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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1997
Keiji Yasuda, Handa, JP;
Hisayoshi Okuya, Nishio, JP;
Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A variable resister includes a housing made of a synthetic resin and having an inner space that opens to an open upper end of the housing, and a substrate made of a synthetic resin mounted on the housing for closing the open upper end of the housing to enclose the inner space. A resister is provided on the surface of the substrate and terminates in a conductive extremity while a conductive terminal electrically connected to a power supply terminates in an extremity that opposes the conductive extremity of the resister in the inner space. A conductive coil spring is elastically disposed between the conductive extremity of the resister and the extremity of the conductive terminal. A contact is disposed in sliding engagement with the resister such that a distance between the contact and the conductive extremity of the resister is used as a control variable.