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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7365277 | Buffer assembly for a pressure sensitive switch A buffer assembly includes a housing adapted to sealingly connected to the pressure switch and defining therein a chamber and an airway defined in a bottom face of the housing to communicate with an interior of the housing so as to communicate with an inlet of the p... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7299960 | Mini desktop stapler A miniature spring-actuated stapler includes a tapered, flat power spring to store energy and eject staples. The power spring pivots at a rear of the stapler housing and includes three co-extensive arms terminating near the striker. As the L-shaped handle of the sta... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7256361 | Pressure switch A pressure switch includes a body, a lower cap and an upper cap respectively mounted to two opposite ends of the body. A casing is airtightly sleeved on an outer periphery of each of the lower cap and the upper cap. There are two electrodes disposed in the body and ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7232971 | Circuit breaker A circuit breaker includes a shell, a movable press strip, a metal strip, a C-shaped plate spring, and three conductors. A first and a second conductor are inserted through the bottom of the shell, respectively have an upper end extending up in the shell, with a fir... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7017464 | Woodworking tension board A tension board comprises a bow member that can deform resiliently to apply lateral force to a workpiece pushed between it and the fence of a table saw, and that may have an associated tension gauge element. Combination tools may employ two bow members having differ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6998555 | Miniswitch An electrical miniswithch comprising a case including a case part forming a base having several electrical terminals extending therefrom, and a case part forming a cover, an instantaneous switching mechanism located in the case and comprising a flexible conducting b... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6919523 | Electrical switch An electrical switch includes a casing having a central and two side chambers that are separated from the central chamber by respective partitions. A switching mechanism in each second chamber has fixed and moving contacts and an actuator. A rocker in the central ch... | 07/19/2005 |
| 5913415 | Switching device A movable leaf having a movable contact is fixed to a common terminal, and a displacement absorber absorbing the displacement of the movable leaf is provided in the vicinity of the portion of the movable leaf connected to the common terminal. A lever memb... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5086198 | Electric switch An electric switch comprising a fixed contact attached to a casing, a moveable contact piece carrying a moveable contact, an elastic piece which is actuated by an external force between two positions which are located on either side of the moveable contac... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5082997 | Quick-break miniature switch Switch of the tilting blade type wherein the spring blade (35) provides for the tension of the moving blade (38) and the return of the pusher (39); under the action of the pusher(39) the spring blade (35) separates progressively from the inclined terminal... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5006681 | Leaf spring system and an electric switch provided with such a leaf spring system A leaf spring system, in particular for influencing a least one body operating or comprising one or more contacts of an electric switch, with a frame aperature and at least one leaf spring which can act on the at least one body. The leaf spring system com... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4939329 | Roller activated switch A roller activated switch with an unlimited number of triggering points, a preferred embodiment featuring linear activation by a rod upon the roller. The switch unit receives a moveable member upon the roller in its housing. The moveable member rolls a sp... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4873402 | Push-button switch with plunger and switching mechanism A push-button switch having a lamp portion and a switch portion. The lamp portion includes a lamp, a lamp holder, a lamp casing, and a housing. The lamp holder is fixed within the housing and the lamp casing moves up or down to turn off or turn on the swi... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4520244 | Constant load snap switch with manual or automatic reset, stop and test selection A constant load and constant contact force snap-action switch having a normally-closed movable operate contact on a flipper blade which has a compression strip that snaps through an S-curvature to a reverse buckled state to trip the operate contact open. ... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4314122 | Control unit and electrical switch construction therefor and methods of making such a control unit and electrical switch construction A control unit having a condition selector, an electrical switch, having an actuator unit provided with an adjustable movement differential a condition responsive device for actuating the switch when the condition responsive device senses certain conditio... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4298779 | Rotary type microswitch A rotary type microswitch wherein a rotary handle member having at its body periphery a handle for driving a free end of a movable contact spring plate carrying a movable contact opposed to a stationary contact is rotatably borne at both axial ends betwee... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4286132 | Snap-action switch A snap-action switch is disclosed which includes a movable contact carried by an over-the-center toggle-like spring armature to snap between a first position and a second position. The armature is moved by a pushing member which, in turn, is moved by a sw... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4194103 | Electrical switch construction and method of making the same A double throw electrical switch construction having a housing carrying a movable actuator unit for moving a snap switch blade of the housing over center to snap a contact portion of the blade between a pair of spaced contact stops carried by the housing,... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4168412 | Electrical switch construction and method of making the same An electrical switch construction having a fixed contact and a movable switch blade carrying a contact for cooperating with the fixed contact under the control of an actuator spring that sustains a contact force on the closed contacts until the actuator s... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4109121 | Electrical switch construction and method of making the same A double throw electrical switch construction having a housing carrying a movable actuator unit for moving a snap switch blade of the housing over center to snap a contact portion of the blade between a pair of spaced contact stops carried by the housing ... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4007344 | Pressure operated electrical switch construction A pressure operated electrical switch construction having a housing provided with a pressure responsive actuator and an electrical switch operatively associated with the actuator so that the actuator will operate the switch from one condition thereof to a... | 02/08/1977 |
| 3994483 | Spring for maintaining in place an electric component and for ensuring its electric contact A spring having three juxtaposed elastic blades connected to each other only at each end by two transversal portions. The central blade is cambered in a first direction and the two lateral or outside blades are cambered in an opposite second direction. Th... | 11/30/1976 |
