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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1996
Hiroyuki Hirose, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirotaka Tachibana, Kanagawa, JP;
Satori Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A high-speed breaking switch of the seesaw type having an up-and-down contact plate balanced at the middle by the support of the switch body, a push member slidably attached to the up-and-down contact plate to push the up-and-down plate against the support all the time and at least one terminal formed on the switch body to permit one end of the up-and-down contact plate to abut thereon. The up-and-down contact plate has a raised fulcrum vertically at a level which is higher than the level at which the push member abuts on the up-and-down contact plate. The raised fulcrum is formed by a pair of raised fulcrum archs, one on each side of the contact plate. The up-and-down contact plate has a ramp-and-step plateau or inverted 'V'-shaped projection formed thereon. This arrangement increases the rotating force or moment of the up-and-down contact plate, thereby increasing the speed at which the connections in an associated electric circuit can be broken, thereby suppressing the arc across the contact-to-contact space.