公开(公告)号：US4590342A

公开(公告)日：1986-05-20

申请号：US549555

申请日：1983-11-07

Applicant: Eberhard Schlegel

Inventor： Eberhard Schlegel

IPC: H01H13/02 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/807 ,  H01H13/52

CPC classification number: H01H13/807 ,  H01H13/023 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01H2201/032 ,  H01H2203/052 ,  H01H2217/008 ,  H01H2217/02 ,  H01H2219/036 ,  H01H2221/066 ,  H01H2223/03 ,  H01H2223/054 ,  H01H2225/01

Abstract: Switching device for installation in a switchboard or the like, composed of: an actuator composed of a housing and a plunger and arranged to be pushed into and fastened to a supporting wall; and a contactor joined and fastened to the actuator and arranged to be on the interior of the supporting wall, wherein the contactor includes a supporting member connected to a plate arranged to be parallel to the supporting wall and carrying conductor paths and a rubber elastic membrane body coaxial with the plunger and carrying a layer of a conductive elastomer, the membrane body being located to be disposed between the plunger and the plate with the layer of conductive elastomer facing the plate, and with the plunger being actuatable to press against the membrane body and deform the latter in the axial direction in order to press the layer of conductive elastomer against the conductor paths.

Abstract translation: 用于安装在配电板等中的开关装置，包括：由壳体和柱塞组成的致动器，并被布置成被推入并紧固到支撑壁上; 以及接触器，其接合并紧固到所述致动器并且布置成位于所述支撑壁的内部，其中所述接触器包括连接到平行于所述支撑壁并承载导体路径的板的支撑构件和橡胶弹性膜体 与柱塞同轴并且承载一层导电弹性体，所述膜主体被定位成设置在所述柱塞和所述板之间，所述导电弹性体层面向所述板，并且所述柱塞可致动以压靠所述膜体，并且 使后者沿轴向变形，以便将导电弹性体层压在导体路径上。

公开(公告)号：US4505848A

公开(公告)日：1985-03-19

申请号：US489443

申请日：1983-04-28

Applicant: Hideki Kobayashi

Inventor： Hideki Kobayashi

IPC: B29C65/00 ,  B29B15/00 ,  B29C70/88 ,  B32B25/20 ,  B32B37/10 ,  H01B1/24 ,  H01C10/10 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01B1/06

CPC classification number: H01H13/785 ,  B29C70/882 ,  H01B1/24 ,  H01C10/106 ,  B29K2083/00 ,  B29K2105/16 ,  B29K2105/24 ,  B29K2707/04 ,  B29K2995/0005 ,  B29L2031/3443 ,  H01H2201/032 ,  H01H2209/002 ,  H01H2229/046 ,  H01H2229/058

Abstract: Cured unitary molded articles containing conductive and insulating silicone rubber components are prepared by tightly contacting a curable insulating silicone rubber composition comprising a curable silicone rubber containing substantially no carbon black and a nonacyl-type peroxide with a cured conductive silicone rubber component containing carbon black and which has been cured by an addition reaction in the presence of a platinum-type catalyst and molding the resultant composition at elevated temperatures to cure the insulating silicone rubber component and form a unitary cured silicone rubber article.This invention also relates to cured silicone rubber articles prepared using the method of this invention.

Abstract translation: 含有导电性和绝缘性硅橡胶成分的固化单体成型体通过将包含基本上不含炭黑的可固化硅橡胶和非酰基型过氧化物的可固化绝缘硅橡胶组合物与含有炭黑的固化的导电性硅橡胶组分紧密接触而制备， 在铂类催化剂的存在下通过加成反应固化，并在高温下成型所得组合物以固化绝缘硅橡胶组分并形成单一固化的硅橡胶制品。 本发明还涉及使用本发明的方法制备的固化硅橡胶制品。

公开(公告)号：US4492949A

公开(公告)日：1985-01-08

申请号：US476685

申请日：1983-03-18

Applicant: Robert R. Peterson ,  Dale W. Schubert ,  Peter N. Cholakis

Inventor： Robert R. Peterson ,  Dale W. Schubert ,  Peter N. Cholakis

IPC: G01L5/00 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B25J19/02 ,  G01L1/18 ,  G01L1/20 ,  G01L5/22 ,  H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01C10/10

CPC classification number: H01H13/785 ,  B25J13/084 ,  G01L1/18 ,  G01L1/205 ,  G01L5/228 ,  H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H2201/032 ,  H01H2203/002 ,  H01H2203/008 ,  H01H2205/006 ,  H01H2207/01 ,  H01H2209/002 ,  H01H2209/032 ,  H01H2209/056 ,  H01H2209/074 ,  H01H2211/032 ,  H01H2227/03 ,  H01H2231/04 ,  H01H2239/078

Abstract: A tactile sensor for sensing an object in contact therewith. In its preferred form, the sensor comprises a plurality of layers disposed in a sandwich arrangement. A top layer is comprised of a flexible, electrically-insulating material and a plurality of parallel flexible conductive rods. A bottom layer is comprised of an electrically-insulating material and a plurality of parallel conductive rods that extend at right angles to the conductive rods of the top layer, thus forming a sensory array comprising a plurality of superimposed intersection points arranged in a grid pattern. An intermediate layer is comprised of a resilient, electrically-insulating material in which is disposed a plurality of parallel conductive posts that extend perpendicular to the plane of the three layers. These posts are comprised of a resilient conducting material. Each conductive post is disposed at one of the sensor's aforementioned intersection points so as to electrically couple one of the conductive rods of the top layer to one of the conductive rods of the bottom layer. The conductive rods are formed with a selected cross-section, in order that changes in the amount of pressure exerted on the sensor will produce corresponding logarithmic exchanges in the contact surface area, and hence electrical contact resistance, established between the conductive rods and those conductive posts disposed beneath the points of pressure.

Abstract translation: 用于感测与其接触的物体的触觉传感器。 在其优选形式中，传感器包括以夹层结构设置的多个层。 顶层由柔性电绝缘材料和多个平行的柔性导电棒构成。 底层由电绝缘材料和与顶层的导电棒成直角延伸的多个平行的导电棒构成，从而形成包括布置成网格图案的多个叠加交叉点的感官阵列。 中间层由弹性的电绝缘材料组成，其中设置有垂直于三层平面延伸的多个平行导电柱。 这些柱由弹性导电材料组成。 每个导电柱设置在传感器的上述交点之一处，以将顶层的导电棒之一电耦合到底层的导电棒之一。 导电棒形成有选定的横截面，以便施加在传感器上的压力量的变化将在接触表面积中产生相应的对数交换，从而在导电棒和导电棒之间建立电接触电阻 置于压力点之下的柱。

公开(公告)号：US4490587A

公开(公告)日：1984-12-25

申请号：US482832

申请日：1983-04-07

Applicant: Paul H. Miller ,  Charles D. Stelzner

Inventor： Paul H. Miller ,  Charles D. Stelzner

IPC: H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/70

CPC classification number: H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H2201/032 ,  H01H2209/03 ,  H01H2209/052 ,  H01H2209/074 ,  H01H2211/028 ,  H01H2215/006 ,  H01H2215/008 ,  H01H2223/002 ,  H01H2223/022 ,  H01H2227/002 ,  H01H2227/01 ,  H01H2229/028 ,  H01H2231/05

Abstract: A switch assembly comprising a flexible face cover membrane; a flexible keyboard membrane positioned immediately below the face cover membrane and including a base portion and a plurality of raised hollow contact pad portions projecting upwardly from the base portion through openings in the face cover member; a flexible printed circuit board membrane positioned below the keyboard membrane for switching coaction with the contact pad portions of the keyboard membrane; and adhesive means bonding the membranes together into a thin, flexible sealed switch sandwich. In one embodiment of the invention, the keyboard membrane is formed of a non-conductive elastomeric material and conductive elastomeric buttons are secured to the underside of the contact pad portions of the keyboard membrane for coaction with printed circuitry on the upper surface of the circuit board membrane.

Abstract translation: 一种开关组件，包括柔性面罩膜; 位于面罩膜正下方的柔性键盘膜，包括一底座部分和多个凸起的中空接触垫片部分，该部分通过面罩部件中的开口从该基部向上突出; 位于键盘膜下方的柔性印刷电路板膜，用于切换与键盘膜的接触垫部分的共同作用; 并且粘合剂意味着将膜结合在一起成为薄的，柔性的密封开关三明治。 在本发明的一个实施例中，键盘膜由非导电弹性体材料形成，并且导电弹性按钮被固定到键盘膜的接触垫部分的下侧，用于与电路板的上表面上的印刷电路共同作用 膜。

公开(公告)号：US4395817A

公开(公告)日：1983-08-02

申请号：US241040

申请日：1981-03-06

Applicant: Takafumi Asada ,  Kazuyoshi Shinohara ,  Kanji Kiyohara ,  Tadashi Sakairi

Inventor： Takafumi Asada ,  Kazuyoshi Shinohara ,  Kanji Kiyohara ,  Tadashi Sakairi

IPC: G06F3/02 ,  B29C45/14 ,  H01H11/00 ,  H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H13/785

CPC classification number: H01H13/785 ,  B29C45/14311 ,  H01H11/00 ,  H01H13/702 ,  B29C2045/14319 ,  B29K2715/006 ,  B29L2031/466 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H2201/032 ,  H01H2209/014 ,  H01H2211/006 ,  H01H2215/004 ,  H01H2221/002 ,  H01H2221/004 ,  H01H2221/03 ,  H01H2227/004 ,  H01H2229/034 ,  H01H2229/044 ,  H01H2229/05 ,  H01H2229/052 ,  H01H2231/05 ,  Y10T156/1092 ,  Y10T29/49105

Abstract: A method of making a keyboard including, a number of switch keys fixedly provided on one surface of a resilient plastic sheet a number of moving contacts formed on the other surface of the resilient plastic sheet. The keys are formed of a plastic material having a melting temperature lower than that of the resilient plastic sheet.Thermoplastic bond layers are deposited on both surfaces of the resilient plastic sheet. The melting point of the thermoplastic bond layers is lower than that of the switch keys.The resilient plastic sheet is placed in a metal mold which has cavities (101a) at predetermined places.Melted plastic material is injected into the cavities to form the switch keys and at the same time cause the portions of thermoplastic bond layers which contact the injected melted plastic to be melted by the heat of the injected melted plastic material and to bond the switch keys onto the resilient plastic sheet.

Abstract translation: 一种制造键盘的方法，包括：在弹性塑料片的一个表面上固定地设置多个形成在弹性塑料片的另一个表面上的多个移动触点的开关键。 键由具有低于弹性塑料片的熔化温度的塑性材料形成。 热塑性粘合层沉积在弹性塑料片的两个表面上。 热塑性接合层的熔点低于开关键的熔点。 将弹性塑料片放置在在预定位置具有空腔（101a）的金属模具中。 将熔融的塑料材料注入到空腔中以形成开关键，并且同时使得与注入的熔融塑料接触的热塑性粘合层的部分被注入的熔融塑料材料的热量熔化并将开关键接合到 弹性塑料片。

公开(公告)号：US4314115A

公开(公告)日：1982-02-02

申请号：US133663

申请日：1980-03-25

Applicant: Ryoichi Sado ,  Koichi Nei

Inventor： Ryoichi Sado ,  Koichi Nei

IPC: G06F3/02 ,  H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H13/712 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/70

CPC classification number: H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H2201/032 ,  H01H2207/002 ,  H01H2207/024 ,  H01H2211/006 ,  H01H2215/008

Abstract: The invention provides a novel key-board switching unit used, for example, in pocketable electronic calculators for producing binary-coded signals corresponding to contacting of movable contact points on the bottom surface of a keyboard covering pad and fixed contact points on the printed circuit board on which the covering pad is mounted when pushed with a finger tip or a pushing means. The printed circuit board in the inventive switching unit has a so fine and complicated circuit pattern that, in the prior art, one or more of jumping circuits crossing over a printed base pattern are indispensable resulting in much increased production costs while, in the inventive switching unit, the circuit pattern on the circuit board per se may be incomplete by the lack of such jumping circuits and, instead, the covering pad is provided with conductive connections corresponding to the lacking jumping circuits on the circuit board to form necessary jumping circuits when the covering pad is mounted on the circuit board.

Abstract translation: 本发明提供了一种新颖的键盘开关单元，其例如用在用于产生二进制编码信号的便携式电子计算器中，该二进制编码信号对应于键盘覆盖垫的底表面上的活动触点与印刷电路板上的固定触点的接触 当用指尖或推动装置推动时，其上安装有覆盖垫。 本发明的开关单元中的印刷电路板具有如此精细和复杂的电路图案，在现有技术中，跨越印刷基底图案的一个或多个跳跃电路是必不可少的，导致大量增加的生产成本，而在本发明的开关 单元，电路板本身的电路图案可能由于缺少这种跳跃电路而不完整，而是替代地，覆盖焊盘设置有对应于电路板上缺乏跳跃电路的导电连接，以形成必要的跳跃电路，当 覆盖垫安装在电路板上。

公开(公告)号：US4302648A

公开(公告)日：1981-11-24

申请号：US167334

申请日：1980-07-09

Applicant: Ryoichi Sado ,  Takekuni Okamoto ,  Shigeru Matumoto

Inventor： Ryoichi Sado ,  Takekuni Okamoto ,  Shigeru Matumoto

IPC: G06F3/02 ,  B29C43/18 ,  B29C70/68 ,  B29C70/88 ,  H01H13/52 ,  H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01H3/12 ,  H01H9/26

CPC classification number: H01H13/785 ,  B29C43/18 ,  B29C70/68 ,  B29C70/882 ,  H01H13/702 ,  B29K2995/0005 ,  H01H13/703 ,  H01H2201/016 ,  H01H2201/032 ,  H01H2203/028 ,  H01H2209/002 ,  H01H2211/028 ,  H01H2229/044 ,  H01H2229/056 ,  H01H2229/058

Abstract: The invention provides a key-board switch unit used, for example, in pocketable electronic calculators comprising a base plate having at least one pair of switch electrodes and a covering pad made of an insulating rubber and provided with at least one contact member made of an electroconductive rubber and bonded on the lower surface thereof to face the electrodes coming into contact therewith when the pad is depressed. The contact member is embedded in the covering pad in such a manner that the surface of it is coplanar with the surface of the covering pad at least along the peripheries in conjunction with the covering pad and the contact member is sufficiently small so as to be confined within the area of the covering pad facing the void space formed between the base plate and the covering pad at the portion of the electrodes. The hardness relationship between the rubbery materials of the covering pad and the contact member is also of essential importance for reliable switching and durability of the switch unit.

Abstract translation: 本发明提供了一种键盘开关单元，其例如用于包含基板的便携式电子计算器中，所述基板具有至少一对开关电极和由绝缘橡胶制成的覆盖垫，并且设置有至少一个由 导电橡胶，并且当其被压下时，在其下表面上粘合以面对与其接触的电极。 接触构件以这样的方式嵌入覆盖垫中，使得其表面至少沿着周边与覆盖垫一起与覆盖垫的表面共面，并且接触构件足够小以便被限制 在覆盖垫的面对在电极部分处形成在基板和覆盖垫之间的空隙空间的区域内。 覆盖垫的橡胶材料与接触构件之间的硬度关系对于开关单元的可靠切换和耐久性也是至关重要的。

公开(公告)号：US4272657A

公开(公告)日：1981-06-09

申请号：US6178

申请日：1979-01-24

Applicant: Masakatsu Iijima

Inventor： Masakatsu Iijima

IPC: H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/70 ,  G10C3/12

CPC classification number: H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/702 ,  H01H2201/032 ,  H01H2205/032 ,  H01H2209/032 ,  H01H2209/074 ,  H01H2221/016 ,  H01H2221/03 ,  H01H2229/034 ,  H01H2229/042 ,  H01H2231/018 ,  H01H2239/01 ,  Y10S84/07

Abstract: A keyboard assembly for electronic musical instruments such as electronic pianos is constructed from a key switch unit and a resilient holder block for mounting the key switch unit to a key frame via simple snap coupling. The key switch unit includes a resiliently deformable movable contact common to all keys in combination with given printed circuits including a plurality of fixed contacts so that, when any key is depressed, the movable contact is locally depressed by an actuator accompanying the key and brought into provisional contact with a corresponding fixed contact in order to selectively switch on a corresponding printed circuit for generation of a musical tone.

Abstract translation: 用于诸如电子钢琴的电子乐器的键盘组件由键开关单元和弹性保持器块构成，用于通过简单的卡扣联接将钥匙开关单元安装到钥匙框架。 键开关单元包括与所有键共同的可弹性变形的可触动触点，与给定的印刷电路组合，包括多个固定触点，使得当任何键被按下时，可动触头被伴随钥匙的致动器局部地按压， 临时接触相应的固定触点，以选择性地打开相应的印刷电路以产生乐音。

公开(公告)号：US3879586A

公开(公告)日：1975-04-22

申请号：US41134573

申请日：1973-10-31

Applicant: ESSEX INTERNATIONAL INC

Inventor： DUROCHER GIDEON A ,  DUROCHER DANIEL J

IPC: G06F3/02 ,  H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/80 ,  H01H13/70 ,  H01H1/02

CPC classification number: H01H13/785 ,  H01H13/702 ,  H01H13/80 ,  H01H2201/004 ,  H01H2201/016 ,  H01H2201/032 ,  H01H2205/014 ,  H01H2207/002 ,  H01H2207/01 ,  H01H2215/008 ,  H01H2215/028 ,  H01H2217/01 ,  H01H2227/014 ,  H01H2229/032 ,  H01H2229/044 ,  H01H2229/058 ,  Y10T29/49105

Abstract: A tactile switch plate for a keyboard comprises a non-conductive member sandwiched between a pair of conductors, the member having a planar body portion provided with a plurality of outwardly deformed carrier portions corresponding in number and spacing to the number and spacing of the keys of the keyboard. Each of the carrier portions is resiliently flexible for movement toward the plane of the body and each carrier portion carries a preferably elastomeric switching member that is adapted to bridge the conductors and establish an electrical circuit between the conductors. The plate and switching members preferably are produced by a molding process and the elastomeric switching members are cured by heat generated by an electrical current.

Abstract translation: 用于键盘的触觉开关板包括夹在一对导体之间的非导电构件，所述构件具有平面主体部分，该平面本体部分设置有多个向外变形的载体部分，数量和间距对应于键的数量和间隔 键盘。 每个承载部分具有弹性挠性以朝向主体的平面移动，并且每个承载部分承载优选弹性体的开关构件，其适于桥接导体并在导体之间建立电路。 板和切换构件优选地通过模制工艺制造，并且弹性体开关构件通过由电流产生的热量固化。

公开(公告)号：US20180315561A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-01

申请号：US15582088

申请日：2017-04-28

Applicant: Carling Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Adam Charles Lydecker

IPC: H01H19/58 ,  H01H19/14

CPC classification number: H01H19/585 ,  H01H19/14 ,  H01H19/63 ,  H01H19/6355 ,  H01H2201/032 ,  H01H2209/078 ,  H01H2221/01

Abstract: A rotary switch with a knob having an axis of rotation and moveable to a plurality of angular positions and an elongated member extending in a longitudinal direction relative to the axis of the knob. A conductive member is positioned near a plurality of angularly displaced traces formed on a Printed Circuit Board. When the knob is rotated, the rotation is translated to longitudinal movement of the conductive member, which contacts at least one trace to close a circuit.