Abstract:
A switch assembly includes an array of switches arranged on a substrate having a conductive pattern on a surface thereof defining a plurality of switch contacts. An apertured spacer is disposed adjacent the surface with an aperture being positioned in opposed relationship to each switch contact. A multi-conductive contact material is disposed to provide switch closure when forced through an aperture in the separator into engagement with a switch contact at a large number of separate conductive engagement regions. In one arrangement the multi-conductive contact material is a fine mesh woven wire screen stretched taut adjacent the separator while in another arrangement it is a uniaxially conducting material having a high density of parallel, spaced conductors extending perpendicular to the surface.
Abstract:
A strip switch assembly or switch array formed in a flat configuration with minimal depth and of relatively small size wherein the array is formed of a number of individual switches and the switches are formed of components used in common, and wherein the number of components in the array effectively revolves itself into less than one component per switch.
Abstract:
A push button switch comprises a key top having a recess and a resilient member provided so as to surround the recess of the key top. The resilient member has a projected portion extending therefrom in the direction away from the recess of the key top, and at least the end of the projected portion is formed of conductive material. A contact member is secured to a base plate in opposed relationship with the projected portion. A holder member holds the key top in such a manner that the projected portion of the resilient member is normally spaced apart from the contact member but engages the contact member upon depression of the key top.
Abstract:
An intelligent integrated medium-voltage alternating current (AC) vacuum switchgear based on a flexible switching-closing technology comprises a controller (24), and a vacuum switching tube (1), an insulator (9), and an switching-closing mechanism connecting piece (15), which are connected in sequence. A microprocessor is built in an intelligent circuit (23); a travel sensor is fixed to a movable contact connecting rod (5), and directly detects a motion state of a movable contact (4) and acquires accurate motion parameters of the movable contact (4); switching-closing operating parameters are obtained by comprehensively calculating arc light intensity detected by an arc light transmitter (20) and a temperature measured by an infrared temperature measuring transmitter (22), such that the switching-closing performance of switching on and switching off a medium-voltage power grid is greatly improved, switching-closing time points can be accurately controlled, and “flexible” switching-closing is achieved.
Abstract:
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a relay capable of preventing a chattering phenomenon, and capable of solving an unbalanced contact state occurring when contacts come in contact with each other.The relay may include: a stationary contact having a first stationary contact and a second stationary contact; a movable contact moveable to a first position to contact the first stationary contact, and a second position to be separated from the first stationary contact; a conductive connector configured to always electrically connect the movable contact with the second stationary contact; and a driving mechanism configured to provide a driving force to the movable contact such that the movable contact is moveable to the first position or the second position.
Abstract:
In an electrical switch, in particular an electrical microswitch, has at least one electrical contact designed as a hollow-shape section of a component of an electrically conducting material. In this electrical switch, the occurrence of vibrations with the introduction onto an opposing contact is prevented.
Abstract:
A pushbutton switch element for a pushbutton switch structure capable of generating a click in a multistage manner which is felt by a user and reducing sound generation during a pressing operation, as well as reducing generation of resonance sound. The pushbutton switch element includes a dome section, a pushbutton section formed on an upper portion of a center of the dome section, a central movable contact arranged so as to downwardly extend from a lower surface of the pushbutton section, a substantially annular movable contact arranged so as to downwardly extend from the lower surface of the pushbutton section and surround the central movable contact while being spaced from the central movable contact at a predetermined interval, an inverted cup-like member adhesively attached to a distal end of the central movable contact and constructed so as to repeatedly carry out a flex operation between a flexed state and an original state restored from the flexed state while concurrently generating a click which is felt by a user.
Abstract:
A switch apparatus has a fixed contact including a contact pattern formed on a printed substrate and a movable contact provided above and opposing the fixed contact. A switching operation is performed by engaging the movable contact with the fixed contact. The fixed contact pattern has a first pair of fixed contacts and a second pair of fixed contacts. The fixed contact patterns are separated by a predetermined distance from one another. The movable contact has a first movable contact and a second movable contact for engagement with the first and the second pairs of fixed contacts, respectively. One of the first pair of fixed contacts and one of the second pair of fixed contacts are formed in a unit to define a common pattern. Only the common pattern is disposed between the other of the first pair of fixed contacts and the other of the second pair of fixed contacts.
Abstract:
A snap dome switch keyboard assembly including a printed circuit board having dual contact switch sites with piggy-back snap domes, button actuators for each of the piggy-back snap domes, and an elastomeric member arranged between the domes and the button actuators serving as a force transmission member materially reducing the contact bounce time.
Abstract:
A bounceless switch apparatus having a junction resistance which varies inversely with the pressure applied normally thereto which includes a first conductor member, a pressure-sensitive layer including a semiconducting material covering the first conductor member in intimate electrically conducting contact therewith and a second conductor member positioned in nonelectrically conducting relationship to the pressure-sensitive layer. The pressure-sensitive layer has a first surface with a multiplicity of microprotrusions of the semiconducting material which provide a multiplicity of surface contact locations. As the normally open switch is closed in response to a pressing force applied to urge the second conductor member and the first surface together, the physical contact between the microprotrusions and the second conductor increases thereby variably increasing conduction between the first conductor member and the second conductor member.