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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2000
Masuo Noda, Aichi, JP;
Kazuyoshi Ishiguro, Aichi, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A contact is fitted to an insulator complete , and the contact is adapted to rotate in correspondence with the operation of an operation knob. The length of an arm among arm portions to which are provided on the contact is set to be shorter than the other arm portions and . As a result, fixed contacts and with which movable contacts and provided at distal ends of the arms and are brought into contact can be arranged at concentric positions, thereby making it possible to increase the number of contacts. In this case, since a relay for a small-current load is connected to the fixed contact , no hindrance is caused even if the contact force of the second movable contact is set to be small by devising the angles between the respective ones of the arm portions to