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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2022
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Niels Schipper, Groningen, NL;
Karst Hendrik De Vries, Drachten, NL;
Adarsh Shrivastava, Groningen, NL;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
According to a first aspect there is disclosed a housing assembly comprising: a housing body defining an interior space configured to receive a switch, and an aperture configured to provide access to the interior space from an exterior of the housing body; a soft sealing element disposed in the aperture and bonded to the housing body so as to seal the aperture between the interior space and the exterior of the housing body, the soft sealing element configured to be elastically deformable to actuate the switch when disposed in the housing body; and a hard island fixed to the soft sealing element, wherein the hard island is separate from, and moveable relative to, the housing body into the interior space so as to elastically deform the soft sealing element to actuate the switch when disposed in the housing body.