Rocker-type electrical switch
CA 2103017 C · Owner: Kurek, Stephen R. · Inventors: Schroeder, David; Kurek, Stephen R.
Overview
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A rocker-type electrical switch of the kind known as a "quiet switch" includes a manually depressible rocker having two opposed contact surfaces at a small angle to each other from which rocker depends a rocker arm terminating in a rocker cam. A slider positioned intermediately of the rocker and the rocker cam is moved back and forth by side-to-side movements of the rocker arm and opens and closes one or more pairs of contacts. Rocker movement is controlled by a rocker cam leaf spring engaging the rocker cam which spring has a cammed profile traversed by the rocker cam to slow the switch lock the rocker and provide other desirable effects. The rocker cam spring is housed in a spring chamber …
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- Filed November 12, 1993 and granted June 3, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 12, 2013.
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