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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1980
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1977
Robert J Hodges, Cheshunt, GB;
ITT Industries, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An electrical switch contact member consists of a resilient electrically conductive domed diaphragm of a predetermined shape. The diaphragm includes a frusto-conical region linking a central region of the diaphragm with a peripheral region. The frusto-conical region includes an inwardly turned or bent transition portion at its smaller end, and an outwardly turned transition portion at its larger end, and is dimensioned to function as a Belleville spring. The diaphragm may also comprise a plurality of co-axial similarly oriented frusto-conical regions each of which is inwardly turned at its smaller end, outwardly at its larger end, and which is also dimensioned to function as a Belleville spring.