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Patent No.:
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.