Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.

Swf Auto-electric Gmbh

Itt Automotive Europe Gmbh

Walter Neubauer

Rudolf Klein

Reiner Mozer

Bruno Egner-Walter

Eckhardt Schmid

Wolfgang Scholl

Josef-Elmar Prang

A compact snap switch that can be assembled mechanically and is equipped as a microswitch. The switch includes a housing for the microswitch and consists of two asymmetrically divided halves whose cut site runs along the edge of one of the large side surfaces. Thus a comparatively large assembly window and a favorable assembly direction are obtained due to the few undercuts of the components. In addition, due to the minor modifications of the machine-instrumented components, the switch can be easily modified for the different application formats. A movable contact lever with a moving contact is mounted so as to pivot in a knife-edge bearing. The free end of the contact lever has a wedge profile which with one of its two sides is exposed to a switching roller reloaded by a switching spring. Switching roller and switching spring are seated in a switching member which is movable along a straight path and abutted by a restoring towards an idle position. Upon forcing the switching member to move against the restoring spring, the switching roller passes the apex point of the wedge profile and acts on the other side of the wedge profile. Thus, the switching lever makes a pivoting movement, whereby the moving contact comes to rest with a fixed contact. Upon release of the moving force, the switching member is urged back to its idle position by the restoring spring. Thus, the switching lever returns to its original position.

Snap switch

A steering column switch for motor vehicles comprises a base plate and first, second, and third identical microswitches placed onto the plate that are indirectly actuated by an operating lever through terminal links. The operating lever has a neutral position and two operating positions. The third microswitch that is assigned to the neutral position is arranged in a flat position. The terminal link actuating the third microswitch is arranged in a plane parallel to the base plate. A sampling roller prevents frictional losses during the actuation of the third microswitch via a control contour on the control lever.

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The piston of a reciprocating wiper system on which a wiper arm is mounted is guided to be linearly displaceable in a capshaped bearing and has a slide which is longitudinally guided by two guide elements fixed to the housing. To achieve jam-free guidance on the guide elements without adjustment, the slide is guided with a capshaped bearing on one guide element in a closed manner. In contrast thereto there is a play between the slide and the second guide element in the plane defined by the guide elements.

Device for a reciprocating wiper system

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Lauffen, Germany

Walter Neubauer