, H01H 2500

Patent

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056231342

ABSTRACT:
A switch for preventing unintentional actuation of, for example, a door lock in an automobile. The switch includes a slider and a control lever pivotally mounted on the slider. When the slider is in a neutral position, a guide member located in a housing of the switch abuts a protrusion of the control lever such that pivoting of the control lever is prevented, thereby preventing unintentional actuation of the door lock. To actuate the switch, the slider is moved to a second position wherein the protrusion of the control lever is not blocked by the guide member, and subsequent pivoting of the control member causes the protrusion to push a movable contact into a fixed contact of the switch. A ball is biased into a groove formed in the slider to provide a click sensation when the slider is moved from the neutral position to the second position.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3604863 (1971-09-01), Schink
patent: 3670117 (1972-06-01), Yancey
patent: 4107499 (1978-08-01), Weidler
patent: 4871885 (1989-10-01), Kamada
patent: 4918264 (1990-04-01), Yamamoto et al.
patent: 5414231 (1995-05-01), Sato et al.

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