| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 200316000 | Rotatable | 8 |
| 20090000930 | Electrical Switching and/or Actuating Element With a Visual Display - To modify an electrical switching and/or setting element ( | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090107818 | Light directing structure for instruction switches - A light directing structure for instruction switches includes an instruction switch, a control element coupled on the perimeter of the instruction switch that is made from a light directing material and has an installation opening to hold the instruction switch, and a circuit board which is electrically connected to the instruction switch and has at least one lighting element to emit light to the control element to enable the control element to generate uniform illumination. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20110031096 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE - A control device for an electrical appliance has as an operating unit comprising a rotary knob having an electrical display. The rotary knob is mounted on a rotary shaft connected to a switching device for rotary operation, wherein the rotary shaft comprises a material readily conducting magnetic field lines. An inductive energy supply is provided for the electrical display, wherein a secondary winding is arranged inside the rotary knob whose winding plane is passed through by the rotary shaft and the magnetic field lines of a primary winding. The primary winding is arranged behind the cover of the electrical appliance, and a winding plane of the primary winding is passed through by the rotary shaft. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110233036 | ROTARY KNOB - A rotary knob including: a knob main body having a peripheral wall that has a recess on an inner peripheral surface; a light guide member including a light guide section, a restriction section, and a light emitting surface in sequence; and a decorative member including an engagement section and a ring-like section that covers a front end of the peripheral wall. The recess is defined by a pair of opposed surfaces and a bottom surface. The light guide section is fitted into a space between the opposed surfaces. The restriction section includes a contact portion that protrudes contacts the peripheral wall. When the ring-like section contacts with the restriction section, the decorative member prevents the light guide member from moving. The peripheral wall includes a holding portion that pinches the light guide section in cooperation with the bottom surface. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120090970 | ROTARY KNOB - A rotary knob includes a knob main body body provided in a peripheral wall section with a slit, a light guide member that is fitted into the slit and includes a light emitting section and a pressure member for preventing a relative movement between the knob main body and the light guide member. The light emitting section includes a display portion that is fitted into the slit and an exposed surface and latching projections disposed inside the display portion in a radial direction and protrude outward from both sides of the slit in a width direction. The peripheral wall section includes a pair of slit peripheral edges that define the slit, and holding portions that are provided inside the slit peripheral edges and pinch the latching projections between the holding portions and the slit peripheral edges from both sides in the radial direction of the peripheral wall section. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120175231 | Encoder with tri-color LED - An encoder with a tri-color LED includes an insulating base, five terminals, a conductive elastic piece, a tri-color LED assembly, an encoder substrate assembly, a conductive wiper assembly, and an insulated light shaft. The five terminals and the insulating base are formed integrally. The conductive elastic piece is received in a receiving chamber of the insulating base. The tri-color LED assembly is disposed in the receiving chamber. The encoder substrate assembly covers on both the conductive elastic piece and the tri-color LED assembly. The conductive wiper assembly is received in the encoder substrate assembly. The insulated light shaft passes through a through hole of the conductive wiper assembly and a through hole of the encoder substrate assembly. Thereby, through voltage variation of an independent tri-color LED loop, color mixing can be controlled, and that to combine the same with the encoder a function of lighting and marking can be achieved. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20130126318 | ILLUMINATED THUMBWHEEL SWITCH ASSEMBLY - An electric switch assembly comprises a circuit board; a light source mounted on the circuit board; a thumbwheel knob rotatably mounted on the circuit board; a transparent surface that moves with the thumbwheel knob and on which a symbol is applied or formed; and a light guide for directing light from the light source to the transparent surface to illuminate the symbol. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20160079013 | PROJECTED KNOB DEVICE - A knob device includes a knob body, a graphic plate, and a light source. The knob body has a hollow space and has an end equipped with a screen. The graphic plate has multiple graphic windows including graphic symbols, respectively. The light source is configured to emit light through both at least one of the graphic windows and the hollow space to project at least one of the graphic symbols on the screen. The graphic plate is movable to switch the at least one of the graphic symbols to another of the graphic symbols. | 03-17-2016 |
