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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2006
Wade Lee, Danville, CA (US);
Donald R. Sandell, San Jose, CA (US);
Wade Lee, Danville, CA (US);
Donald R. Sandell, San Jose, CA (US);
EML Technologies LLC, Danville, CA (US);
Abstract
An ergonomically designed switch for a halogen worklight. The worklight includes a switch housing attached to the worklight head and a push-action switch mounted in the switch housing for energizing one or more halogen lamps mounted in the worklight head. An ergonomic switch is operated by pressing on a switch button, which is formed to present an ergonomically sized engagement surface to the user. The size of the engagement surface is related to the typical size of a finger pad of the human hand. Through the simple expedient of providing a substantial switch button on the actuating shaft of the switch and sizing the engagement surface of the button to correlate with the size of the human hand, the ease and comfort of operation of the worklight is dramatically improved over worklights having awkward switch mechanisms long thought in the prior art to be unavoidable. The switch button is structured and arranged with a guide assembly to provide stabile travel and a solid feel to the user when activating the switch.