Nihon Kaiheiki Industrial Company, Ltd.

Yasuo Kodaira

Nobuo Misaki

A push button switch comprises a switch body defining an enclosure; a support member disposed within the enclosure, a pivotable converter supported by the support member for pivoting between the first and second positions with respect to an imaginary fulcrum plane; an operator actuable push rod extending through the switch body into the enclosure, the push rod being axially displaceable with respect to a displacement axis and having a converter actuator for pushing against the converter so as to pivot the converter in the direction of the second position thereof when the push rod is displaced from an unactuated limit position; a compression spring disposed between the push rod and the converter for biasing the push rod toward the limit position thereof and the converter toward the first position thereof; and a movable contact member fixedly mounted on the converter such that the movable contact member is displaced into and out of sliding contact with a stationary contact member as the converter is pivoted between first and second positions.

Miniaturized push button switch

An electric switch having a case, an actuator and a converter. The actuator and converter are coaxially connected, and below the actuator there is mounted an indicating member with a surface bearing a pre-determined indication, which surface moves in the reverse direction to the formerly-named members relative to the switch.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasuo Kodaira