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Patent No.:

US 8178800 B1

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Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 21, 2009
Applicants:

Andrés Felipe Zuluaga, Houston, TX (US);

Michael Jonathan Smith, Houston, TX (US);

Mark Foohey, Austin, TX (US);

Darrell Cavness, Georgetown, TX (US);

Inventors:

Andrés Felipe Zuluaga, Houston, TX (US);

Michael Jonathan Smith, Houston, TX (US);

Mark Foohey, Austin, TX (US);

Darrell Cavness, Georgetown, TX (US);

Assignee:

Remicalm, LLC, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A rotary switch for activating selected functions in a hand held device. One embodiment of the invention provides a rotary switch having a rotatable switch selector. Whenever the switch selector is rotated, it reduces the diameter of a torsion spring causing the torsion spring to contact a switch contact and signal a microprocessor to selectably power a particular circuit or a step in a routine.


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