EP2450929A1 - Elektrischer Schalter vom Typ Druckknopf - Google Patents

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Publication number: EP2450929A1
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: push; electrical switch; button; intermediate piece; pushbutton
Prior art date: 2010-11-05
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EP11290467A

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Bence Hegedus

Marcel Daccord

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Legrand SNC

Legrand France SA

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Legrand France SA

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2010-11-05

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2011-10-07

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2012-05-09

2011-10-07 Application filed by Legrand France SA filed Critical Legrand France SA

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2013-07-10 Publication of EP2450929B1 publication Critical patent/EP2450929B1/de

2013-10-16 Application granted granted Critical

2013-10-16 Publication of EP2450929B8 publication Critical patent/EP2450929B8/de

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2031-10-07 Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical

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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- H01H13/00—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch
- H01H13/50—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a single operating member
- H01H13/56—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a single operating member the contact returning to its original state upon the next application of operating force
- H01H13/60—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a single operating member the contact returning to its original state upon the next application of operating force with contact-driving member moved alternately in opposite directions
- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- H01H3/00—Mechanisms for operating contacts
- H01H3/02—Operating parts, i.e. for operating driving mechanism by a mechanical force external to the switch
- H01H3/12—Push-buttons
- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- H01H3/00—Mechanisms for operating contacts
- H01H3/32—Driving mechanisms, i.e. for transmitting driving force to the contacts
- H01H3/46—Driving mechanisms, i.e. for transmitting driving force to the contacts using rod or lever linkage, e.g. toggle

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This push-button movement has the advantage that the entire surface of the push button available to the user is useful for causing the change of state of the switch while in a rocker switch alone 50% of the surface of the actuating finger is used for the change of state.
the guide length of the latter corresponds to twice or at least one and a half times the planned distance between the slides. It imposes specific arrangements in the switch housing whose interior volume is restricted. Such arrangements make the manufacture of the switch complex and expensive.
the push button offers the user a large support surface, and that the user presses at a location on this surface that is offset from the axis of the button, it can be that, unfortunatelly, the push button toggles instead of translating. As a result, the push button does not drive the nut as it should and the switch does not work properly. In addition, by tilting, the push button can get stuck in the corresponding opening of the switch housing.
the present invention provides a new electrical switch to overcome the above difficulties in a particularly simple and satisfactory manner.
the invention proposes an electrical switch as defined in claim 1.
this intermediate piece imposes the push button a translational movement that prevents it from tilting.
the intermediate piece whose size is reduced, then ensures the switch a satisfactory operation.
This electrical switch 1 here comprises not only a switch 100, but also a socket 200.
this socket 200 comprises a base 220 which houses connection terminals and which is closed at the front by a hubcap 210.
this hubcap 210 is in the form of a flat plate 215 which has, in recess in its front face, a well 211 for insertion of an electrical plug (not shown).
This well 211 is delimited by a hexagonal side wall 212 and a planar bottom wall 213 pierced with openings 214 for passage of earth pins, phase and neutral.
This hubcap 210 is made in one piece by molding an insulating plastic material.
This switch is of the "push-push" type. If such a switch makes it possible to perform a bistable function of change of state, by opening or closing an electrical circuit, each time it is acted on its push button, it behaves externally like a monostable, its push button returning each time to the initial rest position as soon as the driving action exerted on the one it is released. Therefore, to move it from one state to another, it is necessary each time to act in depression, and therefore in push, on the push-button.
this intermediate piece 180 is designed to prevent the push button 190 from tilting and locking in the housing 110.
the nut 160 has a base 163 from the back of which extends at least one jamb 161, 162.
the nut 160 has two legs 161, 162, one leg per arm 152 of the trainer 150.
This compression spring 120 is more precisely compressed between, on the one hand, the junction zone of the two arms 152 of the driver 150, and, on the other hand, the rear face of the base 163 of the nut 160.
the driving means 170 are designed for cooperation to take place between the push-button 190 and the nut 160.
This drive part has a front portion 171 and a rear portion 172 hollow, open rearward and parallelepipedal shape.
the rear portion 172 more specifically comprises a front wall 176 flanked at the rear by a side wall 177 which slides in the opening 113 of the cover 112 of the housing 110 and which defines a housing 173 internally for the nut 160.
the housing 173 defined inside the rear portion 172 of the drive part 170 has a width strictly greater than that of the nut 160, so that the latter remains free to rock.
the front portion 171 of the drive part 170 rises from the front face of the front wall 176 of the rear portion 172. It has a profiled section along the translation axis A1. Its profile here has a particular shape, with a central edge from which extend arms which delimit between them four rails 178 axes parallel to the translation axis A1.
the push-button 190 is arranged to be accessible to the user and to aesthetically cover the various elements of the switch 100.
the front face of this closure wall 193 is the bearing surface of the finger of the user.
the push-button 190 also comprises a falling edge 192 which borders the rear face of its closing wall 193.
This push-button 190 is adapted to be displaced in translation along the axis of translation A1 between a rest position ( figure 6 ) and a depressed position ( figure 8 ).
These means of axing here comprise four parallel uprights 191, which extend from a central zone of the rear face of the closing wall 193 of the push button 190, orthogonally thereto, towards the rear.
These four uprights 191 are profiled along the axis of translation A1 and are arranged to be engaged in the rails 178 defined by the front portion 171 of the drive part 170 (see FIG. figure 1 ).
the intermediate piece 180 not only pivots by this articulation about the second axis of rotation A3, but shifts further slightly in a plane orthogonal to the translation axis A1, which allows the push button 190 to translate along a rectilinear path parallel to the translation axis A1.
This convex trapezium has a cross section in the form of a convex trapezium, whose large base 184 extends between the two axes of rotation A2, A3, the sides of which are inclined at 45 degrees with respect to the large base 184, and whose small base is facing forward.
This convex trapezium here has a height substantially equal to one third of the width of its large base 184, which gives the intermediate part 180 a suitable rigidity vis-à-vis the constraints it will undergo.
This intermediate piece 180 is made in one piece by molding a rigid plastic material such as Teflon, polycarbonate or resin filled with glass fibers.
FIG 4 it has a plurality of hollow recesses in its rear face, significantly reducing the material required for its manufacture without substantially reducing its rigidity.
the intermediate piece 180 For its rotational mounting on the push-button 190 and on the fixed part 210 of the electrical switch 1, the intermediate piece 180 is equipped with mounting means snap on at least one of these two parts, and possibly by fitting on the other of these two parts.
the intermediate piece 180 carries an axis 182 which extends along its edge coincident with the first axis of rotation A2.
the pushbutton 190 comprises in correspondence two housings 192A for receiving these two pins 182A. These housings are all formed by two circular openings 192A vis-a-vis, made in two opposite sides of the falling edge 192 of the push-button 190.
the articulation of the intermediate piece 180 on the push-button 190 is furthermore here reinforced by a tab 194 which extends from the inner face of the falling edge 192 of the push-button 190, and which is curved in a U-shape to delimit a housing 194A home a central portion of the axis 182.
the intermediate part 180 For its articulation on the fixed part 210 of the electrical switch 1, the intermediate part 180 carries an axis 183 along its edge coincident with the second axis of rotation A3.
This axis 183 which has just formed with the intermediate piece 180, protrudes at both ends of the intermediate piece 180 to define two pins 183A cylindrical of revolution about this second axis of rotation A2.
part of this axis 183 is covered by two reinforcements 185, to ensure greater rigidity.
These two housings 213A are more precisely formed in tabs 217 which are carried by uprights 216 extending from the rear face of the flat plate 215 of the hubcap 210.
these two amounts 216 are formed by L-shaped walls which extend respectively from two adjacent corners of the rear face the flat plate 215 of the trim 210, rearward, in the extension of these two corners.
the two tabs 217 extend from the outer faces of these two uprights 216, in planes orthogonal to the second axis of rotation A3.
the housings 213A delimited by these tabs 217 are here both formed by latching slots.
Each ratching slot 213A is then cut into the corresponding wafer 217 to open outwardly from the trim 210, in the direction of the intermediate piece 180.
This mouth forms a narrowing section relative to the bottom and then prevent the pin 183A out of its housing.
each ratchet slot 213A here has an oblong shape along the deflection axis A4, to allow the axis 183 of the intermediate part 180 to benefit from the operating clearance necessary for the pushbutton 190 to reach translate rectilinearly along the axis of translation A1.
each ratchet slot 213A for this purpose has a width equal to the play, the diameter of the pins 183A and a length (along the deflection axis A4) slightly greater than its width.
the articulation of the intermediate piece 180 on the hubcap 210 is furthermore here reinforced by other plates 218 which extend from the outer face of the side wall 212 of the well 211 of the hubcap 210, in direction of the intermediate part 180, and which define housing 218A for receiving a central portion of the axis 183.
the switch 100 it is first of all proceeded to a stack, inside the base 111, the movable contact 140, the second compression spring 125, the trainer 150, the first compression spring 120, nut 160 and drive part 170.
the cover 112 of the housing 110 is then closed on the base 111 of such way that the drive part 170 emerges outside by its central opening 13.
the lugs 182A of the intermediate piece 180 are then engaged in the circular openings 192A of the push button 190, taking advantage of the elasticity of the latter.
the driver 150 In the initial rest position shown on the figure 6 , the driver 150 is tilted in one of its stable positions in which it blocks the movable contact 140 in abutment against the fixed contact 132 to establish an electrical connection between them.
the driver 150 is held in this position by the pressure action exerted on it by the second compression spring 125.
the pushing movement of the push-button 190 then causes the tilting of the intermediate piece 180 which, in return, prevents the push-button 190 from tilting.
This movement also causes the translational movement of the drive part 170.
the nut 160 which is housed inside this drive part 170, is then also moved in translation towards the rear until the free end of one of its legs 161, 162 s engages in the groove 153 provided at the free end of one of the arms 152 of the coach 150.
the user's finger continues to push the push button 190, the nut 160, locked in translation by the driver 150, pivots inside the drive part 170, causing the tilting of the 150 trainer and opens the electrical circuit.
the electrical switch comprises a single fixed contact element and a single associated movable contact element.

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EP20110290467 2010-11-05 2011-10-07 Elektrischer Schalter vom Typ Druckknopf Not-in-force EP2450929B8 (de)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

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FR1004349A FR2967292B1 (fr)	2010-11-05	2010-11-05	Commutateur electrique de type push-push

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EP2450929A1 true EP2450929A1 (de)	2012-05-09
EP2450929B1 EP2450929B1 (de)	2013-07-10
EP2450929B8 EP2450929B8 (de)	2013-10-16

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WO2017207857A1 (es) *	2016-06-02	2017-12-07	Simon, S.A.U.	Interruptor eléctrico
EP4040457A1 (de) *	2021-02-04	2022-08-10	Sau, Simon	Schalter

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WO2017207857A1 (es) *	2016-06-02	2017-12-07	Simon, S.A.U.	Interruptor eléctrico
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RU2735632C2 (ru) *	2016-06-02	2020-11-05	Симон, С.А.У.	Электрический переключатель
EP4040457A1 (de) *	2021-02-04	2022-08-10	Sau, Simon	Schalter

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FR2967292B1 (fr)	2012-10-26
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