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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2003
Edgar Spiegel, Homburg, DE;
Thomas Prowald, Dirmingen, DE;
Martin Fickert, Herrstein, DE;
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
The invention concerns an electric switch with an activation element that is inserted and retained with limited axial adjustability in a pot-shaped receptacle formed on a control/display screen and that can be connected to a control component of a switch part. The invention provides that two snap springs are separated on the perimeter of the activation element that protrude over the peripheral contour of the activation element with snap flanges, that the snap springs can be snapped into snap notches of the pot-shaped receptacle and have limited axial adjustability, that the receptacle provides a receiving cavity for the switch part, which is introducible perpendicular to axial direction and localizable in the receptacle, and that when inserting the switch part into the receiving cavity, the control component of the switch part is introducible with a catch into a catch receptacle of the activation element and subsequently connectable with the activation element.