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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7220927 | Turn signal assemblies and methods for operating the same Turn signal assemblies for motor vehicles that employ shape memory alloy actuators to provide automatic cancellation of turn signals. A controller is in operative communication with the shape memory alloy actuator and is programmed to provide an activation signal to... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7148438 | Toggle action lever A lever mounted on a support for pivotal movement between two end positions is acted upon by a toggle spring connected at its opposite ends to the lever and the support to bias the lever away from a centre position of unstable equilibrium towards its two end positio... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6825430 | Electrical switch An electrical slide switch having a housing, four fixed contacts, a switching member supported for limited reciprocating rotary movement, and two moving contacts supported by the switching member for movement into and out of contact with the fixed contacts. An actua... | 11/30/2004 |
| 5728982 | Miniature rotary electric switch A miniature rotary electric switch having push-in wire terminals comprises a housing which is about 1 inch in length, 1 inch in width and 0.2 inches in thickness and which includes a plurality of wire receiving openings. A plurality of Z-shaped stationary... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5610377 | Electric switch An electric microswitch includes a base and a cap. The base has a bottom pair of terminals downwardly extending that are hermetically sealed because they are integrally formed as part of the base, while the same terminals extend upwardly from the top of t... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5380966 | Housing for accommodating an alarm conducting clipper A housing to accommodate an alarm conducting clip is made of electrically insulating material having a small aperture at one end for an electric cord passing therethrough, a large aperture at opposite end having a passage formed in-between the apertures a... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5196657 | Electric switch An automatically reversing, self-cleaning electric switch preferably for use in miniature, electronic aggregates such as hearing aids comprises a box (1) manufactured from electrically insulating material with a pushing rod (2) also from electrically insu... | 03/23/1993 |
| 4885435 | Cantilever spring switch having multiple fulcrums A manually operated switch that combines spring and contact functions in a low profile, machine-insertable component. The switch readily mounts onto a printed wiring board. It includes a cantilevered leaf spring member having one free end and a pair of sp... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4689451 | Slow make and break action switch A miniature switch which has reduced susceptibility to welding of contact elements due to high voltage arcing. The switch has parallel resilient spring like current carrying members each having a contact portion mounted adjacent an end thereof. A selectiv... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4680433 | Contact assembly for a switch A contact assembly for a switch is provided which has an array of fixed surfaces, such as posts, which are arranged in a pattern such as points on a circumference and into which a conductive, elastic or resilient closed loop is seated under stress. The lo... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4580017 | Multiple contact switch There is disclosed a multiple electrical contact switch which has a comb block whose teeth are inserted into receptacles of a mounting block thereby wedging pairs of electrical spring contacts, which are also inserted into the receptacles, between the tee... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4575592 | Electrical switch A switch comprises a dielectric housing having electrical contact members secured in a base thereof with one of the contact members including a stationary contact section and the other of the contact members having a movable contact section. The contact s... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4446342 | Electrical switch assembly and method of manufacture The present invention provides low cost electrical switch assemblies. The switch assembly comprises an array of resiliently flexible metallic conductors arranged in predetermined circuit pathways on a dielectric carrier panel. A plurality of apertures or ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4441089 | Change-over switch for coaxial conductors The new change-over switch having a connecting element which is articulated to an inner conductor and which connects the connecting element selectively to one of two other conductors. The contacts between the connecting element and the one or the other in... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4431876 | Key switch A key switch comprises a casing, at least one key slide guided in the cas against the force of a spring and at least one J-shaped leaf spring having a long spring arm and a short spring arm connected to the long arm by a curved intermediate part, the lea... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4423300 | Manually operated detented switch A manually operated switch, typically of DIP size, having a slightly deformable over-center cam rotor journalled in a hollow housing. Symmetrical projections on the rotor move two opposed cantilever springs into and out of electrical contact. The deformat... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4399336 | Miniature rotary sip switch for mounting on a printed circuit board The rotary SIP switch (10) provides a single in-line package (SIP) having switching capabilities previously found in dual in-line packages (DIP) while providing more switch contacts in the same package area. The miniature rotary SIP switch (10) has a pair... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4384177 | Switch A segment holder is mounted in a casing for rotational movement therein, and a plurality of contact wires extend substantially perpendicularly to the axis of rotation of the segment holder and are spaced from each other along the said axis of rotation, th... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4357510 | Switch device for use on circuit board One-piece stamped and formed switch device which is intended for mounting on a circuit board comprises an elongated flat base having mounting tabs or posts extending from its ends. A flange extends from one of the ends in the opposite direction from the d... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4319102 | Multi-pole switch A multiple pole switch assembly is disclosed which is a simple structure of a housing having contact means and a metallic conductor comb with a plurality of teeth overlying the contact means. The housing is formed of base means and a cover therefor, which... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4282415 | Rotary pulse switch A rotary pulse switch for digital tuners or the like comprises a rotor which is provided with a plurality of protrusions spaced at equal intervals on the peripheral edge of one surface thereof and to which an operation rod is fixed. A housing receives the... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4268726 | Multiple cantilever spring contact switch A multiple cantilever spring contact switch has contact members stacked both vertically and side-by-side. The contact members are gripped at one end between surfaces which impose a predetermined inclination of the contact members relative to a base. A piv... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4259558 | Multiple cantilever spring contact switch A multiple cantilever spring contact switch has a plurality of cantilever spring contacts, arranged in one or more series with the spring contacts of a series each clamped at one end in grooves which have base surfaces inclined relative to each other. By ... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4170234 | System for use with electro-surgical pencil Electro-surgical pencils are used with a variety of commercially available machines which produce two different types of electrical impulses--one for cutting, the other for cauterizing. In the system of this invention there is a pencil having an electrode... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4095074 | Switch for card edge A miniature manually actuated switch is grippingly received over an edge of a printed circuit board or card and has a selector for selectively bridging circuit paths on opposite sides of the card. Electrical contacts with the selector captivated there bet... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4081632 | Cam operated switch having wavy spring contact assembly abutting stop or fixed contact thereby storing kinetic energy prior to subsequent engagement with a fixed contact assembly An electrical switch comprises a housing with at least one fixed contact thereon and at least one resilient movable contact which has a fixed end secured on said housing and an opposite movable end with a contact portion which is held by the fixed end in ... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4058695 | Calibrated electrical motor switch An electrical starting winding switch for electrical motors having a calibrated single make and break contact with an unusually high opening force for the higher electrical values encountered in high density electrical motors while maintaining a much lowe... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4034761 | Disposable electrosurgical switching assembly A disposable electrosurgical unit for generating electrical signals intended for applications to the body of a patient via an electrosurgical electrode is provided. Cutting signals and coagulation signals can be applied by the actuation of a switch in the... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4015092 | Multiple switch assembly for electrically operated instrument This invention relates to a musical instrument operated by keys which in turn actuate change-over switches for selecting a predetermined one of a series of sound generators. The switches are provided by a composite structure constituted of aligned panels ... | 03/29/1977 |
| 3978298 | Miniature switch having pivotal actuator with budging contact and position safety structure A miniature switch assembly comprising a base member having a plurality of parallel finned projections, a pair of contact members each having a plurality of contact terminals being fixed on both sides of the base member, respectively, a plurality of lever... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3974347 | Switch assembly having rotatable, pivoted or slidable actuator and diode structure mounted between actuator contacts A manually actuated switch includes a pair of terminals forming switch poles and a knob which is manually actuated to complete or interrupt an electrical circuit across the poles. A pair of spaced contacts are embedded in the knob and resiliently grip the... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3945492 | Dual function electrical switch An electrical switch including first and second fixed electrical contacts carried by the body of the switch. Fastened to the body is an L-shaped flexible strip which carries first and second movable contacts, one end of one limb of the L-shaped strip bein... | 03/23/1976 |
