Electricity: circuit makers and breakers inventions 01/08

20080023314 - Push-button switch: A push-button switch includes: a shell composes of a top plate and a button plate. The button plate is made of insulated material. At least two speed-button units mount on the top plate. Each speed-button unit has a couple of conductor set at the button and each conductor set includes... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080023307 - Safety switch: A safety switch plunger includes a moveable conductor which extends transversely through the plunger and protrudes from opposite sides of the plunger. The plunger is provided with a structure that is positionally fixed on the plunger. The structure is positioned such that it is arranged to come into physical contact... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20080023308 - Vibration switch: A vibration switch includes a conductive housing defining a chamber, a first electrode having a first end projecting outwardly of the housing and a second end projecting into the chamber, a moving element disposed movably in the chamber and spaced apart from the second end of the first electrode, and... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20080023306 - Timer for use with vehicle's 12-volt power socket: The present invention provides an electrical appliance timer for use with a 12-Volt power socket mounted within a vehicle and coupled to a vehicle's battery. The timer includes a housing having each of a predetermined size and a predetermined shape and a timing circuit which is mounted within the housing.... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080023309 - Rotary knob with a display: A knob assembly comprising a rotary knob, a rotary actuated potentiometer and an electronic display. The rotary knob has a central opening and is configured to rotate. The rotary actuated potentiometer is actuated by rotation of the rotary knob. The electronic display is located within the central opening of the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080023310 - Single-hand operated and held electronic instrument: An electronic instrument includes a rotary switch disposed to be rotated by the thumb of a user while the housing is gripped in the hand of the user. The rotary switch has a knob protruding from the front face of the instrument with a rotational axis centered approximately midway between... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080023311 - Key structure: A key structure is provided, which includes a plurality of contact members and a control member. Each of the contact members has an elastic portion and a fixed portion, and the control member has a pressing portion and a combining portion. The control member is selectively combined with an appropriate... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080023312 - Keyboard and key assembly thereon: A keyboard comprises a plurality of key assemblies and an elastic layer. The key assembly includes a key and a base. The base includes a plurality of opening. The key includes a keycap and a key pillar connected to the keycap. The key pillar vertically moves in the opening. The... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080023313 - Control knob with safety feature: A hand-operated control is mounted on a hub for axial movement between a first position and a second position relative to the hub, a mechanism axially rigidly couples the control to the hub in the first position unless a force greater than a threshold is applied to the control, and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080023315 - Switch device: The pushing operability is freely adjustable. A switch device includes a switch including a push-in operable operation part; a housing attached to the switch; a push-in unit, turnably attached to the housing, for pushing in the operation part; a biasing unit, arranged in the housing, for biasing the push-in unit... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080023316 - Switch structure and electronic device: The switch structure according to the present invention is obtained by interposing an elastic connection member between the circuit board provided with electrodes and a push switch fixed to a case of an electronic device. The elastic connection member has a structure in which conductive layers and insulation layers are... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080017495 - Key sheet: Disclosed is a thin key sheet in which the adhesive is prevented from being squeezed out and in which adhesive marks and bubble marks are hard to be visible. An adhesive layer is in a dot pattern formed by a plurality of dots spaced apart from each other by gaps,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080017484 - Appliance timer: An appliance timer operable in a selection mode and an operation mode includes a shaft assembly, a switch assembly, a cam device, a bi-directional motor, and a display device. The shaft assembly is operable to select an operation cycle and to drive the display device in the selection mode. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080017485 - Network jack and manufacturing method therefor: A network jack is provided. The network jack includes a circuit board, first contacts, second contacts and an acting portion. The circuit board has a first side, plural first contacting areas arranged along the first side and plural second contacting areas. The plural first contacting areas are between the plural... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080017487 - Tilt switch: A tilt switch includes a base and a cover body. The base includes an upright support having a lower groove, and first and second lower passage holes communicated with the lower groove. An emitter is mounted on the base to emit a light signal. A receiver is disposed opposite to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080017488 - Tilt switch: A tilt switch comprises an insulating housing, a cover covering the opening of the housing, three terminals fixed at the bottom of the housing and an electrically conductive ball movably received in the housing to on/off the switch by contacting/leaving said terminals. Three terminals are located at each vertex position... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080017486 - Acceleration sensitive switch: An acceleration sensitive switching arrangement (208) includes an acceleration sensitive variable capacitor (200), a detection circuit (202) for detecting a capacitance value of the variable capacitor (200), and a switching circuit (204) responsive to a comparison between the detected capacitance and a threshold value.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney LLP

20080017489 - Mems switch: A MEMS switch according to one aspect of the present invention comprises: a substrate; a fixing portion formed on the substrate; a movable beam including a lower electrode, a first insulation layer formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on the first insulation layer, the movable beam... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080017490 - Switch: A switch which can prevent detraction of insulation of fixed contacts and facilitate design, manufacturing and assembling works and can be miniaturized is disclosed. In a power window switch, an earth fixed contact 6e is provided at the center and a manual-up fixed contact, an automatic-up fixed contact, a manual-down... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080017491 - Electrical switch: A low profile switch assembly is provided having a base portion that supports a folded flexible circuit sealed about its edges, an overlying deformable elastomeric portion, and a pair of window knobs. The base portion has a pair of integrally formed, upwardly extending posts that pivotally support the window knobs... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080017492 - Position switch: A position switch is disclosed, with a plunger. In at least one embodiment, the plunger can be moved, via an actuator, from a rest position to an operating position by way of a first rotatable locking element. A second rotatable locking element is usable to block the first rotatable locking... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080017493 - Multi-directional activation button: Disclosed is a multi-directional activation button disposed on a protective case for activating a multi-directional control device on an electronic device. The multi-directional activation button has a flexible membrane with a top side divided into directional surfaces that are aligned with a plurality of directions of operation of said multi-directional... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20080017494 - Safety switch assembly: A switch assembly includes a base, a flat spring, a switch, and an actuating member. The base includes a central channel. The flat spring may be pivotally secured to a portion of the base. The switch is proximate the flat spring, and is configured to selectively open and close a... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20080011596 - Keypad and keypad assembly: A keypad includes an elastic layer for providing a restoring force to the keypad and an electric paper on the elastic layer, in which a plurality of key button regions for providing symbols in the form of images are defined. A keypad assembly includes a keypad, which has an elastic... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080011592 - Main handle with a safety lock: A main handle for an electrically operated power tool and in which a grip (8) of a motor switch (10) and an actuating element serving to unlock a safety lock (16) are arranged on the main handle (6) of the electrically operated power tool (2), with the actuating element having... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080011589 - Front connected test switch: A test switch is provided having front and rear sides. The test switch includes a base to which a plurality of switch units are mounted. A row of upper terminals are removably mounted to the base, above the switch units, and a row of lower terminals are removably mounted to... Agent: Abb Inc. Legal Department-4u6

20080011590 - Knob force transfer module: A knob assembly comprising a housing, a circuit board, a rotary knob, a rotary actuated potentiometer and a rotation assembly. The housing has a front face. The circuit board is located in the housing, with the circuit board having a front and a rear. The rotary knob extends from the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080011591 - Actuation by cylindrical cam of a circuit-breaker for an alternator: An alternator disconnector circuit-breaker of the invention includes a cylindrical cam (40) for optimizing the sequence for opening/closing the switch-over first switch (10), the circuit-breaker second switch (20), and the disconnector third switch (30). The cam (40) has a cylindrical wall in which three slots (42), and preferably three pairs... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080011593 - Microswitch with a first actuated portion and a second contact portion:

20080011594 - Switching contact arrangement: A switch contact arrangement including a contact support is disclosed, including a contact support, at least two switch contacts, and at least one spacer. The switch contacts are pivotally mounted on the contact support while being respectively provided with at least one associated terminal lead that encompasses a flexible section.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080011595 - Vehicular operation switch and method for controlling the same: An operation switch for a vehicle includes a light source and a grease. The light source is provided to illuminate a switch knob from a rear face side of the switch knob. The grease is applied to a sliding part. The light source is forcibly activated based on temperature information... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080006515 - Attachment structure: An attachment structure includes a bracket that is arranged around a steering, a rotary connector device that has an engagement portion for being provisionally fixed to the bracket in a provisionally fixed state, and a combination switch that has a guide portion for being slidably retained to the bracket in... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080006516 - Key switch and keyboard: A key switch preferably used for a keyboard as an input device in electronic equipment. The key switch includes a base section; a key top disposed above the base section; a pair of link members interlocked to each other to support and direct the key top in a vertical direction... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080006517 - Movable-contact unit and panel switch using the same: A movable-contact unit to be used in an operating panel of various electronic devices is disclosed. The movable-contact unit is formed of movable contacts directly held on an inorganic EL sheet. To obtain adequate tactile feedback from the movable contacts even in a low temperature environment, a holding section of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.