| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 200290000 | Spring biasing means | 18 |
| 20090127083 | SWITCHING SHAFT UNIT FOR AN ELECTRICAL CONTACT SYSTEM - A switching shaft unit for an electrical contact system for use in a low-voltage breaker. The switching shaft unit includes a rotary contact moveably disposed, with play, in a switching shaft or a shifting shaft segment, and having a pair of bearing pins. The switching shaft unit further includes at least one contact piece configured to make switchable contact with at least one fixed contact, and at least one pair of force springs. Each force spring is supported by an associated respective support disposed in an interior of the switching shaft or the switching shaft segment, and an associated respective bearing pin, so that, upon an opening movement of the rotary contact, a connection line defined through the associated bearing pin and the associated support of at least one of the force springs is displaced over a breakover point plane so that the rotary contact remains in an open position. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090272637 | ELECTRICAL SWITCH - The invention relates to an electrical switch, in particular in the form of a microswitch and/or snap-action switch, having a housing which comprises a base and a cover. The switch has a contact system, which comprises a movable switching contact and at least one stationary contact. Furthermore, the switch has a moving operating member for switching of the contact system. The cover is mounted on the base such that it can move, and the operating member is formed by the cover. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100032270 | Electrical switch, particularly of microswitch design - The invention relates to an electrical switch ( | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100101922 | MICRO SWITCH - Disclosed is a micro switch having a high capability of cutting off a direct current. In the micro switch including a stationary contact, a movable contact having a closed position where it contacts the stationary contact or an open position where it is separated from the stationary contact, a movable contact rod for supporting the movable contact, a plunger for pressurizing the movable contact rod upon being pressed, and a leaf spring for supplying a driving force to the movable contact rod to convert a position of the contacts being contacted or separated, a permanent magnet is installed at a position adjacent to the movable to contact and the stationary contact, so as to extend an arc generated between the movable contact and the stationary contact upon separating the movable contact from the stationary contact, whereby the arc can be fast extinguished. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100219054 | ACTUATOR - At least one embodiment of the invention relates to an actuator including a mechanical display, wherein the actuator is provided for switching a switch unit, and the mechanical display includes a window and a display surface visible through the window. At least one embodiment of the invention is based on the insight that prior mechanical displays require a great deal of space within the command device, and are also prone to failure. The problem of space-saving integration is solved by a display surface formed on the spring bar mounted on the actuation part, and the display surface, together with at least a part of the spring bar, is intended to make a partial rotary motion about a rotary axis during the actuation motion. In addition to the space-saving integration, a greater displacement of the display surface is also thus achieved. At least one embodiment of the invention further relates to an electromechanical operating device having a switch unit that can be switched by such an actuator. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100224467 | FIELD INTERCHANGEABLE AUXILLIARY SWITCH - Disclosed is an electrical circuit making and breaking switch including a housing and a first electrical contact located in the housing. A block mechanism is located in the housing and includes a second electrical contact and a stopper disposed in mechanical communication with the second electrical contact. The stopper is positionable in the block mechanism, wherein a change in the position in the stopper results in a change in a contact position of the second electrical contact relative to the block mechanism. Further disclosed is a lateral block mechanism for an electrical circuit making and breaking switch. The lateral block mechanism includes two carrier assemblies and a connecting piece located between the two carrier assembles and secured thereto. An electrical contact is located at at least one of the two carrier assemblies. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110220475 | MINIATURE CIRCUIT BREAKER - A miniature circuit breaker has a housing formed of a housing base of insulating material and a pot-like housing cover, which is or can be positioned onto the housing base. Two elongate and flat contact arms are partially embedded in the housing base parallel with respect to one another in terms of their longitudinal direction. A fixed contact is arranged at an inner end of a first one of the contact arms. A bimetallic snap-action disk with a free end, forming or bearing a moving contact, is fitted at an inner end of the second contact arm at a fastening point. The fastening point, the moving contact and the fixed contact are in this case on an axis which is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the contact arms. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110290623 | LOW PROFILE SWITCH - An electromechanical switch includes a contact assembly and a linkage assembly. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120000754 | SWITCH - A switch has a housing, a contact mechanism having a movable contact piece disposed in the housing, an operating element that operates the movable contact piece, a spring member of the contact mechanism that operates the movable contact piece to open and close a contact, and a regulating mechanism that suppresses vibration of the spring member arranged at a position contacting the spring member. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120006662 | ELECTRICAL SWITCH - The invention relates to an electrical switch, in particular for an electric tool with an electric motor, such as for an electric drill, a hammer drill, an electric screwdriver or the like, with an actuating mechanism which can be adjusted between an initial position and a final position. The switch has a signaling device, which is operatively connected to the actuating mechanism, for generating a signal associated with the adjustment path of the actuating mechanism. Furthermore, the switch has a contact system, the actuating mechanism having a switching effect on the contact system in one position. The contact system is configured as a spring-action contact system. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20130026014 | Force Switch - A switch of a device having a longitudinal axis, and comprising a switching element parallel to the longitudinal axis of the device, a hollow body defining an interior cavity in which the switching element is movably disposed to define a switch-making position at a first longitudinal position and a switch-breaking position at a second longitudinal position, a biasing element imparting a variable longitudinal bias to the switching element to place the switching element in one of the switch-making position and the switch-breaking position until an external force imparted to the switching element exceeds the longitudinal bias causing the switching element to move to the other of the switch-making position and the switch-breaking position, and an electrically-conductive contact coupled to the switching element and defining a switch-making state when the switching element is in the switch-making position and a switch-breaking state when the switching element is in the switch-breaking position. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20140097069 | Switching Device And A Switchgear - A switching device including a breaker electrically connectable to an electrical conductor, and an at least partially electrically conductive housing to which the breaker is mounted, the housing having an outer surface. The breaker includes an electrically conductive first contact and an electrically conductive second contact, the second contact being movable and in relation to the first contact and in relation to the housing, and when the first and second contacts are in contact the breaker is in a closed position, and when the first and second contacts are separated the breaker is in an open position. The switching device is arranged to provide a current path between the breaker and the electrical conductor, and the housing houses a guiding member for operating the second contact, the guiding member being movable in relation to the housing, wherein the guiding member includes a biasing assembly. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140174897 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH BUTTON ASSEMBLY - An electronic device includes a button and a front panel having a button receiving hole to partly receive the button. A frame is secured to an inner side of the front panel, and includes a support portion spaced apart from the inner side of the front panel. A circuit board is secured to the support portion, and includes a switch under the button. An elastic member is located between the button and the support portion of the frame, and is used to apply a pushing force to the button. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140346019 | SWITCHING DEVICE - An inner wall for partitioning a storage chamber is disposed in a case. A switching member operating a movable contact inside the storage chamber is positioned inside a penetrating portion formed between an inner recess formed on an inner wall and a first cutout portion formed in an inner clamping piece of a lid body. The switching member is formed integrally with a flange portion, and the flange portion closes the penetrating portion. As a result, dust, dirt and moistures are unlikely to enter the storage chamber through the penetrating portion. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150096874 | SWITCHING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MALFUNCTIONING OF SUCH A SWITCHING DEVICE - This switching device ( | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150294807 | CIRCUIT INTERRUPTERS WITH MASSES IN CONTACT SPRING ASSEMBLIES - Devices and assemblies are provided for operating circuit interrupters. A circuit interrupter assembly includes a circuit interrupter and a contact spring assembly. The circuit interrupter is located within the housing and includes a moving contact and a stationary contact. Contact spring assembly includes a mass, a plunger, a ferrule, a spring, and a dielectric drive rod. The mass defines an inner bore with a first diameter at a first portion of the mass and a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter at a second portion of the mass. The plunger has a flange portion and a body portion. The flange portion is located within the inner bore at the second portion and has a flange diameter that is larger than the first diameter. The spring is disposed within the inner bore between the plunger and the ferrule. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150380179 | Gas Circuit Breaker - The gas circuit breaker includes a main shaft which is a rotating shaft of a main lever connected to an opening spring, a cam shaft which is a rotating shaft of a cam connected to a closing spring, a main shaft holding member which holds the main shaft, a cam shaft holding member which holds the cam shaft, and a bracket which holds the main shaft holding member and the cam shaft holding member. A through hole is provided in a portion of the bracket between the main shaft holding member and the cam shaft holding member, and a heat generating member is provided at least on a portion of the through hole. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160099118 | Electrical Interruption Apparatus With Wear Indicator - An improved electrical interruption apparatus provides an improved wear indicator that is configured to depict an amount of wear that has been experienced by a set of separable contacts of a vacuum interrupter. At an easily visible location on a drive rod of the circuit interruption apparatus, the wear indicator indicates the extent to which the set of contacts have degraded. The wear indicator is attached to a spring-loaded over-travel mechanism that engages together the set of electrical contacts. | 04-07-2016 |
