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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yukio Mizuta, Aichi, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho, Aichi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
200 / ; 200 / ;
Abstract
A switching device equipped with a plurality of operating elements has one of the operating elements installed in the switching device pressed in a direction different from the direction in which the other elements are pressed and a single lock plate provided with a counter part formed on each operating element to hold the operating element in the depressed state and releasing its hold based on the operation of pressing the operating element. The lock plate allows depression of only one operating element a time.