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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2004
David T. Chang, Calabasas, CA (US);
James H. Schaffner, Chatsworth, CA (US);
Tsung-yuan Hsu, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Adele E. Schmitz, Newbury Park, CA (US);
David T. Chang, Calabasas, CA (US);
James H. Schaffner, Chatsworth, CA (US);
Tsung-Yuan Hsu, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Adele E. Schmitz, Newbury Park, CA (US);
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for a micro-electro-mechanical switch that provides for latching switching action. The switch has a cantilever arm disposed on a substrate that can be moved in orthogonal directions for latching and unlatching. To latch the switch, the cantilever arm is moved back by a comb-drive actuator and then pulled down by electrodes disposed on the substrate and the cantilever arm. The comb-drive actuator switch is then released and the cantilever arm moves forward to be captured by a dove-tail structure on the substrate. When the voltage to the electrodes on the substrate and the cantilever arm is removed, the cantilever arm is held in place by the dove-tail structure. The switch is unlatched by actuating the comb-drive actuator to move the cantilever arm away from the dove-tail structure. The cantilever arm will then pop up once it is released from the dove-tail structure.